structures & emotions
Group Show
JC Bright / Nina Gospodin / Zhanina Marinova / Käthe Schönle
04.04.-17.05.2025
Structures give us stability and orientation. However, structures can also restrict and limit us, blocking development and freedom. Emotions tell us what is important to us and give us the energy to strive for it – and to use structures or break out of them in the process. It is precisely this positioning that the artists are concerned with in the works for this exhibition.
For them – and for the viewer – non-representational art opens up tensions, perception and experience detached from habitual thinking in fixed categories. In this way, it opens up spaces for new sensory experience and reflection.
Nina Gospodin’s works are characterised by the modular use of templates that are constantly transformed into new constellations and figurations. This enables the realisation of paradoxes – of continuums, connections with opposing poles that cannot be resolved, but between which different positionings and thus states are possible.
In her colourful works, Zhanina Marinova explores perceptions, thoughts and feelings that fundamentally and mostly unconsciously determine human existence. In doing so, she also imaginatively invents her own reality and consciously enters into paradoxes into which life repeatedly drives us without reflection. In her works, she balances between knowledge and vision, planning and chance, control and intuition – without tipping to one side or the other.
Colour and ‘loose’ geometry are at the heart of JC Bright’s art. He makes colour the entry point of his work, ‘with the hope that they will be perceived before anything else.’ Using primary colours as the basis for his vibrant abstract paintings, he explores themes such as tradition, cultural heritage, family relationships, lived experiences and indigenous values.
For Käthe Schönle, non-representational paintings are visualisations of inner states. They emerge from the confrontation with external circumstances. The pictures depict relationships. They are a dynamic dialogue between colours and layers, forms and lines, edges and empty spaces. Without an obvious anchor in the figurative world.
‘Structures and Emotions’ invites you to immerse yourself in transcendental experience – which, as Kant argued, makes the realisation of experience possible. Non-representational images are, as Gerhard Richter puts it, ‘fictitious models, because they visualise a reality that we can neither see nor describe, but whose existence we can infer.’
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