5 Years later. Bender Schwinn Project Reloaded

5 Years later.
Bender Schwinn Project Reloaded

Raphael Grotthuss, Marile Holzner, Steffen Kern, Martin Lehmer, Pfeifer & Kreutzer, Eunji Seo, Marco Stanke

Vernissage on Friday, June 30th 2023 from 6 to 8 pm
Matinee on Saturday, July 1st 2023 from 12 to 4 pm

Exhibition from June 30th to July 29th, 2023

In 2016, the aim of the "Bender Schwinn Project" was to show and promote young artists who are at the beginning of their artistic careers in established gallery spaces. Opening up to a new generation – both of artists and an future gallery owner – has been very successful. While "Project One" took place "between" the regular gallery exhibitions on a few days in March 2016, the exhibition concept was given the place of the four-week summer exhibition the following year due to its great success. In 2018, "Project Three" was the last exhibition for the time being on this specific topic.

Now the exciting question arises: How have our "young" discoveries evolved?

In the meantime, the artists in these three exhibitions have been awarded several prizes, scholarships and catalogue grants, some of them several times. They have already successfully mastered their first steps into the highly competitive art market.

Five years after the last "Bender Schwinn Project", we are now once again inviting a selection of the artists shown at that time. Some have by now been included in the permanent art program of the gallery, others have remained connected to us and we follow their careers with joy and curiosity. While some have clear ideas about where their artistic path is going, others are still searching. It's pleasure to watch these developments and experiments.

Yours Renate Bender & Katharina Brauch (née Schwinn)

Review:

Bender Schwinn Project 1 - 2016

Bender Schwinn Project 2 - 2017

Bender Schwinn Project 3 - 2018