Uwe Poth and Albrecht Wild: Souvenirs
29. September - 21. December 2024
Albrecht Wild and Uwe Poth present artistically related positions: One works with beer mats, i.e. coasters, the other with postcards; one uses three duplicates, the other 16; one cuts them up, the other does not. Both are united by the fact that the respective original motif is repeated several times. The juxtaposition invites the viewer to discover new perspectives.
The two painters Wild and Poth have stepped out of their original subject matter for these bodies of work for which they both use paper products. For Albrecht Wild, beer mats are the starting point. He cuts them up and puts them back together again to create kaleidoscope-like works. The result is an aesthetic object somewhere between enigma and ornament. Inspired by his travels in Asia, many Asian motifs have found their way into his work.
Traveling was also the starting point for Uwe Poth. Between 1974 and 2010, he created 144 works using postcards of places he had actually been to. A selection of these works will be on display in the exhibition. Rotated and placed next to each other, the postcards create a rhythmic structure in which the views on the cards recede into the background.
Both works share an eye for the aestheticization of the everyday. They show an ornamentation that is not a two-dimensional repetition, but allows the eye to continue searching. As with an optical illusion, the effect is retained even after the principle has been seen through. At the same time, the works become a mirror of cultural history through the use of everyday objects. Each of the works opens up on different levels and plays with the viewer and their perspective.
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Katharina Gierlach
07. July - 21. September 2024
Please note: the gallery is closed on Friday, September 20th. The last chances to see this exhibition is on Saturday, September 21st, from 12 to 5 pm or on Sunday, September 22nd, from 3 to 6 pm.
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Leonard Korbus: In the field
14. April - 15. June 2024
Leonard Korbus' drawings and paintings show perspectives of landscapes and gardens. However, these often dissolve into reduced individual parts so that they are only rudimentarily recognizable. Sharp outlines overlap each other or stand next to each other without their spatial relationship being defined. As in a memory, the individual perceptions and objects are superimposed, obscured and overlapped. They are lost in time and space and at the same time have a clear structure and no structure at all. Leonard Korbus' gardens are concrete and blurred at the same time. A memory of a moment, a view, an impression of light that perhaps never existed. Nevertheless, the memory remains strangely concrete. It always comes back to life when the light falls through the trees in a similar way, when the wind bends the branches in a certain way, when the proportions of the garden structure achieve the same effect. Korbus examines in his works these principles, according to which we perceive landscape, nature, gardens or any environment.
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Party Mix
28. January - 23. March 2024
We invite you to the first vernissage of the new year: with decorations by Günter Beier, drinks and snacks by Charlotte Trossbach and party guests by Julian Opie. Vernissage on Sunday, January 28, 2024, 3 to 6 pm.
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Next exhibition: Party Mix
20. - 27. January 2024
We are preparing our next exhibition: Party Mix - with works by Charlotte Trossbach, Günter Beier and Julian Opie. Opening reception on Sunday, January 28th, 2024, 3 to 6 pm.
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