SPREEWALDATELIER 2027 — Open-Air Sculpture Week in Lübbenau with Free Oak Logs, Lodging, Meals and a €600 Fee, Deadline 30 October 2026
Freunde der LÜBBENAUBRÜCKE e.V. (for the town of Lübbenau/Spreewald)
A biennial open-air festival where sculptors work with chainsaws on oak trunks in the town centre and cartoonists draw live, ending in an auction.
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No costs for participants: free peeled oak logs (or up to €300 material grant in justified cases), a single room with breakfast, lunch, a bicycle, a €600 flat fee, a catalogue and a certificate from the town. Works are sold at an auction on the last day; the artist keeps the sale price minus a 50% organiser commission.
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Sculptors (about 10 places) and caricaturists/cartoonists (about 12 places) from Germany and abroad; students and young artists are explicitly invited. Sculptors who took part in 2025 cannot take part again in 2027. Artists must be present for the whole week, 4–11 September 2027.
Dates & details
- Deadline
- Paper applications by 30 October 2026; jury in December 2026, answers by end of December; event 4–11 September 2027
- Programme dates
- 4–11 September 2027
- Results
- By the end of December 2026
- Language
- German