The group exhibition is a special kind of artistic encounter: Sebastian Tröger, a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg, and Steve Viezens, workshop manager for lithography & screen printing, intaglio printing & etching, come from Franconia. They are joined by Henriette Grahnert, Jan Kummer, Nina Kummer, and Tabitha Rub, who come from Saxony.

Between painting, printmaking, installation, and object art, areas of tension and alliances open up; irony meets nostalgia, homeland meets humor. And AI also has a hand in the game. The interplay of the works reveals critical, humorous, and sometimes melancholic reflections on the state of society, art, and our planet. The title Die Wahrheit trägt bequeme Pantoffeln (The truth wears comfortable slippers) circles like a satellite above the exhibition. This aphorism, whose origin can no longer be determined, refers to how simple and inconspicuous the truth actually is, in contrast to the elaborate, far-fetched stories or theories that people sometimes invent.

Sebastian Tröger's wooden poles, to which his canvas paintings are attached like flags to a mast, display intense, fleetingly painted images of emotional presence. Like flags, they resemble territorial markings that take up a lot of space, yet confront us with the question of the effectiveness of this grand gesture. 

In formal contrast to this is Steve Viezens' painting in the old master technique. In his series created for the exhibition, which focuses on Franconian, meat-heavy cuisine, he uses AI to remove an already inexplicable world even further from truth and verifiability. 

The truth wears comfortable slippers 
Henriette Grahnert, Jan Kummer, Nina Kummer, Tabitha Rub, Sebastian Tröger, Steve Viezens
until March 29

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