Simone Haack - Hair

Simone Haack (b. 1978 in Rotenburg/Wu¨ mme, lives and works in Berlin) has always made the inwards legible in the outer appearance of her figures in her painting. This is also the case in her block of works in the exhibition of the same name, Hair. Already in the late 17th century, magic and superstition were attributed to hair. In it one suspected the whole power of the soul. The artist, who was formed in the painting class of Katharina Grosse and Karin Kneffel, symbolically reveals the fragility of the DNA of human beings through her hair landscapes, which are sometimes placed macroscopically in the picture in the spirit of a New Magic Realism. At the same time, her accompanying exhibition publication always also tells of the triangle of tension of physical as well as psychological existence, which in her case runs through the painterly psychoanalysis.

Sebastian C. Strenger studied art history with Max Imdahl as well as economics and law at the Ruhr-University in Bochum. Over many years, he became a sought-after art critic for art-historical topics of contemporary art in the feature pages of major international media. To this day, as a freelance author of numerous publications on contemporary art. As an international collection and exhibition exhibition curator he works for important contemporary art collections in the private and institutional sector. Velten Wagner is the director of the Stadtmuseum + Galerie in Engen, Germany. In addition to contemporary art, he specializes in classical modernism and the late Middle Ages. His thesis is that the difference between epochs lies in the eye of the beholder.