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We are pleased to present the new solo show CORTILE FANALE by Katrin Brause.  

OPENING DURING THE SPINNEREI GALLERIES RUNDGANG 
SATURDAY, 13. SEPTEMBER: 11 AM - 7 PM 
SUNDAY, 14. SEPTEMBER: 11 AM - 4 PM 

Katrin Brause (*1972 in Leipzig, lives and works in Leipzig and Catania) will present a series of new paintings which were created in Sicily in the previous year, as well as monumental paintings of weathered street view facades which were part of her presentation at Kunsthalle Bremen in 2024. 

Once more Katrin Brause takes us along with her into her world, with paintings in her distinctive style, which blends superb realism and a way of abstraction that emphasis a sense of both openness and tangibility. The artist paints traces of people: worn-out furniture and street facades, garbage, tourists' left-behinds, regligious icones. These objects are not random - they feel biographically charged, like quiet witnesses to lived lives. The poetry of her work lies in this indirect storytelling. We do not see the people, but we feel their history. Yet, against a melancholic sense of fading, these are no portraits with bitterness, rather quiet reverence. 

We are excited to present the solo show BOTOX by Paul Glaw.  

Paul Glaw (*1988 in Halle/Saale) lives and works in Leipzig. After studying at Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design in Halle and the University of Fine Arts Hamburg, his work has been honoured with numerous awards, including the Future Scholarship from the Hamburg Cultural Foundation. Conceptually, his work revolves around the experiences of the post-reunification period in East Germany, a process of social upheaval which left not only political and economic traces, but also caused deep psychosocial shifts -- and a division in collective memory compared to the rest of Germany. His visual language - characterised by the tension between orange and blue - brings these inner contrasts to the outside world: lethargy meets turmoil, repression meets visualisation, violence meets silence.

On the occasion of the 20 years anniversary Rundgang of the Spinnerei Galleries, we are delighted to have opened the new exhibition "This Space Between Us" by Leipzig based painter Sebastian Hosu. In company of powerful yet sensitive new paintings, a 6.2 m wide and 3.8 m high mural together with a new large drawing are among the highlights of this show. 

The figurative scenes in Sebastian Hosu’s paintings appear with vigorous brushstrokes, in gestural allusions to form and bold color compositions, resulting in depictions where the border between representational figuration and painterly abstraction remains almost indistinguishable. The dynamic compositions throw the viewer right into the heart of scenes of sporty action and leisure time activity, in which moving bodies seem to blend in with the surrounding landscapes. In depicting these vivid yet very ephemeral moments, Hosu’s paintings oscillate between painterly contouring and simultaneous dissolution of form. This way the ephemeral nature of the summoned scene is contrasted with the physical presence of the paint and painting itself, inviting the viewer to re-visit and reexperience a moment in time over and over again.

We are pleased to present a new solo show by Wolfgang Ellenrieder titled Stabile Eskalation. 

Wolfgang Ellenrieder is known for his exploration of the interplay between reality and its representation. Drawing from diverse sources such as stock photography archives, the internet, model building brochures, and his own sources, he creates artworks that challenge viewers' perceptions by intertwining familiar imagery into new, thought-provoking compositions. His work this way delves into the mechanisms and structures of our media-driven society, often questioning the production and use of images in politics, society, and culture with an ironic undertone. Ellenrieder's art has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions both in Germany and internationally, and he currently serves as a professor of painting and drawing at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig.

We were pleased to start the year 2025 with a new exhibition by Johannes Listewnik. Under the title 'schön dass wir alle wissen wie es geht', the artist, who now lives near Nuremberg, returns to the gallery after his gallery debut 'hard days, night' in 2023.

Many of Listewnik’s pictorial works resemble and/or contain writing. His artistic play with typography is a characteristic feature of his visual language, pointing to the significant influences of literature and literary writing in his work. Based on an extensive diary practice as well as a great, culturally informed curiosity, his works transfer processes of reflection into the visual language. 

We are delighted to announce our upcoming Pop Up exhibition in Paris  during the Art Basel Paris contemporary art week. Participating artists will be Rachel von Morgenstern, Sebastian Hosu and Gustav Sonntag with brand new works. The show forms a captivating visual experience with questions of form, the materiality of painting and translation of subject matter into the visual as well as material properties of painting. 

The exhibition is created as a joint event with our partners KracArt, 24Beaubourg and Saeite who brings additional artistic positions into the presentation. The show will be accompagnied by a special event where contemporary ballet dance engages in a dialogue with the visual art. On this occasion, Friday (Oct. 18th) three dancers from the Leipzig Opera Ballet will perform a choreography written by Marcelino Libao. The opening night will conclude with a DJ set by Murat Önen. 

Opening 
Friday, October 18th, 6 pm

Preview Days
Wednesday, October 15th, 3 - 7 pm

Thursday, October 16th, 3- 7 pm 

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24 Rue Beaubourg, 75003 Paris

OPENING DURING THE SPINNEREI GALLERIES RUNDGANG 
SATURDAY, 14. SEPTEMBER: 11 AM - 7 PM 
SUNDAY, 15. SEPTEMBER: 11 AM - 5 PM 

In his debut solo show with the gallery, upcoming & next generation painter Gustav Sonntag presents us a series of paintings which have the urban street as their stage of event. Within this visual journey, painted in brusque and fast brushstrokes and a critical realism with surrealist tendencies, the audience is confronted with multiple scenes, themes and characters of everyday urban life from coming of age, politicization, addiction, violence, poverty, hope and milieu specific notions of respectability.

We were pleased to present the first solo exhibition by Raffael Bader with the gallery. The Leipzig-based visual artist graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts, Leipzig, Germany, in 2019. In 2020 he began exhibiting internationally, including Switzerland, the USA, the Netherlands and very recently in Japan.

Raffael Bader paints landscapes in which the act of seeing, feeling  and representation blend in to create something new that stimulates the imagination. He once told me that very often he  creates a painting he would like to see himself at this very moment. During his travels, Raffael fills numerous notebooks with drawings of landscapes and their elements such as plants and other details. For his landscape paintings (of various dimensions) he uses oil paint and oil crayons resulting into richly textured compositions with sometimes delicately thin layering or at other times urgent brushstrokes of a color palette which is not afraid of tender pastel hues and stark contrasts. His compositions represent a poetic idea of shifts between recognition, spatial or imaginary openness, dreamlike con-figurations and contradicting formations. The paintings appear almost as a longing desire towards the landscapes which Raffael depicts, to engage and move within what’s presenting itself before the eye.

We were delighted to present the exhibition Cruel Fruits by Rachel von Morgenstern which was her first solo show in Leipzig. After a first appearance in our group show TAYT in 2023, which explored and juxtaposed four different abstract and non-figurative painterly positions, Rachel von Morgenstern this time presented  most recent paintings and scultpures from her studio. 

Creating delicate and intricate non-figurative compositions on polyester, which appear free, momentary and levitated, can be described as Rachel von Morgenstern's signature style. Her latest compositions invoke a strong sense of spring with new compositions in which the colorful elements not only float and move but appear in utmost tenderness. Some paintings bring the joy of blossoming, others a playful musicality to mind. We invite you to make your very personal associations in this exhibition of abstract paintings and sculpture. 

The show was on view from March 9, 2024 through April 20, 2024.

With CONCEPT ROOM, Klara Meinhardt opens the 2024 exhibition season on the occasion of the winter tour of the Spinnerei Galleries. The exhibition presents the artist's latest works, which range from heavy steel and concrete works to fine, deep blue cyanotypes on paper and canvas.

In CONCEPT ROOM, Klara Meinhardt continues to explore the human body and our relationship to it as well as our cultural practices and techniques around it. Yet, in the largest room of the exhibition, another relationship is addressed: between animals and humans. Cyanotypes which are taking up the patterns of animal fur, animal scales and skin  adorn the walls of the room. The two heavy, steel chairs invite visitors to take a seat and look at the prints and sculptural objects, which are presented like hunting trophies, to ponder the role of the natural world as an appropriated good in human’s surroundings, environments, attitude, and practices.

The show opens on January 13, 2024, from 11 am until 7 pm.

We are pleased to announce the new exhibition of the artist David Borgmann. Under the title KASKADEN the Leipzig based painter, presents new works in which he sensitively continues his examination of the genre of landscape painting on the one hand while addressing the richness in the tension between representation and abstraction, illusionism and autonomous structural forms on the other.

From his very own painting technique, Borgmann develops pictures with structural and surface formations that sometimes offer us concrete points of orientation in the pictorial space, sometimes lead us into spatial situations that challenge our Western idea of landscape representation, or even, by depriving us of a fixed point of view, deliberately withdraw accessibility at first and in this way encourage us to look carefully. 

The results are elegant pictorial works in David Borgmann's unmistakable aesthetic, which understand the landscape painting as a painterly space of possibility and thereby stimulate us to reflect on cultural and individual expectations of pictorial works, or the quick circumstantial recognition of them, while looking at them.

We are excited to announce the new solo exhibition by Leipzig based painter Sebastian Hosu. After solo exhibitions in Hong Kong (China) and Bukarest (Romania) within the last 18 months, Sebastian Hosu will present 20 new works, mainly painting on canvas and woodboard. The show will feature works which span different degrees of abstraction and figurative composition in Hosu's expressive signature style, all committed to the question of how to re-present movement and motion with the means of contemporary painting. The exhibition will be accompanied with an essay by the London based curator Angeliki Kim Perfetti and will be opened during the seasonal opening of the Spinnerei Galleries at September 2nd, 2023.

Katrin Brause is a well-known representative of the New Leipzig School. She studied at the Leipzig academy of fine art HGB with Arno Rink and Neo Rauch. Her solo exhibition ›Speranza‹ brings together 19 works whose spatial and aesthetic context is once again the city of Catania in Sicily. From this social-cultural space, Katrin Brause transfers everyday objects as well as arrangements found in the streets — especially the role of faith in people's everyday lives — into contemporary painting. In doing so, Brause creates exceedingly present and multi-layered still lifes, which in turn function as profound allegories of human biographies, human ideas, human thought and action. The objects depicted, such as weathered chairs or used fruit crates, as well as their sceneries, appear banal at first, while their transformation into painting creates thoroughly ambivalent statements.

This group show is concerned with contemporary abstract painting and features four artists of its latest generation: Rachel von Morgenstern, Carolin Trunk, Selma van Panhuis, and Hannes Heinrich. Each one of them chose abstraction as their preferred mode of expression and work, yet together they form a diverse group with individually characteristic styles, questions, and concerns. Hannes Heinrich is based in Munich and studied at the AdbK in Munich in the class of Karin Kneffel. Rachel von Morgenstern lives and works in Frankfurt and holds a postgraduate degree from the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe. Selma van Panhuis studied Fine Arts at the Royal Academy of Arts in Den Haag before she moved to Leipzig where she earned a postgraduate degree in Fine Arts from the Hochschule für Grafik and Buchkunst; today she lives and works in Leipzig. Carolin Trunk studied fine art at Leipzig's art academy (HGB) and is based now in Offenbach. The show follows the question what form abstract non-representational art takes today after its thrilling, rich, and ideologically charged efforts and advancements throughout the 20th century. 

In his exhibition Hard Days, Night, Johannes Listewnik presents a series of new works created in 2022. In his artistic work, Johannes Listewnik transfers reflection processes, which are usually captured in written language, into visual language. He gives space to his own thinking in painted and diversely crafted images. Starting from an object of investigation - be it floral still lifes or other forms of everyday and working poetics - he develops pictures with a pronounced dwelling character, which can be read as information containers for reflections on the object itself, on its art-historical contexts and on its present reproductions in painting. A graphic imagery, handwritten as well as painterly interventions, printing and reproduction techniques, and the embedding of foreign sources take on various roles, whose interpretation and reading by the viewer result in an open and fascinating interplay.