Zwischenräume

Participating artists: Christiane Ainsley (FR), Vivian Ammerlaan (NL), Joan van Barneveld (NL), Karin Beyens (BE), Bram Braam (GE), Paul Corvers (NL), Hadassah Emmerich (BE), Toussaint Essers (NL), Karen Foss (GB), John Francis (FR), Madlen Herrström (FR), Hella van ’t Hof (NL), René Korten (NL), Elfie Kristiana (BE), Erwin van Krey (NL), Franz Licht (GE), Annika Lochtman (NL), George Meertens (NL), Ulla Pedersen (DK), Benyamin Perry (NL), Jan van der Ploeg (NL), Anne Roorda (NL), Steffen Schiemann (GE), Erica Scheper (NL), Aimée Terburg (NL), Chris Vanderschaeghe (BE) and Witte Wartena (GE).
Curated by Cigdem Caglayan, Berlin based art historian.

The exhibition takes its inspiration from French philosopher Olivier Remaud‘s essay Voluntary Solitude that is circling around the art of being alone. What are we looking for in solitude? Zwischenräume invites the viewers to question their own desire for loneliness and seek a silent dialogue with oneself. The often uncanny, yet dreamy artworks frame the experience of self-inflicted isolation. The exhibition, originally planned to open March 2020, had to be postponed till September 2020 due to Covid-19, giving the chosen theme even more relevance and urgency. After months of the ongoing pandemic and lock-downs worldwide, the concept of self-inflicted solitude is no longer just a theoretic possibility and free choice for individual liberation – but a repressive and/or solidary duty that has been addressed to the world population as a whole.