Open Studio: Andrea Knobloch and Alke Reeh

opening 19.8.2023, 7 p.m., until 3.9.2023, Fri-Sun 2-7 p.m. Studio Andrea Knobloch, Lierenfelder Str. 39, 40231 Düsseldorf drawing, installation

Andrea Knobloch treats her drawing paper by colouring, folding, perforating or rubbing through rough surfaces. On the maltreated sheet, the motif emerges along the associations that arise while drawing. Indeterminate entities in the process of becoming or passing away settle into the format.

Alke Reeh's current fabric works are pure and thoroughly raw, the edges of the interpenetrating lengths of fabric are unconnected, individual threads hang down. Following gravity, the taut material sinks down in slight arcs - a moment of movement that opposes the strict composition.

fig. right: photography Alke Reeh

Interior

2023
drawing
coloured pencil, coffee on paper
H 203 x W 150cm

Torso with Red Arm

2023
drawing
pencil, graphite, coloured pencil, beetroot extract on paper
H 76,5 x B 47cm
photography Thomas Neumann

Creature

2023
drawing
pencil, coloured pencil, extract of beetroot on paper
H 237 x B 150cm
photography Thomas Neumann

Mutation (Angel)

2022
drawing
charcoal on paper
H 120 x W 85cm
photography Thomas Neumann

Metamorphosis

2023
drawing
coloured pencil, coffee on paper
H 77,5 x W 43cm
photography Thomas Neumann

Ghost (Appearance)

2023
sculpture
lead sheet, hand-formed
H 25 x W 25 x T 8cm

Torso

2023
drawing 
pencil, coffee on paper
H 73 x W 61cm
photography Thomas Neumann

Creep

2022
digital drawing
print on Photo Rag paper
H 59,4 x B 42cm

Interior

2023
drawing
coloured pencil, coffee on paper
H 42 x W 40cm
photography Thomas Neumann

Lot’s Wife

2023
drawing
graphite, beetroot extract on paper
H 150 x W 88cm
photography Thomas Neumann

Creep

2023
drawing, frottage
graphite, pencil on paper
H 55 x W 37cm
photography Thomas Neumann

Creep

2022
drawing
pencil on perforated paper
H 64 x W 46cm
photography Thomas Neumann

Mutant

2022
drawing
charcoal on paper
H 120 x W 85cm
photography Thomas Neumann

Impact

2022
Design for the competition Kurstr. 33 / Reconstruction and extension of the Foreign Office
illusionary relief, Grisaille
H 3 x W 11,39m

Before reaching the waiting area, the visitor to the annexe passes through a course of glazed doorways. On his way, his gaze repeatedly falls on the strangely distorted, undulating front wall of the waiting room. Wrinkled bulges emanate from an impact point in the right side of the wall and continue to the left in a wide arc. On approach, the ridges of height and shadowed depths reveal themselves as fine, dark as well as light mists of colour on smoothly plastered, pebble-grey walls.