The works of French-born artist Alice Baillaud (*1975) move between dream and reality and deal with themes such as nature, the subconscious, the past, longing and loneliness.
In his spatial installations, Gerken reshapes everyday objects and assigns them new functions. For the exhibition in the Galerie im Saalbau, he has invited the artist Florian Neufeldt to develop a project together that makes reference to the rooms.
Escape from the cinema “Freedom” refers to the Polish film of the same name from 1990, which deals with the arbitrariness of the political system and the rigid state censorship in the People’s Republic of Poland in a playful and humorous way and addresses the longing for artistic freedom.
Jürgen Bürgin’s photographs are snapshots of people in major cities such as Berlin, New York, Tokyo, Shanghai and Barcelona.
Social upheavals are the subject of the installation works by the artist duo Birgit Auf der Lauer and Caspar Pauli.
Lena Ader transforms feelings, sensations and longings into painting. She creates intimate pictures that speak of a person’s relationship to themselves and to others. The works range thematically between consolation and loss, affection and rejection, tenderness and vulnerability.
For the BEBEN exhibition, Cathérine Kuebel and Sabine Ammer develop four idea spaces that illuminate different aspects of the tremor. Sabine Ammer’s painterly-abstract approach and Cathérine Kuebel’s narrative-poetic concepts complement one another. Painting responds to sculpture, sculpture to text, text to installations, and installations in turn to painting.