WERKRaum Vernissage & Artist Talk mit Liam Floyd // Stefan Lenke + Christian Schiebe – PAINTINGS AND DRAWINGS

In the organizer's words:

Christian Schiebe's drawings represent a kind of limbo between appearance and disappearance. The inscribed sheets form open fields that mark a drawing space through fine, improvised rhythms, which are determined by deviating, searching, hesitantly groping and often corrected markings. Christian Schiebe mostly produces small-format and, at first glance, sparse drawings. For him, his individual sheets or groups of drawings are loose components for settings in space. In his work, Schiebe is concerned with bringing the drawings as loose components into a relationship with surfaces, fixtures, constructive, structural conditions, light and shadow in order to make the fine linear compositions and ephemeral qualities of his drawings tangible.

Stefan Lenke pursues complex ideas of color and structure in the media of painting and printmaking. He develops his multi-layered compositions in an almost palimpsest-like manner. Urban spaces and fragments of our everyday world become the source of Lenke's painterly imagery. Photographic notations in a minimalist manner serve him as studies of his perception and memory, which are immediately supported by the phenomenon of the fleeting and transitory. The artist experiments with graphic formulations, structures and constellations of light and shadow. In his works, Lenke abandons traditional notions of space, creating polyphonic discontinuities that, in the sense of Leibniz's concept of space, conceive of space as a "possibility of the coexistence" of variable multiple structures, perceptions, places and times.

OPENING: Thursday, June 25, 2026, 6 pm, + Artist Talk with Liam Floyd
Duration: June 25 - August 09, 2026
Where: GEH8 WERKRaum
Opening hours: Viewing of the workroom by appointment via email or at any time through the window on Gehestraße

The WERKRaum exhibition is sponsored by teilAuto Carsharing. Thank you very much!

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BIOGRAPHIES OF THE ARTISTS:

Stefan Lenke
1976 born in Jena, lives and works in Dresden
1997 - 2000 Philosophy, Friedrich Schiller University in Jena
2001 - 2006 Painting/Graphics, Dresden University of Fine Arts
2006 - 2008 Master student of Ingo Meller, HGB Leipzig
since 2023 artistic assistant in the painting class of Prof. Anne Neukamp, HfBK Dresden

Christian Schiebe
1985 born in Neubrandenburg, lives and works in Berlin
2007 - 2013 Studied at the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art
2013 - 2014 Master student of Nanne Meyer, KHB