2025 · Castle Wiligrad

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Trailer 1 · Exhibition at Wiligrad Castle
John and Jürgens · At eye level · Photography and Painting

Music © Thomas Hanke and Plaintive Cry

INVITATION · Exhibition opening · Saturday, May 10, 2025, 5 p.m.

Wiligrad Castle

John and Jürgens · At eye level
Photography and Painting

May 10 - July 6, 2025

Open Tue–Fri 10am–5pm · Sat–Sun and public holidays 11am–5pm


Music for the opening

Tobias Deutsch · Piano and Thomas Hanke · Harmonica

Own compositions for harmonica and piano


Welcome: Prof. Hanka Polkehn

Opening: Interview of the portrayed girls Ella and Lina with the photographer and the painter.

Photography and painting - a contrast? Both genres complement each other for Katharina John and Manfred W. Jürgens. Our aesthetic sense has been influenced by painting for centuries, while photography has challenged and inspired painting since its invention in the first half of the 19th century.

John and Juergens - with references to great role models and a look at the new, working analogously in black and white with the camera and colored on the picture board. The focus is on the portrait - direct, demanding and disturbing. Photography and painting - mirror images of our being.



Kunstverein Schloss Wiligrad Ausstellungen

More about the exhibition


Kunstverein Schloss Wiligrad Ausstellungen

Wiligrad Castle Art Association


Wismar Galerien, Museen

Painting by MWJ


Photographs by Katharina John