BAD HOMBURG .- From 18 May to 5 October 2025, Blickachsen 14 will bring together a wide variety of positions in contemporary art, including works created especially for the exhibition and site-specific projects. The artistic programme for the exhibition was put together by Blickachsen founder Christian K. Scheffel together with Carina Plath, curator of painting and sculpture at the Sprengel Museum Hannover, the partner museum of Blickachsen 14.
The list of participants in the fourteenth Blickachsen includes almost equal numbers of male and female representatives of three-dimensional art and opens up a varied and exciting spectrum of international sculpture and installation art:
Paweł Althamer (Poland) *1967 in Warsaw, Joscha Bender (Germany) *1991 in Darmstadt, Alexandra Bircken (Germany) *1967 in Cologne, Julius von Bismarck (Germany) *1983 in Breisach am Rhein, Monica Bonvicini (Italy) *1965 in Venice, Martin Boyce (UK) *1967 in Hamilton, Scotland, Richard Deacon (UK) *1949 in Bangor, Wales, Simone Fattal (Lebanon / USA) *1942 in Damascus, Syria, Kasia Fudakowski (UK) *1985 in London, Asta Gröting (Germany) *1961 in Herford, Georg Herold (Germany) *1947 in Jena, Olaf Holzapfel (Germany) *1967 in Dresden, Judith Hopf (Germany) *1969 in Karlsruhe, Franka Hörnschemeyer (Germany) *1958 in Osnabrück, David Horvitz (USA) *in California, Elizabeth Jaeger (USA) *1988 in San Francisco, California, Hans Josephsohn (Switzerland) *1920 in Königsberg (now Kaliningrad), †2012 in Zurich, Gary Kuehn (USA) *1939 in Plainfield, New Jersey, Maria Loboda (Poland) *1979 in Krakow, Christiane Möbus (Germany) *1947 in Celle, Thea Moeller (Germany) *1985 in Hanover, Manfred Pernice (Germany) *1963 in Hildesheim, Thomas Schütte (Germany) *1954 in Oldenburg, Grace Schwindt (Germany) *1979 in Offenbach am Main, Manolo Valdés (Spain) *1942 in Valencia, Georg-Friedrich Wolf (Germany) *1962 in Freiburg im Breisgau.
A total of 35 works by these 26 artists will be carefully positioned in the historic park landscapes so as to communicate with each other and their surroundings, and be experienced in different ways from May to October as the light and vegetation conditions change. In this way Blickachsen 14 also focuses on the interplay between art, nature and the public space – and invites visitors throughout the summer to go on inspiring walks, enjoying the artworks in three historic parks in Bad Homburg: the Kurpark, the Palace Park and, for the first time at Blickachsen, the Gustavsgarten.
Covering an area of over 40 hectares, the Bad Homburg Kurpark, designed by Peter Joseph Lenné in the mid-19th century, is one of the largest and most beautiful spa gardens in Germany – and at the same time the only park in which Lenné's design ideas are still visible. The historic park in the style of a natural English landscape garden is also a vibrant place of social life.
Bad Homburg's Palace Park, which has been designed over centuries, is also considered an outstanding work of garden art. Its pleasure, landscape and kitchen gardens from different eras merge – together with the large castle pond – to form an exemplary and topographically varied whole.
This year, for the first time, the Gustavsgarten will be included in Blickachsen as an exhibition location. Three sculptures by Richard Deacon, who will also be represented in the Kurpark, can be seen here on the green space next to the Villa Wertheimber. The idyllic Gustavsgarten is part of the unique arrangement of Bad Homburg’s Landgraviate Garden Landscape, which extended from the Palace Park along the Tannenwaldallee to the Elisabethenschneise landscape park and which, with the exception of the gardens adjacent to the palace park, is still preserved today.
