Awakening in Color: a night that went until 1 am - and the next conversation

The opening of “Awakening in Color” at Galerie EPES / Stadtmauergalerie in Darmstadt was more than a vernissage. Around 125 people came. The last guests left around 1 a.m. What stayed with me was not the number, but the atmosphere: long conversations, real exchange, and time to stand in front of the works and let them work.

The centrifugal pieces can be experienced a second time through the Artivive app — the image on the wall and the layer that opens on the phone. 

And the Gravity Germania works found an unusually natural home in this historically special gallery by the city wall. Past and present sit next to each other there without forcing the point. That was always the idea.

I am grateful to Katja Epes and everyone who made the evening possible, and to everyone who stayed, looked, asked, talked and collected.

The exhibition continues until 16 October. The next public moment in the gallery is already this week:

“CONTEMPORARY ART – Was ist Kunst?”

Wednesday, 30 September 2026, 7 p.m.

Galerie EPES | Stadtmauergalerie

Am kleinen Woog 4a, 64283 Darmstadt

Admission free

Journalist and PR consultant Martina Noltemeier will be in conversation with artist Florian Albrecht-Schoeck and gallery owner Katja Epes. The evening is conceived as an open discussion. The audience is invited to take part — to ask, to disagree, to look again.

If you were at the opening, this is a chance to return to the rooms with a different question. If you missed it, it is a good first visit: the works are still there, and the conversation is exactly about what we do when we call something art.

All the best and

turn your life colorful!

Antonio