POSITIONS

Until May 16, 2026. – We present nine powerful artistic positions, radical visual languages, and intense color palettes. Diverse perspectives enter into dialogue – rich in contrast, independent, and uncompromising.

POSITIONS. March 21–May 16, 2026

– Featuring works by: ARMIN HARTENSTEIN, JÜRGEN JANSEN, SIEGFRIED KREITNER, JÜRGEN PAAS, HANNA ROECKLE, DIRK SALZ, ANNETTE SAUERMANN, PETRA DETA WEIDEMANN, THOMAS ZIKA.

Exhibition Opening: Friday, March 20, 2026, 7 p.m.
Exhibition runs until May 16, 2026

We present nine powerful artistic positions, radical visual languages, and intense color worlds. Diverse perspectives enter into dialogue – rich in contrast, independent, and uncompromising.

Exhibitions are always more than simply bringing together works of art. They are spaces for encounter – between images and viewers, between the visible and what only reveals itself through dialogue. POSITIONS is such a format, allowing for the juxtaposition of different things and thereby inviting dialogue.
In previous exhibitions of this title, the gallery invited a gallery artist to invite four to six selected artist friends to a group show at the gallery – artist friends who had no prior connection to the gallery. This led to POSITIONS curated by Jürgen Paas, Dirk Salz, and Simone Haack.
This exhibition brings together nine artistic voices, nine highly individual positions that refuse to be categorized and consciously pursue their own paths. The works shown here do not represent a shared stylistic school or a closed narrative. Nevertheless, they are all part of the gallery’s program, and the collaboration has often been ongoing for some time, in some cases for over 20 years. What unites them is the clarity with which each of these positions asserts its own language, and the uncompromising nature of their approach: in their visual language, in their focus, in their consistency. And that is a remarkable quality in a time dominated by fleeting images that virtually flood everyday life, are quickly consumed, and often just as quickly forgotten. The art in this exhibition resists this transience; it demands attention, time, presence.
On display are vibrant paintings by artists ranging from Jürgen Jansen to Dirk Salz, three-dimensional pictorial objects by Annette Sauermann to Jürgen Paas, sculptures by Hanna Roeckle to Siegfried Kreitner, spatial sketches by Armin Hartenstein to Petra Deta Weidemann, and a photographic work by Thomas Zika. The pairing of artists’ names opens up potential dialogues, but many more are conceivable, revolving around pairs of concepts such as space and emptiness, color and structure, light and movement, or contrasting adjectives like reduced and expansive, powerful and still, structured and intuitive. And it is precisely in these tensions that the quality of this juxtaposition lies. The works don’t simply add up; rather, they enter into a relationship with one another. And in the end, in this exhibition, many things come together: a living structure, a space of resonance that is more than the sum of its parts. This is one of the important experiences that art can offer: namely, the coexistence of diversity. The challenge of engaging with “the other”; as observers, not only tolerating this difference but understanding it as an enrichment.