All posts filed under “Artists

Uwe Sennert

Reise in die Sennestadt |
25.02.–19-03.2022

Exhibition with works by

Sennf Sennert Installation, drawing

Toolbox Kabinett: Eike Laeuen 

Eike Laeuen-Marine

Eike Laeuen,
Marine, 2020, 34,5 X 29 cm

Vernissage: 25 February 2022, 7pm

25.02.–19.03.2022
Opening Times: Fr–Sa 15-19 h

An Feiertagen ist die Toolbox geschlossen
On Bank holidays Toolbox is closed

Artwork top: Sennf Sennert, Die Gedankenform [The Shape of Thinking], mixed media, 2020

Mika KArhu Video-Screenshot

And Words at Night |
29.10.–20.11.2021

Exhibition with works by
Mika Karhu (video)

Toolbox Kabinett: Jan Bejšovec (textile art)

Vernissage: 29 October 2021, 7pm

29.10.–20.11.2021
Opening Times: Mi–Sa 15-19 h

An Feiertagen ist die Toolbox geschlossen
On Bank holidays Toolbox is closed


Mika Karhu

“Thoughtlessness – carefree indifference, hopeless confusion or complacent repetition of ‘truths’ turned flat and empty – seems to be the most striking character of our time […] I suggest something very simple, not more than that we think about what we do.”
Hannah Arendt

http://www.mikakarhu.com/en/


Jan Bejšovec

Jan Bejšovec

 

Dr. Goebbels
40 x 30 cm
appliqués and hand-embroidery on stretcher frame
2012

The German-Jewish photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt succeeded in revealing a portrait of the notorious National Socialist in Geneva in 1933 during a visit by Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels to the League of Nations in Geneva. Goebbels fixed the photographer full of hatred and thereby lost his bourgeois mask for a moment.

Through the strong abstraction of the original photo and the reduction to his face, Goebbels hateful gaze is further accentuated in the textile image. The reduction to a few sharp-edged shapes and the contrast of black and white sharpen the image‘s message. Hand-embroidered surfaces create an additional profile depth on the superimposed textile applications.

http://www.konfliktstoff.org

Jukka Suhonen

Introspection | 25.09.–23.10.2021

Exhibition with works by the finnish artists
Jukka Suhonen (paintings) | Harri Turunen (sculptures)

Vernissage: 24 September 2021, 7pm

25.09.–23.10.2021
Opening Times: Mi–Sa 15-19 h

An Feiertagen ist die Toolbox geschlossen
On Bank holidays Toolbox is closed


Jukka Suhonen

I was born in 1963 in Joensuu, Finland, where I live and work to this day.
I studied arts for three years (1985- 1988) at Kankaanpää art school. I am a member of Finnish painters association, and also a member of Joensuu art association.
My works are in Finland state collection, city of Joensuu collection and health care district of Joensuu area. Also, they can be found in many private collections.
Art exhibition activities: 28 solo exhibitions, 54 group exhibitions and 12 Finland state art group exhibitions.
During my artistic career I have used many kind of painting methods. I’ve painted with oil colors, water soluable aquarelles, acrylic paints, and also drawings liquid inks in many colors.
Nowadays I am using acrylic paint on canvas and drawing black ink pens on paper.

I paint figurative works. Often on my canvases you can see only one or few body details: one leg, legs, head, or many heads and so on… I use also hints of other living creatures, like animals, or pieces of built environment by humans.

Maybe I want to describe tensions between individuals, temporal nature of life and also how fragile it is in many ways. Maybe there are also thoughts about hatred, love, and absolute evil which surround us sometimes.

Artwork: Jukka Suhonen, The King is Dead

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Harri Turunen

I am Harri Turunen, a sculptor from North Karelia.
Herbarium is a collection of plant samples.
The samples may be whole plants or parts thereof and they may be stored dried and pressed.
The material of the flora is painted iron wire. The significance of nature and human diversity is present (in the work). On a larger scale, the lack of intra-species diversity is a threat.

Hakkuri

PEOPLE – Notes from the Draughtman’s Diary |
27.08.–18.09.2021

Drawing exhibition with works by the Finnish artist
MARKKU HAKURI

Vernissage: 27 August 2021, 7pm

Toolbox Kabinett: Karen Stuke

http://www.karenstuke.de

27.08.–18.09.2021
Opening Times: Mi–Sa 15-19 h
10. 09. 2021: 19–21 Uhr

An Feiertagen ist die Toolbox geschlossen
On Bank holidays Toolbox is closed


For German, please scroll down

PEOPLE – Notes from the Draughtman’s Diary

MARKKU HAKURI

The rule will be formed when many coincidences meet sufficiently in the same picture.

Jevgeni Vodolzkin: The flyer, Into kustannus 2018, p. 210

PEOPLE – Notes from the Draughtman’s Diary is three-year project based on the idea of our world view, which consists of stories constructed by all our senses. We fill in and modify these stories throughout our lives.

During the working process, between May 1, 2016 and April 31, 2019, I studied how visual information constructs one’s vision of the world. Daily randomly-chosen Press photos from the Helsingin Sanomat newspaper have been transformed in the draughtman’s diary into a new picture—a vision of the artist’s mindscape, a story of the moment.

The project provides a new way of reinterpreting the Press photos, which tell a new story of the world through free associations—a story I have transferred by drawing into the surroundings of my own experience. The pictures have become part of my own life story.

For those interested in the materials used: Diary pages (30 x 40 cm); a ballpoint pen; oil pastel; and watercolors, white/mainly black.

Markku Hakuri

www.markkuhakuri.com


Deutsch

MENSCHEN – Notizen aus dem Tagebuch des Zeichners

Die Regel wird gebildet, wenn sich viele Zufälle im gleichen Bild ausreichend treffen.
Jevgeni Vodolzkin: Der Flyer, Into kustannus 2018, S. 210

Menschen – Notizien aus dem Tagebuch des Zeichners ist ein dreijähriges Projekt, das auf der Idee unserer Weltanschauung basiert, die aus Geschichten besteht, die mit allen unseren Sinnen konstruiert werden. Wir füllen und modifizieren diese Geschichten unser ganzes Leben lang.
Während des Arbeitsprozesses, zwischen dem 1. Mai 2016 und dem 31. April 2019, habe ich erforscht, wie visuelle Informationen die eigene Sicht der Welt konstruieren. Täglich zufällig ausgewählte Pressefotos der Helsinkier Zeitung (Helsingin Sanomat) wurden im Tagebuch des Zeichners in ein neues Bild verwandelt – eine Vision der Geisteslandschaft des Künstlers, eine Geschichte des Augenblicks.

Das Projekt vermittelt eine neue Art der Interpretation der Pressefotos, die durch freie Assoziationen eine neue Weltgeschichte erzählen – eine Geschichte, die ich durch Zeichnen in die Umgebung meiner eigenen Erfahrung übertragen habe. Die Bilder sind Teil meiner eigenen Lebensgeschichte geworden.

Für Interessierte, die verwendeten Materialien sind: Tagebuchseiten (30 x 40 cm); ein Kugelschreiber; Öl-Pastell; und Aquarelle, weiß/hauptsächlich schwarz.
Markku Hakuri
www.markkuhakuri.com

Karen Koltermann Voice in the night

The Voice In The Night
Stimme in der Nacht | 30.10–21.11.2020

Exhibition and book launch |

Karen Koltermann

Berlin-based artist Karen Koltermann presents her wonderful and disconcertingly eerie interpretation of William Hope Hodgson’s famous story The Voice in the Night (1907) as a graphic novel.

Die Berliner Künstlerin Karen Koltermann hat eine gleichermaßen wunderbare wie verstörend unheimliche Interpretation der berühmten Geschichte The Voice in the Night (1907) von William Hope Hodgson als Graphic Novel vorgelegt.

Book published by  artbear books

Toolbox Kabinett: Soyoung Shon, paintings

http://shon.creatorlink.net


 

Welcome: Vernissage / Opening: Friday / Freitag  30.10.2020, 7pm

Open on Sunday 01 November, 2020, 2–6pm

Ausstellungsdauer / Exhibition: 30 October– 21 November 2020
Öffnungszeiten / Opening hours: Saturday 7.11. and 14.11. 3-7pm
Saturday 21.11. on  3pm Finissage

An Feiertagen ist die Toolbox geschlossen
On Bank holidays Toolbox is closed

Maija Helasvuo

Sculptures | 29.02.–21.03.2020

Maija Helasvuo


Toolbox Kabinett:

Susanne Ring, Berlin »mein Hund bellt Farben«
https://www.susannering.net

Susanne Ring


Welcome: Vernissage / Opening: Friday / Freitag  28.012.2020, 7pm

Open on Sunday 01 March, 2020, 2–6pm

Ausstellungsdauer / Exhibition: 29 February – 21 March 2020
Öffnungszeiten / Opening hours: Wed–Sa 3–7pm

An Feiertagen ist die Toolbox geschlossen
On Bank holidays Toolbox is closed


Maija Helasvuo

Artist’s Statement

My sculptures address the experience of life being limited, our dependence on our own physical existence and especially on other people.
A human is part of a human community. The fields of our social interactions largely define the framework of our actions. Even our separation and isolation always stand in relation to others. Our ability to be intimate is the starting point of our existence. Our ability to take care carries us from one generation to another. Independence is inevitable, yet even our independence stands in relation to others, our diverse communities.
As neither the fields of interaction surrounding us nor our relations to others can be physically touched by the hand, we need sculptures to concretize these abstract experiences. In my view and experience, a sculpture still is a functioning means of symbolic thinking for human communities. In practice, this has already been the case since early cult objects.
Creating a sculpture is slow, at least for me. My themes develop slowly, if at all.
My topics of limitations and dependence on others intertwine and reveal themselves repeatedly. The material’s resistance is important to me. The physicality of creating a work is often enjoyable. The slowness in working with the material and the physical effort create time for thinking and for the opportunity to calmly solve sculptural problems.
I tend to get the impression that the slowness in making a sculpture does not prevent, but in fact assists the sculpture opening up to its viewer as an abrupt experience, even resembling a physical shock.
The viewer is important to me. The sculpture is a means to communicate with and within the community.

Maija Helasvuo
Sculptor, MFA

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Meine Skulpturen thematisieren das Erlebnis der Begrenztheit des Lebens, unsere Abhängigkeit von der eigenen physischen Existenz und insbesondere von anderen Menschen.
Ein Mensch ist Teil menschlicher Gemeinschaft. Unsere sozialen Interaktionsfelder bestimmen zu großen Teilen die Rahmenbedingungen unseres Handelns. Sogar unsere Abgrenzung und Isolation stehen immer in Beziehung zu anderen. Unsere Fähigkeit zu Intimität ist der Ausgangspunkt unserer Existenz. Unsere Fähigkeit sich um andere zu sorgen trägt uns von Generation zu Generation. Selbstständigkeit ist unabdingbar, und doch steht auch sie in Beziehung zu anderen, zu unseren vielfältigen Gemeinschaften.
Da wir weder die uns umgebenden Interaktionsfelder noch unsere Beziehungen zu anderen mit den Händen greifen können, brauchen wir Skulpturen als eine Konkretisierung unserer abstrakten Erlebnisse. Ich fühle und sehe Skulpturen weiterhin als funktionierendes Mittel des symbolischen Denkens menschlicher Gemeinschaften. Tatsächlich gilt dies bereits seit frühzeitlichen Kultobjekten.
Die Anfertigung einer Skulptur ist langsam, zumindest für mich. Meine Motive entwickeln sich langsam, wenn überhaupt.
Meine Themen von Begrenztheit und (die) Abhängigkeit von anderen, verflechten sich und erscheinen wiederholt. Der Widerstand des Materials ist wichtig für mich. Oft genieße ich das physische Erstellen des Werkes. Die Langsamkeit beim Bearbeiten des Materials und die physische Anstrengung schaffen Zeit, um nachzudenken und bildhauerische Probleme in Ruhe zu lösen.
Es scheint mir, dass das langsame Erstellen eines Werkes es keinesfalls hindert, sondern fördert, dass ein Werk sich den Betrachtenden öffnet als eine abrupte Erfahrung, welche sogar einem physischen Schock ähneln kann.
Die Zuschauer sind mir wichtig. Eine Skulptur ist ein Mittel, um mit und in einer Gemeinschaft zu kommunizieren.

Maija Helasvuo
Bildhauerin, MFA
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Veistokseni käsittelevät elämän rajallisuuden kokemusta, riippuvuuttamme omasta fyysisestä olemassaolostamme ja erityisesti muista ihmisistä.
Ihminen on ihmisyhteisön osa. Sosiaaliset vuorovaikutuskenttämme pitkälti määrittelevät toimintamme puitteet. Myös erillisyytemme ja eristyneisyytemme on aina suhteessa muihin. Kykymme läheisyyteen on olemassaolomme lähtökohta. Kykymme hoivata, kantaa meitä sukupolvelta toiselle. Itsenäisyys on välttämätöntä, mutta itsenäisyytemmekin on suhteessa muihin, moninaisiin yhteisöihimme.
Koska emme voi käsin koskea meitä ympäröiviä vuorovaikutuskenttiä tai suhdettamme muihin, tarvitsemme veistosta konkretisoimaan abstraktit kokemuksemme. Koen ja näen veistoksen olevan edelleen ihmisyhteisölle toimiva symbolisen ajattelun väline. Käytännössähän näin on ollut jo varhaisista kulttiesineistä alkaen.
Veistoksen tekeminen on hidasta, ainakin minulle. Teemani kehittyvät hitaasti, jos ollenkaan.
Aiheeni, rajallisuus ja riippuvuus muista, kietoutuvat ja paljastuvat yhä uudelleen. Materiaalin vastus on minulle tärkeää. Teoksen tekemisen fyysisyys on usein hauskaa. Materiaalin työstämisen hitaus ja fyysinen ponnistelu luovat aikaa ajattelulle ja mahdollisuudelle ratkaista rauhassa veistoksellisia ongelmia.
Olen ollut huomaavinani, että teoksen tekemisen hitaus ei estä, pikemminkin edesauttaa veistoksen avautumista katsojalleen äkillisenä, jopa fyysisen shokin omaisena kokemuksena.
Katsoja on minulle tärkeä. Veistos on väline kommunikoida yhteisön kanssa ja sen sisällä.

Maija Helasvuo
Kuvanveistäjä, KuM

Saimi Suikkanen

Having the Time of My Life

Saimi Suikkanen


Toolbox Kabinett:

Archi Galentz, Berlin


Welcome: Vernissage / Opening: Friday / Freitag  31.01.2020, 7pm

Open on Sunday 02 February, 2019, 2–6pm

Ausstellungsdauer / Exhibition open: 02 –22 February 2020
Öffnungszeiten / Opening hours: Wed–Sa 3–7pm

An Feiertagen ist die Toolbox geschlossen
On Bank holidays Toolbox is closed


Saimi Suikkanen’s exhibition Having the time of my life displays paintings from a series called “Self-portraits at home”. In the series Suikkanen confronts the viewer with painted pictures of herself imitating the aesthetics and lifestyles of women on social media platforms. As opposed to the often perfectly composed photographs on Instagram, her paintings depict the mundanity of ordinary life with cluttered and messy surroundings. Through imitation and repetition Suikkanen brings the absurdity of selfie culture and the obsession in being on display to the forefront. Her detailed and colourful large scale paintings emphasise humour. Through the series Suikkanen explores her own thoughts and preconceptions related to the ideal of womanhood and being on display. Suikkanen’s work is a mirror of what is seen as normal and appropriate behaviour for a young woman today.

Saimi Suikkanen (b.1994) is a Finnish painter who creates images of the contemporary life of a young woman in the age of social media. In her art she examines current viewpoints on the female body, sexuality and gender roles through a series of non-literal self-portraits. She is currently studying her Master of Fine Arts degree at the Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki.

https://saimisuikkanen.com

artwork: Self-portrait drinking (cheap) wine, oil on paper, 135 x 175 cm


ToolboxCabinet: Archi Galentz

Archi Galentz, 2014, AquatintaArchi (Harutiun) Galentz was born in Moscow in 1971 in a family with a long artistic history. In 1988 he got his A-level in Moscow and in 1989 entered the State University of Arts and Theater in Yerevan, Armenia. In 1992 he was invited as a guest student to Berlin University of Arts (UdK Berlin) and studied free art till 1997 obtaining a Master degree. He lives and works in Berlin, Moscow and Yerevan.

A recurrent theme that is central to his artistic work is the question of Armenian identity, especially in relation to political factors such as the demise of the Soviet Union and the resurgence of Armenian awareness. Artwork Archi Galentz: Portrait Jovan Balov, aquatint and  line etching reworked with watercolor 24.5 × 16 cm

 

Leonor-Ruiz-Dubrovin

Golden Shower | 30.11.–19.12.2019

Group Show

  • Leonor Ruiz Dubrovin
  • Antti Kytömäki
  • Aulis Harmaala
  • Paula Tella
  • Laura Nevanperä
  • Kikka Rytkönen
  • Elina Saalfeld

Toolbox Kabinett:

Jakob Roepke, Berlin

WESEN


Welcome: Vernissage / Opening: Friday / Freitag  29.11.2019, 7pm

Open on Sunday 01 December, 2019, 2–6pm

Ausstellungsdauer / Exhibition open: 30 November–19 December 2019
Öffnungszeiten / Opening hours: Wed–Sa 3–7pm

An Feiertagen ist die Toolbox geschlossen
On Bank holidays Toolbox is closed


Golden Shower

In sociological research, “golden shower” is seen to be connected to the every more ubiquitious emanations of the porn industry. This is only one of many elements in the topic of how relationships between people take shape and how remuneration will play a role in them when business is intruding every aspect of human relationships. Nowadays this can also be seen in how nursing homes are converted into soulless business ventures and old age becomes a field for financial exploitation. The group exhibition “Golden Shower” will focus on instances of commercialization of human relationships; how the visual world and social media are flooded by images of the porn industry. Works in a variety of media – painting, installation, video, sculpture, photography, drawing, and performance – will pose questions and provide different approaches to answers or interpretations.

deutsch

Die Gruppenausstellung “Golden Shower” thematisiert künstlerisch die zunehmende Kommerzialisierung zwischenmenschlicher Beziehungen. 
Ob im Internet (soziale Netzwerke, Pornoindustrie), in Altersheimen oder in Krankenhäusern, Profitabilität ist ein Faktor, der das Zwischenmenschliche heutzutage mitgestaltet. 
In der kuratierten Ausstellung werden sieben künstlerische Positionen in unterschiedlichen Medien (Malerei, Installation, Video, Skulptur, Fotografie, Grafik und Performance) präsentiert.

artwork: Leonor Ruiz Dubrovin

Nora Tapper

Ember | 26.10.–23.11.2019

Nora Tapper, Finnland

Sculpture Exhibition


Toolbox Kabinett:

Catherine Lorent, Berlin


Welcome: Vernissage / Opening: Friday / Freitag  25.10.2019, 7pm |

Finissage: Fr. 15.11.2019, 7pm

 

Gitarrung und Axt/ Guitaring and Axe
Tom Früchtl (Electric Guitar)
Catherine Lorent (Electric Guitar, Axe)

 

 

 

 

 


Open on Sunday 27 October, 2019, 2–6pm |

Ausstellungsdauer / Exhibition open: 26 October–23 November 2019 |
Öffnungszeiten / Opening hours: Wed–Sa 3–7pm |

An Feiertagen ist die Toolbox geschlossen
On Bank holidays Toolbox is closed


Nora Tapper

Ember

Ember is a group of huge empty black sacks sewed by hand from tarpaper and paper string. To me these sacks are enormous coal embers that glow in the dark and cold evening. The idea for sacks came from a task of making a work that would illustrate the amount of carbon dioxide produced each year by a Finnish family of four. I thought barbecue parties and the sacks full off black dusty coal. I recall the fire place where the last glow fades away.


Catherine Lorent

CALL OF THE WILD

Catherine-LLorent-bell

Catherine Lorent, Bell, 21×29,7 cm, mixed media

Catherine Lorent (* 1977 in Munich) studied painting at the Staatliche Akademie  der Bildenden Künste Karlsruhe from 1998 to 2003, as well as history and art history at the Sorbonne in Paris and at the Universities of Heidelberg and Luxembourg. In 2012 she received her doctorate in art history. In 2013, CATHERINE LORENT represented LUXEMBOURG at the Venice Biennale with the project “RELEGATION”.

The artist lives and works in Berlin in painting, drawing and installation. Furthermore she has been experimenting for several years as a multiinstrumentalist with electric guitar, bass, piano, drums, voice and pursues her music project Gran Horno.

Catherine Lorent has already exhibited in Germany, France, the Netherlands, Switzerland, the United States, Austria and Luxembourg, was nominated for the “Prix Robert Schuman” in Luxembourg in 2011, received the “Prix révélation 2011” and is considered one of the most important talents in Luxembourg.

Paavo Paunu

Gesundheit – Terveydeksi
29.06–20.07.2019

Paavo Paunu, Finnland

paintings

Toolbox Kabinett: Karen Koltermann, Berlin

Welcome: Vernissage / Opening: Friday / Freitag  28.06.2019, 7pm |

Open on Sunday 30 June, 2019, 2–6pm |

Ausstellungsdauer / Exhibition open: 29 June – 20 July 2019 |
Öffnungszeiten / Opening hours: Wed–Sa 3–7pm |

An Feiertagen ist die Toolbox geschlossen
On Bank holidays Toolbox is closed

Artwork: Paavo paunu


GESUNDHEIT – TERVEYDEKSI

Paavo Paunun (s. 1965) maalaukset välittävät tarinaa ihmisestä ja
ihmisenä olemisesta. Olennaista on rajojen tunnistaminen ja
yhteyden hakeminen. Se on tila, jolla ei ole selkeää muotoa. Se on
tunteiden, toiveiden ja uskomuksien kohtaamispaikka.

BLESS YOU

In his paintings Paavo Paunu (b. 1965) mediates the story of being human. It is essential to identify the limits and create platforms for confronting. There is space without clear form, based on emotions, hopes, beliefs and truth.

Paavo Paunu (b. 1965) graduated from The Painting Department at the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts in 1990. He is working in the fields of painting, sculpture and installations . He has appointed several exhibitions abroad and in Finland.

How can we give form to the formless: to mental impressions, to fleeting thoughts, to riddles that have no answer? Paavo Paunu’s production induces a sense of the entire inexplicability of reality. It raises questions about who I am, what I experience, and what is important in life.
Paunu is a painter of space: he situates his paintings in exhibition spaces, the result being integrated wholes that resemble installations. He is also known for his sculptural paintings and painted sculptures. Right from the start of his artistic career, he made large-scale works, which soon began to acquire greater depth. Stages thus begin to emerge out of the paintings, extending in front of and behind the ground canvas.

Paunu’s production is not limited by the conventional tools of sculpture or painting, nor by any obvious role models, genres or references to theoretical sources. The sound of his works resonates from further away, from out of his own world, which is, nevertheless, human reality. His art is marked by psychological surrealism and expressive symbolism. The aim is to seek out the timeless core stratum of human beings, what motivates their actions, their feelings; ranging from goodness, trust and triumph to shame and unbelief. Paunu’s pictures reflect the uniqueness of experiences and the relationship of the finite human being with the unknown: with nature, with the depths of the mind, and fantasies.
Martta Heikkilä


Karen Koltermann

The Shelter

In September 2018 Karen Koltermann had the opportunity to take part in a guided tour to the Gorham Cave Complex while she was an artist in residence in Gibraltar.
In a long gone time, which we call the Middle Palaeolithic, the Gorham Cave was inhabited by Neanderthals who, as has come to light in 2014, also made art. One 39,000 years old cross hatching is still visible and is deemed evidence of the inhabitants’ faculties of abstract thinking and their impressive ability to express themselves.

In the current exhibition in Toolbox, Koltermann shows new pictures on caves and crepuscular caves that are used as shelters. The works are based on the photos that Koltermann took while she visited the caves.

Between the walls of these habitations made by nature, time seems to stand still, when you consider for a moment the many fateful, beautiful, horrible, sad or just funny things the inhabitants may have experienced in the course of millenia – and which stories the already discovered and the yet to be discovered art works can tell us.

We should hope for another at least 39,000 years for this right to spontaneous artistic expression.

Hans Kantereit, 12 June, 2019


Karen Koltermann

Der Unterschlupf

Im September 2018 hat Karen Koltermann im Rahmen eines Artist-in-Residence-Programms in Gibraltar an einer Führung zur Gorham-Höhle teilgenommen.
Die Höhle wurde in einer längst vergangenen Zeit namens Mittelpaläolithikum von Neandertalern bewohnt, die sich dort, wie seit 2014 bekannt ist, auch künstlerisch betätigten.
Eine 39 000 Jahre alte Kreuzschraffur ist erhalten und gilt als Beleg für abstraktes Denken und ein beeindruckendes Ausdrucksvermögen.

Im Toolbox-Studio zeigt Koltermann nun neue Bilder, die sich mit Höhlen und Halbhöhlen als Schutzraum auseinandersetzen. Grundlage dieser Arbeiten sind Fotos, die sie während ihres Aufenthaltes von den Höhlen gemacht hat.

Zwischen den Wänden dieser von der Natur geschaffenen Behausungen scheint der Zeitenlauf still zu stehen, wenn man überlegt, wie viel Schicksalhaftes, Schönes, Grausiges, Trauriges oder einfach Komisches ihren Bewohnerinnen und Bewohnern im Laufe der Jahrtausende widerfahren sein mag – und welche der bisher erkannten und noch zu entdeckenden Kunstwerke uns welche Geschichten erzählen werden.
Wir sollten uns jedenfalls wünschen, dass dieses Recht auf freie und spontane künstlerische Äußerung mindestens weitere 39 000 Jahre gegeben sein wird.
Wobei wir natürlich nicht wissen, ob die Kollegin damals nach Fertigstellung ihres Werkes nicht vom Hausmeister hinter der Höhle zusammengeschrien und nach allen Regeln der Kunst verprügelt wurde …

Hans Kantereit, 12.06.2019