FOUR POSITIONS IN PAINTING

Christoph Hänsli, İhsan Oturmak, Bernd Ribbeck, Melanie Smith
Vernissage: Friday Jan. 14, 2022, 6-8pm

Galerie Peter Kilchmann is pleased to present the group exhibition Four Positions in Painting with Christoph Hänsli (*1963 in Zurich, where he lives and works), İhsan Oturmak (*1987 in Gördük, Diyarbakir; lives and works in Istanbul), Bernd Ribbeck (*1974 in Cologne; lives in Berlin) and Melanie Smith (*1965 in Poole; lives and works in London and Mexico City). Each position will occupy one of the four rooms in our gallery space at Rämistrasse 33 and show new works created between 2020 and 2021. In addition to a new video work by Melanie Smith, the focus of the exhibition lies on painting, which connects and at the same time distances all the presented positions from each other. Precise, elaborate colour surfaces and graphic elements in small-format paintings, as well as an individual, questioning view of reality, are characteristic of all four of them. Yet the artists know how to illuminate the multifaceted potential of painting and the peculiar aesthetics of this timeless medium each from a different anglehttps://www.peterkilchmann.com/exhibitions/current/four-positions-in-painting

“Don’t Look Back, Deep is the Past”

 

OMM – Odunpazarı Modern Museum presents a new group exhibition titled “Don’t Look Back, Deep is the Past”

Between 10 December 2021 – 31 May 2022, OMM – Odunpazarı Modern Museum, in Eskişehir, Turkey, presents a new group exhibition expanding over the three-floor of the museum: “Don’t Look Back, Deep is the Past”.

Featuring works of 31 artists, the exhibition focuses on the roles and identities assigned to individuals in context of their relationship with society, habits based on social norms and the ways in which we define the other. “Don’t Look Back, Deep is the Past” also spotlights an opportunity to look back once more at manifestations of identity before our access to online resources became the definitive force in our lives.

Providing opportunities to discover new connections between individual and collective, the exhibition gives viewers new ideas about pre-assigned roles, prescribed constraints and the possibility of alternative lives while also inviting them to reconsider their idiosyncratic placements and positions in a new light.

For further information, please visit omm.art