Reinhard Wöllmer at galerie 13: Paper and Steel as Poetic Sculpture
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Between Construction and Poetry: Reinhard Wöllmer's Paper Objects and Steel Sculptures
The galerie 13 in Freising dedicates an exhibition to Reinhard Wöllmer that makes paper and steel experiential as independent sculptural materials. From September 19 to November 7, 2026, visitors will encounter a concentrated group of works that lies between strict construction, geometric reduction, and playful poetry. Admission is free.
Paper as Spatial Body
Reinhard Wöllmer, born in 1957 in Nuremberg, has developed a distinctive visual language over decades. After studying painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg under Clemens Fischer, which he completed as a master student, he turned his focus to paper art. His works transcend the traditional notion of paper as a flat image carrier: Colored papier-mâché, cut surfaces, and processed layers transform into relief-like and three-dimensional objects.
Dyeing, shaping, cutting, and spatialization define the artistic process. Wöllmer works the material with great technical precision, leading it into convex-concave forms whose volume, shadows, and interspaces unfold a quiet, almost architectural presence. Circle and oval appear as reduced basic forms that convey concentration and formal clarity.
Steel, Line, and Sculptural Tension
Wöllmer's paper objects are contrasted by steel sculptures. The hard, resistant material lends the exhibition a constructive tension and expands the dialogue between surface, line, and space. Where paper develops a fragile lightness through folding, cutting, and color, steel sets clear accents with weight, stability, and angular presence.
The exhibition makes visible how closely material and perception are intertwined. Light glides over edges and depressions, shadows become independent artistic elements, and each viewing of a work changes with the location. Thus, an exhibition atmosphere arises in which the aesthetic experience grows from slow perception and careful observation.
Art Historical Classification and Cultural Education
Wöllmer's works can be located in the context of constructive and concrete art, contemporary object art, and experimental paper art. His geometric visual language combines craftsmanship with an open, sensual material aesthetics. The works are not representations; rather, they are self-contained bodies in which color, structure, light, and space interact.
For cultural education, the exhibition offers direct access to questions of sculpture: When does a surface become a body? How does a material change its effect through processing? And how does a simple geometric form create a poetic spatial relationship? Wöllmer's works invite one to experience these questions not only intellectually but through direct artistic experience.
An Artist Between Experiment and Precision
Important milestones in Wöllmer's career include a scholarship from the city of Nuremberg in Skopje, the founding of the artist group PURPUR, and his long-standing work as a lecturer in design at the Werkbund Workshop Nuremberg. He has received, among others, the Art Prize Hollfeld and the Art Prize of the Art Association Spirale Treuchtlingen. His works have been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Germany and Austria.
Opening Hours and Visit
The galerie 13 is open Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Fridays from 2 PM to 6:30 PM. On Thursdays, the exhibition can be visited from 2 PM to 8:30 PM, and on Saturdays from 10 AM to 1 PM. Visits are also possible by appointment. The exhibition ends on November 7, 2026.
Conclusion: Material Becomes a Poetic Experience
Reinhard Wöllmer's paper objects and steel sculptures open a quietly intense artistic experience between construction, color, light, and space. The exhibition in the galerie 13 shows how a precise, sensual, and simultaneously open visual language emerges from paper and steel. Anyone wishing to experience contemporary sculpture, concrete art, and experimental paper objects directly should definitely visit this exhibition in Freising live.
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