»WHO CAME FIRST? The path to abstract painting« 
A lecture by Julia Voss (Deutsches Museum Berlin)
Thursday, November 28, 2024, 7 p.m.
The author Julia Voss will give a lecture at Galerie Drees entitled »WHO CAME FIRST? The path to abstract painting«. 
The Swedish painter Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) is one of the greatest rediscoveries of the 21st century. Julia Voss has written a biography of the exceptional artist and in her lecture will take a look behind the scenes of af Klint's surprising comeback. 
Hilma af Klint was already creating huge non-figurative paintings in 1906, years before her male colleagues declared themselves the inventors of abstraction. Although she lived at almost the same time as Wassily Kandinsky, she remained almost unknown during her lifetime. Today, af Klint is celebrated in the world's great museums, from Düsseldorf to London and New York.
Moderation 
Michael Stoeber, art historian, Hannover
Location 
Galerie Drees 
Weidendamm 15 
30167 Hannover 
 
Organization 
Bildungsverein Hannover e.V. in cooperation with the Forum für Politik und Kultur e.V.
Admission is free.

Julia Voss »WHO CAME FIRST? The path to abstract painting«

PAPER POSITIONS VIENNA 2024 
November 21 – 24, 2024 
Galerie Drees - Booth 30
PAPER POSITONS will be presented in Vienna for the first time this year. Art with and on paper is the focus of this fine salon fair in the historic Kursaal. 
We will be showing selected works by four international artists from the gallery. 
 
<a href="https://galerie-drees.de/en/artists/hanna-nitsch">Hanna Nitsch (DE)</a> 
<a href="https://galerie-drees.de/en/artists/matthias-kanter">Matthias Kanter (DE)</a> 
<a href="https://galerie-drees.de/en/artists/gustavo-diaz-sosa">Gustavo Díaz Sosa (CU)</a> 
<a href="https://galerie-drees.de/en/artists/johannes-kersting">Johannes Kersting (DE)</a>
PAPER POSITIONS VIENNA 2024 
Kursaal 
Johannesgasse 33 
1010 Wien 
<a href="https://www.paperpositions.com/de/staedte/wien">www.paperpositions.com</a> 

Opening hours 
Opening, Thursday, November 21, 6 - 9 p.m. 
Friday, November 22, 11 a.m. - 7 p.m. 
Saturday, November 23, 11 a.m. - 7 p.m. 
Sunday, November 24, 11 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Organization 
POSITIONS Berlin GmbH 
Potsdamer Str. 81a 
10785 Berlin 
+49 30 740 737 88 
info@paperpositions.com

Gustavo Diaz Sosa

Hanna Nitsch

Johannes Kersting

Matthias Kanter

PAPER POSITIONS VIENNA 2024

ART SALON ZÜRICH 2024 
October 23 – 27, 2024 
Galerie Drees - Booth C 15
The successful, young art fair <a href="https://www.artsalonzurich.com/en/welcome">Art Salon Zürich</a> is entering its third round in 2024 and we are delighted to be part of it.
Mikael Fagerlund (SE) will be showing floating acrylic objects that captivate with their visual clarity. In the paintings of Matthias Kanter (DE) you will discover a very reflective approach to abstraction. With Sander Reijgers (NL) we remain fascinated by the surface of his works and with the head sculptures by Samuel Salcedo (ES) our thoughts wander to our inner state and attitude...
ART SALON ZÜRICH 
Werkstadt-Zürich 
Halle D, Süd 
Hohlstrasse 400 
8048 Zürich - Altstetten 
(Passage Boesner!)
Opening hours 
Wednesday, October 23 - VIP Opening (by invitation only) 
Thursday, October 24 from 12 noon - 8 p.m. 
Friday, October 25 from 12 noon - 8 p.m. 
Saturday, October 26, from 12 noon - 8 p.m. 
Sunday, October 27, from 12 noon - 6 p.m.

Sander Reijgers

Mikael Fagerlund

Samuel Salcedo

ART SALON ZÜRICH 2024

The 9th Swiss Sculpture Triennial will take place from May 4 to October 30, 2024 in Bad Ragaz (CH) and Vaduz (LI). 
Europe's largest open-air exhibition celebrates a success story lasting over 20 years. 
Every three years since 2000, artists from all over the world have been invited to the traditional spa town of Bad Ragaz to create large-scale sculptures in the town and its landscape. 
As in 2021, Samuel Salcodo from Spain has been invited to present his fascinating head sculptures in front of the stunning mountain landscape.
Grand Opening: May 04, 2024 
14.00-16.00 Meet the artists at their sculptures. 
At the same time, young up-and-coming musicians and experienced musicians such as Scalette Stocker or a duo from Les Chouettes will perform at all the major sculpture locations 
17:00-18:00 Opening ceremony on the Giessenpark Festwiese with speeches, comedy and culinary delights 
19.00  Les Chouettes 
20.45 Ribelsteaks 
21.30-01.00 Afterparty with DJ OK
Location: 
<a href="https://badragartz.ch/en">9th Swiss Sculpture Triennial</a> 
Festwiese Giessenpark 
Seepromenade, 7310 Bad Ragaz, Switzerland
At the second venue of the Triennale in Vaduz (LI), Samuel Salcedo's head stele "Watchtower" will rise confidently and solitarily.
Opening Vaduz: May 08, 2024 
17.00 Vaduz Town Hall, Liechtenstein 
Reservations by e-mail: info@erlebevaduz.li
Admission free

Samuel Salcedo at the 9th Swiss Sculpture Triennial

Hubertus Butin (art historian and author) will give a lecture on conceptual art at Gallery Drees on Thursday, March 7, 2024 at 7 p.m. with the title: "Live in your head - aspects of conceptual art of the 1960s and 1970s". 
Ulrich Krempel (art historian, curator and former museum director of the Sprengel Museum Hannover) will host the event.
Hubertus Butin, born in 1964, worked as an art historian in Gerhard Richter's studio in Cologne in the 1990s. He has published numerous essays and books on contemporary art and art theory. He also organizes exhibitions at international museums as a guest curator and works as an expert worldwide for collectors, art dealers, auction houses and state criminal investigation offices. 
Hubertus Butin lives and works in Berlin.
Lecture by Hubertus Butin, moderated by Ulrich Krempel 
Thursday, 07.03.2024, 7 p.m.
Gallery Drees 
Weidendamm 15 
30167 Hanover
Admission is free.
The event is organized in cooperation with the Bildungsverein Hannover, QBK and the Forum für Politik und Kultur e.V.

Lecture by Hubertus Butin - Aspects of conceptual art of the 60s and 70s

Paul Schwer – refuge
The Kunstverein Lippstadt e.V. is showing current works of the Düsseldorf artist Paul Schwer. 
As soon as you enter the exhibition entitled refuge, you are surrounded by dynamic colors and unlimited forms. They seem to burst the surfaces, move in space and dissolve into light.
Duration of the exhibition: 
February 4, - March 24, 2024
Opening: 
February 4, 2024, 11.30 a.m. 
Welcome by Franz-Josef Laforet (Chairman) 
Introduction and artist talk with Prof. Dr. Erich Franz 
and Kathrin Heyer
Opening hours: 
Tue, Thu, Fr: 3. p.m. - 6 p.m. 
We: 3. p.m. - 8 p.m. 
Sa and Sun: 11 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Kunstverein Lippstadt e. V. 
Am Bernhardbrunnen 1 
59555 Lippstadt 
Fon: 02941 7436560
<a href="https://www.kunstverein-lippstadt.net/">www.kunstverein-lippstadt.net</a>

Paul Schwer

Paul Schwer – Kunstverein Lippstadt. e. V.

art KARLSRUHE - Fair for Classical Modern and Contemporary Art 
22. - 25.02.2024 
Gallery Drees - Stand R 01
We present Jürgen Jansen as a one-person-show in our booth, as well as the latest works by Venske &amp; Spänle, Tine Benz, Samuel Salcedo and Thomas Dillmann. 
Large-format steel works by Pieter Obels will be shown on the sculpture square in DM Hall 4 / R02.
Preview: for VIPs and press 
Wednesday, February 21, 2024 from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Opening hours: 
Thursday to Saturday: 11.00 am to 7.00 pm 
Sunday: 11.00 a.m. to 6.00 p.m.
Karlsruhe Trade Fair Center 
Messeallee 1 
76287 Rheinstetten
Access via the West Entrance and East Entrance
<a href="https://www.art-karlsruhe.de/en/">www.art-karlsruhe.de</a>

Jürgen Jansen

Pieter Obels

Thomas Dillmann

Tine Benz

Venske &amp; Spänle

GALERIE DREES at the art KARLSRUHE

HANNA NITSCH – WENN WIR DURCH FLURE GEHEN #1 
 
The Kunstverein Ludwigsburg's first exhibition in its anniversary year 2024 is entitled »WENN WIR DURCH FLURE GEHEN«. 
The "WE" in the title says it all, as the artist Hanna Nitsch has invited both the Berlin musician and sound artist Katharina Schmidt and her daughter Lilli to perform together in the rooms of the Kunstverein. The result is a cooperative project that deals with floating, fleetingness and transparency, farewells and departures, and remembering. Fragments create an imaginary transparency where the context of a story no longer exists. Three generations of women present fragments of these themes side by side in the exhibition. Ink drawings, photographs, texts and a sound installation created especially for the Kunstverein space can be seen and heard.
A cooperative artistic project with Hanna Nitsch, Katharina Schmidt and Lilli Nitsch.
Vernissage: 
Thursday, January 18, 2024, 6.30 p.m.
Kunstverein Kreis Ludwigsburg e.V. 
In the MIK 
Eberhardstraße 1 
71634 Ludwigsburg
Entrance: Via Eberhardstraße (corner of Wilhelmstraße)
Opening hours: 
Thursday - Sunday: 14.00 - 18.00 p.m.
Admission is free.
Phone: 0 71 41 / 92 91 96 
mail@kunstverein-ludwigsburg.de 
<a href="https://www.kunstverein-ludwigsburg.de/">www.kunstverein-ludwigsburg.de</a>

Hanna Nitsch – Kunstverein Ludwigsburg

Pepa Salas Vilar – Weißer Rabe Cuervo Blanco
The Poetic Realism that Pepa Salas Vilar presents us with her new pictorial work aims to praise the different, unusual or rare. 
That which is often discriminated in society is given an extraordinary, sacred or magical value by the artist. She manages to create a personal world of symbols and metaphors in a figurative black and white scenario with color accents.
Vernissage 
Sunday, October 15, 2023, 12.15 noon 
 
Opening remarks 
Jesús Gómez, Künstler
Kunstverein Wedemark e.V. 
Im Bürgerhaus 
Am Markt 1 
30900 Wedemark / Bissendorf 
Phone 05130 95 49 853 
info@imago-kunstverein.de 
www.imago-kunstverein.de 
www.kunstregion.de
Opening hours 
We - Fr 11 a.m. -1 p.m. and 3 p.m. - 6 p.m. 
Sa 11 a.m. -1 p.m. and 3 p.m. - 5 p.m. 
Su 3 p.m. - 5 p.m. 
And by appointment

Pepa Salas Vilar

Pepa Salas Vilar – Kunstverein Wedemark e.V.

Hanna Nitsch _ADORE_LES
Hanna Nitsch's work is concerned with the construction of individual and collective identities. From the perspective of the triad - woman, artist and mother - she questions the role models and stereotypes of our society and culture.
Opening 
Friday, September, 15, 2023, 7 p.m. – 8.30 p.m.
Introduction 
Julia Sonnefeld-Wurthmann M.A.
Duration of the exhibition 
September, 16 – November 12, 2023
Opening hours 
Wed – Fri and Sun: 3 p.m. – 6 p.m. 
Sat: 11 a.m. – 14 p.m.
Entrance is free.
Kunstverein Paderborn e.V. 
Kamp 13 
33098 Paderborn
<a href="https://kunstverein-paderborn.de/">www.kunstverein-paderborn.de</a>

Hanna Nitsch – Kunstverein Paderborn

ART SALON ZÜRICH 2023 
27.09. - 01.10.2023 
Galerie Drees - Stand C 16
ART SALON ZÜRICH 
Werkstadt-Zürich 
Halle D, Süd 
Hohlstrasse 400 
8048 Zürich
The young art fair Art Salon Zurich is entering its second round in 2023 and we are happy to be part of it again. This year we are once again presenting in friendly cooperation with Galerie Obrist from Essen. For the first time we will be showing sensational canvas works by the Leipzig artist Hans Aichinger (DE). Also figurative paintings by Johannes Kersting (DE) and abstract wall objects by Dirk Salz (DE). We also present unique sculptures by Catalan artist Samuel Salcedo (ES) and Dutch artist Pieter Obels (NL).

ART SALON ZÜRICH 2023

Paul Schwer shows sculptures at »BLICKACHSEN 13« in the Kurpark and the Schlosspark Bad Homburg. 
 
Duration of the exhibition 
May 14 - October 01, 2023 
in cooperation with the Foundation Insel Hombroich, Neuss 
Curated by Christian Scheffel and Roland Nachtigäller
Artists 
Gili Avissar, Pedro Cabrita Reis, Michael Dekker, Tamara Grcic, Sabine Groß, Erwin Heerich, Judith Hopf, Gereon Krebber, Norbert Kricke, Oliver Kruse, Arik Levy, Wilhelm Mundt, Katsuhito Nishikawa, Bettina Pousttchi, Thomas Rentmeister, Fernando Sánchez Castillo, Thomas Schütte, Paul Schwer, Esther Stocker, William Tucker, Sonja Vordermaier, Ina Weber, Winter/Hoerbelt
Vernissage 
Sunday, May 14, 2023, 11.30 a.m. 
on the Schmuckplatz in the Kurpark 
(opposite the Kaiser-Friedrich-Promenade 55) 
61348 Bad Homburg v. d. Höhe
<a href="https://www.blickachsen.de/en/blickachsen-13">www.blickachsen.de</a>

Paul Schwer – BLICKACHSEN 13

The Marburger Kunstverein shows in a solo exhibition the project OURCONOMY in which Lucia Dellefant wants to sensibilize our view on the globalized world.
Duration of the exhibition 
August 11  - October 5, 2023
Opening hours 
Thuesday – Sunday: 11 a.m. – 5 p.m. 
Wednesday: 11 a.m. – 8 p.m.
Marburger Kunstverein 
Gerhard-Jahn-Platz 
535037 Marburg
info@marburger-kunstverein.de 
<a href="http://marburger-kunstverein.de/event/jahresprogramm-2023/">www.marburger-kunstverein.de</a>

Lucia Dellefant

Lucia Dellefant – Marburger Kunstverein

The Kunstverein "Kunst und Kultur zu Hohenaschau e.V." shows from July 7 – August 6, 2023 a comprehensive retrospective of 51 works from the creative years from 1999 to today.
Latest, unknown paintings of the longtime gallery artist Thomas Dillmann will be presented next to well-known canvases.
The opening will take place on July 07 at 7:30 pm. Andrea Kühnhackl, chairwoman of "Kunst und Kultur zu Hohenaschau e.V." will introduce the exhibition.
THOMAS DILLMANN – Painting 
July 7 – August 6, 2023
Kunst und Kultur zu Hohenaschau e.V. 
An der Festhalle 4 
83229 Aschau 
<a href="http://www.kuku-hohenaschau.de/kunst-und-kultur/kuenstler.htm">www.kuku-hohenaschau.de</a> 
<a href="mailto:info@kuku-hohenauschau.de">info@kuku-hohenauschau.de</a>
Opening hours 
Friday and Saturday 4 p.m. – 7 p.m. 
Sunday 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.

Thomas Dillmann Painting – Kunst und Kultur zu Hohenaschau e.V.

Samuel Salcedo is one of 200 artists selected to take part in NordArt 2023 at the Kunstwerk Carlshütte. It is the 24th showing of work by international artists in an area of over 100,000 square metres in and around the historical iron foundry in Schleswig-Holstein. NordArt is one of the largest annual exhibitions of contemporary art in Europe, and this year runs from 3 June to 8 October.
We are delighted the Samuel Salcedo is a part of this story.
It will be well worth a visit to rediscover his unique sculptured heads, whose portrayal of the human countenance is always both profound and humorous, in this remarkable atmosphere. Samuel Salcedo will be represented by 17 works, made of iron, polished aluminium and epoxy resin. The Carlshütte in Büdelsdorf is only 35 km from Kiel, and can eminently be combined with a journey north … 
Samuel Salcedo and Robert Drees will be there on the opening day, 3 June 2023, from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.!
NordArt 2023 
Vorwerksallee 
24782 Büdelsdorf
Duration of the exhibition 
June 3 – October 8, 2023
Opening hours 
Thuesday bis Sunday 11 a.m. – 7 p.m. Uhr
<a href="https://www.nordart.de/">www.nordart.de</a>

Samuel Salcedo auf der NordArt 2023

From 19.05. to 17.06. the Kunstverein Viernheim dedicates a multimedia solo exhibition to our gallery artist Hanna Nitsch. 
In MADONNA, MEDEA &amp; ICH #1 she deals primarily with the ambivalence of individual and collective identity, cultural role models and pictorial stereotypes.
Also shown in the public space is a multi-part photographic work that Hanna Nitsch developed especially for this purpose. On the six billboards distributed in Viernheim's urban space, VIERNHEIM_BILLBOARDS_MADONNA # she confronts the viewer with questions about contemporary motherhood between Maria and Medea, happiness and pain.
Kunstverein Viernheim 
c/o Kunsthaus Viernheim Rathausstr. 36 68519 Viernheim
Opening 
Friday, May 5, 2023, 7 p.m.
Greeting 
Fritz Stier, Kunstverein Viernheim
Introduction 
Marcus Körber, Städt. Galerie Wolfsburg
Duration of the exhibition 
May 5, – June 17, 2023
Opening hours 
Thursday – Friday 3 p.m. - 6 p.m Saturday 10 a.m. - 1 p.m.
<a href="https://kunstverein-viernheim.de/">www.kunstverein-viernheim.de</a>

Hanna Nitsch – Kunstverein Viernheim

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Markus Fräger has fascinated us for years with his concentrated and haunting figurative painting. He died sadly far too young in 2020.
The Museum Schloss Cappenberg in the district of Unna (where Fräger grew up) is now showing a large retrospective exhibition of his work. Fräger’s emotionally charged scenes, playing out in moodily lit interiors with something of the old masters about them, always deal with a ‘before’ and an ‘after’. Yet their stories seem to be open-ended …
MUSEUM SCHLOSS CAPPENBERG KREIS UNNA 
Schlossberg 1 b 59379 Selm
Duration of the exhibition 
April 30 – September 24, 2023
Opening hours 
Thuesday - Sunday, Public holidays: 10 a.m. – 5.30 p.m.
<a href="https://www.kreis-unna.de/Erleben/Kultur/Museum-Schloss-Cappenberg/">www.kreis-unna.de</a>
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Markus Fräger – Retrospective in the Museum Schloss Cappenberg Kreis Unna

With his fictional landscape compositions, the Hungarian-German artist Szilard Huszank takes us to sceneries that are apparently idyllic and full of longing. Starting from a large repertoire of classical motifs, he transforms them into a play of colors and surfaces via his individual artistic language. The virtuosically designed works, which combine technical skill with content, are being shown for the first time at the Kunstverein Ludwigsburg.
Vernissage 
February 2, 2023, 6.30 p.m., the artist is present
Welcome 
Harald Jahnke
Exhibition remarks 
Dr. Martin Hellmold, art historian
Duration of the exhibition 
February 2, – March 23, 2023
Finissage 
March 23, 2023, 6.30 p.m.
Kunstverein Ludwigsburg 
Eberhardstraße 1 
71634 Ludwigsburg 
Fon: 0 71 41.92 91 96 
kunstverein-ludwigsburg.de
Opening hours 
Thrusday – Sunday: 2 p.m.  – 6 p.m.
<a href="https://www.kunstverein-ludwigsburg.de/">www.kunstverein-ludwigsburg.de</a>

Szilard Huszank

Szilard Huszank – Kunstverein Ludwigsburg

Nothing influences us as much as the family. We associate it with love, support, trust – but also pain, disappointment and effort. Today, the definition of family is no longer clear: In addition to the typical middle-class family, a wide variety of forms of cohabitation are becoming established. 
What role does family background play in one’s own life concept? What influence do money, power and social role models have on family life? Can love and care also be constricting? What stories and secrets shape our relationship with relatives or friends? 
The group show “doing family” focuses on the influences and challenges that characterize family life.
With artworks by Johan Bävman, Olga Bushkova, Nesa Gschwend, Diana Karklin, Tanja Krebs, Isabelle Krieg, Janaina Mello Landini, Hanna Nitsch, Caroline Minjolle, Tim Rod, Peter Sauerer, Klaudia Schifferle, Magnus Wennman
Vögele Kultur Zentrum 
Gwattstrasse 14 
8808 Pfäffikon SZ
Duration of the exhibition 
15.11.2022 – 19.03.2023
Opening hours 
Tue – Su: 11 a.m. – 17 p.m. 
Thursday: 11 a.m. – 20 p.m.
<a href="http://www.voegelekultur.ch/">www.voegelekultur.ch</a>

Hanna Nitsch – Vögele Kulturzentrum (CH)

Since September 24, 2022 the sculpture AUTOEATER by the artist duo Venske &amp; Spänle can be seen at the Stachus in front of the Palace of Justice (Munich).

Venske & Spänle — AUTOEATER am Stachus, München

ELYSIUM – the place of the blessed, a place of reverie, of longing … 
Is this what we associate, what we sense, when we take in Johannes Kersting’s images? The light, the gentleness, the atmospheres that Kersting elaborates on canvas and paper leave us with a resounding calm. Kersting, who also trained as a photographer, is a master of the art of lighting in his scenarios, and not by chance do his image worlds recall the paintings of Edward Hopper. Do we long for these places too?
The artist will attend the opening.
A new catalog will be published – <a href="https://galerie-drees.de/en/artists/johannes-kersting">LAST CALL UTOPIA</a>

Hirofumi Fujiwara

ELYSIUM

25 YEARS OF GALLERY DREES, 125 EXHIBITIONS AND ONE OPENING!
We could give ourselves a retrospective pat on the back for everything we’ve achieved over the years. But if we hadn’t done it right, we wouldn’t still be here after 25 years! So we aren’t looking back but pleasurably ahead!
We have invited four talents with different artistic backgrounds to take part in the exhibition ANGRILLEN – YOUNG TALENTS #1. All four took their MFAs between 2018 and 2024.
Carolin Israel (Düsseldorf) 
Haakon Neubert (Münster) 
Maria Trezinski (Speyer) 
Philipp Stöckel (Leipzig)
ANGRILLEN – The German word for opening the barbecue season. One of the most popular leisure activities worldwide, and unusual in an art context. For us it means firing up, sparking curiosity, looking ahead. New artists. New to the gallery. New to Hanover. YOUNG TALENTS!
The gallery is closed from October 31 - November 3, 2024.

Carolin Israel

Haakon Neubert

Maria Trezinski

Philipp Stöckel

ANGRILLEN

SUN MASCHINE – the title Tine Benz has given to this radiant image. 
Light, sun, summer – the sense of ease we all love! 
The play of light and colour is intriguingly captured 
in many of our artists‘ works. Bright landscapes, 
clear abstractions or vibrant sculptures can create a summery 
atmosphere of light-hearted pleasure. We have curated an exhibition 
of painting, photography, wall objects and sculptures that radiates the vitality of summer.
Raise a glass with us to the summer and to art!

Jens Hausmann

Peter Heber

Ramon Surinyac

Sebastian Menzke

Torsten Ruehle

Dirk Salz

Eric Butcher

Franziska Stünkel

Gisela Krohn

Jürgen Paas

Michael Laube

Sun-Rae Kim

Update #Summer

Leave-taking, departure, suspension, elusiveness, transparency and again and again recollection – in her exhibition »Wandering through Corridors #2« Hanna Nitsch places unusually delicate ink drawings of fragmentary faces beside powerful photographs in order to examine this very difference. The photographs document the dialogue between the artist and her daughter in everyday images. All these fragmentary insights create an imaginary transparency, a kind of ‘interface’, through which interior and exterior, light and shadow, time and place can connect into a possible whole. The site-specific exhibition is accompanied by a sound installation by the Berlin audio artist Katharina Schmidt. 
 
Hanna Nitsch will attend the opening.

WENN WIR DURCH FLURE GEHEN #2

Constructed scenes, melancholy landscapes, architectural images as the reflections of hopeful utopia – we show three artists who are preoccupied with the creative drive of civilised society. They illustrate, reduce, stage. The paintings by our gallery artist Thomas Dillmann and the works of Jens Hausmann are suffused with strong contrasts of light and shadow, while the photographs by the young graduate Max van Dorsten contain a mysterious tension. The images are charged with what can’t be seen – similarly to the SUSPENCE of a Hitchcock film …

Max van Dorsten

DILLMANN, HAUSMANN, VAN DORSTEN

It is often said that ‘less is more’. In our overstimulated world the works by these six artists are havens of undisturbed sensory experience. The exhibition shows positions that combine a geometric-technical compositional principle with colour fields, lines and clear basic forms. This art is concrete and constructive. A fine distincition is revealed between the further development and minimisation of theoretical boundaries. The versatility of the apparent strictness, and the wealth of approaches, materials and image carriers, is presented in oil paintings by Daniel Behrendt (DE) and Sander Reijgers (NL), wall objects by Mikael Fagerlund (SE) and Jürgen Paas (DE), sculptures by Julia Mangold (US) and image-objects by Dirk Salz (DE).

Daniel Behrendt

Julia Mangold

KON- KRET +STRUKTIV

What do Hans Aichinger, Matthias Kanter and Gerard Mas have in common? It’s their fascination with composition, light distribution, fall of fabric and coloration in the way of the old masters, which they translate into the here and now. Their subversive interventions play with the hollow concept of a historically situated cultural appropriation, opening doors to new interpretations. Aichinger captures his protagonists on canvas by means of exact stage directions and moody, dramatic lighting. Kanter’s abstractions relate to the composition and coloration of the Renaissance and Baroque. Mas translates old-master portraits into majestic sculptural figures and mischievously transfers them to the present day through the addition of ironic accessories. The artists’ reference to the Renaissance and Baroque is especially noticeable …
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Gerard Mas

WHO IS WHO IS WHO

Coexist − Local Global − in this sixth part of her continuing Coexist series, Franziska Stünkel guides us from the urban space emptied by the pandemic to the revitalised big cities. In 2021 and 2022 she photographed in Germany at first, then in Europe, America and Australia. Her recent reflections of our variously interconnected societies show us people in increasingly digital environments and a domesticated natural world, surrounded by complexity. Tension-charged and calm, multicoloured and withdrawn, moving and melancholy − Franziska Stünkel’s photographs turn a many-faceted gaze onto up-to-the-minute questions of global coexistence.
Finissage with Franziska Stünkel 
Saturday, August 19, 2023, 12 p.m.

Coexist — Local Global

DIE WAT SPAART, DIE WAT HEEFT – Gallery artist <a href="https://galerie-robert-drees.de/en/kuenstler/eric-butcher/">Eric Butcher</a> developed the idea for the new exhibition. His mother, grewing up during the war and was marked by constant scarcity, carried this Dutch proverb into the family. All artists exhibit an economy or frugality of which my mother would approve and which ironically seems to capture something of the spirit of our times. A concern for the environment, a desire to step more lightly on the planet, or a preoccupation – for various reasons – with objects with histories, the drivers for their creative strategies are multifarious.
The eight international artists in the group exhibition have developed innovative and artistically fruitful approaches to the concepts of “reduction”, “reuse” and “recycling” and implemented them in painting, installation and sculpture.

DIE WAT SPAART, DIE WAT HEEFT

FOLLOW THE LINE – everything proceeds from the line, the common thread of the new exhibition, presented in the expressive forms of sculpture, painting and drawing. This international show with the Dutch sculptor <a href="https://galerie-robert-drees.de/en/kuenstler/pieter-obels/">Pieter Obels</a>, the Berlin-based painter American <a href="https://galerie-robert-drees.de/en/gastkuenstler/benjamin-rubloff/">Benjamin Rubloff</a> and the Venezuelan graphic artist <a href="https://galerie-robert-drees.de/en/gastkuenstler/maribel-mas/">Maribel Mas</a>, now resident in Leipzig, shows how impressive, varied and compelling the compositional element of the line can be in the artistic process. 
The exhibition shows the very varying characteristics of the ‘object of artistic examination’ in Pieter Obels’ steel sculptures, Benjamin Rubloff’s graffiti paintings or Maribel Mas’s pen-and-ink drawings. Now robust and vibrant, now strong and direct, now light and delicate. 
The uniqueness of the artistic handwriting is characterised by the form and configuration of the line, which crucially influences the emotional impression that the work sparks in the viewer.
Pieter Obels, Benjamin Rubloff and Maribel Mas will attend the opening.

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Johannes Kersting

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