Viola Bittl, sieben jahre

With the solo exhibition sieben jahre, Walter Storms Galerie presents an overview of the works of the past seven years of Viola Bittl's (born 1980) career. The exhibition marks a moment of retrospection that can be read as both an end point and a new beginning.

The title not only functions as a temporal bracket. It refers to the cultural symbolism of seven - a measure of time that is mythologically, biblically and philosophically associated with change, renewal and transformation. sieben jahre understands time not as a linear narrative, but as an energetic compression: as a phase of pause and consistent new beginnings. In Bittl's painting, time is not depicted, but inscribed as a trace in the layering of paint.

Through dynamic gestures and multi-layered superimpositions, Bittl transforms color into space. Forms are serially varied, shifted and rebalanced, creating a pull that draws the eye into the depths of the pictorial spaces and allows perception to be experienced as an ongoing process.

sieben jahre is the first solo exhibition of former Städel master student Viola Bittl in Berlin.