MASTERS OF THE NORTHERN LIGHTS / DÜSSELDORF: Class of Herbert Brandl

The exhibition MASTERS OF THE NORTHERN LIGHTS / DÜSSELDORF is a group exhibition that brings together five young artists. They present their works together, yet all five positions are fundamentally different and autonomous. What they have in common is a fresh drive to reach new shores, to locate their artistic terrain - an exciting time for a first exhibition. Another thing they have in common is their artistic location in Düsseldorf. There they work and study at the art academy in Herbert Brandl's class.

Jenny Delhasse's small-format canvases are paintings that interweave fiction and dreams with a factual reality. Based on drawings, her works have a surreal, eccentric flavour despite their strong reference to reality.

Johanna Honisch isolates her characters, whether in the fine watercolours, which depict real, mostly empty rooms, or in her miniature factories made of plaster: she calls them "friends as factories". The characteristics of the friends are translated into architecture. For example, windows symbolise openness and towering chimneys stand for productivity.

Christian Seidler's visual language is abstract. It deals with the question of structure. Whether charcoal or fire, the medium deviates from the classic pictorial structure - the gas burner becomes a "brush" and thus enables a new approach to the act of painting.

Levente Szücs begins his paintings in a gestural abstraction that allows for traces of guttering and colour splashes. The sky is used in the second painting process. A kind of fair-weather painting that defines the edge of the sky zone and informal painting. Each resulting mountain massif can be precisely determined on the basis of the title (coordinates).

In her painting, Alicia Viebrock combines the abstractly calm in the background with the gesturally energetic. A form rises up on a dark background, mostly ships and seascapes, which depict a wildly romantic scenery.