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24/07/2025

We're thrilled to share more from the SINE HANSEN exhibition!

At the heart of the show are her "Spannungszangen" (Tension Clamps) from the 1970s. These works, like "Spannungszange" (1974), "Schreitende Zange" (1975), and "Liegende" (1978), blend human poses with mechanical elegance.

Drawing on the allure of pin-ups, Hansen’s clamps evoke the sensual contours of the female form—hips, breasts, and buttocks—often seen in spaces dominated by men. But here, they challenge those traditional representations with subversion.

Spannungszange, 1974
Acrylic on canvas
160 x 160 cm

Schreitende Zange, 1975
Acrylic on canvas
125 x 110 cm

Liegende, 1978
Acrylic on canvas
125 x 150 cm

Credits: Sine Hansen, exhibition views, Kunstverein Braunschweig, 2025, Courtesy Estate Sine Hansen and EXILE, Photos: Frank Sperling.

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22/07/2025

Currently on view at the Remise: "Schlossgarten Passacaglia" (2022) by NOAH BARKER & PAUL LEVACK — part of our group show "Four Outdoor Scenes". You're warmly invited to come by!

"Filmed in the Baroque gardens of Schwetzingen Palace, Noah Barker and Paul Levack’s collaborative work "Schlossgarten Passacaglia" (2022) sees architectural ruins and sight lines become central antagonists. The 3D film hyperbolizes the ordered space of the garden into crucial moments of rupture in which both the stereoscopic illusion and renaissance perspective of the park break down. As the camera moves through pathways and vistas, two opposing notions of design clash with one another: the French style, emphasizing imposition of order onto flora, and the English romantic simulation of unintervened nature [...]." – From the exhibition text

Noah Barker & Paul Levack
Schlossgarten Passacaglia, 2022
Single channel stereoscopic video, sound
14’33”

Credits: Noah Barker & Paul Levack, Schlossgarten Passacaglia, 2022, exhibition view "Four Outdoor Scenes", Kunstverein Braunschweig, 2025, Courtesy the artists, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Photos: Frank Sperling.

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17/07/2025

Step into "A Feminine Thought" by B. INGRID OLSON, a single, work that unfolds across the ground floor of Villa Salve Hospes. On view until October 5, 2025. Come explore!

The impetus for the in-depth and critical examination of the concept of the Gesamtkunstwerk came from the special structure of the ground floor of the Salve Hospes: a sequence of rooms that merge seamlessly into one another and thus form a self-contained, circular architecture. Olson responded to this with a site-responsive floor installation made up of over 500 tabletops. The legless slaps—each measuring between 3 × 3 cm and 122 x 76 cm—serve as an index for every artwork the artist has ever made. They function as a support surface, while also representing the long trail of nearly two decades of artistic production. The installation of the tabletops follows the circular logic of the spatial sequence, hugging the interior walls of the institution.

On the black laminate boards, Olson exhibits an array of forms made of ceramics, aluminum, plastic, and plaster, as well as layered photographic collages, paintings, and drawings. In her recumbent assemblages, she combines different found objects and transformed materials, including multiple kinds of metal, antique fabrics, leather, concave mirrors, packing materials, and commercially produced hardware. Many of the ceramic objects were created using found polystyrene packaging, which the artist mostly collected over a period of time from a garbage room near her studio. Without knowing what kinds of objects were once stored in this packaging, the artist associates their recesses with various body parts, projecting human physiognomies onto its surfaces. Other ceramics are more abstract, resembling biomorphic architectural models.

Credits: B. Ingrid Olson, Excerpt from "A Feminine Thought", 2025, exhibition view, Kunstverein Braunschweig, 2025, Courtesy the artist and i8 Gallery, Photos: Frank Sperling.

15/07/2025

Exclusive opportunity for Kunstverein members!

In celebration of the SINE HANSEN exhibition, we’re thrilled to offer a rare gem: "Bohrer mit Birne" (1970) – a limited edition screen print. Only 10 copies are available exclusively to our members!

This iconic piece was part of the 1971 annual editions and is included in the now out-of-print "Braunschweiger Mappe I".

All proceeds will go towards producing a monographic publication, amplifying the lasting impact of this significant Braunschweig-based artist.

Don't miss out on this chance to own a piece of art history and support the legacy of Sine Hansen’s work.

More info on our website. Link in bio!

Bohrer mit Birne, 1970
From: Braunschweiger Mappe I, 1971
Druckerei Steidl, Göttingen, for Kunstverein Braunschweig
Silk screen
60 × 43 cm
Edition: 10 copies out of 150
Signed

Credits: Sine Hansen, Bohrer mit Birne, 1970, Courtesy Estate Sine Hansen and EXILE.

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11/07/2025

This summer, escape to the the Kunstverein’s garden and discover "Bicono Nero" (2023) by FRANCO MAZZUCCHELLI, on display until October 5, 2025.

The inflatable large-scale sculpture is part of a series of temporary works through which Mazzucchelli has been using space as a site of artistic intervention since the 1960s. With "Bicono Nero", the artist invites you to rediscover the garden and experience the relationship between art, space, and the public sphere.

The garden is freely accessible to all during the Kunstverein's opening hours. A visit can be perfectly combined with the current exhibitions in the villa and the remise.

We look forward to seeing you!

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Enntflieht diesen Sommer in den Garten des Kunstvereins und entdeckt "Bicono Nero" (2023) von FRANCO MAZZUCCHELLI, zu sehen bis zum 5. Oktober 2025.

Die aufblasbare Großskulptur ist Teil einer Serie temporärer Arbeiten, mit denen Mazzucchelli seit den 1960er-Jahren den öffentlichen Raum als Ort künstlerischer Intervention nutzt. Mit "Bicono Nero" lädt der Künstler dazu ein, den Garten neu zu entdecken und die Beziehung von Kunst, Raum und Öffentlichkeit zu erleben.

Der Garten ist während der Öffnungszeiten des Kunstvereins für alle kostenfrei zugänglich. Ein Besuch lässt sich wunderbar mit den aktuellen Ausstellungen in der Villa und der Remise verbinden.

Wir freuen uns auf euch!

Credits: Franco Mazzucchelli, Bicono Nero, 2023, exhibition view/Ausstellungsansicht, Kunstverein Braunschweig, 2025, Courtesy the artist/der Künstler and/und ChertLüdde, Photo/Foto: Frank Sperling.

09/07/2025

We are excited to share first images of “A Feminine Thought” by B. INGRID OLSON. The exhibition represents the American artist’s first solo institutional show in Germany.

Olson’s solo exhibition “A Feminine Thought” at the Kunstverein Braunschweig shares its title with the single sprawling artwork on display. The artist visited the Kunstverein for the first time in December last year. During this short stay, she already spoke about the idea of the Gesamtkunstwerk, or Total Work. Her preoccupation with this type of work first arose during a yearlong exhibition that took place in Reykjavík in 2023, titled “Cast of Mind”, in which the artist showed a slightly modified replica of a worktable from her studio. The table was repeatedly reconfigured during the exhibition, with the panels that served as the tabletop variously loosely stacked and unassembled, moved around, fixed in a single plane on the base of the table, and finally detached and removed again. Olson gave this work the title “Total Work”, without having knowledge of the concept of the Gesamtkunstwerk. During that same year, back in Chicago, Olson had a studio visit with the German art historian Christine Mehring, who teaches art history at the University of Chicago. Mehring spoke about the theories surrounding the Gesamtkunstwerk in connection with Olson’s “Total Work”. After this encounter, Olson began to research the idea in more depth, eventually describing it in her own words as “a work of art or other constructed experience that combines as many kinds of art as possible into a coherent whole. Popularized (and problematized) by the composer Richard Wagner, the principles of the Gesamtkunstwerk are often embodied by architecture, with practitioners such as Le Corbusier, Eliel Saarinen and Frank Lloyd Wright controlling every element of their buildings.”

The exhibition runs through October 5, 2025. Come by and have a look!

Credits: B. Ingrid Olson, Excerpt from “A Feminine Thought”, 2007-2025, exhibition view, Kunstverein Braunschweig, 2025, Courtesy the artist and i8 Gallery, Photo: Frank Sperling.

04/07/2025

We’re excited to share a first glimpse of "Four Outdoor Scenes"! The group show brings together new works and others that have not previously been shown in Germany, all of which produce connections to the outdoors on a visual, imaginary, or physical level. Over the next few weeks, we’ll be spotlighting each work in more detail.

The exhibition is on view through October 5—we look forward to seeing you!

Pictured here:

Tom Burr
Nine (Jewel Box), 2024
Painted wood panel; Powder coated aluminum panel and hardware; pages of photographs by Howard Sooley from the book "Derek Jarman’s Garden," 1995; page from "Rescue, Response, and Resilience: A Critical Incident Review of the Orlando Public Safety Response to the Attack on the Pulse Nightclub" 2017-2023; two photographs circa early 2000’s; clear
plexiglas; thumbtacks and nails
68.58 x 68.58 x 5.08 cm

Tom Burr
Ten (Soleil Privé), 2024
Painted wood panel; Powder coated aluminum panel and hardware; Black bomber jacket; photograph from "Palm Beach Views," 1999, used as announcement card for Ludwig museum exhibition, ("Family Ties: The Schroeder Donation," 2019); thumbtacks and nails
68.58 x 68.58 x 5.08 cm

Noah Barker & Paul Levack
Schlossgarten Passacaglia, 2022
Single channel stereoscopic video, sound
14’33”

Credits: Four Outdoor Scenes, exhibition view, Kunstverein Braunschweig, 2025, Photos: Frank Sperling.

FourOutdoorScenes

01/07/2025

We are excited to share first images of the exhibition "Sine Hansen". With this show, Kunstverein Braunschweig brings attention to a previously underrecognized yet central artistic position of the German postwar period.

The exhibition opens with the paintings "Osramkneifer" and "Ruhrfrühling" (both 1964), which function as a pair. At the bottom edge of the image, Hansen positioned the fulcrum of a pair of pliers with open, rounded arms. In the middle of the upper edge, she placed a light bulb. In "Ruhrfrühling", she reverses the direction of pliers and object so that the arms project downward from the upper edge of the image, stopping just in front of rose. Both works are characterized by the juxtaposition of mechanical and breakable objects, and as such even early on exemplified the tension that permeates her compositions, which might be described as their dramaturgical force. At the same time, the specific positioning of the pliers in the paintings gives them the appearance of hydraulic claws like those used on cranes, here engaged in grasping or squashing the delicate objects.

In comparison to Hansen’s later depictions of pliers, the distinct ornamentation of the individual elements here is striking: the different parts of the pliers stand out from one another both in terms of color and graphically, and they appear static in comparison to the sweeping lines that characterize the surfaces of the rose and the light bulb.

The exhibition is on view until October 5, 2025. We look forward to seeing you!

Ruhrfrühling, 1964
100 x 85 cm

Osramkneifer, 1964
100 x 85 cm

In the world, 1971
Egg tempera on canvas
150 x 150 cm

Credits: Sine Hansen, exhibition views, Kunstverein Braunschweig, 2025, Courtesy Estate Sine Hansen and EXILE, Photos: Frank Sperling.

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27/06/2025

Thank you for an unforgettable summer party and a great opening night! We loved celebrating with you and are excited to share a few highlights from last Friday.

The exhibitions are open until October 5, 2025. Come by!

SINE HANSEN
Sine Hansen

B. INGRID OLSON
A Feminine Thought

Cinema
NOAH BARKER & PAUL LEVACK, TOM BURR, SAM COTTINGTON, DANAE IO
Four Outdoor Scenes

Garden
FRANCO MAZZUCCHELLI
Bicono Nero, 2023

We would especially like to thank Hofbrauhaus Wolters for their generous support of this year’s summer party.

Photos: Anna Miethe

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Vielen Dank für ein fantastisches Sommerfest und einen großartigen Eröffnungsabend! Wir haben es sehr genossen, mit euch zu feiern, und freuen uns, hier ein paar Highlights vom letzten Freitag mit euch zu teilen.

Die Ausstellungen sind bis zum 5. Oktober 2025 zu sehen. Kommt vorbei!

SINE HANSEN
Sine Hansen

B. INGRID OLSON
A Feminine Thought

Cinema
NOAH BARKER & PAUL LEVACK, TOM BURR, SAM COTTINGTON, DANAE IO
Four Outdoor Scenes

Garden
FRANCO MAZZUCCHELLI
Bicono Nero, 2023

Wir danken besonders Hofbrauhaus Wolters für die großzügige Unterstützung des diesjährigen Sommerfests.

Fotos: Anna Miethe

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24/06/2025

We're happy to share our program for July with you. Come by!

My contribution to the exhibition – Design your own window inspired by B. INGRID OLSON
(Workshop for children and teenagers aged 10–14)
Thu, July 10, 2025, 11 am–2 pm
Free of charge
Registration at vermittlung@kunstvereinbraunschweig.de

Short Guided Tours (as part of Sommerkino Braunschweig)
Each at 8:30 pm
Free of charge
Fri, 11 July 2025
Thu, 17 July 2025
Thu, 24 July 2025
Thu, 31 July 2025

Screwdriver, scissors, and paintbrush: Rediscovering Pop Art
(Workshop for children aged 5–10)
Wed, July 16, 2025, 2–4 pm
Material cost: € 3
Registration at vermittlungs@kunstvereinbraunschweig.de

Director’s Tour through the exhibitions "Sine Hansen" and "A Feminine Thought" with CATHRIN MAYER
Thu, July 17, 2025, 6 pm
Free of charge, plus admission
In German

Poem Unlimited
Artist-run bar by ANNA ERLER and LENNART KOCH
Each at 6–11 pm
Fri, July 25, 2025

"Poem Unlimited" is a monthly artist-run bar and platform introducing a summer of readings, performances, concerts and screenings. Curated by ANNA ERLER and LENNART KOCH, Students of Frances Scholz's class at HBK Braunschweig.

Curator’s Tour through the exhibition "Four Outdoor Scenes" with JUNIA THIEDE
Thu, July 31, 2025, 6 pm
Free of charge, plus admission
In German

Public Guided Tours
Thu 6 pm and Sun 3 pm
Free of charge, plus admission
In German

20/06/2025

Catch a glimpse of our summer exhibitions, opening tonight at 7 pm:

SINE HANSEN
Sine Hansen

B. INGRID OLSON
A Feminine Thought

Cinema
NOAH BARKER & PAUL LEVACK, TOM BURR, SAM COTTINGTON, DANAE IO
Four Outdoor Scenes

Garden
FRANCO MAZZUCCHELLI
Bicono Nero, 2023

+++ Don’t miss: from 7:30 to 11 pm, Sam Cottington will present his new performance “Well” (2025) in the Remise and garden of the Kunstverein, as part of “Four Outdoor Scenes.” +++

To kick off our new exhibitions, we also warmly invite you to the opening weekend on June 21 and 22, 2025.

Saturday, June 21, 2025

Join the artist B. INGRID OLSON at 11 am for a tour through the exhibition "A Feminine Thought" (free of charge, plus admission, in English).

At 2 pm, Director CATHRIN MAYER and the daughters of SINE HANSEN, NORA MEYER and IMME SAGEMÜLLER, will offer insights into the life and work of Sine Hansen in a conversation (free of charge, plus admission, in German).

Sunday, June 22, 2025

At 3 pm, there will be a public guided tour through the exhibitions (free of charge, plus admission, in German).

We look forward to seeing you!

Credits:
1) Sine Hansen, exhibition view, Kunstverein Braunschweig, 2025.
2) B. Ingrid Olson, "A Feminine Thought", exhibition view, Kunstverein Braunschweig, 2025.
3) "Four Outdoor Scenes", exhibition view, Kunstverein Braunschweig, 2025.
4) Franco Mazzucchelli, Bicono Nero, 2023, exhibition view, Kunstverein Braunschweig, 2025.
Photos: Frank Sperling

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16/06/2025

We warmly invite you to the opening of the group show "Four Outdoor Scenes" with works by NOAH BARKER & PAUL LEVACK, TOM BURR, SAM COTTINGTON, and DANAE IO.

Opening with summer party:
Friday, June 20, 2025, at 7 pm

The group exhibition "Four Outdoor Scenes" brings together new works and others that have not previously been shown in Germany, ranging from video and 3D films to collages and performance. The works revolve around concepts of the garden, of landscapes and their architectures—understood as sites of control and state inscription, but also of conflict and appropriation in the broadest sense. What unites the works is their formal structure: using the method of superimposition, they respond to existing artistic or otherwise designed forms, which they enter into dialogue with or contradict. This principle might make it possible to adopt multiple perspectives simultaneously, and to draw a connection from the present to the past.

As part of the opening, the performance "Well" (2025) by Sam Cottington will take place in the Remise and the garden of the Kunstverein.

Artists:
Noah Barker
Paul Levack
Tom Burr
Sam Cottington
Danae Io

Curator: Junia Thiede

Supported by:
Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur .niedersachsen
Stadt Braunschweig - Fachbereich Kultur und Wissenschaft .de

We would like to thank:
Galerie Neu

Credits:
Archival photos of the exhibition "Low Slung" by Tom Burr, Kunstverein Braunschweig, 2000. Photos: Nic Tenwiggenhorn.

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