Dreams & Feathers

TopArtCon 2025

cuculum — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 14:41:42 +0000

In a yearly tradition, we participated in the TopArtCon 2025 at the first weekend of october. This time mainly to further playtest our card&dice game “Crococooks” and to immortalize the high-score setters via Crococook portraits. As always, it was a fun weekend, with great gameplay (especially playing prototypes and things we usually don’t play) and even greater conversations with the other exhibitors and visitors. We’re looking forward to returning back to Karlsruhe next year.

Klangspuren – Art Performance

Klangspuren – Art Performance

cuculum — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 15:28:00 +0000

At the 26. of July a concert combining classical music on a grand piano and live drawing took place in Sulz am Neckar. Pianist Stéphane Bölingen played the piano, while Cuculum debuted with his first drawing performance, drawing with pastel on halftone paper. In the first half 12 drawings were created to the Préludes by Claude Debussy. In the second half one single drawing of two meters in width was created to Julius Reubkes piano sonata in b-minor, marking the end of the concert. Afterwards the created works were sold by auction.
The concert was the second of its kind at the venue. Last year the first “Klangspuren” concert took place, however Cuculum was a regular audience member back then. The sketch he draw while witnessing the evening can be seen on the poster for the second “Klangspuren – eine musikalische Mal-Performance” event.

Game Inventors Meetup Göttingen

Klangspuren – Art Performance

Game Inventors Meetup Göttingen

cuculum — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 16:14:19 +0000

From the 31. May to the 01. June the 43. Spieleautorentreffen (Game inventors gathering) took place in Göttingen. Organized by the Spiele-Autoren-Zunft e.V. (SAZ) and the city Göttingen, this is the biggest event of its kind in Germany.
Each year, game inventors from all around Europe (and a few from beyond) gather to discuss, play and present prototypes to publishers and colleagues. This year, we took part in this gathering.
We presented our card&dice game “Crococooks” as well as a short storytelling game. We enjoyed days of exchange, with publishers, but also especially with other designers and inventors. The sheer range of genres present at the gathering was imposing for first-timers like us.
You can find more information about the game in progress at our new subsite for boardgames. There you will also find any news about how the project is developing.

burladinger maler

Game Inventors Meetup Göttingen

burladinger maler

Kathrina s. East — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 18:22:00 +0000

The burladinger maler

The burladinger maler are an artists’ association, in as the name suggests, Burladingen. The colorful group unites a wide variety of people and a wide variety of art styles.
Locally, the maler are known, among other things, for the vernissage of the annual Christmas exhibition, for which they always come up with a new performance. Both the vernissage and the exhibition find their place in the Burladingen town hall, although the meeting room is regularly too small for the visitors to the vernissage.

Cuculum is a member of the burladinger maler since 2019. We mention here only the exhibitions in which he participated.
Who wants to learn more about the painters themselves, the other artists and the diverse actions of the group, can read all this on the blog of the maler themselves. However, those who also stumble across the numerous local newspaper articles should be warned: they contain numerous errors. Especially with regard to the spelling of names of people and places.

Le Plessis-Trévise 2025

Cuculum has been a member of “burladinger maler” since 2019. He will be resigning this membership at the end of 2025.
As the climax of his time in this artists club, he was able to take part in an exhibition in Burladingen’s French twin city Le Plessis-Trévise.
On June 21, 2025, the Fête de la Musique, the works brought along by the painters were shown on the town hall square.
The exhibition was organized by the Förderverein Städtepartnerschaft and the French hosts from Le Plessis-Trévise.

Christmas exhibition 2022

Cuculum used the Christmas exhibition 2022 as an opportunity to display such pictures that had not made it into the Spiegelbilder exhibition in the Tübingen Kulturhalle. Fittingly, there was also another opportunity to buy the Spektrallinien book here.

Exhibition in the Lindenhof 2022

In June 2022 an exhibition of the burladinger maler took place in the theater Lindenhof in Melchingen.
The subtitle of the exhibition was “Lauter Originale” (all originals). An occasion for Cuculum to set itself a little challenge and to approach a little the typical idea of an original for this occasion. So there was something special to see at the Theater Lindenhof: Two original chalk paintings.

Christmas exhibition 2020

The vernissage of the Christmas exhibition 2020 unfortunately had to be cancelled for known reasons.

REM-Notizen 2020

Cuculum’s solo exhibition REM-Notizen also took place in Burladingen’s town hall, and not by coincidence.
It is a tradition among the burladinger maler to take turns using the walls of the town hall as exhibition space, with several maler usually sharing it. And after literally hanging up pictures all day, we knew why: the building is bigger than it looks.

Christmas exhibition 2019

The Christmas exhibition 2019 was entitled “Bauhaus im Rathaus”. Whereby also “Blockhaus im Rathaus” would have been a quite suitable title; because as an interactive part of the event, a wall of painted cardboard boxes was built together with the audience and then brought down again.

Cataract of Dreams provided musical accompaniment for the vernissage.

Culture and Art Days Haigerloch

Game Inventors Meetup Göttingen

Culture and Art Days Haigerloch

cuculum — Sun, 08 Jun 2025 18:18:00 +0000

This year, Cuculum took part in the “Tage der Kunst und Kultur” (culture and art days) in Haigerloch with a small exhibition and live drawing on site.
On both Whitsun days, the town was populated with exhibitions, artists and craftspeople. Cuculum showed a selection of current works in the Bürgersaal Haigerloch and continued working on a project during the event. He was able to create several pages for the Silence anthology on site, which is expected to be available on our homepage from August 2025.

Exodus Magazine

burladinger maler

Exodus Magazine

Kathrina s. East — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 15:11:00 +0000

The Exodus Magazine is an established science fiction magazine that looks back on 50 years of fantastic short stories and art.
In addition to the short stories, there is always a “gallery” in the middle section of each issue, in which one artist and their works are presented.
On April 3, 2025, the 49th issue of Exodus Magazine was published, for which Cuculum was honored to fill the “gallery” and provide a cover.
Copies of this and other issues of the magazine can be ordered from the Exodus online shop as long as supplies last.

ungesagt

Culture and Art Days Haigerloch

ungesagt

Kathrina s. East — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 16:12:42 +0000

The exhibition ungesagt (unspoken) was on display at the Bodelshausen FORUM from September 27 to November 15, 2024 and was accompanied by a thematically matching reading on October 18. The works on display dealt with what is not said. The aim was to observe why and how communication fails or does not take place at all, as well as the consequences of failed or absent communication and how this impacts the people involved.
The exhibition consisted of several parts. In addition to surreal portraits of Cuculum, poems by Kathrina were also shown. There was also a first glimpse of the as yet unpublished graphic novel Zwei Türen im Gelben Wald, as well as the original of short stories in two dimensions (below). The latter work was created during the Comic Seminar Erlangen and consists of image and text fragments that can be read both in vertical and horizontal order.
The images of the exhibition (apart from the contents of Zwei Türen im Gelben Wald) can be viewed here.

Once again, we would like to thank FORUM for their wonderful support and the great location!

TopArtCon 2024

Exodus Magazine

TopArtCon 2024

cuculum — Sat, 14 Sep 2024 08:01:52 +0000

TopArt Convention — Second Meeting of Creatives in Karlsruhe
The second TopArtCon took place in Karlsruhe in September 2024. As was already apparent a year ago, that for this year we wanted to participate even more actively in this cozy convention. So this year we were present as exhibitors with our own small booth.
We presented (almost) the full range of our projects on one table. From canvas prints to books, postcards and card game prototypes, there was plenty to browse, flick through and test. We also offered two short workshops for co-exhibitors and visitors alike.

Once again, we can look back on another inspiring exchange between creatives and are already looking forward to next year’s TopArtCon!

Rosenmarkt

ungesagt

Rosenmarkt

cuculum — Sun, 23 Jun 2024 07:52:51 +0000

Rose market and art gallery on the street
On June 23, 2024, the rose market of Mössingen took place alongside an art gallery. For the first time, we participated at the gallery with a small stand. In addition to acrylic paintings, canvas and linoleum prints, we also offered live portrait drawings. Over the course of the day, many market visitors took 10 to 15 minutes to be portrayed.

In quiet minutes, Cuculum continued to work on an ink drawing on site, explaining techniques and materials to the interested audience.

Comicsalon Erlangen

TopArtCon 2024

Comicsalon Erlangen

cuculum — Sun, 02 Jun 2024 07:26:53 +0000

International Comic-Seminar & Comic-Salon Erlangen — The Comic Monastry
The Erlangen International Comic Salon took place from May 30 to June 2, 2024, with the Comic Seminar being held the week before. The head of the seminar, Ralf Marczinczik (comic artist, art director and illustrator), secretly refers to it as a comic monastery, because for almost a week it’s all about making comics and nothing else, from 8 in the morning until late at night.
This year, Cuculum was able to experience this first-hand. With David von Bassewitz (Stockhausen), Naomi Fearn (Berliner Schnuppen, Zuckerfisch) and Katharina Greve (Das Hochhaus, Die dicke Prinzessin Petronia) as top-class lecturers and surrounded by experienced comic artists and authors, a work was created that was subsequently presented at the Comic Salon.

Kurzgedichte in zwei Dimensionen is the name of the result and, as the name suggests, it reads in two directions. Consisting of scraps of poetry by Kathrina s. East together with surreal images, a weave of sequences is created, continuing both horizontally and vertically. The work was exhibited during the Comic Salon as part of the group exhibition Wandel | Kurz & Bündig at ZAM, in downtown Erlangen.

My thanks go to the Kulturamt Erlangen, the lecturers, the seminar leader and all the other participants, because a week can set a lot in motion, although some things will need some time still to progress. Until then, it’s all about enjoy the Prix Paul.

Leben, Krieg, Lyrik

Rosenmarkt