Phase 3

Katharina Schnitzler in dialogue with Lars Montag

Katharina Schnitzler perceives and asks for assumed realities. In her work she superimposes countless textures, layers of color and text. The background is often made of innumerable layers. Since the brush stroke is visible and drawn in different directions, structures and patterns are getting created. Schnitzler underscores the materiality of the work, because the structures are reminding on sections of fabric or embossed ornamental wallpaper. Often a feeling of space is created. In the foreground or background there are delicate drawings that approach an abstraction, or geometric forms that have been applied with a lot of color. But also graceful plants or ornamental decorations complete the composition and remind of Asian painting. Her artistic claim is the representation of the »in between«. Although the background and the foreground could each stand on their own, they communicate and harmonize with each other.

Lars Montag is a multiple award-winning director and screen-writer for cinema, television and series. He is a master at finding fine threads that connect people, spaces, desires and acting. Passionately and playfully, Montag creates a new perspective on facts and events that transform abysses into something normal. Katharina Schnitzler asked him to stage her catalogue, because she loves the kind of smile that Lars Montag’s narrative style is bringing to her face.