Category: Current

Opening Friday, July 10, 2026, 7-9 pm
The artists will be present

A forensic scientist turned photographer focuses on one of the most unassuming materials in our environment. The exhibition Seeing the World in a Grain of Sand brings together the photomicrographic works of Matthias Burba (b. 1954), a synesthete, and an interactive video work by Max Seeger (b. 1994), revealing sand as a multifaceted visual field. Between microscopic precision, subjective perception, and media translation, the material is rendered visible both as a geological archive and as a carrier of ecological, cultural, and historical processes.

Opening at the Alfred Ehrhardt House in Triptis: Saturday, May 9, 2026, 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm

Opening hours: Sundays 2–5 pm

After Alfred Ehrhardt (1901-1984) from Triptis completed his training as an organist and cantor at the Weißenfels seminary, he moved to Hamburg in the early 1920s, where he studied art and worked as a singing teacher. In 1924, he became a teacher of music and art at a progressive boarding school in Bad Gandersheim in the Harz Mountains. In the winter semester of 1928/29, he attended the so-called “preliminary course” at the Bauhaus in Dessau, where he also studied with Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, and Oskar Schlemmer. He then applied what he had learned to his art lessons, which led to his appointment as a lecturer at the Hamburg State Art School in 1930. He remained loyal to his adopted home of Hamburg until the end of his life.