We cordially invite you to the closing reception of the exhibition
on August 1, 2025 on 7 pm with a lecture of Silja Lenz.

To the end of the exhibition Below, Silja Lenz invites you to a lecture that continues the poetic and mythical moment of her work. She will read the story “Die, die nie ganz auftaucht” (the one who never fully emerges), a literary dive into the deep sea, to a creature between myth and memory.

Below
by Silja Lenz 
Opening on Friday, Juli 11, 2025
at 5:45 pm for children
(in cooperation with the Youth Art School Stuttgart)
at 7 pm for everyone.

A soft body, fired in clay. Fragmentary, torn from movement, broken into pieces. What otherwise eludes the gaze now lies open before us – rigid, tangible, and yet foreign. From the depths, people tell stories: of beings that no one has fully seen, of tentacles that embrace ships. Between fear and fascination, an image emerges that says more about us than about what lives down there.

The work probes this boundary between myth and material, between touch and withdrawal, and asks: What traces do we leave in spaces that are not meant for us?

The exhibition ends on August 1, 2025, at 7 PM with our SUMMER FESTIVAL.
Warm invitation!

Opening hours by appointment at 0151 40 385 402 or via email.

Opening on Froday July 11th, 2025 with a speech of Julia Wirth (texts to art).
On the left, Silja Lenz in conversation with Julia Würth.

The first children’s opening with children from JUKUS (Stuttgart Youth Art School). Two groups of six children each came and talked to Silja Lenz after viewing the exhibition. A week later, Silja Lenz visited the youth art school to work with the children using clay.

Photo Credits: Ulrike Reichart