Langzeitbelichtung: 25 Years of Künstlerhof Frohnau – Exhibition
Langzeitbelichtung – Long Exposure: 25 Years of Künstlerhof Frohnau
May 26 – August 18, 2023
Opening hours: Mon–Fri, 9:00 am–6:00 pm
Opening: May 25, 6:30 pm
Rathaus-Galerie Reinickendorf, Eichborndamm 215, 13437 Berlin
Participating artists:
Marion Angulanza, Claudia Bachmann, Gudrun Fischer-Bomert, Almut Flentje, Annette Frick, Surya Gied, Laure Gilquin, Wilhelm Hein, Rosika Jankó-Glage, Saskia Hubert, Nicola Jungsberger, Ray Kaczynski, Heryun Kim, Anetta Küchler-Mocny, Pierre de Mougins, Essam Hamdi Norrem, Ojoboca – Anja Dornieden & Juan David González Monroy, Kirstin Rabe, Dieter Ruckhaberle, Heike Ruschmeyer, Barbara Salome Trost, Susanne Schill, Gudrun Schlemmer, Zuzanna Schmukalla, Klaus-Uwe Seelmann, Sylvia Seelmann, Annette Selle, SISKA (Color Club Lab), Daniel Stolzenburg, Tina Tahir, Gesa Titgemeyer, Astrid Weichelt, Christiana Wirthwein-Vormbäumen, Marian Zaic.
Curated by Katja Andrea Hock and Kaya Behkalam
In 2023, Künstlerhof Frohnau (KHF) celebrates its 25th anniversary. Since 1998, KHF has been a place of creative production, exchange, and retreat for artists. Hidden at the northern edge of Berlin’s forest, directly on the border with Brandenburg, it marks a unique location. On the occasion of this anniversary, more than 30 artists leave their Künstlerhof enclave and move into the heart of the Reinickendorf district, the municipal Rathaus-Galerie.
The group exhibition Long Exposure connects the past and present of the studio site. The 31 participating artists have in some cases lived and worked at Künstlerhof Frohnau since its founding in 1998. Working with painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, installation, printmaking, and video, they explore the ever-present forest landscape and the sometimes violent history of this former borderland. They reflect on their own artistic practices in seclusion and conduct research in the extensive archives of the Künstlerhof, which its founder Dieter Ruckhaberle began assembling in the 1960s with a focus on Berlin’s cultural policy.
Long Exposure addresses the complex web of themes concentrated at Künstlerhof Frohnau: cultural policy, urban and district history, questions of artistic production and sustainability, discourses on illness and healing, as well as flight, migration, and isolation. The municipal Rathaus-Galerie Reinickendorf serves as the exhibition venue in order to acknowledge the long-standing collaboration with the Reinickendorf District Office and to enable a local engagement with the diverse artistic positions and thematic constellations.