Stones without borders
Stones without borders - for peace and humanity - is an international sculpture symposium that took place in Berlin-Buch for the first time in the summer of 2001 in relation to Otto Freundlich , German painter and sculptor and author of art theoretical and philosophical writings. Freundlich, who died in 1943 in the German concentration camp Sobibor, was one of the first representatives of abstract art . Freundlich came up with the idea of a “road of sculptures Paris-Moscow” that unites people : une voie de la fraternité humaine, une voie de la solidarité humaine en souvenir de la libération - “path of human brotherhood, path of human solidarity in memory of liberation ". Most of the works created at symposia are set up in the landscape as well as in urban space or living and working areas, so that a number of individual locations and sculpture paths in Berlin and around Berlin in Brandenburg have now been created, among others. a. in the Rieselfeldern of Hobrechtsfelde, in Teltow , in Berlin-Buch Hobrechtsfelde zum Barnim, Berlin-Buch Ortsmitte, Panketal, Berlin-Mitte, in Brück am Rathaus and Belzig (sculpture park at the district hospital) as well as in Bernau in the city park A total of 120 sculptures have so far been made Stone and wood were created, some of them temporarily created, designed by over 100 artists from 30 nations.
The Berlin sculptors Rudolf J. Kaltenbach and Silvia Christine Fohrer are the founders and initiators of the international sculpture symposium Stones without Borders for Peace and Humanity , they also organized and carried out the symposia.
Since January 24, 2012, Stones without Borders has been an official member of the European Road of Peace , which is dedicated to the German-Jewish sculptor and painter Otto Freundlich, who was murdered by the National Socialists .
On April 3, 2017, Steine ohne Grenzen eV was founded on the occasion of the European Cultural Heritage Year 2018, the association was founded in May 2018 by the State of Berlin and the Representation of the European Commission in Germany for its contribution to a sculpture street running across Europe as a symbol against war and for international understanding as well as for his associated actions with the European price "Blue Bear".
concept
The symposium creates a forum for international encounters between artists with a focus on sculpture and dialogue in public space. Stones without Borders is directed against intolerance and xenophobia and for peace and humanity. Visitors can watch the artists at work during the symposium; encounters in a political and cultural context are important to the participating artists. Accompanying events and public discussions deal with "international understanding and strengthening the community for peace and democracy".
Monuments to Otto Freundlich (2018)
On June 23, 2018, Silvia Fohrer and Rudolf Kaltenbach, together with some other participants, presented a participatory sculpture on the 75th anniversary of death (exact date not known, presumably March 9-10, 1943) by Otto Freundlich as part of the “Stones without Borders” project in the sewage fields around Hobrechtsfelde (near Berlin-Buch). On the occasion of Otto Freundlich's 140th birthday on July 10, 2018, the sculpture Cosmos and World by Silvia Fohrer and Rudolf J. Kaltenbach was officially inaugurated by the mayor of the city, Robert Biedron, in Otto-Freundlich-Park at the town hall of Słupsk (Poland) . Japanese cherry trees were planted next to this sculpture as a symbol for overcoming borders and for a peaceful, communal Europe. According to the artist's wishes, the memorial corresponds to the memorial in Berlin-Buch and the tree trunks processed in it. This created a new location for the Stones Without Borders sculpture line in Poland.
Stones Without Borders XII (2017)
| Venue: | Berlin-Marzahn |
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| Duration: | Spring to the end of October 2017 |
The 12th International Symposium “Stones without Borders” for peace and humanity takes place in five park-like courtyards of the HOWOGE Housing Association in Berlin-Marzahn. Its motto is “We live diversity - gardens of art”. An accompanying exhibition from September 4 to 28, 2017 in the foyer of the HOWOGE headquarters in Alt-Hohenschönhausen shows selected works by the participating artists.
Stones Without Borders XI (2015)
| Venue: | Berlin book |
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| Duration: | September 1st to 27th, 2015 |
The XI. International sculpture symposium took place in the forest of Berlin-Buch. The symposium was accompanied by a group exhibition of the artists in the studios and project rooms of BB-EWERKultur, Berlin-Buch, which showed works from the artists' previous oeuvre. The symposium ended with the inauguration of a new section of the Stones Without Borders sculpture line on Bernauer Heerstrasse . The symposium was preceded by a joint sculpture project with the sculptor Kaltenbach and refugees in the Refugium Berlin-Buch on the subject of I, as part of the whole (continued in 2016 in the refugee accommodation “Refugium”, Berlin-Buch).
Stones Without Limits X (2013)
| Venue: | Berlin book |
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| Duration: | August 12 to October 13, 2013 |
The Xth International Sculpture Symposium took place in 2013 in cooperation with Berlin schools. Five spaces in the park-like courtyards of HOWOGE were designed by the artists of the symposium and a project group from Bucher schools.
Stones Without Borders IX (2012)
| Venue: | Forst Berlin, Berlin-Buch |
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| Duration: | September 3 to 30, 2012 |
With this symposium, which was entitled forbidden - persecuted - "degenerate" , the artists remembered the propaganda show " Degenerate Art " by the National Socialists in 1937, in which modern art was defamed. The new section of the Stones Without Borders sculpture line was inaugurated on September 30, 2012.
Attendees
Bernd-Heiner Berge, Germany • Inge Bröderbauer, Austria - Germany • Achim Borsdorf, Germany • Caroline Creutzer, Sweden - Germany • Dr. Dirk Ehrhardt and Sabine Ehrhardt, Germany • Marlies Felkel, Germany • Silvia Christine Fohrer, Germany • Winfried Gehrmann, Germany • Thierry Godet, France - Germany • Andreas Hedrich, Germany • Andreas Hetke, Germany • Wassily Heuschober, Ukraine - Germany • Rudolf J Kaltenbach, Germany • Alla Krasnitski, Russia - Germany • Nikoloz Meliva, Georgia • Günther Muchalla, Germany • Eva Claudia Nuovia, Germany • Roswitha Schaab, Germany • Deborah Stoll, Germany • Matthias Trott , Germany • Barbara Wolters, USA - Germany
An exhibition by 20 artists in the marble foyer of Urania Berlin was also on view from September 24 to October 14, 2012 .
Stones Without Borders VIII (2011)
| Venue: | Bernau City Park |
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| Duration: | October 1st to 30th, 2011 |
| Patron: | Matthias Platzeck , Prime Minister of the State of Brandenburg |
The artistic direction of the international sculpture symposium Stones Without Borders in Bernau 2011 was Rudolf J. Kaltenbach. The sculpture line “Stones without Borders Bernau” with the works created during the symposium was inaugurated on Sunday, October 30, 2011, in the Bernau city park. The accompanying exhibition took place in the Bauhaus ensemble of Hannes Meyer and Hans Wittwer Baudenkmal Bernau at the time of the symposium.
Attendees
Bob Budd, Great Britain • Valentina Dusavitskaya, Russia • Silvia Fohrer, Germany • Dominika Griesgraber, Poland / France • Kassian Erhart, Austria • Rudolf J. Kaltenbach, Germany • Emerita Pansowová , Germany / Slovakia
In addition, six Bernauer students from Paulus-Praetorius- and Barnim-Gymnasium carved an eighth sculpture out of a block of sandstone.
Stones Without Borders VII (2005)
| Venue: | Berlin book |
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| Duration: | June and July 2005 |
| Patron: | Bundestag President Dr. Wolfgang Thierse, Member of the Bundestag |
The motto of this symposium was stones without borders - about remembering the present and living the future .
The resulting sculptures were set up in the Rieselfeldern from Berlin-Buch across the border to Brandenburg.
Attendees
Andreas Hedrich, Germany • Rona Pöttgen, Germany • Norman Gebauer, Germany • Peter Hecht, Germany • Renate Schubert, Germany • Ona Tav, Argentina • Josef Andrle, Czech Republic • Cristian Breazu, Romania
Stones Without Limits VI (2004)
| Venue: | REXGRANIT company in Brück |
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| Duration: | September 8, 2004 to October 10, 2004 |
| Patron: | Bundestag President Dr. Wolfgang Thierse , Member of the Bundestag |
| State Patron: | Lothar Koch, District Administrator of the Potsdam-Mittelmark District |
On October 10, 2004, the new section of the sculpture line was inaugurated in the park of the Bad Belzig district hospital .
Attendees
K. Deniz Erol, Turkey • Gianfranco Mancini, Belgium • Joao Sotero, Portugal • Silvia Christine Fohrer, Germany • Rudolf J. Kaltenbach , Germany • Mariam Hakobyan, Armenia • Pierre Garçon, France • Norman Gebauer, Germany • Christian Roehl, Germany • Tadeusz Biniewicz, Poland
Stones Without Limits V (2003)
| Venue: | Artist Hof Buch, Berlin-Buch, and in the Bucher Forst, Berlin-Buch |
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| Duration: | October 2, 2003 to November 2, 2003 |
| Patron: | Bundestag President Dr. Wolfgang Thierse, Member of the Bundestag |
On November 2, 2003, the new, transnational section of the sculpture line was inaugurated in the Rieselfeldern of Berlin-Buch across the border to Brandenburg.
Attendees
Ulrike Ahme, France • Elke Albers, Germany • Ulrich Baentsch, Germany • Pascal Duvert, France • Maria Fachini, Brazil • Marlis Felkel, Germany • Silvia c. Fohrer, Germany • Andreas Funcke, Germany • Norman Gebauer, Germany • Peter Hecht, Germany • Andreas Hedrich, Germany • Serge Huot, France • Rudolf J. Kaltenbach, Germany • Sonja Köditz, Germany • Helmut Machhammer , Austria • Gabriela Nepo-Stieldorf , Austria • Herbert Rauer, Germany • Klaus Schitthelm, Germany • Peter Schnaak, Germany • Ona Tav, Argentina
Stones Without Borders IV (2003)
| Venue: | Sculpture workshop of the BBK Berlin; Matthäikirchplatz, Berlin; Ruins of the former Franciscan monastery, Berlin |
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| Duration: | August 30th to September 30th, 2003 |
| Patron: | Bundestag President Dr. Wolfgang Thierse, Member of the Bundestag |
On September 30, 2003, the new sculpture line was inaugurated at Matthäikirchplatz, Berlin-Tiergarten, at the Klosterkirche, Berlin, and at the sculpture workshop of the BBK, Berlin.
Attendees
Josef Andrle, Czech Republic • Michael Kos, Austria • Katja Natascha Busse, Germany • Brian Berman, USA • Silvia K. Breitwieser, Germany • Marco Baré, Germany • Silvia c. Fohrer, Germany • Rudolf J. Kaltenbach, Germany • Peter H. Wiener, Austria • Peter Hecht, Germany • Andreas Hedrich, Germany • Norman Gebauer, Germany • Ona Tav, Argentina - Germany • Renate Schubert, Germany
Stones Without Borders III (2002)
| Venue: | Künstlerhof Buch, Berlin-Pankow |
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| Duration: | August 15 to September 15, 2002 |
| Patron: | Bundestag President Dr. Wolfgang Thierse, Member of the Bundestag |
The sculpture line in the Rieselfeldern was inaugurated on September 15, 2002.
Attendees
Victor Bisquolm, D - Australia • Silvia Christine Fohrer, Germany • Sibylle von Halem, Scotland • Rotraud von der Heide, Germany • Lilian Hasler-Durrer, Liechtenstein - Switzerland • Peter Hecht, Germany • Andreas Hedrich, Germany • Haystack, Germany - Ukraine • Rudolf J. Kaltenbach, Germany • Pasi Karjula, Finland • Mols Landen, Germany • Anke Mellin, Germany • Karl Menzen, Germany • Gabriela Nepo-Stieldorf, Austria • Uwe Ochsler, Germany • Erich Reischke, Germany • Asri Sayrac, Germany - Turkey • Bassirou Saar, Germany - Senegal • Robert Schmidt-Mat, Germany • Jutta Schölzel, Germany • Peter Schnaak, Germany • Max M. Seibald, Austria • Manfred Strehlau, Germany • Ona Tav, Germany - Argentina • Rainer Trube, Germany • Barbara Wolters, Germany • Hans-Jürgen Werner, Germany • Georg Krause, Germany • Lars Hennings, Germany • Erhard Stiefel, Germany • Alexander von Reiswitz, Germany nd - Spain • Gabi Bila-Gunther, Germany - Australia • Paulina von Halle, Germany
Stones Without Borders II (2001)
| Venue: | Teltow-Mühlendorf |
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| Duration: | October 5 to November 17, 2001 |
| Patron: | Prof. Dr. Christoph Stölzl , Senator for Culture Berlin a. D. |
The work of the seven participating sculptors resulted in a line of sculptures from Berlin-Buch to the southwest of Berlin. The stones came from the quarries in Austria and the Wachau as well as from Berlin. Prof. Dr. On November 17th, 2001, Christoph Stölzl opened the new section of the sculpture line “Stones without borders” around the Mühlendorf lake.
Attendees
Fauzie As'Ad , Liechtenstein, together with Simone Elsing, Germany • Katja Busse, Germany / Austria • Silvia Fohrer, Germany • Rudolf Kaltenbach, Germany • Max Seibald, Italy • Egon Straszer, Austria
Stones Without Limits I (2001)
| Venue: | Bucher Forst Hobrechtswald |
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| Duration: | August and September 2001 |
| Patron: | Alex Lubawinski, District Mayor of Berlin-Pankow |
Attendees
Jeong-Soo Lee, Korea • Mizza Caric, former Yugoslavia - Germany (temporary) • Ona Tav, Argentina - Germany • Susanne Specht, Germany • Rainer Trube, Germany • Egon Straszer, Austria • Katja Natascha Busse, Germany • Henner Kuckuck, USA - Germany (temporary) • Rudolf J. Kaltenbach, Germany • Silvia Christine Fohrer, Germany • Alfridas Pajuodis, Lithuania • Jutta Schölzel, Germany • Fauzie As'Ad, Indonesia - Liechtenstein • Asri Sayrac, Turkey - Germany • Takashi Kondo, Japan • Robert Schmidt-Matt, Germany • Simone Elsing, Germany • Bassirou Sarr, Senegal - Germany • Klaus Rieck, Germany • Udo Rödel, Germany
Literature and publications
- Stones without Borders - International Sculpture Symposium . Complete catalog of the symposia from 2001 to 2012, with a selection of works by artists from all symposia up to 2012. Ed. Silvia Christine Fohrer and Rudolf J. Kaltenbach, Berlin. Available from: Stones Without Borders - International Sculptor Symposium for Peace and Humanity
- Stones Without Borders - International Sculptor Symposium with Youth Project 2013. Ed. Stones Without Borders eV
- Stones without Borders 2014-2015-2016 - International sculpture symposium with refugee project and monument "Children for Children". Edited by Stones without Borders, 2016
- Stones Without Borders 2017 - International Sculpture Symposium. Edited by Stones Without Limits eV
- Dunning - the victims of the Nazi era in Berlin-Buch. Memorials in Berlin-Buch . Edited by Stones without Borders, 2017
- Rieselfeldlandschaft Hobrechtsfelde , ed. Förderverein Naturpark Barnim eV, p. 61 and 62, Art in the Forest, by Olaf Zeuschner, Revierforster Berlin-Buch
Web links
- Stones without borders - against intolerance and xenophobia for peace and humanity
- "Stones without borders" Hobrechtsfelde / Revier book. Artwork in the forest . By: Detlev Schwarz, Forstamt Pankow / Berliner Forsten (Flickr)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b sculpture symposium stones without borders - concept
- ↑ Homepage Silvia Christine Fohrer
- ↑ Letter from the European Sculpture Route of Peace / Otto-Freundlich-Gesellschaft eV, St. Wendel, to Stones without Borders from September 7, 2012, in which membership is confirmed.
- ↑ Berlin European Blue Bear Prize (berlin.de)
- ↑ The Stones Without Borders Association celebrates the inauguration: Otto Freundlich Memorial . ODF - TV for East Brandenburg, June 25, 2018
- ↑ Commemorative Culture : Trace of Peace Stones, Märkische Onlinezeitung (MOZ.de), by Kerstin Ewald, July 20, 2018
- ↑ W 140th rocznicę urodzin Otto Freundlicha, odsłonięto pomnik w słupskim parku . gp24.pl
- ↑ Stones without borders 12 in Marzahn 2017
- ↑ Stones without Borders 11 - International Sculptor Symposium in Berlin-Buch (2015)
- ↑ Chronicle Pankow 2015
- ↑ Stones Without Borders X in Berlin-Buch (2013)
- ↑ Stones without Borders 2012 banned - persecuted - "degenerate" 1937
- ^ Stones without borders IX , Urania Berlin
- ↑ BAUHAUS Bernau. Retrieved on May 3, 2018 (German).
- ↑ Sculpture Symposium Stones Without Borders 2011
- ↑ 6th Stones Without Borders Sculpture Line , 2004
- ↑ 4th sculpture symposium stones without borders , 2003
- ↑ 2nd International Stone Carving Symposium Stones Without Borders in Teltow Mühlendorf, 2001
- ↑ Stones without Borders - International Sculpture Symposium , ed. Silvia Christine Fohrer and Rudolf J. Kaltenbach, Berlin, 2012, p. 23
