ORBIT

In the organizer's words:

Group exhibition
Eva Blanché - Florian Merkel - Hanne Kroll - Haiying Xu - Kerstin Seltmann - Lydia Thomas - Manuel Rumpf

Eva Blanché
In this context: The discovery for me was the painter Eva Blanché! The laconic and yet so loving view of the object - the virtuoso execution a la minute... Someone has created a wonderful opportunity to process the world in all its madness through art. I will follow your work. ...
[Klaus Noack / Galerie im Malzhaus Plauen | Excerpt from the speech on the occasion of the opening of the exhibition "HAUBENTAUCHER III", ibid., 07.2023 ]

Florian Merkel
The manual coloring of black and white photographs has a long tradition, it has existed almost as long as the medium of photography itself, because the sight of a monochrome image can leave an emotional deficit. For a long time, especially in commissioned photographic work, it was obvious to generate the otherwise unreproducible information with a brush. ...
From the catalog text for: TARGETED SETTINGS: OVERPAINTED PHOTOGRAPHY IN CONTEMPORARY ART curated by Stefan Gronert, Sprengel Museum Hannover, 2019

Hanne Kroll
Animals populate Kroll's works and are explored through painting. Whether it's the surface texture of a fish or the light refracted on a dog's fur, she tirelessly explores painterly possibilities and realizes them, sometimes more abstractly, sometimes more realistically. She is fascinated by people's view of animals and the cultural or socio-cultural differences in their treatment of the various species. Animal protagonists often become part of a fantastic world of the jungle or the deep sea and allow the viewer to escape into distant worlds, but an almost personal perspective on the animal is also permitted, a brief encounter between individuals.

Haiying Xu
The Chinese painter Haiying Xu combines elements from East and West in her paintings and plays with people's longings. The central theme in Haiying Xu's work is the exploration of her own identity.

Kerstin Seltmann
Kerstin Seltmann, born in East Berlin in 1961, wanted to become a painter. It was not an easy path, especially at a time when the GDR was already noticeably disintegrating and there was hardly any room to breathe for young, creative and rebellious people like Seltmann. Without being enrolled at a university, she received an academic education thanks to excellent mentors.

Lydia Thomas
Lydia Thomas, born in Karl-Marx-Stadt / Chemnitz, studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich under Prof. Anke Doberauer. Erasmus scholarship for a semester abroad at the Academy of Fine Arts in Lisbon Large-format mural at the Goethe-Institut Munich ...

Manuel Rumpf
The view of today's landscape is often fleeting. Forgetting and repression dominate our perception of everyday places, driven by speed and the pursuit of goals.
In his works, Manuel Rumpf deals with the atmospheres of modern landscapes, which are more than ever shaped by man, which have only come into being because we live in them.