On Thursday 29 August 2019 at 19:00 CET the exhibition POESIS Sprachkunst | Language Art is opened, featuring visual works of around sixty language artists from seventeen countries. Its accompanying catalogue is available at Kunsttempel, Kassel, Germany. Curator of the exhibition and catalogue is Friedrich Block.

The exhibition is open tot the public from Friday 30 August until 6 October 2019 (Fri-Sun 15:00-18:00 CET). For more info visit the event on Facebook.

The next day, on Friday 30 August 2019 at 19:00 CET, Rozalie Hirs and Pavel Novotný read their poems and perform poetry/music hybrids at Kunsttempel.

Participating artists include AND-OR (CH), Hartmut Robert Andryczuk (DE), Hannes Bajohr (DE), Balpe Jean-Pierre (FR), Josef Bauer (AT), Giselle Beiguelman (BR), Simon Biggs (AU), Friedrich W. Block (DE), Philippe Bootz (FR), Amaranth Borsuk (US), Anton Bruhin (CH), Augusto de Campos (BR), John Cayley (CA), Klaus Peter Dencker (DE), Gerhild Ebel (DE), Eduard Escoffet (ES), Brigitta Falkner (AT), Gundi Feyrer (DE, AT), Heike Fiedler (DE, CH), Hartmut Geerken (DE), Mara Genschel (DE), Nora-Eugenie Gomringer (DE, CH), Rozalie Hirs (NL), Zuzana Husarova (SK), Peter Hutchinson (GB), Steffi Jüngling (DE), Eduardo Kac (BR, US), Thomas Kapielski (DE), Angelika Kaufmann (AT), Stephan Krass (DE), Dagmara Kraus (FR, DE, PL), Betty Leirner (BR, CH), Fritz Lichtenauer (AT), Josef Linschinger (AT), Rana Matloub (IQ, DE), Michèle Métail (FR), Franz Mon (DE), Virgile Novarina (FR), Pavel Novotný (CZ), Jürgen O. Olbrich (DE), Clara Oppel (DE, AT), Jörg Piringer (AT), Renate Pittroff (AT), Sascha Pogacar (DE), Louis Roquin (FR), Carola Ruf (DE), Gerhard Rühm (AT), Valeri Scherstjanoi (RU, DE), Matthias Schmidt (DE), Siegfried J. Schmidt (DE), Hubert Sielecki (AT), Lisa Spalt (AT), Christian Steinbacher (AT), Rod Summers (GB), W. Mark Sutherland (CA), Christoph Theiler (DE), Rui Torres (PT), Timm Ulrichs (DE), Günter Vallaster (AT), André Vallias (BR), Gregor Weichbrodt (DE).

Date: 2019-08-29
Time: 19:00 CET
Location: Kunsttempel, Friedrich-Ebert-Straße 177, 34119 Kassel, Germany
Performers: Carola Metz, Kulturamt der Stadt Kassel (opening speech), Friedrich Block (host, curator)