Katrin Brause: CORTILE FANALE

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

The exhibition includes   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. 

Katrin Brause, *1972 in Leipzig, lives and works in Leipzig and Catania (Sicily).