Wachhaus #20: Antonia Jüdt

In the organizer's words:

when Spring tells of Autumn Landscapes /
when Spring tells of Autumn Landscapes
Opening: May 3, 2026, 4 pm

When the Trees and bushes start showing from underneath their leaves. When their curling Branches are relieved by their late Summer Weight and when the pale but piercing Winter Sun sharpens the lines they draw. It's like they pose, exposing their resilient charm, summed up by the sparse and countless embellishments of turns and swirls, before exploding back into obliging saturation. When filling Blank Spaces that are never left bare behind.

In her installation at the Wachhaus, Antonia Jüdt explores the decorative qualities of art: she translates Vincent van Gogh's painting Autumn Landscape with Four Trees into a drawing that she wraps around a canvas. The leitmotif is her romantic and methodical approach to landscape painting. The expansive positioning of the painting in the guardhouse interweaves her sculptural practice with the drawing. Jüdt thus refers to the object-like nature of the picture.

Antonia Jüdt has been studying at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf since 2020, until 2025 with Prof. Thomas Grünfeld and since 2026 with Prof. Ima-Abasi Okon.

The Wachhaus exhibition series is a cooperation with the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, in which students realize a new installation on site every two months. After a cycle of six presentations, one contribution will be honored at an award ceremony the following year.