Keramik im Pulverturm: „Eiszeit“

In the organizer's words:

This year's "Ceramics in the Powder Tower" prize will be awarded to the sculptor Carlo Leopold Broschewitz from Kambs. He receives the award to present his current works to the public in the medieval Powder Tower from July 6 to August 31, 2025. The ceramics exhibition entitled "Ice Age" will open on Sunday, July 6, at 11:15 a.m. in the presence of the artist open air in front of the Powder Tower on Schloßwall. Nicole Piechotta, Mayor of the City of Oldenburg, will welcome the guests and present the awards. Dr. Sabine Isensee, Head of Fine Arts and curator of the exhibition, will give the laudatory speech for Carlo Leopold Broschewitz.

Since 1996, the "Keramik im Pulverturm" prize has been awarded to young talents who impress with their innovative and surprising positions in the ceramic art scene. "Carlo Leopold Broschewitz transforms the Pulverturm into a contemporary world theater with his imaginative ceramics. The figures, animal creatures and objects hover between dream and reality and develop a strong sculptural presence through their painterly colors and material diversity. Their façades conceal mysterious stories that are tinged with melancholy and unease. The exhibition title 'Ice Age' not only echoes the culinary delights of summer, but also reflects current social crises such as climate change, social coldness and wars," says Sabine Isensee, describing Carlo Leopold Broschewitz's working method.

Poetic complexity

The sculptor's ceramics thrive on the poetic and symbolic complexity that he breathes into his works with intuitive ease during the design process, allowing the viewer to indulge in emotional imagery. The artist says: "Art is a catalyst. The unsaid, the felt and yet hidden secret of the days finds a place in it. Countless quiet things and countless loud things, but things never said, never lived, find a place here".

It therefore seems only logical that Broschewitz describes himself as a cross-genre sculptor and painter, for whom sculptural and painterly action are mutually dependent. Under the title "Ice Age", the artist shows pictorial worlds full of beauty and longing, which can be transformed into symbols of transience: In the exhibition, he unfolds a colorful round dance of exotic, everyday and magical animals: Giraffe, lion, elephant, fox, peacock, unicorn, goose and horse, which at first glance are reminiscent of the dazzling world of the circus. At the latest when the viewer's gaze falls on the polar bear with the title "Last Bear standing" or the fleeing turtles, mythical images of Noah's ark and other doomsday scenarios come to life. In this way, Broschewitz also transforms a monumental ceramic wafer with colorful ice cream scoops into an inferno of climate change through blazing flames, entitled "The earth is burning".

In the 18th and 19th centuries, the Powder Tower served as a powder magazine, which is where its name comes from. Now there are powder kegs in the powder tower again. However, they are not filled with gunpowder, but symbolically with resources that we humans need to live: water, sand, raw materials and nature. The last ceramic powder keg is closed. There are fuses and matches on the container that have long since burnt out and the lid reads: "I am a pacifist". Visitors are cordially invited to embark on this adventure in the Oldenburg Powder Tower. The exhibition is accompanied by a catalog, which is available for 15 euros at the Pulverturm.

The artist

Carlo Leopold Broschewitz, born in Rostock in 1980, completed his training as a stone sculptor with master Benno Lincke in Neu Nantrow in 2003. From 2006 to 2012, he studied sculpture with Prof. Bernd Göbel and Prof. Bruno Raetsch at the Burg Giebichenstein Art Academy in Halle. Since 2013, he has had a studio at the Baumwollspinnerei Leipzig and was then a master student of Prof. Martin Neubert in the field of ceramic sculpture at the Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle from 2021 to 2023. Broschewitz has been taking part in exhibitions since 2014 and has exhibited his works in Leipzig, Rostock, Heidelberg, Chemnitz, Berlin, Copenhagen, Schwerin, Dresden, Halle, Darmstadt, Wismar and Güstrow. In 2022, the artist received a cultural scholarship from the Stiftung Kunstfond Bonn and a working scholarship from the Ministry of Science, Culture, Federal and European Affairs of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Carlo Leopold Broschewitz lives and works as a sculptor and painter in Kambs near Schwaan.

Opening

The ceramics exhibition will be opened on Sunday, July 6, at 11:15 a.m. in the presence of the artist in the open air in front of the Powder Tower on Schloßwall. Nicole Piechotta, Mayor of the City of Oldenburg, will welcome the guests and present the awards. Dr. Sabine Isensee, Head of Fine Arts and curator of the exhibition, will give the laudatory speech for Carlo Leopold Broschewitz .

Opening hours of the Powder Tower

The Pulverturm on Schloßwall is open during the exhibition at the following times

Friday 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Saturday 11 am to 6 pm
Sunday 11 am to 6 pm

Free admission.

Public guided tours

Public guided tours of the exhibition "Ice Age" by Carlo Leopold Broschewitz with art mediator Geraldine Dudek take place on Sundays at 2 pm in the Pulverturm.

Dates: July 13, July 20, August 3, August 17, 2025.

No registration required, free of charge

InForum guided tour

In conversation, curator Dr. Sabine Isensee will show you the diverse spectrum of Carlo Leopold Broschewitz's ceramics and introduce you to the artist's individual way of working.

Tuesday, August 12, 2025, 10:15 a.m.

Registration at the InForum by phone 0441 235-2781, free of charge.

Finissage with guided tour by the artist

On Sunday, August 31, 2025, at 3 p.m., Carlo Leopold Broschewitz will personally guide the public through his exhibition "Ice Age".

The free public tour will take place in the Powder Tower on Schlosswall. Registration is not required.