Exhibition by the artist group Zusammenschluss für Raumfragen.
Lines plunge into plastic sheeting. Overlapping, they mix new colors in the reflections of the bubbling puddle. Easily visible from above. It's safe to sit there, nestled on foam. Since 2018, the five artists Gala Goebel, Lucy König, Julia Miorin, Luise von Rohden and Paula Wolber have been closely networked. Based on studio visits and work discussions, they exhibit together.
The exhibition title Knister Knister (Crinkle Crinkle) refers to the materiality of the works, as well as the imagined sound that arises when works, thoughts or feelings connect.
In the photographic series "im Regen stehen" (standing in the rain) by Gala Goebel, the photographed rain covers of prams, buggies, and infant car seats tell of the current situation of parents. Here, the child's well-being is often so paramount that the parents ultimately remain standing in the rain. The series "5 Minuten Ruhe für..." (5 minutes of peace for...) also addresses parenthood as a tightrope walk. The decision is left to the visitors: Is it worth it for them to spend 1.39 euros and 5 minutes entertaining a child, only to spend 10 minutes picking out tissue scraps from sofa crevices?
Paula Wolber's material consists of everyday objects. She orientates herself on the context in which things usually reside. Customary attributions are dissected, alienated, or broken. This results in kinetic objects that aim to overcome something. Whether this succeeds or ends in a looming catastrophe remains open. The sometimes humorous works, in their subtle incidentally, evoke the experience of one's own difficulties.
Luise von Rohden paints and folds. Her pictures are created with brushes, ink, and paper. She repeats stroke combinations until they condense into surfaces. Where two brushstrokes overlap or leave narrow gaps between them, fine lines form. Grooves and folds interweave with the painted lines. Light and shadow influence the color of the folded paper. Von Rohden strictly follows a principle of line execution in each series of paintings. However, due to the manual work, numerous variations arise. The pictures thus oscillate between the tranquility of precise repetition and the movement of minimal irregularities.
Julia Miorin's everyday life is her artistic material. The things, the furniture, the conversations, the disagreements, the haptic experience, and the feelings. Some things just stick. Then they are allowed to express themselves again, to spin in circles, or to be renegotiated. Sometimes quietly, minimalist, material-loving, associative, with irony and a delight in friction. And while the text gives us clues, couldn't everything have been a little bit different from an outside perspective?
The "body shells" series is generated from pattern drawings. Lucy König interprets the technical pattern shapes in sewing magazines as abstract drawings of the human body, examines them for their sculptural potential, and extracts and multiplies individual fragments. These are mirrored, rotated, and reassembled. This creates new bodies that are removed from their original functional contexts. A formal investigation becomes a collection.
Opening: March 1, 2025 | 6 PM
Exhibition duration: March 2 - April 5, 2025