Scholarship project ‘Inner Landscape’: Between wax, paper and cyanotypes
Altmarkkreis Salzwedel, 17 April 2025: People and their relationships with each other and with the world are the focus of the work of freelance sculptor and graphic artist Adelheid Fuss, who has been living and working in the Altmarkkreis Salzwedel artists’ and scholarship holders’ residence since the beginning of April. ‘My graphic and sculptural works often relate to each other, playing with movement and space,’ explained Adelheid Fuss at a press conference on 15 April 2025 in the studio of the artists’ and scholarship holders’ residence, where she has already settled in. Small drawings are scattered across the walls, and the tables are covered with everything an artist could desire, from drawing materials and tools to wax remnants, while an unfinished sculpture sits enthroned in the middle of the room. “I work rather intuitively. I usually start with a vague idea, which then develops further as I work,‘ says the artist. During her three-month stay at the Artists’ and Scholarship Holders’ House in Salzwedel, Adelheid Fuss would like to work on a project entitled ’Inner Landscape”. Drawings, casts and impressions gained in Salzwedel will be used to create graphics and sculptures.
The first part of your work at the Artists’ and Scholarship Holders’ House focuses on sculptural portraits. These are fictional characters who, like the characters in a novel, are inspired by her own experiences and encounters in the city. Adelheid Fuss is particularly fascinated by wax and paper: ‘In the coming weeks, I will combine these two materials and try to form heads out of paper, which can be found in every home in the form of flat sheets.’
In the second part of her work, Adelheid Fuss plans a series of cyanotypes and ink drawings. These will address the theme of ‘memory,’ or rather what humans store as memories. In this context, Adelheid Fuss is particularly interested in the effects that experiences and influences have on social behaviour among people.
Adelheid Fuss has plenty of time and, above all, peace and quiet to work in the studio of the artists’ and scholarship holders’ house. That is precisely why she deliberately chose the scholarship in the Hanseatic city. ‘Salzwedel is not completely unknown to me. Even before my current stay, I was able to get to know the city at its best during a trip,’ says the artist, adding that several fellow students at the Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design in Halle recommended a scholarship stay at the artists’ and scholarship holders’ residence because of its tranquillity and natural surroundings. But for now, she is looking forward to the Easter holidays, which she will of course celebrate with a piece of Baumkuchen.
More about Adelheid Fuss
Born in Sibiu, Romania, in 1977, Adelheid Fuss began studying Romance languages and Slavic studies in Tübingen in 1997. From 1999 to 2002, she trained as a wood sculptor in Flensburg. From 2002 to 2009, Adelheid Fuss studied sculpture at the Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design in Halle (Saale) under Prof. Bernd Göbel.
Since receiving her diploma in 2009, she has been working as a freelance sculptor and graphic artist. In addition to her artistic work, she has been involved in art education for over ten years, mainly as a lecturer at the Potsdam Art School. You can find out more about Adelheid Fuss and her work here: http://www.adelheid-fuss.de
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09.01.2025
Salzwedel miscellany
On 8 December, former scholarship holders Christian Kreis and Christine Hobar presented the ‘Salzwedeler Sammelsurium’ at their reading entitled ‘Rot- oder Glühwein’ (Red Wine or Mulled Wine). It brings together texts written by Christian Kreis during his time at the Artists’ and Scholarship Holders’ House 2023. The observations in Saxony-Anhalt’s Venice range from the ultimate Baumkuchen tasting and the most beautiful pile of bulky waste to an outdoor swimming pool test, bell ringing and the zoo.
Christine Hoba was also a scholarship holder in Salzwedel in 2020. In addition to novels, she writes poems and short stories. It is very fitting that Christine Hoba and Christian Kreis happen to be a couple. Learn more about the two of them from their often ironic, melancholic and cheerful texts.
The Artists’ and Scholarship Holders’ House Association has published the booklet featuring the two artists. Thanks to funding from Sparkasse Altmark and private donors, the booklet was able to be printed. Many copies were already under the Christmas tree. If you would like to purchase a copy, please write to the email address stipendiatenhaus-salzwedel@t-online.de.
21.11.2024
Second Sunday in Advent at the Artists’ and Scholarship Holders’ House 2024
On 8 December 2024 from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. at Kleine Prediger Straße 1 in Salzwedel.
You are cordially invited to enjoy Christmas treats and mulled wine:
At 3 p.m. for a reading from the Salzwedel Sammelsurium with Christian Kreis and Christina Hoba
For studio tours with exhibits
– Historical clothing made of linen and blue print – designed by Christa Maria Meyer
– Felted collages – works by Ananja Kriszun
– Photographs by current scholarship holder Florian Glaubitz
11.10.2024
Searching for clues at the interface between public and private life
Florian Glaubitz on his scholarship project
Altmarkkreis Salzwedel, 10 October 2024: Photographer Florian Glaubitz often focuses his interest on details of everyday objects and realities of life. This is evident in his book Mutter Architektur (Mother Architecture), which Florian Glaubitz brought along to the press conference at the Artists’ and Scholarship Holders’ House for viewing.
In this photographic archive, Florian Glaubitz examines the estate of ceramicist and Bauhaus student Margarete Heymann-Loebenstein. It consists of portraits, landscape photographs and still lifes, which Florian Glaubitz collected photographically. In doing so, he depicted a wide variety of themes, motifs and materials to create his own world around everyday structures.
During his three-month stay at the Artists’ and Scholarship House in Salzwedel, Florian Glaubitz intends to explore the urban space and its inhabitants. Against the backdrop of omnipresent media, globalisation and the acceleration of our living environments, he plans to create artistic documentary photographs of the social and cultural living space of the city and the surrounding region. The ordinary and everyday contrast with the prevailing event culture. He wants to search for traces at the interfaces between public and private.
Florian Glaubitz explained his project in more detail: ‘The aim is not simply to create a series of individual images, but rather a cluster of visual impressions that attempt to show in a poetic way what “togetherness” can mean.’
With the resulting photographic sequences, he wants to give viewers a different perspective on the town of Salzwedel. He intends to artistically guide the viewer’s perception and open their eyes to processes that we often do not pay enough attention to in our everyday lives.
More about Florian Glaubitz
Florian Glaubitz, who was born in Burg, Saxony-Anhalt, in 1985, lives mainly in Münster, Westphalia, and Leipzig. In 2008, he began studying fine art at the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig under Professor Heidi Specker. He graduated with a degree in 2016. In 2013, Florian Glaubitz received a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation and the Listaháskóli-Íslands foreign scholarship (Iceland).
From 2016 to 2020, he was a master student of Professor Dr Andrea Büttner and Adrian Williams at the Mainz Academy of Fine Arts. In 2022, Florian Glaubitz worked as a curator and art educator for the Förderverein Aktuelle Kunst (FAK) Münster. In the same year, he held a teaching position in photography at the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig.
You can find out more about Florian Glaubitz and his works here: http://florianglaubitz.net. (pm)
11.10.2024
The secret world of an unborn child
Lin Yang on her scholarship project ‘Gravity Weightlessness’
Altmarkkreis Salzwedel, 11 October 2024: Even in the womb, the unborn child participates in its mother’s life. It senses the environment into which it will be born. This knowledge is fascinating, but sometimes also a little depressing. Lin Yang has been exploring this world in her music for several years. The impetus for these projects came from a personal experience: “After the birth of my daughter, my music became a tool. With its help, I tried to approach and understand the hidden world of the unborn. So I use music as a means to explore this hidden world,” says Lin Yang. She is fascinated by the secret life of the unborn child and the way it subtly shares its feelings with the expectant mother. In all her recent projects, she has explored this connection between the unborn child and the outside world from different angles.
In her piece ‘9:30 pm, Lullaby’ (2023), she explores how children in the womb perceive sounds, such as soft music, while the piece ‘7:50 am, A Selective Memory’ (2022) focuses on the memories and memory function of unborn children. The piece ‘12:20 am, Bittersweet’ (2023) takes a musical look at the reactions of unborn children to different flavours.
In all of her pieces, her musical language is introspective and restrained, leaving plenty of room for individual interpretation.
During her stay at the Artists’ and Scholarship Holders’ House in Salzwedel, she now wants to take the opportunity to compose a new piece entitled ‘Gravity Weightlessness’ for ensemble based on the same basic idea. This time, however, Lin Yang is focusing her work on sensory perceptions in the womb, how an unborn child feels in the tranquillity of its weight in its mother’s body. The womb is a special space that allows the unborn child to float or swim almost weightlessly, comparable to an astronaut or diver. When the mother changes her position, standing, sitting or lying down, the unborn child’s sensation also changes. The constantly transforming sounds bring changing energy to the listener. This opens up a space for the listener in which they can musically empathise with the unborn child’s feelings of weight.
Lin Yang plans to record the composition, which was created in Salzwedel, with an ensemble, which will then premiere the piece together.
Lin Yang emphasised that she is grateful to the state of Saxony-Anhalt, the district and the association for the promotion of the artists’ and scholarship holders’ house for the scholarship and support in Salzwedel. Here, as she herself emphasises, she has the opportunity to concentrate intensively on her work, away from the hustle and bustle of the big city. She finds the combination of nature, culture, history and architecture in Salzwedel particularly inspiring. ‘For me, Salzwedel is like a womb, with its round and enclosed shape suggested by the city walls. But even though this space is closed, it gives me room to develop and open up,’ says Lin Yang, describing her connection to the city.
More about Lin Yang
Born in Beijing in 1982, she began studying music with a focus on composition in her hometown in 1995. In 2007, she came to Germany to pursue postgraduate studies in composition on the recommendation of Professor Jia Guoping from the CCOM (Central Conservatory of Music). There she studied at the University of Music in Freiberg from 2007 to 2011 and then at the Cologne University of Music and Dance until 2013. She graduated from the Cologne University of Music and Dance under Professor Johannes Schöllhorn with the work ‘HE’ for large orchestra. Since 2014, she has been living in Berlin with her Swedish husband and daughter as a freelance composer.
In 2009, Lin Yang was awarded a sponsorship prize by the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation.
You can find out more about Lin Yang and her compositions here: https://yanglinmusic.com (pm)
