exhibition

25 January – 23 February 2024Vernissage | 25 January 2024 | 20:00Full Moon GalleryAdmission free! FACETS OF CREATIONExhibition by Katja Tomzig Katja Tomzig, a painter from Dresden, studied in Dresden and Cologne, where she lived for 11 years. She has been painting her series FACETTEN DER SCHÖPFUNG since 2019. She has taken part in various exhibitions and art fairs in Europe. She works with egg tempera, watercolour paint and pencil, water-soluble metallic paints as well as coffee, tea or sometimes vegetable juices on various types of paper and cardboard. “My paintings show creatures and scenes that don’t come from my imagination, but rise from a blob of colour. I like the idea that they have chosen me to make them visible to you with my pen and brush. That’s why I call them FACETTES OF CREATION. First and foremost, I want to bring joy and confidence into the world. All the pictures invite you to take a relaxing short holiday in your head, freeing your thoughts. This creates new space – I remind you of your own creative power by showing you what it can look like when you widen your heart and gaze and allow new things to happen. We live in an exciting time in which anything is possible. It’s up to us what we make of it.”www.katja-tomzig.deLaudation: Dipl.-Ing. Oec. Dieter Hoefer | curator, journalist, art mediator Musical accompaniment:Nea Wavv & Robert Grund | Live premiere of the image-sound piece “September 2020 was still quite nasty here and there. Energy thieves everywhere”The premiere of a new project, together with the Dresden musician Nea Wavv, who will gradually, if it goes well, set my pictures to music, and the Dresden image and sound artist Robert Grund, who will shoot the films to be set to music.For the premiere, the first picture-sound piece for my picture “September 2020 was still quite nasty here and there. Energy thieves everywhere” will be performed. In the video, the viewer’s gaze will wander over the painted scenes, accompanied by the live sound collages. The final shot will be the painting as a whole. Dr Hustler | DJHe just can’t stop! After years of abstinence, the well-known scene DJ Dr Hustler returns to his old adopted home. His party series at Rock The Tram, BRN.Lustgarten, Piranha Beat Club or Club Sputnik are unforgettable and promise one thing above all: partying until the doctor comes!www.tanzdieler.de

10 December 2023 – 24 January 2024Vernissage |12 December 2023 | 14:00 – 24:00Full Moon GalleryAdmission free! On 10 December, the Full Moon Gallery’s Christmas-Art-Market starts with several stalls by selected local artists in and outside the KulturCentrale. There will be the opportunity to talk to the artists directly and to buy a Christmas present or two. Later in the evening there will be musical accompaniment from live musicians and DJs as well as a surprise as part of the Hechtviertel Advenster. In addition, a selection of artworks for the gift table will be displayed in the exterior windows of the Full Moon Gallery until the New Year. Musical guests: Mokwok Knartsch [analogue meets electro] – Saxophone, Violin, Fantail: Bigfootz (alias teknival saxophon man)– Electronic Drums, 303, WopWop Bassline: Mr.Rascal (aka Rascal Knarrtsch)  

28 October 2023 – 27 November 2023 Vernissage | 28 October 2023 | 8:00 pm Full Moon Gallery Admission free! In the exhibition “Through Deformation into the Present”, painter Aren Shahnazaryan presents his latest works at Full Moon Gallery from 28 October to 27 November. On display are paintings characterised by energetic brushwork, a bold approach to pictorial composition, and form and colour in an intense visual language. His individual painting process allows the artist to explore different states of the paintings, treading uncharted paths. In his new works, Aren Shahnazaryan intuitively reconstructs and deforms the painterly as well as textual substance of each painting until an originally unsuspected or only roughly hinted motif is expressed. These motifs are closely interwoven with the current noise of existence through the painterly medium. Aren Shahnazaryan studied at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Yerevan, was head of the graphics workshop at the “Mkhitar Sebastaci” education centre until 2017 and graduated in fine arts from the HfBK Dresden in 2022 with Prof. Ralf Kerbach. He is a representative of the Armenian Foundation for Fine Arts in Germany and a master student at the HfBK Dresden under Prof. Ralf Kerbach. Aren Shahnazaryan does not ascribe a fixed meaning to the visual elements of his works, but tries to create an atmosphere in each piece that reflects his personal experiences and sensations. He is deeply dedicated to the creative process and works intensively on each painting until it reaches a unique and distinctive state.  

29 September 2023 – 27 October 2023Vernissage | 29 September 2023 | 20:00Admission free! Narek Arzumanyan was born in 1988, in Yerevan, Armenia. He graduated from Yerevan State College of Fine Arts after P. Terlemezyan in 2008 and studied in State Academy of Fine Arts betwen 2009 and 2011. He opened his first exhibition in the Artists’ Union of Armenia, in 2009. Since 2011 he lives in Germany. Narek Arzumanyan’s artworks can be found in private collections and public museums throughout the world. “Integration of a Wolf” shows a series of self-portraits, by Narek Arzumanyan.In an asylum home in Germany, the artist watches many nature documentaries and recognises parallels between himself and lone predators. Even as a child, Arzumanyan loved to be in nature; for him, there was hardly any difference between humans and animals. He often played as a jackal, fox or wolf. These animals accompany him not only into his adulthood, but also into his art. Arzumanyan feels so much connected to the lone wolf in particular that he sees and portrays himself as one. But he cannot remain a wolf forever and slowly transforms into a human being.From 29 September to 27 October 2023, you can view this fascinating journey at the Full Moon Gallery in Dresden. Laudatio: Paula Freiesleben

01 – 28 September 2023Vernissage | 01 September 2023 | 20:00 Full Moon Gallery invites you to the opening of the portrait exhibition FACES by Ric Uhlmann on 1 September at 8 pm.It was only four years ago that the young Dresden artist discovered drawing with pencil and charcoal. Far from classical art training, his journey as an artist began with a simple visit to a stationery shop. An impulse led him to buy a pencil and a sketchpad – the fascination for faces and their manifold possibilities of expression formed him as a portrait artist. For Ric Uhlmann, every person is unique and diverse. This is what he wants to reflect in his drawings and with his very personal artistic style.

Vernissage of the Exhibition by Uwe Beyer30 July 2023 – 30 August 2023Vernissage | 30 July 2023 | 20:00Full Moon GalleryAdmission free! In his exhibition STRUCTURES from 30 July to 30 August in the Full Moon Gallery, the Dresden painter and graphic artist Uwe Beyer shows graphic compositions that reveal complex structures formed from elementary building blocks – coloured areas and lines enter into relationships with each other. Interactions arise, forms become visible, a structure emerges.For the artist, everything is structure and nowhere does it have a centre or a boundary. For him, structural incompleteness and openness are a basic condition for the emergence of art. Open, unregulated, always in motion, is the creative activity, a game of infinite differentiations, in an endless chain of possibilities. Laudation: Dr Peter Plaßmeyer, Director of the Mathematical-Physical Salon in Dresden Musical accompaniment: Iryna Marchuk (Ukraine) on the violin  

Exhibition by the Kandinsky Art Centre Odessa War is not only fought on battlefields — it reshapes lives, memories, and ways of seeing the world. With PERSPECTIVES ON THE WAR, the FULL MOON GALLERY presents works by Anatolii Melnitchuk and Victor Poteriako, offering deeply personal insights into the realities of war. The exhibition is connected to the Kandinsky Art Center in Odessa, whose collection has been affected by the ongoing war and is being safeguarded in parts through international cooperation. Their artistic positions reflect fragmentation, loss, resilience, and the search for meaning in a time of ongoing conflict. Bringing together individual experiences and broader questions of displacement and identity, the exhibition reminds us of the human dimension behind the headlines.   02 July 2023 – 29 July 2023Vernissage | 02 July 2023 | 20:00Full Moon GalleryAdmission free!    

05 May 2023 – 02 June 2023Vernissage | 05 May 2023 | 20:00Finissage with live music & video show (acacia&magnolia) | 02 June 2023 | 20:00Full Moon GalleryAdmission free! Alabaster Becher’s artwork is not created by thinking or feeling – it is the way he thinks and feels. In this collection of works, he transgresses into the lines of the poem ” der Oktopus” (the octopus) by L. Stüdemann. The words of the poem do not serve merely to convey information. For Alabaster Becher, it is rather the emotions triggered by the rythmics of the letters. The artist seems to understand this kind of artistic expression in depth and works on the fusion of his aesthetics with that of the poem in the picture series “die oktopusgeschichte”.

06 April 2023 – 03 May 2023Vernissage | 06 April 2023 | 20:00 Full Moon GalleryAdmission free! Full Moon Gallery invites you to the vernissage “save me.” by Dresden artist Laura Michelle Schubert on 6 April. The thematic basis of the collection shown for the first time is the alienation of humankind from its natural origins, caused by the prevailing compulsion to consume and the permanent sensory overload in our society. Man has lost the understanding of the original, natural attitude to life, which has led and continues to lead to its destruction. This behaviour now requires rapid and intensive nature and animal protection as a reaction. These thoughts are reflected in the multimedia art, which includes paintings, hoodies and photography. With the clothes, Laura Michelle Schubert chooses an unconventional form of passing on information, because by designing and wearing the hoodies in public, these thoughts reach society without fuss and greater effort. With the “save me.” – collection, the artist wants to encourage the commitment and further development of behaviour and understanding towards nature, which must be conserved for the existence of mankind.

Die Vier Elemente 11 March 2023 – 04 April 2023Vernissage | 11 March 2023 | 20:00 In March, the Full Moon Gallery will present the exhibition by the artist Jana Pommer-Semper entitled THE FOUR ELEMENTS, which will be celebrated on the occasion of the full moon on 11 March. The question of the essence of the world, that which endures forever, are ancient questions of humanity. It took the ancient Greeks only four elements to explain the world. Aristotle’s and Plato’s reflections in this regard lasted until the 18th century. If Jana Pommer-Semper is to be believed, today our knowledge is increasing through research and science, but so-called knowledge is continually distancing us from the direct connection to nature. Much points to the fact that everything is under the rule of the four elements: 4 temperaments, 4 humours, 4 seasons. Mixed in different ways, they can represent the whole world. From these, eternally and unchangeably existing, the great principle of order of our occidental thinking develops and is only devalued by modern science. With the series “The Four Elements”, the artist wants to express her appreciation of the limited treasures of our earth, to recall the mythological understanding, which was characterised by gratitude and veneration and the inner knowledge that the elements have always been associated with climate, weather and their destructive power. It is the contrast of two different worlds that interests Jana Pommer-Semper, the relationship between natural material and synthetic colours, as well as the depiction of multi-layered worked-through surfaces versus clarity.