77. Great Swabian Art Exhibition

November 29, 2025, to March 22, 2026

Opening reception: November 29, 2025, at 11 a.m.

Center for Contemporary Art | H2 in the Glaspalast

Beim Glaspalast 1, 86153 Augsburg

Participating Artists:

Auer Barbara, Bley Eva, Blon Alexandra, Braxmeier Anita, Broy Susan, De Brito Paulo, Dorn Annedore, Dronova Ekaterina, Dudek Dorothea, Effinger Sabine, Eger Jochen, Eichhorn Selma, ERWA.ONE, Fackler Thomas, Fischer Gabriele, Fischer Ingrid Olga, Fischer Stefan, Flickinger Waltraud, Frank Gisela, Freude Tobias, Gartner Hansjürgen, Gessler Maximilian, Girke Annette, Gold Eva, Gorcks Susanne, Gruss-Sangl Gabriele, Hassel Claudia, Hof Christian, Hofmann-Brand Christine, Holzmann Herbert, Horemans Karin, Hüppeler Ulrik, Hüttenkofer Heik, Junghanß Pete, Kagerer Conny, Kaiser Rainer, Kammerer Daniela, Kassnel-Henneberg Erika, Keller Zuzana, Keri Eugen, Kleber Georg, Konze Klaus, Kretschmer Herbert, Kröger Thomas, Kussauer Franz, Lanzl Inga, Lemke Mareike, Lempenauer Johannes Peter, Linck Susanne, Lindqvist Helene, Lohr Angela, Maurer Karl K. , Mayr Stefan , Nölle-Wehn Iris, Osann Christiane, Papesch Gerti, Park Sunghyun, Petrus, Pielcke Gitt, Radek Eva, Reiners Andrea, Ribka Gerhar, Riemann Harald, Rinner Lois, Rogat Marc, Roth Erwin, Rüth Joche, Rummert Bernd , Sandner Andrea, Scheidle Jeannette, Scheindling Ilan, Schellenberger Katharina, Schenk Wolfgang, Scherer Uschi, Schessl Norber, Schmucker Beatrice, Schroeder-Rose Anne Clair, Schultes Monika Maria, Sing Thomas, Sintern Robby, Tan-Mayershofer Ting, Titko Ildiko, von Winckler Gertrud, Wank Bruno, Wehmeier Stefan, Wiedemann Hans, Wieser Regina, Zaniewska-Bibileishvili Marta, Zeilhofer Nina, Zembrod Cornelia

Everything New?

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Vernissage Saturday, September 13, 2025, 7 p.m.

New lecturers at the Free Art Academy Augsburg introduce themselves! At the same time, Rainer Kaiser will be bid farewell as the previous artistic director and Charlotte Kraus will be welcomed as the new managing director.

Freie Kunstakademie, Bei St. Ursula, 86150 Augsburg

Participating artists:

Wibke Brandes, Fatma Güdü, Anian Huber, Erika Kassnel-Henneberg, Eva Krusche, Barbara Mahler, Daniel Man, Jutta Siebert, Laurentius Sauer, Sophie Schmid, Steffi Wanzl-Lawrence

FILE 2025

July 15th to September 7th, 2025

Fiesp Cultural Center on Avenida Paulista, São Paulo, Brazil

Foto: Camila P – FILE SP 2025 SYNTHETIKA

“Unlike Hegel, who called the set of ideas of a given era the “spirit of the times” (Zeitgeist), we could call our era “Zeitsynthetik” (the time of the synthetic). In the classical period, art was inseparable from religion, whose essence was spirituality; in modernity, spirituality was replaced by the ideologies of grand narratives (capitalism and socialism). The classical arts invented poetics and aesthetics: the beautiful and the sublime. Modern art invented the avant-garde, which proposed itself as revolutionary; its driving force was the dialectic of the new without the old, while postmodernists, on the other hand, mixed everything with everything, including the old with the new. Today we live in the age of synthetic technologies, the age of disruptive technologies. In which the new of modernity is no longer sufficient or surprising. Syntheticity is the new vector: synthetic algorithms; synthetic virtual realities; synthetic intelligences. The driving force behind synthetic art is now: 1) the fusion of new artistic expression and technological innovation, and 2) the inter-creativity between the artist and artificial creativity. Prompt engineers strategically simulate personas for AIs to move beyond triviality and thus achieve more creative results. Synthetic intelligences are no longer just instruments, but partners with artists in building a creative and innovative symbiosis.

Art and culture go through a moment in which creativity ceases to be only human, it becomes artificial; syntheticity thus prospects a post-culture, a new FORM: the form SYNTHETIKA.”  from: Catalog

https://file.org.br/highlight/synthetika-festival-internacional-de-linguagem-eletronica-arte-e-tecnologia/

https://www.instagram.com/filefestival

Video AI category

Lonely Hunting

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Solo Exhibition

Joint vernissage of all solo exhibitions: May 27, 2025, 6 pm

Landratsamt / District Office Augsburg, Prinzregentenplatz 4, 86150 Augsburg

https://landkreis-augsburg-kultur.de/erika-kassnel-henneberg/

In this selection of mainly graphic works, the artist Erika Kassnel-Henneberg shows early works that document her origins in photography: Cyanotypes, intagliotypes and lithographs show photographic motifs, some of them highly alienated, which unfold their own story in their isolation and seriality. They tell of the search for identity and home – an obsessive hunt for a lost paradise that may never have existed. A large number of the works shown here are being presented to the public for the first time.

76. Great Schwabian Art Exhibition

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30.11.24 to 5.01.25

Hall 1 – Room for Art in the Glaspalast, Augsburg

Vernissage 30.11.24 at 11 am

Participating artists:

Anten-Dittmar Marie-Luise, Bader Elisabeth, Becker Winfried, Bertoldo Ragela, Biet Peter, Braxmeier Anita, Broy Susan, Carr Terence, Daum Gudrun, Dudek Dorothea, Eger Jochen, Fischer Gabriele, Fischer Stefan, Fliege Klaus, Frank Gisela, Gatscher Horst, Gold Eva, Gorcks Susanne, Hauser Ebby, Heintze Brigitte, Hofmann-Brand Christine, Holzmann Herbert, Jakob Karin, Junghanß Peter, Junghanss Jan Walter, Kagerer Conny, Kaiser Rainer, Kammerer Daniela, Kassnel-Henneberg Erika, Kirkpatrick-Russ Carmen, Kleber Georg, Kollmannsberger Petra, Kretschmer Herbert, Lemmerz Inge, Lockstaedt Gabriele, Macalik Henriette, Manea Anda, Mesmer Liliana, Metz Christine, Münch-Metzner Sigrid, Park sunghyun, Reiter Christine, Ribka Gerhard, Rinner Lois, Rogat Marc, Roth Erwin, Rüth Jochen, Samal-Anzer Sandra, Scheidle Jeannette, Scheindling Ilan, Scherer Uschi, Schultes Monika Maria, Siemons Julia, Sing Thoma, Sintern Robby, Stachora Gerhard, Thoma Jo, von Winkler Gertrud, Weber Brigitte, Wehmeier Stefan, Wiedemann Hans, Wieland Elke, Wieser Regina, Zahn Rosa, Zaniewska-Bibileishvili Marta, Zeilhofer Nina, Zembrod Cornelia, Zimmermann Rudolf

Cuerpo Transparente 2024

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30.10.24, 0:30 Uhr (MEZ) Live Facade Projection

Gallery Hijas del Arte, Buenos Aires, Argentina https://www.youtube.com/live/Yb9zx3a_ybg

Participants

ILVER VEILED , Ginevra Panzetti & Enrico Ticconi  (Italia/ Alemania), NOMADS, Izabella Retkowska  (Polonia/ Alemania), COLLAGE 26 Luis Carlos Rodríguez (España), BODY OF WATER BODY OF LAND, Teodora Ezhovska and Hristina Trajkoska (Macedonia del Norte), ARE YOU OK?, Jafri Faiyaz, (EE.UU), CLAM JAM, Sarah Turner  (EE.UU), AMOR AND PSYCHE VestAndPage (Alemania/Italia), EVERYBODY DIES, Anderson Matthew,  ( EE.UU), PIEL DIGITAL,  Maria Papi, (Arg), LAS DOS MUERTES DE JACINTO, Diego Orihuela Ibañez, (Perú), DARK MYRIAD 0,Eta Dahlia,  (UK), CONDICIÓN HUMANA 1, Erika Kassnel-Henneberg, (Alemania)

Archive of Time

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Artists interpret historical sources from the city archive.

16. – 31.05.2024

With Georg Bernhard, Paul Englmeier, Gerhard Fauser, Rainer Kaiser, Erika Kassnel-Henneberg, Christofer Kochs, Beatrice Schmucker, Jana Schwindel

City Archive, Zur Kammgarnspinnerei 11, Augsburg

Vernissage Wednesday 15.05.24, 18.30 hrs

Welcome: Archive Director Kerstin Lengger

Greeting: Mayor Eva Weber

Artistic introduction: Beatrice Schmucker and Christofer Kochs

Special opening hours: Tue to Fri 8 a.m. – 5 p.m., Sat, Sun and public holidays 11 a.m. – 3 p.m.

The site-specific work The A-Cloud, a group of works in 11 sheets in an archive box, was produced for this exhibition using material from the city archive.

https://www.augsburg.de/aktuelles-aus-der-stadt/detail/kunstausstellung-archiv-der-zeit-im-stadtarchiv-augsburg

A Room to Yourself

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8.02. until 7.04.2024

Vernissage 7.02.2024, 6.30 pm

Stadthausgalerie, Marktstr. 12, 87527 Sonthofen

When a person leaves for good, she or he leaves many things behind. What happens to them? Are they kept? Are they given away? Sold? Thrown away? And what about those that can’t simply be disposed of, such as a room – his or her room. We had a room like that in my childhood home. A shrine of memories.

These rooms here describe the spatial dimension of remembering: old photographs are brought to life – Deep Paula and Post Mortem – an artificial, uncanny liveliness. Would you be willing to bring a photo of a deceased loved one to life – with the help of artificial intelligence?

What meaning does an old photo album have Below the Surface when there is no one left to tell the stories of these people? Can our imagination save them?

And then there are countless Letters from Utopia. Who still writes letters today? Here they are metaphorical bridges to a place of longing that only exists in our memories – a very personal Utopia. Science has taught us that memory is flawed. We leave traces, collect documents and photographs, and archive them. I see this as an existential doubt: who am I if I can’t trust memory? If I leave no traces, did I ever exist?

“In the exhibition “A room to yourself”, ten artists are showing works that deal with Virginia Woolf’s thoughts on feminism and gender differentiation in the broadest sense. The title refers to Woolf’s 1929 essay, which has been available as a German translation since 1978. The themes it contains, such as autonomy, self-development and creative freedom through various artistic disciplines, are still relevant today. A space, be it physical or metaphorical, functions as a home for the innermost thoughts and dreams. It offers the necessary freedom to unfold the inner monologue, to spin ideas and to connect them with creative impulses. The participating artists are members of GEDOKmünchen, an interdisciplinary association of women artists that has been active nationwide since 1926.”

Artists: Silke Bachmann, Renate Gehrcke, Erika Kassnel-Henneberg, Katharina Lehmann, Ina Loitzl, Herta Miessner, Christiane Pott, Martina Salzberg, Julia Smirnova, Olga Wiedenhöft

Curated by Uta Römer

Music: Anna Heller

https://www.stadthausgalerie.de/ausstellungen-veranstaltungen/ausstellung-ein-zimmer-fuer-sich-allein-der-gedokmuenchen/

75.Great Schwabian Art Exhibition

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25.11.23 – 7.01.24, Halle 1 – Raum für Kunst im Glaspalast

Vernissage: Saturday, 25.11.2023, 11.00 am
Greetings: Martin Sailer, District President of the District of Swabia and patron
Jürgen Enninger, Head of Cultural Affairs of the City of Augsburg
Dr. Thomas Elsen, Augsburg Art Collections and Museums
Norbert Kiening, Chairman of the BBK Schwaben-Nord und Augsburg e.V.
Art award ceremony: Jürgen Enninger, Head of Cultural Affairs of the City of Augsburg

https://www.augsburger-allgemeine.de/kultur/ausstellung-hier-schlaegt-ein-herz-fuer-die-kunst-id68601486.html

Opening of the Great Swabian Art Exhibition, participating artists. Foto: Daniel Biskup

Participating artists:

Achter Emmeran, Ambos Marjanca, Anten-Dittmar Marie-Luise, Auer Barbara, Bammes Petra, Bauer Gerald, Blunck-Mader Verena, Brandt Roswitha, Braun Valentina/Zeilhofer Nina, Braxmeier Anita, Broy Susan, Cermak Nena, Coulin Florina, Dorn Brigitte, Dronova Ekaterina, Dudek Dorothea, Effinger Sabine, Eger Jochen, Egger Isolde, Eitel Beatrix, Engelien Eva, Fischer Ingrid Olga, Fischer Gabriele, Fischer Stefan, Fliege Klaus, Frank Gisela, Gais Henning, Geggerle-Lingg Ursula, Geßner Claudia, Goullon Hannes, Gross Andrea, Hauser Ebby, Hofmann-Brand Christine, Hölz Elisabeth, Hüttenkofer Heike, Imminger Bernd, Junghanß Peter, Kammerer Daniela, Kassnel-Henneberg Erika, Kleber Georg, Klug-Faßlrinner Dorothea, Konze Klaus, Krass Jürgen, Kretschmer Herbert, Kröger Thomas, Krusche Eva, Leimbeck-Rindle Ottilie, Lemmerz Inge, Lockstaedt Gabriele, Macalik Henriette, Mesmer Liliana, Meßmer-Steinmann Anne, Metz Christine, Meyer Harry, Müller Edda, Nölle-Wehn Iris, Odato Christian Amerigo, Oster Martin, Prinz Werner, Radek Eva, Riedl Benedikt, Riemann Harald, Rinner Lois, Röder Elisabeth, Rogat Marc, Scheindling Ilan, Schellenberger Katharina, Schmidbauer Nina, Schöndorfer Alice, Schreiner Johanna, Schulz Andreas Paul, Schuszter Turid, Sing Thomas, Sintern Robby, Stachora Gerhard, Stoller Carin, Stolz Gabriele, Thamm Gernot, Thoma Jo, Triftshäuser Eva Lucie, Vassilikian Alexandra, Velt Katharina, Waas-Pommer Uli, Wabato, Weggenmann Guido, Wehmeier Stefan, Winkler Hildegard, Winkler Stefan, Zak Ian