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Municipal Gallery Bremen

Exhibitions

SPRING! 6th Bremen Art Spring 2009

street art meets mural painting

The Städtische Galerie Bremen has been Bremen's center for the promotion of contemporary visual art from Bremen and the region since 1985. Decisive aspects here are to always discuss art from the region in a supra-regional comparison and to enable experimentation from both an artistic and curatorial point of view. With the presentation of the two artists Markus Genesius and Jimmi D. Paesler in the Gleishalle of the Künstlerhaus Güterabfertigung, the curators of the gallery are daring the adventure of bringing together two artists from completely different worlds. Markus Genesius, born in 1974, is a self-taught artist, has his roots in graffiti art and has been internationally renowned in the street art scene since the 1990s. Jimmi D. Paesler, born in 1942, was the second winner of the "Kunstpreis Junger Westen" in 1967, the most important prize for contemporary art in Germany at the time, and has been one of the top performers in the visual arts in Bremen ever since. His murals, which were created between 1976 and 1988 as part of Bremen's Art in Public Space program, are still very present in Bremen's cityscape.