Two Houses

The exhibition juxtaposes two houses that couldn't be more different. In his painting, Jürgen Bauer reduces the idea of ​​the house to a universal symbol: the pictogram of the house with a gable roof, a square as the basic shape and basis for the formula with which Bauer always uses his house in the same proportions.

The large-format house pictures that Jürgen Bauer creates in acrylic on canvas are juxtaposed with a series of small-format drawings of the Endless House from Friedrich Kiesler's estate. The Endless House is a true icon of visionary architecture of the 20th century and an early reference point for biomorphic architecture. Endless, not infinite, meant to Kiesler that "all ends meet" in his house, with the walls, ceilings and floors merging into one another and creating the illusion of an endlessly flowing spatial continuum.

The title of the exhibition TWO HOUSES is an allusion to a show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, in which the engineer-architect Richard Buckminster Fuller was contrasted with the sculptor-architect Friedrich Kiesler.

Opening: 12.11.2024, 6 pm