21/04/2025
• .berlin We hope you are all enjoying this beautiful long weekend! Katharina’s show is still on until Friday. Pass by Wed, Thur, Fr 14-17:00 or join us on Friday at 18:00 for the book lunch + readings celebrating her recent publication by at Hansabibliothek!
Katharina Schilling
𝘍ü𝘳 𝘐𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘳
on view through 25 April
‚Katharina’s paintings, however, turn their gaze toward the premodern era – to “art before art,” as her friend Eva Hegge described it in a lecture on the paradigm of the flat image after the internet. With its gaze from nowhere, I think Eva said, the
internet finally, and perhaps forever, breaks with the model of central perspective. The history of art before art, the history before the discovery of central perspective and the invention of the modern subject – a history ultimately preceding history itself – leads Katharina into the miniatures of the Middle Ages. i see you are rather some french writer from the late 14th century i have one in mind.
Christine de Pizan – “the lady in blue with the white wimple,” as Katharina describes her to me in an email – appears twice in an illumination in her Le Livre de la Cité des Dames (1404). On the left, at a table with three women in a space built by columns, round arches, and a checkered floor; on the right, holding a mortar at a construction site, building a semicircular wall in the city of women. The perspective is flattened, the floor tilted.‘
– text by Sophia Roxane Rohwetter
A screen print edition is available alongside the exhibition, produced by 2bpress.
image: Katharina Schilling, Eirene, 35 x 15 cm, oil on wood, 2025. Courtesy the artist.
