Portals

PHOTO: © Manuel Ritzl

Portals

In the organizer's words:

 

Opening: Tuesday, June 30, 2026, 5:00 p.m.
Exhibition dates: July 1–November 5, 2026
Hours: Mon–Thu 10 a.m.–5 p.m. (During summer break: Mon–Thu 11 a.m.–3 p.m.)

Normally, paintings hang on the walls—but not this time. “Portals,” the exhibition by students in Prof. Alisa Margolis’s class, directs the viewer’s gaze upward.

The Painting and Figure Drawing class is transforming the ceiling of the ABK Stuttgart library, thereby drawing on a historical tradition of ceiling painting: the ceiling as a portal, as an opening to diverse visual worlds and narratives. In dialogue with the library, this familiar gesture is reinterpreted in a contemporary way.

While reading naturally draws the eye to the page, these works lift it up into the space. Above visitors’ heads, a polyphonic narrative emerges from individual artistic perspectives, standing alongside the stories told by the books.

Exhibiting artists:
Leonie Brandt, Melissa Elis, Isabel Jacobs, Polina Lurie-Taits, Leutrim Morina, Manuel Ritzl, David Maria Rieder, Jasmin Ringer, Mirjam Roth, Johanna Schmidt, Valerie Schlipf, Johanna Wunderlich, Gabriel Zlatanovic

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Weitere Termine von Portals

01.

Juli

10:00

Stuttgart

Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart

Free admission

Zum Event

02.

Juli

10:00

Stuttgart

Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart

Free admission

Zum Event

06.

Juli

10:00

Stuttgart

Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart

Free admission

Zum Event