Art exhibition with works by the artist Ulrich Bittmann from 30.4. to 24.6.2025 in the café and coworking space "tisch" in Schwerin.
table presented
IN A SMALL SETTING
with Ulrich Bittmann
ON A SMALL SCALE
Exhibition at tisch - Café, Coworking, Event
Duration: 30.04. - 24.06.2025
Vernissage: 29.04.2025, 18:30 h
Address: Wittenburger Str. 16 a/b | 19053 Schwerin
Opening hours: Monday - Friday 10:00 - 18:00
Project management: Annekathrin Siems / Karen Obenauf
Curation: Annekathrin Siems
EXHIBITION SERIES ON A SMALL SCALE
The tisch - café, coworking space and event area in Schwerin - has been showing the exhibition series IM KLEINEN RAHMEN since March 2025. Visitors to the café are greeted by contemporary art on a wall area of over six meters as they enter. At a time when encountering and engaging with art seems essential and deserves a special place in our daily lives, the tisch creates a place where art meets everyday life, color values enrich the coffee, plays of form inspire work and artistic intentions flow into conversations. Every visit is a personal gain.
The exhibition series IM KLEINEN RAHMEN was initiated by art historian and curator Annekathrin Siems and illustrator and art director Karen Obenauf.
The second exhibition in the IM KLEINEN RAHMEN series shows works by the artist Ulrich Bittmann from Mustin. His painterly approach resembles an archaeological approach. He searches for what already exists in a pool of infinite possibilities and searches for the buried form in the picture ground. He unearths it from the paint by removing layers - just as an archaeologist removes layers - applying the pictorial levels layer by layer. You could say that Ulrich Bittmann uncovers the pictures for the viewer, brings them to light, makes them visible. The impulses for his works are diverse: real events, everyday life, models, letters, photographs or even the painterly moment itself. It is the dance between figuration and abstraction that contributes to the special appeal of Ulrich Bittmann's painting. He turns us into seekers and entices us to take a closer look.
Due to the dense, collaged hanging of the works, the exhibition at tisch very impressively conveys the described basic tenor of Ulrich Bittmann's work.
Let yourself be surprised and get involved with art IN A SMALL FRAME at tisch.
ULLRICH BITTMANN
STATEMENT
"Painting tells stories.
My picture stories are created intuitively and deal with human sensitivities. They are based on my observations and experiences and reflect my personal view of the world.
Paintings are made of color.
I am less interested in depicting reality than in how the process of applying paint, the language of form and composition create their own reality and pictorial meaning. A special challenge is the search for forms that surprise me and the viewer and open up new perspectives.
What emerges is complex, emotional and never unambiguous - just like my perception of the world itself, in which simple answers and clear categorizations are rare."
VITA
1950 born in Cologne
1976-2015 worked as a doctor
since 1995 intensive engagement with artistic positions
in drawing and painting
Painting school Blankenese, Academy of Fine Arts Hamburg
2001 Study visit to the Salzburg Summer Academy, Xenia Hausner
since 1998 Master class lecturer Jens Hasenberg
Member of the Lübeck Artists' Association since 2018
since 2019 Representation by Galerie Holthoff, Hamburg
since 2021 Member of the BBK Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
Member of the BBK Schleswig-Holstein since 2023
EXHIBITIONS
2019 | 2023
Gallery Holthoff, Fischers Allee 70, Hamburg (solo exhibition)
2024
Kunsthaus Garding
2016 | 2018 | 2020 | 2022 | 2023
Annual exhibition of Lübeck artists
Kunsthalle St. Annen Lübeck
2022
State-wide art show | BBK Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
Cultural Forum Schleswig-Holstein House Schwerin
2023
DYADE | BBK Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
Cultural Forum Schleswig-Holstein House Schwerin
2019 | 2022 | 2024
Taylor-Wessing and Holthoff Gallery
Sandtorkai Hamburg
Multiple participation, last in 2023
Affordable Art Fair Hamburg
2024
Brunswik Pavilion | BBK Schleswig-Holstein Kiel
PICTURES
"The White Flower", 2023/2024, oil, Indian Ink on canvas, 200 x 120 cm, source: Ulrich Bittmann
"In Between", 2023, oil, palette knife Indian Ink on canvas, 200 x 140 cm, source: Ulrich Bittmann
CONTACT
ULRICH BITTMANN
23911 Mustin | Waldweg 30
villagefineart@t-online.de | www.bittart.de | IG: ulrichbittart
table
Wittenburger Str. 16 a/b | 19053 Schwerin
IG tischtisch table | www.tisch.space
Opening hours: Monday - Friday 10:00 - 18:00
ON A SMALL SCALE
Annekathrin Siems | Karen Obenauf
hello@imkleinenrahmen.art
