Geschwisterteilchen
Geschwisterteilchen brings together works by Jule Bode, Lutz Braun, Katinka Eichhorn, Florian Meisenberg, Tobias Schulenburg, and Vincent Krüger. The exhibition is based on the premise that drawing and painting are not separate disciplines, but different states within a shared field.
The title refers to the poetic notion of particles that remain connected across distance, drawing inspiration from the so-called Bell experiment. Rather than being understood as a scientific model, this idea functions as a metaphor for the relationships between the artistic positions: autonomous works enter into resonance with one another, forming a constellation that cannot be understood through any single work alone.
From different perspectives, the participating artists explore the boundaries between drawing and painting. In doing so, they create transitions between abstraction and figuration, between image, material, and space, as well as between analogue and digital image logics.
The exhibition unfolds not as a linear narrative, but as a space in which material, image, and gesture continually exchange roles. The boundaries between drawing and painting are not dissolved, but repeatedly shifted, giving rise to changing relationships and tensions between the works.
The exhibition is accompanied by a text by Caroline Heel, offering an additional point of access to the questions explored throughout the exhibition.
Florian Meisenberg
Florian Meisenberg (b. 1980, Berlin) lives and works in New York. Recent solo and group exhibitions include: Provinz, Bochum, Germany (2023); E.A. Shared Space, Tbilisi, Georgia (2022); Simone Subal Gallery, New York (2021); Kate MacGarry, London (online 2020); Kunstparterre, Munich (2020); Avlskarl, Copenhagen (2020); Zabludowicz Collection, London (2019); Kunstpalais Erlangen, Germany (2019); Wentrup Gallery, Berlin (2019); Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany (2019); Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Germany (2019); Zabludowicz Collection, London (2018); Broehan Museum, Berlin, Germany, (2017); ICA, Philadelphia, USA (2017); and Kiasma Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki, Finland (2017).
Jule Bode
Jule Bode (b. 1994 in Hanover) works in series, weaving stories through her works that are interconnected like spider webs. Everything is connected. Everything is interdependent. The narratives are sometimes bold and clichéd, like pulp novels, and at other times resemble insightful records of deeply personal experiences.
Katinka Eichorn
Katinka Eichhorn has been living and working in Mannheim since 2020. She studied at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe. Her works have been shown in various exhibitions, for example at the exhibition space of the Kontigent Collective in Munich, at the Heidelberg Art Association, and at the Municipal Gallery in Neuwied.
Drawing, as a response to memories, observations, and measurements, forms the foundation of Katinka Eichhorn’s work. These visual reflections usually culminate in fabric objects or paper works reminiscent of cut-out silhouettes. In this process, the seam becomes a trace, and the form turns into a search for a personal gesture—one that often pauses at the point where it begins to take shape as a recognizable sign. Fragmentation, symmetry and its dissolution, as well as an engagement with the poetry and transformation of forms, are recurring elements in her work.
Lutz Braun
Lutz Braun (b. 1976, Schleswig) studied at Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main, lives and works in Berlin.
Vincent Krüger
Vincent Krüger lives and works in Cologne (Germany). He studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe. Krüger engages with different materials and pursues diverse interests that sometimes overlap and connect, but at other times are far removed from each other. The process of his own work is at the core of his practice and is continuously questioned.