Participating Artists: Ergül Cengiz, Olga Golos, Katrin Grote, Nina Heinlein, Erika Kassnel-Henneberg, Silke Kästner, Sabine Schlunk, Elianna Renner, Dorothea Seror
“The founder of GEDOK, Ida Dehmel (1870–1942), was an outstanding female figure at the beginning of the 20th century. She brought together people from a wide variety of artistic fields in numerous salons. She pursued the goal of promoting and achieving equality for female artists with great dedication. Thanks to the voluntary commitment of many people interested in art, GEDOK is now the largest and most traditional interdisciplinary organization for female artists in Europe. GEDOK will celebrate its centenary in 2026 with great pride. The 23 regional groups of GEDOK that exist today are organizing a wide variety of events throughout Germany as part of this anniversary. GEDOKmuc has big plans for 2026 to celebrate this anniversary in style. Numerous exhibitions at the galerieGEDOKmuc, concerts, and readings will be featured in the event program on our website starting in March 2026. In cooperation with the Department of Culture of the City of Munich, a large-scale exhibition at several locations from March to the end of June 2026 will not only celebrate history, but also highlight how visible, vibrant, diverse, and powerful the artistic positions of women are today. But even in the 21st century, female artists are confronted with questions of gender, equal pay, and the male gaze. What has changed in 100 years? The exhibitions “Visible. Connected. Free.” focus on artistic creation, visibility, connection, and the courage to push boundaries.”
“In February 2026, the Kunstakademie Tegernsee will present an extraordinary media art program featuring art prize winner Erika Kassnel-Henneberg. The artist combines analog image design, photography, and artificial intelligence to create hybrid visual worlds that redefine perception, identity, and creative thinking. Her works have been exhibited internationally, and we are delighted to present them for the first time in the gallery studio of the Tegernsee Art Academy.”
Two creative age formats will take place on the first weekend of the exhibition. Children and young people will develop their own visual worlds and experience artistic processes between analog design and AI-based enhancements—freely, appreciatively, and without technical pressure.
After the workshop day, we will present the results of the children’s and youth workshops publicly in the exhibition.
The midissage creates artistic visibility, opens up dialogue between analog creativity and contemporary media art, and provides the ideal introduction to the continuing education program for adults.
Day 1: Artistic workflows, hybrid design, collage, material practice, and image aesthetics—
taught artistically, practice-oriented, and without technical pressure.
There is plenty of room for free experimentation: you work at your own pace, receive individual support and specific input when you need it. In a focused, relaxed atmosphere, time often flies by. A joint lunch break invites open conversation, exchange, and networking.
Day 2: Closing exhibition – group exhibition
After completing the basic course, we will display the results in a public group exhibition – together with works by Erika Kassnel-Henneberg.
The workshop ends on Sunday afternoon with a joint exhibition setup, where selected works will be presented.
Afterwards, we will open our doors for an open house for friends and acquaintances – as an appreciative conclusion to share insights, make processes visible, and celebrate the resulting works together.
Opening: 6 februari 2026 at 8 pm @ …ism project space (Westeinde 31A) Open daily during the festival from 8 pm to midnight. Here you can also pick up the programme guide, drinks and snacks.
From 450 Submissions only 15 works have been selected!
“From Friday 6 to Saturday 14 February, Westeinde will come to life with film screenings that share surprising visual stories every day from 8 p.m. until late at night. Westeinde will be temporarily transformed into a walk-through cinema. Shop fronts, homes and workspaces will be turned into film screens, giving historic facades a new purpose. Contemporary video works by international artists will be projected silently from the inside onto the windows and facades of historic buildings. The films refer directly or indirectly to the night, the city, cinema and everything that takes place in the shadows of everyday reality. During Sleepy Eyes, attention is briefly diverted, time is frozen, and the gaze is slowed down or accelerated. For a moment, the public space becomes an intimate place for one’s own thoughts and personal experiences.”
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
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
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.
Vernissage. Photos: Julia Pietsch, District Office & EKH
ARTISTIC DIALOGUE IN THE EXPERIMENTAL FIELD | Come and talk to us
and find out more about the idea of the protective cover bunker project! We are looking for old bunkers in Augsburg and collecting images. In the studio, we are designing an exhibition concept in which this digital material will be staged with our own analog and digital works. Join us as we develop our art project experimentally
