Sculpture Network

04/06/2026

with Stone Stories Part 1

Light as paper, yet carved from stone. In Floating, Spanish artist Susana Botana explores the delicate tension between weight and fragility. Rooted in a practice of material investigation, her work begins with touch—shaping, hollowing, and revealing the hidden qualities of matter. Here, translucent alabaster allows light to pass through its surface, softening the stone until it seems almost immaterial.

Suspended by a single thread, the sculpture hovers between presence and disappearance, stability and risk. What appears solid becomes fragile; what seems fragile endures.

📸 Floating, 2025. Photos: David Zarzoso
🛠️ Alabaster
📐 5cm, 12cm, 10cm (H x W x D)

Discover more about Susana 👉 https://sculpture-network.org/en/artist/30035/susana-botana

03/06/2026

📣🔥 at Würth Haus Rorschach ‼️
We are delighted to draw your attention to the show
“Lun Tuchnowski & Friends: Sculpture in Focus from the Würth Collection” hosted by our Forum Würth Rorschach ✨️🤩

Since May 7, 2026, visitors have the opportunity to explore the new foyer exhibition, dedicated to the German sculptor and draughtsman Lun Tuchnowski.

Lun Tuchnowski (1946–2018) was among the artists who successfully combined two key sculptural approaches of the 20th century: geometric abstraction and organic figurative forms. His work impressively maintains a delicate balance between dynamism and stillness, strength and elegance. On the occasion of what would have been his 80th birthday, Forum Würth Rorschach pays tribute to an artist who was closely connected to the Würth Collection for many years.

The exhibition “Lun Tuchnowski & Friends – Sculpture in Focus from the Würth Collection” offers an in-depth look at the most important phases of the artist’s career while placing his works in dialogue with selected companions and artists whose practices resonate with his own. ✨️👏

🗓On May 30, the artist’s birthday, a special guided tour will further explore key aspects of his oeuvre.

🔎For more information about Forum Würth Rorschach and its exhibition programme, visit the profile page 👉https://sculpture-network.org/en/location/88977/forum-w%C3%BCrth-rorschach

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Views of the exhibition “Lun Tuchnowski & Friends – Sculpture in Focus from the Würth Collection” | Photos: Ueli Steingruber

01/06/2026

📍 BERLIN | 29–31 October 2026
Join us for our XVI International Forum: Bodytalk – The Return of the Human Figure in Contemporary Sculpture

Three inspiring days with artists, curators, collectors, exclusive visits, and thought-provoking discussions exploring how contemporary sculpture uses the body to address identity, power, love, mortality, and technology.

✨ Featuring speakers
Artists: Agnes questionmark and Anne Wenzel
Curators: Anna Mustonen from Kiasma and Susanne Kähler from Berlin
Collectors talk by Natasha Bergmann with Kateřina Havrlant from Havrlant Art Collection and Teresa Calbo

🏛 Locations: Kunsthaus Dahlem, PalaisPopulaire, Hamburger Bahnhof - Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, NOACK Sculpture Foundry & Gallery and Studio Visit Anna Bogouchevskaia

Curatorial Team: Anne Berk and Anemone Vostell

🎟️ Early Bird rates end on 21 June 2026
Members receive an additional 20% discount.

⚠️ Limited capacity: only 100 participants.

Secure your place and join an international community passionate about contemporary sculpture 👉 https://sculpture-network.org/en/event/86894/xvi.-international-forum

01/06/2026

June is here! 🌞 In this Newsletter we invite you to experience sculptures in the open air. Our authors report from the Kränzelhof Weingut Die 7 Gärten Art-Gallery Giardini Vinoteca Gourmet Meran and a stone sculpture park in Rhineland-Palatinate. We also took a look inside the Hamburger Bahnhof - Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart in Berlin – one of the locations we will be visiting during the International Forum this autumn. Enjoy reading! 🤩

Summer is here! We invite you to experience sculptures in the open air. Our authors report from the Kränzelhof Sculpture Garden in South Tyrol and a stone sculpture park in Rhineland-Palatinate. We also took a look inside the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin – one of the locations we will be visiting ...

29/05/2026

📣A to celebrate🔥
🎉20 years of sculpture garden Kränzelhof Weingut Die 7 Gärten Art-Gallery Giardini Vinoteca Gourmet Meran 🎉

Congratulations! We’re celebrating with you and are happy to have you as part of our community.🤩

✨️For its anniversary, the sculpture garden presents Women / Donne, a group exhibition curated by Stephanie Walderdorff, bringing together 18 artistic positions that explore contemporary perspectives on womanhood, including works by our members Otto Beer , Susanne Kraißer, and Felicitas von Lensing-Hebben ❤️

Rather than reinforcing traditional representations of women in sculpture, the exhibition opens up new narratives surrounding identity, memory, the body, and social experience. The works challenge fixed notions of femininity and instead present womanhood as fluid, complex, and self-determined.

The show is both a celebration of Kränzelhof’s 20-year history and a reflection on sculpture as a living, evolving medium that continues to create space for dialogue and new perspectives.👏👏

A defining element of the exhibition is its setting. At Kränzelhof, sculptures are not confined within white gallery walls, but placed throughout vineyards, gardens, pathways, and historical architecture. Nature becomes an integral part of the exhibition experience, with light, vegetation, and movement continuously transforming the encounter between artwork and viewer.🤩👍

🔎Our author Myfanwy Halton reports on the show in our online magazine 👉
https://sculpture-network.org/en/page/90583/women-donne-of-south-tyrol-20-years-of-sculpture-at-kr%C3%A4nzelhof

🗓From June 26–28: K.art Art Days will take place on the theme of women!

🔎Discover the Sculpture Garden Kränzelhof and its program - visit its profile 👉 https://sculpture-network.org/en/location/72771/sculpture-garden-kr%C3%A4nzelhof

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Photos: Robert Bernardi

Otto Beer, Tänzerin
and Ein Tänzchen
Felicitas Lensing-Hebben, Torso
and Rüstung
Monika Hartl, Daphne
Franz Pfeil, ohne Titel
Susanne Kraißer, Neumond
and Am Wasser
and Auszeit
Matthias Sieff, Luna
Martin Hell & Philipp Klammsteiner, Rising Women
Armin Grunt, Frau im Dialog
Otto Beer, Sitzende
and Erschöpft
Michael Höllrigl, ohne titel
Simone Turra, Tentazione
Simone Turra, Marco und Rispetto

28/05/2026

| La Fàbbrica

Suspended between ruin and rebirth, La Fàbbrica by Dutch artist Ellen Klijzing evokes the fragile remains of an abandoned industrial world. Towering upright structures, assembled from layered and weathered materials, seem to bend under the weight of dark suspended forms that hover above them like silent witnesses to collapse.

Inspired by the fleeting image of a deserted factory lot glimpsed during travel, the sculpture transforms industrial decay into a dreamlike landscape inhabited by lonely, vulnerable creatures waiting for the inevitable end of the world they once belonged to.
Klijzing’s sculptural practice is deeply rooted in material itself — its history, texture, origin, and transformation. Working with discarded objects, natural elements, plastics, rubber, and industrial substances, she creates hybrid forms that feel both mechanical and organic. Her works explore the tension between humanity, technology, and nature, while reminding us of our tactile connection to the physical world.

In La Fàbbrica, beauty and collapse exist side by side: a haunting reflection on fragility, memory, and the traces we leave behind.

📸 La Fàbbrica, 2016
🛠️ wood, iron, fabric, polyester, paper
📐 335 x 360 x 350 cm

Discover more about her 👉https://sculpture-network.org/en/artist/8332/ellen-klijzing

27/05/2026

✨️🔥Let’s welcome our John Atkin

The British sculptor works across sculpture, drawing, and public art, with a practice centred on movement, transformation, and the relationship between material and atmosphere. His work often explores ideas of flow, drapery, and suspended motion, drawing inspiration from landscape, the body, and cultural references. ✨️🫶

Over the past years, he has realised a number of large-scale public sculptures internationally, particularly in China.

🎬The video documents the unveiling of Confluence at One Shenzhen Bay in Shenzhen, China, in April 2026. Commissioned as part of a major waterfront development, the sculpture reflects the meeting of architectural, environmental, and human energies.
⭐️With flowing surfaces that appear both fluid and solid, the work responds directly to the surrounding skyline, water, and movement of people through the site.👏

Good to have you with us, John!🤩

🔎If you want to learn more about John Atkin and his work, please visit his profile👉https://sculpture-network.org/en/artist/29746/john-atkin

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Confluence, 2026, Bronze, 440 x 600 x 350cm

In collaboration with , the local project team,
and the media crew connected to the unveiling event, the video captures the relationship between sculpture, public space, and atmosphere at Shenzhen Bay.

21/05/2026

| Between Human and Beast

In Myth of the Minotaur (2019), Dutch artist Fiona Zondervan revisits the ancient figure of the Minotaur through a contemporary sculptural language. Carved in marble and combined with wood, the work reflects on the duality between the human and the animal — not as opposites, but as intertwined parts of the same existence.

Rather than presenting the Minotaur as a monster, Fiona approaches the figure as a mirror of our own nature. Through the contrast of materials and forms, she questions where instinct ends and consciousness begins.

As the artist describes: “In mine there is no separation. We are both.” 🫂

🔎Discover more about Fiona on her profile 👉https://sculpture-network.org/en/artist/20351/fiona-zondervan

📸 Myth of the Minotaur, 2019
📐 32 x 35 x 45 cm (H x W x D)
🛠️ Marble and wood

20/05/2026

📣🔥Don’t miss this special : the Sculpture Triennale in Bingen.
🗓Come and join the 7th edition of Sculpture Triennial in Bingen curated by Sara Bernshausen & Lutz Driever, !🤩

✨️From May 16 to October 4, 2026, it unfolds under the title CONNECTION AND SOLIDARITY. As in previous editions, around 20 artistic positions will be installed along the Rhine and at selected locations throughout Bingen’s city center, including three newly commissioned, site-specific works developed through the Triennale’s new funding program.🫶

We're happy that the Sculpture Triennale Bingen Tiel is part of the Sculpturte Network community! ❤️
🔎For more information, visit their profile! 👉 link in story!

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Reel by © Artbeats
including:
Martine Seibert-Raken ©
Karsten Konrad
Valie Export
© VG BIld-Kunst, Bonn 2026
Hannah Hallermann ©
Lena Marie Emrich ©
Menno Fahl ©
© VG BIld-Kunst, Bonn 2026
Emilia Neumann .emilia.neumann
Michael Sailstorfer
© VG BIld-Kunst, Bonn 2026
Thuy Tien Nguyen © .ngx
BE Sela
Stefan Marx
Max Brück
Thomas Judisch

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Opening impressions by ©Robert Schittko:
Speech by Maria Gleichmann-Pieroth
Curator Sara Bernshausen and Curator Lutz Driever
State Secretary for Culture Prof. Dr. Jürgen Hardeck
Founder Kuno Pieroth
Exchange Project, Mainz Academy of Fine Arts, Maximiliane Baumgartner’s class, “mine can be yours”
YOUNG ART EDUCATORS
Visitors in front of Sasha Kurmaz, *The Temple of Transfiguration of the Lord*, 2026, on loan from the artist, in cooperation with the Artist Residency at Schloss Balmoral, Bad Ems

14/05/2026

— Hidden Faces

“Verstecktes Gesicht” by Juri Albrandt explores the contrast between appearance and inner truth. In this ceramic sculpture, the human face becomes both presence and mask — reflecting how often people hide their real emotions, thoughts, or vulnerabilities behind a carefully constructed exterior.
The work invites viewers to look beyond the visible surface and question what remains unseen in human relationships and in ourselves.

📸 “Verstecktes Gesicht”, 2009
📐 40 × 25 × 25 cm (H x W x D)
🛠️ Burnt clay

Discover more about him 👉https://sculpture-network.org/en/artist/772/juri-albrandt