120 Years Sulamith Wülfing

Sulamith Wülfing, the great visionary painter and illustrator from Wuppertal, would celebrate her 120th birthday this year. On the occasion of this event, the Nautilus-Studio, a gallery for visionary and surreal art, in the beautiful old 'Luisenviertel', celebrates and honors her fabulous work with a special exibition titled 'Sulamith Wülfing-the forgotten daughter of the town.‘

The Nautilus studio has been a workspace and gallery in Seattle for 5 years and is now being continued in Wuppertal for nearly two years, managed by the artist Yvette Endrijautzki.

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Thru Yvettes curatorial work in the USA and a great international artist network, it immediately succeeded to staff the Nautilus exhibitions in Wuppertal with international contemporary visionary artists.

These artists of the 'Nautilus Network' will be involved to shape the Wülfing exhibition with their `Wülfing’- themed artwork specially created for this show. The results will be recorded in an exhibition book with photos and texts in both languages: German and English.

A specially created limited poster print edition by the artist Kaska Niemiro (also responsible for the Sulamith book cover design) will be available for the exhibition.

Participating artists are:

Otto Rapp from Vienna,

Feeroozeh Golmohammadi (Teheran)

Pascal Ferry (France)

Liba Waring Stambollion from Paris,

Martina Hoffmann (Germany/USA),

Stefan Bleyl from Dresden, Germany

Alexandra Keller (Solingen)

Willi Büsing from Troisdorf/Berlin,

Janine Werner from Solingen

Poul Dohle from Münster

Ingo Schleutermann (Solingen)

Julie Baroh (Seattle)

Jennifer Jennsel from Mexiko/heute Berlin.

Madeline von Foerster (Cologne/Usa)

Sabine Friedewald (Wuppertal)

Doris Faassen (Wuppertal)

Michael Hutter (Cologne)

Norbert Gladis (Weimar)

Elijah Evenson (Seattle)

Wheeshan Ong (Austria)

Peter Amann (Solingen)

Gromyko Semper (Phillipines)

Kaska Niemiro (Berlin)

Music by Martin Erbler

and a few more

Sulamith Wülfing herself forms the center of the exhibition. All participating artists produce works with Sulamith Wülfing as the theme, either with a view to the person by portraying her, or to the specific style or special techniques of Wülfing.

Since there are only very few photos of Sulamith Wülfing circulating in the public, some of the participating artists will enrich us with portraits that bring the forgotten daughter of the town back to the present.

A few original artworks by Sulamith Wülfing are made available for the exhibition by a few local art collectors.

In addition to this work, the company EXCIT3D, specializing in 3D printing, augmented and virtual reality, will virtually revive the historical figure.

Sulamith Wülfing today has gained much more attention in the US, Russia or France than in her hometown, especially in the music scene. Stevie Nicks from Fleetwood Mac even named a tour, the 2005 Gold Dust Tour after Wülfing and her music was highly inspired by Wülfing. Pete Sinfield from King Crimson also designed a record cover with one of Sulamith's works.

A short documentary is also in the making and will be screened at the event.

The venue is not yet clear, but as soon as there is something tangible, it will be announced.

If, for the known reasons, the event cannot take place in the 'normal' sense, there will definitely be an online version!

But let's hope for the BEST!

More information soon under

www.nautilusstudio.net

Kind regards,

the Nautilus Studio