Opening on 11-DEC-09 at 7 p.m.

Katharina Immekus is interested in concepts such as home (Heimat), normality and reality. The landscapes of her childhood serve as the background for houses; however, the main focus is not habitation. Rather, Immekus is concerned with country inns and guesthouses, focusing on the building as an object realistically depicted in her paintings and lino cuts (a medium which has taken precedence lately) with the aid of existing photographs. Although her techniques and picture format change > from large oil paintings to postcard format < the subject matter always remains the same. Her >house portraits< are always empty of people, as she portrays human surroundings without their users or occupants. The German landscapes, with their parochial to petit bourgeois edifices, convey a state of loneliness and constriction. Immekus' own childhood drawings serve as impetus for a further series of lino cuts.

Katharina Immekus (born in Olpe in 1970) lives and works in Leipzig. She studied painting from 1994 to 2000 at the Academy of Visual Arts, Leipzig. From 1997 to 1998 she attended the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen.

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