The Sky Was Never Meant to Hold Us

This immersive show invites viewers into a world where material, light, rhythm, and perception merge, challenging the boundaries of form and dissolution, weight and weightlessness, color and sound.

Through their distinct yet complementary practices, Grimm and Vitale explore the limits of materiality and perception, offering a dynamic visual experience that shifts and evolves with the viewer’s gaze.

About the artists

Christiane Grimm (1957, Stuttgart, DE)

Since the mid-1980s, Christiane Grimm has been creating color and light spaces, focusing on the luminosity of color and its nuanced effects on perception. A trained architect and self-taught artist, she works with oils, acrylics, pastels, Perspex, and antique and ribbed glass. Her sculptural pieces—ranging from visual objects to architectural light sculptures—play with transparency, reflection, and refraction, transforming space through shifting light and color interactions.

John Vitale (1979, Illinois, USA)

John Vitale is a self-taught abstract painter whose work delves into the complexities of human experience. Making his Berlin debut with this exhibition, his paintings feature organic shapes, layered materials, and bold color palettes that form intricate visual narratives. His meticulous process involves layering acrylics, house paint, enamels, pencils, and oil sticks, building textured surfaces that serve as an archive of time and experience.