Gallery Program and History
Existing since six years, the gallery works together with a young generation of German and international artists for whom the content aspect of the work is in the foreground. Their working methods are mostly in the tradition of conceptual art in combination with narrative structures, in order to analyse and mirror the perception and signs of our time. The artists take reality as a construction to be treated with various formulations and methods.
Edgar Arceneaux and Pavel Pepperstein quote from various sources in order to put together imageworlds, which question habitual concepts and reading methods. This is also the case for Simon Dybbroe Møller in whose work the idea of a reverse-entropy reveals itself as an alternative reality. The idea of a parallel world reappears in Bernd Ribbeck's abstract paintings in a different manner. He uses pictorial forms of a suggestive quality, which might be taken from Modernism or might resemble mandalas and lead the viewer's gaze from the picture surface into a transcendental realm.
Annette Kisling, instead, takes straight-forward photographs of mundane places. However, instead of simply documenting the sites, the photographs intend to reveal what is exemplary about them, using the picture frame to reach an abstract level.
Katharina Jahnke, Albrecht Schäfer and Cornelia Schmidt-Bleek move along the boarder between documentation and fiction. They visualize stories - Albrecht Schäfer from an architectural point of view, Katharina Jahnke and Cornelia Schmidt-Bleek from a social and temporary point of view - in order to develop their own narratives.
Gabriele Basch, Ulrike Feser and Zilla Leutenegger draw most directly on mass-culture and create from various perspectives "portraits" of media-participants, which the viewer might use as a projection screen for their own inner-reflections. |
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Director(s): Joanna Kamm
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