Sparda-Bank Art Prize 2025: Prize Winners' Exhibition in the City Gallery Amberg

Young Positions, Clear Attitudes: The Sparda-Bank Art Prize Shapes a Strong Exhibition

The ALTE FEUERWACHE City Gallery in the Amberg City Museum presents the prize winners of the Sparda-Bank Art Prize Amberg 2025: Theresa Eberl, Stefan Leitner (LEITI), and Luis Weiland. The curated group exhibition makes tangible how contemporary painting, graphics, and installation form a resonant space for art in dialogue – with free admission.

Art Experience in the City Gallery: Space, Light, Material

In the reduced architecture of the City Gallery, colors, contrasts, and surfaces unfold a precise exhibition atmosphere. The observation of the works leads from pastose, rhythmically applied color fields through graphic line networks to object-like placements. Light edges model the picture bodies; white spaces provide breathing pauses in the parcours.

Theresa Eberl: Painting Between Gesture and Structure

Eberl's painting explores transitions between spontaneous gesture and composed surface. In mixed techniques, layers condense into finely modulated color spaces. Art historically, her approach can be located between gestural abstraction and contemporary color painting – with a sensitive eye for composition, picture rhythm, and materiality.

LEITI (Stefan Leitner): Line as Attitude

LEITI works with the idea of 'First Try': the line sits immediately, without correction. This practice – between street art experience, drawing, and painting – generates an energetic directness. Contour, negative space, and accent color intertwine into reduced, tension-rich pictorial signs.

Luis Weiland: Figuration, Presence, Self-Questioning

Weiland connects figurative motifs with precise color economy. His works reflect inner states and observations of everyday life, often with an ironic undertone. The result: contemporary figuration that links aesthetic experience with questions of identity and perception.

Curating with Attitude: Promoting Young Talent Made Visible

The exhibition bundles the artistic signatures of the prize winners and places them in a carefully choreographed dialogue. The Sparda-Bank Art Prize (endowed with 6,000 euros) has been honoring young art from Eastern Bavaria for years; the winners' exhibition makes this support publicly tangible and offers a compact overview of current artistic trends in the region.

Education and Visitor Experience

Complementing the exhibition are the museum educational offerings of the City Museum – ideal for deepening the understanding of work processes, materials, and historical references. The clear opening hours and free admission facilitate spontaneous visits; the calm presentation supports concentrated observation of the works.

Conclusion: Those who want to experience contemporary art pointedly will find a succinctly curated show with three independent positions here. A visit expands the perspective on painting, drawing, and installation – and demonstrates how the promotion of young talent brings artistic quality to the public.

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Sources:

• AMBERG.MUSEUM – Special Exhibitions 2026
• AMBERG.MUSEUM – City Gallery Alte Feuerwache: Info
• City of Amberg – Annual Program City Gallery 2026
• Onetz – City Gallery Amberg Presents Annual Program 2026
• museum.de – City Museum Amberg
• Class for Free Painting – Biography Theresa Eberl
• Arttrado – Interview with LEITI (Stefan Leitner)