Susanne Bürner, Linse, 2022, Digital print on museum glass and cotton, 80x60cm (each)
Schwarz ist keine Farbe
Susanne Bürner | Roey Victoria Heifetz | Emil Holmer | Bettina Hutschek | Benjamin Murphy | Miguel Rothschild | Tobias Sternberg
20.5 – 29.5.2022
Opening: Friday 20.5.2022 6-10 pm
“Schwarze Milch der Frühe wir trinken sie abends
wir trinken sie mittags und morgens wir trinken sie nachts
wir trinken und trinken”
Todesfuge, Paul Celan
A gap, a hole, a shadow, a frame, a line, a burn, a drop of ink. Defining, contrasting, concentrating, emphasizing, and questioning with its lack of information, its void of visual cues. The work of seven artists leaning on, mirroring, using, exploring black in significant and interesting ways.
Curated by Tobias Sternberg
Susanne Bürner explores the manipulative potential of images by making visible the illusion and disillusion they emanate in equal measure. She shows situations and spaces that are difficult to open up because they touch the boundaries of perception. As a viewer, one is thrown back on oneself.
Roey Victoria Heifetz, Intervention, 2022, graphite, ink, charcoal and pigment powder on paper, 150 x 190 cm
Roey Victoria Heifetz creates large-scale, textured drawings of people who identify as transgender, often layering portraits of acquaintances with fictional subjects, and exaggerating human features such as skin and muscles. She poses intimate questions in her practice about the body, gender, desire, insecurities, and regrets. Heifetz deals with the mental and physical transitions she is experiencing, transitioning from a man’s body to a woman’s body.
Emil Holmer, Untitled, 2021, Ink on paper, 20,7x29,7 cm
Emil Holmer layers elements of impressions, collage and facsimile until they meld unrecognisably into complex paintings functioning as visual machines; triggering our senses without offering meaning or manual.
Bettina Hutschek, HAUS 209, 2016, HD video, 9'55"
Bettina Hutschek writes stories: She analyzes contemporaneous concerns and translates them into poetic myths. Her practice is set on multi-disciplinary research which generates essay-films, performances, texts and installations. Based on documentary material, she juxtapose layers of fiction with “reality”; the resulting stories make an imaginary and phantasmagoric reinterpretation of history possible.
Benjamin Murphy, Untitled, 2021, charcoal on paper, A4
Benjamin Murphy’s current work explores themes of polarity, time, memory, and contrast – often rendered in charcoal on raw canvas. He enjoys reading, skateboarding, and talking about himself in the third person.
Miguel Rothschild, Sodoma, 2015, Fine art print on Hahnemühle paper with burns, 94,7x122,2cm
„Miguel Rothschild is a walking contradiction, a descendant of the unbelieving Thomas, who makes a game of seeking paradise and tracking down empty words. A small sign in the middle of a picturesque landscape announces the end. The artist has completely pierced the sky above it, as if, before night falls, in order to shine with breathtaking, piercingly beautiful intensity, he still has to find out what is hidden behind the last things.“
by María Cecilia Barbetta © 2015, for the book Miguel Rothschild
Tobias Sternberg, Facts, 2022, Steel, wood and epoxy, 155x100x8cm
Tobias Sternberg creates functional artworks for a dysfunctional world, balancing the potentially violent against the probably impotent. His objects, collages and performances manifest poetic gestures in forms that can both be both touched and believed in.