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until 19.06. | #4271ARTatBerlin | Galerie Friese presents from 27. April 2024 (Vernissage: 26.04.) the exhibition with new works by the artist Franziska Holstein.
Galerie Friese is showing the third solo exhibition by Leipzig painter Franziska Holstein (*1978) as part of Gallery Weekend Berlin. Following her extensive solo exhibition at the Von der Heydt-Museum Wuppertal last year, the artist has been working on a complex of new canvases, wall paintings and wall works made of wood, which she will be exhibiting in her exhibition “New Works” at Galerie Friese from 27 April.
Franziska Holstein’s work is the result of a practical and intellectual exploration of colour and form. With the utmost consistency, she has developed her own canon of colours and colour combinations, forms and working methods over the years, which she uses playfully.
The processual nature of her working method – the systematic and intuitive testing of colour tones and compositional possibilities of her own formal vocabulary – remains recognisable in her works: through thick layers of paint that reveal underlying colours on the sides of the canvases or through shadowy outlines of previous compositions. Her works interact intensively with each other – either by existing as part of larger groups of works or through open compositional, formal or colour references to each other. It is precisely these relationships that are brought into focus in the exhibition. For a publication published by Lubok Verlag in Leipzig at the same time as the exhibition, the artist separated forms from her acrylic paintings and combined them into new compositions. Forms from previous wall paintings – also as “negative forms” – become cut-outs in large wall works made of wood, an act of “archiving the individual forms” (Franziska Holstein).
Vernissage: Friday, 26. April 2024, from 6 pm to 9 pm, Introduction, Klaus Gerrit Friese, 7.30 pm
Exhibition: Saturday, 27. April – Wednesday, 19. June 2024
Opening hours Gallery Weekend 2024: Friday, 26. April, 6 pm – 9 pm (Opening), Saturday, 27. April, 11 am – 7 pm, Sundey, 28. April, 11 am – 6 pm
To the Gallery
Image caption: Franziska Holstein, o.T. (M2), 2024, Acryl auf Leinwand, 140 x 100 cm, Courtesy Galerie Friese
Exhibition Franziska Holstein – Galerie Friese | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibition Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin
