Dialogue: 50 years of the Berlin Sculpture Symposium & Sculpture Summer in Pirna

Come along on a day trip to the Sculpture Summer in Pirna and talk to the artists of the Berlin Sculpture Symposium!

Sculpture Network Dialogue - Sunday, 23 June 2024

To mark the anniversary of the Berlin Sculpture Symposium founded in 1974 under the patronage of the VBK (Association of Visual Artists) of the GDR, the StadtMuseum Pirna is showing works that were created during the numerous symposia in the Reinhardtsdorf quarry (Saxon Switzerland - Eastern Ore Mountains). We will join the artist talk with the sculptors Marguerite Blume-Cárdenas (Berlin) and Ursula Güttsches (Dresden) at the finissage of the exhibition SteinBruchZeit. 

Marguerite Blume-Cárdenas has been actively involved in the symposium since its inception and took over the organisation in 2010, succeeding its founder Karl Möpert. Ursula Güttsches, also a long-standing symposium participant, is the curator of the anniversary exhibition. Other artists, such as Sculpture Network member Robert Schmidt-Matt, will also be present.

Before we will have a guided tour at the Pirna Sculpture Summer  on the castle Sonnenstein, high above the town.  With figures, installations and interventions below the castle, in the bastions of the former fortifications, Pirna's culture prize winner Christiane Stoebe is showing sculptures from Germany and the Czech Republic under the title ‘Posture.Postrures’ sculptures from Germany and the Czech Republic. The exhibition invites visitors to adopt different attitudes: towards themselves, towards ‘you’ and towards the issues of our time.

Programme

08:15 Meeting point Berlin main station (centre platform 2. Departure 8:26 with IC 2173)

11:30 Meeting point Pirna railway station (arrival with S1 from Dresden at 11:21)  

Walk up to Sonnenstein Castle

12:00 Guided tour through the ‘Skulpturensommer - Haltung. Attitudes’

13:30 - 14:30 Lunch in a restaurant on the market square

15:00 Art talk ‘SteinBruchZeit’

18:15 Departure from Pirna via Dresden to Berlin (arrival 20:43)

Programme language German (Russian and English if required)

The number of participants is limited.
Maximum 20 participants. Members have priority.

Online registration required by 20 June!

Participation fee: 40 euros
Sculpture Network members: 30 euros
Please pay cash on site.

(Admission is included in the price, travel expenses and catering are not).

During the journeys and lunch we will have time for the Sculpture Network Showroom. Please bring your portfolio (analogue or digital) with you. 

Meeting points:

Berlin Central Station - 8:15 am - in the centre of the platform 2 (length)

Pirna station - 11:30 am - at the exit to the centre

Contact:

This event is organised by Anemone Vostell, cultural manager and Sculpture Network coordinator for Berlin and DE North-East. If you have any questions about the event or registration, please contact Anemone Vostell directly or info@sculpture-network.org

With the kind support of Kultur- und Tourismusgesellschaft Pirna mbH