Artists

Okka-Esther Hungerbühler

Press release

Fairy Tale Paintings are works that engage with (to me) familiar fairy tales. In painterly and sketchy manner, I have worked with sequences from fairy tales that have stayed with me. Often, these are existential narrative moments. With an understated brutality, they usher in a new phase of life, such as Snow White's death or the Star Talers' last shirt. My primary focus here is on the image in my mind, which has persisted for years. The exhibition opens with Connection Paintings: fabric pieces that link two canvases with cable-like, hand-sewn, golden fabric strips. These connections extend across the entire space. This guides viewers to the paintings at the rear of the gallery, requiring them to navigate through a kind of golden tangle to enter the second section of the exhibition. — Okka-Esther Hungerbühler Okka-Esther Hungerbühler (*1988, Bonn) lives and works in Berlin. She studied at the University of the Arts, Berlin and the Cooper Union, New York, and graduated from Professor Thomas Zipp's class in 2016. In 2025, she was nominated for the Swiss Art Awards. She has had exhibitions at museums and institutions, such as Kunstverein Dresden, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Schwartzsche Villa, Berlin; Artothek Cologne; Kunstverein Schwerin; Max-Lieber-Mann-Haus, Berlin; Kunstsaele, Berlin; Villa Concordia; Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin.