Art Karlsruhe 2026
Our group presentation showcases three compelling contemporary painters with an intriguing formal rance -- spanning pure abstraction, hybrid formal terrain, and representational approaches to challenge dominant social narratives. With new works by Sebastian Hosu, Paul Glaw and Rachel von Morgenstern.
“Painting is my language,” says Sebastian Huso. In his Leipzig studio, he works intuitively yet with great precision: using brush and squeegee, he shapes pictorial spaces that breathe and vibrate, spaces in which the moment of creation inscribes itself. Color appears as a living material, its physical presence set against the transience of the depicted moment.
On translucent polyester canvases, Rachel von Morgenstern's planes of color, gestures, and transparencies unfold in a dynamic balance. Each formal decision responds to the one before it; light and material produce subtle effects of depth, while forms oscillate between stability and dissolution. Viewers can trace the process of emergence and experience how color, material, and surface come together to form a living pictorial field.
In his artistic work, Paul Glaw engages with the tensions and differences between East and West German biographies. Using a distinct and precise visual language, he stages scenes and moments from everyday life that reference his personal experiences in the 1990s and early 2000s, following German reunification. In his most recent works, the historical context that shaped his earlier pieces recedes into the background, appearing more as a distant memory—something that continues to resonate even as life has long moved on.
