RIKAKO KAWAUCHI
„Food, animals, organs, plants, bodies etc, everything outside me is everywhere in the air. I breathe them in, I breathe them out“ • Paintings & Watercolors
Until Sturday, October 26
The German-French couple Franz and Nadia van der Grinten opened the Van der Grinten Gallery in Cologne in 2002. Their program includes photography, painting, drawing, works on paper, sculpture by German and international young and established artists.
News
Artist of the gallery
Marcus Neufanger @ Kunsthalle Bremen, Gruppenausstellung Pauli-Preis 2024
Six renowned curators, the director of the Kunsthalle Bremen and the Pauli Prize donors have each independently nominated an artist whose works will be on view at the Kunsthalle Bremen in an exhibition from 24 August to 13 October 2024: Katrin Brause (*1972), Benjamin Hirte (*1980), Christof John (*1984), Annika Kahrs (*1984), Marcus Neufanger (*1964), Cemile Sahin (*1990), Gabriele Stötzer (*1953) Jenna Sutela (*1983) are the 2024 finalists.
The Pauli Prize was awarded to Gabriele Stötzer on 17 Sept. 2024.
Artist of the gallery
Elger Esser @ Kunstforum NRW, Düsseldorf, “Light and Shadow” / Group show
In the sixth annual Made in Düsseldorf exhibition, photographic works from the Stadtsparkasse Düsseldorf collection by Janice Guy, Martina Sauter, Elger Esser, Anna Vogel, Eileen Quinlan and Frauke Dannert will be on display until October 27, 2024.
Artist of the gallery
Opening July, 5 : Elger Esser, “Lacus Rubresus”, Maison des Arts, Bages, France
July, 6 to September, 29 2024 – free entrance
Book to the show: Elger Esser, Lacus Rubresus
104 pages with texts by Sylvain Prudhomme, published by Maison des Arts de Bages and Bernard Chauveau
Artist of the gallery
June 28 to August 4: Ruth Marten @ Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, USA
Pixerina Witcherina, curated by Julie Heffernan brings together the work of Joan Bankemper, Ruth Marten and Jenny Lynn McNutt in a conversation about slant authority, languages of the absurd, and the abundant pleasures of too muchness.
Exhibitions
August 31, 2024
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October 26, 2024
For Rikako Kawauchi ‘s second exhibition at our gallery, we are showing her oil painting for the first time, in tandem with a selection of the latest drawings on paper. In contrast to the clear, light and airy drawings, in which the forms float and breath in the often empty space of the pristine paper, Kawauchi’s oil paintings display a strong physical presence: in the thick, fresh layers of colorful material that form the weighty, abstract foundation, the palette knife is used to carve out motives that nevertheless transport the same somatic energy as the thin, minimalistic lines drawn on paper.
June 22, 2024
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August 10, 2024
The idea for the current exhibition came when taking a closer look at the work of Roy Mordechay and Frans Roermond. One thing the two artists have in common in that they are both deeply influenced by artworks well beyond their immediate purview.
April 26, 2024
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June 15, 2024
A selection of about 40 original vintae prints by Karl Hugo Schmölz (1917-1986) shows once again the faboulous quality of this master of architecture photography.
February 24, 2024
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April 13, 2024
The current exhibition includes new works from all of Neufanger’s oeuvre and also presents his extensive oeuvre of posters, posters, printed matter and books.