When does the exhibition flowing take place?

The exhibition is to be experienced on Saturday, October 10, 2026, at 2 PM in the Art Water Works Schwerin-Neumühle.

Where is the Art Water Works located?

The venue is located at Neumühler Straße 80, 19057 Schwerin.

Which artists are involved?

The artists involved are Monika Ortmann, Mirjam Elburn, and Ramona Seyfarth. All three work with installations and site-related artistic methods.

What forms of art will be shown?

The exhibition combines installations, sculptures, photographs, drawings, and mixed media works.

Is the exhibition in an indoor space?

Yes, the exhibition takes place in the historic Old Waterworks with the main building and pump house.

What is the admission price?

A binding admission price could not be established.

flowing in the Old Waterworks: Three Artists Make Hidden Movements Visible

Name: flowing with works by Monika Ortmann, Mirjam Elburn and Ramona Seyfarth
Start: 2026-10-10T14:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-10-10T14:00:00+02:00
Location: Kunst-Wasser-Werk e. V. – Altes Wasserwerk Schwerin-Neumühle

flowing: Contemporary Installation Art at the Old Waterworks in Schwerin

On October 10, 2026, the Art Water Works in Schwerin-Neumühle will open its historic spaces for the exhibition flowing. Monika Ortmann, Mirjam Elburn, and Ramona Seyfarth combine site-specific installations with questions of water, time, memory, and social change. The exhibition visit leads into an industrially shaped building whose architecture itself becomes an active counterpart to the art.

An old waterworks as an artistic resonance space

The Old Waterworks Schwerin-Neumühle is much more than an exhibition space. Pump house, main building, and the historical industrial architecture give the presentation a unique spatial effect. The title flowing refers to water as a physical force as well as to thoughts, feelings, information, and social processes that come into motion.

The three artists approach the theme from different perspectives. Their works address the flow, seepage, and overflow both materially and symbolically. This creates a polyphonic dialogue between installation, sculpture, photography, drawing, mixed media, and the historical site.

Monika Ortmann: Interconnections from found materials

Monika Ortmann studied art, visual communication, and photography in Berlin and Dortmund. Since the early 1970s, she has been working with used and discarded materials such as fabrics, pantyhose, shoes, dolls, and waste paper. She transforms these found objects into expansive, intricate, and knotted installations.

Her so-called nylon aesthetics creates a peculiar connection between fragility and physical presence. Hanging, multi-colored forms enter a tense dialogue with the cool industrial aesthetic of the waterworks. Ortmann's installations make societal driftwood visible and transform it into walkable images of complex relationships.

Mirjam Elburn: Between analog and digital perception

Mirjam Elburn studied art history and fine arts in Saarbrücken. As an artist and freelance curator, she works at the intersection of sculpture, installation, photography, and mixed media. Her practice combines sensual material experience with an open, processual approach to art education.

In her works, visible and invisible currents meet. Water appears as a psychological topos: it can calm, remind, and simultaneously evoke unrest or threat. Photographic and multimedia elements expand the contemplation of the works with questions of perception, projection, and inner landscapes.

Ramona Seyfarth: Time, memory, and social responsibility

Ramona Seyfarth, born in 1980 in Neubrandenburg, has lived and worked again in her hometown since 2013. The focus of her work is time, which she condenses, questions, and transforms into sensually experienceable forms. Her works also direct attention to flight, lost homeland, dignity, and ecological connections.

Abstractive symbols and ephemeral materials give her works a poetic, yet political tension. Seyfarth has received, among other awards, the Art Prize for Young Artists in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and the First Upcycling Art Prize. Her working method shows how new images of societal memory emerge from seemingly worthless materials.

Aesthetic experience and cultural education

The exhibition invites focused contemplation of the works. Colors, textile surfaces, photographic image spaces, and sculptural forms respond to light, architecture, and the historical function of the building. The exhibition atmosphere thrives on contrasts: industrial hardness meets fragile materials, factual construction meets emotional resonance.

Visitors experience contemporary art as an open space for thought. The curation connects different artistic attitudes without tying them to a single interpretation. This creates an art experience that links perception, cultural education, and personal association.

Conclusion: An art experience between water, space, and memory

flowing brings together three independent positions of installation art and makes the Old Waterworks a lively part of the exhibition. Art enthusiasts can expect a sensual and art-historically stimulating encounter with materials, images, space, and societal questions. Anyone wishing to experience contemporary art in an extraordinary industrial setting should definitely visit this exhibition in Schwerin-Neumühle live.