Friction Show
Julia Kröpelin | Eva Schwab
01.05. – 10.05.2026
ERÖFFNUNG: FREITAG, 01.05.2026, 18 – 22 UHR
FINISSAGE: SONNTAG, 10.05.2026, 16 –19 UHR
The two woman artist show - „friction show“ of Eva Schwab and Julia Kröpelin shows a series of new big colored pencil drawings and encaustic paintings. The subtil approach with color and material layers moves between apply and abrasion develop these artworks a quite vivid and spatial depth. The works, which tell from inner experiences and supernatural power and movements produce a field of dynamic to take the viewer into the space beetween surface and endless room.
It is the pictorial process itself that lies at the heart of Julia Kröpelin’s colored-pencil drawings. Her images on transparent drawing surfaces blur the distinction between front and back, creating expansive pictorial spaces. They depict moments of immediate and mediated experience of reality. The drawing emerges in relation to the image of an object. Fragments of this pictorial process appear repeatedly and scaled. These pictorial fragments seem to touch and depart from the pictorial surface, thereby defining and giving rhythm to the pictorial space through sharply focused phenomena of representational recognition and open or blurred zones of expanding time and movement.
Eva Schwab’s new encaustic paintings and fabric installations appear like seared-in echoes of hypnopompic visions of hybrid human-machines. This branch of her multifaceted painting series deals with Robo Kopps and Karma Curlers—an army of homunculi equipped with epaulets and electric curlers. Schwab utilizes the unique physical and sensory properties of encaustic and ink painting to visually explore the recurring themes of her work: phantom image phenomena, recognition, moon-greens, anthropomorphic creatures, elective affinities, and artificial family resemblances. Hot wax on thin cloth serves her here in many ways as an interface to a world whose fluid pigments leave their material imprint and reveal what lingers, what, as the residue of what has been, awakens new associations.
