The 40th Art Garden, Running Through Fall
Daily except Wednesdays and Saturdays; canceled in case of rain
through September 15, 2026, 6:00–8:00 p.m.
October 4–10, 2026, 2:00–5:00 p.m.
October 12–25, 2026, 2:00–4:00 p.m.
Am Atelierhaus, 18565 Kloster, Hiddensee
In some cases, appointments can be made by arrangement
Torsten Schlüter Reads on Hiddensee
“They searched for meaning and swam against the current”
To mark the 40th anniversary of the Hiddensee Art Garden, the painter and author will read his own poetry, prose, and novellas, including selections from *
* *”Hiddenseer Aufzeichnungen,”* *Konturen*, and *”Herzattacke”*.
Wednesday, August 26, 5:00 p.m.
Blaues Strandhaus, Norderende 38, Vitte
(Please register by calling 01704125277)
and again on September 10 at the MEERSAAL in Neuendorf; more information to follow
40 Years of HERZATTACKE
Artists featured in the literary magazine *
* at the “Sans Titre” art gallery in Potsdam
In 1987, the first issue of HERZATTACKE was published in East Berlin. This literary and art magazine, featuring original graphic works, continues to be published today with a print run of 95 hand-bound copies and presents selected contributions from writers and visual artists each year. Since 2015, the “Kunsthaus sans titre” in Potsdam (operated by the nonprofit association sans titre e. V.) has served as HERZATTACKE’s artistic home and production site.
Through August 30: The exhibition “40 Years of Heart Attacks”
“That was our South Seas…”
A great article in *Zeitfragen* magazine from Deutschlandfunk Kultur.
Torsten Schlüter and Hiddensee. From the shed in Neuendorf in the 1980s to this year’s 40th Art Garden.
LINK TO THE AUDIO
“Zeichnung – Drawing” at the JRGallery and Raab Galerie
Exhibition opening on Friday, July 3, 6:00–9:00 p.m.
Featuring works by Thomas Baumgärtel, El Bocho, Dropix, Eliot, Mari Kim, Nina Maron, Joao Noutel,
Giacomo Piussi, Paul Sous, Gerd van Dülmen, and Torsten Schlüter
From the invitation: ” …This year we have already shown several works of art from Manhattan; Torsten Schlüter, for his part, draws attention to the equally large, intellectually diverse, low-traffic, and peaceful island of Hiddensee, where he is celebrating 40 years of his Art Garden this year…”
The 40th Hiddensee Art Garden opens on June 23
Opening hours under exhibitions
FACES OF MIND
Works by Rosemarie Trockel, Rainer Fetting, Markus Lüpertz, Georg Kolbe, Pablo Picasso and Neo Rauch, among others, travel back to the walls of their homes.
Thanks to Carmen and Dietmar Peikert (PECADI Art Foundation) and curator Anna Havemann (Haus. Kunst. Mitte) for the impressive show. The exhibition ended on April 11 with over 200 works on the theme of “faces of mind” – the human head as mirror, stage and projection surface.
Property of the PECADI Art Foundation Collection
ACC Gallery Weimar
“The Weimar Collection”
Exhibition until July 05, 2026
“What would a Weimar collection look like if it existed? A collection whose works thematize, record and reflect Weimar itself, with its unevenness, potholes, false bottoms and slanted positions, with its places, people, myths and stereotypes?”
(from the exhibition info text)
In a stroke of genius, the ACC Gallery is showing precisely this imaginary collection. The curators point out a grievance: In their view, contemporary art receives too little attention in a city characterized by classicism and Bauhaus modernism.
But now it is! The show presents video works, photographs, paintings and installations from the past 50 years. Comprehensive information about the exhibition and the names of all participating artists can be found HERE.
For every visitor to Weimar who approached the city center from the train station on Carl August Allee in the 1980s, the large ruin in the middle of the city’s visual axis formed a strange backdrop. The astonished question: “What kind of imposing building is that?”
In Torsten Schlüter’s watercolor cycle “Landesmuseum”, the motif of the ruins of the Thuringian State Museum embodies a symbol of the decay of the GDR political system. During the isolation practiced by the ruling system, TS transforms the rudimentary building, which was about to be demolished, into an oriental palace pulsating within, thereby also referring to intercultural connections and correspondences between Orient and Occident and to traditional influences on the arts of Weimar from outside.
Four watercolors from the cycle are currently on display in the “Weimar Collection”.
Brecht in Calcutta
Tea in the studio – episode 18 is here
The podcast episodes of “Tee im Atelier” appear at irregular intervals. This episode comes from India again. It takes us back to Weimar in the 1980s.
The podcast “Tee im Atelier” can be heard on spotify, applepodcasts or here in the webplayer
