People are at the heart of the work of artist Sylvia Hagen, whose works are now being shown in a comprehensive retrospective at the Schloss Neuhardenberg Foundation.
Image gallery
Kleine Sirene, 2014
Ecco Homo, 2012/17
Sylvia Hagen belongs to a generation of East German artists in which women in particular did not receive the attention their outstanding work deserved for a long time after reunification. This has now changed and with this survey exhibition, the Schloss Neuhardenberg Foundation is bringing the unique work of a highly recognized artist to life.
The exhibition is organized according to the materials bronze, clay and paper and reveals Hagen's special handling of these materials. Her art reveals the creative process in which the material itself leaves its mark and time becomes part of the artwork. A fascinating experience that explores the fine line between figuration and abstraction.
In her studio in Altlangsow, on the edge of Germany, she captures the essence of the human being in expressive sculptures and drawings. Once working in stone, since the 1990s the artist has devoted herself to clay, which forms the starting point for her bronzes.
With a working method that is more akin to an intensive search than a fixed artistic plan, she approaches her figures over months and years. Her works, whether clay sculptures, charcoal drawings or gouaches, capture the genuinely human in all its complexity.
Opening August 25, 3 p.m.
Exhibition tours with Sylvia Hagen
Sat, 28.9., 4 pm
Sat, 12.10., 4 pm
Sat, 23.11., 3 pm
Sat, Dec. 7, 4 p.m.
