Exhibition
ORBIT
Group exhibition
Five female artists & two male artists
Eva Blanché · Florian Merkel · Hanne Kroll · Haiying Xu
Kerstin Seltmann · Lydia Thomas · Manuel Rumpf
Vernisssage
06.04.2025
Exhibition duration
08.04.2025 bis 23.05.2025
Eva Blanché
In this context: The discovery for me was the painter Eva Blanché!
The laconic and yet so loving view of the object - the virtuoso execution a la minute... Someone has created a wonderful opportunity to process the world in all its madness through art. I will follow your work. ...
[Klaus Noack / Galerie im Malzhaus Plauen | Excerpt from the speech at the opening of the exhibition “HAUBENTAUCHER III”, ibid., 07.2023]
Zielscheibe
2025 | acrylic, pencil on canvas | 30 cm round
Lektürische Komposition
2025 | acrylic on canvas | 30 x 24 cm
Perlenohhring
2025 | acrylic, glitter on canvas | 30 x 24 cm
Frechlachs Paulchen
2025 | acrylic on canvas | 50 cm round
Florian Merkel
The manual coloring of black and white photographs has a long tradition, it has existed almost as long as the medium of photography itself, because the sight of a monochrome image can leave an emotional deficit. For a long time, especially in commissioned photographic work, it was obvious to generate the otherwise unreproducible information with a brush. ...
From the catalog text for: TARGETED SETTINGS: OVERPAINTED PHOTOGRAPHY IN CONTEMPORARY ART curated by Stefan Gronert, Sprengel Museum Hannover, 2019
Aktive Erholung
2024 | Egg white glaze paint on silver gelatine baryta | 40×60 cm in passe-partout in wooden frame
Frost
2021/24 | Egg white glaze, Cibachrome and acrylic paint and gold on silver gelatine baryte | 60×50 cm in a carved wooden frame
Mittagsglut
2016 | Cibachrome paint and gold on silver gelatine baryta | 17×12 cm in passe-partout in wooden frame
Am Strand
2018 | Egg white glaze, Cibachrome and acrylic paint on silver gelatine baryta | 22×15 cm in passe-partout in wooden frame with museum glass
Hanne Kroll
Animals populate Kroll's works and are explored through painting. Whether it is the surface texture of a fish or the light refracted on a dog's fur, she tirelessly explores painterly possibilities and sometimes realizes them more abstractly, sometimes more realistically. She is fascinated by people's view of animals and the cultural or socio-cultural differences in their treatment of the various species. Animal protagonists often become part of a fantastic world of the jungle or the deep sea, allowing the viewer to escape into distant worlds, but also allowing an almost personal perspective on the animal, a brief encounter between individuals.
La femme
2025 | oil on canvas | 65×80 cm
Zeitsprung
2023 | oil on canvas | 70×70 cm
Baila
2025 | oil on canvas | 70×70 cm
Engelszungen
2025 | oil on canvas | 115 x 140 cm
Haiying Xu
The Chinese painter Haiying Xu combines elements from East and West in her painting and plays with people's longings. The central theme in Haiying Xu's work is the exploration of her own identity.
Sanbaishan 46
2025 | oil on canvas | 120×90 cm
Mädchen mit Boot 007
2017 | oil on wood | 60×60 cm
Sanbaishan
2020 | oil on wood | 70×50 cm
Juni
2020 | oil on wood | 80×80 cm
Kerstin Seltmann
Kerstin Seltmann, born in East Berlin in 1961, wanted to become a painter. It was not an easy path, especially at a time when the GDR was already noticeably disintegrating and there was hardly any room to breathe for young, creative and rebellious people like Seltmann. Without being enrolled at a university, she received an academic education thanks to excellent mentors.
fragile
2012-2021 | mixed media on canvas | 80×80 cm
Hand und Fuß
2012-2021 | mixed media on canvas | 80×80 cm
ORBIT
Oil on canvas | 80×80 cm
AI vs Bitcoin
2012-2021 | mixed media on canvas | 80×80 cm
Lydia Thomas
Lydia Thomas, born in Karl-Marx-Stadt / Chemnitz, studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich under Prof. Anke Doberauer. Erasmus scholarship for a semester abroad at the Academy of Fine Arts in Lisbon Large-format mural at the Goethe Institute in Munich ...
Manuel Rumpf
Our view of today's landscape is often fleeting. Forgetting and repression dominate our perception of everyday places, which is driven by speed and the pursuit of goals.
In his works, Manuel Rumpf deals with the atmospheres of modern landscapes, which are shaped more than ever by man, which have only come into being because we live in them.
From the series “Peripherie”
2024-25 | Ink painting on paper | 22×30 cm
From the series “Peripherie”
2024-25 | Ink painting on paper | 22×30 cm
From the series “Peripherie”
2024-25 | Ink painting on paper | 22×30 cm