start will now become the Midsummer Sculpture Festival – celebrate art, summer and life with us! For the 11th time sculpture network invites you to the International Festival of Contemporary Sculpture. Be part of our communitiy! Studios, sculpture parks, open-air exhibitions, museums, towns, curators, workshops, backyards, art foundries, galleries, museum gardens and anyone else who wants to share their enthusiasm for sculpture - you are all invited to participate in your very own way!

Paper is an object which, due to its everyday presence and through an often thoughtless usage, nearly thwarts its potential for exciting works of art. Sculpture network presents six artists who use paper to create interesting works in a variety of forms.

Tour LIEBES DING-OBJECT LOVE by guest curator Anne Berk in Museum Morsbroich in Leverkusen. The exhibition LOVE DING-OBJECT LOVE questions the intimate relationship between man and things. Why do we strive for things? How do we deal with things? What do they mean to us? And what are the consequences of our love for things? sculpture network coordinator and co-curator of LOVE DING-OBJECT LOVE, Anne Berk, gives an insight into the concept and guides through the exhibition.

Jaume Plensa is a well-known Spanish sculptor and installation artist who mainly shows head portraits in his solo exhibition for the exhibition rooms of the Jakobshallen.

Blackness, darkness, shadows. With Halloween just gone by, most people might think of haunted castles and melancholy feelings when hearing these words. But why so one-sided? Sculpture also has a dark aspect that artists like Anish Kapoor have been exploring for years. We have discussed with three sculpture network members what makes creating art that embraces the dark side so special. Dive into the darkness and experience it from a different perspective!

While the first snow is falling in Munich just in time for the Advent season, the United Nations 24th Climate Conference started in Katowice (Poland) on 3 December. In London, Olafur Eliasson, the advocate for climate change in the art world, causes a stir with his installation 'Ice Watch'. With a total of 30 blocks of ice, the artist creates a giant melting clock at two locations in the city, making climate change tangible for visitors. On view from 11 December [From our Archive].

A delightful little story and a piece of sky. Andri Koumidou who supported us as an intern in the office during the last few months, surprised us with her talent for writing. We combined her words with pictures by Alexander Lorenz and hope you enjoy reading her text as much as we did!

Ceramic is a highly plastic material that is versatile to use and easy to shape and design. Four artists will be presented who create great works of art with this underrated material.

A meaningful year is drawing to a close. The most influential modern art academy, the Bauhaus, celebrated its 100th birthday. Numerous exhibitions, events, lectures, performances, plays, guided tours, and workshops around the Bauhaus period revived the three Bauhaus sites Weimar, Dessau, and Berlin on the 100th anniversary year.