Hidden Layers

Exhibition from June 26, 2023 to October 6, 2023
Vernissage on June 25, 2023 from 6 to 9 pm

Works by Dorit Bearach, Agathe Böttcher, Brigitte Fugmann, Reinhard Jacob, Konrad Knebel, Josef Nowinka, Thomas J. Richter, Bernd Schlothauer, Hannelore Teutsch and Heidi Lamira Woitinek. Curated by Christoph Tannert

The exhibition "Hidden Layers", curated by Christoph Tannert, presents 10 isolated progressives from Berlin, five female and five male artists – all of advanced age. Brigitte Fugmann and Josef Nowinka already deceased.

The installation of this exhibition could at least extend the reception period of their works a little. After all, they are all stability factors in often overlooked, if not "hidden layers", which, due to their solidity worth preserving in the respective art segment, are the epitome of undermining common standards of today's "common sense".

They were or are all certain that the deficient, including the lack of openly circulating resources of the intellectual as well as of value orientation, will have a greater significance in art and society in the future than we have been accustomed to in past decades. Inevitably, this will make precision of statement and aesthetic pointing even more important. This spirit of the solitary struggles in "anaesthetised time" (Schlothauer) to formulate entirely free of pathos, sustainable, protecting the fragile, marked by expectation, hardly by fulfilment.

But only those who have or had clear orientations can think and live so subtly. It is not optimistic strategies that regularly consume efficiency gains through increased consumption that are appropriate, but a thorough conversion of man in humility before nature.

These artistic positions are resilient; they are the opposite of wasting sense and sensuality. They show themselves as positions free of zeitgeist gimmicks in rebelling against the recent ideologisation of social life and in insisting on intellectual alertness and steadfastness.

In this respect, this exhibition is about artistic statements that are concentrated on the self in the best sense of the word, far too little shown or even forgotten, which are contrasted by the throwaway society, but not by competition with media developments. On the contrary, this art foreshadows the fact that exploitation interests and changes in taste never allow time to stand still.

They accept the appearances and announcements of the self-appointed chiefs of the propaganda and entertainment industries with a shrug of the shoulders. Their works are committed to beauty, are an expression of work on form, but are anti-hysterical. In them lives the hope that many things can also become quite different before they end catastrophically. Because it is certain that it will.

A catalogue will be published to accompany the exhibition.

The artists of the exhibition

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