The Ariadne Project in the City Gallery: Installation, Sculpture, and Memory in Amberg
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The Ariadne Project in Amberg: Two Artists Weave Memory, Material, and Space
The city gallery ALTE FEUERWACHE transforms from January 29 to April 12, 2026, into an intense, multisensory art experience: Belle Shafir (Tel Aviv) and Hanna Regina Uber (Amberg/Aschach) realize a space-filling installation with The Ariadne Project that combines artwork observation, aesthetic experience, and exhibition atmosphere into a dense parcours.
Threads of Memory: Material Poetry and Biography
From up close, the special materiality is revealed: Shafir has been working with horsehair for years, condensing it into fine, chain-like structures, nets, and insect shapes – a tactile vocabulary between drawing in space, sculpture, and installation. In her art direction, nature and cultural history, trauma memories, and identity merge into fragile image structures. Uber’s sculptural interventions provide a corporeal counter-voice: bronze, wood, textile, and paper unfold volume, weight, and surface. This juxtaposition creates a vibrating tension field of lightness and heaviness, permeability, and densification.
Spatial Composition and Curation: How Light, Shadow, and Paths Work
The curation utilizes the architecture of the Alte Feuerwache: closely guided passages alternate with open fields. Concentrated lighting allows fiber bundles to shimmer, surfaces to breathe, and shadows to draw lines in space. Visitors move tactilely and visually through sequences of painting, sculpture, object, and installation. This creates a sensually precise choreography that sharpens one’s sense of time.
Art Historical Contexts: From Material Aesthetics to Culture of Memory
Shafir’s practice connects to trends in contemporary art where organic materials – hair, fibers, skins – become carriers of memory and narration. In dialogue with Uber’s sculptural language, a narrative about transformation, vulnerability, and resilience emerges. The Ariadne motif – the thread as orientation in the labyrinth – becomes a metaphor for collective memory and individual biography.
Education, Access, Visitor Experience
The city gallery is accessible through the main entrance of the city museum, and entry to the gallery is free. Regular opening hours allow for a decelerated artwork observation; the city museum also offers barrier-related information, group offers, and museum pedagogical formats. Photography is permitted for private purposes according to museum regulations.
Conclusion: The Ariadne Project promises a dense, atmospherically precise exhibition between delicate material poetry and sculptural presence. Those who appreciate contemporary art, installation, curation, and strong spatial impact should definitely experience this exhibition live.
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- Website: https://www.belleshafir.com/, https://www.stadtmuseum-amberg.de/, http://www.kunstprojekt-net.de/
