SPACIOUS

The paintings and collages by Dutch artist and author Liesbeth Doornbosch focus on buildings, interiors and furniture and show an interpenetration of painting and architecture, from which she creates new abstract spatial constructions. Her compositions, some of which are large-format, present fragmented perspectives that create complex spaces in equally strict and expressive layers of color surfaces and lines. By incorporating architectural photographs, narrative moments always resonate: for the painter, the experience of spaces always evokes stories. Her depictions of spaces are therefore not fixed orders, but organically animated environments that conjure up a particular scenery. Doornbosch is interested in the character of a place and the atmosphere of a space in the field of tension between the inner and outer world. The artist lives and works in Arnhem.
The special ones for the respective location Installations by the artist duo Ariane Faller & Mateusz Budasz deliberately intervene in existing spatial structures and transform them into new experiential situations. Bold constructions made of wooden slats and boards, braced in the space like scaffolding and fixed with screw clamps, merge with colorful painting objects on packaging cardboard and pictorial bodies made of coarsely knitted wool, glass and photographs. The expansive ensembles are intended as temporary interventions in the seemingly familiar and orderly and deliberately contain moments of the provisional and experimental. Central to this is the subversive exploration of the boundaries between painting, drawing, sculpture and object. The radical installations cause the spaces to become unhinged, as it were; walk-in assemblages are created through which we move in amazement, sharpening our perception of the special structure of the space. The two artists live and work in Furtwangen.

Light Space Resonance

Light Space Resonance – Wolfram Janzer & Bernhard Huber

Two artists, two styles – linked by a keen sense of space, form and light. Photographer Wolfram Janzer and artist Bernhard Huber come together in this exhibition from different directions, but with similar ways of seeing.

Janzer, influenced by his architectural training, seeks the essence of the image in photography: formal rigor, balance, reduction to essential structures. His works avoid mere depiction, instead creating meditative, sensitive pictorial spaces that weave depth and surface into a calm whole.

Huber, who has a background in stained glass, transfers its light-forming qualities to spaces and architectural situations. He uses glass, color and light to modulate spaces, dissolve boundaries and create transitions between transparency and opacity. His works are always site-specific, react sensitively to the given and form new, light-filled spaces of experience.

What they both have in common is their work “on the border”: the deliberate creation of transitions – between surface and space, between reality and abstraction, between the visible and that which eludes quick perception. The rigor of their compositions gives rise to a poetic lightness that turns seeing itself into an event.