NEWS

[English Version below]

Die Galerie PK Contemporary lädt herzlich zur Ausstellung „THRESHOLD“ der Künstlerinnen Oksana Pyzh, Marlon Red und Bahar Batvand ein. Die Eröffnung findet am Samstag, den 17. Mai 2025, in den Räumlichkeiten der Galerie statt.

Im Rahmen der Veranstaltung wird ein Empfang mit anschließendem Abendessen angeboten. Um eine vollständige Gästeliste erstellen zu können, bittet die Galerie um eine vorherige Mitteilung zur Teilnahme.

Adresse:
PK Contemporary
Hansaallee 159
Düsseldorf

Opening am 17. Mai 2025

Programm:
19:00 Uhr Empfang
19:15 Uhr Eröffnung und Begrüßung durch Pia Kemper
19:30 Uhr Laudatio von Stephan Kaluza
20:00 Uhr Abendessen

Die Anzahl der Gäste ist begrenzt. Eine frühzeitige Rückmeldung wird erbeten.

[English]

PK Contemporary cordially invites you to the exhibition „THRESHOLD“ featuring the artists Oksana Pyzh, Marlon Red, and Bahar Batvand. The opening will take place on Saturday, May 17, 2025, at the gallery.

As part of the event, a reception and dinner will be offered. To complete the guest list, the gallery kindly asks for advance notification of attendance.

Address:
PK Contemporary
Hansaallee 159
Düsseldorf

Opening on May 17, 2025

Program:
7:00 PM Reception
7:15 PM Opening and welcome by Pia Kemper
7:30 PM Laudatory speech by Stephan Kaluza
8:00 PM Dinner

The number of guests is limited. A prompt response would be appreciated.

Our first trade fair appearance is approaching, we are already excited. Vistit us, the Gallery r8m on the Stand A2. We present contemporary, non-representational international positions in painting, photography, generative art and sculpture.Conceptual positions to see. Our focus is on undogmatically understood concrete Art, complemented and expanded by conceptual positions.

Curated by Ivo Ringe and Kunstverein Wiligrad. In dieser Ausstellung werden die unterschiedlichen aktuellen Positionen von Künstlern*inen der Konkreten Kunst sowohl aus Deutschland als auch dem Ausland ausgestellt. Die Vernissage findet statt ab 18.Uhr

On the walls of the Basement Gallery in Essen, the artist Marlon Red presents a series of dark iconic works coming straight from the night’s eeriest hour. Ambiguous geometries seem to pivot silently into each other on the surface of canvases. The dark shine of some of the shapes feels anxiety-inducing, whereas the lighter surrounding shapes feel at peace, both working together towards a certain sense of unsure embrace.

The texture of light, patiently applied touch by touch to give relief and meaning, feels somehow not just right, but downright healing. Like the grainy light of dawn comes to bring closure to a night spent in a wake, painting too can be a kind of ritual and a path of self-knowledge. For Marlon Red, painting at night, at that special moment when the universe seems to „click“, has become an act of care and love. It is, more or less, her own spirituality.

The „Solaris“ series may be about inner visions or symbolic landscapes, to which the paintings serve as a sort of maps. Either way, if seen as plots, the shapes on the canvases come to life as lands, gardens or islands seen from above. Then, the white grain floating mysteriously above the plots could maybe be air in visible form: mist. Through its title, the series hints at the hommage it pays to the supreme artist of mist, of dawn, of meaningful silence and of the things seen from above: Andrei Tarkovsky. From the wild horses in the medieval-themed Andrei Rublev to the „islands of memory“ from the sci-fi Solaris, the intersections are not coincidental. Between Solaris the film and the painting series, the image ultimately bonding the two is that of mist hovering over the face of the waters, turning void and darkness into tangible memories, metaphor of both divine creation and of dealing with absence and longing.

Marlon Red’s visions are definitely cosmic, but their implications are deeply personal. When it happens at a certain tender time at dark just before day, art is unboundin and fulfilling.

Alexandru MIRCEA
Paris, 15.02.2024

…or on Youtube.

Artist Film Marlon Red, by Andreas Clarysse.
Link Video: 

CROSSOVER. Duo Show Mit Jürgen Pass Exhibition Project by Galerie Obrist im Essen
@ Foryouandyourcustomers, Sammlung.
Solid Sides HYBRID. Performance by Marlon Red, Galerie Obrist

Lapidarium Museum Novigrad. Into the Void HUMAN.
Performance-Video-Sound Installation by Marlon Red. Sept. 2023.
Artist Residency.

30 März/2 April 2023
Art Project, Group Show @artartist, Düsseldorf

Paracelsus Project by Marlon Red 

SOLID SIDES. Dialogue, Performance Marlon Red,
Thomas Huy, Dorian Eickenberg, Collaboration.