Monument smithy Höfgen
The memorial forge Höfgen is a private cultural institution in the Leipzig area with the aim of promoting art and culture as well as science and research - primarily the promotion of the fine arts, music, composition, sound art, literature, film, video and photography and cross-disciplinary Projects.
The monument smithy is u. a. an artist house with a hotel and a gallery .
Location and history
The Höfgen monument smithy is located 4 km from Grimma in the Kaditzsch district in the Muldenland nature park. The main complex is a centuries-old manor that fell into ruin in the 1960s. Since 1976 it has been converted and expanded on a private initiative. In 2007 the forge was awarded the Saxon Initiative Prize for Art and Culture .
description
The facility consists of a historic four-sided courtyard with guest studios and project studios for media technology and art.
The range of cultural events includes changing exhibitions of contemporary art, thematic concerts, readings, studio discussions, traditional festivals and cross-genre festivals. There are also projects for children and young people on offer. The year-round program is addressed to almost all generation and interest groups.
The memorial forge Höfgen is a member of the KlangNetz Dresden .
Editions
An in-house publishing house, “Denkmalschmiede Höfgen / Edition Waechterpappel” and a label for chamber and orchestral music “Denkmalschmiede Höfgen / Beoton” focus on documenting the fields of activity of the Denkmalschmiede Höfgen and providing information on current exhibitions, projects and topics. Some editions from the last few years:
- Gerhard Weber: Lifetime . Photography Photographs 1991 to 2011. With an essay by Jörg Jacob. Monument smithy Höfgen, Edition Waechterpappel, Grimma 2011, ISBN 978-3-933629-30-2
- Kristina Bahr (Ed.): Haïti Art Naïf . Monument smithy Höfgen, Edition Waechterpappel, Grimma 2010, ISBN 978-3-933629-30-2
- Tobias J. Knoblich (Hrsg.): Criteria for the socioculture, for development in Saxony . Monument smithy Höfgen, Edition Waechterpappel, Grimma 2008, ISBN 978-3-933629-27-2
- Nina Stößinger: The joined symbol . Monument smithy Höfgen, Edition Waechterpappel, Grimma 2006, ISBN 3-933629-18-7
- Kristina Bahr (Ed.): Paul Fuchs, Schellbitzhöhe . Monument smithy Höfgen. 2004. ISBN 3-933629-14-4
- Conny Löffler: The writing of the sign language . Monument smithy Höfgen, 2004. ISBN 3-933629-13-6
- Tom Koesel: Artists' Houses in Saxony . Grimma 2004, ISBN 3-933629-10-1
- Deborah Anderson, Johannes Bergerhausen: Unicode . Grimma 2003, ISBN 3-933629-12-8
- Gerhard Weber: private life, portrait and milieu photography . Monument smithy Höfgen, Edition Waechterpappel, Grimma 2003, ISBN 3-933629-09-8
- Andreas Stötzner: Where is what? Public signs in real and media public space . Grimma 2003, ISBN 3-933629-11-X
- Reinhard Ludewig : Johann Sebastian Bach in the mirror of medicine . Monument smithy Höfgen, Edition Waechterpappel, Grimma 2000, ISBN 3-933629-01-2
- Gerhard Weber: The people in the village of Erlln . Photo book with prose miniatures by Ralph Grüneberger. Monument smithy Höfgen, Edition Waechterpappel, Grimma 2000, ISBN 3-933629-04-7
Scholarships
Residence grants
Guest studios and project studios for media technology and art can be rented on a daily basis all year round. In addition, as part of its projects, the memorial forge Höfgen managed residency grants for project-related work stays for writers, composers, visual artists, natural scientists and humanities scholars until 2011.
Awarding Practice and Scholarship Benefits
On the recommendation of the advisory board, residency grants could be awarded for one to two months. The program had to be terminated for financial reasons.
Well-known scholarship holders
Around five hundred guest scholars from Germany, Russia, Poland, France, Italy, Austria, Poland and other countries have lived in the Künstlerhaus since 1990, including the German author, visual artist and musician Thomas Kapielski (1998), the German composer, radio play author and performance artist Frieder Butzmann (2003), the German writer Sonja Ruf (2005), the Swedish composer and visual artist Sven-Åke Johansson (2002), the German composers Friedrich Schenker (1998), Klaus Renft (1998) and Andre Bartetzki (2009), the German writers Uwe Claus , Michael Wüstefeld (2007) and Jens Wonneberger (2006).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Initiative award for art and culture . Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony. Retrieved December 5, 2019.
Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ′ 8.8 ″ N , 12 ° 45 ′ 50.8 ″ E