Annegrete Riebesel on glass art podium in Magdeburg

Lecture and panel discussion “Preserving cultural heritage. Architectural glass art yesterday – today – tomorrow” on September 10, 2024, 6 to 8 p.m.

In July 2024, the state capital of Magdeburg published “Painting with Light and Glass – Architectural Glass Art in and from Magdeburg”. The volume is the result of intensive research and is the first to show the great variety of glass design on buildings in public spaces: from the beginnings in the Middle Ages to works in the present day. One focus is on the period after 1945 and the work of the artists’ college once based here, the “Glasgestaltung Magdeburg”. Glass is delicate and fragile – and at risk during renovation, conversion and demolition. The state capital of Magdeburg is hosting a public event with the aim of sensitizing civil society and the administration to the current issue and highlighting possible ways of preserving and protecting it.

Welcome:

  • Regina-Dolores Stieler-Hinz, Mayor and Councillor for Culture, Schools and Sport of the state capital Magdeburg

Greeting:

  • Dr. Gabriele Köster, Director of the Magdeburg Museums

Specialist lecture:

  • Sabine Ullrich, KHM, co-author of the publication “Painting with Light and Glass”

Panel discussion:

Moderation: Cornelia Heller, qualified journalist and moderator

  • Dr. Ute Chibidziura, Project Development Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Spatial Development (BBSR)
  • Annegrete Riebesel, Board of Directors, Berufsverband Bildender Künstler Sachsen-Anhalt e.V.
  • Dr. Holger Brülls, Area Consultant State Office for Monument Preservation and Archaeology Saxony-Anhalt
  • Martin Maleschka, architect, author, influencer @baubezogenekunstddr
  • Hagen Reum, Operations Manager of the Municipal Facility Management Company of the State Capital of Magdeburg
  • Ken Gericke, Head of the Department of Urban Planning and Surveying City of Magdeburg
  • n.n., State Chancellery and Ministry of Culture of Saxony-Anhalt – requested