Scott Campbell, Nathan Coley, Tacita Dean, Carsten Fock, Agnes Martin, Klaus Merkel, Julia Schmidt, David Schnell

Rosebud in film is a dream, a longing. In »Citizen Kane« (USA, 1941) this leads the newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane to attain immeasurable wealth and drives him to a life-long unfulfilled search for childlike harmony.

Rosebud in the exhibition remains an unanswered question dealing with the diametrically opposed relationship between opulence and emptiness. In how far does the visible convey the intended content, or does it rather disguises, hides, and distract it? Does the absent dictate the image? Our perception? What is the relationship in this context between such means of expression as figuration and abstraction or ornament and baroque?

These questions will be examined based on selected positions. The works will be placed in a relationship to each other in the exhibition. In doing so, the taking will attempt to create references and put statements in a nutshell. The experience of the artworks and the exhibition is in the foreground.

Tilo Schulz
Translation: Dr. Michael Wolfson