Exhibitions
Throughout the year, exhibitions at the Schafhof present international and local positions in contemporary art. The spectrum includes all forms of visual arts, such as painting, video art, sculpture, photography, drawing, conceptual art, and installation. Group exhibitions with international and German artists, solo exhibitions with renowned artists and presentations of works by younger or regionally based artists take place in alternation. Applications are welcome.
Annual themes serve as common threads throughout the exhibition program, and facilitate an engagement with the exhibited works through a range of perspectives. A thematic emphasis also fosters a better understanding of art and a more enjoyable viewing experience. Certain themes emphasize formal aspects (for example, Color in 2013, Structure in 2015, and Sound in 2017), while others focus on specific concepts (for example Illusion in 2014, Identity in 2016, and Art and Science in 2019).
The Schafhof features a gallery on the ground floor and a large exhibition hall on the first floor, with a total exhibition space encompassing almost 450 square meters. The barrel vault ceiling and its unusual shape offer an atmosphere unique to the region and beyond.
Current and upcoming exhibitions
Beast from the East
Date :
30.06.2018 until 26.08.2018
Dates
30. June - 26. August 2018: Exhibition
in the framework of the topic of the year: Emotion
opening hours: Tu ‒ Sa 2‒7 pm, Su + holidays 10 am‒7 pm
The exhibition spaces and the café are accessible to the disabled.
29. June, friday 7:00 pm: Exhibition opening
Shuttle bus from Freising Station to the House of Art: 6.30-7 pm; return: 8.50 pm
About the exhibiton
The subject of these large-format paintings and bizarre figures by the Ukrainian artist Andriy Hir is the myths and superstitions of the Carpathian region. For many years, Hir has been researching the legends of the mountainous regions in western Ukraine and has found his own pictorial language to visually encode his knowledge and pass it on in an atmospheric manner. With impressive visual power, this profound and at the same time humorous work of research uses mysticism, magic and the underlying fears of an ancient cultural region to display an important spectrum of this year's theme, emotion.
Hir was a scholarship holder in Freising during the 2015 Transfer > Lviv / Ukraine artists' exchange. Under the title "Remix", current works by artists who participated in an earlier exchange project as part of the Upper Bavarian European Art Scholarship are presented at irregular intervals. Thus, visitors to the Künstlerhaus (house of artists) can follow the development of young artists from Europe and Upper Bavaria, and the contacts established through the exchange can also be lastingly sustained and enhanced on a professional artistic level.
A view in the exhibition
