The exhibition Private Rooms brings together six artists who reinterpret interiors and still lifes as intimate reflections of memory, imagination, and emotional resonance. Each, through a unique lens, redefines our relationship to space and the objects that inhabit it.
Julien Lischka and Ivan Arlaud transform still life into a narrative meditation. Lischka captures fleeting moments in compositions that play with light and shadow, revealing hidden stories and ephemeral emotions. His works, devoid of human presence, leave room for imagination, where every detail becomes a key to interpretation. Similarly, Arlaud crafts delicate scenes where a glass, a coffee pot, or a book bear witness to suspended lives. Both artists create an intimate atmosphere, inviting the viewer to extend the story beyond the image.
Mads Rafte Hein and Kate Lewis reimagine interiors as vibrant explorations of form, color, and narrative. Hein’s richly detailed compositions are brimming with patterns, objects, and contrasts, creating rooms that feel alive with history and culture. His bold palette draws the eye into interiors that are both exuberant and deeply layered. Lewis, in contrast, pares down the domestic into a celebration of everyday beauty, using her unrestrained brushwork and vivid colors to breathe life into familiar spaces. Together, their works invite us to rethink the emotional resonance of the rooms we inhabit.
Steffen Kern and Kate Mary explore the boundary between perception and imagination. Kern’s hyperrealistic drawings, crafted entirely from his mind, challenge the viewer’s understanding of reality and fiction. His interiors appear photographic, yet their origins in the imagined blur the line between memory and invention. Mary, with her luminous pastel works, captures domestic scenes that feel both grounded and ethereal. Her use of light and shadow evokes a sense of nostalgia and renewal, transforming everyday spaces into poetic reveries. Both artists use their mediums to reveal the unseen layers of familiar environments, offering new ways to perceive the intimate.
Private Rooms is a conversation between these diverse approaches, where still lifes murmur untold stories, interiors pulse with vibrancy, and reality dissolves into imagination. Together, these works reframe the spaces we inhabit, connecting the tangible with the emotional and the real with the dreamed.
