Normal Painting
03.07.2025 – 30.08.2025
GRUPPENAUSSTELLUNG
Galerie Heike Strelow
What is painting today? And what can it be? Normal Painting, curated by Frankfurt artist Hendrik Zimmer, addresses these fundamental questions with a diverse, thoughtfully selected overview of current positions in painting.
Zimmer, himself a painter and keen observer of contemporary art developments, brings together 15 artists, some of whom he has been in dialogue with for many years.
This personal connection not only allows for a particularly precise selection, but also gives the exhibition a subtle internal coherence without striving for stylistic homogeneity.
The participating artists—including Lutz Braun, Andreas Diefenbach, Christian Henkel, Dirk Krecker, Krijn Kroes, Martin Neumaier, Michael Pfrommer, Evelyn Roh,
Lea Schäfer, Jan Schmidt, Bernhard Schreiner, Lennart Schweigert, Yuechen Shi, Friederike Walter, and Hendrik Zimmer himself — demonstrate the diversity of pittorial strategies: from conceptual reflection and formal reduction to expressive gesture.
The title Normal Painting is deliberately ambivalent. What is considered ‘normal’ is not affirmed here, but questioned. Between tradition and experiment, figuration and abstraction, intuition and calculation, a panorama of painting unfolds that makes one thing above all clear: that it is precisely in the supposed ‘normality’ of painting — in working with image carriers, color, and form—that surprising, critical, and poetic approaches can still be discovered.
The exhibition is both a critical inventory and a personal statement: it provides insight into Zimmer’s curatorial thinking, his sense of quality, friction, and relevance—and takes a fresh look at a medium that, despite (or perhaps because of) its long history, has lost none of its relevance.
Künstlerinnen und Künstler: LUTZ BRAUN I ANDREAS DIEFENBACH I CHRISTIAN HENKEL I DIRK KRECKER I KRIJN KROES I MICHAEL PFROMMER I MARTIN NEUMAIER I EVELYN ROH I LEA SCHÄFER I JAN SCHMIDT I BERNHARD SCHREINER I LENNART SCHWEIGERT I YUECHEN SHI I FRIEDERIKE WALTER I HENDRIK ZIMMER
Galerie Heike Strelow
Lange Str. 31
60311 Frankfurt am Main
Öffnungszeiten
Mi – Fr 12 – 18 Uhr
Sa 12 – 15 Uhr