Press Release, August 2019

TAKE IT EASY

Opening Sunday, September 1st, 2019, 12 - 3 pm

September 4 until October 26, 2019

Pia Ferm, Lukas Glinkowski, Julia Gruner, Antje Zeiher

The works by Pia Ferm (*1986, Lysekil, Sweden), Lukas Glinkowski (*1984, Chelmno,

Poland), Julia Gruner (*1984, Lüdenscheid) and Antje Zeiher (*1979, Reutlingen)

question the boundaries of painting. Not only is the canvas often missing as the

carrier of the color itself, but painting is also redefined and blurs in the sculptural,

the handicrafts, or as objet trouvé.

st In the group exhibition TAKE IT EASY, starting September 1 , 2019, Galerie Judith Andreae is showing four young 'painterly' positions that approach the themes of painting, color and materiality in a variety of ways. Subjectively selected works by the artists show what painting can express nowadays.

The group exhibition can be seen in the gallery rooms until October 26, 2019.

The Swedish artist Pia Ferm has been studying in the class of Tobias Rehberger at

the Städelschule in Frankfurt since 2014, after preliminary studies at the Valand

Academy in Gothenburg. Her works shown in the exhibition are hand-tufted, large-

format tapestries. The colorfulness and gestural expression of Pia Ferm's works are reminiscent of painting, but the relief created by tufting is more comparable withs sculptures. Her work process always begins with a sketch and a series of watercolor

works in the second step, before the third step is the modern way of knotting with

Pia Ferm, Holly was baptized in the corridore,2019, Handtufted woolen tapestry, 185 x 118 cm. wool threads. During the actual knotting process, a long-term and very controlled Lukas Glinkowski, Maske - 5, 2018, oil and glasspaint on mirrorlayer, 29,7 x 21 cm. process, the motifs always modify themselves from the sketch, which thus only Julia Gruner, Sediment V, Aufl. 3, Inkjetprint on Hahnemühle Ultra Smooth Paper, 120 x 60 cm. Antje Zeiher o.T., 2019, Acrylic on canvas, 60 x 50 cm. serves as a basis of her works. The development of each art piece lasts up to six

weeks and is a precise examination of the material. The motifs are often reminiscent Many of Antje Zeiher’s works could be described as classical acrylic on canvas. The of a further development of the classical still life. artist at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Munich with Prof. Jean-Marc

Bustamante, graduated as a master student in 2016. Her abstract, colorful and

The -based artist Lukas Glinkowski studied from 2007 to 2014 at the gestural works challenge the viewer's gaze until he finds, associates and recognizes

Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and graduated as a master student in the class of Prof. hidden motifs. Often contours, shapes and bodies divide the picture into different

Katharina Grosse. In his artistic works he deals with reflections of public spaces as levels, giving it a strong architectural character. Antje Zeiher also experiments and images of our society. He "copies" and compresses everyday spaces such as public exploits the limits of painting. In a series from the years 2017 and 2018 she uses cork toilets, subway tunnels and street scenes onto tiles, mirrors and wood chip as the carrier of color. She varies not only with the materiality, but also with the color wallpaper, which he paints, sprays and letters. Graffiti, wear and tear, and wanton intensity and the cut-out forms. The cork works are object-like folded, formed and destruction repeatedly play a role in Lukas Glinkowski’s works - his inspiration is cut until the painting transforms into a sculpture. everyday life. In 2018 he was awarded the Berlin Hyp Prize and the Villa Aurora ______Scholarship 2019 in the visual arts category. From September he will be part of the group exhibition "JETZT! - Junge Malerei in Deutschland", which will be shown at TAKE IT EASY the Kunstmuseum , the Kunstmuseum Wiesbaden, the Kunstsammlung OPENING: Sunday, September, 1st 2019, 12 – 3 pm , 1 pm opening reception Chemnitz and the Deichtorhallen until 2020. DURATION: September 4 until October 26, 2019

PAPER POSITIONS Frankfurt a.M.: September 5 - 8, 2019 Julia Gruner also studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf from 2010 in the class with works by Andreas Bausch of Prof. Katharina Grosse and completed her studies in 2015 as a master student.

She often works with pure paint - layer by layer and without carrier. In her works, she Promenade Paul Kemp: September 7th 2019, 11 am – 6 pm questions the boundaries of painting by making casts of everyday objects such as plastic cups or painting foils as well as making prints of them on and from bright BERLIN ART WEEK colors. The process of the works is often mechanical, but chance plays an important POSITIONS Berlin Art Fair: September 12 - 15 2019 role, since the final result is unpredictable. Julia Gruner's artistic work cannot be with works by Pia Ferm, Lukas Glinkowski, Achim Mohné and Regine Schumann fixed to painting or sculpture. In the group exhibition TAKE IT EASY, works from her series Sediments, color pigments enlarged under the microscope, digitally cut together and printed in large format on Alu Dibond, and Sticky Skins are shown. Galerie Judith Andreae [email protected]

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