With V E R T I G O, G2 Kunsthalle presents a solo exhibition by the artist David Schnell (*1971), featuring new paintings as well as a site-specific work that will be installed on the glass panes of the G2 Kunsthalle’s glass cube and will be visible both from within the Kunsthalle and from the city.

David Schnell’s painting is characterised by an intense engagement with space, form, colour, and light, as well as with their cohesion and construction. Schnell uses clear geometric forms to construct complex urban architectures or dense, natural landscapes. The interplay of individual fragments condenses to a spatial scene. Formally, Schnell’s compositions move between systematic order and intuitive disorder. A decisive role is played by the dynamic perception of Schnell’s scenes, which oscillate between construction and deconstruction. Viewers are drawn directly into the pictorial space. At times, the gaze appears to be directed towards the scene from a static perspective; at others,…