Sibylle Springer Distant Mirrors   30.08.2025 – 25.01.2026

Springer's current works revolve around forgotten female artists, such as the painters Barbara and Margaretha Dietzsch, who are largely unknown to day. The sisters lived in Nuremberg in the 18th century and created detailed plant still lifes. Sibylle Springer picks out their depictions of thistles, which she transfers and reinterprets in her painting in a highly aesthetic and at the same time alienated form. Her pictures tempt us to transfer the appearance of the prickly thistles to the image of the woman, to whom both beautiful and defensive qualities are generally attributed.

Contemporary female artists also characterise Springer's art: in the series Feed and Wait for it, for example, she deals with selfstaging, identity and social role ascriptions. She finds her inspiration primarily in the inexhaustible cosmos of social media. 

A new aspect of her work can be seen in her textile works, with which Springer transfers her themes into an everyday context.

An exhibition of the Supporters’ Circle for Contemporary Art at the Kunstverein Bremen.

A German-English catalogue with texts by Julia Voss, Annekathrin Kohout and Jessica Fritz has been published to accompany the exhibition. It is available in the museum shop for € 24.90 (€ 35 in bookshops | ISBN 978-3-96912-264-8). 

(Fig. exhibition overview: Sibylle Springer, Madonna, 2025 (Detail), acrylic, watercolor, tempera and ink on canvas | Fig. top of page: Sibylle Springer, Hot Head, 2024 (Detail), acrylic and ink on canvas | both: © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025, photo: Frank Scheffka)