Art & Exhibition

Photographs and Japanese fish prints (Gyotaku) from Japan in the ice cream parlour of the Biohof Kaemena organic farm in the Bremer Blockland. Glimpses of places visited: including Honen-in Temple, Kyoto. QR codes enable an auditory journey through/to various places in Japan (SOUNDS OF JAPAN | HONEN-IN TEMPLE). Art is meant to arrive where life happens.

Multimedia evening on World Water Day (22 March 2026): quadraphonic sound installation #hiddenWESERsounds (Koehler), performance DANCING HANDS in touch with water (Tina Badenhop), and poetic water associations (Arne Schulz). In the context of the exhibition WATER WORLDS, villa sponte. From 6pm.

Collaboration: Tina Badenhop, Arne Schulz

Temporary installation WALKING THE TIDELINE within the exhibition WATER WORLDS, villa sponte. Video (5:38 min): a tideline walk along the Pacific coast of San Francisco (Fort Funston to Marshall’s Beach / Golden Gate Bridge), September 2022. Artist talk at the close of the exhibition, 6pm.

Group exhibition with Ute Seifert: water as origin, mirror, energy and warning. Koehler shows Water Portraits (Bremen lakes, Main, San Francisco, Svalbard, Northern Norway). Opening: 1 March 2026, 3:30pm, with a tribute by Kathrin Klug. Closing: 29 March 2026. Accompanying programme: Walking the Tideline, #hiddenWESERsounds, performance.

Theme SURFACING. Two contributions: (1) SOUNDS OF JAPAN – sound installation and Japan photographs in the stairwell. (2) ECHOS II – spatial installation by KULTUR_HAPPEN e.V., 6 works in an impulse chain: sound sphere DIVING (Mete Cheer) and culinary installation SEED. Doors open from 5:30pm.

Collaboration: Melissa Chelmis, Svenja Wetzenstein, Raphaëlle Mellet, Anna Lott, Daniela Hilde Nickau

Opening hours: 6-10pm

ZEITENSTROM – group exhibition, opening 7 Oct, Tue/Sat/Sun 3-6pm (8-16 Oct). New work from the context of the Japan trip in May 2025. OPEN STUDIO Grundstrasse: painting, ceramics, collage, printmaking, 25+26 Oct, 11am-6pm, with material-printing workshops. PRE-OPENING & OPEN STUDIO Dammweg: 25 Oct 6-9pm, concert CINNAMON MOON at 7pm; 26 Oct 11am-6pm, sound rounds at 12 & 1pm.

Collaboration: Soyeon An, Kristine Bruvere, K. M. Chelmis, Eunhwa Lee

Focus project JAPAN DO / dat_code of NordArt 2025. Works from TRANSITUM within the context of the international art project, in collaboration with the German Japan Museum Schloss Mitsuko and Raum_für_Raum Düsseldorf. 39 artists; curated by Ralph Tepel & Rainer Junghanns.

Collaboration: Anke Baer

Opening hours: Tue-Sun 11am-7pm

Portrait photography as artistic identity research: photo collages on self-image, gender and societal attribution. Opening: 25 May 2025, 3:30pm, introduction by Dr. Uwe Schimank (University of Bremen). Closing: 6 July 2025, 3pm. Opening hours: Sun 2-5pm (except Pentecost).

On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of Riensberg Cemetery. Project TRANSITUM: carefully inked dead birds on swaying sheets of paper (ink drawing: Anke Baer), based on photographs by Beate C. Koehler. Complemented by a site-specific sound installation with sounds from the cemetery.

Collaboration: Anke Baer

Opening hours: 2-7pm

Exhibition ‘ways to plainness – the realization of DO’. Works from TRANSITUM: inked birds on sheets of paper and photographs transferred onto light boxes. Curated by Ralph Tepel & Rainer Junghanns.

Collaboration: Anke Baer