Group show

Artists: DECHA, Hans Hartung, Raphael Hefti, Leiko Ikemura, Véronique Joumard, Heinz Mack, Tatsuo Miyajima, Otto Piene, Gerhard Richter, Bridget Riley, Thomas Ruff

No Light No Light examines the fundamental conditions of seeing and the epistemological prerequisites of visual experience. In this exhibition, light appears neither as a motivic subject nor as symbolic metaphor, but rather as a constitutive medium that enables and forms perception. It is less an objectthan a condition, a physical, atmospheric, and simultaneously immaterial magnitude through which space, time, and visibility are produced.

Departing from artistic positions that conceive light as energetic phenomenon, material agent, and informational structure, the exhibition traces its displacement from sensually experienceable presence toward abstract, technological, and systemic orders. Light thereby functions not solely as a means of visualization but actively intervenes in the conditions under which perception emerges. Seeing thus reveals itself as a relational, situational, and temporally constituted process.

The exhibition is structured into three interconnected chapters. In the first chapter, light appears as energetic impulse and performative event. In the second chapter, light becomes experienceable as material and space-forming magnitude. In the third chapter, light emerges as immaterial, informational, and time-based structure. Across all chapters, the focus shifts from the visible toward the conditions of its possibility. Perception itself becomes the actual material of the exhibition.

Leiko Ikemura connects light with poetic and existential questions. In her paintings such as MT (both 2020), light appears as fragile, often floating presence that mediates between corporeality, and transcendence. It marks transitions between the visible and invisible, presence and absence, and opens spaces of quiet contemplation. The luminous color gradations of her tempera works generate atmospheres in which light becomes experienceable as emotional and spiritual quality.

Source: Caprii, Press release

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