Advanced Art Class: New Exhibition at the Climbing Gym

At last, it’s here: the new exhibition at the Marburg Climbing Gym, created by the Steinmühle high school’s advanced art class. Since mid-December 2020, the class’s new drawings of climbing hands have been on display there. As early as 2018, art related to mountaineering from an elective course taught by Ines Vielhaben was exhibited here for the first time. The response and demand from climbers in the German Alpine Club (DAV) were so great that, even during the COVID-19 pandemic, a class once again created and designed several works specifically for the climbing gym.

“The unusually long formats are dictated by the Plexiglas panels embedded in the climbing walls,” reports Ines Vielhaben. The students have adapted their naturalistic drawings of grasping hands to this unusual format and, through their artistic snapshots of grasping hands, tell stories of adventures in the mountains, of strength, and of climbing techniques.

José Domingo, an employee at the climbing gym: “We’re so excited that people can finally see the photos now that the climbing gym has been closed for four months!”

A big round of applause for the artists Clara Köhler, Diba Sharifzahdeh, Talea Funk, Niklas Diedrich, Amy Wong, and Ines Vielhaben!