Art meets everyday life: from March 2, 2026, the foyer of the city administration will once again be transformed into a small gallery. Artist Hans-Dieter Seibel will be presenting a selection of his works there until the beginning of June, inviting visitors to discover color, form and surprising visual worlds. For many years, the city administration has offered artists the opportunity to exhibit their work in the foyer - and thus make art accessible to the public. Hans-Dieter Seibel is continuing this tradition with the new exhibition.
The artist, who lives in Bad Kreuznach, was born in Niederwörresbach and has been working intensively with painting and art since the mid-1980s. As a self-taught artist, he has developed his own visual language over the years, which revolves around three main themes: the effect of color in painting, collages of newspaper and magazine images and acrylic paintings on paper and canvas, in which these collages are further processed. His artistic career began in a completely different way: from 1969 to 1972, Seibel trained as a book printer in Idar-Oberstein. In the early 1980s, he lived in Düsseldorf in a shared flat with the artist Walter Brusius, also from Niederwörresbach. This time had a lasting impact on him - as Seibel himself says, Brusius infected him with the "art virus" and inspired him in particular for surrealism. Many of the exhibited works are based on paper collages made by Seibel himself, which he then transfers to canvas in acrylic. In addition to this technique, his intensive preoccupation with color also plays a central role in his work. The interplay of fragments, forms and color spaces creates pictorial worlds that evoke surprising associations.
The surrealist Max Ernst already described how inspiring this technique can be: "Collage technique is the systematic exploitation of the coincidental or artificially provoked meeting of two or more essentially alien realities on an apparently unsuitable level - and the spark of poetry that jumps over when these realities come together."
The exhibition in the foyer of the city administration invites you to discover precisely this "spark of poetry" - in the middle of everyday life in the city.
- The exhibition can be viewed until June 8, 2026, Monday to Wednesday from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m., Thursday from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Friday from 7 a.m. to 12 p.m. in the foyer of the city administration (Georg-Maus-Straße 1).