Visitor Information
The team of Galerie Renate Bender wishes you Happy Holidays and a good start into the new year!
+++ The gallery will be closed from December 21st, 2025 to January 15th, 2026.+++
On Friday, January 16, 2026, we will start the new year with the exhibition LUMEN featuring works by Regine Schumann, Siegfried Kreitner, Jan van Munster and Julius Stahl.
SAVE THE DATE:
Exhibition Note Bristol, England
Royal West of England Academy Open Exhibition 2025
Group exhibition with Maria Lalić and others
September 6, 2025 - January 4, 2026
Royal West of England Academy (RWA)
Queen’s Road, Clifton,
Bristol BS8 1PX
United Kingdom
Opening hours: Tuesday – Sunday, 10 am - 5 pm
As part of the exhibition, Maria Lalić held a conversation with RWA President Fiona Robinson. The fascinating transcript of this dialogue has been published here.
The City of Oslo Art Collection // Lars Strandh
We are happy to announce that The City of Oslo Art Collection has acquired two larger scale paintings of Lars Strandh for their collection.
This large collection includes works from the 16th century up till now, and the most famous part is of course the Munch heritage that is shown at the Munch museum and the outdoor sculpture park of Gustav Vigeland. The collection includes some 20.000 artworks in total.
https://www.kunstsamlingen.no/english
Lars Strandh, Untitled 2227 – 2022
Acrylic on canvas, 80 x 160 cm
Podcast
You can find Dr. Isabella Kreim's interesting report on Ingolstadt's Kulturkanal about Peter Weber's exhibition at the Mariette Haas Gallery here.
Exhibition at Mariette Haas Gallery unti January 17th, 2026.
Tillyhaus in der Neubaustraße 2
85049 Ingolstadt
Germany
Peter Weber, 8 große, 4 kleine Quadrate“ – 2023, Nirosta mirror, Edition of 5 , 50 x 94 x 11 cm
New Podcast: Art #6 – Peter Weber – The Folder
ART UND WEISE – The art podcast by Bernhard Kreutzer
Conversations about art, work, and everything in between. (In German)
"The artist Peter Weber is guest in the latest episode. He is known for his folds, which at first glance appear to be composed of many parts, but in reality emerge from a single folded piece. In his works, surface and space, precision and play intertwine. The result are works that not only impress with their formal clarity, but also invite the viewer to engage in an open dialogue.
Peter Weber talks about his work and the idea of networking in folding, about humor in art, and his engagement with the work of Timm Ulrichs. He also explains to AI what concrete art means.
You can find the podcast "Art und Weise" on Spotify.
About the podcast: Invited artists bring one of their own works to talk about – and one by someone else. These become open conversations about what it means to live and work in and with art today.
Exhibition Note Donaueschingen, Germany
Exhibition Note Fürstenfeldbruck
FRANKEN KONKRET. Positionen konkreter Künstler aus Franken
Exhibition from November 15, 2025, to January 11, 2026
KUNSTHAUS im Museum Fürstenfeldbruck
Kloster Fürstenfeld – Eingang Museum – 82256 Fürstenfeldbruck
Exhibition Note Celle
COMETS
LLight Art with Radiance – 25 Years of the Kunstmuseum Celle
Group exhibition with Siegfried Kreitner, Regine Schumann, Jan van Munster and others.
Exhibition dates: October 7, 2025 – February 22, 2026
KUNSTMUSEUM CELLE MIT SAMMLUNG ROBERT SIMON
Schlossplatz 7
29221 Celle
Tel. (05141) 12 45 21
www. kunst.celle.de
New Film
Rosa M Hessling
STILLER JUBEL - LICHT (SILENT JUBILATION - LIGHT)
Rosa M Hessling's exhibition STILLER JUBEL - LICHT (SILENT JUBILATION - LIGHT) at the Neue Galerie und Museum im Haus Breda in Bitburg, Germany has been accompanied by a film that is well worth seeing.
CD Release
Peter Weber + Ulf Meyer „Hommage”
We are very pleased to present the brand new CD "Hommage" by Ulf Meyer and Peter Weber.
Ulf Meyer (guitar) and Peter Weber (double bass) have a long-standing friendship and career as jazz musicians. It was a cancelled gig in Corona times that they used to record some tracks from the American Songbook in Peter Weber's studio. The compilation of tracks for the resulting CD is a reminiscence of their time together as musicians in the Hamburg scene with Christoph Oeding (guitar) and Ulrich "Miele" Meletschus (drums). In addition to the current tracks, six are from the quartet period of "Meyer Oeding Unlimited".
"Hommage" is dedicated to the two friends who died far too young.
SWR2 Zeitgenossen - Interview with Renate Bender "I am fascinated by reduction and meditativeness"
Broadcast date: April 20th, 2024, 5:04 pm in the series SWR2 Zeitgenossen / SWR Kultur.
You can listen to the program here on the SWR website.
On Saturday, April 20th 2024, the conversation with Renate Bender and cultural journalist Dietrich Brants, which they recorded at Art Karlsruhe 2024, was broadcasted on SWR2. They talk in detail about some of the gallery's artists such as Inge Dick, Rosa M Hessling, Maria Lalić, Pfeifer & Kreutzer and Peter Weber; but also how Renate Bender came to Concrete Art in the first place and founded her gallery in 1987.
Exclusive Edition by Regine Schumann: "colormirror soft double satin turquoise munich" 2023
Music Note
Debut album: W. A. Mozart and E. Granados
Piano: Yan Han
Cover: Marco Stanke
Our colleague Yan Han has released her first CD. In her album, the pianist interprets a very personal journey between two poles of classical music - W. A. Mozart and E. Granados.
Excerpts from the program: Youtube
order: www.hanyan.de
price: 29,99 € excl. shipping costs
Publications by the gallery
The publications by Galerie Renate Bender have meanwhile increased to more than 40 catalogs.
artist catalogs:
Till Augustin, Hellmut Bruch, Inge Dick, Helmut Dirnaichner, Alfonso Fratteggiani Bianchi, Alfred Haberpointner, Rosa M Hessling, Manfred Jäger, Jus Juchtmans, Bim Koehler, Maria Lalic, Matt McClune, Rakuko Naito, Joan Hernández Pijuan, Robert Sagerman, Regine Schumann, Lars Strandh, Jeremy Thomas, Bill Thompson, Peter Weber, Susan York
exhibition catalogs:
Rosa M Hessling – „Nur ein Wimpernschlag… “ – 2023
Helmut Dirnaichner - "The Sensuality of Color" - 2022
„Black is Beautiful“ – 2021
Inge Dick – „A Life for the Light“ – 2021
Helmut Dirnaichner – Alfonso Fratteggiani Bianchi – „Erde, Stein, Pigment“ – 2019
Bim Koehler – „Das Leben ist schön!“ – 2019
Peter Weber – „Structure and Folding“ – 2019
Inge Dick – Jan van Munster – „Between Dark and Light“ – 2018
Inge Dick – LICHTUNG – Stadtpfarrkirche St. Nikolaus, Bad Ischl, AT – 2018
The Phenomenon of Perception – 2017
FarbeLicht – LichtFarbe – 2017
Wholeness as a Principle - 2016
Fifty Shades of Red – 2016
The catalogs are available in the gallery for 5 €.
