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Theme: DIGGING DEEP. Two contributions: (1) #hiddenWESERsounds – sound installation with underwater sounds of the river Weser (cargo ship Hildegard, Sielwall ferry, motorboat, Werdersee fish ladder). (2) ECHOS – spatial installation by KULTUR_HAPPEN e.V., 7 works in an impulse chain, including the short film Den Nøgende Frakke (Koehler & Chelmis).

Collaboration: Melissa Chelmis, Svenja Wetzenstein, Raphaelle Mellet, Anna Lott, Anke Baer, Sabine Chelmis

Opening hours: 6-10pm

Photographs from the trip to Northern Norway: Mjelle beach north of Bodø and the Svartisen glacier (two glacier tongues). Part of the water project WATER PORTRAITS. Opening: 30 November 2024, 7pm.

Opening hours: Sat+Sun 1-5pm

Closing event: all short videos from TWO MINUTES THERE (ABK e.V.) screened on the gallery wall. Beate C. Koehler with: SEARCHING 4 IDENTITY (2:14 min, music: Dietmar Kirstein, performer: Jan Luca Bäuerle) and ABZAEHLREIM (2:12 min, handwriting: Anke Baer, text: Anna Lott). Theme: acceleration and identity.

Collaboration: ABK e.V., Anke Baer, Anna Lott, Dietmar Kierstein

Start: 8pm

Open studios from the Bremen Viertel. A glimpse into the water project: water portraits made of photo, film and sound from Bremen lakes, the Main, the Pacific coast of San Francisco and the Arctic.

Opening hours: 11am-6pm (map no. 41)

As part of DEICHTRIFT Weser – multi-perspective research on traces of the river. Making the underwater sounds of the Weser audible. Complemented by DeichStadt #1 (Wolff/Michalak/Vankann) and the action Treibgut (Dreesen/Thierbach).

Opening hours: Tue-Thu 2-6pm, 22 Sep 12-4pm

Photographs from two Arctic trips to Svalbard/Longyearbyen: polar-night moonlight landscapes (Adventdalen series) and the midnight sun. Water in all its states. Opening: 17 September 2024, 5pm. Hosted by Kulturhaus Walle Brodelpott.

Opening hours: Tue-Sun 11am-6pm, free admission

Spatial installation & performance at the miniaturen small-format festival. An invitation into the element of water: dance, image and sound. Performances at 6:45pm / 8:00pm / 9:15pm.

Collaboration: Tina Badenhop (dance & performance)

Opening hours: 6-10pm

Around Fauré’s Requiem: installation (photo/video), live ink drawings, poetry and choral singing. Impermanence, becoming and letting go. Soprano: Vanessa Gross, organ: Sayaka Namizuka.

Collaboration: Anke Baer, Donka Dimova, Megumi Ishida-Hahn & choir of the Friedensgemeinde

Start: 7pm

A glimpse into the year-long project TRANSITUM: inked dead birds on swaying strips of paper, photographs, video works. Opening 19 Aug with a live ink-drawing performance. Closing 9 Sep with an ink-and-tea talk (Dr. Simon Frisch, Bauhaus University Weimar).

Collaboration: Anke Baer

Two projects: (1) Allowing Death (Melissa Chelmis & Koehler) – film, photo, video; (2) Impermanence / Transitum (Baer & Koehler) – photographs and film. Complemented by two live performances. Funded by the Senator for Culture Bremen, Sparkasse Bremen.

Collaboration: Melissa Chelmis, Anke Baer

Opening hours: Fri 9am-6pm, Sat 9am-4:30pm