Group show
Artists: Stefan Balkenhol, Thorsten Brinkmann, Katharina Grosse, Leiko Ikemura, William Kentridge, Karin Kneffel, Stefan Marx, Ugo Rondinone, Thomas Schütte, Michael Wesely
We are delighted to begin the year 2026 by welcoming the PArt Foundation from Hamburg as our guest at the Van der Grinten Galerie. In a close curatorial collaboration with foundation founder Rene S. Spiegelberger we have brought together a representative selection of works by renowned contemporary artists to present in our beautiful Cologne gallery space. The pieces exhibited – objects, sculptures, hand drawings, photographs and prints – were all created in recent years exclusively for PArt Editions, a companion structure that, among other things, enables the foundation to support young talent with exhibitions and publications and to further contemporary art education and appreciation by supplying more than 160 schools with teaching materials free-of-charge.
Now, for the first time, these works will be shown together in a gallery context where visitors can meander from one artistic offering to the next as if being treated to the showing of a private collection, where viewers can engage with a wide variety of different aesthetics content and artistic approaches. This little parcours is designed to stimulate, surprise, entrance and give pause for thought. Spanning a diverse and unusual arc, the exhibition offers a wonderful opportunity to discover and admire original works exemplary of the oeuvre of a range of internationally recognized artists. And: these representative works are also available for purchase at attractive prices. We invite you to experience the work of the following artists…
The work of LEIKO IKEMURA (*1951) revolves around the delicate and often magical connection between humans, animals, and nature. Shimmering landscapes are populated by hybrid figures – part girl, part rabbit – that inhabit an intermediate world where the boundaries between identity and reality become blurred. Her paintings and sculptures blend echoes of Japanese spirituality with Western artistic tradition, evoking femininity, vulnerability, and a sense of cosmic interconnectedness through fragile, almost ghostly images. Her series „Awakening“ includes four glass sculptures which also unfold a dreamlike and poetic imagery. In delicate shades of yellow, pink, violet and blue, they oscillate between figuration and abstraction, tying in with the artist’s central motif: the chimera — a mythical hybrid creature combining human and animal features. Their shiny surfaces of the sculptures subtly refract light, making them appear to glow from within.
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Saturday, 12pm–6pm
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Source: Van der Grinten Galerie, Press release
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