At the Blue Thread in abraxas: Thread Art Between Jewelry, Sculpture, and Space

Event: Art Stories: Strangers in the Night - At the Blue Thread in Ballettsaal, Kulturhaus abraxas, Sommestraße 30, 86156 Augsburg on 6. November 2026

Date and Time

6. November 2026 14:00

Location

Augsburg
86 Augsburg, Germany

Price

Free

About this Event

Exhibitions & Museums

Mood

Relaxed

Venue Type

Inside

Threads, Spaces, and Nocturnal Visions at the Culture House abraxas

The exhibition Strangers in the Night – At the Blue Thread transforms the ballet hall of the Culture House abraxas into a poetic experience space. Renate Knauer and Mathias Wolf present jewelry objects and thread objects that detach textile materials from their everyday function and transfer them into an independent aesthetic language.

Space Becomes Sculpture

At the center of the exhibition are space-filling and space-shaping installations made of threads and thread strands. Mathias Wolf develops three-dimensional spaces, depth effects, and spherical visions from precisely set lines. The delicate materials sketch reliefs in the air and make architecture appear as a mutable structure of tension, rhythm, and space.

From the Blue Net to Focused Artwork Examination

The exhibition connects to Wolf's earlier space installations. Among other things, a blue net installation from 2008 that spanned the peace table in Augsburg's town square during PAX is remembered. At abraxas, visitors encounter this artistic idea on a smaller scale and with a special closeness to artwork examination.

Jewelry Objects and Thread Objects

Renate Knauer's jewelry objects and Mathias Wolf's thread objects open different approaches to material, body, and space. Delicate lines, textile structures, and precisely set forms create an exhibition atmosphere between intimacy and spatial expansiveness. The aesthetic experience arises in the interplay of proximity and distance: What initially appears as a single thread can unfold in space into an installation with its own dramaturgy.

An Artistic Experience with Personal Presence

Renate Knauer will be personally present during the specified opening hours. This gives the exhibition visit an immediate dimension of cultural education: The objects can not only be viewed but understood as the result of an intensive engagement with material, craftsmanship, spatial effect, and artistic composition.

Conclusion: Experience Thread Objects Live

Strangers in the Night – At the Blue Thread offers a concentrated artistic experience between jewelry, sculpture, and installation. Those who want to experience how seemingly simple threads create spatial depth, light effects, and poetic visions should definitely visit the exhibition in the ballet hall of abraxas live.

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