When does the opening take place?

The opening of Clean Girls is on June 12, 2026, at 7:00 p.m. at Stadtgalerie Villa Dessauer in Bamberg.

How long does the exhibition run?

The exhibition is on view from June 13, 2026, to July 26, 2026.

What are the opening hours?

It is open from Thursday to Sunday and on public holidays from 12:00 to 18:00.

How much is the admission?

Regular admission is €6, reduced €3. Children and young people up to and including 18 years have free admission.

What art forms can visitors expect?

Works will be shown in painting, sculpture, installation, and artistic strategies with a performative character.

Where does the exhibition take place?

In Stadtgalerie Villa Dessauer, Hainstraße 4, 96047 Bamberg.

Two Strong Artists, a Body Image of the Present, an Evening Full of Tension

Name: Clean Girls – Cathrin Hoffmann and Sophia Süßmilch
Start: 2026-06-12T21:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-06-12T21:00:00+02:00
Location: Stadtgalerie Villa Dessauer

Clean Girls in Bamberg: An Exhibition about Body, Identity, and Contemporary Life

With the annual exhibition Clean Girls, the Bamberg Art Association brings together two significant positions in contemporary art: Cathrin Hoffmann and Sophia Süßmilch. The exhibition opens on June 12, 2026, at 7 p.m. in the Stadtgalerie Villa Dessauer and promises a multifaceted art experience between painting, sculpture, installation, and performative imagery.

The Body as a Stage of the Present

At the center of this exhibition is the human body as a projection surface for identity, desire, vulnerability, and societal norms. The curatorial juxtaposition creates tensions where aesthetic experience and critical reflection directly meet. The gaze wanders between fragile, digitally appearing body images and an art that works with humor, provocation, and radical directness.

Cathrin Hoffmann: Between Painting, Virtuality, and Alienation

Cathrin Hoffmann, a German-Iranian artist from Berlin, develops in painting, sculpture, and installation a visual language for the post-digital present. Her works often depict the human body abstractly, mechanically, fluidly, or grotesquely shifted. Smooth, digitally inspired surfaces meet physical materiality, brushstrokes, texture, and a fragile spatial effect. Hoffmann interrogates the future of humanity in an era of acceleration, technological abstraction, and global crises.

Sophia Süßmilch: Humor, Irritation, and Feminist Sharpness

Sophia Süßmilch works across disciplines in painting, performance, video, photography, and objects. Her art relies on exaggeration, irony, and a conscious play with taboos. The body here appears as a site of pleasure, pain, resistance, and self-staging. Süßmilch's works continue art-historical references and translate them into a contemporary, sharply contoured visual language that entertains, irritates, and challenges.

A Dialogue Full of Friction and Resonance

It is precisely in the juxtaposition of both positions that the strength of the exhibition unfolds. Clean Girls negotiates body politics, gender issues, and digital transformation not theoretically, but in immediate encounters with the works. The exhibition invites viewers to attentively observe material, color, form, and spatiality and to recalibrate their own perceptions. Those who wish to experience contemporary art in its full presence will find here a concise, intellectually stimulating, and sensually rich journey.

Conclusion: Clean Girls promises an exhibition that not only informs but also awakens and expands. Anyone who wants to experience contemporary art, feminist perspectives, and strong visual realms should definitely visit this exhibition live in Bamberg.