ALCHEMY has long denoted the transformation of something ordinary into something extraordinary. Alchemical processes of searching and striving for transformation, manipulation and redetermination also play a large role in art, and it is exactly this approach that connects the work of SAMUEL SALCEDO and MICHELLE CONCEPCIÓN. Salcedo, whose cast sculptures seek the essence of human heads and bodies, manipulates the casting process in its materiality in order to reveal traces of impermanence and manifest states of mind. Concepción builds up her auratic, sometimes large-format works like the individual stages of a scientific experiment. Using pigment and canvas she attempts to reproduce natural processes and to integrate them into her paintings. 
 
The artists will be in attendance.
Nacht der Museen (Museum Night): 14.06.2025, 6 p. m. – midnight 
Ascension Day: 29.05. — 01.06.2025 closed! 
Summer break: 02.07. — 02.08.2025

Michelle Concepción

Samuel Salcedo

ALCHEMY

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

Sander Reijgers

Sebastian Menzke

Torsten Ruehle

Dirk Salz

Eric Butcher

Franziska Stünkel

Gisela Krohn

Johannes Kersting

Jürgen Paas

Matthias Kanter

Michael Laube

Mikael Fagerlund

Sun-Rae Kim

Szilard Huszank

Thomas Dillmann

Tine Benz

Update #Summer

OCTOPUS’S GARDEN – this famous song title from the Beatles evokes sounds in us and immediately stimulates the imagination. Exactly what happens on looking at the works of Sun-Rae Kim, which carry us off to a magical, mysterious, narrative, micro-fantasy cosmos. The South Korean-born artist moves with artistic virtuosity through the Asian and European worlds, combining them with fascinating playfulness, vividness and technical ability. In her new series too she transforms familiar everyday material into ornate objects or small picture panels. With enigmatic underwater creatures or utopian fantasy worlds, Sun-Rae Kim plays with our sensory perception …
The artist will be in attendance.

Kyle Egret

OCTOPUS´S GARDEN

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

PAINTING IS NO PROBLEM – this bold assertion, and the title of a work by 
Eberhard Ross, inevitably raises the question ‘What is painting?’ 
‘Painting is an artform that involves the application of paint onto 
a surface such as paper, canvas or wood’, says the dictionary. 
The three artists EBERHARD ROSS, PAUL DIESTEL and SANDER REIJGERS 
deal very differently with this artform. Ross, in his mysteriously luminous paintings 
with their fine chromatic gradations and delicately lineated surfaces, 
is interested in the impact of colour. Diestel paints his nature-inspired sculptures 
so as to heighten their expressive power, while Reijgers conceives painting as the 
expression of a fascination with the materiality of paint and the physical 
act of its application.
The artists will be in attendance.
The gallery is closed from May 1 - 4, 2025.

Eberhard Ross

Paul Diestel

PAINTING IS NO PROBLEM

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

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

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

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

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.

Hanna Nitsch

WENN WIR DURCH FLURE GEHEN #2

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.

Benjamin Rubloff

Maribel Mas

Pieter Obels

Follow the Line

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.