November 5 – December 3, 2022

Also keen on the sensual experience is the work of the Osnabrückian artist, Friedrich Teepe (1929-2012), whom we are exhibiting at the gallery for the first time. Teepe studied from 1958 to 1962 with Prof. Joseph Fassbender and Prof. Georg Meistermann at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and created an unconventional body of work, spanning over more than 50 years, at the center of which is his very own transformation of bodily experience. 

In collaboration with the estate, we show a selection of his “Reliefbilder” from the early 1970s, which mark his transition of his interest from painting to objective image carriers of objective nature. The faric works made in cooperation with his wife, Ursula Teepe, in the 1980s mark the focal point of the exhibition. They are a testament to his close exchange with his fellow students Reiner Ruthenbeck, Blinky Palermo and Franz Erhard Walther and formulate an independent position: As an expansive i.e., space defining object of an oversized format they explore a novel physical relationship of beholder and work and at the same time the possibilities of a “spatial painting”.

At the same time, we are showing the exhibition »Matti Kujasalo. Paintings«.