The painting bodies are a genuine invention of Peter Stohrer. In them, the painter, stage designer, space-savvy curator, and ever-building artist created his own space, a three-dimensional field of possibilities. Text: Michael Stockhausen, art historian

With this exhibition in the context of the Leo Breuer Award presentation, the gkg commemorates the artist Peter Stohrer, who passed away much too early and whose "interventions" spanning different spaces take up a consistent position in concrete art. His language is determined by clarity and reduction. Text: Dr. Gabriele Uelsberg, art historian, 2022

In the midst of the exhibition area "Macht und Mächte", in the theme room "Herrschaft und Repräsentation im Rheinland", several works by the now deceased artist Peter Stohrer will be exhibited as part of the ENTERVENTIONALE. In the abundance of exhibits, the objects unfold a subversive effect on the exhibition, sometimes expansive like "Taurus", sometimes reserved like "Cubus". Text: Maria Geuchen, excerpt from the parcour booklet Enterventionale #2020

Curator Michael Stockhausen invites to the group presentation "The Division of Space" with artists from Leipzig, Cologne and Essen. Different media as well as generations of artists encounter one another in and outside of Q18, with the exhibition title functioning as a leitmotif on various levels. Text: Q18

Peter Stohrer, who has been dealing with the creation and development of "painting bodies" in his ordered painterly basic attitude for many years, works with found objects of any origin. They often offer the basis for a further creative examination, which follows the idea principle of the "surface in the space", respectively with pseudo-architectural set pieces, which sometimes complement the painterly action and sometimes counteract these. Text: Burkhard Leismann, Director Kunstmuseum Ahlen

Elisabeth Sonneck and Peter Stohrer - in this encounter, the handling of the given hall and exhibition architecture takes on a central role. Text: Excerpt from the opening speech by Burkhard Leismann ( +2022), Director Kunstmuseum Ahlen.

"...Spacious, wall-shaping, many small works combine to form a large mural. Grids open up multi-layered pictorial spaces. In between, empty spaces that themselves become a pictorial element. At the end of the wall "white". If you go around this corner and look into the room from there, you have no idea of the world of color that is happening on this large wall. Text: Excerpt from the opening speech by Dr. Ellen Markgraf

Gunhild Söhn, who has been critically and ironically engaged with the art business for some time in her "Gunhild Söhn Collection", had received an invitation from Burkhard Leismann, the then director of the Kunstmuseum Ahlen, to an exhibition. The artist had the idea to realize a collaborative exhibition ...

The paintings open up a variety of aesthetic effects, conditioned by multiple applications of paint and the partial disclosure of the process of creation. The box-shaped wall objects are a further step towards a dialogue between sculpture and space. Excerpt from the opening speech, Dr. Ingo Bartsch, former director of Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund