The traveling exhibition
‘Fascination of Worldwide Art and Color’ shows small-format
artworks from all over the world whose composition emphasizes
meditative aspects. The artworks are arranged in ‘color zones’
for attentive viewing and relaxation, giving the idea of
intercultural exchange space to flow in. Very different artistic
techniques and styles are presented and combined with smaller
sculptures, poetry, and sound.The exhibition gives viewers access to a broad spectrum of high-quality art and we would like to thank all artists and contributors for their commitment!
5th ‘Enter
into Art’ International Installations 2018-19
For more photos and lists of
participating artists, please visit our website’s ARCHIVE
www.enterintoart.com:
- Photo mosaics with artwork tours (We hope that all artworks can be seen!)
- German blog journal
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| Opening in Cologne 2019 |
The main exhibition in Cologne
is on view until April 28, while the traveling exhibitions in Bonn
and Bad Ems will continue until end of July 2019. Running for 24
weeks in total, this exhibition period upon the three beautiful
rivers Rhine, Moselle and Lahn is a very special one indeed, that
will continue for another 12 weeks. With five events it is longer than we originally dared
to hope! Overall, we are expecting abundant 300 participants from 50
countries. On Monday, we will dismantle the exhibition in Cologne and
immediately set it up again in Bonn. There will be no vernissage or special opening in Bonn
and Bad Ems, but we expect many visitors during the all-day opening
hours!
In addition, we have integrated
the solo exhibitions of the first three award winners from 2018 into
the Cologne exhibition: Meint van der Velde (First Prize), Kouki
Tsouritani (Second Prize), Kelli Valk (Third Prize). And this year, we have introduced the “Featured Artists” category,
where selected artists can now show their three artworks in special
frames and have them featured in a prominent way in the installation
design.
Once again, we have integrated the extra video projection ‘Touring the World through Art’ with 47 larger artworks from 27 countries into the small-scale artworks exhibition. In addition, the large images are available in reduced-size reproductions (information photos), to take away for free. In the video, artists from all over the world reflect on the subject of travel. This very attractive offer was a test project, which has led to new
inspirations in the field of multimedia events and book
presentations. In particular, we feel that the brilliance of the
images on the screen, as well as the multimedia-based embedding of
the images with relaxing music, is especially appealing! However, we
have come to the conclusion that a sophisticated multimedia
presentation deserves a separate event.
Welcome to
our exhibitions in Cologne, Bonn and Bad Ems
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| The Polish students at the entrance to the cultural center in Cologne-Mülheim |
We were very happy to meet a group of students from Lublin in Poland
at the event. The Faculty of Arts at Marie Curie Skłodowska
University has over forty years’ history in art studies. Professor
Alicja Snoch-Pawłowska came with her students Hanna Popruha, Kamil
Jerzyk, Katarzyna Wolczynska, Kinga Lewicka, Renata Gogol and Tomasz
Belew. We are pleased that we were able to make possible the valuable
three-day study trip for our friends to the art metropolis of
Cologne. Alicja Snoch-Pawłowska presented to us, on the computer,
some diploma theses from the last years in different fields, whose
high level impressed us very much. The students taking part in our
exhibitions also showed us some of their best work on Saturday. These
are the professional results of an excellent education. Lublin enjoys
a reputation as an outstanding science city.
We are also pleased that Catherine Gaillard Perez
(France) and her husband drove in the beautiful “summer” weather
on a motorbike on the 500-km journey to Cologne. Her cousin from
Southern Germany was also here. Meanwhile, Meint van der Velde (First
Prize 2018) has spent the sunny days in the Rhineland with his wife.
Peter de Leur (The Netherlands) attended the vernissage with his
family. As you can see in our photo mosaic (see the links above), we
enjoyed a pleasant family atmosphere. And, of course, German visitors
attended the exhibition’s opening night.
As
previously stated in our blog post about the Cologne region, Cologne
is a center of the arts not only in Germany, but also on an
international level. Every year, the city hosts the world-famous fair
"Art Cologne", which has become the
oldest fair of its kind after starting with only 18 galleries in
1967. This is one of the reasons our exhibition is particularly
well-suited to this region.
Art
Installation, Lecture and Poetry
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| At the lecture with the video projection "Touring the World..." |
With her lecture about
traveling, travel author Gabriele Walter gave visitors a good
background for the film screening “Touring the World through Art”
in both musical and lyrical ways. Her lecture incorporated exquisite
travel poems by famous German poet Rainer Maria Rilke, whose work is
exemplary for the correlation between art and poetry. Consequently,
the films and the lecture inspired visitors to start meditating on
art in this way, too. The installation includes some of the most
beautiful travel haiku poems by Gabriele Walter, scheduled to be translated
into English and published in the “Touring the World through Art”
catalog.
Please read more about Rainer
Maria Rilke in our articles about the exhibition opening events in
Bernkastel-Kues and Bad Breisig. Also in Cologne, Apollinaire’s
“Caligrammes” are shown as an homage to Appolinair on the tables
at the exhibition (See: homage
to Apollinaire ). 2018 saw
the 100th anniversary of Guillaume Apollinaire’s death. Rainer
Maria Rilke is also known as the "German Apollinaire".
Enter into Art - Awards
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| All artists with Kurt Ries and Gabriele Walter |
Once again, there will be an
international jury comprising various countries. In an anonymous
vote, the jury will select the winners. Our team will also issue a
special award and honorable mentions, consistent with our public
relations (PR) concept. Once again, the jury will be headed by a
Grand Juror whose job it is to select the nominated finalists after
the preselection round. Additionally there will be some color prizes
and we will also publish the names of the finalists. Apart from the solo exhibitions, each winner receives a blog post on
their images as a gift, which – if cleverly used – can become a
valuable PR instrument to improve the artist’s visibility and
reputation.
After the award ceremony in
July, we will publish your pictures in our English and German
language website. Once again, the online display of artworks on our
German language blog will be sorted by color. In July / August 2019,
last year’s pictures will be replaced with this year’s and remain
there for another year, and after that in the German blog archive –
forever! Naturally, the images will continue to be available on the
English language archive, too.
Participation in further offers
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| Prof. Alicja Snoch-Pawlowska, Kurt Ries and students |
We will also continue our PR
activities, mainly through our online German language events, and
effectively apply them to continuously promoting your pictures on the
internet. The mixture of attractive themes, art, and poetry is also
the foundation of our book projects and extra events, to which we
would like to invite you too.
Please look forward to the
invitations to our new art projects we will send out as soon as the
new event program is created. Because of the long exhibition time in
this last period, we will be schedule the new exhibition period
later.
