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Exhibition celebrating the 30th anniversary of the land art sculpture 'Erdzeichen' at Munich Airport as well as paintings and objects by the Upper Bavarian artist

The exhibition of the Hungarian artist examines human self-perception and the visible limits of peripheral vision.

Annual exhibition residency programme 2025 as part of the European Art Scholarship of the District Council of Upper Bavaria

Digital videos inspired by German fairy tales collected by Franz Xaver von Schoenwerth in the mid-19th century are reinterpreted by contemporary video artists.

The title Caution on arrival refers to the changes that come with traveling. Sometimes it is the arrival that changes everything. The exhibition is part of the anniversary program «1300 years of Korbinian in Freising».

Artist talk in the framework of the exhibition «Attention on Arrival»

Exhibiton Opening of the exhibition Attention on Arrival.

Reinvited artists from the European residency program develop an exhibition together and share the creative process with the audience.

Art talk as part of the exhibition «Remix 4 | Tandem Exhibition»

Workshop with the Artistduo Pfeifer & Kreutzer

Guided tour through the exhibition Remix 4 | Tandem exhibition with Alexandra M. Hoffmann

Veranstaltungsort

7th Singer-Songwriter Festival - a festival around a cozy campfire, invited by Apollon's Smile

The Jazz Festival in the city and district of Freising

Opening of the exhibition Remix 4 Tandem Exhibition with the artists Tomasz Drewicz and Pfeifer & Kreutzer

The exhibition presents the work of several international artists as part of the international cooperation program.

Artist Talk in the framework of the exhibtion "Gardening of Soul"

Workshop with the artist Nina Sumarac

Guided tour of the exhibition Gardening of Soul with Alexandra M. Hoffmann

Guided tour of the garden, the building and the history of the Schafhof with the experienced city guide Robert Forster

Presentation and talk with two artists of the Resideny Program in the framework of the European Art Scholarship of the District of Upper Bavaria.

Opening of the exhibition GARDENING OF SOUL with several international artists as part of the international cooperation program.

Vinyl only - new, outrageous and danceable!

Concert as part of the "Music [in] the Museum" series of the European Art Forum of the District of Upper Bavaria

The exhibition presents the works of 16 artists who participated in the previous year's European Art Fellowship artist exchange of the District of Upper Bavaria.
The exhibition presents the works of 16 artists who took part in last year's artist exchange as part of the European Art Scholarship of the District of Upper Bavaria.

Präsentation und Gespräch mit drei Künstlerinnen und Künstlern des Residenzprogramms im Rahmen des Europäischen Kunst­stipendiums des Bezirks Oberbayern.

Artist Talk in the framework of the exhibtion "LISTENING | Focus > Europe V"

A mixture of classical music works compiled for the exhibition "LISTENING | Focus > Europe V".

Presentation and talk with participating artists of the residency program within the framework of the European Art Fellowship of the District Council of Upper Bavaria.

Guided tour of the exhibition LISTENING with Alexandra M. Hoffmann

Opening of the exhibition LISTENING | Focus > Europe V with Scholarship holders of European Art Scholarship of the District of Upper Bavaria.

The artist duo, known for their numerous light installations in churches and urban spaces, is developing a light installation in the sculpture garden and showing previous projects in the gallery.

Artist Talk in the context of the exhibition LEAVES by Hartung | Trenz

Guided tour of the exhibition LEAVES with Alexandra M. Hoffmann

Guided tour of the garden, buildings and history of the Schafhof with the experienced guide Robert Forster.

Atmospheric music in the run-up to Christmas.

with pre-Christmas festive works from baroque, classical and jazz.

Opening of the exhibition LEAVES by Hartung and Trenz

Artisan market in the Schafhof - quality and inspiration

with the Freising Alphorn Trio, the Olching Alphorn Players and other musical guests in the sculpture garden of the Schafhof

Presentation and Artist Talk in the context of the exhibition "Artificial Genesis"

Works by international artists from a wide range of artistic disciplines in the field of tension between nature and human creative power as a reflection of the Anthropocene era.

Presentation and talk with three participating artists of the residency program within the framework of the European Art Fellowship of the District Council of Upper Bavaria

Guided tour of the exhibition Artificial Genesis with Alexandra M. Hoffmann

Vinyl only - new, outrageous and danceable!

3klang Classic at the Schafhof: Concert as part of the series "Music [in the] Museum" of the European Art Forum of the District of Upper Bavaria in the exhibition "Artificial Genesis".

The 16th Weihenstephaner Forum of the Technical University of Munich

Presentation and talk with three participating artists of the residency program within the framework of the European Art Fellowship of the District Council of Upper Bavaria

Guided tour of the exhibition Artificial Genesis with Alexandra M. Hoffmann

Opening of the exhibition ARTIFICIAL GENESIS on the theme Nature↔Data with international artists

Experience Day of the Landscape Maintance Association Freising (Landschaftspflegeverbands Freising e.V.) with regional products and extensive program

The project "Mrgari_geo-digital stone blossoms" documents and (re)constures structures of dry stone walls in Croatia; with digital means they are transformed and artistically further thought.

Artist talk in the context of the exhibition "Mrgari_geo-digital stone flowers" by Alexis Dworsky

Opening of the exhibition Alexis Dworsky: Mrgari - geo_digital stone flowers as part of the program Focus Freising 3.

The British artist duo Semiconductor explores the material nature of our world and the way we experience and understand it through the lens of science and technology.

artist talk in the framework of the exhibition Semiconductor: Spectral Constellations

Guided tour of the exhibition Semiconductor: Spectral Constellations with Alexandra M. Hoffmann

Vinyl only - new, outrageous and danceable!

Opening of the exhibition Spectral Constellations of the artist duo Semiconductor

The exhibition presents the works of 10 artists who participated in the previous year's European Art Fellowship artist exchange of the District of Upper Bavaria.

Workshop for adults with the artist Valérie Leray - photographic printing process with lightsensitive vegetable dyes.

Presentation and talk with three participating artists of the residency program within the framework of the European Art Fellowship of the District Council of Upper Bavaria

Guided tour of the exhibition Fragmented World Focus > Europe IV with Alexandra M. Hoffmann

artist talk in the framework of the exhibition Fragmented World | Fokus > Europe IV

Opening of the exhibition Fragmented World | Focus Europe IV with participants of the European Art Fellowship of the District Council of Upper Bavaria (Bezirk Oberbayern)

The installation DIE AUFSTELLUNG (THE COMPILATION) with 550 metal objects and photographs from the family archive addresses the transmission of traumas of World War 2.

Pop-up exhibition - Ukrainian photographers document life in their country

Video Footage from Ukraine 2014 - 2022 | Found footage films and video performances by artists from Ukraine

Guided tour of the exhibition DIE AUFSTELLUNG (THE COMPILATION) with Alexandra M. Hoffmann

Artist Talk with Rebkka Bauer and guests in the framework of the exhibition Focus Freising 2 | Rebekka Bauer: Die Aufstellung (The Compilation)

Presentation and talk with three artists from Ukraine in the barrel vault

Atmospheric music for the pre-Christmas season.

Advent music for strings, blowers and piano.

Opening of the exhibition DIE AUFSTELLUNG (THE COMPILATION) with artist Rebekka Bauer.

Artisan market in the Schafhof - quality and inspiration

with the Alphorntrio of Freising and guests in the sculpture garden at Schafhof.

Guided Tour of the exhibition WOLF AND LAMB with the artist Zipora Rafaelov.

Exhibition with large-format cutouts and an expansive light installation

Vinyl only - new, outrageous and danceable!

An evening with the 3Klang chamber orchestra "Trisono" in the barrel vault of the Schafhof.

Guided tour of the exhibition WOLF AND LAMB with Alexandra M. Hoffmann

Artist Talk with Zipora Rafaelov in the framework of her new exhibition WOLF AND LAMB.

Opening of the exhibition WOLF AND LAMB with artist Zipora Rafaelov.

Exhibition with works by Barbara Nagy and Ádám Szabó from Hungary in the framework of the European Art Fellowship of the District Council of Upper Bavaria | Focus > Budapest

5th Singer-Songwriter Festival - a festival around a cozy campfire, invited by Apollon's Smile.

Symposium about the "Significance of Artist Exchange" - Input and presentations with representatives of the partner institutions from different countries

Opening of the exhibition REMIX 3: Light & Shadow with Barbara Nagy and Ádám Szabó

Opening of the exhibition FORCED SCREENINGS: Video footage from Ukraine 2014 - 2022

In a space-filling video installation, the dynamic light composition by renowned Czech artist Pavel Mrkus merges the real and the virtual space.

The juxtaposition of painting and photography in the context of the year's theme enables a comparison of the artistic media in their search for the representation of light.

In the exhibitions ANOTHER PLACE and NACHTSICHT Alexandra M. Hoffmann is available to visitors individually with explanations and interpretations.

JU[MB]LE-Project 2022: We, the Grandchildren, Youth Ensemble for New Music Bavaria / Verein Tonkünstler München e.V.

Audio-visual concert of the group Auxig - international artists based in Usti nad Labem

Artist talk with Pavel Mrkus in the framework of his exhibition "Another Place" in the barrel vault

3klang Klassik in the Schafhof: Concert as part of the series "Music [in the] Museum" of the European Center for Art Upper Bavaria in the exhibition "Another Place" by Czech artist Pavel Mrkus.

The exhibition presents the works of the 18 artists who participated in the European Art Fellowship artist exchange of the District of Upper Bavaria in 2020 and 2021.

Guided tour of the exhibition FOCUS EUROPE II+III with Alexandra M. Hoffmann

Artist talk in the framework of the exhibition FOCUS EUROPE II+III

Ute Mahler and Werner Mahler's photo project "By the Rivers" offers a poetic view of Europe along the continent's great rivers.

Lecture and artist talk in the framework of the exhibition "BY the Rivers" by Ute Mahler and Werner Mahler

Guided tour of the exhibition BY THE RIVERS with Alexandra M. Hoffmann

Traditionally on the 2nd Saturday of Advent there is again something special at and in the Schafhof: This time the festive lighting in the sculpture garden in the outdoor area until 6 January!

Connected by living art scene - an exhibition with artists from Dachau andOświęcim

Soiree with baroque chamber music - works by Bach, Händel, Vivaldi, Couperin, and others.
BarockBand Freising under the direction of Lorenz Eiglhuber

Where would a ballad opera about a shepherdess by W. A. Mozart be more fitting than in the Schafhof? An event of the 3klang e.V.

Artists with Sinti and Roma heritage question concepts of time, space, nature and community.

Inauguration of the art installation "otherwise" by Karl-Heinz Einberger at the northern hillside of the Weihenstephan mountain

Sinti and Roma, 600 Years of European Heritage - Lecture by Prof. Klaus-Michael Bogdal

Guided tour of the exhibition Art and Healing - A Roma Contribution for Europe with Alexandra M. Hoffmann

4. Singer- and Songwriter Festival ‒ a Festival around a cosy campfire with singers and songrwriters from Freising and the rest of the world, invited by Apollon's Smile

Presentation and artist talk with Andrea Juneková (Slovakia) who lives and works in the Schafhof in July and August, 2021.

Opening of the exhibition Art and Healing - A Roma Contribution for Europe in the gallery on the ground floor

Eastern Sugar is an international, interdisciplinary, contemporary visual art project with strong focus on artistic research. In Upper Bavaria it includes the participatory installation "Sugarloaf Manufacture and Archive" by Ilona Németh and the exhibition "Crossing Borders".

The exhibition by Ilona Németh is part of the international art project "Eastern Sugar" about the changes in Europe after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.

The exhibition shows three artistic positions as part of the international art project "Eastern Sugar" about the changes in Europe after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.

Symposium on the international art project "Eastern Sugar" with lecture, artist talk and meeting of the partner organizations.

Presentation and talks with seven participants of the European Art Fellowship of the District Council of Upper Bavaria in 2020 as well as a greeting by the president of the District Council and an introduction.

The exhibition shows a series of large painterly works on nature and natural history concerning the formation of families, species and individual objects.

In his series The Ship of Fools, comprising over 100 works, artist Andreas Kuhnlein thematizes protagonists of all manner of historical events, people, ourselves.

Destruction of Yazidi Cultural Heritage

Opening of the exhibition 'The Ship of Fools' by Andreas Kuhnlein in the vault on the 1st floor

200 Years of the Schafhof | 15 Years of the European Center for Art - a cooperation
with the City Museum of Freising

Katinka Hajas and Rima Almozayyen are artists-in-residence at Schafhof in the framework of the European Art Fellowship of the District Council of Upper Bavaria since March 2020.

The exhibition FOCUS EUROPE I presents the works of 15 artists who participated in the European Art Fellowship artist exchange of the District of Upper Bavaria in 2019.

The exhibition examines the artistic and scientific freedoms that we enjoy in our time inspired by the 70th anniversary of the German constitution.

Symposium: Freedom for Art and Science! with presentations by Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Ullrich and Prof. Dr. Bazon Brock, afterwards artist talk

Guided tour through the exhibition "Research COMMUNITY | PEOPLE # To Vote" with Alexandra M. Hoffmann

An exhibition focusing on the representation of nature and life, a presentation of the innovative interdisciplinary field of "biological art" around the intersection between art and science.

Participatory performance with the artist Timothy Maxymenko at a lamp post in Freising.

Presentation, artist talk and visit of the studios with the guest artists from Italy, the Ukraine and Slovakia.

New compositions by Biagio Putignano, guest artist at Schafhof from Bari/Italy in the Framework of the European Artist Exchange of the Bezirk Oberbayern

Presentation and Artist talk with the guest artists from the Ukraine, Slovakia and Italy currently working at Schafhof.

Chamber opera in three Scenes for sopran and piano. Composer: Biagio Putignano > Transfer > Bari

Presentation and talk with artists participating in the artist exchange program 2019.

KUNST#TAG 069 - Symposium with the artists Oron Catts and Erich Berger
as well as Prof. Michael J. Gorman, director of the museum BIOTOPIA in Munich

Opening of the Exhibition Research NATURE | LIFE

»From the classical to the modern« - festival program of the "Sacred Nights" in Bari 2019

Presentation and Artist talk with the guest artists from the Ukraine and Italy currently working at Schafhof.

Three artistic positions will be presented in the exhibition which deal in different ways with technology and the topic of urbanization as well as the connection of real and virtual spaces.

With very different artistic strategies, the two artists deal with social concepts and contexts. Elsa Gomis brings together traces of current and historical events related to migration. Rudolf Pacsika presents the manipulability of media images and conspiracy theories in an ironic way.

Mischa Kuball's installation "five suns / after Galileo" alludes to both the conflict and common ground between science and art. His use of light is consistently linked to a reflecting on social, political and (natural) scientific concerns.

The exhibition introduces the works of the Polish, Hungarian and Upper-Bavarian artists who took part in the artist-in-residence-program in 2018. A central topic are the connections between people, thoughts, places, times and objects.

Symposium about the theme "European artist exchanges" with keynote speech by Gitte Zschoch (director of EUNIC Global) and round table discussion with artists and representatives of the partner institutions from different countries

The Munich-based artist Stefanie Unruh works in the fields of drawing, installations, video and photography. In her works, she makes everyday reality unfamiliar, creating surreal situations.

Artists from the field of the fine arts explore the possibilities and limitations of glass and use a fragile material to extend it through innovative approaches and concepts.

Symposium in the framework of the theme of the year 2018 at Schafhof - Emotion

The title has been borrowed from the novel by Emily Brontë, which describes feelings as inescapable forces of nature. The exhibition juxtaposes current works from the fields of painting and electronic images on the theme of emotion

The subject of these large-format paintings and bizarre figures is the myths and superstitions of the Carpathian region. This reflection of mysticism, magic and the underlying fears of an ancient cultural region displays an important spectrum of this year's theme, emotion.

Philipp Geist displays two room-sized installations. The barrel vault becomes a walk-in light art installation, while on the ground floor, underwater photographs of rivers from all over the world offer unfamiliar perspectives.

Memory and emotion - These works by artists from three countries revolve around structures for preserving cultural memories in objects, images and media.

The exhibition on the ground floor of Schafhof presents photographies by Georg Küttinger along with a sound installation by Hans Wesker. The two works are independent, however, related to each other due similar structural elements.

Via Lewandowsky developed a new artwork for the exhibition in the European House of Art.. Sound elements are playing an important role in his sculptural-installative objects.

Steven Tevels transforms biophysical and electrochemical processes in sound effects.

Cycloïd-E is a spectacular sound sculpture more than 10 m in diameter with a hypnotic effect.

The »word«, the language as basis of the civilization, in the most varied forms of artistic - as a sign, symbol, sound, sign language and much more.

Exhibition with works by the artists of the artists' exchange "Transfer" > Oronsko. Topic is the interplay between art and its observers.

Presentation of the artist exchange between Oświęcim and Dachau during the last three decades by artists und organizers of both cities.

Objects that come alive by knocking. The rhythm confers the objects a heartbeat. They seem to communicate with each other, to advise something.

The artist group Rhythm Section is comprised of contemporary artists from different fields of art, who specifically and intentionally deal with «rhythm» in their work.

The exhibition is a cooperation between the Diözesanmuseums Freising and Schafhof - European House of Art Upper Bavaria. It presents Christian devotional images from various centuries together with modern abstract painting, exploring how these images emotionally move the viewer.

Tatjana Utz provides an inside-view into the world of travesty stars throughout her paintings and installations. She broaches the issue of gender roles and their social acceptability.

Eszter Szabó's works deal with ordinary details of everyday situations that are so familiar that they almost become invisible. Vulnerability, inertia, weariness, as well as unattainable desires to be perfect is a general theme that returns in her animated paintings.

Roland Fischer is an internationally renowned artist who is based in Munich. His pictures tackle not only the issue of the identity represented in the portrait but also the individual's relationship with the social group to which he or she belongs. From 1980 onwards, Fischer became the first of the young German photographers to experiment with large-format portrait shots and developed his famous collective portraits, among other things.

To document the Israeli collective portrait, a large photographic composition with more than 1000 individual portraits of Israeli students, a book has been published by Hirmer Verlag and will be presented during the exhibition.

Richard Thieler has been photographing cinemas everywhere where he happens to be since 2009--exclusively from the exterior. His is not only fascinated by the architecture of the movie theater but by all facets of this phenomenon. In the exhibition we thus do not encounter a systematic documentation of an architectural shell but instead buildings that are part of our everyday lives, whether open or closed, decrepit or remodeled, reused or empty.

Vollrad Kutscher is a German pioneer of media art. For the exhibition at Schafhof, Kutscher has develop a new series on the subject of the cinema with ten portraits of film stars that are being shown here for the first time.