Fütterung der Fische

The painter Klaus Eberhardt was born in Delmenhorst in 1954 and studied painting in Braunschweig. Although he exhibited his works only on rare occasions, he remained committed to painting as a means of communication until his death in 2024. His estate includes works that achieve a distinctive and deeply sincere visual quality and gain autonomy now that the artist can no longer be asked about their meanings. In place of the artist’s own statements comes an active act of seeing that must take the images seriously as conversation partners.

At Haus Coburg, Klaus Eberhardt’s works encounter artists who explore autofictional figuration in their pieces and address threats without spelling them out. Asana Fujikawa (b. 1981 in Tokyo) develops fairy-tale-like narratives in print series, whose protagonists she subsequently shapes in ceramic. This gives rise to delicate figures that cultivate a dissociative state of presence and absence. Hans-Hendrik Grimmling (b. 1947 in Zwenkau) struggles for freedom in his paintings. Body parts, birds, and plants are recurring motifs with which he metaphorically challenges restrictive and repressive structures. In her painting, Aura Roig (b. 1994 in Tortosa) combines personal experiences and universal ideas into a form of magical realism. Above all, she contrasts the family—as a place of care and the repressive transmission of tradition—with humor in her works.

From various perspectives, the exhibition explores figurative painting and it's potential to depict the invisible and make it tangible.

Curated by Matilda Felix