It was a wonderfully well-rounded affair together with Pia Wessels.

Pia has enhanced the fashion pieces and accessories with plant parts to create wearable art. In the exhibition space, the dress dolls conveyed what my works on the walls showed: the bizarre and the beautiful belong together! Carrying out the preparations and the entire event in pairs was an absolutely successful experiment. We laughed a lot together. Not just the two of us, but also the many good-humored guests, some of whom were invited and some of whom came spontaneously. The atmosphere is perfectly captured in this clip, which you can find under the link on YouTube. (Excerpts courtesy of timmedia, photos by Manfred Hohlweg)

…and here you can find more about the great composer and singer Rainer Killius. In keeping with the exhibition, he recited verses from the 18th century to an enthusiastic audience. The verses are a “sound music” of the nightingale, as a syllable sound, after Johann Matthäus Bechstein, from: “Musik der Natur”, Heinz Tiessen, 1978, Agora Verlag

The exhibition space was ideally suited for our very different works