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until 18.04. | #4935ARTatBerlin | Taubert Contemporary shows from Friday, 13. February 2026 the exhibition Δs = kλ by the artist Sandra Schlipkoeter.
In the exhibition Δs = kλ, Sandra Schlipkoeter explores the conditions of perception in the tension between line, light, and space. The title, borrowed from a physical formula, describes not a closed system, but a relationship: minimal shifts, differences, and distances that give rise to measurable changes. In Schlipkoeter’s artistic practice, this figure of thought becomes a precise model of seeing — a seeing that is not stable, but rather composed of overlaps, refractions, and temporal moments.
For many years, Schlipkoeter has been working with the phenomenon of interference, the overlapping of light waves that is visible in both natural and digital image worlds. The starting point for her work is photographic observations of screen and camera light, whose supposed disturbances — lines, flickering, shifts — she translates into a painterly process. The focus is not on the representation of a motif, but on the translation of a visual event: light becomes structure, line becomes the carrier of movement and duration.
The works on display evolve from painting into an open pictorial space. Pourings and line drawings on paper and Neobond are opened, layered, and transformed into new spatial constellations through precisely placed incisions. The line becomes a real intervention in the pictorial surface, which loses its closed nature and begins to unfold between surface, wall, and space. Front and back, positive, and negative, surface and depth enter an unstable equilibrium. At the center of the exhibition is a wall piece developed from the graphic settings of the interference lines, which brings together the formal and content-related questions. New are works in which Schlipkoeter consistently expands her exploration of line and interference. In objects made of paper and resin, the line can no longer be experienced solely as a spatial structure, but as a temporally layered process. Transparency, layering, and materiality make condensation, sedimentation, and duration visible.
Sandra Schlipkoeter, AG 4, 2019. cut-out, mirror foil
42 x 29,5 cm | framed: 45,5 x 33 cm | 16.5 x 11.6 inches | framed: 17.9 x 13.0 inches
These expand the previous context of the work to include a temporal dimension. Forms reminiscent of drill cores or sections through geological layers combine material, color, and time to create spatial constellations. Color appears here not as a surface, but as a phenomenon of depth: in works such as RGB and Phasenraum, color values and wavelengths are explicitly related to each other and become visible as spatially experienceable relations. Interference is not only represented but materialized.
Despite all formal proximity to abstract pictorial traditions, Schlipkoeter does not understand her works as abstractions in the classical sense. Line, color, and interference remain tied to concrete light phenomena, to photographic models and real situations of perception. Even where the origin becomes invisible, the painterly aspiration remains central: every surface, every line is the result of a controlled, almost analytical working process that understands the image as a precisely constructed surface.
With Δs = kλ, Sandra Schlipkoeter presents a group of works in which painting, cut, space, and time are mutually dependent. The works demand a way of seeing that takes movement, change, and duration into account. Perception here does not appear as immediate certainty, but as a sensitive system of relations — a system in which the smallest shifts are enough to reconfigure the whole.
Opening: Friday, 13. February 2026, 6–9 pm
Exhibition dates: Friday, 13. February 2026 – Saturday, 18. April 2026
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Titel image caption: Sandra Schlipkoeter, NR03|20|21, 2024. Oil and acrylic on Neobond paper cut. 30 x 21 cm | framed: 32 x 24 | 12.6 x 9.6 inches
Exhibition Sandra Schlipkoeter– Taubert Contemporary | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin
