2022 | Wiesbaden

Our IKG meeting GEGENSPANNEND/RECIPROCAL TENSION took place in Wiesbaden from September 29^th to October 1^st, 2022.

As always, we were able to realize a fine and multifaceted display with works by our members and guests, this time at the Hafemann Gallery.
A special focus of the meeting was our symposium, which took place on October 1^st in the lecture hall of the Museum Wiesbaden.  With impulse lectures and subsequent debate, the panel discussed the challenges that arise in this world in turmoil.
The fact that Goethe, also burdened by political events, wrote his Western-Eastern Divan in Wiesbaden cuts a wide swath back to the artistic reflection of a perpetually endangered world. In the Divan, the poem entitled Hegire (Refuge) stands at the beginning: North and West and South splinter/Thrones burst, empires tremble.
Out of this so topical insight of fragmentation, Goethe attempted to link the West and the East anew in poetic form. Diwan means assembly – in our assembly we also tried to gather, to connect, to reflect.    
The symposium was followed by a reception at the Nassauischer Kunstverein and a guided tour in the wonderful Fluxus exhibition by director Elke Gruhn. Fluxus liquefied hardened imagination – that is what art is capable of.
We sincerely thank all participants and sponsors.

The following artists have been elected as new members in Wiesbaden and have accepted the election:
Alba Dúrbano, Petra Trenkel, Sibylle Omlin, Ute Lindner, Patrick Huber, Claudia-Maria Luenig, Anna Rudolf, Kerstin Gottschalk, Birgit Luxenburger, Friederike Klotz, Andreas Wegner