Das Gleiche im Anderen

Artist list

Alexandra Bahlmann, Alexandra Bahlmann, Peter Bauhuis, Adam Buick, Edmond Byrne, Ute Eitzenhöfer, Hans Fischer, Petra Fischer, Corinna Petra Friedrich, Juliane Herden, Nils Hint, Akiko Hirai, Claudia Hoppe, Kap-Sun Hwang, Ulrike Isensee, Svenja John, Junwon Jung, Kati Jünger, Matthias Kaiser, Kiho Kang, Elisabeth Klein, Minsoo Lee, Morten Løbner Espersen, Christa Lühtje, Katja Maechtel, Sia Mai, Grant McCaig, Helmut Menzel, Sara Moorhouse, Andreas Möller, Natalia Möller, Paul Müller, Annelies Planteydt, Billa Reitzner, Cornelius Réer, Katja Schlegel, Martin Schlotz, Freia Schulze, Juliane Schölß, Guido Sengle, Emma Sewell, Maren Speth, Uschi Ullmann, Christine Wagner, Harriet Wallace-Jones, Jan Wege, Derek Wilson, Fabia Zindel, Simone ten Hompel

Handcrafted small series and unique pieces
It will be shown how a basic form can be transformed by slight changes in shape, colour, choice of ornament or by a change of material. The theme is variation, the theme is series. Series here is not to be understood as the production of identical objects, but rather as a sequence of objects that are connected by a commonality that characterizes them as a group that belongs together, but which are nevertheless characterized either by small details or major differences as individual pieces. It is about belonging together and setting oneself apart - about this balancing act between series and unicum.

Thus, there are vessels or combinations of vessels in which different effects and effects are created by different surfaces or by different colours of the individual components. This also includes works in the field of jewellery, in which individual parts are put together and combined in different ways. In addition, they can be complemented by stones or surfaces in sizes, colours and shapes in such a way that works are created which are marked as belonging together, but which nevertheless each have their own character. In the textile sector, the variation is expressed in the differences that arise through colour combinations that make the same pattern look completely different and create a unique mood in each case. Another possibility is the arrangement of stripes, their width, the density of the arrangement or the choice of yarn - be it silk or wool. This can also create very different effects - even before the choice of colour.

Variations
But the exhibition is also about how a designer can always find and develop new variations of his or her form of expression within a style and canon of forms that are found and certainly linked to it. A proven scheme, which corresponds to the specific, individual striving for design, is modified, supplemented and experimentally questioned in the search for variety and perfection.

The wealth of possibilities for combination and variation opens up an almost infinite variety of articulation and design approaches. Even the slightest deviation sets one work apart from the other - be it the shape of a stone, the shade of a colour, the structure of the surface - the slightest change creates a different object.

The viewer is invited to take a closer look, to compare, by the sequence of similar but different objects. Maybe she or he even feels invited to play through further possible variations in the mind and to continue the series in the imagination.