NETZWERKEN – Workshop Talks and Exhibition
Networks emerge where people, ideas, and individual perspectives come together, inspire each other, and develop new forms of collaboration and support. With this in mind, Studiospace and Frankfurter Kranz—a network of women working in the cultural sector in Frankfurt—are hosting a series of events entitled NETZWERKEN (NETWORKING) from November 14 to 16, 2025. Over three days, artists from Frankfurt, Dresden, and Düsseldorf will engage in dialogue:
Christina Kral (Frankfurt/M) & Geske Slater Johannsen (Frankfurt/M)
November 14, 2025, 6:00–8:30 p.m
Susan Donath (Dresden) & Eva Weingärtner (Frankfurt/M)
November 15, 2025, 4:00–6:30 p.m.
Thyra Schmidt (Düsseldorf) & Vroni Schwegler (Frankfurt/M)
November 16, 2025, 2:00–4:30 p.m.
Exhibition: NETZWERKEN
November 15, 2025, 6:30–10:00 p.m.
The workshop talks tie in with the earlier dialogue-based exhibition series „“ (2016–2023) and the participatory format MACHEN. This time, the focus is on the artists themselves—in conversation with each other and in practical and theoretical hands-on exchanges with guests. They make their artistic methods tangible and negotiate questions of participation, creative involvement, and the importance of networks. The workshop talks form the framework for the exhibition.
Registration is required to participate in the workshop talks.
There are 8 places available. Participation is free of charge.
About the artists
Susan Donath lives and works in Dresden. She studied at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts under Eberhard Bosslet. Her work deals with sepulchral culture—the culture of death and dying—which is reflected in installations, sculptures, and site-specific projects. From 2008 to 2024, she maintained a German-Czech burial site at the Střekov Cemetery in Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic, as a permanent work of art.
Christina Kral lives and works in Frankfurt am Main. She studied communication design at the Merz Academy in Stuttgart and earned an MFA in European Media from the University of Portsmouth, England. Her work has been recognized with international residencies, including at Eyebeam in New York and Gasworks in London, as well as a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant. In her practice, she combines painting, installation, and assemblage. Her starting point is an open, process-oriented approach to material, in which decisions are continuously renegotiated. Kral understands painting as a dialogue with the emerging—as a form of orientation in the uncertain. In doing so, she follows the principle of “digging where you stand”: working with what is there and moving forward from there.
Thyra Schmidt lives and works in Düsseldorf. She studied at the HBK Braunschweig and the Düsseldorf Art Academy. Her work has been supported by scholarships and international working stays. Based on texts she has written herself, the artist explores the use of language as an element that creates images and space. In a constant change of perspective, she describes various interpersonal states in order to reflect social experiences. Depending on the project, she uses various audiovisual media and printing techniques and develops installations for indoor and outdoor spaces.
Vroni Schwegler lives and works in Frankfurt am Main. She studied in Hermann Nitsch's class at the Städelschule, University of Fine Arts, Frankfurt am Main, from 1992 to 1995. She devotes her artistic practice almost exclusively to still life, a genre whose traditional lines she traces through painting, drawing, and etching, and whose boundaries she seeks to expand as carefully as she does persistently.
Geske Slater-Johannsen lives and works in Frankfurt am Main. Geske Slater Johannsen studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen and at the Städelschule, University of Fine Arts, Frankfurt am Main. In her drawings and paintings, the artist moves across the picture plane using the fundamental elements of color, line, and surface. It is a search for image construction that emerges from the working process, “I believe I'm building pictures,” where one image gives rise to the next. For the painter, the expression of the implementation is crucially important for the quality of the sound experiences in the image.
“When making a choice, it is not so much a matter of choosing the right thing, but rather of the energy, sincerity, and pathos with which one chooses.”
Søren Kierkegaard
Eva Weingärtner lives and works in Frankfurt am Main. Weingärtner's focus is on performance. She primarily uses video, but also photography and text as forms of media expression. For her, performance is an attitude, a certain concentration in the action, and an awareness of presence. From her initial chamber-play-like performances to video performances in which only her face is visible, and more recent works that focus on the body as material in video but also live, Eva Weingärtner always starts from herself: from the intimate relationship with her own self, but also from the environment that influences this relationship. This deep insight opens up a possibility for identification for the viewer. Eva Weingärtner was co-operator of Atelier Orbit24 in Frankfurt, a venue for visual arts and performance, from 2018 to 2023.
Kindle supported by Kulturamt Frankfurt.
