For the third time – following the successful projects in 2023 and 2024 – a group of artists and curators from Hamburg and Ibiza will come together in Sant Antoni de Portmany. Together, they will artistically explore themes and margins of spirituality, the movement towards „elsewhere,“ and closely related challenges such as longing, desires, inspiration, happiness, as well as rootlessness and religion.

Already in 2023, the philosopher Walter Benjamin was a central figure, as he stayed in Sant Antoni de Portmany during the Nazi dictatorship. This year, his ideas again inspire the exhibition: „En Transíto – In spirit, we are elsewhere“ invites us to re-experience transitions, cultural encounters, and the longing for „elsewhere.“ The title reflects the quest for change and the movement between here and there, between memory and new beginnings.  

Walter Benjamin’s concept of the „aura“ – the unique and unrepeatable nature of a work of art in the moment of encounter – serves as a philosophical foundation for the exhibition.  

The choice of the Church of Sant Antoni de Portmany as the exhibition venue, with its sacred architecture, creates a unique atmosphere where the earthly and the transcendent can meet. Here, the exhibited works become a space of experience that makes the transition between past, present, and future tangible.  

Additionally, the exhibition incorporates Benjamin’s concept of „now-time“: a moment where past and present merge into a creative state of longing and hope. The works tell stories of transitions, journeys, and deep yearning, inviting viewers to pause and perceive themselves as part of this process.  

„EnTransíto“ is an invitation to question one’s connection to art, space, and time, to look beyond cultural and spiritual boundaries, and to discover a new perspective in the in-between spaces – whether between Hamburg and Ibiza or between here and elsewhere.  

For one week, selected artists and students will work and interact with the curatorial team of „En Transíto“ around the Church of Sant Antoni de Portmany. They will reflect on an ever-changing reality and artistically address the questions arising from it. Central themes include longing, desires, inspiration, transition, and the search for happiness.  

As an exchange, an exhibition will take place in October 2025 in Hamburg. A version with small-format works from the exhibition in Sant Antoni de Portmany will then be shown in the LINKSRECHTS space in the Gängeviertel.

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Ottersberger Förderpreis
für bildende Kunst 2024

Der Kunstpreis wird vom Flecken Ottersberg alle zwei Jahre vergeben.

Der Flecken Ottersberg vergibt im Jahr 2024 zum neunten Mal einen Kunstpreis. Bewerben können sich Künstlerinnen und Künstler für alle Sparten der zeitgenössischen Kunst die in der Metropolregion Bremen-Oldenburg oder im Landkreis Rotenburg geboren sind oder dort ihren Wohnsitz haben. Außerdem werden Studierende der Hochschulen ab dem 4. Semester zur Bewerbung zugelassen.

Zusätzlich wird in diesem Jahr zum vierten Mal ein Nachwuchsförderpreis für Studierende der Hochschule für Künste im Sozialen Ottersberg ausgelobt.

Ausstellung 2024

14.11. – 15.12. 2024

Nominierte Künstler:innen

… für den Kunstpreis

Franca Brockmann, Marei Dierßen, Veronika Domp, Evita Emersleben, Petra Fiebig, Paula Freitag, Janina Fritz, Anja Fußbach,Tom Gefken,Finn Geiger,Sarah Lüdemann (Beauham),Yeosulme Kang & Jaehwa Baek,Hana Kawanishi,Shoji Matsumoto,Svenja Wetzenstein,Zhiyi Zhou

… für den Nachwuchspreis

Julia Bauer,Marten Blatt,Veronika Domp,Finn Geiger, Stefanie Heinrich, Vaira Janz,Alexandra Konradi, Ole Krüger,Lina Rosengrün,Ursula Salon, Künstler:innengruppe (stellvertretend Sigrid Brüns), Kelvin Scharnhorst,Juliane Twesten,Zhiyi Zhou

Gewinner Nachwuchsförderpreis 2024: Finn Geiger und Veronika Domp

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