Sarah Bogner: Picture Animals

In her paintings, Sarah Bogner (*1980 Munich, lives in Vienna) frequently focuses on depictions of horses, which are not intended to be naturalistic representations, but rather function as elements within a complex painterly structure. By creating pictorial spaces in which figurative and abstract elements overlap and counterbalance each other, the artist is able to explore the relationships between forms, colors, and spatial arrangements. Such motifs serve as points of departure for her painterly processes, in which condensing, superimposition, and dissolution all play an equal role.

The exhibition centers on three large-scale paintings created specifically for the spacious ground-floor gallery of Kebbel Villa. This trio enters into a dialogue with additional works in which Bogner explores a range of scales, formats, and points of reference.