The Ever Sunset
“Christof John makes decisions during the painting process in which he apparently lets the viewer participate. The visibility of the processual is an important component of his works, which are nevertheless determined by precise painterly settings.”
Christof John
Untitled, 2023
Acrylic, pencil, mdf
33,5 x 23,5 x 5 cm
Photo: Mareike Tocha, Cologne
Courtesy: Christof John, Cologne and Drawing Room, Hamburg
Foreign colours
“Ultimately, Nora Schattauer combines the mathematical regularity of the grid, its rigidity, finality and impermeability, with the open, processual, associative and transparent nature of the stain. The strict geometry of the grid is, as it were, distorted and liquefied.”
Nora Schattauer
Untitled (silver 18), 2015
salt solutions on chromatography paper
30 x 20 cm
Photo: Nora Schattauer, Cologne
Courtesy: Nora Schattauer, Cologne and Drawing Room, Hamburg
Errant Gestures
“The atmospheric play of gestures is one of the methods by which people try to give meaning to their lives and the world in which they live.”
Maya Schweizer
Errant Gestures, 2023
Film still
Photo: Maya Schweizer, Berlin
Courtesy: Maya Schweizer, Berlin and Drawing Room, Hamburg
instrumentals
“Visual splinters of urban life. As if perceived out of the corner of our eye, caught fleetingly in passing, something that doesn't make an exact impression, but nevertheless leaves traces in our memory and now organises itself in the pictorial space and thus pushes itself into the centre of our attention.”
Notes on Christian Haake's new works, 2019
moonlid, 2023
wood, binder, acrylic
110 x 110 x 3,5 cm
Courtesy: The artist and Drawing Room, Hamburg
Photo: Helge Mundt, Hamburg
September 14th to November 2nd, 2023
/ extended until November 9th, 2023
Helene Appel
LETTERS
Opening hours: Tuesday to Thursday, 12AM to 7PM
and by appointment
*** Due to our participation in the HIGHLIGHTS art fair in Munich and Artissima in Turin, the gallery will be closed from 17th - 19th October and on November 2nd, 2023.***
LETTERS
“Taking a closer look at the works, the radical nature of this attitude becomes clear. Helene Appel does not develop a painterly signature, an unmistakable style that exhibits the artist’s creative individualiy. Instead, it is the object portrayed that presets the conditions.”
Reversing light, 2023
Oil and acrylic on cotton
42.5 x 24.6 cm
Courtesy: The artist and Drawing Room, Hamburg
Photo: Helene Appel, Berlin
Prix Polyptyque 2022/2023 - Centre Photographique Marseille
“The idea is to work on this phase of exile, what has happened in our country, and how to build our life as a couple in another country during a pandemic.”
Jeanne et Moreau
Orange suitcase, 2021
Pigment print on Hahnemuehle Photo Rag Pearl paper
24 x 18 cm
Courtesy: The artist and Drawing Room, Hamburg
Photo: Jeanne et Moreau, Marseille
color it!
“Ultimately, it makes no difference whether this painting manifests itself site-specifically within the architecture or autonomously on paper, canvas, or aluminum; its distinguishing core is its sense for the emotional possibilities of colors and abstract shapes, which cannot be accounted for but must be experienced in all its immediate intensity.”
Berlin, 2017, page 5
Untitled, 2023
Flashe, acrylic and pigment on canvas
55 x 44 cm
Courtesy: The artist and Drawing Room, Hamburg
Photo: Anke Völk, Berlin
POLAR
“Her mostly large-scale drawings could be attempts to understand how meaning can still be attributed to the human perspective, with its special way of observing and thinking about something.”
(Translation: Lucinda Rennison)
Tunnel, 2022
Charcoal on paper
72 x 85 cm
Courtesy: The artist and Drawing Room, Hamburg
Photo: Noi Fuhrer, Berlin