EVERYTHING STAYS at WRG SENSOR: Verena Schöttmer's Art about Staying and Movement
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EVERYTHING STAYS: Verena Schöttmer opens an exhibition about Staying and Movement
On Saturday, October 17, 2026, the solo exhibition EVERYTHING STAYS by Verena Schöttmer opens at WRG SENSOR in Braunschweig. The exhibition examines the tension between permanence and change, between familiar things and their hidden capacity for movement. The opening takes place from 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM.
Textile Art between Protection, Memory, and Transformation
Verena Schöttmer combines traditional appearances of crafts with contemporary codes from pop culture, fashion, society, and interpersonal relationships. Textile materials do not appear merely as surfaces but as carriers of cultural memories. Carpets, fabrics, wall hangings, and related forms refer to protection, home, and belonging – while opening the view to loss, transition, and new beginnings.
When the Familiar Becomes Mobile
The exhibition title EVERYTHING STAYS does not describe a static state. In Schöttmer's artistic visual language, staying and leaving continuously shift into one another. The carpet, traditionally associated with ground, support, and anchoring, can become a flying vehicle in fairy tales. The shoe also carries this double meaning: it enables movement while simultaneously referring to identity, social status, desire, and transformation.
Painting, Sculpture, and Installation as Cultural Border Crossings
Schöttmer's artistic practice moves between painting, sculpture, collage, and installation. Her works take up textile techniques and materials, yet release them from their familiar function. In earlier series, the artist worked with jeans, velvet, silk, faux fur, bleach, ceramics, and steel. From these materials, image spaces, assemblages, and objects emerge, where fashion, craft, pop culture, and art-historical memory come together.
An Aesthetic Experience with Many Levels of Meaning
The exhibition atmosphere thrives on contrasts: soft fabrics meet hard frames, decorative surfaces encounter traces of use and change, familiar forms tip into enigmatic signs. The contemplation of the works leads from sensory perception to questions of belonging, role models, and personal memory. Schöttmer's art creates an open situation where the unknown appears not as an opposition but as an expansion of the scope of action.
Verena Schöttmer: An Outstanding Position in Contemporary Art
Verena Schöttmer studied Fine Arts at the University of Fine Arts Hamburg and lives and works in Hamburg. Her works have been shown, among others, at the Kunstverein Hamburg, Kunsthaus Hamburg, in Vienna, Berlin, Los Angeles, and Mallorca. Her awards include the Georg-Meistermann Scholarship, a working grant from the City of Hamburg, a grant from the Kunstfonds Foundation, and the Dorothea-Erxleben Scholarship. The University of Fine Arts Braunschweig recognized her wide-ranging painting practice and her connection of traditional crafts, pop culture, fashion, and art.
Conclusion: An Art Experience about What Remains
The opening of EVERYTHING STAYS promises a concentrated encounter with contemporary art that transforms textile materials into poetic and socially charged image spaces. Art enthusiasts will experience an exhibition about stability and departure, memory and identity, familiarity and transformation. Those who wish to experience the aesthetic experience of these works directly should not miss the opening at WRG SENSOR in Braunschweig.
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