PICTURES
LBitter truths, personal experiences and motifs from popular culture perform a piece of world theater in Oskar Manigk's paintings. With wit and inventiveness, unafraid of supposedly banal subjects but fed by experience and contemporaneity, he questions the role of art as well as that of the artist. He developed an artistic practice that was critical of art and society even during the GDR era and is one of East Germany's outstanding artistic personalities.
Oskar Manigk was born in Berlin in 1934. From the 1970s onwards, he created non-representational drawings, overpaintings and collages alongside expressive figurative paintings on paper. He later began to use large-format canvases and has also been creating reverse glass paintings for some time. His works can be found in public and private collections, including the Kunsthalle Rostock, the Pommersches Landesmuseum, the Museum Folkwang, the Staatliches Museum Schwerin and the Kunstsammlung Neubrandenburg. In 2024, he was awarded the Egmont Schaefer Prize for Drawing.
The exhibition RESONANZ with sound installations by Rügen artist Lisa Steude will open at the same time.
