For the Gallery Weekend 2024, we are presenting the first solo exhibition by Rao Fu, who has lived in Dresden for two decades. His works combine influences from classical Chinese landscape painting and calligraphy with European traditions. Influences from the Dresden School, Edvard Munch, Peter Doig and Daniel Richter are combined with the culture and philosophy of the East, enriching Saxon Neo-Expressionism with an Asian component.

Under the title "Ornament als Versprechen", the exhibition presents for the first time a series of small-format cyanotypes by Jan Tichy in dialog with sculptures and paintings by Jay Gard. In apparent contradiction to their intensive engagement with the formal language of the Bauhaus, the two artists are united by a shared enthusiasm for ornament, which in their case is removed from its original context and becomes a substantial motif in their art.

Under the title "Ornament als Versprechen", the exhibition presents for the first time a series of small-format cyanotypes by Jan Tichy in dialog with sculptures and paintings by Jay Gard. In apparent contradiction to their intensive engagement with the formal language of the Bauhaus, the two artists are united by a shared enthusiasm for ornament, which in their case is removed from its original context and becomes a substantial motif in their art.