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Galerie Gisela Capitain is pleased to announce The Expectation, the second exhibition of new works by the French-born, Mexico-based artist Yann Gerstberger (1983 in Cagnes sur Mer, France).

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I was looking for a good title for this show. For some reason, all the titles I had in mind were either too long, or totally unrelated to the works, or strangely connected to natural and meteorological phenomena.

So, I decided to stop thinking in words for a while, to just focus on the production. Hopefully, the works themselves would lead to something.

On a Sunday afternoon, as I was re-reading 1940’s Adolfo Bioy Casares’s short novel The Invention Of Morel*, I realized I had always been fascinated – not to say obsessed – by its cover, without having a clue who had created it.

In Richard Oelze’s 1936 oil painting, The Expectation, a hat-wearing crowd stares off into the forest, into a stormy landscape. The air feels thick with suspense. Is the crowd looking at the forest – is it a forest? – or at the…

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Press Release

Galerie Gisela Capitain is pleased to announce The Expectation, the second exhibition of new works by the French-born, Mexico-based artist Yann Gerstberger (1983 in Cagnes sur Mer, France).

~

I was looking for a good title for this show. For some reason, all the titles I had in mind were either too long, or totally unrelated to the works, or strangely connected to natural and meteorological phenomena.

So, I decided to stop thinking in words for a while, to just focus on the production. Hopefully, the works themselves would lead to something.

On a Sunday afternoon, as I was re-reading 1940’s Adolfo Bioy Casares’s short novel The Invention Of Morel*, I realized I had always been fascinated – not to say obsessed – by its cover, without having a clue who had created it.

In Richard Oelze’s 1936 oil painting, The Expectation, a hat-wearing crowd stares off into the forest, into a stormy landscape. The air feels thick with suspense. Is the crowd looking at the forest – is it a forest? – or at the…

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More Exhibitions at Galerie Gisela Capitain
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Nov 06, 2025 — Jan 31, 2026
Galerie Gisela CapitainSankt-Apern-Straße 26, 50667 Köln, Germany
View exhibition
Apr 10, 2025 — May 24, 2025
Galerie Gisela CapitainSankt-Apern-Straße 26, 50667 Köln, Germany
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