New-York artist Ruth Marten is known for the delicacy of her gouache, watercolor and ink drawings based on antique photographs and old engravings. Now she once again takes us into her dreamlike world full of humor, poetry, eroticism and subversion. For this new series, she used original heliogravures from 1923 showing naked dancers in pure Art Deco poses.
“All about Eve” is an affectionate, free-spirited tribute to the bubbling female imagination.

The last exhibition of 2024 will open during ART COLOGNE Week.
A representative ensemble of works on paper by Sigmar Polke and an accrochage with artists of the gallery await visitors.

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.

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.

curated by Dr. Ute Bopp-Schumacher
until January, 12, 2025

Book to thte show: Elger Esser. Die engen Wasser, Dr. Ute Bopp-Schumacher, Dr.-Hanns-Simon-Stiftung (publishers)
Texts by Dr. Ute Bopp-Schumacher, Julian Gracq, Stephanie Kaak (preface), Kerber Verlag, Bielefeld/Berlin

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

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.

Elger Esser’s latest project is dedicated to a highlight of French medieval architecture, the Benedictine abbey of Mont-Saint-Michel in the Normandy mud flats. Commissioned by the French government to celebrate the abbey’s millennium in 2023, he photographed Mont-Saint-Michel and its surrounding landscape and turned it into breathtaking images to be exhibited in the abbey.

Since 2006, Ruth Marten has been using antique found prints as the starting point for her original painted additions and interventions. The source for this current series of gouache on photo gravure paintings is a 1923 portfolio of prints by a Polish photographer who called himself Laryew. Shot in Paris of young dancers from the Folies Bergère, they showed up on the table at a local Flea Market frequented by the artist. The works on view demonstrate Marten’s ongoing interest in the following phenomena: Cinema, World War I and its aftermath, modern art, and women liberating themselves from male expectations.