The graphic arts are ideal for telling stories. The exhibition shows freely fabulating image sequences created with an etching needle or lithographic crayon, with woodblock or screen printing or even photographically. It is about narratives with loose ends, dreams and visions and about stories that send our wandering imagination on a journey.
The selected cycles from the collection of the Kunsthalle Bremen were published by the Hamburger Griffelkunst-Vereinigung e.V.. The unique graphic art association celebrates its 100th anniversary in 2025. As it was Max Klinger who invented and theorized the term Griffelkunst, his most famous graphic cycle Ein Handschuh, Opus VI provided the decisive impetus for the selection of works - by Franz Burkhardt, Peter Doig, Marcel van Eeden, Asana Fujikawa, Wenzel Hablik, Anna Haifisch, Max Klinger, Yves Netzhammer, Paul Nougé, Nedko Solakov, Emma Talbot and Heinrich Vogeler, among others.