July 16th-20th, 2025 - Joe's Garage, Am Markt 3, Bad Doberan
July 16th Exhibition Opening 2pm-5pm
July 17th -20th from 10am-2pm
Wittek - Thomas Wittke (comic artist / "Frank Zappa of comics")
Wittek (Thomas Wittke), born in Dinslaken in 1964, is described as the "Frank Zappa of comics" (Stefan Pannor, SPIEGEL online) and one of Germany's most manic illustrators. He has been a great fan of Zappa's music since the early 1990s, and the graphic work of Cal Schenkel and Bruce Bickford has also influenced him ever since. Wittek has adapted Zappa songs and albums into comics for various comic magazines ("Joe's Garage," "Bobby Brown"). He spent several weeks drawing a homage to the "Uncle Meat" album cover. He has regularly published the one-pager "Wittek's World" in the comics magazine ALFONZ-DER COMICREPORTER for the past 10 years. He has also been working on the two-part historical comic BILA HORA for almost 20 years.
Bent Szameitat (Artist, Photographer & Filmographer, Exhibitor)
How do you photograph time? "Eureka" in the old Elbe Tunnel! His exhibitions in the Elbe Tunnel and the cloisters of a monastery are breathtaking! The "Gyro Gearloose" of photography ("Cultural Director of NDR - D.Kaiser").
Frank Zappa, both as a person and as a musician, has inspired Bent Szameitat since his early years with his curiosity and his refusal to accept boundaries.
Bent Szameitat, born in 1961, has been working for many years on developing innovative photographic techniques. For him, boundaries are places of transgression. His works require scale. They unfold their effect on long walls, in an environment that supports the dissolution of conventional viewing habits.
In his work, Bent Szameitat explores the tension between art, technology, reality, and perception. His filmographies translate the three-dimensionality of space and the factor of time into the two dimensions of photography. The results are exhibits that redefine the concept of reality.
People, streets, building complexes, public squares, fields, meadows, and water unfold unexpected spectacles in the image. Grotesque scenes, oases of calm, hours of movement – each image is both coincidence and staging.
