13. September - 31. Oktober 2026
Vive la Résistance !
Hommage to Luise of Prussia
with artwork from
Julia Theek, Rainer Ehrt & Roland Wetzel
Vernissage
13. September 2026 at 4 p.m., Sunday
With music from the duo "No sugar added".
Homage to Louise of Prussia
250 years ago, the Prussian Queen Luise was born. She was already an icon in her lifetime: revered and loved for beauty and grace, but also for her virtue and unconventional approachability. She was not only admired by Napoleon for her courage to meet him personally in Tilsit in order to ask for milder peace conditions for Prussia.
One of Luise's favorite authors was Friedrich Schiller. His ideas of duty, virtue and his striving for freedom fell on fertile ground in her thoughts and feelings. After her death, she became a symbol of the wars of liberation and of the Prussian resurgence. In the fight against Napoleon for the freedom of Prussia in 1813, the Potsdam "Amazon" Eleonore Prochaska was also killed. The non-commissioned officer's daughter had joined the famous Lützow Freikops under the name August Renz.
To this day, Luise can serve as a projection screen for German longings, myths and ideals. Eleonore Prochaska and Luise find their mythological counterpart in the image of the Amazon, those female warriors who opposed the ancient war heroes.
In the pictures and sculptures of the exhibition, the viewer can experience that contemporary art can also charge the intellectual freedom from that ancient quarry of history and mythology again and again with the essence of the present and can charge the questions of freedom aspirations, idealism, resistance and beauty for our present in a multifaceted and sensual way.
With the airbrush and upcycling artist Julia Theek (born 1966), the graphic artist, sculptor and painter Rainer Ehrt (born 1960) and the sculptor Roland Wetzel (born 1953), we have invited three very different artists.