Duration of the exhibition from 24 November 2024 to 16 March 2025 on the 1st floor
Lara Kaiser's paintings show an intensive examination of art history - especially the history of painting. In several works, the artist takes up similar pictorial subjects to examine the creation of a painterly image. By visualising in the painting the fundamental painterly possibilities that anchor the creative process between figuration and abstraction, between surface and drawing, between gesture and structure, she uses painterly means to conduct a discourse on painting itself.
Although they often have ‘banal’ and everyday objects as their subject, they thematise complex considerations about the creation of a picture. In Lara Kaiser's work, for example, the image of a curtain, which is so paradigmatic for painting and not only refers to the painters' dispute in antiquity, but also alludes to the theme of painting as a “window” into the world, becomes an exploration of abstraction and figuration. The seemingly succinct arrangement of objects in her paintings give rise to differentiated visual experiences of colours and surfaces, bodies and lines, light and shadow, which on the one hand form a complex impression of space, but on the other always refer to the means of the modes of representation.
Lara Kaiser (*1996 in Witten) is the ‘Young Art’ scholarship holder of the city of Mülheim an der Ruhr for the years 2022-2024. The two-year studio scholarship at Styrum Castle honours a graduate of the final classes of the art academies in Münster and Düsseldorf as well as the Folkwang University in Essen. At the end of the studio period, the Kunstmuseum Mülheim will be showing a selection of the works created during this time.
