15 – 20 March 2025
MECC, Maastricht, Netherlands
7 November 2024 9 February 2025
The PURPLE PATH art and sculpture trail will showcase works by renowned international, national and Saxon artists. The result is an exhibition in public space that tells the story of people, craftsmanship and industry and invites visitors to discover these stories.
‘Everything comes from the mountain’ is the narrative of the PURPLE PATH. 850 years of mining have deeply characterised the landscapes around Chemnitz - the Ore Mountains, Central Saxony and the Zwickau region. The mining of silver, tin, cobalt, iron, kaolin and uranium has shaped life. The PURPLE PATH connects Chemnitz and the partner municipalities in the surrounding area through sculptures and installations that refer to their shared past.
We congratulate the artist Katharina Fritsch on being awarded the Kaiserring of the city of Goslar, one of the most important international awards for modern art (like Henry Moore, Richard Serra, Sigmar Polke and Gerhard Richter, among others, before her). The artist will be awarded the prize in October 2025 as part of her exhibition at the Mönchehaus Museum Goslar.
She had already been awarded the Golden Lion for her life's work and the Grand Culture Prize of the Sparkassen-Kulturstiftung Rheinland in 2022. There is no doubt that she is one of the most important sculptors of our time and she has been for quite a long time now.
Katharina Fritsch was born in Essen, Germany, in 1956 and lives and works in Düsseldorf and Wuppertal.
Katharina Fritsch
Figure (figure with green head), 2021
Epoxy resin, polyurethane, acrylic, aluminum, polymer
170 x 42 x 42 cm | 66 7/8 x 16 1/2 x 16 1/2 in
3 + AP
Artwork: Copyright Katharina Fritsch, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
Photo: Copyright Ivo Faber, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
Thursday, January 23, 2025, 7 pm
A painted picture is first and foremost a painted picture
"The painter Maurice Denis remarked in 1890 that before a painting depicts a warhorse, a naked body or an anecdote, it is essentially a surface covered in colour.
This statement was programmatic for the departure of modern painting from the illusionistic reproduction of reality. However, beyond the avant-garde trench warfare over abstraction and representationalism, Denis' comment also contains generalities. Everything that is to be seen in a painted picture must first be solved as a problem of painting. In conversation, Karin Kneffel and René Wirths provide an insight into their working processes and explain how the results, which can be seen in the exhibition Frozen Mirrors, are achieved."
STATION TO STATION
"Immaterielles"
Frankfurt Flughafen Fernbahnhof I Level 3
Hugo-Eckener-Ring, 60549 Frankfurt am Main