with art lover Angela Braster
The Jablonka Collection - built up over many years by Rafael Jablonka - forms the rich fund from which the gallery owner equips the exhibitions at KiS - Kunst in Seefeld. Eric Fischl's Krefeld Project is represented here, as are Mike Kelley's Kandor, works by Francesco Clemente, Nobuyoshi Araki, David LaChapelle and Andy Warhol. [...]
Special offers and exclusivity
The annual membership fee for the KiS association for the promotion of contemporary art in Seefeld is just 50 euros. This not only supports the art exhibitions in the Alte Feuerwehrhalle in Seefeld, but also numerous exciting projects. As a member, you benefit at the same time. For example, we invite you to concerts - that's [...]
Photos of the island of Paros
His „portraits of power“ are world-famous. Platon, actually Platon Antoniou, photographed Barack Obama, George Clooney, Bill Clinton, David Beckham, Donald Trump, Elon Musk - a who's who of international politics and showbiz. In summer 2025, KiS - Kunst in Seefeld showed Plato's impressive works from his series „Coming Home: [...]".
Works by Sherrie Levine fascinate
There was great interest and a large audience, good discussions and thought-provoking questions … Sherrie Levine’s works – from the grotesquely beautiful bronze figures to the monochrome pieces in the „After Yves Klein“ series – raise many questions. As Florian Waldvogel also pointed out in his introduction: „The artist provokes answers, but she does not provide them.“ At the […]
Valerie Fritz & Goran Stevanovich
The concert by Valerie Fritz and Goran Stevanovich on 7 May 2025 was once again attended by numerous members of KiS - Kunst in Seedeld with an interest in music and art in the old fire station hall in Seefeld. The duo played current works, for example by Polish composer Mikolay Majkusiak (The Best Composer of the Young Generation [...]
From Bleckner to David LaChapelle
We offer a small selection of artist and exhibition catalogues and posters for sale at KiS. For example, the two catalogues by Sarah Bogner and Ross Bleckner, which were produced on the occasion of the KiS exhibitions. But also books about Arnulf Rainer, the draughtsman and sculptor Thomas [...]
About Giovanni Segantini and life
Michael Krüger on paintings by Giovanni Segantini - that was the theme for a reading at KiS at the end of October 2024. The audience experienced the author Michael Krüger, but also the publisher, who, as the long-standing director of Carl Hanser Verlag, has followed and helped shape the German-language literary scene like no other. [...]
On the programme: PictureReading
A big jungle party. A nest with eggs - or birds? Creatures on stilts. The children „read“ Ross Bleckner's pictures in their own way - with an open mind and an alert eye. They then put their version of flowers and blossoms on paper while painting. Juliana Haider, who organised the [...]
Flowers - Images and texts
„Flowers are … bouquets for prayers, gardens of cherished devotion.“ Eric Fischl calls his written contribution to this catalogue „Poetry of Repentance“. And in his poetic text, the artist himself speaks of the „image of the flower“ as a ‘placeholder for the light and the dark, the inexpressible and the concrete’. On the occasion of the exhibition at KiS – […]
Music by Glass and Shostaktovich
„A wonderful musical summer’s evening“ – „This is beautiful“ – „The performance was outstanding.“ These and similar comments were heard from the audience at the concert at KiS in early July 2024. The cedag quartet performed two String Quartets No. 3: the one by Philip Glass, which was originally composed for the film „Mishima – a […]
The image of the flower. Flower pictures
Although Ross Bleckner did not travel in person from New York to Seefeld for the opening of his exhibition at the end of June 2024, he did contribute his thoughts in the form of a written piece for the catalogue published to mark the exhibition. „Any interest I have in flowers is actually an interest I have in pictures of flowers“, […]
Pia Fries in conversation at the finissage
Pia Fries„ exhibition came to a close in March 2024 with an engaging round-table discussion. Maria-Anna Meßner-Haidenthaler from the Tyrolean State Museum Ferdinandeum moderated the discussion with the artist and Rafael Jablonka. “Basically, I want to paint a good picture,” said Pia Fries, summing up her approach in a simple statement. She then went on to […]
Reading with saxophone accompaniment
Every poem, even the shortest, can turn into a blossoming poem, it could probably even explode, for immeasurable stores of splendour and cruelty are hidden everywhere, waiting patiently for our gaze ...
This is how „Erblühendes Poem“, a poem by Adam Zagajewski, begins; Alexandra Maria Jablonka (right) read it in February […]
Experience exclusively for KiS members
A wonderful experience, magnificent art, unforgettable impressions … These and similar comments are the reactions of those taking part in the guided tours of Rafael Jablonka’s exhibition space. In these premises, the collector and founder of KiS displays parts of his collection of significant works of contemporary art. The photograph shows Miquel Barceló’s „Des Meduses“, in […]
Opening with Friedhelm Mennekes
The advice of Friedhelm Mennekes, who introduced the works of Pia Fries at the opening of tausend : einerlei, related to the question of the meaning of art. In his experience, it should be lived, „because when things are shaky and unstable, art helps.“ Mennekes, Jesuit and expert, who among other things [...]
Evening with Siggi & Juliana Haider
The accordionist and composer Siggi Haider not only knew Werner Pirchner personally and recorded the ‚Sonata of the Harsh Life‘ with him in the recording studio, but he also plays the accordion that Pirchner – who died in 2001 – had specially made. Together with his daughter Juliana (saxophone and vocals), Siggi Haider performed on the occasion of […]
Jesuit priest gives introduction
Great interest at the opening of David LaChapelle's exhibition: Jesuit Father Friedhelm Mennekes (second from right) gave exciting insights into the biblical scenes from „Jesus is My Homeboy“ from the perspective of the Church. Father Mennekes, who advises the Vatican, among others, as an art expert, was enthusiastic about LaChapelle's photographic interpretations, which for him [...]
Sarah Bogner’s *Love and Embarrassment*„
The pastel-coloured horses with their accompanying creatures, created by Sarah Bogner for the old fire station in Seefeld, fascinated visitors to the opening. Despite the driving snow, many interested people came to take a first look at „Love and Disgrace“ - the title of the exhibition. KiS association chairwoman Elisabeth [...]
Bach, Reich, Gordon
The exhibition of Andy Warhol's „Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century“ provided the perfect backdrop for a special concert. The young cellist Valerie Fritz (right) played Johann Sebastian Bach, Steve Reich and Michael Gordon and author Friederike Gösweiner read the poem „Going to Lviv“ by Adam Zagajewski. This Polish poet, who died in 2021, [...]