FIELDS UNBOUND
December 3, 2025 – January 31, 2026
Lucienne O’Mara, Anna Leonhardt, Giacomo Santiago Rogado, and Albrecht Schnider
Bernhard Knaus Fine Art
Opening: Wednesday, December 3, 2025, from 6 p.m.
Exhibition dates: December 4 to January 31, 2026
The group exhibition "Fields Unbound" brings together four artistic positions—Lucienne O'Mara, Anna Leonhardt, Giacomo Santiago Rogado, and Albrecht Schnider—whose works reexamine the possibilities and limitations of painterly practice. Painting is no longer seen as a clearly defined discipline, but rather as an open field that enters into dialogue with material, space, and perception.
Traditionally, painting has been regarded as the art of the surface: paint on canvas, bound to gesture, composition, and pictorial space. But today's painting practice has moved far away from this definition. It breaks with the classical idea of the panel painting and seeks its expansion in movement, temporality, process, and perception. The concept of "expanded painting"—repeatedly taken up since the 1960s—refers to this act of opening up: painting is no longer defined solely by technique, but by attitude and thinking.
In Lucienne O’Mara ’s work, this idea is revealed in the tension between structure and dissolution. Her starting point is the grid, that archetypal order that became a symbol of rational clarity in modernism. But O’Mara subverts this order—layers of color, blurring, and movement allow the system to breathe, shifting it into the organic. Here, painting becomes an act of perception itself: an attempt to understand seeing as something fluid and alive.
Anna Leonhardt, on the other hand , approaches painting from the physical experience of the material. Her dense, impasto fields of color are created through layers, removals, and reworkings until a vibrant plasticity develops from the surface. In Leonhardt's works, color is not a medium, but a body. She creates spaces that oscillate between abstraction and presence—painting as an energetic state that keeps the gaze in motion.
Giacomo Santiago Rogado combines technique and intuition to create a poetic exploration of pictorial space. His works often emerge from processes that allow chance and control to play an equal role: color gradients, reflections, and iridescent surfaces extend the image into the space. Rogado understands painting as a field of experience—a sensory space in which light and perception are inextricably interwoven.
Finally, Albrecht Schnider works with a reduced, precise formal language that appears distant at first glance, but upon closer inspection reveals great sensitivity. His flat color fields and amorphous forms move between figuration and abstraction, between image and projection. Here, too, painting becomes a reflection on seeing—a silent dialogue between form and imagination.
Together, these four positions show that painting is no longer a closed system. It is open, permeable, processual—a way of thinking in color that extends beyond the image. The exhibition invites viewers to take a fresh look at painting: not as a closed category, but as a language that is constantly evolving—in movement, in space, in perception.
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