nebula
© Louis Hay / Julia Mertes

nebula

An exhibition about the ephemeral.
About transitions, dissolutions, states of suspension – and the question of what eludes our perception.

n e b u l a is dedicated to the ephemeral as a mode – a condition of artistic thinking in which forms oscillate, meanings shift, and perception enters a state of tentative suspension.

The exhibition brings together positions that engage with transitions – visual, material, atmospheric.
The works unfold across diverse artistic media: painterly image-spaces, photographic fragments, drawn traces, sculptural constellations, and moving images – making transitions tangible within materiality itself.

At the center lies what withdraws: what flickers, slips, displaces.
Body, image, and language enter into a relation that resists fixation.
n e b u l a conceives of transitions as constellative fields in which perception becomes destabilized.

The assembled works articulate fleeting states.
Texture and image emerge as temporary condensations of a constantly shifting structure – where every formation is already imbued with its own dissolution.

The exhibition reflects the states of uncertainty that mark our present:
economic tensions, ecological upheaval, diffuse visions of the future.

Yet n e b u l a offers no answers, no order, no narrative.
Instead, it opens a space in-between – a field of possibility in which perception transforms, meanings dissolve, and new figures of thought may emerge.

A choreographed interstice
where perception is not affirmed, but unsettled, displaced, expanded.

n e b u l a insists on that aesthetic dimension
where seeing becomes porous, hearing becomes tactile, and thinking remains provisional.

Not a statement, but a state.
Not form, but movement.
Not image, but threshold.

Curated by Diana Nowak

Participating artists

Image for nebula Video still from People gathered in front of the entrance to Galerie im Saalbau for the opening of the exhibition A visitor kneels in front of Isabella Fürnkäs’ Image for nebula Image for nebula Video still from Image for nebula Installation view of Barbara Lüdde’s Painting Video still from Photograph In the foreground, the segmented chain of Nina Laaf’s Image for nebula View of Nina Laaf’s sculpture Group photo at the opening of the exhibition nebula at Galerie im Saalbau: from left to right Louis Hay, Ani Schulze, Nina Laaf, Jana Schulz, Isabella Fürnkäs, and curator Diana Nowak (right) standing side by side in front of the audience. Image for nebula Painting Three glazed ceramic sculptures

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