Truth and Perception
Perceptions of reality are often dependent on social and geographical positioning. Even scientific facts shift over time, certainties become fluid, sometimes even turn into the opposite. Nevertheless, we make decisions based on a reality. If this process becomes conscious, the narrowness of the individual reality widens, empathy for the other emerges. I felt this particularly clearly when different projects took me to other countries.
Many things that seem to be given to us are not perceived as such elsewhere. This does not make our own experience easier, but more interesting. Through my pictures I would like to enter into a dialogue with the viewers. If something touches me, I process it painterly. The more complex the situation, the more abstract the motif becomes in the end. This step into abstraction is sometimes necessary to leave the idea of a linear reality.
Siegfried Bank Bremen 2021
Siegfried Bank, born in 1952, grew up near Hildesheim. In addition to his main studies and subsequent university work, he studied art in Göttingen, Braunschweig, Newcastle (Great Britain) and Nantes (France). He has lived and worked in Bremen for over30 years.
There he attended further artistic training courses at the Hochschule Bremen and the Hochschule für Künste and at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin. Project work regularly takes him to Asia, Africa and Latin America. The landscapes and people he encounters influence his work as much as his political and spiritual views.
Exhibitions
Bremen
Freight forwarding company at the freight station
Beim Handelsmuseum 8
28195 Bremen
September 6 + 7, 2025
Sat 5–9 p.m. and Sun 2–6 p.m.
NEW BBK members exhibit
“Parallel to the open studios gb open at the freight station in Bremen – an area for art and culture with a large and diverse program – ten artists who have joined the Professional Association of Visual Artists in Bremen (BBK) relatively recently in the last one or two years will also be exhibiting some of their works on both days. The format of this small, self-organized show was only developed last year. In 2024, the BBK members exhibited opposite in the FAQ. This year’s exhibition will focus on painting and drawing, but also include installations. The artists will be present in the exhibition rooms on both days.” – UPART79
03. April bis 27. April in Bremen:
Museum & Galerie “Gerhad-Marcks-Haus”
Am Wall 208
28195 Bremen
Telefon +49 421 98 97 52 0
info@marcks.de
www.marcks.de
Hanoi, Vietnam: MAP 2024 Poster Series | An art project on mobility in the streets of Hanoi, Vietnam
Note: The project website loads very slowly, but it’s worth the wait for this special “mobile” exhibition.
Strong Elements_The Rain Barely Hits the Ground
Mixed media on canvas I 2024 I 120x100cm
Siegfried Bank, www.siegfriedbank.art
Bremen: “Money, Money, Money” at Creative Hub Bremen,
Group exhibition Opening: February 23, 2024, 6 p.m. – May 30, 2024
Berlin: Solo exhibition at Galerie Gustav v. Hirschheydt, Wielandst. 31, 10629 Berlin, May 31, 2024 to July 3, 2024
Berlin
Jan 27 – Feb 25, 2023
Galerie F37
Fasanenstr. 37 • 10719 Berlin
Change of Perspective – F37 Berlin
The exhibition features selected works by Berlin artists Siegfried Bank, Jasmin Harell, and Frank Markowski.
Opening reception: Friday, January 27, 2023, 6 p.m.
Opening hours: Thursday and Friday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., Saturday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., and by appointment until February 25, 2023.
Kassel
12.Mai. – 18.Jun. 2023
Gallery – Schönfelder Str. 41B • 34121 Kassel
2021 Kunsthaus Findorff, Bremen
Bremen’s Animal Life
Exhibition from 08.10.2021 to 25.11.2021 at Kunst:Haus:Findorff, Plantage 3, Bremen
Siegfried Bank, Konrad Siess, Tina Tilgner, Thomas Stierle, Meendert Buurman and Manfred Schlösser show drawing, painting, photography and sculpture.
You are cordially invited to the Opening on 8 October 2021 at 7.30 pm.
Further events:
14.10.2021, 19.30: Lecture “Animals and people in the picture”.
As part of the exhibition “Bremen’s Animal Life”, Siegfried Bank and Heike Seyffarth use their own and other people’s works of art to shed light on how and why the relationship between humans and animals changed over time.
Further upcoming Exhibition
2021 (Nov. 4-14) Galerie Kunstraum Kaynak, Berlin, solo exhibition
Of inner and other far journeys – extended
Thu, 04 Nov.21 Vernissage 18.00 – 21.00, Fri, Sat, Sun 16 – 19.00
Fri 12 Nov and Sat 16.00 – 19.00, Sunday Finissage 15.00 – 19.00
Articles (German only):
Weser Kurier 13.01.2020 – PDF or www.weser-kurier.de – online
Aus dem Herzen auf die Leinwand – Achimer Nachrichten -15.01.2021