Again and again, there have been countermodels to the prevailing canon and the crisis-ridden state of affairs in the history of art. Even today, artists call for breaking rigid thought patterns and expanding consciousness in order to create future visions that lie beyond the limitations of the present.
In the dream state, different realities interact with each other. Compared to what one allows in the conscious waking state, a freer form of perception and knowledge production takes place. There are time jumps, connections between different places – through the power of the subconscious and imagination, alternative realities and utopian future spaces emerge. Engaging with our dreams reveals our joys, fears, and hopes.
In the exhibition What is the dream that makes you dream? dreaming is examined as a path to deeper levels of consciousness. Amid multiple global crises and disturbing news that we receive every day, What is the dream that makes you dream? consciously focuses on optimistic counterpoints that suggest hope, resilience, and healing.

Again and again, there have been countermodels to the prevailing canon and the crisis-ridden state of affairs in the history of art. Even today, artists call for breaking rigid thought patterns and expanding consciousness in order to create future visions that lie beyond the limitations of the present.
In the dream state, different realities interact with each other. Compared to what one allows in the conscious waking state, a freer form of perception and knowledge production takes place. There are time jumps, connections between different places – through the power of the subconscious and imagination, alternative realities and utopian future spaces emerge. Engaging with our dreams reveals our joys, fears, and hopes.
In the exhibition What is the dream that makes you dream? dreaming is examined as a path to deeper levels of consciousness. Amid multiple global crises and disturbing news that we receive every day, What is the dream that makes you dream? consciously focuses on optimistic counterpoints that suggest hope, resilience, and healing.

Like a bizarre cabinet of curiosities, Elke Hennen tells through cryptic arrangements of objects about her artistic need to create installative situations. Like archaeological artifacts, they transform not only a state of precise material, for example from mammoth and amber, but also the fragile connections between dis- and composition. Any kind of materiality changes into a personal vessel for the projections of the viewers. Bone-like, the path between the objects branches out: What was just robust and hidden is dissolved and made perceptible through its bizarre existence.

Judith Lindner paints and draws on wood, canvas, and paper. She pictorially weaves several layers of space and time, combines fragments of geometric and organic forms, plants, architectural constructions, and spatial formations, which can just as easily dissolve again. Many layers of color, both glazes and opaque, are applied on top of each other, sometimes also scraped away and lower layers exposed. Without the measure of the human body, the size ratios remain unclear, as does time. Nature overruns human work and reclaims its space.

Vernissage on Friday, 27.06.2025 at 8 PM
Introduction: Elke Hennen and Judith Lindner

Friday, 04.07.2025 at 5 PM
Artist talk

Finissage on Sunday, 13.07.2025 from 2 PM to 4 PM
The artists will be present