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)
16.07.2024
Artists’ café of the district adult education centre on 19/09/2024 with Peter Berg
“Schrimpf” is the working title and also the main character of the short stories that Peter Berg would like to work on at the Altmarkkreis Salzwedel artists‘ and scholarship holders’ house until the end of September.
Peter Berg will present small excerpts from his works to the public as part of the artists’ café at the district adult education center on 19.09.2024.
Separate information on this date will be provided in advance.
25.03.2024
About towers, gates and brick buildings
Scholarship holder showed her works at the artists’ café in the studio of the artists’ and scholarship holders’ house:
Mariel Poppe has really enjoyed her stay in Salzwedel so far. She has explored the area, got to know many people from Salzwedel and always kept her eyes on her “favorite material”. The numerous guests at the artists’ café on March 21 at the Künstler- und Stipendiatenhaus listened intently to her enthusiasm, her artistic expertise and her numerous anecdotes.
More than 20 objects have been created so far during her stay, which she skillfully presented in the house’s studio. “She was very pleased to be able to show her works as part of this event at the district adult education center“, she passed on her thanks to the KVHS and the association. She is also happy to accept the invitation to come back to Salzwedel next year as part of the Danneil Museum’s StipendiatenArt exhibition. A successful evening, with nice conversations and one or two treats!
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Anyone who walks through Salzwedel knows them – the brick buildings that characterize the townscape. Be it St. Mary’s Church, St. Lawrence’s Church, the Neuperver Gate, the castle tower or the district court in Salzwedel; everywhere you look you will encounter the red building material used to build sturdy walls, entire churches and mighty castles – or, in the case of Mariel Poppe, to create works of art.
The visual artist Mariel Poppe, who has been living in the artist and scholarship house since January, counts brick as one of her favorite materials. She has been using it for years to create stone artworks in original size or in miniature, which fascinate with their simplicity and simplicity and place the material in the foreground. This has resulted in objects inspired by towers, but also figures that are more reminiscent of corals or starfish.
In Salzwedel, Mariel Poppe has devoted herself in particular to the theme of towers, the raw material for which she collected in the surrounding area. These brick finds were used to create works that Mariel Poppe presented to the public as part of the artists’ café at the district adult education center (KVHS).
Artworks Towers by Mariel Poppe
Coffee buffet at the artists’ café with Mariel Poppe
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20.01.2024
Architectural exclamation marks!!!!!!!!!!
Mariel Poppe seeks inspiration for her sculptures in the monuments of the Hanseatic town of Salzwedel
Altmarkkreis Salzwedel, 19.01.2024: In a small, informal round of talks, Mariel Poppe introduced herself as the first scholarship holder of the artist and scholarship holder house of the Altmarkkreis Salzwedel in 2024. On January 9, 2024, the visual artist moved into the premises in Kleine Predigerstraße and will dedicate herself to her work there until the end of March.
Mariel Poppe is fascinated by the building material “brick” because of its simplicity and unpretentiousness, which is precisely why it offers so many design possibilities. Many striking public buildings in the Altmark, such as town halls, schools, industrial buildings and towers, are made of brick.
During her scholarship at the artists’ and scholarship holders’ house, Mariel Poppe would like to focus on the architectural monuments of the Hanseatic town of Salzwedel. The towers of the town and the surrounding area in particular, such as the castle tower, the water tower and the old Hoyersburg border tower, will provide the artist with inspiration.
“I use found bricks to build possible and impossible tower structures that are deprived of the power of monuments: towers, crooked and crooked, perfectly imperfect, manneristically playful and bizarrely surreal. The more different the found objects, the better: “Whether shaped bricks, glazed bricks, perforated or brick strands, hollow bricks, all shapes and models have their very own charm and their own story,” says the artist about her project. “I hope to find plenty of material for my work here in the area.”
She calls these works “architectural exclamation marks”, which she wants to stage photographically and use as components in collages and drawings in connection with the urban space of Salzwedel as well as the natural space of the Green Belt.
Scales are manipulated in the process. This means that the perception of the proportions fluctuates between miniaturization and monumentalization.
Mariel Poppe will present the works she has created in Salzwedel and her career to date to the public as part of the artists’ café at the district adult education center on 21.03.2024. Separate information on this date will be provided in advance.
More about Mariel Poppe
Mariel Poppe was born in Gießen in 1968 and lives and works in Berlin, where she also has a studio. From 1988 to 1990, she studied art education and German language and literature at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz. After attending the “Ecole des Beaux Arts de Dijon” in France, where she specialized in painting, she began studying at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin in 1992. From March to June 1996, she studied photography at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. Mariel Poppe graduated in 1998 with a focus on sculpture, object art, installation and photography at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin under Prof. Lothar Baumgarten. Mariel Poppe’s works of art have been on display in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Dresden, Berlin, Frankfurt (Oder), Carinthia, Mexico City, Bremen and many more.
More information about Mariel Poppe and her work can be found on her website www.marielpoppe.de.
To the scholarship house
In the historic town center of the Hanseatic town of Salzwedel, the Altmarkkreis Salzwedel maintains a listed half-timbered house as an artist and scholarship house with an international focus. The institution thrives on the partnership between the state of Saxony-Anhalt and the Altmarkkreis Salzwedel. The state of Saxony-Anhalt awards scholarships to artists who then live in Salzwedel for three months and can work artistically on a secure financial basis. In an idyllic and peaceful setting, artists find ideal working and living conditions in the artists’ and scholarship holders’ house.
Pictures: @ www.altmarkkreis-salzwedel.de
