Annett Stenzel, who has headed the Painting Workshop (Material, Technique, and Context) at the AdBK Nuremberg since 2023, will open her solo exhibition CHROMA – Fleeting Spectra at the Kunsthalle Vogtland on April 24, creating a unique space for exploring color as a cultural and social construct. 
 

For Annett Stenzel, color functions not only as an aesthetic element but as a stage for the staging, condensation, and shifting of meanings. In her works, influences from music, film, photography, and painting merge, opening up new perspectives on social and political dynamics. The exhibition invites visitors to grasp the multifaceted interplay of color, perception, and cultural meaning and to experience the fleeting beauty of a continuously shifting spectrum.

 

The boundaries between media blur along the spectrum of color. Physically, color is based on light, wavelengths, and their reflection; it is therefore measurable and seemingly objective. Yet its perception is constantly shifting due to refraction, intensity, and context. This demonstrates that even on a physical level, color is not a stable quantity, but rather a dynamic interplay of material, light, and the viewer’s perspective. Likewise, color and chromaticity indicate that perception and our social notions are not stable factors. They are shaped, among other things, by society, culture, and the media. Thus, color defines itself as a construction.

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CHROMA – Fleeting Spectra
Annette Stenzel

April 24, 7 p.m.
Foyer of the Neuberinhaus 
(Weinholdstraße 7 | 08468 Reichenbach)

Exhibition introduction: Severin Zähringer

Conversation with the artist: Frank Lorenz

Musical accompaniment: Dong Zhou | violin and Torsten Pfeffer | percussion instruments