upcoming / ongoing / past

"...Toni Wombacher is a finder. She finds materials and subjects, things, techniques, which she works up, manipulates and alienates. Her creative work is definitely unconventional. She is in a certain way unpredictable...."

Maike Trentin-Meyer, Direktorin Deutschordensmuseum Bad Mergentheim

exhibition view / another kind of light / 2023 / ausstellungshalle 1a / frankfurt

photo: wolfgang günzel

upcoming / ongoing / past

SchaufensterAusstellung 8 / 10 Positions

exhibition of MARKET STALL as Guest Artist of Maike Häusling

05.07.-13.07.2025

WESTATELIERS / Studio Maike Häusling

Langenhainer Strasse 25, Frankfurt/Main

opening friday 04.07., 6 pm at Langenhainer Strasse 26

open studios saturday and sunday 05.07. and 06.07., 2 - 6 pm

guided tour with Petra Schwerdtner on sunday 06.07., 3 pm
meet her at studio Poth Idsteiner Strasse 77

book at info@kunstkontakt-frankfurt.de (costs 15 €)

the 9 studios are located along Idsteiner Strasse 77 - 192 and at Frankenallee 212

The works can be viewed from outside 24 hours a day during the exhibition period

MISCHEN

27.06. - 25.07.2025

at Werkbund Hessen and netter architekten gallery, Weckmarkt 3-5, Frankfurt/Main

opening party friday, 27.06., 7 pm

artist talk saturday, 28.06., 4 pm supported bei Jacqueline Jakobi Milán and Sookok Cho

artists

Elmar Vestner / Berlin

Toni Wombacher / Frankfurt am Main

Katrin Paul / Frankfurt am Main

Ryoji Ishioka 石岡良治 enamel. / Tokyo

Ayame Ono 大野彩芽 / Tokyo

Kiyoshi Kuroda 黒田潔 / Tokyo

supported by

Werkbund Hessen https://werkbundhessen.de/

netter architekten gallery https://www.netter-architekten.info/

Kulturamt Stadt Frankfurt am Main

Siun Creative Studio Tokyo https://siun.jp/

MISCHEN is described as the act of blending elements that, through their combination, form a new connection. Individual components of a mixture can either merge or remain clearly recognizable. (Duden: a comprehensive German dictionary and reference book that standardizes German spelling, grammar, and usage.)
Katrin Paul (Frankfurt), Toni Wombacher (Frankfurt), Elmar Vestner (Berlin), Ryoji Ishioka (Tokyo), Kiyoshi Kuroda (Tokyo), and Ayame Ono (Tokyo). The artist group MISCHEN, consisting of three German and three Japanese artists, came together at the beginning of 2024. Their work follows exactly this principle: six different artistic positions meet and form a heterogeneous whole. MISCHEN is more than a collaboration – it is a search for a common vocabulary. Through active exchange via email, social media, and virtual meetings, exhibition projects emerge that are characterized by mutual inspiration in themes and working across different media. While each artist maintains their individual visual language, the connection of the six positions—painting, photography, object art, graphics, illustration, and installation—creates a dialogue that reflects the tension between the cultural backgrounds and artistic practices of the group. A stay of the Japanese artists in Frankfurt and Berlin in July 2024 provided us with the opportunity to deepen our collaboration through studio visits and workshops, which was subsequently expressed in two joint exhibitions in Tokyo, Japan:
Galerie place by method (August 2024) and Art Side Gallery (January 2025). For the upcoming exhibition in Frankfurt am Main, organized by Werkbund Hessen and netter architekten gallery, the result of this artistic “blending” will be presented across three spaces.

summit of beauty and love / exhibition with FRANK* and Friends / Heussenstamm Raum für Kunst und Stadt / 7.05.- 7.06.2025

Opening reception: Tuesday, 6.05.2025, 7 pm

Curator's Tour: Saturday, 24.05.2025, 3 pm with E. M. C. Collard and Toni Wombacher

Lecture and Talk: Tuesday, 27.05.2025, 7 pm with Dr. Almut Hüfler and Andrea Keppler --- Creating, Connecting, Empowering --- when female artists network

Braubachstraße 34, Frankfurt am Main

https://heussenstamm.de/ supported by Frauenreferat Frankfurt

FRANK* E. M. C. Collard, Isabel Friedrich, Hyeonyoung Lee, Ekaterina Leo, Justine Otto, Julia Roppel, Sarah Schoderer, Eva Schwab, Tatiana Urban, Toni Wombacher

Friends: Olga Cerkasova, Ben Gencarelle, Lena Grewenig, Nandu Kriesche, Tina Kohlmann, Corinna Mayer, Robert Schittko, Liu Xue

Merry Go Round / exhibition with FRANK* / Kulturschmiede Nieder-Olm / 9.5.-25.5.2025

Opening reception: Friday, 9.05.2025, 6 pm

Curated by Ekaterina Leo

Schmiede Wettig, Alte Landstraße, Nieder-Olm

ZukunftsTräume / FutureDreams / Galerie am Tor Miltenberg / 16.03.2025 - 06.07.2025

group exhibition

www.galerie-cornelia-koenig.de

MISCHEN / 混合 Threads and stripes on the spot

JPN⇄GER The project organized by six German and Japanese artists. 日独のアーティストによるプロジェクトです / Tsite Daikanyama Bookstore / Tokyo / Japan / 13.-31.01.2025

Elmar Vestner / Berlin

Toni Wombacher / Frankfurt am Main

Katrin Paul / Frankfurt am Main

Ryoji Ishioka 石岡良治 enamel. / Tokyo

Ayame Ono 大野彩芽 / Tokyo

Kiyoshi Kuroda 黒田潔 / Tokyo

https://store.tsite.jp/daikanyama/english/

Japan, 〒150-0033 Tokyo, Shibuya, Sarugakuchō, 17−5 代官山Ｔ－ＳＩＴＥ１号館～３号館１階～２階

https://www.instagram.com/daikanyamatsutaya_art/

MISCHEN___ Threads and stripes on the spot / place by method, Tokyo / 21.-31.08.2024

with Kiyoshi Kuroda, Ryoji Ishioka, Ayame Ono, Katrin Paul, Elmar Vestner, Toni Wombacher

The project “Threads and stripes on the spot” started with the question of whether six artists, three from Germany and three from Japan, with their various backgrounds, could achieve mutual understanding and interaction without language. Through exchange of works physically and digitally via social media, email and mailing, they have engaged in experimental dialogues in various ways. The exchange still goes on influencing each other with a wide range of multifaceted perspectives. At the venue, alongside the artworks, there will be sketches and mockups and collaborative creations just recently made by the six artists in Germany. During the exhibition period, online talks and live workshop sessions are scheduled. We welcome all visitors to witness the process of individual methods and different forms of expression - such as installations, photography, and painting - intersecting and blending together.

Elmar Vestner / Berlin

Toni Wombacher / Frankfurt am Main

Katrin Paul / Frankfurt am Main

Ryoji Ishioka 石岡良治 enamel. / Tokyo

Ayame Ono 大野彩芽 / Tokyo

Kiyoshi Kuroda 黒田潔 / Tokyo

(PLACE) by method

Caminito #14, 1-3-1 Higashi, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan,

150-0011

URL: www.placebymethod.com

Contact: https://www.instagram.com/mischen___/

Rush Hour - Kulturfestival Hanauer Landstraße Frankfurt / 3. - 22.09.2024

organised by Heussenstamm Stiftung / curated by Christian Kaufmann

My contribution / Interventions in public space / Animated film

Still dreaming / Landesärztekammer Hanauer Landstraße 152 / visible 24 h

Toni Wombacher's trick animation in slow succession shows scenes of complete freedom, relaxation and leisure. White lines dance across the black screen with ease resist the constant flood of media information. The images remind passers-by of their dreams in their everyday routine.

PANOPLY / exhibition with FRANK* / Galerie Maurer / 22.06.2024 - 31.08.2024

Opening reception: Friday, 21.06.2024, 7 pm

Galerie Maurer, Fahrgasse 5, Frankfurt am Main

D r u c k f r i s c h / exhibition experimental printing techniques, drypoint etching & relief printing, woodcut / Klosterpresse e.V. / 22.6., 23.6., 29.6., 30.6.2024

Opening reception: Friday, 21.06.2024 7 pm

Klosterpresse e.V., Paradiesgasse 10, Frankfurt am Main