We are delighted to invite you to Elger Esser’s fourth solo exhibition at the Van der Grinten Gallery. For this occasion, the artist is presenting twelve previously unseen works created between 2024 and 2025, which continue the development of his characteristic visual universe; a universe in which a strange feeling of timelessness prevails, captivating the viewer as if in a dream or vague memories.

Lorenzo Pompa’s main theme is the conditio humana, the readily observable horrifying human tendency towards violence, unrestraint, brutality and excesses. But also other evident human qualities, such as greatness of spirit, heroism and a yearning for beauty. To explore the field of tension between these poles Lorenzo Pompa has developed allegories of biomorphic bodies that appear to act according to the laws of their human psyche.

We are delighted to announce the first solo exhibition in our gallery space of Cologne painter Heiner Binding. Since the 1980s the artist has pursued a path that has produced a dense and consistent body of work. We are showing the most recent works from this oeuvre.

First solo exhibition of the well-known Finnish artist Elina Brotherus at the Van der Grinten Gallery with a selection of photographic works from her conceptual work cycle “Walking Beuys”.

To celebrate the start of 2025, Van der Grinten Galerie is delighted to open the first solo exhibition with new gallery artist Leigh Wells in its space!

The works on paper signed by Sigmar Polke and dated from 1999, 2002 and 2003 are exhibited for the first time as a group. They are a wonderful example of the typical combination of various painting media, including spray paint, silkscreen, ink, watercolors and interference colors used by Polke.

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.

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.

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.

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.

For 30 years, Elger Esser has travelled the regions of France searching for archetypical landscapes. In his most recent works the experience of landscape concentrates on the transition from the coastline to the sea and on up into the sky above, with its spectacle of changing cloud formations.

In his current exhibition „A Twitter at the Palisades“, the Düsseldorf based artist Lorenzo Pompa brings together his recent works, all created for this stage. The title, as is often with Pompa, has a double meaning which gives rise in our mind to an image at the margin of the unknown, that vast space which we can never dominate.