The Hungarian art historian Laszlo Glozer described the second half of the 20th century as a phase of "exiting the picture". First, the limitations of the picture frame were exceeded, later the boundaries between painting, installation and sculpture blurred, and painting expanded into space.
Image gallery
Franziska Hünig - Foto Bernd Borchardt
Anja Gerecke - Foto Jens Ziehe
Klaus-Martin-Treder - Foto Lepkowski-Studios
The group exhibition Gravity's Rainbow presents twelve contemporary artistic positions that explore painting from today's perspective within and outside the classical picture boundaries: from panel paintings and wall objects to colored sculptures and site-specific installations. The artists involved deal with central aspects of painting in a variety of ways, including the picture surface, support material, materiality, spatiality and surface.
In direct engagement with the exhibition space and its social and societal context, site-specific works are created that respond to the architecture and atmosphere of the gallery.
The connection between urban space and art space causes a shift in perception and raises fundamental questions about the relationship between art and reality.
By using materials that are "foreign to painting" such as advertising tarpaulins, plastic or building materials, the artists create further changes in perspective and break down traditional ideas about painting.
The exhibition is intended as a dialogue between the works and the gallery space: a spatial collage is created in which the works within the exhibition space visually merge with the urban environment.
The title Gravity's Rainbow, borrowed from Thomas Pynchon's novel of the same name (The Ends of the Parabola), refers to themes such as changes in perspective, shifts in perception and the field of tension between reality and fiction.
Works by Gabriele Basch, Antje Blumenstein, Astrid Busch, Ruth Campau, Anja Gerecke, Franziska Hünig, Ellen Hyllemose, Schirin Kretschmann, Sophia Schama, Nicola Staeglich, Klaus-Martin Treder and Torgny Wilcke are on display.
- Curated by Franziska Hünig and Veronika Witte.
PROGRAM
- Wed 12. 2., 7 p.m. - "The Exit from the Image" - Lecture by Marta Smolińska
- Wed 5. 3., 7 p.m. - Artist talk moderated by Nicola E. Petek
- Wed 19. 3., 7 p.m. - Curator's tour with Veronika Witte and Franziska Hünig
