Exhibition Opening
Margaret Kelley. Tapestries from the cycle ›A Leap of Faith‹

Welcome Address

Beate C. Arnold, Artistic Director/Board Member of Barkenhoff and Große Kunstschau Worpswede

Introduction

Dr. Arie Hartog, Director of the Gerhard Marcks House, Bremen
Dr. Stefan Borchardt, Curator of Große Kunstschau Worpswede

The artist Margaret Kelley will be present at the opening.

Magaret Kelley, The river and the shore, 1997

Since her first stay in Worpswede, the artist Margaret Kelley, who was born in Los Angeles, USA, has been deeply inspired by the light of the Worpswede landscape.

She first came to Worpswede in 1991 through a scholarship at the artist houses founded by Martin Kausche. After a few more stays, she returned to settle there, continuing and developing her artistic work at this place that became so special to her. Over the years, her work has gained depth and scale—both literally and materially, as well as in terms of conceptual understanding. Many of her motifs originate from the experience of a landscape impression, such as the pearling of the waves on the Isar. The emotions and excitations triggered by these experiences are integrated into her monumental