ARTMUC on Munich's Praterinsel: the perfect summer excursion!
Created: 05/12/2022, 16:17
By: Katja Kraft
Summer bathing happiness: Daniel Wimmer's pictures whet the appetite for the hot days.
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On Munich's Praterinsel you can enjoy art again in the best summer weather.
And buy!
At ARTMUC from May 13th to 15th, 2022, you can find creative products from fresh talent from as little as 100 euros.
A pleasure!
There is a little bit of peace for 100 euros.
Walter Kuhn lets it sprout.
The artist did this in Munich back in 2018, when Walter Kuhn planted 3,000 oversized poppies on Königsplatz.
On November 11, the anniversary of the armistice that ended the First World War in 1918, they were to call for peace.
At the ARTMUC art fair, Kuhn once again lets flowery signs of hope bloom in these days overshadowed by news of the war.
This time on paper.
The 100 euros that he charges for each drawing do not go to him, but to the Kolibri Intercultural Foundation, which runs its own stand at the fair.
ARTMUC organizer Raiko Schwalbe makes it available to Kuhn and the other dedicated foundation members free of charge.
Because Hummingbird uses every cent it raises to help refugees,
Flowers for Peace: Walter Kuhn with his poppy drawing.
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Also children like the girl with the sad big eyes that Iryna Fedorenko painted.
The Ukrainian artist fled from Mariupol to Munich, where she now lives with a host family – and is exhibiting at ARTMUC at the weekend.
She painted extensively with bloody red, some portraits are in blue and yellow - the Ukrainian national colors.
Plus lots of black.
One senses that these works were created
after
their flight.
Art as processing of terror.
Ukrainian artists are also represented at ARTMUC 2022
The pictures of her compatriot Katia Vozianova on the next wall are surprisingly cheerful and really funny.
A fat woman in a bikini rides a camel through the water, primeval creatures crawl through lush green forests.
And, especially nice, boys and girls jump from the jetty into the water.
Vibrant life, summer happiness.
The opposite of what is currently associated with Ukraine.
Vozianova created these pictures
before
she fled.
And they can save to Germany.
Appropriately, Daniel Wimmer has set up his stand directly opposite.
His paintings of people enjoying a bath enter into a dialogue with those of the Ukrainian.
And you can feel: whether the lake is near Kyiv or in Austria, where Wimmer paints - a bit of sun, a few drops of water and the happiness of the first blond strands of summer in your hair do the same thing to people everywhere, regardless of their nationality.
Whether it's diving from a one-meter board or lolling on the sunbathing lawn - a human being is a human being and their needs are ultimately pretty much the same.
Delicious: bronze fruit by Isabel Ritter.
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Next door are the delicious works by Isabel Ritter: she created lemon, banana and orange peels from bronze and framed them in colour.
Don't you believe anyone, the shapes look so real, every wrinkle, every pressure point is here.
So you can discover a lot again at this art fair, where creative people can present themselves in a self-organized manner - without gallery owners who also earn money.
Besides, they can get to know each other.
Schwalbe knows how difficult it is for artists to build a network in Munich.
Because you can search a long time here for the classic scene meeting place.
That's why he invites all ARTMUC exhibitors to a big party on the Praterinsel in the evening.
Such successful connections have been made in recent years.
Of course, the weather tempts you to take a trip to the lake.
But here in the old soap factory right on the Isar, it's also very nice.
In the inner courtyard, Kyrill Korsunenko plays the piano on all three afternoons.
The donations that are collected in this way go to support the Ukrainian refugees.
For a little peace.
From May 13 to 15, 2022, May 13 and 14 from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m., May 15 from 12 p.m. to 6 p.m. Three-day ticket 15 euros, free for children under 16. Every information is here
