Wände bauen (Building Walls)
Kunstverein Langenhagen•Mar 15, 2026 — Apr 26, 2026
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In 1992, Klaus Merkel began with an index. For each of his previous exhibitions, he painted miniatures of the works on display onto a new canvas. Merkel adapted the administrative practice of inventorying and created a system for composing images that outwitted the tiresome demands of creativity. More than that:
the Freiburg-based artist (*1953) had found a way to escape“the”discourse. I am speaking of that well-oiled machine of themes, interests, fashions, and jargon that sets the pace for the “contemporary” in contemporary art. Merkel was able to casually set it aside while, picture by picture (problem by problem), he found his own rhythm. His own partnership with the present.
Sometime around 2009, an art student in Hamburg got his hands on a catalog. The featured exhibition was titled TheMostContemporaryPictureShow,Actually,and the student was Christian Rothmaler (*1982*). During the years of the last major art boom, it must have seemed quite daring to him to go against the…
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Wände bauen (Building Walls)
Kunstverein Langenhagen•Mar 15, 2026 — Apr 26, 2026
Press Release
In 1992, Klaus Merkel began with an index. For each of his previous exhibitions, he painted miniatures of the works on display onto a new canvas. Merkel adapted the administrative practice of inventorying and created a system for composing images that outwitted the tiresome demands of creativity. More than that:
the Freiburg-based artist (*1953) had found a way to escape“the”discourse. I am speaking of that well-oiled machine of themes, interests, fashions, and jargon that sets the pace for the “contemporary” in contemporary art. Merkel was able to casually set it aside while, picture by picture (problem by problem), he found his own rhythm. His own partnership with the present.
Sometime around 2009, an art student in Hamburg got his hands on a catalog. The featured exhibition was titled TheMostContemporaryPictureShow,Actually,and the student was Christian Rothmaler (*1982*). During the years of the last major art boom, it must have seemed quite daring to him to go against the…
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