Artists

Hélène Fauquet, Liesbet Grupping, Bernát Haupt, Laura Nitsch, Barbara Juch, Esra Oezen, Kai Werner Schmidt

Press release

The artworks in the exhibition deal with the relationship between interior and exterior spaces in both an architectural and a mental sense. Architectural space can be understood as a stable sheltered space and a safe haven, but also as a place that isolates people from the outside world. Windows, as facilitators of light and air as well as a scopic relationship to the exterior, expand the spatial potential. Or the view is deliberately hindered with opaque glass. The boundary between inside and outside is freely adjustable. Natural spaces open up the view to the far distance and tend to promote self-reflective contemplation in the emotionally affected viewer. From the gaze outwards to the inward gaze. The inverse title of the exhibition indicates both the unconventional approach of the artists as well as special perceptual experiences. Fragmentation, emptiness, immateriality, blurriness or displacement characterise the places presented in the works. These spaces are heterogeneous and thus alive. The images are mostly abstract, painterly, ephemeral. Reality and fiction intermingle; light and colour do their part too.