breaking out at the Old Prison Freising: Art between wood, painting, and border spaces
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breaking out: Art between space, movement, and inner border experience
At the Old Prison Freising, from August 1 to August 9, 2026, a dense, multifaceted exhibition meets a place with historical tension. breaking out combines the sculpture of Elsa Nietmann and the painting of Hartmut Fenge into an art experience that understands the concept of breaking out not as escape, but as artistic movement.
An exhibition space with its own history
The venue sharpens perception. The Old Prison in the Freising old town is a space with a past, a building that embodies closeness, boundary drawing, and transformation. This is precisely where the exhibition unfolds its impact: The works respond to the place, to its architectural density, and to that quiet intensity that characterizes historical spaces.
Elsa Nietmann: Wooden sculpture as formed movement
Elsa Nietmann develops her sawn wooden sculptures from a precise engagement with body perception, structure, and change. As a sculptor with experience in Feldenkrais pedagogy, she thinks of movement not just as a mere motif, but as a principle. Her works combine craftsmanship with organic openness. Wood, cut, volume, and void enter into a sensitive balance that gives the gaze time.
Those who engage in this artistic examination discover not a completed form, but processes of becoming. In Nietmann's sculptures, the material becomes a resonator for tension, change of direction, and inner dynamics. This makes her sculpture both sensual and reflective.
Hartmut Fenge: Painting at the thresholds of the visible
Hartmut Fenge moves in his works between objectivity and abstraction. His painting opens spatial transitions, explores lines, surfaces, and color fields, and condenses the gaze on border areas. Contour-focused drawings and reduced color applications generate a silent energy that does not cover the space but rather expands it.
This painting thrives on restraint and precision. It relies on concentrated seeing, on sensing atmosphere, and on the fragile tension between form and dissolution. In this way, the exhibition gains its aesthetic experience: as a dialogue between pictorial space and interior space.
The idea of breaking out as an artistic theme
The exhibition title is wisely chosen. Breaking out here means more than leaving a closed space. It also refers to overcoming routines, leaving familiar patterns, and consciously working at artistic boundaries. The exhibition thus becomes a reflection on creativity itself: about courage, uncertainty, and the productive power of new beginnings.
Particularly convincing is the connection of material, space, and meaning. The sculpture responds to body and movement, while the painting responds to transition and openness. Together, they create works that do not strive for quick effects, but for sustainable impact.
Visit with cultural depth
The exhibition invites a concentrated encounter with contemporary art. It addresses art enthusiasts who wish to discover connections not just to see objects in a gallery or museum situation: between place and work, between material and idea, between perception and memory. Those who visit Freising in the summer of 2026 will find here a quiet, thoughtful, and inspiring art place.
Conclusion: breaking out promises an exhibition of remarkable clarity and poetic tension. The connection of wooden sculpture and painting, of historical space and artistic openness, makes the visit a rewarding aesthetic experience. This exhibition should be experienced live.
Official channels of Hartmut Fenge and Elsa Nietmann:
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- Website Hartmut Fenge: https://www.hartmutfenge.de
- Instagram Elsa Nietmann: No official profile found
- Facebook Elsa Nietmann: No official profile found
- YouTube Elsa Nietmann: No official profile found
- Website Elsa Nietmann: https://www.elsanietmann.de
