“Feast” by Olaf Brzeski – a visual feast at the Gerhard-Marcks-Haus in Bremen

An exhibition “Feast” by Olaf Brzeski will be presented from 16 November 2025 at the Gerhard-Marcks-Haus in Bremen. The exhibition shows surrealist sculptures from the artist’s world, exploring the development of his artistic language. The partner of the first major exhibition of the Polish artist’s works in Germany is the Adam Mickiewicz Institute.

The first large exhibition of the Polish artist Olaf Brzeski in Germany – surrealist sculptures in Bremen

Works by Olaf Brzeski grow out of surreal visions, fears, dreams, and everyday situations, which the artist depicts through sculpture, drawings, and film. His works tell personal stories and create new pictorial worlds. Brzeski blends pop culture, mysterious Tibetan myths, and personal experiences with lightness. He creates in different modes and techniques, which he explores anew each time – sometimes massively, sometimes lightly, almost like drawing in space. The scale of his works also varies, making viewers experience very different perceptions. Each exhibition room becomes a unique space of experience in which the artist is often intimately present, also when confronted with his own demons.

At times Brzeski’s subconscious messages take the form of nightmares – like the big blue head of a vampire – or intriguing imagery, such as the scene in which a lion licks a green frog. At Gerhard-Marcks-Haus, Olaf Brzeski is presenting his first major exhibition in Germany. The English title of the exhibition, “Feast,” can function as both a noun and a verb, combining all aspects of importance to the artist: a feast for the eyes, hospitality, delight, lavish celebration, preparing a feast, savouring. In short, an all-round visual feast. The exhibits include, among others, the ceramic “Vampire” (2023/24), “Sunset over Baltic Sea” and “Half Dream” from the Adventure Series (2020), the porcelain “Post tenebras lux” (2018), the ceramic “Francis and the Frog” (2024) and “Reflection” (2020).

Tours and workshops – events accompanying the “Feast” exhibition

Between 16 November 2025 and 8 March 2026, Gerhard-Marcks-Haus will host a number of events to accompany the exhibition, including guided tours, meetings with curators and artists, and thematic workshops that will allow visitors to deepen their experience of the exhibition. In addition, weekly guided tours in German and Polish will be held on Thursdays at 17:00 and Sundays at 12:00, introducing the context and details of Olaf Brzeski’s work.

Selected events accompanying the exhibition:

• 18 November 2025, 12:30 – “Drawing at noon at the sculptures from the exhibition ‘Olaf Brzeski. Feast’” – Theme: “The Role of Colour” with artist Petra Fiebig.

• 22 November 2025, 15:00 – “Dance Meets Sculpture” – Invitation to discover the exhibition through movement; guidance: Anne-Katrin Ortmann.

• 9 December 2025, 12:30 – “Lunchtime drawing in front of the sculptures from the exhibition ‘Olaf Brzeski. Feast’” – Theme: “The Human Figure” with artist Petra Fiebig.

• 13 December 2025, 11:00 – “A Different Look. Moving Sculptures” – learning about sculptures by Olaf Brzeski and Gerhard Marcks through touch; movement, dance, and conversation for the blind, visually impaired, and sighted; guidance: Rée de Smit.

• 16 December 2025, 19:00 – “German-Polish Advent Meeting” – Bilingual tour of the exhibition “Olaf Brzeski. Feast.”

• 6 January 2026, 12:30 – “Lunchbreak drawing at the sculptures from the exhibition” – Theme: “Between the Forms” with artist Petra Fiebig.

• 14 January 2026, 12:30 – “MittagsSehen” – Exploring selected works from the exhibition together through conversation; guidance: Dr Anette Naumann.

• 18 January 2026, 14:00 – Writing workshop “Die Kunst und Ich” – Creating texts inspired by the art of Olaf Brzeski and his surreal world; guidance: Dr Anette Naumann.

• 27 January 2026, 12:30 – “Lunchtime drawing at the sculptures from the exhibition.” - Theme: “The weight of things” with artist Petra Fiebig.

• 5 February 2026, 20:00 – “On the Run – Encounters Between Worlds” – New perceptions at the exhibition “Olaf Brzeski. Feast,” a performance by the gassi gäng performance group.

Gerhard-Marcks-Haus is a lively, open, and barrier-free museum of modern sculpture, presenting quality art to a wide audience. Founded in 1971 as a collection of a single artist, the museum still focuses almost exclusively on monographic exhibitions, emphasising the individual visual language of each artist. The institution conducts and supports research of the history of 20th and 21st century sculpture.

An exhibition “Feast” by Olaf Brzeski in Bremen – practical information

• Dates: 16 November 2025 - 8 March 2026 

• Venue: Gerhard-Marcks-Haus (Mur 2008, 28195 Bremen, Germany)

• Tickets and more information: marcks.de

• Exhibition supported by: Freundeskreis des Gerhard-Marcks-Hauses e. V., Adam Mickiewicz Institute and Polish Institute in Berlin