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Text: Tippschnack
The title of the exhibition, Tippschnack, originates from Low German and can be translated as “chatting on the internet.” At its core, the exhibition engages with a form of communication that is brief, fragmented, and fleeting—a continuous flow of messages, images, signs, and meanings. The works on view focus on these transitional states: what emerges between sending and receiving, visibility and disappearance, information and interpretation.
The exhibited works operate at the intersection of analogue and digital media. Drawing is presented not as the direct expression of a personal hand, but as the result of processes of translation. Lines, shapes, and symbols are transferred into different materials through technical procedures, acquiring a new physical presence in the process. It is precisely within this shift between digital origin and material manifestation that questions surrounding the nature of communication are explored.
Relief plays a particularly important role throughout the exhibition. Layers, overlaps, and contrasting surfaces generate spatial structures that evoke the complexity of contemporary communication spaces. Fragments interlock, obscure one another, or emerge into prominence. In this way, the works create visual constellations that resist fixed interpretation, blurring the boundaries between foreground and background, appearance and reality, meaning and coincidence.
Through the interplay of positive and negative forms, geometric order and unpredictable freeform elements, established relationships are called into question. Different visual fragments collide unexpectedly, opening up new associations and perspectives. Digital deconstruction and analogue reconstruction come together to form an evolving visual dialogue that continually generates new possibilities for interpretation.
The exhibition can be understood as a space of circulating signs and fragments of conversation. Repetition, variation, and layering create dynamics that echo the constant movement of digital information streams. Against this backdrop, Tippschnack poses a central question: within the overwhelming flow of information that surrounds us, what truly acquires meaning—and what simply disappears back into the stream of communication?




















photo credit: © Dotgain.info, 2021




























Text: Tippschnack
The title of the exhibition, Tippschnack, originates from Low German and can be translated as “chatting on the internet.” At its core, the exhibition engages with a form of communication that is brief, fragmented, and fleeting—a continuous flow of messages, images, signs, and meanings. The works on view focus on these transitional states: what emerges between sending and receiving, visibility and disappearance, information and interpretation.
The exhibited works operate at the intersection of analogue and digital media. Drawing is presented not as the direct expression of a personal hand, but as the result of processes of translation. Lines, shapes, and symbols are transferred into different materials through technical procedures, acquiring a new physical presence in the process. It is precisely within this shift between digital origin and material manifestation that questions surrounding the nature of communication are explored.
Relief plays a particularly important role throughout the exhibition. Layers, overlaps, and contrasting surfaces generate spatial structures that evoke the complexity of contemporary communication spaces. Fragments interlock, obscure one another, or emerge into prominence. In this way, the works create visual constellations that resist fixed interpretation, blurring the boundaries between foreground and background, appearance and reality, meaning and coincidence.
Through the interplay of positive and negative forms, geometric order and unpredictable freeform elements, established relationships are called into question. Different visual fragments collide unexpectedly, opening up new associations and perspectives. Digital deconstruction and analogue reconstruction come together to form an evolving visual dialogue that continually generates new possibilities for interpretation.
The exhibition can be understood as a space of circulating signs and fragments of conversation. Repetition, variation, and layering create dynamics that echo the constant movement of digital information streams. Against this backdrop, Tippschnack poses a central question: within the overwhelming flow of information that surrounds us, what truly acquires meaning—and what simply disappears back into the stream of communication?
photo credit: © Dotgain.info, 2021







