Inge Krause – Dazwischen EN

Exhibition Inge Krause – Photos: Henning Rogge

Impressions of the exhibition opening

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Saturday, 19 July – 3 pm
Intergenerational dialogue within the creation and promotion of art

In an open dialogue, the focus will be on the question of intergenerational innovations in artistic development and social expectations, but also on fair access, as well as mutual listening and learning. What potential does the exchange of experiences between younger and older artists offer and how can the funding conditions be improved, especially for artists of an older age?
A dialogue between Maximilian Glas, Achim Hoops, Inge Krause, Hannah Rath and others.
Moderation: Nadja Quante, freelance curator

Sunday, 7 September – 3 pm
Finissage with talk

Guided tour through the exhibition in dialogue with Jens Asthoff and Inge Krause. All visitors are cordially invited to an open and informal dialogue.

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In a retrospective solo exhibition, the institution Künstler:innenhaus Stadtgalerie Lauenburg is showing works by Inge Krause. She studied under Gotthard Graubner and Stanley Brouwn at the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg from 1988-1995.
The artist spent her childhood in Schleswig-Holstein in the immediate vicinity of the inner-German border. She was born in Heide near Boizenburg in 1948, where she spent the first years of her life before moving to Geesthacht-Tesperhude in 1952. As Geesthacht did not yet have a swimming pool at the time, Inge Krause often visited the swimming centre in Lauenburg in the summer, where she says she spent the best summer days of her childhood. Lauenburg, situated between Krause’s birthplace and the place of her childhood, as well as in the immediate vicinity of her home in Hamburg-Bergedorf, is therefore the ideal place for a first comprehensive review of her rich artistic work.

For more than three decades, Inge Krause’s work has been characterised by a central interest: the interest in bringing colour to life as a quality of appearance. Building it up through layering and thus opening it up to blurring, which literally allows it to be experienced visually as pictorial space, as depth. The consistency with which the artist has constantly developed her work over the years (and continues to do so) is impressive, in quite different forms, if you think from the early Polaroid works and the wall paintings to the colour surfaces cast with countless fine layers of acrylic to the drawings and beyond. With her most recent foil paintings (since 2021), she achieves a lightness in her handling of painting, colour composition and material, allowing light and space to flow into the visual experience more strongly than before.
The exhibition will bring together the various painting, drawing and photographic practices and the different groups of works with the artist’s conceptual approach across all her works in order to emphasise the outstanding quality, stringent consistency and dynamism of this artistic position. Anyone who sees her paintings from the past three or four years will recognise how she moves increasingly freely within the paradigm she has created and continues to find fascinating new paths within it. Paths that perhaps turn even more strongly than before to the sensuality of the appearance of colour.

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