Gebanne:
The latex painting is detached from any carrier surface. Brushstrokes of liquid latex condense
into a two-sided and elastic image that can support itself.
The painted latex membrane adapts the surface of its temporary shaper, as an echo of the cave painting. The architecture becomes the image carrier. The motif becomes object, becomes installation, only to become an image in the next moment of the exhibition. Due to the deformation of the picture surface, the compositions jump into the third dimension and thus absorb the space as an extended image space.
Despite all ambitions to combine painting and sculpture, the reality of the material - due to the inevitable decay of the latex - ultimately eludes its claim of durability; In terms of conservation, the latex works are ephemeral.
This is how Gebanne: becomes an urgent exhibition project in which the oversized latex painting, conceived for Pavilion 18 of the AdBK Nuremberg, consumes and absorbs new exhibition conditions and, as an extremely flexible painting, exercises the very act of exhibiting.
The exhibition series Gebanne: was partly supported by the grant program
"Junge Kunst und Neue Wege" by the Free State of Bavaria
Gebanne:Streifen
März-Juni 2023
Lothringer 13 Halle
München
In der Lothringer 13 Halle ist Gebanne: aufgerollt hängend installiert und wird zu Beginn jedes Ausstellungstages von der jeweiligen Aufsichtsperson ein Stück weiter abgerollt. Mit jeder Öffnung der Lothringer 13 Halle wird ein neuer Abschnitt der Malerei sichtbar und durch die tägliche Dokumentation des Abrollprozesses auch ein Teil der weitestgehend unsichtbaren Care Arbeit, die von den Aufsichtspersonen geleistet wird.
Über die Ausstellungszeit hinweg entsteht so in einem einvernehmlichen Arbeitsplatzmonitoring eine neue filmische Arbeit aus Gebanne: heraus, in der sich das Bildmotiv in Gänze sowie in Bewegung in der Halle zeigen wird, ermöglicht durch das Ausgestelltwerden und in Interaktion mit den Aufsichtspersonen.
Fotos: Frank Bauer
Gebanne:derKünstler
Januar-März 2023
Galerie der Künstler*innen
München
In der Ausstellung der Preisträger*innen des Bayerischen Kunstförderpreises der Sparte Bildende Kunst zog sich Gebanne durch drei der Räume in der Galerie der Künstler*innen, in denen die Malerei jeweils wechselnde Funktionen einnimmt:
Von einer verwobenen Installation, die zugleich ihre eigene Absperrung ist, über eine einfache Leitung über die Köpfe der Besucher*innen hinweg, zu einer klassischer platzierten Schraubfigur im Spotlight. Am denkmalgeschützen Boden fixiert wurde Gebanne:derKünstler mit Gewichten der hauseigenen Gerüsttechnik.
Fotos: Edward Baierle
Gebanne:Leiter
Juni-August 2022
Atelier-& Galeriehaus Defet
Nürnberg
In den Räumen des Atelier- und Galeriehauses Defet verbindet Gebanne: nun Stockwerke. Die Malerei führt durch Gänge und Fenster, wird durch das Gebäude und entlang seiner Wege gelegt, gespannt, geknotet und (um)gelenkt. Die Architektur wird zum Bildträger, die Malerei zu einer ihrer vielen Adern, entlang derer man sich durch das Gebäude und seine Räume hindurch bewegt.
Gebanne:PrincessConsuela
Juni 2022
AdBK Nuremberg
Another strain on motif and material. Connecting to the architecture, the painting becomes a piece of furniture. The work becomes a workplace, becomes a display for past versions of itself. Hidden areas and sculptural versions of the painting, momentarily inaccessible in this physical installation, are now shown in parallel as a video reel on the laptop screen.
The time-based element of the documentary video is carried on in the swinging of the table surface - a kinetic aspect of the installation, which is in turn captured via video documentation.
The installation at the AdBK Nuremberg was a non-public presentation as part of an application process for the Kulturpreis Bayern 2022.
Gebanne:[Storage]
& F-A-M [Storage]
April 2022
AdBK München
FAM [Storage]
FAM [Storage] is the collective form of Factor, Age & Means (F-A-M) - an ongoing painting series since 2018. The financial realities of painting become its moti. Dry data about production costs and the financial success of the series are interlacing with coded autobiographical elements, resulting in a distorted diary and painterly financial tracker.
The current collection of unsold paintings from the F-A-M series is housed in storage crates and protected by foam pieces. The construction and manufacturing of these protective aids were informed by part-time jobs in insitutional art exhibitions: places packed with archival accessories and artistic legitimacy. The foam blocks were made on the job for the Kunstverein Nürnberg; they're based on the blocks used at the New Museum in Nuremberg.
The biographical influences of the painting series now transcend from the painterly practice of content and concept into the extended field of realities as a painter: from dealing with painting to dealing with paintings.
Banned:[Storage]
Where F-A-M digests the financial entanglements of painting as material, Gebanne: takes it to the point of absurdity: The approach to painting becomes performative - exhibiting becomes a constant re-creation of composition and context, while being at once a gradually destructive act. The monumental painting, over 80 meters long, will unavoidebly decompose over the next few years and ultimately fall apart.
In combination with F-A-M [Storage], Gebanne: becomes skin, space and an equal partner, incorporating its counterpart into the composition and continuing their inquisitive approaches to painting.
The installation in the new section of the AdBK Munich was a non-public presentation as part of the application process for the Bavarian Art Promotion Prize and the USA scholarship.