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until 08.11. | #4822ARTatBerlin | GALERIE STEFAN RASCHE shows from 05. September 2025 the exhibition “ROKOKOKOKOTTE” by the artist Eilike Schlenkhoff.
A brushstroke, a splash of colour or a graphic gesture – Eilike Schlenk-hoff deals with such pictorial elements of abstract painting. However, she pursues an artistic camouflage that is based on a surprising re-evaluation of pictorial means: With a palpable desire to experiment, she works on overcoming supposed opposites, because the abstract suddenly becomes a tangible object, gains space, changes its state, its meaning and its meaninglessness.
In recent years, this has developed into a complex painterly cosmos that constantly produces new pictorial sensations – and reveals very different ways of dealing with the inherently abstract colour figures. There are, for example, singular brushstrokes that cast a shadow on the picture ground like ominous flying objects. Then again it is a calyx, a thread or a collection of floating particles that the painter traces in a trenchant manner. Or whole bundles of brushstrokes emerge, resembling a fountain, an ambiguous organism.
Brummbeere, 2025, Öl auf Leinwand, 60 × 50 cm
The basis of her pictorial inventions is almost always a monochrome surface, which becomes the sounding board for such colour and form phenomena. Recently, however, there are also wide, cloudy skies to be discovered in her paintings. Sculptural images appear in these, perhaps a bird or a ghostly figure, which emerge solely from the modulation and movement of colour.
Opening: Friday, 05. September 2025, 6 – 9 pm.
Exhibition dates: Friday, 05. September until Saturday, 8. November 2025
To the gallery
Title image caption: Eilike Schlenkhoff, Rokokokokotte, 2025, Oil on canvas, 30 × 24 cm
Exhibition Eilike Schlenkhoff – Rasche Ripken | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Ausstellungen Berlin Galerien | ART at Berlin
