Gallery Monica ruppert

Stephanie Pech | Skin under your umbrella

The often large-format works of Bonn-based painter Stephanie Pech are colorful visions of a different kind of coexistence. Pech creates surreal pictorial worlds in which she questions the interaction between the contrasting worlds of man and nature. Inspired by the classic still life, Pech combines opposites or focuses on the easily overlooked.

Man appears solely as an imprint in the pictorial spaces, otherwise he has disappeared. A commentary on our hypertechnologized world. These anthropometries are created in the secrecy of Pech's studio in collaboration with body models. She develops her compositions further from the archaic traces of painting, in which she repeatedly draws our attention to vulnerabilities. Recently, these human imprints were created for the first time on the occasion of her exhibition at the Potsdamer Kunstverein in the form of a dance performance. The theme of proximity is thus visualized in a performative way.

At the opening of the exhibition "Skin Under Your Umbrella" at the Monica Ruppert Gallery, the artist Stephanie Pech will provide insights into her artistic work and recent pieces in conversation with nomadic art historian Nicole Guether. And who knows, maybe there will even be a little surprise - after all, Pech's paintings are promises of unexpected encounters.

Stephanie Pech (*1968), studied painting at the Kunstakademie Münster and was a master student of Hermann-Josef Kuhna, exhibitions in Germany and abroad, including Austria, Lithuania, Belgium and Israel. Pech lives and works in Bonn. Nicole Guether (*1984), studied art history at the University of Heidelberg and has since worked as a speaker, art mediator, curator and author, and lives between Berlin and everywhere else.

Text: Nicole Guether

Laura Brichta | Intermezzo#17

Laura Brichta's artistic focus is on staged photography, which she uses to explore the correlation between the human body and its surroundings. When a space is imagined, it is thought of directly in relation to the human body. Based on this idea, the artist pursues the question of whether the body determines the space or, conversely, whether the body and its forms must adapt to the edges of the given space. In the course of this examination, Laura Brichta also investigates the performative space within the camera and its extension into real space. The performative act is not limited to the brief moment in front of the camera, but rather steps out of this frame and becomes an independent component of the work.

Exhibition
Stephanie Pech
Skin under your umbrella
Sep 06 - Oct 19

Laura Brichta
INTERMEZZO #17
Sep 06 - Sep 27

Contact
Monica Ruppert
Bleichstr. 48
60313 Frankfurt am Main

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