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The painter Klaus Eberhardt was born in Delmenhorst in 1954 and studied painting in Braunschweig. Although he exhibited his work only sporadically, he remained committed to painting as a means of communication until his death in 2024. His estate includes works that achieve an independent and deeply sincere visual quality, gaining autonomy once the artist can no longer be asked about their meaning. In place of the artist's self-expression, an active form of seeing emerges, one that takes the paintings seriously as partners in dialogue.
Klaus Eberhardt's paintings encounter works by artists at Haus Coburg who pursue an autofictional figuration in their art and address threats without explicitly naming them. Asana Fujikawa (born 1981 in Tokyo) develops fairytale-like narratives in printmaking series, whose protagonists she then translates into ceramics. This results in delicate figures that cultivate a dissociative state of presence and absence. Hans-Hendrik Grimmling (born 1947 in Zwenkau) grapples with the struggle for freedom in his paintings. Body parts, birds, and plants are recurring motifs with which he metaphorically confronts restrictive and repressive structures. Aura Roig (born 1994 in Tortosa) combines personal experiences and universal ideas in their paintings to create a magical realism. They contrast the family, in particular, as a place of care and the repressive transmission of tradition, with humor in their works.
From different perspectives, the exhibition examines painted figuration and its potential to represent and make tangible the invisible.
Dr Matilda Felix