Exhibition
We invite you to the vernissage on Friday, 09.05.2025, at 5 pm. Christoph Tannert from Berlin will give the laudatory speech. You can also look forward to the musical accompaniment by Robert de Lux from Rostock. Once again, we look forward to your visit!
What is striking about KALLWEIT's small and large sculptures, all of which are rough in their surface texture, are the elongated limbs, their slender stature, a graceful, filigree appearance that rises upwards in an almost Gothic manner and, in their stele-like and austere appearance, they have something both antique and Nordic about them... The artist uses both lost wax and sand casting techniques to create his bronzes. Other figures are made of flamed oak. Created in this way, they wait in quiet nobility for the pleasure of us all. (Excerpt from a text by Christoph Tannert, Künstlerhaus Bethanien Berlin, 2023).
KATHRIN CHRISTOPH's works span an arc from the primal forms of pictorial representation to tangibly narrated, complex events. The raw materials are large-scale color separations, monotypes that fix the sublimity of the backgrounds on the special papers. When the artist cuts shapes from these freehand, applies them to the canvas in layers and adds purely painterly elements, she combines traditional techniques such as valeur painting and grisaille. Contrasts are her style. Surfaces meet lines. Interventions with objective geometries and delicate glazes turn the works into hybrids of graphics, sculpture, relief and painting. (Excerpts from a text by Dr. Tina Simon, publicist from Leipzig, 2022).
