Klaus Staudt & Christiane Schlosser: Concrete Games

Opening: Thursday, July 16, 2026, 7:00 p.m.

This summer, the mpk will host a very special artistic gathering. With Klaus Staudt and Christiane Schlosser, the museum has succeeded in bringing together two renowned figures in contemporary drawing for a joint special exhibition.

Klaus Staudt, who is celebrating his 94th birthday this year, has been one of the defining figures in concrete and constructivist art for more than half a century—an art form rooted in the exploration of non-representational geometric forms and patterns. As in his reliefs and prints, Staudt—who served as a professor at the Offenbach University of Art and Design from 1974 to 1994—explores aspects of rhythm, seriality, space, and movement in his drawings as well, always executed with the utmost precision using a ruler and protractor.

Christiane Schlosser (b. 1960) also masters the line with great skill, though she always draws her non-representational compositions freehand. Sometimes she uses tiny strokes, arranging them in a strict sequence to create delicate patterns; at other times, she uses countless dots or squiggles placed side by side, which, when viewed from a distance, dissolve into a gray haze. Particularly impressive are Schlosser’s monumental pictorial compositions, constructed from many individual sheets hung side by side. Executed in vibrant orange and blue, Schlosser—who was honored with the Daniel-Henry-Kahnweiler Prize in 1994—expands the variations of geometric art in the 21st century to include fundamental aspects such as intuition and spontaneity. Her works allow for disruptions of geometric regularity, while Klaus Staudt focuses on the constant re-examination of established schemas. The special exhibition thus brings together two artistic positions in which the graphic freedom of the line and the traditional rigor of geometric art engage in a dynamic and dialogic encounter.

“Concrete Games” presents drawings from the museum’s own collection as well as from private collections and is enriched by selected prints and reliefs by Klaus Staudt.

Curator: Dr. Sören Fischer