Home Game 7 at PORT25: Intensively Experience Mannheim's Contemporary Art

Home Game 7: Discover Mannheim's Contemporary Art at PORT25

The exhibition Home Game 7 presents recent art acquisitions by the cultural office of the city of Mannheim and offers a multifaceted view of local contemporary art. At PORT25, different artistic positions, materials, and media meet ranging from photography, painting, and drawing to ceramics, sculpture, object art, and installation works.

A Panorama of the Mannheim Art Scene

The seventh installment of the exhibition series unites works by Jana Bißdorf, emmanuel boos, Rüdiger Krenkel, Fabian Widukind Penzkofer, Gaby Peters, Sonja Scherer, and Mehrdad Zaeri. Established positions encounter younger artistic approaches, revealing the diversity of visual arts in Mannheim.

Order, Chance, and Ceramic Form

In emmanuel boos' work, geometric rigor meets the unpredictability of the ceramic process. The archetypal cuboid becomes the starting point of a poetic play with order, stability, and chance. The observation of the work draws attention to volume, surface, and the sensual materiality of fired ceramics.

Photography Between Beauty and Ecological Warning

Jana Bißdorf's staged photography creates a fascinating yet unsettling visual effect through intense colors and the overlay of various motifs. Aesthetic beauty merges with ecological reflection, opening photographic spaces for questions of perception and responsibility.

Movement, Collage, and Poetic Apparatuses

Rüdiger Krenkel's sculpture concentrates opposing wave movements into an organic form. Fabian Widukind Penzkofer explores with embroidery and fabric collage the intersections of plant and human life as well as robotics. His works fluctuate between panel painting, relief, painting, and sculpture.

The objects by Gaby Peters reverse and distort technical purposes. Her kinetic apparatuses move between technical logic and poetic absurdity. Sonja Scherer condenses color, line, and sign into an atmospherically open visual language shaped by the engagement with Chinese and Japanese visual and written culture.

Municipal Collection as Cultural Education

Home Game not only makes individual artworks visible but also the curatorial and cultural-political significance of municipal collections. Since 2022, the series has showcased selected acquisitions from the cultural office. To date, 68 Mannheim artists have been directly supported through purchases. An early drawing by Mehrdad Zaeri forms a special highlight of the exhibition.

Conclusion: An Art Experience with Many Perspectives

Home Game 7 connects aesthetic experience, local art history, and vibrant present. The exhibition atmosphere at PORT25 invites you to directly experience color, form, movement, and material, getting to know the diversity of the Mannheim art scene in concentrated work observation. Art enthusiasts should definitely visit this exhibition live.

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Sources:

• City of Mannheim – Home Game 7
• PORT25 – Home Game 7
• PORT25 – Admission and Opening Hours
• PORT25 – Exhibition Series Home Game