Overhead Gallery
Münster, Germany

Overhead Gallery

The focus of the presentation is figuration.

Bahram Hajou's expressive works testify to the inability of people to communicate, to trust and love one another. The protagonists - naked, vulnerable and defenseless - feel guilt or shame, sink into loneliness and melancholy.

Dieter Nusbaum narrative images only gradually reveal themselves to the viewer. Figurative and abstract, realistic and surrealistic at the same time. His literally multi-layered world of images is unfathomable - often irritating. The irritation is calculated, openly in intention, the works consistently contain something life-affirming.

Portraits without People. Porcelain plates with gold edges, kitchen towels, postcards, plastic bowls and plaques. Objects from everday life. A concrete personality behind the objects remains hidden. Suscha Kortes pictures are “portraits without people“ because they do not portray or represent one particular individual fate, but are rather a potrait of humanity as such. These and other objects are painted onto the picture carrier or mounted onto the picture surface as actual real objects.

The artist literally incorporates reality into her pictural world. The works do not only speak of reality, but are themselves reality. By intervening in the viewer‘s world of thoughts and entering into a direct dialogue, reality and fiction not only become blurred, but the pictures also and especially create a new world all their own.