From image to space

What actually is a picture? For many centuries, it has been understood that a picture is an image of reality. The frame marks the boundary between the viewer and the section of the world depicted in the picture.

Modernity brought with it a new understanding of the image: tThe non-representational image has a primarily sensory effect on us. It is enlivened, supplemented and transformed by the conception and our imagination. The world of images challenges our perception and also our spatial experience. The question is no longer: What does the image represent? But rather: What’s the effect a picture has on us?

With this question in mind, allow yourself to engage with the pictures and objects shown here. Sharpen your perception and pay attention to the emotions, thoughts and associations that they trigger in you.