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In contemporary art, there are very different approaches to making the "insignificant" pictorial aspect of empty space sensually tangible: Reduction on the one hand, minimalism on the other, i.e. emptying and appearance, mark the poles within which emptiness unfolds. With twenty-five artistic positions, the exhibition initiated by painter and curator Michael Kruscha revolves around the unusual thematic field in the Walkmühle, in which, of course, motif and object are hardly at the centre of artistic research, but rather the emergence of pure surface, of greatly reduced symbolism, of reduced structure and texture. In this way, the few, the trace-like, the suggestion or the vanishing, the marginal phenomenon can be identified as elements that open up this dimension, which often has a contemplative character, to the pictorial space.

In the history of art, as in the Baroque period, phenomena can be observed that follow the "horror vacui", i.e. the fear of the empty surface; in contrast, however, the "amor pleni", the tendency towards the free surface, is revealed precisely in modernism and its successors, also as a result of abstraction, especially in painting.

As the appendix "3.0" in the exhibition title already suggests, the show curated by Michael Kruscha and featuring international artists is now a series of exhibitions - a series that began in the "Kunstraum Braugasse" in Hoyerswerda in spring 2023.
An exciting moment there was the encounter between the special artistic pictorial explorations and the real landscape of upheaval in Lusatia around Hoyerswerda, which is essentially characterised by its post-industrial clearing through devastation, demolition and dismantling due to the former open-cast lignite mining. The empty spaces, wastelands and "lost places" left behind by open-cast mining in Lusatia can therefore be seen as a starting point for the curator's exploration of emptiness as a phenomenon and as a means of visual expression in art.

Following an extended presentation entitled "Leerraum. weiß/schwarz" (Empty space. white/black) at the Brandenburg State Museum of Modern Art in Cottbus in autumn 2023, artist curator Michael Kruscha has now created an updated version for the Walkmühle artists' association in Wiesbaden entitled "Leerraum 3.0". The exhibition not only includes works by artists from the region but also, for the first time, the aspect of emptiness in sound art.
All art enthusiasts should be excited to see how the twenty-five different artistic signatures come together in the historic rooms of the Walkmühle from February.

Text using excerpts from the catalogue text by Jörg Sperling