In the organizer's words:

The exhibition POGO - Painting on Divided Canvas shows a selection of jointly painted works by the artists Anais Héraud-Louisadat and Ana Valeska Daase. Since 2023, the two painters have been engaged in an ongoing artistic dialog. They paint together and simultaneously on the same canvases and explore the intersubjective and artistic dynamics that arise in this way. They often listen to loud music, which is less conducive to linguistic communication than to the painting process itself - and reflects its character.

"Pogo" is a dance to punk music: people jump, bump into each other, move chaotically and abandon themselves to a certain extent to the bodies of others. Something similar happens when painting together: One begins, the other paints over. One part of the picture pushes itself into the foreground, another has to retreat. Forms emerge and disappear again, collide, overlap or join together. The result is a struggle for space and expression, with these spheres expanding at the same time. As in pogo, the wild mishmash also contains moments of synthesis in which the movements accelerate, slow each other down and come together. In this way, Héraud-Louisadat and Daase also deal with intersubjective dynamics, boundary shifts and their resonances in painting.

There are moments in which the two artists consciously distance themselves and the picture transforms from fragmentary to creative unity. Joint decisions lead to pictorial realizations in which the work, with all its overpaintings and breaks, ultimately holds together.

POGO presents selected results of this painterly experiment from the last three years as well as solo works by the artists, in which their different styles become visible. The exhibition will be accompanied by workshops in which the processes of interactive painting in a group can be experienced in practice.

* Anaïs Héraud-Louisadat, born in 1988, is a visual artist and art therapist. She lives and works in Berlin. Her work focuses on painting and performance art. Her previous projects have been shown in "TRANSITIONING Politics & Technologies of Gender Change" (Kunstquartier Bethanien), "Poröse Stadt - Grenzgänge des Urbanen" (Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien), "Minor Cosmopolitanisms" (Haus der Kulturen der Welt), "TRAJECTORIES im Rahmen von: How to: Embody the Flow of Time Differently" (GAK Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst e.V, Bremen).

* Ana Valeska Daase, born 1983, is a visual artist and art therapist. She lives and works in Berlin. In her artistic work, she focuses primarily on figurative painting and graphic art. She studied art and philosophy, with the two fields influencing each other.