#classic: Stef Heidhues' exhibition Backstage with the Modern Dancers shown at Galerie EIGEN + ART Berlin 2021.

“This is no game. Here there is no interlude. To disillusion you, we don’t need illusion. We don’t play fate. We don’t play any dreams. We don’t play out any plot.”

What Peter Handke introduced in 1966 in his stage play “Offending the Audience” applied equally for the space behind the stage: the backstage area. Here, too, there is no game. There is no alienation effect, no acting-as-if, no public realm. In the backstage area, the roles are abandoned. This area is more honest, more authentic, maybe somewhat dirtier and at the same time more exclusive. For her exhibition, Stef Heidhues chose the title Backstage with the Modern Dancers. (...)

Text excerpt by Larissa Kikol

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Film & Edit: Matthias Maercks
Music: Written and produced by kidkanevil (G. Roberts)
German with English and Chinese subtitles.

Enjoy this short introduction by Brett Charles Seiler into his current show occasional lovers at EIGEN + ART Berlin.

It's about the concept of muses, as well as uncertainty, abandonment and leaving. Step onto the stage and become a vistor, an occisional acquaintance in the artist's studio.

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Film & Edit: @galerie_eigenart / A. Hamm
Music: created with Suno (free music)
English with German subtitles

In conversation with Neo Rauch at his studio during preperation of his solo exhibition Stille Reserve at Galerie EIGEN + ART Leipzig in 2025.

Enjoy this personal interview about the development of his artworks, how the title came into being, the figures and architectual elements in his paintings and much more. Also get a special tour through the exhibition.

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In occasion of:
Neo Rauch,
Stille Reserve
Galerie EIGEN + ART Leipzig
3 May – 5 July 2025

Film & Edit: TABLEAU Films (Matthias Maercks)
Interview: @galerie_eigenart / A. Hamm
Music: created with Suno
13:32 min
German with English subtitles.

#classic: In this interview, Ulrike Theusner is taking you with her to Mahagonny. Enjoy!

Mahagonny – that’s the city of unbridled hedonism invented by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill, where having no money is a crime punished by death. Ulrike Theusner has turned her years of interest in Mahagonny into her current exhibition. She conceived an oversized fictional studio wall on which she has pinned pastels and drawing, prints, and photographs, all shreds of memories of her life between Europe and the United States.
"All images are of course always closely related to my current emotional state, to my experience, to life itself. You can't put it into words very well, but if something is transferred, then I've definitely achieved what I wanted, which is to transport something and to touch the emotional level of the viewer. That's what art is for."

Film & Edit: TABLEAU Films (Matthias Maercks)
Music: Elisa Demonki
German with English subtitles

The exhibition I never look at you from the place from which you see me by Olaf Nicolai at Galerie EIGEN + ART Berlin presented a series of photographic works taken in June 2022 in Olympia, Greece. In this interview the artist is taking you with him on the journey of discovery, history, concept and is giving you great insights into this project.

The motifs are the landscape and the historical facilities of Olympia - but in anamorphic and floating distortions. They were created using a parabolic mirror - the mirror used to IGNITE the Olympic Flame by the sun's rays.

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Film & Edit: TABLEAU Films (Matthias Maercks)
German with English and Chinese subtitles

Follow us into the universe of painting and drawing by Stefan Guggisberg and learn how his works are created with very unique techniques.

In this video the artist is giving you a tour through his exhibition Facing the Light at our Berlin gallery and great insight into his work series of oil on paper and iPad drawings.
"In fact what impresses me about painting is that you can go back 40,000 years and these images are still there and, above all, they still reach us. So the drawings permeate everything - it reaches and touches us. And that's a form of communication that I think only exists once." (Stefan Guggisberg)

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Film & Edit: TABLEAU Films (Matthias Maercks),@galerie_eigenart / A. Hamm
Music: "Out of the Dark" by Crowander "Slow Smoke" by Crowander Source: Free Music Archive and license type: CC BY-NC
German with English subtitles

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„Art must emerge from thoughts and emotions - just emotions.“
Karl-Heinz Adler

Throwback: In the video, which was created for his extensive solo exhibition „Metrics“ at EIGEN + ART Berlin in 2021, we are following the tracks and inspiration of Karl-Heinz Adler (1927 - 2018).

Karl-Heinz Adler is one of the most important representatives of concrete, postwar avant-garde art. His minimalist, geometrically inspired drawings, collages, folding art, and sculptural objects, but also the construction-accompanying works developed jointly with Friedrich Kracht, have for some time now been in the process of international rediscovery in art and architecture circles and are appreciated as pioneering artistic achievements. (...)
Kito Nedo

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Film & Edit: TABLEAU Films (Matthias Maercks)
Music: Dietmar Diesner
German with English and Chinese subtitles.