Artificum art gallery on Heger Strasse / Photo: Burrichter
For navigation or at home: The Artificium art gallery on Heger Straße currently exhibits special works by five artists. One of them usually exhibits in metropolises such as New York or Florence.
Kathrin Messerschmidt The works mainly represent women’s heads. The artist from Lörrach makes his busts out of papier-mâché. “My wife and I thought the jobs were really cool,” he says Johannes Klausener, who runs the gallery in Osnabrück’s old town with his wife. “But when we saw that the artist had already exhibited in Tel Aviv, New York or Florence, we didn’t have the courage to go first.” Messerschmidt was so convinced of the gallery’s website that she sent some of her own works to the sent couple. “We were able to sell three in the first three months,” reports Klausener. “It’s a success for us.” Messerschmidt is an established name in the “papier-mâché scene” and gallery owners are therefore even happier to be able to exhibit their works.
In addition to the works of Messerschmidt, the gallery also features four other artists. One of them is Heidi Stulle-Gold. His works are figurative art in wood, which he then paints. “Our focus now is on figurative works and that is why it has adapted very well to our gallery,” says Klausener. Stulle-Gold is also exhibited in some famous galleries, mainly in Monaco.
Very different from other sculptures
The small and detailed modeled heads of the Gdansk artist Gosia Heimwoski they are mounted on “naturally left branches”. “If you look at the size, it’s only possible with tweezers and a magnifying glass,” marvels the gallery owner.
In addition to Heimwoski, the Osnabrück gallery exhibits vibrant wood sculptures by Ragna Reusch, which he atypically makes with oak wood. “You usually use linden for something like this because it’s relatively soft,” Klausener explains. He creates rough structures with a chainsaw and then refines them with a chisel and sledgehammer.
With the characters of Petra Schwinger The gallery also wants to offer affordable artwork from “The Little Gentlemen” series. “We didn’t even have concrete figures with us,” explains Klausener. He first models the figures with clay and fires them, then creates a mold with the help of silicone and then casts the real figures with concrete. The artist herself wants to make people smile with her art.
These and other works by a total of more than 30 artists are on display in the Artificium gallery at Heger Straße 11 (opening hours: Wednesday to Friday 11:30 to 18:00 and Advent Saturdays from 11:00 to 6pm).
