Finissage

/ Biennale

/ 23 Aug 2026

Finissage in Lauchhammer Heinrich-Zille-Str. 1 Lauchhammer

Event Finissage in Lauchhammer, Finissage

Section Biennale

Date 23 Aug 2026

Info 3:00 p.m.

Location Heinrich-Zille-Str. 1 Lauchhammer, District Oberspreewald-Lausitz

Address 01979 Lauchhammer/Bukowc, Heinrich-Zille-Straße 1

To mark the end of the exhibitions at the Kunstgussmuseum Lauchhammer and at Zillestraße 1, the two venues will come together once again.

The joint closing event invites visitors to experience the various artistic perspectives in context and to continue the dialogue between industrial heritage, vacant spaces, and contemporary art.

On the occasion of the closing event, a special screening of the video work Letzte Kumpel (2025) will take place from 1:00 to 2:30 p.m. at Heinrich-Zille-Str. 1, with the protagonists and the artist Johannes Weilandt in attendance. Four former miners from the Mansfeld region in Saxony-Anhalt recount their working lives and the disappearance of their livelihoods. Over 800 years of mining shaped the landscape and the people of the Mansfeld mining district. With the closure of the mines in the early 1990s, a gap in the region’s identity emerged that has yet to be filled. This discussion offers a unique opportunity to gain insights into the work and to hear directly from the miners of the past.

Afterward, we’ll head together to the Kunstgussmuseum.

A guided tour and an artist talk with participating artists from both exhibitions will offer insights into the creation of the works and their engagement with the respective locations. The focus will be on exchange, questions, and conversation—as a joint conclusion to the two exhibitions and as the finale of the Lauchhammer stop on the openart Lausitz Biennale.

Artists

Birgit Fechner

Birgit Fechner (born in Munich in 1962) first studied Eastern European Studies before enrolling as a visiting student at the Weißensee Academy of Art and subsequently working with the ZYX artists' group in Berlin.

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Dirk Sorge

Dirk Sorge (born in Berlin in 1984) is a visual artist based in Leipzig and Berlin. He studied fine arts at the Berlin University of the Arts, as well as culture and technology and the philosophy of knowledge and the sciences at the Technical …

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Reinhard Sandner

Reinhard Sandner, a native of Lauchhammer, has been dedicated to the Lusatian landscape and its people for decades.

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Anja Nürnberg

Anja Nürnberg (*1982 in Magdeburg) ist bildende Künstlerin und lebt und arbeitet seit 2008 in Halle (Saale). Nach einem Studium der Internationalen Betriebswirtschaft in Deutschland und den USA absolvierte sie von 2008 bis 2013 ein Studium der …

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Bernhard Schipper

Bernhard Schipper (*1970 in Bautzen/DDR) ist Medienkünstler und Materialwissenschaftler. Er studierte Bildende Kunst mit Schwerpunkt Medienkunst/Intermedia an der Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig bei Prof. Alba D’Urbano und schloss sein …

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Brigitte Böckmann-Jennen

Brigitte Böckmann-Jennen (*1962 in Wachtendonk) ist Bildende Künstlerin und lebt und arbeitet in Alpen (Nordrhein-Westfalen).

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Christian Hasucha

Christian Hasucha (born in 1955 in West Berlin, West Germany) is a visual artist based in Berlin. He studied fine arts at the Berlin University of the Arts and at the Chelsea School of Art in London.

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Claudia Pilsl

Claudia Pilsl (born 1965 in Wels, Austria) is an artist and scholar specializing in photography and film. She studied at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and the Berlin University of the Arts. From 2011 to 2013, she completed the master’s …

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Grotest Maru

GROTEST MARU gestaltet Theater im öffentlichen Raum und lässt sich dabei vom visuellen, physischen und Objekttheater sowie von Installationen und Land Art inspirieren.

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Johannes Weilandt

Johannes Weilandt (born 1991) lives and works as a visual artist in Berlin. He studied fine art and stage and costume design at the Weißensee Academy of Art in Berlin and at the University of Arts in Belgrade, and was awarded the title of …

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Louisa Frauenheim

Louisa Frauenheim (born in 1990 in Hamburg, Germany) is a visual artist who lives and works in Berlin. She studied fine arts at the Berlin University of the Arts from 2016 to 2022, where she graduated with honors and was named a master student of …

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Marie Kublik & Frida Teller

Marie Kublik and Frida Teller are members of the same poetry group in Leipzig.

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Matrosenhunde

Sailors' dogs seek out and find things, weaving their experiences together with their own subjective thoughts, feelings, and memories.

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