beyond… darüber hinaus

The time has come: on Sunday, 13.8.23, the international wind art festival "bewegter wind" 2023 will open at 11 am. Almost fifty works from 10 countries will be presented at the two exhibition venues in Wolfhagen.

Bluebells, huteboks and the wide, moving landscape 
Curator Reta Reinl has chosen two impressively different landscape situations. 
The calcareous meadow "Auf der Hardt" between Wolfhagen-Nothfelden and Altenhasungen is a flowering herb paradise with botanical specialities. The Helfenberg near Wolfhagen-Philippinenburg is visible from afar with its striking shape and has a very special atmosphere with its ancient hute beech trees.

What does hope have to do with beyond?
With this exhibition, the vast Northern Hesse landscape not only invites you to lose yourself in it, but also to explore perspectives while engaging with current contemporary art. 

This year, "bewegter wind" e.V. is opening the landscape gates on the theme "beyond.... beyond" and has an impressive variety of artistic aspects to offer. It is about borders, limitations and overcoming them.  What does hope have to do with "beyond"? Is it enough to change the perspective? There are many ways to find out in this landscape exhibition.

Making the invisible visible - art is communication

Wind, art, nature are the mix at "bewegter wind" that makes visitors enthuse. It is a magnetic pull that is difficult to explain and that triggers fascination in very different target groups. People start talking about art and the world when they are in motion with each other in the landscape from one work of art to the next. The invisible wind is the connecting factor. Its significance ranges from force of nature and energy carrier to a worldwide symbol for spirit and communication.

The association "bewegter wind" organised this event in cooperation with the district of Kassel and the town of Wolfhagen and received support from the Hessian Ministry of Science and Art, the Kasseler Sparkasse, the Stadtwerke Wolfhagen, the Bürgerenergiegenossenschaft Wolfhagen, the Bundesverband Windenergie, the PBG of the district of Kassel, the Culturwerkstatt Frankenberg, AGIL, the Autohaus Ostmann and the Dernbachstiftung. 

Only with the support of all these sponsors is it possible to realise the event, which is free of charge for visitors. Equally important is the support from the population. Committed citizens help the artists to set up, provide guest rooms and a kitchen team contributes to the success of the event just as much as the hosts, who provide the venues.

Catch me if you can

And then everything is ready for the artists' ideas on "beyond".  Almost 50 installations, objects, videos, performances can be seen and heard. The following examples arouse curiosity about many more aspects of "beyond... darüber hinaus".

 " Everything Must Go" by Anke Sauer deals with our endless consumer frenzy. A huge escalator points to the horizon, while the rattling of the escalator can be heard in the midst of fragrant herb meadows. 

In contrast to this are the Birdies by Ulrich Westerfrölke. Four-metre-high kinetic winged creatures are grouped together on the Hardt. He says: "The wind knows no national borders - the aim is to let a structure of identical elements "grow" across the globe, turning against the "us here and them there"." 

The Polish artist group with Piotr Wesolowski, Aleksander Bryk and Karola Konieczny explore the boundaries between technology and nature with their second contribution. In their installation "Catch me if you can" on the Helfenberg, they contrast the organic structure of a whirlwind with the strict construction of scaffolding and emphasise the synergies.

Huge calyxes by Vagaram Choudhary from India transform a respectable old hute beech into a being from the Orient. "Blooming" deals with the transformational powers of nature and the wind.

 "WIND-Voices" by Ralf Peters can be heard in the church of Nothfelden. He has recorded vocal interventions that serve as a stimulus to engage imaginatively with the phenomena and images of wind.

It is about "beyond" and the vastness behind it, which can perhaps convey hope and even confidence in these crisis-ridden times. There is much to discover.

Opening, guided tours, performances, videos, award ceremony

On Sunday, 13.8.2023 at 11 a.m., the organisers invite you to the opening on the Hardt in Wolfhagen- Nothfelden with music by Welf Kerner and free guided tours at both locations.

The video contributions can be found at the Dorfgemeinschaftshaus Philippinenburg from 11 am - 6 pm. The exhibition is open daily and always. 20.8.23 is reserved for the performances. Two guided tours for children are also part of the programme. On 27.8.23, the 11th wind art festival "bewegter wind" will end with the award ceremony at 5 pm at Helfenberg.

The exhibition venues and parking spaces are well signposted and marked with blue ribbons. Sturdy shoes are recommended.