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Axel Anklam

Solo exhibition

1.2.2025 – 30.4.2025

ZAK – Centre for Contemporary Art, ground floor

Opening: Friday, 31 January 2025, 7 pm
Welcome: Dr Carola Brückner, District Councillor for Culture
Introduction: Dr Karin Rase, art historian and gallery owner

Axel Anklam (1971 – 2022) is a sculptor known for his abstract, organically shaped, light-flooded sculptures.

In his works, he combines classic and contemporary materials – hard materials such as stainless steel and innovative materials such as glass fibre-reinforced plastic, epoxy resin and carbon. With his profound knowledge of static and musical-rhythmic laws Anklam combines weightlessness, transparency and mass in his sculptures in a fascinating way.

The translucent sculptures are based on impressions of landscapes, in particular mountain worlds and the dynamics of winds. He expanded his artistic repertoire to include titanium-coated reliefs, which create an interplay of light and sh