SUSANNE PAESLER.

In cooperation with the Kunstmuseum Bonn, the SCHAUWERK presents a retrospective of the artist Susanne Paesler (1963–2006). With around 40 works, the exhibition offers a comprehensive insight into her works from the early days in the 1990s to those created shortly before her death.

In her art, Paesler explores the importance of the work of art in a world of previously existing images and reproducible aesthetic structures. This is already evident in her early paintings, in which the artist alludes superficially to the geometric design vocabulary of Constructivism, but simultaneously chooses patterns and colors that reference the everyday, like checkered or laced fabrics. By not integrating these models into her own artwork as readymades, but instead transmitting them onto the canvas in a painterly fashion, Paesler blurs the sharp distinctions between art, craft, and design.

Around the turn of the 21st century, Susanne Paesler proceeds in a similar manner with the works of famous fellow artists such as Lucio Fontana or Jackson Pollock, whose hands she appropriates and uses in her own paintings as she had done with the the fabric patterns. This appropriation occurs, for example, in the work Gepixelte Gesten of 2003. Aesthetic categories such as the authentic and the subjective as the epitome of art are questioned and thus Paesler shows painting to be in search of itself.

In cooperation with the Kunstmuseum Bonn.
Courtesy of the Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin

Along with the exhibition about Susanne Paesler, the SCHAUWERK presents a selection of works under the title ORTSWECHSEL (change of location), which are on loan from the Kunstmuseum Bonn.