full-moon

18.03.-13.04.2022 The exhibition shows extremely courageous views of female sexuality and the different facets between pleasure and suffering, between body, soul, freedom, coercion and new horizons. The paintings express the personal experiences of a young woman of today, who is looking for her way between clearly defined rules and the breaking of borders and social conventions.There is also the dimension of a life in motion across national, regional and cultural borders. It is the freedom of the migrant, of the woman with a backpack, who searches for and creates anew where she belongs to. A way of life is shown where one’s own body is not betrayed, but always taken along.The paintings of Iva Boytcheva make it clear that the negotiations take place in one’s own body. The female body is made visible and tangible here as a venue and instrument. The exhibition shows topics such as being alone and being in relationships, longing, menstruation, pregnancy, abortion, and renewed hope. In all these themes, foreign attributions and old taboos are questioned and broken.The paintings are direct and expressive. They come across as momentary explosions of deep layers and painful experiences. Anyone who gets involved is challenged to climb into this whirlpool and thus to achieve new perspectives and joyful feelings. More about the artist at: www.ivart.de

16.02.-17.03.2022 It is well known that the technical progress made by civilisation has immense consequences on various levels. These are usually only noticeable with a time lag. The Bible categorises in “good & evil” to explain why the very first humans had to leave their world.Referring to this, the artist Alabaster Becher develops his artistic position under the title Mischwesen – Ohne Angst und ohne Hoffnung (Mixed Beings – Without Fear and Without Hope): Man, understood as a species, does not accept these destructive processes because he is “evil” or wants “evil”. But because an exploratory spirit dwells within him that is constitutive for his species. An indomitable, imposing interest in the limits of the possible and how far they can still be stretched.The works shown in the current exhibition are small insights into individual series of the canon of images that has grown over the years. All series are related to each other both thematically and in their materiality. For example, the paper scraps left over from the brainworks silhouettes, which in the series i’d like to rent some bodyparts advance to become an analogy-creating element. The remains of one series become the central motif of another. They seek, each from a different angle, an approach to the thematic core. In doing so, he does not want to moralise. The binary categorisation between “good & evil” is not served, nor is a solution devised. He merely documents the fascination of gaining knowledge through observation in the elaborate manner of the human species.Further details in words and (moving) pictures on the homepage www.alabasterbecher.de

18.01.2022 – 15.02.2022 The exhibition shows a selection from various photo series by the artist. The artworks are visual narratives and are intended to provoke contradictory thoughts and emotions in the viewer. The idyllic moment is overshadowed by threat, the noose tightens around the protagonists, a mystical veil shrouds the luminous landscape. The ambivalent aesthetic references trigger inner conflicts by simultaneously evoking the familiar and bringing the unconscious to the surface. The creator wants to depict the personal reference to negative experiences, such as fear. The causes of anxiety may be obvious, but the feelings about it and its effects are unpredictable and unknown.Beyond these themes, analogies are reflected in the technical execution. While narrative concept and classical photo development are deliberate processes, experimental procedures are unrepeatable, accidental processes. Artistic techniques such as bleaching, photogrammetry, engraving and masking enhance the dramatic experience and bring the surface to life: Light beings and spirits emerge!

03.12.2021 – 06.01.2022 The ‘Weihnachts-Kunst-Markt’ (Christmas Art Market) in the Full Moon Gallery was supposed to be opened at the next full moon. Unfortunately, Corona rain on our parade again, but we won’t let that spoil our spirit. From 3 December to 6 January 2022, numerous unique works by local artists will be exhibited in the exterior windows of the KulturCentrale as part of the ‘Weihnachts-Kunst-Markt’ and also will be sold for a small fee. So if you want to surprise your loved ones with an artistic gift under the Christmas tree, or are simply looking for new works of art and cannot afford the traditional art market, you should definitely find your way to us. With this exhibition, JKPeV wants to support local artists who are currently facing an enormous economic test due to the Corona pandemic and the associated crisis in the cultural sector.

Vernisage 19.11.2021 / 20:00 Just in time for the full moon in november, Hans-Jürgen Andersen celebrates the vernissage of his exhibition „Faszination des Seins und des Göttlichen“. He will present a selection of his painting-graphic collages at the Full Moon Gallery on 19 November 2021. The painter himself will accompany the evening musically on the guitar with self composed songs.Born in 1949, the poet, composer and painter graduated from the Dresden Academy of Music in 1975. In the same year he also began working as a freelance musician. He has been a member of the Künstlerbund Dresden e.V. since 2002.In the course of his work as a songwriter, Hans-Jürgen Andersen realised that not all his feelings and illusions could be captured in sound and words. So over time he developed into a two-way artist and devoted himself more and more to painting. With his unique technique, he brings life out of the most diverse materials. His fascination with being and the divine is poetically mirrored in his paintings.www.hja-kunst.de

27. February 2021 Peter Koch originally comes from the Baltic Sea and has been living in Dresden as a freelance artist for over 30 years. He moves very virtuously between painting and music. He enjoys every moment in which he can express his feelings in creativity. During his studies he built up contact with some well-known artists of the GDR such as Dieter Weidenbach, Horst Peter Meyer and Joachim Kuhlmann to learn from them. He focused on maritime impressions and moments of village life. Peter Koch loves aesthetics, likes to live and work by instinct and developed in recent years a penchant for the experimental.

21.09.2021 20:00 For the September full moon we’d like to invite you to the opening of our new exhibition at the Full Moon Gallery! On the 21st of September at 20:00, we are glad to open Anne Rosinski’s exhibition „Über die Zeichnung hinaus“ (engl.:“beyond drawing“).The visual artist Anne Rosinski sees her works as representations of emotional landscapes.Currently, the focus of her figurative work is on feeling and describing the surfaces of these emotional landscapes. In doing so, she adds graphic structures to the landscape representations that go far beyond the sketchy nature of an artistic drawing. The magic lies in the absolute freedom to accompany the fleeting moment of a line while blurring the boundaries between painting and drawing.The dissolution of the graphite material produces a multitude of shades and gradations of gray. A point condenses into a hatching and the paper becomes a source of light. Light and dark, proximity and distance begin to take shape.In the process, Rosinski’s works become a mirror of emotional inner spaces. www.anne-rosinski.de

A fusion event where art meets entrepreneurship at KulturCentrale on Saturday, August 21st at 20:00 This time you will have the chance to see the latest artworks of our Full Moon Gallery Artist, BENUZ. Benuz is a graffiti artist born in Mexico City in 1977 who first came into contact with graffiti through skateboarding. It didn’t take him long to realize that graffiti and street art would become his main passions. Benuz developed a unique and technically elaborate graffiti style based on calligraphy in the early 2000s. He integrated calligraphy into his style in a non-textual way by drawing new symbols which replace the written language, but still bear a resemblance to written texts. Throughout the years, Benuz has become quite known in the graffiti scene of Mexico being one of the calligraphy graffiti movement pioneers. Today, his avant-garde artworks are widely recognised within the worldwide urban art scene, and he has become a source of inspiration for many young and emerging graffiti and street artists all over the world. His upcoming exhibition at the Full Moon Gallery is entitled DAS EWIGE (engl. „The Eternal“). This exhibition is dedicated to the topic of cyclicality of time and how its results are incorporated into each epoch. And this is where ART meets ENTREPRENEURSHIP! Benuz did not just use any kind of paper for his artworks in our Full Moon Gallery exhibition, but a special grass paper produced by the young Dresden-based start-up “MATABOOKS”. The team of MATABOOKS are specialized in creating sustainable, vegan and environmentally friendly papers and books made of grass. CEO and founder Kay Hedrich will join us and give insight into how he founded and developed this green start-up and what it takes to conceive an idea and make it a successful business! And since this evening will not only be dedicated to art but also to entrepreneurship, the JKPeV team takes the chance to introduce you to one of our current projects, the “GAME-CHANGER” whose main aim is to build and further develop the entrepreneurial competences of those who aspire to become entrepreneurs. We will present you the learning resources that JKPeV together with our international partners have developed so that you get equipped with all necessary skills to start working in practice on your business idea! This is not just a simple Full Moon Gallery evening, it is an evening full of art, entrepreneurial spirit, and “food” for thought and action!  Save the date and join us! Links for further information: Benuz´s website: https://www.flight-at-night.com/ Matabooks: https://www.matabooks.de/ Game-Changer project: https://gamechanger-project.eu/en/

24.07.2021 One year after her first exhibition at Full Moon Gallery, we’re excited to present to you the artist Jakyeong and her new exhibition „Totem“. Jakyeong‘s new artworks show ancient Korean totemic figures and self-created „Totems“ made with different materials and surprising light effects. She applied colours as reminiscence of old buddha temples, so that her figures look delightful and sweet. Moreover, figures like the tiger are strongly associated with Korean Folk Art. Her modern „Totem“ is an Assemblage work on canvas with wooden domino pieces and light band, which express the flow of blood. These colour works and effects describe the artist‘s nature and emotions. She is excited to express herself by constantly trying out new materials and experimenting with unusual effects. Jakyeong has lived in Bern, Switzerland and in Bologna, Italy. Currently she lives and works in Dresden. Exhibitions of Jakyeong took place in July 2018 at Luda Gallery in Seoul and in July 2019 in a private space in Zirtow.

17. July 2021 The new NACHTWESEN series of studio paintings created by Flux Wildly, is his first new studio work in the last 10 years. These paintings feature a previously un-used technique in his artworks. Some of these artworks are brand-new creations, while others have been found, scattered in various sketchbooks through time. The NACHTWESEN series has been created this way that saves the actual painting work for last.