OSTDEUTSCHE KUNSTAUKTIONEN
(East German Art Auctions)
65th Auction of Fine Art
Preview: 21 – 30 October 2025
Auction: 1 November 2025, from 1 p.m.
Post-auction viewing: 4 – 13 November 2025
Art Auction Catalogue
Porträt einer Dame, Herta Günther (Dresden 1934 – 2018 Dresden),
Pastel, 1986, 44 × 60.5 cm, signed, dated. A large-format work reflecting the artist’s characteristic predilection for the sophisticated portrait
Maidemonstration 1948 (II), Paul Kuhfuss (Berlin 1883 – 1960 Berlin),
Mixed media (oil paints, gouache, watercolour, opaque white), 1958, 86.5 × 64.5 cm, signed, mounted on support board, there inscribed in handwriting: “Registered cultural property (of the GDR)”; attached label from the Paul Kuhfuss estate archive, typewritten: “May Demonstration, watercolour, exhibited: Pavillon der Kunst, Unter den Linden (East), December 1958/January 1959 (‘Peace Triumphs’). Calendar entry Paul Kuhfuss: 1948, 1 May: went to meet the May Day parade and made drawings. 1958, 21 September: exhibition watercolour for Pavillon der Kunst, 22 September: same, 24 September, 28 September: began watercolour ‘Demonstration Procession II’, completed 19 September.” Large-format, elaborately executed painting by the artist with fine structures. Very well preserved. A historical document that impressively demonstrates the painter’s full mastery.
WV Hellwich/Röske 58/9.
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Upcoming Exhibition !
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“WO MICH NIEMAND KENNT”
Eduard Bigas about Walter Benjamin
22nd November – 30th January 2026
Vernissage 22nd November 6-10 pm
Eduard Bigas, „Seeds of collapse“, 31 x 41 cm, collage, watercolour and ink on paper, 2024
Eduard Bigas, born in 1969 in the Catalan town of Palafrugell, approaches in his new exhibition one of the most influential intellectual figures of the 20th century: Walter Benjamin. For Bigas, Benjamin is not merely a historical figure of his time but a metaphorical spirit whose world of thought continues to resonate in our present – in an era once again marked by political upheaval, technological acceleration, and authoritarian tendencies.
Bigas’s biographical positioning between Catalonia and Berlin closes a peculiar circle: not far from his birthplace lies Portbou, where Benjamin died in 1940 while fleeing from the National Socialists; Berlin, Benjamin’s city of birth, is today the center of Bigas’s life and work. This geographical as well as intellectual topography forms the backdrop for his artistic exploration.
In “Wo mich niemand kennt”, Bigas engages with Benjamin’s central motifs – the fragmentary, the aura of the artwork, the tension between original and reproduction. His works move between collage, ink on paper, graphite drawings on canvas, and conceptual photography. Through the montage of image fragments, a polyphonic universe emerges that mirrors Benjamin’s own method of thought.
The title of the exhibition is borrowed from a note in Benjamin’s final letter: “It is in a small village in the Pyrenees, where no one knows me, that my life will come to an end.” This sentence becomes a guiding motif that resonates through the works as a melancholic yet poetic echo.
Bigas draws inspiration from writings such as The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction and The Sonnets. At the same time, through his visual language, he opens an intuitive, poetic, and questioning approach to Benjamin’s ideas. His art invites us not to seek definitive answers, but to continue and revive the open trails of Benjamin’s thinking.
In Where No One Knows Me, memory, place, and philosophy condense into a quiet homage to Walter Benjamin – and at the same time into a reflection on our own present.
Galerie Kuchling is delighted to once again provide Eduard Bigas with the opportunity to present his work and warmly invites you to visit the exhibition.
Text by Josephine Müller