In the Cabinet: Kim Stolz

Artistic practice can sometimes be extraordinary precise because it dares to do the obvious. In Kim Stolz's paintings, circles dance, floral forms grow, and dabs run repetitively across the canvas. In watercolor, gouache, and acrylic, her works are always named after the time of completion. Kim Stolz's work thus initially simply reveals what her painting consists of in terms of medium and form. We see where she has turned, dabbed, and brushed. It remains a miracle of painting that – when it is a work like Kim Stolz's – vast imaginary spaces open up precisely in this honesty. Canvases suddenly shimmer like superimposed Plexiglas panes, others resemble microscopic blurs, and, last but not least, in some of them, we think we are gazing into distant clouds of color, the depth of which is close to a macroscopic view of the colored nebula clouds through the Hubble telescope. Clouds of color can also be a painting with smoke in the room—at least that's the promise of Judy Chicago's "Atmospheres," which we are currently showing on the middle floor of the Kunsthalle. Kim Stolz's canvases offer a surprisingly related perspective, especially in this context—and are a lasting impression.

Kim Stolz (*1995, Berlin) lives and works in Düsseldorf. She completed her studies as a master student in the class of Prof. Andreas Schulze at the Düsseldorf Art Academy in 2023 and was awarded the Anniversary Prize of the Friends of the Art Academy.

With the exhibition format "Im Kabinett," the Kunsthalle Recklinghausen has begun a new series in 2022, bringing young artists to Recklinghausen in the summer, shortly after graduating from art school.

We cordially invite you to the opening on Saturday, July 12, at 5 p.m.

Every sunday at noon a public guided tour is offered through our current exhibition. Jeden Sonntag um 12 Uhr findet eine öffentliche Führung durch die aktuelle Ausstellung statt.

The tour ist free of charge for visitiors, only the entry fee (5,- Euro / 2,50 Euro reduced) needs to be paid.

No registration necessary.

As part of the Ruhrfestspiele 2025, the Kunsthalle Recklinghausen is presenting a solo exhibition by the American artist Judy Chicago (*1939). As a pioneer of feminist art, she has been committed to equal rights since the 1960s. Her focus is not only on justice between women and men, but also on preserving our environment and protecting animals and nature.

During your visit, you will explore the exhibition step by step and follow Judy Chicago on her quest for a more just world: What if Women Ruled the World?, Which women are your role models?, or How can we work together for our environment, nature, and the climate? Driven by your own ideas and concepts, you will then work creatively on the various themes.

The project is led by Mareike Donath.

July 15-16, 2025, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Maximum 10 people
Free as part of the Kulturrucksack NRW program.
A lunch snack is included on both days.

An event as part of the Kulturrucksack NRW program in cooperation with the Institute for Cultural Work of the City of Recklinghausen.

Registration via the holiday calendar of the city of Recklinghausen: https://recklinghausen.feripro.de 

As part of the Kultur-Rucksack NRW project and in cooperation with the Institute for Cultural Work of the City of Recklinghausen.

We cordially invite you to the finissage of 

DANUTA KARSTEN
RAUM GESPÜR

on Tuesday, July 15, 2025, at 4 p.m. in the Municipal Gallery at Recklinghausen Town Hall.

Speakers:
Christoph Tesche, Mayor of the City of Recklinghausen
Kerstin Weber-Baumann, Research Associate at the Kunsthalle Recklinghausen

Discussion and presentation of the catalog for the spatial installation in St. George's Church in Wismar, 2024 with Dr. Danuta Karsten and Prof. Dr. Ferdinand Ullrich

Until July 15, the exhibition can be viewed free of charge on the first floor of the town hall.

Judy Chicago: Ecofeminist, radical educator, visionary

A conversation with Dr. Jana Johanna Haeckel on the historicity and relevance of artistic-feminist practice in times of ecological upheaval.

Dr. Jana Johanna Haeckel is a curator, researcher and lecturer, based in Brussels. Her written and curatorial work examines image and body politics in contemporary art, focusing on new ethics of photography in the age of the digital and art practices that subvert historical and colonial narratives through archival research.  She currently lectures at The Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Ghent (KASK), where she also supervises the research cluster Archival Sensations, and is associate senior researcher at the Lieven Gevaert Centre (KU Leuven/UC Louvain, Belgium). 

Admission free.

Photo: Monika Hanfland

Every sunday at noon a public guided tour is offered through our current exhibition. Jeden Sonntag um 12 Uhr findet eine öffentliche Führung durch die aktuelle Ausstellung statt.

The tour ist free of charge for visitiors, only the entry fee (5,- Euro / 2,50 Euro reduced) needs to be paid.

No registration necessary.

As part of the Ruhrfestspiele 2025, the Kunsthalle Recklinghausen is presenting a solo exhibition by the American artist Judy Chicago (*1939). As a pioneer of feminist art, she has been committed to equal rights since the 1960s. Her focus is not only on justice between women and men, but also on preserving our environment and protecting animals and nature.

During your visit, you will explore the exhibition step by step and follow Judy Chicago on her quest for a more just world: What if Women Ruled the World?, Which women are your role models?, or How can we work together for our environment, nature, and the climate? Driven by your own ideas and concepts, you will then work creatively on the various themes.

The project is led by Mareike Donath.

July 22, 2025, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Maximum 10 people
8,- Euro 

Registration via the holiday calendar of the city of Recklinghausen: https://recklinghausen.feripro.de

Every sunday at noon a public guided tour is offered through our current exhibition. Jeden Sonntag um 12 Uhr findet eine öffentliche Führung durch die aktuelle Ausstellung statt.

The tour ist free of charge for visitiors, only the entry fee (5,- Euro / 2,50 Euro reduced) needs to be paid.

No registration necessary.

Every sunday at noon a public guided tour is offered through our current exhibition. Jeden Sonntag um 12 Uhr findet eine öffentliche Führung durch die aktuelle Ausstellung statt.

The tour ist free of charge for visitiors, only the entry fee (5,- Euro / 2,50 Euro reduced) needs to be paid.

No registration necessary.

Every sunday at noon a public guided tour is offered through our current exhibition. Jeden Sonntag um 12 Uhr findet eine öffentliche Führung durch die aktuelle Ausstellung statt.

The tour ist free of charge for visitiors, only the entry fee (5,- Euro / 2,50 Euro reduced) needs to be paid.

No registration necessary.

Admission is free on the finissage weekend. 

Every sunday at noon a public guided tour is offered through our current exhibition. Jeden Sonntag um 12 Uhr findet eine öffentliche Führung durch die aktuelle Ausstellung statt.

The tour ist free of charge for visitiors, only the entry fee (5,- Euro / 2,50 Euro reduced) needs to be paid.

No registration necessary.