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KAFKA – International Mail Art

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  KAFKA – International Mail Art A global art project honouring an author whose imagery continues to resonate In 2024, the centenary of Franz Kafka’s death was commemorated. A hundred years later, it is more evident than ever how inexhaustibly his work inspires artists around the world. Kafka’s texts—marked by psychological acuity, radical imagination, and a form that is both simple and immensely powerful—remain an open archive of human existence. His world is a cosmos of images that unsettle and move us, at once familiar and strangely distant. Those who share a similar sensitivity recognise in it the beauty and the unease of life, tightly interwoven. A project that transcends borders For many years, the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków has been developing artistic projects inspired by Kafka’s aphorisms from “Reflections on Sin, Suffering, Hope, and the True Way.” Within the framework of the 2024 programme “Freedom – Boundaries of Identity,” a new impulse emerged: an ...

MITTE37 - A New Center for Art, Exchange and Experimentation

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MITTE37 — A New Center for Art, Exchange and Experimentation In the quiet heart of Burgdorf, just between the rhythms of everyday life and the wider cultural landscape of the Hannover region, a new artistic space is taking shape: MITTE37. More than a gallery, more than an atelier, and more than a temporary home for artists, it is a living, breathing place where contemporary art, cultural dialogue and creative hospitality come together. At its core stands the studio of Susanne Schumacher, an artist whose practice moves confidently between photography, Fluxus, Mail Art and conceptual approaches. From this studio, a hybrid space unfolds — one that welcomes exhibitions, artistic production, residencies and neighborhood-based cultural work. MITTE37 is designed as an open forum, intentionally positioned outside the commercial gallery system. Here, proximity matters: proximity between artists and audiences, between guests and hosts, between ideas and the people who carry them. The program emb...