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Vernissage: Thursday, 24 January 2019 at 7 pm
Exhibition period 25 January - 1 March 2019
Artist talk: With Susanna Niederer and Christoph Primm on Friday, 25 January 2019 at 6 pm

The central element in Susanna Niederer's work is the ellipse, a strictly and precisely constructed form. Her works are characterised by a great calm and strength that arises from meditation on a single form. Despite her rigour, Susanna Niederer exploits the entire spectrum of artistic possibilities. In terms of content, she ranges from concrete abstraction to landscape figurations, for example when standing ellipsoids can be associated with stylised groups of trees. In terms of sculpture, the works range from bronze, wood and paper to foam materials. The ellipse as a drawn form in the surface, as well as bent with a wire as a dynamic line in space, as a large and heavy spatial body or light as a feather as discs.

The power and movement in Christoph Primm's paintings is expressed in a completely different way. Colour is the first thing that stands out in the juxtaposition with Susanna Niederer's works. Present and virulent, it not only conquers the pictorial space. Its form is shaped by the paint applied with a brush or palette knife, so that the countless layers are interwoven and the dynamics of the colour application point into the real space. The pictorial forms are fragmented, forming a pictorial texture, a pictorial fabric.

These two artistic positions in the exhibition thus span a wide range of diametrically opposed poles of maximum contrasts.

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Susanna Niederer // Sculpture
Born in Basel (CH) in 1958. Studied there and in Mexico City and Paris. 1982 - 1989 assistant on several films about contemporary art and artists for Télévision Suisse Romande | 1984 - 1991 editor for various publishing houses. Study visits to various Asian countries to date.
In her work, Susanna Niederer uses the symbol of the ellipse to depict emptiness. Sculptures, objects and installations made from a wide variety of materials emerge from this background. After many exhibitions in museums, art galleries and galleries at home and abroad, she has recently exhibited at the Kunsthalle Will, in Iceland, Tokyo, Wels/Thalheim (Austria) and currently in Rajasthan and New Delhi (India).
Works in public and private collections: e.g. City of Basel and Canton Basel Landschaft | Busch Reisinger Museum Cambridge, MA, USA | Columbus Foundation Ravensburg | Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern | Yale University Gallery, Yale, USA | Wellesley College, Wellesley, USA | Museum Wiesbaden | Hoffmann La Roche Collection Basel | S. and W Kramarsky Collection, NYC, USA | A. and P. Nobel Collection, Zurich
Fig.: Button, 2016, recycled rubber, 20 ? 30 ? 22 cm

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Christoph Primm // Painting
1947 born in Berlin | 2006-2011 studied painting at the Akademie für Malerei Berlin in the class of Ute Wöllmann | 2011 master student of Ute Wöllmann | 2011-2014 member of the producer gallery ROOT am Savignyplatz | Since 2014 Christoph Primm has been represented as an artist by Galerie ROOT | He lives and works in Berlin. Exhibition participations with the gallery ROOT am Savignyplatz: 2011 cutlog Paris (nominé pour le prix ARTE/Cutlog 2011) | 2013 ART FAIR Cologne | Exhibition participations with the gallery ROOT | 2014 POSITIONS.BERLIN | 2016, 2017, 2018 art KARLSRUHE. Solo exhibitions: 2011 solo exhibition with lecture at the end of his studies, Akademie für Malerei Berlin | 2011 Galerie ROOT am Savignyplatz, Berlin | 2013 "velivoli - die kunst abzuheben" with Eva Erbacher, Galerie ROOT am Savignyplatz, Berlin | 2014 "drüber & drunter" with Marita Czepa at Galerie ROOT am Savignyplatz, Berlin | 2015 "freiflug" with sculptor Ulrike Buhl, Galerie ROOT, Berlin | 2018 "Glücksfall" at Kunstraum Reuter, Berlin Neukölln | 2019 "geformt - bewegt" with Susanna Niederer, Galerie ROOT, Berlin. Group exhibitions (selection): "ROOT @ pack of patches" in Jena | 2014 Galerie Hoff_ mann @ ROOT | "Viriditas" Galerie ROOT | Master student exhibition at the Akademie für Malerei Berlin as part of the art festival "Kunst am Spreeknie" in Berlin | Group exhibition at Galerie Mianki and Königliche Porzellan_ Manu_ faktur Berlin for the fifth art auction in favour of the Telefonseelsorge Berlin in the rooms of KPM 2015 | www.christoph_primm.eu
Bausch und Bogen III, 2018, acrylic, oil on canvas, 70 ? 70 cm, photo: Ch. Jörss

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