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