Between pixel and pigment.

Hybrid painting in post-digital times

A bundle of shapes. Shades of green and blue predominate in the background. On the left is the structure of a brick wall, on the right a shape reminiscent of a car. Streaks and drops seem to float in the foreground. They are predominantly blue and magenta.
Corinne Wasmuth, Violence, 2001, oil on wood, 227 x 322 cm, Sammlung Schmeer, Aachen. Corinne Wasmuth, Petzel Gallery and Johann König, Berlin. Photo: Achim Kukulies

“´There is a fascinating interface between pixel and pigment where digital and traditional art techniques meet and intermingle. This area explores the interplay between digitally generated images and handcrafted painting techniques, creating new visual languages and forms of expression.”

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The exhibition, developed jointly by the Museum Marta Herford and the Kunsthalle Bielefeld and taking place simultaneously at both venues, is dedicated to post-digital hybrid painting and thus reflects our hybrid post-digital present, anchored between the digital and the analog. In this large-scale collaboration, the focus is on a painterly way of thinking that has expanded considerably, especially in the last ten years, through the equal interweaving of content and technology of the hybrid. The international artists fundamentally question the traditional medium of painting. To what extent do the changes influence materialities, image-media structures and aesthetics? How do hybrid spaces, bodies that have become fluid and a feeling of being in-between find pictorial correspondences? With the Kunstakademie Münster as the third project partner, museum practice, academic teaching and research are combined in an experimental way.

The Academy of Art is organizing an accompanying symposium, the contents of which will be published in an academic publication as part of the exhibition.

 

Artists:

Sónia Almeida, Tim Berresheim, Salomé Chatriot, Vivian Greven, Wade Guyton, Tishan Hsu, Jacqueline Humphries, Charlotte Johannesson, KAYA (Kerstin Brätsch/Debo Eilers), Peter Kogler, Vera Molnar, Mukenge/Schellhammer, Laura Owens, Seth Price, Rafael Rozendaal, Pieter Schoolwerth, Amy Sillman, Avery Singer, Cheyney Thompson, Philipp Timischl, Corinne Wasmuht, Anicka Yi and others.

 

In cooperation with:

Logo of the Marta Herford. Black serif font on white.
Logo of the Academy of Fine Arts Münster. University of Fine Arts. Sans serif font in black and medium-dark blue.

Supported by the:

Logo for the German Federal Cultural Foundation. White sans serif font, flush right, on a black background.

Sponsored by:

Logo for The Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media. Black san serif font. To the left is a black column that tapers downwards into thinner and thinner lines. The federal eagle on the far left.

With friendly support:

Logo of the LWL Kulturstiftung. Sans serif font in anthracite. LWL is in thick print and surrounded by the outline of the Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe, the geografical area. Logo of the LWL Kulturstiftung. Sans serif font in anthracite. LWL is in thick print and surrounded by the outline of the Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe, the geografical area.
Logo of Stadtwerke Herford GMbH. White san serif font in a blue circle with a white border.
Logo of Stadtwerke Bielefeld. Blue san serif font. To the right, a yellow and blue hook-like line form a circle.

Gallerie

A bundle of shapes. Shades of green and blue predominate in the background. On the left is the structure of a brick wall, on the right a shape reminiscent of a car. Streaks and drops seem to float in the foreground. They are predominantly blue and magenta.
Corinne Wasmuth, Violence, 2001, oil on wood, 227 x 322 cm, Sammlung Schmeer, Aachen. Corinne Wasmuth, Petzel Gallery and Johann König, Berlin. Photo: Achim Kukulies