All Chemie

The exhibition All Chemie features photographs by Sigmar Polke (1941-2010) as well as images and objects by Pamela Rosenkranz (*1979).

All Chemie facilitates a dialogue between two artists from different generations. They share a special focus on material, which they shape into evocative carriers of hidden meaning. Unexpected perspectives on reality unfold. Poetic worlds open up, in which the known and the unknown reveal themselves - often upside-down.

The exhibition title references the fact that we live in a world made of fine particles, where the invisibly small is juxtaposed with the concept of the universe, where valuations are turned upside-down according to that old alchemist dogma "As above, so below". Pamela Rosenkranz visualises this inversion through the wildly beautiful imagery that she creates with waste materials such as plastic film and PET bottles.

Meanwhile, Sigmar Polke slyly probes for photography's hidden potential in the darkroom, against the grain, subverting good practice. Polke's ground-breaking 41-piece work Paris 1971 is on display, as are a number of solitaires that document his painterly transition towards new material experiments.