Curator Michael Stockhausen invites you 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 the Q18. The exhibition title functions as a leitmotif on various levels:

1. How can the question of the division of space be transferred into a parcours of perceptible interfaces – interfaces between private and public, outside and inside, between ego and community, art and non-art?

2. How does a work of art deal with space? What space does it occupy, how does it divide it? Does the work encroach on the space of the viewer, does it cross the territories of I or We?

3. How is the space of art divided? What does it mean to participate in the discourse with the label “young artist” or posthumously exclusively through one’s works?

In installative, performative, painterly or sculptural ways, these enter into a “division of the sensual” that is also experienced as a community in space beyond the respective artistic positions at best.