Opening of the exhibition ‘The Silence Within You’ at the Forum Alte Post on 10 September 2026
On Thursday, 10 September 2026, at 7 pm, our exhibition ‘Die Stille in Dir’ at the Forum Alte Post in Pirmasens will open with a vernissage. The cultural journalist Dr Oliver Bentz, PhD, will introduce the exhibition. It is a particular honour for me that the Lulu-Weiß-Ensemble will be performing; I have a very personal connection to their music. Invitations were sent out today for a press preview, which met with keen interest from the journalists.
– The Silence Within You – a joint exhibition featuring works by Mannheim-based artist Inessa Siebert. We have known each other for a long time, and when I was offered an exhibition by the city of Pirmasens, I spontaneously asked Inessa if we should collaborate on this.
In my view, it’s a very harmonious exhibition. Integrated into our concept is the result of a workshop with a Year 5 class from the Hugo-Ball-Gymnasium in Pirmasens. There, we built cameras out of drinks tins with the children. The result is truly stunning. During the exhibition, we’ll be holding two further workshops with children. The results of these will be incorporated into the current exhibition, so there will always be new pictures to see. I don’t want to give too much away here, so you can look forward to seeing what else is in store.
The Forum Alte Post – even though you might not immediately expect to find it in Pirmasens – is definitely worth a visit. This is because, in addition to our exhibition, the same building houses the museum dedicated to the painter Heinrich Bürgel and the Hugo Ball Museum. Hugo Ball, in particular, is likely to be familiar to many in connection with Dadaism, of which he was a co-founder.
Another item on the programme will be a yoga evening, to be held within the exhibition itself. Returning to the exhibition title ‘The Silence Within You’ –
which invites you to immerse yourself in your own cosmos and, far from all external distractions, to get a little closer to yourself and be fully present with yourself, thereby signalling to your soul: ‘I’m taking time for you’.
Walking through nature without any preconceived plan, allowing objects to come to me – which are shown here in the exhibition – is, for me, a poetic practice, an artistic intervention in the present and a refusal to stand still. A stumbling along one’s own trail, a willingness to get lost, only to find one’s way again.
Thomas Bernhard, too, never regarded walking merely as a means of getting from A to B, but as a form of thought. Step by step, an inner monologue unfolds, sparked by the movement, building in intensity, faltering, and thereby beginning anew. For him, walking means exposing oneself to the world whilst simultaneously distancing oneself from it. It is a rhythmic process between control and loss of control.
‘The Silence Within You’ aims to foster a deep trust in the very foundation of our being, which bestows inner peace and a sense of security.