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The exhibition focuses on colour not only as a visual phenomenon, but also as a complex medium. Colour has texture; it reflects and creates light; and it resonates with space and surface. It conveys emotions, alters atmospheres and carries cultural meanings, symbolic messages and historical traditions. Works by Rupprecht Geiger, Sophie Herz, Erika Hock, Christof John, Zora Kreuzer, Sebastian Kuhn and other artists demonstrate the complexity and potential of colour within their chosen mediums, which range from liquid paint and sewn fabric to coloured glass and neon tubes. The partly site-specific room installations transform the eight skylight halls of the Kunsthalle Nürnberg, inviting visitors to experience the architecture in a new way. This makes it clear that colour is much more than just a surface; it is a substance, a language and a sensory experience all at once.

Works by David Blamey, Matthew Cornford, Schirin Kretschmann

Works by Arhun Aksakal, Schirin Kretschmann, Alexandra Leykauf, Lukas Marxt, Martin Schepers, Kathrin Sonntag. Curated by Dr. Pia Wojtys.

The group exhibition Ortsbohrungen is dedicated to the artistic exploration of places – in both a literal and a metaphorical sense. The point of departure is drilling as a metaphor and as an action: as a penetration into layers of space, history, memory, and materiality. The participating artists reflect in their works on the possibilities and conditions of approaching a place. Both invasive gestures and sensitive forms of engagement with the hidden dimensions of a site are examined and addressed.
Rather than occupying places or leaving marks, the works seek connection with their surroundings. They listen, probe, and respond to spatial, social, and historical conditions. In this way, complex engagements with landscapes, architectures, and spaces of memory emerge – dimensions that lie beneath the visible surface. Drawing on Ernst Kapp’s theory of organ projection – the idea that technical tools are projections of the human body – the exhibition asks what is projected in the act of drilling: knowledge, control, injury, but also curiosity and empathy.
Ortsbohrungen understands artistic practice as a persistent questioning and uncovering of hidden or overlooked conditions of places. The exhibition no longer presents spaces as mere objects, but allows them to appear as active and autonomous agents. Künstler*innenhaus Dortmund provides an ideal framework for this: itself a place with many layers – shaped by industrial, social, and cultural histories.