As usual, the opening at Galerie Feinkunst Krueger, located close to harbour and the river Elbe in Hamburgs “Portugese Quartes”, was crowded with art enthusiasts. This time, gallerist Ralph Krueger let Gschwendter go beyond her exhibited artworks: She designed not only the window, closing out almost all natural light, but the walls too, onto which the artist painted large scale shapes as a backdrop for the behind glass paintings of “Das erste Mal”.

This enabled her to extend the stories from the paintings in an almost threedimensional way, and thus created a surrounding which integrated the visitor therein. Her „psycho-comic reality“ is very colorful and works with strong outlines, but the harmony of her style often stands in contrast to the ironic and sometimes bitter depictions of very human, very personal dramas.

At Feinkunst Krueger, since over 6 years one of the most interesting places in Hamburg for young art, well-known international artist Jim Avignon follows after the current show in November, before on December 3rd Ralph Krueger celebrates his 50th exhibition with a huge group show of all the artists ever being represented in his space bringing back Katharina Gschwendter, just in case you should miss out on “Das erste Mal”…

Katharina Gschwendtner, “Das erste Mal”
Date: October 8th – 29th, 2005
Place: Gallery Feinkunst Krueger
Address: Ditmar-Koel-Strasse, 20459 Hamburg
Tel: +49 (0)40 3179 2158
https://www.feinkunst-krueger.de