During my work scholarship at the Salzwedel Artists and Scholarship House in 2019, I researched the liveliness of the river Dumme and Jeetze, which flow into each other and finally into the River Elbe. With the exhibition „Echo of the Water Meadows River Elbe“, in summer 2024 at Johann- Friedrich-Danneil-Museum in Salzwedel, impressions from different fragile riverbank areas of the Elbe have come back as an reverberation. Reflections of the situational liveliness of floodplain meadows, forests and rivers, are connected here in perceptions of different times. In subjective cartographies and geographies become connections between momentary and spatial perceptions visible. The extent of sounds, flood phases and flow peculiarities are reflected in photogram – wirereliefs, objects, sculptures and drawings. Works about the Garden Realm Dessau-Wörlitz, the Altmark, the Wendland and the parklands near to the banks of the River Elbe in Hamburg provide insights into larger contexts; they correspond with one another, creating complex fragments of echoes, original and possible meanders also appear.

The Wire-Cardboard Sculpture „Summer Evening, at Tiburtius Graben“
was created in connection with this exhibition and has been part of the collection of the Johann-Friedrich-Danneil-Museum in Salzwedel, Germany, since November 2024.
As an introduction to the collection, it was on display in the exhibition “Archives of Everyday Life and Disturbed Idyls” by Ulrich Kalmbach, November – Dezember 2024

Two ateries of water, the river Dumme and the river Jeetze, surround, flow through and revive Salzwedel. During my art residence at Künstler- und Stipendiatenhaus des Altmarkkreises Salzwedel in 2019, I investigated the two rivers in their changing liveliness at different sections from the sources to the mouth of the river Elbe within a quarter of a year. Inspired by historical maps, I also followed the original meandering river course of the now mostly straightened riverbeds.
Flow characteristics, velocities, surface structure, sounds, as well as movement patterns of living beings were captured on-site in cyanotypes, see Tylsen Dumme Park, further reflections in photogram- and wire reliefs followed. Works from 2019 – 2021

Artist in residence at Künstler-und Stipendiatenhaus des Altmarkkreises Salzwedel, presentation “art café”: guided walk with exhibition at the river Dumme at Tylsen, 2019. From this I developed the Tylsen Dumme Park.
Group exhibition Lauf(Run).Setup at the Johann-Friedrich-Danneil-Museum Salzwedel 2021, sponsored by the Kunststiftung des Landes Sachsen-Anhalt / Art Foundation of the State of Saxony-Anhalt
2 photograms of the Dumme spring bed, April and May, have been part of the Johann-Friedrich-Danneil-Museum’s collection since 2021

Information material and historic maps about the now mostly straightened River Dumme inspired me during my scholarship in Salzwedel 2019 to trace the former meander courses at Tylsen. I developed cyanotypes with drawings and reliefs. I exhibited them by a public walk along the River Dumme. The idea of the walk was inspired by the concept of the English Landscape Gardens of the 18th. century and thus referred to the old manorpark in Tylsen, an English Garden. Based on the concept of the walk I developed the Tylsen Dumme Park.
The fields of the magnifiers enable insights of meander- fragments. The Gate 9 stands for nine times increased perception and is dedicated to the Dumme fishes brook lamprey, with its 9 „eyes“ and ninespine stickleback. The stairs of the connection leads into the water of the River Dumme and represents the transition of the elements. A temple is dedicated to the common river mussel, which contributes to the cleansing of the River Dumme due to its fast water filtration. the Elysium of the rudd gives these fishes, expelled from the habitat of the River Dumme, a refuge in the small forest. On the meadow of the 7 meanders can be imagined former meander courses. The River Dumme, as the natural boundary of the park, is related both to the Haha Wall (sudden inhibition of moving along) and to the Styx, a river that separates the worlds and yet connects them. Standing on the shore, the view almost leads into infinity – and the Dumme is a river in the ocean of the world.
Tylsen Dumme Park is a free park and depends on the walkers to keep it alive.
The parking map is available on request.

photos: 2, 5, 7, 12, 13, 19, 22, 24, Jörg Hamann
18, 20, Inka Ludwig

Perceptions of liveliness of the push moraine Höhbeck and its surroundings in the glacial valley of river Elbe, Wendland, in the changing seasons, 2016 – 2018.
My observations were mainly oriented on the water course of the Thalmühlenbach, from its spring to its mouth in the river Elbe. Changing waterways, air streams, animal paths, plant movement patterns, sounds in the forest, moods, weather changes and the structure of the soil played a role in the sites visited several times.
The reflections, mainly seen from a bird’s eye view, create an overview of contrasts and connections. Works from 2017 – 2019

Exhibition at the Kunstkammer, Westwendischer Kunstverein Gartow, 2019