Weich mittel hart (soft medium hard) proposes a rupture in the recurring formal similarity presumed when joining together artists and their work in an exhibition. While with no intention to create a pseudo historical dialogue, this show brings together the work of Meuser, Anselm Reyle, Katja Strunz and Gabriel Vormstein. Specific pieces by each artist, using an array of different materials, create alternative routes between sculpturesque and picturesque destinations. Spectators are presented with murals, groupings of pieces, reliefs, free-standing figures and variations on furniture. The associations composed range from formal to materialistic or functional to merely festive and pensive.

On this occasion, the connection which links our four artists together is the Kunstakademie in Karlsruhe, where all of them have either been professors or students. The present exhibition shows a rich display of feelings produced by the fortuitous encounter of materials, attributes and textures. Wood, steel, lead, tree branches, newspapers, bronze, chrome and foil come together here, showing us Reyle’s exuberance, Strunz’s sobriety, Meuser’s coarseness or Vormstein’s porosity.