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One of the great guitarists of our time, with performances around the world, presented his new solo program Études/Quietudes at the Stadtstadel in early November 2024. Enthusiastic listeners, seated closely together, took in the nine pieces that mark the beginning of a new creative phase for Muthspiel. This is a return to the classical acoustic guitar, the instrument that, since he was 13, launched his rise on the world stage of guitarists. At the heart of his pieces, composed specifically for this instrument, are concert études capturing the guitar's broad spectrum of musical possibilities. Technically flawless and played with virtuosity, the performance felt to the audience like a conversation between diverse musical styles, seamlessly intertwined by Muthspiel’s masterful ease. His art of improvisation, inspired by everything from Johann Sebastian Bach’s lute works to a tribute to Bill Evans, gave the resonant concert a uniquely rounded finish. It was an evening of quiet tones that will remain unforgettable.
Images: Bernhard Simon
Even at events, despite the best planning and preparation, a salon evening can turn out very differently at the last moment. Instead of listening to chansons, the audience learned and experienced the life stories of two artists who could not be more different in their artistic expression, yet whose life paths have many similarities. The central question of the evening was: how does creativity arise in art? The guests followed with interest how a lifelong, childlike curiosity, the joy of playing and experimenting, as well as the necessary perseverance and persistence, have significance for the artistic process. Visible in the works of Gerold Jäggle, vividly explained, audible in the piano playing of Murat Parlak, breathtakingly performed. Whether it was the works of old masters, their own compositions, or spontaneous improvisations, a concert of unusual pieces, entirely without notes, from memory and the present.
The intellectual bracket was a quote by Rutger Bregman, Dutch philosopher, author, and journalist: "I mean to play in a broad sense – the freedom to go wherever curiosity leads. To search and to discover, to experiment and to create. Not along lines, but just because. For the fun of it.”
Images: Matthias Sienz
This year, we also participated in the Art Night in Kempten. With the official title "Encounters," all eyes in the city were on the art, admiring the many meeting places between artists and the audience. The crowd was large, and Kempten was shone with an exciting and stimulating art program in magenta red. At Station 42, the Stadtstadel featured the new exhibition "The Successful Cast" by Gerold Jäggle, an artist and sculptor from Stuttgart. With great interest, numerous visitors were introduced to the art of bronze casting between 7 PM and midnight, listening attentively to the explanations, stories, and anecdotes of the artist. Whether it was the sessions with Martin Walser, whom he portrayed in bronze, or his exciting object idea on the theme "Peanuts" for Deutsche Bank in 1996, which made him and Deutsche Bank CEO Hilmar Kopper very well-known, it was a popular station on the "Art Path" of the Kempten Art Night.
Gerold Jäggle was thrilled with the Art Night itself and the many people who were interested in his works. He had not expected that.
Images: Bernhard Simon
Bronze casting is a captivating process for creating sculptures of various types and sizes. As early as the 4th millennium BC, humanity used this form of metal casting and in the Bronze Age, it flourished. This is exactly what distinguishes Gerold Jäggle: bronze casting in the style of the Celts, because it was done near his hometown of Ertingen some 2500 years ago. This was just one of the many stories the artist shared that evening. Sometimes with a smile as an anecdote, sometimes in depth as a connoisseur of his craft, he discussed his working methods, his work, and his creative impulses and places of inspiration. Full of charm, he took the guests on the long journey of the exhibition "The Successful Cast". Larissa Richter, pianist and composer from Munich, studied his works in advance and surprised with a successful selection of piano pieces. With works by Bach Partita No. 1 and Prelude and Fugue in B-flat major, by Debussy "La fille aux cheveux de lin" and the composition of her composition teacher Wilfried Hiller "Taurus" from the Book of Stars, she set the exhibited works to music. Her own composition "Pray to the Music" formed the conclusion of the musical score, for which the audience thanked with enthusiastic applause.
Images: Bernhard Simon
On August 22, 2024, the enthusiastically received exhibition "Multi-layered as Life - Concretely Structured" by Uli Fischer came to an end with a brilliant conclusion. "Along the Silk Road" was the title of the finissage, at which the pianist and composer Larissa Richter and the classical dancer and choreographer Maria-Paula Duarte-Romero took the guests on a musical, dance and literary journey through the countries along the Silk Road; the countries through which Uli Fischer's wonderful textiles once traveled to reach Europe. The ancient caravans of the Silk Road gave gifts to the inhabitants not only by exchanging their goods, but also by spreading knowledge and culture. The pieces of music played on the piano came from China, Persia, ancient Russia, Turkey, the Arab countries and Europe, which the dancer presented with a new choreography. With indescribable harmony, the two artists took the guests note by note, beat by beat into the distance and a fairytale past. The magic of the Silk Road shone that evening in the old walls of the city barn. Wilfried Hiller, composer and composition teacher of Larissa Richter, lyrically summarized the trip:
Night Review
Fortunately, two artists are back from Swabia in good health.
They made a long journey, but in a particularly beautiful way:
From China to the Adriatic Sea - And poof, they're back again.
The journey without rest and stop went to 88 keys today.
Talked, danced, with a beautiful tone, with bells and with geophone.
What Marco Polo once did, you have accomplished in one day.
From Munich to Rio we now know:
You are a brilliant trio!!
Images: Bernhard Simon
A very special concert evening awaited the guests on July 18 this year: an evening of bassoons getting to know each other. In the orchestra, they are always in the second row, right in the middle, but never clearly visible to the audience. The concert in the Stadtstadel was completely different. There, the bassoon took center stage as an instrument and showed its very personal side. As a quartet consisting of Leonhard Kohler, Raphael Sirch, Johannes Stefaniak and Marco Scida, they opened up the entire spectrum of classical chamber music, tango, jazz and rock music. Impressively, they explained the special features of the woodwind instrument and its range of sounds. Well-known pieces, played in a completely different manner, such as Haydn, Telemann and Puccini, presented in stark contrast to Piazolla, Ravel, Sinatra and Miller, to be rounded off with rock music by Queen. And at the end, the pink panther sneaked past. With maximum variety in 90 minutes, there was only one instrument that took pride of place that evening. At the next orchestra evening, the guests will probably start by looking for the bassoons.
Images: Bernhard Simon
"These pictorial objects resemble quiet music" - this was the headline of the newspaper article at the opening of the new exhibition "Complex as life - concretely structured." The exhibition could not have been better summarized. Through absolute reduction to squares, rectangles and lines, transparently hand-sewn over several layers, the works unfold an incredible harmony. Soft waves are created in the room, which sometimes merge into complete calm. Larissa Richter, delighted from the very first sight, captures these sensations in her piano concert and interprets them in the music of minimalism as well as her own compositions. The cosmopolitan and globally networked pianist and composer allows the historical material to resound in all its diversity. To achieve this, she researched music history and chose William Byrd, an English composer from the 16th century, the oldest representative of minimalist music. With works by Wilfried Hiller, Bela Bartok, Arvo Pärt, Eric Satie, Michael Nyman, Ludovico Einaudi, Yiruma, Yann Tiersen, Max Richter, György Ligeti and, of course, Philip Glass, she ensured musical diversity in the program. Finally, she presented her latest composition - an absolute delight for all fans of minimalist music. The complexity of the pictorial objects was harmoniously combined with the complexity of the music for all the guests. Unusual, extraordinary, simply fantastic - that was the praise the audience gave the pianist and composer.
Images: Bernhard Simon
Who doesn't know the dream of peace, harmony and the fine arts, detached from the hustle and bustle of everyday life? The infinite freedom of immersion and enjoyment. The unique works of art by Uli Fischer from Berlin, James Hilton's novel “The Lost Horizon”, excerpts of which were read by Martina Walter, and the wonderfully inspiring music by Murat Parlak on the grand piano along with Magnus Dauner on the percussion instruments formed a fantastic symbiosis during the evening - a little Shangri-La in the Stadtstadel. The guests enjoyed being taken on the utopian journey to Tibet described in James Hilton's novel. They eagerly followed the content and, in particular, the passages of text that were read, through which the Tibetan legend of the mysterious place Shangri-La, located in the Himalayas, has been revealed to a Western audience for generations. These are those who for centuries have pursued the dream of a haven of peace in this world in order to be able to turn their backs on the recurring adversities of life. The two exceptional musicians accompanied the unique story with soft tones and the utmost sensitivity during the reading and then captured what they had heard in their very own compositions with powerful passages. An evening to dream and let yourself go. With standing ovations, the audience expressed its gratitude for this magnificent performance.
Images: Bernhard Simon
With a carefully chosen selection of large-format works, the Berlin artist Uli Fischer travelled to Kempten to curate his solo exhibition at the Stadtstadel and to open it together with the Stadtstadel team. The evening was all about Asia and especially Japan as many of the historical textiles used in his pictorial objects come from Japan and China. Uli Fischer impressively explained to the invited guests his career in art as well as in the gallery business, his times in the theatre and even in film, which were important stages of life in developing the unique way of painting with textiles. He treats the old fabrics collected worldwide like the color palette in painting, laying layer upon layer, in the style of the color layer painting of old masters. The exhibition also shows some of his most recent works. They are paint layer paintings with a textile effect. He cannot and does not want to deny his artistic origins from the Bauhaus period as well as concrete art. And in the end, he always remains true to painting. Larissa Richter, pianist and composer from Munich, took Japan as the central theme of her selection of work. She thrilled the audience with a piece from “Madam Butterfly” by Giacomo Puccini, plucked in the old Japanese way, and the piece “An Evening in the Country” by Bela Bartok. She also presented works by Japanese composers such as the “Kagome Variation” by Kiyoshige Koyama and “Haro no Umi” by Michio Miyaghi, whose sheets of music she had received directly from Japan. In addition, she delighted with traditional songs, old compositions and contemporary works such as "Howsl's Moving Castle" by Joe Hisaishi. Rounded off to perfection, the guests enjoyed Asian delicacies, masterfully served. What a prelude to this special exhibition "Multi-layered like life, concretely structured".
Images: Nathalie Dennenmoser
With two special plays in their luggage, the Weite Theater Berlin travelled to Kempten again to immerse the small stage of the Stadtstadel in the bright splendor of the theatre world. Christine Müller and Martin Karl philosophized about love in a broader sense in the play "Love is not for cowards" and combined seemingly contradictory things in a sonorous way: the love between us humans with the love of folk song, narrated very lightly with love to fairy tales. So much love, it makes you dizzy and simply thrilled all the guests. Simply out of love for theatre and its idiosyncratic characters – the tall puppets in the roles of the princess, the father and King Thrushbeard.
The adventures of Jorinde and Joringel enchanted children and parents alike. Playfully told with very small puppets and the animals of the forest, the narrator Christine Müller led through the depths of the fairy tale in changing roles. With its graceful play of light, the piece opened up a lot of space for many images in the mind. It could be that many children's rooms turn into a large forest with a bewitched castle and the story is recreated with its own characters. There are just no limits to children’s imagination.
Images: Birgit Kastner-Simon, Kai Siebdrath, Bernhard Simon
Silent films transport us into a unique and flickering world: the world of the first film with images in black and white and actors with great gestures and strong facial expressions, but still silent. Her camera angles capture what fascinated artists and audiences at the time - technology, architecture, people in all their diversity. The films equally showed comedy and reality. They documented current events and wrote flourishing stories. What is it about silent film that excites us, the moviegoers spoiled by technology and effects? Together with Murat Parlak, who applied his imagination and musical empathy to set the documentary film "Berlin - the Symphony of a Big City" by Walter Ruttmann from 1927 to music on the grand piano in a new composition, the guests of the Stadtstadel experienced urban life in Berlin in the 1920s in five chapters - an exciting trip of the time of our grandparents, for some, even great-grandparents. At the same time, the film shows the diversity of the metropolis across all levels of society, their professions, the poverty and the wealth of the city. With interesting editing, fast image and scene changes, the documentary film becomes an exciting day trip that begins early in the morning and ends with the nightly hustle and bustle of the glittering city. The eye and ear were highly challenged, especially for the pianist and composer Murat Parlak, whose composition only filled a post-it sheet as the basis for 90 minutes of "great cinema".
Images: Bernhard Simon
At some point, the last day comes and it's time to say goodbye. This is also the case with the wonderful exhibition "The fascination of form. Sculpture, Plastic, Drawing" by the artist Mechthild Ehmann. This special exhibition of her unique sculptures made of glass, her expressive bronze sculptures and the realistic nude drawings attracted many visitors from all over the south. Larissa Richter, pianist and composer from Munich, took up this diversity of art in a unique concert evening to which she invited her music colleague Dorothee Binding, professor of flute.
Together they revealed to the audience the beauty and the changes already apparent in music towards the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. With the choice of seven composers from Paris, the pieces by Paul Taffanel, Claude Debussy, Camille Saint-Saens, Gabriel Faure, Philippe Gaubert, Benjamin Godard and François Borne represented the tremendous upheaval in both art and music. They were all contemporary witnesses of the change in the visual arts, the move away from the depiction of the real world towards abstraction and reduction. The finely selected pieces allowed piano and flute to enter into a melodious symbiosis that transported the Stadtstadel and the audience back to Paris at the turn of the century. L'art et la France - par excellence.
Images: Bernhard Simon
His hands flew over the keyboard, his fingers barely touched the keys and yet the room was filled with the all-encompassing sound of his Fingerplay. What the ear took in could no longer be grasped with the eyes, even if one or two guests chose to sit right next to the him. Murat Parlak at his best. He thrilled the guests in equal measure - be it jazz lovers or classical music enthusiasts. A wonderful fusion of well-known pieces, melodies or even just individual chords with his own compositions repeatedly found their way into the variety of improvisation. The highlight of the evening was the impromptu performance of excerpts from Ludwig van Beethoven's 9th Symphony. In the spirit of the classical master, who was convinced that the constant repetition of the same notes and absolute faithfulness to the original would lead to boredom and erosion, Murat Parlak took the composition into a new world that enchanted all the guests alike. A gift for every music lover.
Images: Bernhard Simon
The bass-baritone voice of opera singer Diego Villegas was powerful and brilliant in the concert lounge of the Stadtstadel, accompanied by Enzo Weber on the piano. The chosen pieces included a wide range of Italian operas, art songs from German-speaking countries, pieces from well-known musicals and, of course, from his native Colombia. The program was entertainingly accompanied by a variety of interesting facts about the topic: voice, to which Diego Villegas also actively involved the audience. It was a convincing little exercise which taught the listeners about the power of their own voice. Enzo Weber touched the hearts of piano lovers, especially those fans of Schubert, when he delicately presented his interpretation of the work Impromptus in G-flat major.
Diego Villegas studied singing in Bogota, then moved to Vienna and finally completed his master's degree in Bologna. He now lives and works in South Tyrol. Enzo Weber has recently completed his music studies at the conservatory in Bolzano.
It was a wonderful beginning into the 2024 event year at the Stadtstadel.
Images: Matthias Sienz
With a little twinkle in her eye, Nicole Baumann-Groß singing soprano and Murat Parlak on the grand piano stunned the guests at the Christmas concert at the Stadtstadel. Performing classic American and German Christmas songs, they took the audience on an imaginative, wintry and adventurous journey. The audience experienced a twist through a new musical score of well-known carols.
It was an impression that delighted the audience and musicians alike. Narrations and a poem about Advent and Christmas such as "The Gift of the Magi" by O. Henry, "Advent" by Rainer Maria Rilke, "Snow Animals" by Christoph Mecker and the rascally "Apfent" story by Tony Laurer enticed the audience to enjoy this magical time once again with their expectant "children's eyes". Possibly exclusively at the Stadtstadel during this special evening.
Images: Bernhard Simon
A glowing, warm room on a cold, wet November evening - this is how the Stadtstadel presented itself at the vernissage of the exhibition "The fascination of form. Sculpture, Plastic, Drawing." by Mechthild Ehmann.
The pianist Larissa Richter from Munich and the flutist Antipe da Stella from Zurich framed the wonderful art of Mechthild Ehmann with a wide-ranging musical program. The herself vividly explained to the guests how her abstract sculptures made of glass and gilded bronze are created, which are already being compared to the works of Hans Arp in Belgium and France. The artist's proximity to France, in particular Paris, became the central theme of the evening. The two musicians played works by Saint-Saen, Poulenc and Gabriel Fauré. With 'Opening' from Philip Glass' 'Glasworks' embedded in a play of light in the dark room and three pieces composed especially for this evening by David Bertok from Los Angelos, the colorful sculptures were illuminated in all their depth. It was a fascinating experience for the eyes and ears.
Immersed in the age-old tradition of the Beaujolais Nouveau festival, complete with French delicacies, the evening was a genuine delight for everyone - artists, musicians and guests - in a triad of art and culture.
Images: Ralph Lienert, Guido Weggenmann
A musical project that was agreed upon 15 years ago has now become reality. Murat Parlak at the grand piano and Magnus Dauner on drums and percussion instruments performed together for the first time. With their “free play of tones,” the two terrific musicians enchanted the audience, who listened to the music moved, breathless and completely enthusiastic. The medieval walls, the resonating wooden floor and the vibrating ceiling of the Stadtstadel formed a body of sound that took up the conversation in sound, the musicians playing hand in hand turned it into a phantastic musical experience for the listeners. The harmony between the two musicians was clearly felt in the music, intuitively and without any sheet of music. Three hours with unique musical content.
Images: Ralph Lienert
What an apt description for an extraordinary finissage at the end of the exhibition "In the beginning is the tetrahedron. Perfection in space" by Rüdiger Seidt. The aesthetics and charisma of Rüdiger Seidt's works entered into a wonderful dialog with the rooms of the Stadtstadel and captivated the many visitors to the exhibition in their very own way. They often spent a long time looking at the works and absorbing the harmony they emanated.
For the finissage, Larissa Richter on the grand piano and Nargiza Yusupova on the cello selected unknown works by Scandinavian composers, whose sounds echoed the formal language of the Corten steel sculptures. They captured everyone and everything in the room with sensitivity and intensity. Whether by Jean Sibelius, Johan Svendsen, Edvard Grieg or Carl Nielsen, all compositions were newly rehearsed and often adapted for piano and cello. The audience was enchanted by the two internationally acclaimed musicians and particularly enjoyed the unfamiliar. The highlight of the evening was the interplay between visual art and music. Rüdiger Seidt energetically drew the shape of the tetrahelix on an oversized sheet of music, the cornerstones of which became the starting notes for a spontaneous, joint improvisation for Larissa Richter and Nargiza Yusupova. The two of them made the drawing resound with the greatest of ease. An unforgettable evening.
Images: Bernhard Simon
Everyone knows them, everyone enjoys them. Everyone remembers it. Sometimes even years later. Scenes of the film play in our minds as soon as we hear those first few notes. The music of a motion picture lets us enter another world - the world of the fictional plot. But how is it made? What should it trigger within us? There are a thousand questions about this. David Bertok, composer from Los Angeles, spent an evening at Stadtstadel during a visit to Germany and in the course of the evening took the visitors on a wonderful journey into the world of film and its music. Examples over several decades up to his current film music project "Daughter of the Sun" by Ryan Ward, which just premiered in Montreal at the end of July 2023, showed the changes in film scores over the different genres. It was an exciting evening with alternating highlights on the piano and on the screen. Certainly a topic that promises much more to come. And David Bertok will be there. He has already confirmed that.
Images: Stefanie Gilio / Birgit Kastner-Simon
As light, as velvety, and as fascinating as Rüdiger Seidt's steel sculptures, Larissa Richter created an interesting piano program of rarely performed pieces from the Scandinavian region. With Carl Nielsen's selection "Folktune and Humoresque from Five Piano Pieces", with Rued Langgaard's pieces from the Insectarium and with Jean Sibelius' opus "The Birch Tree and Caprice", visitors to the vernissage were able to discover the individual sculptures from various perspectives in harmony with the music and absorb the wonderful calm of the unusual formal language. Prior to this, the joint walk to the 3.3-metre-high sculpture "Tulipa Rubra" at the Town Hall Square, which is part of the exhibition, enriched the examination of the artist's work. Rüdiger Seidt not only impressively explained his creative process in the design phase, but also described the extraordinary craftsmanship that he leads to perfection over decades of experience with the material and its processing possibilities. The result is a perfection to which there is nothing more to add. An entertaining dialogue between the sculptors, in particular colleagues of Rüdiger Seidt from Baden Württemberg, and the audience concludes the evening together in the Stadtstadel.
Images: Matthias Sienz
Many people associate mountains with our neighboring country Austria. A wonderful country to end the exhibition "Landscape around me - Pictures in me. Mountains 2020 to 2022" ending with a musical bang. From the child prodigy and the Viennese classical period to the minimalist and the experimental, Austria's composers have offered the extraordinary over the centuries, drawing audiences enthusiastically to stages large and small. Larissa Richter has brought together a very special selection of Austria's greats for this evening in a moving concert on 20.06.2023, in keeping with the Stadtstadel's mission statement "Never seen before - never heard before". From Mozart, to Diabelli, Liszt, Mahler and Ligeti, the century-long journey spanned all styles since Mozart. Larissa Richter's choice fell on pieces that are rarely if ever played, often because they fall outside the pianists' repertoire or are simply too demanding. These pieces were also specifically rehearsed by her for this evening. The finale was a composition of her own, which Larissa Richter had never played in public before and for which she asked the audience to suggest names, entirely according to their musical sensibilities. Austrian cuisine and wines provided a culinary highlight from our neighboring country.
Images: Ralf Lienert
String to string, Murat Parlak and his longtime friend Jann Michael Engel let piano and cello resound in the Stadtstadel. At times the piano came to the fore, at others the cello; together they transformed the room into a single body of sound. In their own unique way and with great joy in improvisation, the two musicians played works by Beethoven, Grieg as well as Shostakovich and showed wonderfully how even former masters loved improvisation in order to surprise themselves and their audience time and again. With their own interpretations from the film music "Spiel mir das Lied vom Tod" by Ennio Morricone as well as original compositions by Murat Parlak, the evening culminated in a special sound experience for the audience, whose fingers could almost reach into the strings of both musicians, their music experience felt that close. Quite in the style of lounge art.
Images: Matthias Sienz
A completely new flair could be felt in the Stadtstadel. The big world of theater on a very small stage. With Christine Müller and Martin Karl, co-founders of the theater, a very different, fresh view of important topics of our time was presented to the audience, both young and old. Whether it was Schiller's work "The Legend of William Tell" that brought freedom, solidarity and collective resistance to the center of attention, or Hannes Hüttner's classic children's book "Bei der Feuerwehr wird der Kaffee kalt" ("At the Fire Department, the Coffee Gets Cold") that brought the practical things in life and the social commitment of and for people into focus, it was always a departure into new perspectives on the supposedly self-evident aspects of our time. Enthusiasm was on both sides, the audience, the actors and perhaps also the puppets, who embodied their great roles with perfection. A very special theatrical pleasure.
Images: Birgit Kastner-Simon / Doreen Kauschmann
With great interest, long-time connoisseurs and admirers of his works accepted the invitation to the vernissage on 23.03.2023 in the Stadtstadel. Horst Heilmann himself introduced the pictorial world of his exhibition "Landscapes around me - pictures in me. Mountains 2020- 2022". A unique subject and a unique orientation of an entire exhibition on the subject of the mountain world - works created in a quiet and confining time between 2020 and 2022. Yet the pictures evoke the exact opposite. They instead bear witness to mightiness and vastness. Larissa Richter, pianist and composer from Munich, underlined the effect of the pictorial world with works by Schubert and her own compositions: She opened up the space for all visitors to for their personal feelings when viewing the powerful images.
Images: Matthias Sienz
The exhibition "Formed or Already in Motion? The World Behind." by Guido Weggenmann invites us to make the unique pieces of steel and aluminum sound through music and to open up a whole new facet for the spectators when viewing the sculptures. The Allgäu drummer and percussionist Magnus Dauner, who has already accompanied Guido Weggenmann in depth on earlier projects, approaches Weggenmann's works via two interlocking paths. In his first musical part, "From dealing with time," he interpreted a quote by Albert Einstein and set the findings of the theory of relativity in motion musically. In his second part, he expanded the geographical space and took us rhythmically around the globe to 80 countries. A true art delight for percussion fans and art enthusiasts of contemporary sculptures.
Images: Matthias Sienz
The works of Guido Weggenmann in his exhibition "In Form or Already in Motion? The world behind" invite in their expressiveness, their lightness and their uniqueness a multidimensional form of interpretation. During the final night of Guido Weggenmann's exhibition, Corinne Steudler, actress and dancer at the Theater Kempten, and Murat Parlak, composer, pianist and singer from Munich, jointly interpreted individual sculptures from the exhibition from their point of view and staged them for the audience. Form and movement receive another dimension: the interpretation for viewers via music and dance.
Images: Birgit Kastner-Simon
In the spirit of salon art Murat Parlak convinced his audience. With ease and a lot of emotion he led the enthusiastic audience through the most different epochs of music history and accompanied them with feeling and temprament simultaneously through all genres of music.
Images: Ralf Lienert
Guido Weggenmann, who has been influential in the Kempten art scene for many years, presents in his first solo exhibition in Kempten with works from 2019, 2021 and most importantly his latest works from 2022. This unique exhibition in the Stadtstadel was opened in a small setting with a lounge evening. With Larissa Richter on the grand piano and Dr. Ella Platschka, art historian at the Museum Brot und Kunst Ulm, an interesting interdisziplinay dialogue between sculptor, pianist and art historian emerged.
Images: Ralf Lienert
Medieval documents tell of a flourishing brewing industry in Kempten. The first brewery was built in 1417 by the Frauenwirt with the "Brauerei zur Gans" in Gerberstraße. In the following centuries, more than 20 brew kettles were regularly fired up in the city. The Kemptner obviously held his beer sacred. Martin Simon, Matthias Sienz and Ralf Lienert, together with gallery owner Birgit Kastner-Simon, dove deep into Kempten's history and presented a selected collection of historical photos and memorabilia.
Images: Ralf Lienert