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until 15.02. | #4541ARTatBerlin | Galerie Inga Kondeyne shows from 14. December 2024 two exhibitions by the artists Christiane Schlosser and Beate Terfloth.
Christiane Schlosser
‘…For Christiane Schlosser, drawing is similar to composing music. For her, the meaning of her drawings is to be sought in a similar way as the meaning of music would be sought. What sound do the drawings have? How does the composition build up? What rhythm does it set? How does it affect the bodies that listen to the drawing…’
‘…What would happen if the movement, the rhythm and the surprise, the overwhelmingness of the phenomenon described found their way into the language, if the formation of the sentences happened in the moment of overflow, and the rivers spread across the riverbed, but also beyond it, flowing in side arms & strands unpredictably. If the movements that grammar directs, predetermines and organises into paths were overridden, and instead of being linear, the sentences could be connected from several sides (at the expense of the grammar that enables the flow of understanding through the sentence). What if the errors in grammar – which cause a sentence to fall apart in the middle, or parts in a sentence to refer to each other without singular and plural forms necessarily matching their verb forms – were not improved…’
– Philipp Hege (from: to read the drawings by Christiane Schlosser)
Christiane Schlosser, born in 1960 in Viernheim, grew up in Mannheim; 1980-82 studied at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Hamburg; 1983-86 studied at the Hochschule der Künste, Berlin; lives and works in Berlin
Beate Terfloth
Susan Sontag wrote in against Interpretation: ‘What is important now is to recover our senses. We must learn to see more, to hear more, to feel more.’ For active witnessing, we need the full vibrancy and uniqueness of alert senses.
What happens between individual lines and the space to the right and left of them, how both define their surroundings and at the same time respect each other as counterparts, opens up spaces of possibility to be negotiated. The drawings reach the point at which this mobile equilibrium occurs and leave the outcome open.
Femmage à Hafif, 2023. Brush drawing, aquarelle, 28,5×76 cm, courtesy Inga Kondeyne
Many factors are active in the exploration of the brush-drawn line and the relationship it establishes with its surroundings. The series ‘Femmage à Hafif’ questions different formats and the paper itself, e.g. how the ground reacts: Fabriano-50%-Hadern actually refuses the brush drawing, while the paper Arches Rives readily accepts it. The balance of the work can therefore lie in the juxtaposition of the lines and in the interplay between drawing and paper.
When Beate Terfloth saw the series of pencil drawings in the PEAC collection in Freiburg, in which Marcia Hafif created grey surfaces with short vertical strokes in a row, she was interested in the repeated concentrated encounter of line and surface and the aspect of the serial that develops between the individual lines, and developed a new approach for the continuation of her ‘Placement’ works.
Set against this are a pair and a group of three lithographs, unique prints in which paper and colour were subjected to immense mechanical pressure. They are thick brushstroke lines, originally on stone. The repeatability of the print enables a different thematisation of seriality as a factor of juxtaposition. The mastery of Martin Gredler, Grafische Werkstatt Salzburg, and the great age of the lithographic stones with their fossilised inclusions make them so vivid.
In the watercolours created on Linosa in 2024, all of this dissolves, yet they possess the same fleetingness of form, the very capture of the drawing and its presence, which at the same time has a conceptual incomprehensibility.
Beate Terfloth, studied in Berlin and Munich, Professor of Drawing and Graphics at the University Mozarteum Salzburg, taught at the HfK Bremen, ABK Stuttgart and the National College of Arts Lahore. Ars Viva Prize, Prize of the German Artists’ Association. Her works are represented in numerous public and private collections.
International exhibitions since 1987, most recently: 2024 trembling, Hilti Art Foundation, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein; Schattiger Gastgarten, Edition Grafische Werkstatt, Salzburg; 2023 moving, Galerie Adlergasse, Dresden; Für die Vögel, Museumspavillon/Vogelhaus, Salzburg; group exhibitions: 2024 usual aspects, kaleido kontemporary, Lahore; 2023 Von Blatt zu Blatt, Wege der Zeichnung, Galerie Parterre, Berlin; Minimal! Art from East Asia, Museum of Asian Art, Humboldt Forum, Berlin
Title image captions: o.T., 2021, ink on paper, 59,5 x 84 cm, courtesy Inga Kondeyne
Exhibition Christiane Schlosser und Beate Terfloth – Galerie Inga Kondeyne | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin
i am also schlosser, my father and i paint also we have also give expo. the uncle of my father was also in the art