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Since 1984 we provide with passion artistic positions which distinguish themselves by her timeless and unique use of forms and with it determining impulses within the contemporary art give. To the 30-year-old jubilee the Bode Galerie we are present since 2014 beside our gallery in Nuremberg with own gallery in Daegu and thereby offer to our artists also a suitable platform for the lasting mediation of the artistic concepts in the east Asian's broad space.

20/08/2026

Sometimes, a glance at the sea is all it takes to transport us somewhere else for a moment.
With our newsletter series “A Summer in Pictures,” we accompany you through August, presenting two selected works from the gallery in each edition. Art that can travel with you through the summer weeks and perhaps evoke memories of places you have just visited or would like to be.

After the first part of the series took us through summer in different ways, this time we are drawn to the sea. Benjamin Katz and Cony Theis turn their attention to the same subject, yet approach it through two entirely different visual languages: one pared back and almost still, the other light and playful.
Sea, sky, a ship. Benjamin Katz needs little more for his photograph Ostende.
The composition is reduced to just a few elements, and it is precisely this restraint that gives the image its remarkable aesthetic clarity. Beneath a cloudy sky, the restless sea is in motion, with sea spray tracing bright lines across the surface of the water. Amid this vast expanse, a solitary ship appears - small, yet positioned within the composition with such precision that the eye is inevitably drawn towards it.
Katz does not turn the sea into a classic postcard image. Instead of brilliant blue skies and an idyllic summer scene, we encounter a cooler, more subdued side of summer by the water. One can almost feel the wind and hear the sound of the waves.
Perhaps this is precisely where the photograph’s particular appeal lies: it recalls those days by the sea when the weather shifts, the horizon begins to blur, and yet or perhaps for that very reason - we find ourselves gazing out at the water for a long time.

Cony Theis approaches the sea in a very different way. Her watercolour Am Meer (By the Sea) feels light, immediate, and almost playful.
On transparent paper, the colour unfolds with a particular delicacy. The motif seems less captured than suggested: forms emerge, dissolve again, and deliberately leave room for the paper and its transparency. The lightness of the material thus becomes part of the image itself.

Where Benjamin Katz observes the sea with photographic precision, containing its vastness w

12/08/2026

Not every summer begins with a journey. Sometimes, it begins with a work of art.
With our series “A Summer in Pictures,” we invite you to join us throughout August as we present a selection of works from the gallery in each edition. In this way, art can accompany you through the summer weeks – whether you are spending your holiday by the sea, in the mountains, or at home.

We begin with two works that evoke colour, movement, and the expansiveness of summer in very different ways: Alain Clément’s work on paper „21 A 3A“ and Ida Kerkovius’ „Holiday by the Sea“.
For Clément, the line is far more than a mere contour. It has a physical presence of its own: it expands, condenses, and enters into a dynamic relationship with the surface. His works on paper reveal the immediacy of his artistic thinking with particular clarity: every mark carries weight, every gesture leaves its trace. The process of creation remains palpable in the finished work.

In „21 A 3A“, colour and movement unfold with a remarkable sense of lightness. Clément, who was born in the south of France and continues to live and work there today, is deeply influenced by surroundings in which light and colour possess a particular intensity. Something of this can also be felt in this work on paper: bold areas of colour, freely drawn lines, and a sense of movement that unfolds across the sheet.
The work thus carries within it a distinctly summery energy without depicting summer itself. Rather, it is the interplay of light, colour, and movement that recalls those carefree moments when the gaze is free to wander and, for an instant, time seems to slow down.

The title of the second work already transports us to another place: „Holiday by the Sea“.

Ida Kerkovius is regarded as one of the most important female artists of Classical Modernism. In 1920, she joined the Bauhaus in Weimar, making her one of the women who shaped its early years. Prior to this, she had studied under Adolf Hölzel in Stuttgart, whose intensive exploration of colour had a lasting influence on her own artistic practice.
In „Holiday by the Sea“, the memory of landscape becomes the starting point for colour and painterly concentration. The

08/08/2026

FINISSAGE TODAY!

To mark the closing of the exhibition „Willi Siber – Reflecting Light,“ we warmly invite you to the finissage on today at 7:00 p.m. at the Kunstsalon of Bode Galerie, Gutleutstraße 16, Frankfurt am Main.
Join us as we bring the exhibition to a close over a glass of fine w**e and finger food, and enjoy an evening of inspiring conversations and one final opportunity to experience the works of Willi Siber.

Willi Siber’s works resist clear categorization. They exist between painting, sculpture, and object art, arising from a sustained interest in material, surface, and perception. At the core of his practice lies the question of how form, colour, light, and space interact, and how these relationships continually shift through the movement of the viewer. His works often begin with the close observation of natural phenomena—reflections on water, organic structures, or the changing qualities of light within a space. Rather than illustrating these impressions, Siber transforms them into autonomous works in which materiality and visual impact take centre stage.
Through experimental processes, materials such as wood, steel, resin, and lacquer lose their conventional function and develop an almost autonomous presence. Reflective epoxy resins, chrome-lacquered elements, and relief-like surfaces respond to architecture, light, and movement, causing colours, reflections, and spatial effects to change with every shift in viewpoint. Light is not merely a means of making the works visible; it becomes an active component of the artworks themselves.

We look forward to welcoming you!

30/07/2026

What do we actually see when we look at an image?

In the Solo Exhibition „Voyager“, Emmi Heckel explores the conditions of perception and reconsiders the relationship between humans, technology, and the image. Working across photography, installation, and sculpture, she treats technical media not as neutral tools, but as active agents that shape the way we experience time, movement, and reality.

Her artistic practice is rooted in the experimental use of both analogue and digital imaging processes. Photographs, videos, and smartphone recordings are translated into new contexts, while technical devices are deliberately repurposed to reveal their own material qualities. Rather than striving for perfect representation, Heckel embraces the shifts, artefacts, and transformations that emerge during the process of image-making - understanding them not as flaws, but as moments where time, movement, and materiality become visible.

📍 Emmi Heckel – Voyager
Bode Galerie Nürnberg
Lorenzer Straße 2, Nuremberg
The exhibition is currently on view.

14/07/2026

We are delighted to warmly invite you to the opening of the solo exhibition „Voyager“ by Emmi Heckel.

As part of this year’s Rotary Club Nuremberg-Fürth Future Scholarship, Bode Galerie is proud to present Emmi Heckel, an outstanding emerging artist from the Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg. Through photography, film, and installation, her work explores the conditions of perception and reality, as well as the fragile relationship between technological progress, nature, and the human experience.

With remarkable sensitivity, Heckel creates poetic visual worlds in which documentary observation and staged fiction merge seamlessly. Her works offer new perspectives on the present and establish her as one of the most compelling emerging voices in the regional contemporary art scene.
The exhibition offers a unique opportunity to discover and accompany a promising artistic position at the very beginning of its career.

Opening Reception
Thursday, July 16, 2026
6:30 pm Doors open
7:00 pm Welcome
7:15 pm Introduction by Prof. Dr. Eva Wattolik, Professor of Art History at the Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg and Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg.

Kindly let us know if you will be attending by email at [email protected] or by phone at +49 (0)911 5109200.

We look forward to welcoming you and your guests to the opening.

Artwork: Emmi Heckel, Juninacht, 2026

01/07/2026

We are delighted to invite you to an artist talk with Wolfgang G. Bühler and Klaus D. Bode on Saturday, 4 July, at 11:30 a.m. at the Bode Galerie in Nuremberg.

On the occasion of the presentation of newly arrived works on paper, Wolfgang G. Bühler will offer insights into his artistic practice, his engagement with the Alpine landscape, and the creative process behind his works. In conversation with Klaus D. Bode, the discussion will focus on the unique qualities of these works on paper, while also exploring themes of perception, memory, and the emotional resonance of landscape.
In Bühler’s works, immediate sensation, memories of place, and a sensitive perception of the Alpine world coalesce into a distinctive visual language. Fields of colour flow, intensify, and dissolve again - echoing the shifting atmospheres of the mountains themselves. Oscillating between representation and abstraction, the works open spaces for personal reflection, memory, and emotional experience.
For Wolfgang G. Bühler, mountains are not monumental backdrops but living, breathing spaces - at once powerful and vulnerable. Beneath the motif of the mountain lies a profoundly human experience: an exploration of silence, transience, movement, and inner strength. It is on paper, in particular, that this sense of immediacy unfolds with remarkable intensity.
Following the conversation, we warmly invite you to explore the exhibition over a glass of Prosecco together with the artist and the gallerist.
We look forward to welcoming you.

Bode Galerie Nuremberg
Lorenzer Straße 2
Saturday, 4 July 2026 | 11:30 a.m.

16/06/2026

We are delighted to introduce a new position in our program with the work of Willi Siber.

Willi Siber’s works resist clear categorization. Situated between painting, sculpture, and object art, they open up a fascinating dialogue between form, color, light, and space. At the heart of his artistic practice lies the question of how perception is created and how it continuously changes through the movement of the viewer.
The starting point for his works is often the close observation of natural phenomena—reflections on water surfaces, organic structures, or the changing qualities of light within a space. Rather than translating these impressions in an illustrative manner, Siber uses them as a catalyst for an independent exploration of materiality and visual effect. His works emerge through lengthy experimental processes in which materials such as wood, steel, resin, and lacquer lose their conventional functions and develop an almost autonomous presence.
Particularly characteristic is his treatment of surfaces. Reflective epoxy resins, chrome-coated elements, and relief-like structures create works that transform with every shift in perspective. Light becomes not merely a means of visibility but an active component of the artwork itself. Colors begin to glow, shift, or seemingly dissolve; volumes appear at once solid and immaterial.
The result is a body of work with extraordinary visual presence—works that do not confirm perception, but continually challenge and redefine it.

03/06/2026

We are delighted to draw your attention to an exceptional international exhibition project by the German painter Harry Meyer.

In the summer of 2026, the ZAHA Museum of Art in Seoul will present a major institutional solo exhibition dedicated to the artist. This collaboration with the renowned museum marks a significant step in the international recognition of Harry Meyer’s work.

At the heart of the exhibition is the series GipfelWelten (Summit Worlds), a body of work that Harry Meyer developed over a period of more than five years and which will now be presented to the public for the first time. These paintings approach landscape not merely as a representation of nature, but as an emotional and intellectual space of experience. Characteristic of Meyer’s practice is a dense, impasto application of paint with extraordinary physical presence, in which atmosphere, memory, and painterly gesture converge to create powerful and immersive pictorial worlds.

For this series, the ZAHA Museum of Art provides a particularly resonant setting. Nestled within the landscape of the Inwangsan Mountains, the museum establishes an immediate connection to the exhibition’s central themes. Within Korean culture, where mountain landscapes have held profound spiritual and aesthetic significance for centuries, Meyer’s works unfold an additional layer of cultural and conceptual depth.

Accompanying the exhibition is a comprehensive catalogue featuring contributions by Nils Ohlsen, Director of the Lillehammer Art Museum (Norway), and the Korean art critic Park Young-Taek, both of whom offer distinct perspectives on Meyer’s oeuvre and the significance of this exhibition project.

29/05/2026

After almost two years, we are saying goodbye to our gallery pop-up space in Frankfurt’s banking district. Due to a new urban development project, the location at Kaiserstraße 30 will be closing its doors.

As an extension of our art salon, we were able to realize twin exhibitions there over the past years — a concept that allowed visitors to experience the same exhibition within two distinct gallery spaces and atmospheres.

Before we say farewell, we warmly invite you to one final visit:
Saturday, May 30, 2026, from 12 pm
Kaiserstraße 30, 60311 Frankfurt

Enjoy our current exhibition “Corps de la ligne” featuring works by Alain Clément, accompanied by cold drinks and good company.

We look forward to reflecting together with you on two very special years.
The pop-up location will officially close on June 26, 2026. Of course, we will continue to welcome you at our art salon in Frankfurt and look forward to seeing you there in the future as well.

26/05/2026

We are delighted to present newly arrived works on paper by Wolfgang G. Bühler in the current SHORTCUT exhibition in Nuremberg.
In these works, immediate sensation, landscape memory, and the sensitive perception of the alpine world condense into a distinctive visual language. The works on paper appear almost fragile, while at the same time possessing an immense inner strength. Fields of color flow, intensify, and dissolve again — like atmospheric conditions in the mountains themselves. Nothing seems definitively fixed; rather, moods, memories, and sensations emerge that move between figuration and dissolution.

This is precisely where the special quality of his works on paper lies: they do not merely depict landscape, but convey the inner experience of nature. The mountains do not appear as monumental backdrops, but as sensitive, breathing spaces filled equally with energy and vulnerability.
Behind the motif of the mountain, Wolfgang G. Bühler always reveals a deeply human sensibility — an engagement with finitude, silence, energy, and inner movement. It is especially on paper that this emotional directness unfolds in a remarkable way. The works retain something open and immediate. They appear like captured moments of inner perception and at the same time full of alpine power.

We look forward to welcoming you!

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