Name: Between Forms | Helga Gebert
Start: 2026-06-23T12:00:00+02:00
End: 2027-01-24T19:00:00+01:00
Location: GRIMMWELT Kassel

Between Word and Image: Helga Gebert at the GRIMMWELT Kassel

The special exhibition BETWEEN FORMS | HELGA GEBERT. Telling in Image and Word opens a fine artistic experience about the power of illustration. In the GRIMMWELT Kassel, visual worlds, fairy tale themes, and narrative transformations come together, making visible how stories can be rethought, questioned, and reshaped.

Illustration as a Thinking Space

Helga Gebert, born in 1935 in Freiburg im Breisgau, is considered by GRIMMWELT to be one of the defining figures in the renewal of German children's and youth literature in the 1970s and 80s. Her works combine well-known themes from the world of Grimm's fairy tales and from 1001 Nights with her own narratives. This connection of tradition and experiment gives the work its tension: characters topple out of certainties, perspectives shift, meanings change.

An Exhibition with Narrative Depth

The exhibition showcases the dynamic interplay between word and image and asks how fairy tale images transform, how cultural influences become visible, and how stories can be continually appropriated. Biographical insights, interactive elements, and a puzzle trail for children deepen the engagement with the work. This creates an exhibition language that appeals to adults as much as to young visitors.

GRIMMWELT Kassel as a Lively Place for Cultural Education

GRIMMWELT sees itself as an international exhibition house that artistically, media-wise, and interactively communicates the life and work history of the Brothers Grimm. Overview tours and offerings for school classes are available for visiting the special exhibition. Those who want to experience art appreciation, literary history, and museum education together will find an ideal place here for an aesthetic experience with depth.

Conclusion

This exhibition invites visitors to see illustrations not just as an accompaniment to texts, but as an independent form of storytelling. Anyone interested in art, fairy tales, visual worlds, and cultural education should experience Between Forms | Helga Gebert live in Kassel.