In dialog: Group exhibitions

Tilmann Zahn designs delicate yet powerful shapes on sturdy handmade paper, which he then tears out rather than cutting out
(Galerie Maurer).

Group exhibitions have a firm place at the Saisonstart . They bring together different styles, open up dialogues between positions and make visible how themes and materials develop new resonances when they interact.

This year's exhibition "Much love Anita" at the Anita Beckers Gallery is particularly personal. It pays tribute to the recently deceased gallery owner and honors a life's work that was closely linked to the promotion of video art. On display are works by artists with whom Anita Beckers had connections for decades. A photo wall commemorates her life and work—a pioneer who will be missed by the Frankfurt scene.

die Galerie DER MIXER die Galerie takes a completely different, but equally powerful approach. Eighty years after the end of World War II, the exhibition examines how we deal with war, violence, and fear today. Particularly impressive are the works of Ukrainian artist Molly Route, who draws her Wartime Graphics in Kiev, capturing the immediate experience of threat in her images.

The Maurer Gallery, on the other hand, is dedicated to a medium that appears simple yet is inexhaustible: paper. Dorthe Goeden, Andreas Kocks, and Tilmann Zahn use it in very different ways—as a medium, as a material, as a spatial entity. Their works explore where the boundaries between drawing, relief, and object become blurred.

The group exhibitions at the Saisonstart not only show a variety of positions, but also how much art gains from dialog - be it as a memory, as a political statement or as an exploration of a material.