Current exhibition

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The Hungarian art historian Laszlo Glozer referred to the second half of the 20th century as ‘Stepping out of the Picture’. After the frame of the picture as a limitation was overcome, the boundaries between painting, installation, and sculpture were dissolved by extending painting into space.

The group exhibition Gravity’s Rainbow presents twelve current artistic positions that explore painting within and beyond the classical boundaries of the image, ranging from panel paintings and wall objects to colourful sculptures and site-specific installations. The invited artists examine various parameters of painting such as picture plane, support medium, materiality, spatiality, and surface. In an interplay with the exhibition space and its social and societal context, as well as in response to the specific conditions of the gallery, the artists will develop site-specific artworks. Their interweaving of urban space and art space causes a shift in perception, questioning the relationship between art and reality. The materials relate to further shifts: ‘non-artistic’ materials such as advertising banners, textiles, plastics, or building materials will be utilised.

Engaging in a dialogue with the gallery space, the artists of the exhibition create a spatial collage in which the works in the gallery visually overlap with the urban environment.

The exhibition title is borrowed from Thomas Pynchon’s novel Gravity’s Rainbow and refers to certain aspects featured in the exhibition, such as changes of perspective, shifts of perception, and the interplay between reality and fiction.

Curated by Franziska Hünig and Veronika Witte

With the kind support of the district development funds of the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion.

Image: Franziska Hünig, photo: Bernd Borchardt