Ferencz Olivier - New Workshop
From the beginning of this year, i have occupied myself with the search for new rooms in order to relocate the centre of my life and work within Muenster.
A new area of life I have found for my family and myself at Spiekerhof, at the corner of the Spiegelturm. Here, in the heart of Muenster, between the church “Überwasserkirche“ and the cathedral, are now also the new rooms of the gallery.
For the new workshop, I have found an inspiring location as well: in the former church “Versöhnungskirche“ at the Friesenring, corner to the Martin-Luther-Straße. The evangelical church of the Apostel-parish was consecrated on 15th October 1963 and is characterised, just like many sacral buildings from the early 60´s, by its strictly geometrical design with clear forms. On the cubic ground level, an equilateral triangle was erected whose prominent gable features a triangle grid of coloured glass.
The sculptor and artist "Rika Unger" from Muenster has occupied herself intensively with the question of modern church architecture in the middle of the 1950s and was employed for the artistic design of the “Versöhnungskirche“ in the 1960s.
After the Apostle-Parish, together with the evangelical church, had decided to desecrate the church building and to sell it together with the parsonage and the community centre in hereditary lease, first co-workers and artworks from the museum "LWL Landesmuseums" were stationed there during the museum´s reconstruction at the “Domplatz“.
With ceilings of 6m height and a building area of almost 240sqm, the new rooms offer optimum conditions for my work on large-format artworks.
Soon, I will re-edit my website, in order to provide new images from the new rooms in the areas “Gallery“ and “Workshop“.
