Discoveries
Images of the Exhibition
Description
What do we see? What do we think we recognize? And what can we discover in the process?
Discoveries presents works by three artists—Susanne Knaack, Eduardo Palomares, and Martijn Schuppers—who engage in an exciting dialogue with one another. The title Discoveries functions almost like an invitation, encouraging visitors to explore the exhibition. Only through close observation and critical questioning does the artistic engagement with technique and material reveal itself. Situated at the boundary between complete abstraction and total representationalism, the artists work in very different ways to create seemingly familiar and recognizable representations of nature.
Susanne Knaack studied painting in the 1980s under Georg Baselitz at the Berlin University of the Arts. Her predominantly black-and-white works are not, as one might assume, painted traditionally with a brush but rather created using a pouring technique she has developed over many years. The results are works that appear almost photorealistic, depicting seemingly natural scenes that evoke a wide array of images and associations in the viewer.
Eduardo Palomares completed his studies in 2024 as a master student under Prof. Alexandra Pirici at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. In addition to numerous group exhibitions in recent years, Palomares has already received several awards, including the debut artist grant from the Academy of Fine Arts Munich. For the first time, Palomares’ paper works—on which he has been working for many years—are being presented. These are created using water, salt, and pigments.
Martijn Schuppers studied painting at the Academie Minerva in Groningen and at Hunter College in New York. Using a wide variety of techniques and materials, Schuppers creates paintings that operate at the intersection between full abstraction and complete representationalism. When viewing Schuppers' works, one can discern surface formations reminiscent of landscapes. However, these are not photorealistic depictions but classical abstractions showing nothing other than the tectonics of paint on canvas.
Photo credit: Produktion Pitz
