Gallery and Showroom 21
September 19 – October 31, 2025
Opening reception on Thursday, September 18, at 7 p.m.
The artists will be present.
“When we try to look at anything by itself, we find it is connected to everything else in the universe.” – John Muir
The essence of Friederike Walter's painting lies between what we see and what we perceive. Her paintings create a vague impression of space and place the viewer in a state of limbo. Surfaces and contours remain deliberately blurred, touching only gently and creating subtle contrasts. Light and shadow casts lend her paintings the fleetingness of a moment—like snapshots, like glimpses from the corner of the eye. In this way, Friederike Walter opens up new, illuminating perspectives on the possibilities of contemporary abstract painting.
Paul Diestel's artistic work deals with the hidden narratives of nature. Starting with natural fragments, which he reduces to their essential appearance and enlarges, he develops expansive sculptures. His sculptural work seems to be neither temporally nor spatially locatable. It thrives on the interrelationship between space, context, and perspective, whereby the meaning of his objects is constantly changing. Paul Diestel sees his wood and bronze sculptures as a medium that interrogates the respective location according to its stories and peculiarities.
