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Participating artists:
Lithography: Eva Gräbeldinger, Fedele M Friede, Johannes Ernst, Kazuki Koga, Bettina Francke, Jean Drache. Silkscreen Printing: Mika Plutitsky, Qiuning Zhu, Petra Natascha Mehler. Etching: Arina Heinze, Lukas Schwake, Miriam Jehle, Robert Schmiedel, Prof. Christian Weihrauch. Woodcut: Yeongseon Jeong, Niklas Dietzel, Stephanie Marx

opening hours:
Open Wed-Sun, 2pm-7pm. Closed on public holidays

Venue:
Akademie Galerie Nürnberg
Hauptmarkt 29
90403 Nürnberg
adbk-nuernberg.de/akademie/einrichtungen/akademie-galerie-nuernberg/
galerie@adbk-nuernberg.de

Since the invention of letterpress printing, printmaking has been used not only as a mass medium but also as an artistic process. To this day, we encounter it in a multitude of different forms and manifestations.

Despite its long tradition within the history of the fine arts, printmaking is by no means an outdated relic: its diverse techniques are still practised in the study workshops of art academies to this day, thus constantly stimulating current discourses in the fine arts. With Transfer, the HGB Leipzig, Academy of Fine Arts Munich and Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg are showing current artistic positions of students and teachers. The exhibition provides an insight into the positions of screen printing, relief printing, etching, lithography and other printing techniques represented at these three universities and thus shows a representative range of possibilities in contemporary printmaking.

While the fact of the print run and reproduction was once the main characteristic of printmaking, today the reflexive questioning of the medium as an artistic process is more to the fore. In an age of mass-produced digital formats and formats produced in the print industry, artistic printmaking creates a counter-position through a haptically tangible, manually produced print result.