NEW EXHIBITION | OKKA-ESTHER HUNGERBÜHLER | FAIRY TALE PAINTINGS

We are excited to announce a new exhibition with works by Berlin-based artist Okka-Esther Hungerbühler, opening mid-May. This will be the third solo exhibition by Hungerbühler in Avlskarl Gallery. More information on the opening will follow.

Fairy Tale Paintings are works that engage with (to me) familiar fairy tales. In painterly and sketchy manner, I have worked with sequences from fairy tales that have stayed with me. Often, these are existential narrative moments. With an understated brutality, they usher in a new phase of life, such as Snow White’s death or the Star Talers’ last shirt. My primary focus here is on the image in my mind, which has persisted for years.

The exhibition opens with Connection Paintings: fabric pieces that link two canvases with cable-like, hand-sewn, golden fabric strips. These connections extend across the entire space. This guides viewers to the paintings at the rear of the gallery, requiring them to navigate through a kind of golden tangle to enter the second section of the exhibition.

— Okka-Esther Hungerbühler