In the organizer's words:

The artists paint live in the exhibition and can be seen from inside and outside through the large gallery windows.

Part of the exhibition "POGO"

The exhibition POGO - Painting on a Shared Canvas shows a selection of works painted together by the artists Anais Héraud-Louisadat and Ana Valeska Daase. The two painters have been engaged in an ongoing artistic dialog since 2023. They paint together and simultaneously on the same canvases and explore the intersubjective and artistic dynamics that emerge. They often listen to loud music, which is less conducive to linguistic communication than to the painting process itself - and reflects its character.

"Pogo" is a dance to punk music: people jump, bump into each other, move chaotically and abandon themselves to a certain extent to the bodies of others. Something similar happens when painting together: One begins, the other paints over. One part of the picture pushes itself into the foreground, another has to retreat. Forms emerge and disappear again, collide, overlap or join together. The result is a struggle for space and expression, with these spheres expanding at the same time. As in pogo, the wild mishmash also contains moments of synthesis in which the movements accelerate, slow each other down and come together. In this way, Héraud-Louisadat and Daase also deal with intersubjective dynamics, boundary shifts and their resonances in painting.

There are moments in which the two artists consciously distance themselves and the picture transforms from fragmentary to creative unity. Joint decisions lead to pictorial realizations in which the work, with all its overpaintings and breaks, ultimately holds together.

POGO presents selected results of this painterly experiment from the last three years as well as solo works by the artists, in which their different styles become visible. The exhibition will be accompanied by workshops in which the processes of interactive group painting can be experienced in practice.