Stone Mill Art at the Climbing Gym

Paintings, drawings, and prints have been on display on the climbing walls of the Marburg Volksbank Climbing Gym since the end of March. These small works of art are located behind the Plexiglas panels that were formerly used for route signage and explore themes related to climbing and the mountain world.

Ines Vielhaben, an art teacher at Steinmühlen, came up with the idea for this unusual exhibition. Since the climbing gym opened, she has been spending a large part of her free time there.

Together with the 10th-grade students in the “Drawing and Illustration” elective course, Ines Vielhaben began working on the paintings a few months ago. Her former students from the advanced art class and an art student from Flensburg, who was completing her internship at the Steinmühle, were also inspired by the idea of an art exhibition for the climbing gym.

Jose, who is in charge of bolting the routes in the climbing gym, is delighted by the variety of designs and artistic techniques: “This gives the individual sections of the wall a new character.” The artworks shown here represent a selection and are by Nora Hepting (10c), Jana Vollhardt (10a), Hannah Eichstädt (former Steinmühlen student/graduated in 2017, advanced art course), and Ines Vielhaben.