Exhibition
April 5–May 23, 2025
Vernissage during Stuttgart Gallery Weekend
April 5, 2025 | 11a.m.–8 p.m.
The artist is present
Special Opening hours during Gallery Weekend of April 5–6
For details please see here
Regular Opening hours
Tuesday–Friday, 2–6 p.m.
Saturday variable. Please see this website
Artist Andrea Grützner (*1984 in Pirna) has been working on her photographic series at the “Erbgericht Polenz” country inn in eastern Saxony for a decade. The building, which has fascinated her since childhood, refers in its name to a regional cultural history that goes back to the Middle Ages and concerned jurisdiction. Its interior contains a historically evolved collage of materials and spaces, which has been linked to the memories and emotions of generations of the local population since its opening in 1898. Andrea Grützner does not show the familiar nostalgia and clichés of the (East) German provinces, such as antlers and taverns. Instead, she elaborately stages the deserted, winding interior in front of her analog camera, sometimes with colored flash. The result is an avant-garde abstract labyrinth of intensely luminous shadow geometries that painterly superimpose fragments of space and objects.
We cordially invite you to immerse yourself in the utopian spatial visions and memory spaces of the Landgasthof in our gallery. The elaborately designed and produced artist's book “Erbgericht” (published by Hartmann Books) will be on display in the exhibition and the artist will sign it for interested visitors.
Biographical information
Andrea Grützner lives in Dresden and Berlin and completed her Master of Arts in Photography at the University of Applied Sciences in Bielefeld.In her pictures she deals with the perception of spaces.In addition to her personal feelings, she also shows in general how behavior, emotions and memory influence a collective identity in architecture.She has received numerous awards and her work has been shown internationally in solo and group exhibitions.