Sonja Alhäuser, Mark Formanek, Julia Gröning, Antonia Low, Alex McQuilkin, Daniel Müller-Friedrichsen, Regine Müller-Waldeck, Annika Ström, Silke Wagner, Heike Weber

When we speak about love, we unhesitatingly get pathos-filled sensations of enraptured abandonment, sweet romanticism and glowing adoration. We simultaneously also associate the counter-images linked to anguished desperation, pain, and coldness. These ambivalences belong to the essence of the human being: While we experience joy and lust as unlimited, we face pain and listlessness as limitations or violations of boundaries. We often find critical dealings with the medial clichés of unfulfilled desires and the sell-out of love in an age of conspicuous consumption in connection with the great emotion of "love" in contemporary art. The exhibition draws together very personal works that allow us to experience existential borderline states and forms of obsession in an immediate an sensual manner as well as works that deal with the question of perspective and the mental frame of a supposed ideal image.