critical ceramics

Various artistic contributors present compelling contemporary perspectives, making the diversity of the medium accessible to a broad audience.

At the center of the exhibition at the Heussenstamm Foundation are works by Robert Schittko, who explores memory and identity in the age of digital media. His work examines not only the growing fragmentation of personal narratives through social networks, filter bubbles, and algorithms, but also the emotional impact of these processes on individual self-perception. Schittko’s pieces address the contradictions between digital self-representation and real experience, between consistency and dissolution, presence and absence.

Ceramics—an archetypal, craft-based medium—serves in this series not only as an artistic material but also as a conceptual counterpoint to the digital world. Its fragile permanence stands in clear contrast to the fleeting, ever-changing nature of digital reality. Schittko deliberately uses this tension to question notions of duration, transformation, and transience. His sculptures appear both archaic and contemporary, evoking relics of past cultures while bearing traces of digital aesthetics.

17.06.2026 – 18.07.2026

Heussenstamm-Stiftung, Braubachstraße 34, 60311 Frankfurt am Main

17.06.2026 – 18.07.2026

Galerie Hanna Bekker vom Rath, Braubachstraße 12, 60311 Frankfurt am Main

17.06.2026 – 18.07.2026

komet k, Braubachstrasse 26, 60311 Frankfurt am Main

12.06.2026 – 25.07.2026

Galerie Anita Beckers, Braubachstrasse 9, 60311 Frankfurt am Main

The Heussenstamm Foundation focuses on four key areas: It presents two parallel exhibitions — a six-month show on urban themes and a shorter solo exhibition — each accompanied by events. The foundation also hosts salons: the “Salon Orange” addresses art-political questions, while the “Heussenstamm.Tisch” focuses on social and urban issues. It promotes aesthetic education through youth workshops (partners wanted) and creates “other places” — cooperative, non-commercial projects in social, cultural, or religious spaces beyond its Frankfurt venue.