UNRUHE - Claudia Benter, Stefanie Hengge, Anja Koch-Kenk

In the organizer's words:

The artists Claudia Benter, Stefanie Hengge and Anja Koch-Kenk work in the field of tension between the professional fields of art therapy and their own artistic practice - a combination that results in a particular depth of focus: Their works carry a fine sensitivity for the human - they are created with a trained eye for vulnerability and the relationship between inner-psychological processes and social dynamics.

In their first joint exhibition, the artists explore the experience of unrest in our time. What becomes apparent when certainties about time, relationships, places and information become fragile? Their works illuminate individual perspectives and at the same time are in empathetic contact with each other. The exhibition itself becomes a resonating space that not only reflects unrest, but also opens up moments of stillness, pause and reorientation. The artists invite you to trace this interaction.

In her artistic practice,Claudia Benter, *1989, explores the in-between spaces that arise in the field of tension between inner and outer localization - charged, multi-layered spaces that often seem incomprehensible and at the same time carry a quiet urgency. One focus is on manifestations of transgenerational transmissions, which she explores both in the context of her own family history and in the context of collective experiences and memories. Her choice of motifs and materials develops from the tracing of subtle moods and deep resonances, inspired by encounters with objects and people that bear traces of loss of home or identity.

Stefanie Hengge, *1966, develops her work in series. The individual works in a series share a common narrative and coding strategy. The artist thus leads us along paths from one work to the next through a landscape in which transformations are legible. Hengge sees her works as traces in time, as condensations in which past and future crystallize in the present. She understands the studio as a space for thought and experience - physical, sensual and situational. In "playing" as an artistic practice, she approaches contexts and opens up approaches that point beyond the logical context and the verbally narratable.

Anja Koch-Kenk, *1980, repeatedly deals with the motif of the house and thus poses the question of what the house can tell us about the state of mind of an individual or a society. Her three-dimensional objects move in a field of tension between isolation, inaccessibility and defense on the one hand and fragility and permeability on the other. Her fascination with playing with scale was awakened and trained through her work as a stage designer and model maker. In her work as an art therapist in inpatient child and youth welfare with small children after being taken into care, she also encounters the theme of the house as a place of existential significance.