In Hedwig Eberle’s paintings, we feel both the creative process with its twists, turns, and obstacles, and the presence of the boundary-breaking, mind-expanding release of the finished work, which wants to come into being through its own inherent strength. Eberle relentlessly devotes herself to the documentation of a process as it unfolds. She listens to the material and lets it guide her. Artistic intention and the will of the interplay of line and color that becomes increasingly apparent during the creative process, the creation of the work itself, melt into unintentional unity, into a concrete abstraction, transporting the viewer to a world that is entirely here and now, but is likewise positioned in the indefinability of infinity. The timelessly archaic cuts through the timeline and articulates itself as surprising, lightning-like actuality. Without form or restraint, overlapping, potentially developing shapes emerge, lurching at us – from viewer to viewer – like winged beings, animated lines, radiant shades of color, in a manner far more reminiscent of musical vibrations than erratic narratives. This visual language essentially moves beyond any ratio, combination, or calculation effect. It permanently balances on a knife’s edge, surrendering to the risk of the moment and celebrating it with its multifaceted existence. It steps out of time, succession, or measurable causality into the free space of pure creativity, where intuitive formations in haptic and tangible contact with the formless primal foundation of existence can be experienced – as liberation from the fixations of everyday life that hypnotize consciousness.

Hedwig Eberle (born 1977 in Munich, lives and works near Staffelsee) studied under Sean Scully at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich and was awarded the Bayrischer Kunstförderpreis in 2014. Three years later she received the Art Prize of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts (Kunstpreis der Akademie der Schönen Künste), Munich, where she recently exhibited together with Georg Fuchssteiner in 2020. She has worked closely with the gallery since her first solo exhibition with Matthias Jahn in 2010.

Christoph Schlüren