Whiteout describes a meteorological phenomenon that makes ground and sky appear to merge seamlessly into one another. Whiteout occurs most often in polar regions or in extremely high mountains and is associated with the feeling of moving in a wholly void and infinitely vast white-grey space.

White – whether as the brightest non-colour or the dominant counterpart to the rest of the chromatic spectrum – is the embodiment of pure energy. Concepts such as innocence, purity or stillness, but also isolation, emptiness and loneliness appear in our mind’s eye.

In Western cultures, white is a symbol of innocence and immortality. In other cultures, white garments are worn as a sign of mourning. We are constantly surrounded by white in all its facets.

The nearly 40 artists of the “Neue Gruppe München” have wrestled with this topic. Each artist now presents their own individual views and artistic positions in a wide variety of techniques in the Schuhhaussaal. The potential orientations and interpretations on display stretch a white thread between the individual artworks.

April Snow in Ulm

The NEUE GRUPPE is an association of artists from various fields of contemporary art. The group was founded in 1946 out of a need for cosmopolitanism, freedom and stylistic plurality. It had its first exhibition in 1947 at the Lenbachhaus in Munich. The Neue Gruppe represents artists who deal with modern visual aspects without doctrinally committing themselves to one artistic discipline.

A catalogue will be published to accompany the exhibition. Press Echo Augsburger Allgemeine 02. August 2024 and Südwest Presse 04. August 2024.

Exhibition at the vicarage in Gempfing. Opening: June 8, 2024 at 10:30 a.m. Introduction: Wolfgang Herzer (Weiden). Musical accompaniment: Tea for Three.

For Beatriz von Eidlitz
„I saw a cage in flight. There were eagles inside.“

Two octagonal stars made of bamboo stalks, bearing eight sails from their circumferences to their centers, werde attached to a central axle. The star-wheels were so large, she couls stand inside them with her arms outstreched. The object was lifted up by the wind, and it began to rotate. I saw this double wheel of sails, carried upwards by big balloons, floating above the rooftops of Munich. It seemed as if the flying object – if it hadn´t been attached to the earth with a cable – would sail away on the wind, to the clouds, and of into the blue sky. The object itself was conceived as a cloud, to float up and away, where no one could ever bring it back down again.
Jürgen Reipka, May 1988, published in Beatriz von Eidlitz, Exhibition Catalogue, 1988

With works by: Elina Deberdeeva – Beatriz von Eidlitz – Ehrenfried Frank – Angelika Frommherz – Peter Gratzer-Schick – Anna Claudia Herberger – Wolfgang Herzer – Wolfgang Hingel – Manuela Hutschenreiter – Uwe Jonas – Bernhard Karlstetter – Margrit Keller – Winfried Keller – Susanne Koch – Stefan F. Konrad – Florentine Kotter – Marcela Krecova – Karin Krüger – Cornelia Langenmaier – Elvira Latenhammer – Monika Lensler-Aresin – Darko Lesjak – Michael Likan – Thomas Ludwig-Kelley – Tatjana Naaf von Sass – Bernd M. Nestler – Helmut Osterloher – Alexander Schidrich – Michael Schölß – Astrid Schröder – Hans Schüle – Alexander Schütz – Else Streifer-Schröck – Sabine Träxler – Heribert B. Wappmannsberger – Anthony Werner – Stefan Zeiler – Io Zeller-Klimm

Opening hours on the following Sundays: June 9 – June 16 – June 23 – June 30 – July 7 – July 14 – July 21 – July 28, 2024 from 2:00 to 5 p.m. Further information: www.gempfingerpfarrhof.de. Press reports Donauwörther Zeitung: Preliminary report (May 28, 2024); Vernissage June 8, 2024).

The following publication will appear in parallel: Erich Hofgärtner (ed.): Reipka und Schüler. Academy of Fine Arts Munich. Published by Dr. Rudolf Wittmann. Augsburg 2024. 132 pages, numerous mostly full-page color illustrations. ISBN 978-3-9806201-5-4.

Beatriz von Eidlitz: Works on paper and iron. Gallery Mollwo, Gartengasse 10, parking garage and streetcar stop “Fondation Beyeler”, 4125 Riehen/Basel, Switzerland, from September 17, 2023 to October 29, 2023, Wed-Sun 2-6 pm.

Review in the Riehener Zeitung of Friday, 15 September 2023.
More exhibition impressions on YouTube.

Academy students of the painting professor Jürgen Reipka (1936 – 2013) exhibited their work. Mrs. Annkatrin Schulz spoke, art historian and director of Museum Wolfratshausen, at the opening of the exhibition.

Vernissage: Thursday, April 20 at 7 pm. Exhibition duration: April 20 to May 7, 2023 Opening hours: Thursday to Sunday, 2:00 to 6 pm. Art tower at Schwankerl-Eck, Obermarkt 33, D-82515 Wolfratshausen. Press reportage including Münchner Merkur (May 27, 2023), Süddeutsche Zeitung (April 19, 2023) and Magazin für das Bayerische Oberland (April 24, 2023).

“From where? Where to?
Forms and spaces
Works on paper and iron”

Opening: 10th November 2022, 6 – 9 pm. Duration of the exhibition: 11th November – 17th December 2022. Opening hours: Mon – Fri 10 am – 6 pm, Sat 10 am – 1 pm. Gallery Anais, Sedanstraße 22, 81667 Munich.