Exhibitions of the Günther Peill Foundation

In the fall of 2022, the Leopold-Hoesch-Museum will present the exhibitions of the 2020 award winner and the 2020-2022 scholarship holders.

Kerstin Brätsch. Sein
Kerstin Brätsch reaches dynamically beyond the edges of modern painting. By employing centuries-old, artisanal techniques, she creates pictorial bodies of almost hypnotic energy in which human precision and natural forces merge. The exhibition combines large-scale marbling on paper, in whose details the eye is lost, with brightly colored stucco marble works. In their specific materialities, both unfold a life of their own between abstraction and shadowy figuration - and demonstrate the medium of painting as a porous space of possibility in which past and present indissolubly interpenetrate.

To accompany the exhibition, an artist's book was published on 18.11.2022 by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König:
Kerstin Brätsch. Unstable Talismanic Rendering_ Homo Sacer (With gratitude to master marbler Dirk Lange), 2017.
ISBN: 978-3-7533-0368-0 | Ed.: Leopold-Hoesch-Museum, Düren | Binding: Softcover | Language: German | Price: 25 Euro at Museumsshop Düren, 28 Euro at bookstores

Kerstin Brätsch's artist book Unstable Talismanic Rendering_ Homo Sacer (With gratitude to master marbler Dirk Lange), 2017 shows on 72 pages the reproduction of a marbling of the same name on a scale of 1:1. Brätsch realized the 274.3 x 1.82.9 cm paper work together with the artisan Dirk Lange. For this, paint was dripped into a water bath in an elaborate process, which was then absorbed by a sheet laid over it. The work, which is characterized by the rich detail of digital renderings and on which one can make out a skull with an open skullcap, shimmers between abstraction and representationalism. The thermal-effect black book cover reveals the underlying motif only when touched by a warm hand.

Alexis Gautier. Burning the Plot
Central to Alexis Gautier's diverse work is the encounter and interaction with specific places and spaces. In doing so, he draws on local conditions and everyday situations, which he translates into artistic forms. Different elements find their way into his works, which are characterized by chance, improvisation, poetry, and subtle humor, and in which polyphonic translation processes materialize. In Düren, Gautier brings together works from different contexts and media that together form an open narrative space.

Britta Thie. In Development
Britta Thie's artistic practice feeds on a networked present in which media and communication technologies play a central role in shaping identity. In doing so, she refers to popular narrative formats and combines reality with fiction. Whereas video has so far served her primarily as an examination of social lifeworlds, actors, and codes, in her most recent paintings the equipment used for series productions itself becomes the protagonist. In Düren, Thie will also present the trailer of a film that has not yet been shot.