A chill in the air. A presence in the shadows. A crack in the familiar. The exhibition explores a shared terrain of strangeness, tension, and the unseen — a threshold between waking and dreaming, between inside and outside, between what is visible and what is deeply felt.
The exhibition ‘Someone is in my House’ brings together a selection of artists whose practices question the boundaries between the intimate and the collective, between the real and the imaginary. Through painterly, sculptural, or installation-based approaches, the presented works explore the house as a physical, mental, and symbolic space. As a place of projection, memory, transformation, or unease, the house becomes the stage for multiple presences: ghosts of the past, mythological figures, personal memories, fictional doubles, or abstract entities. The exhibition’s title-’Someone is in my House’-suggests both intrusion and encounter. It opens a field of interpretations where otherness can be perceived as threat, revelation, or mirror. Elizabeth Tibbetts works from the emotional ambiguity of domestic spaces, evoking silence, absence, and latent tension. Jochen Plogsties and Stefan Brock appropriate historical and media imagery to reconfigure it into familiar yet unsettling scenes where figures seem suspended. For Mahsa Merci and Opal Mae Ong, the house becomes a site for rewriting identities, shaped by memory, gender, and diasporic culture. Hubertus Giebe’s strange portraits create a singular atmosphere between realism and mystery, interrogating presence and the psyche of his subjects. Through subile observations and a distanced relation to intimacy, Jonas Mosbacher evokes the familiarity and strangeness of human interactions within domestic space. Lena Keller’s works explore the tension between presence and absence, abstraction and allusion. Rooted in the history of landscape painting and informed by contemporary ecological issues, she reflects on our shifting relationship with nature. Lou Hoyer unfolds anamorphic and mutable figures that question fluid identifies, caught between realism and distortion. The sculptures and installations of Peggy Pehl, Rosa Kirsch, Theresa Rothe, and Céline Struger integrate objects, materials, figures, and symbols-both sacred and everyday-into devices that question individual and collective memory while exploring relationships to the body, individuality, and space. Others, such as Felicitas Goliz and Danielle Roberts, rely on fragmented narratives, often close to dream or fable, to evoke intermediate states of consciousness or momentariness. The artists draw on a diversity of registers-spiritual, emotional, political-to interrogate notions of identity, memory, and perception. Their works often stand at the threshold of multiple worlds: between figuration and abstraction, familiarity and strangeness, control and loss of bearings. ‘Someone is in my House’ thus proposes a sensitive journey through the states of presence inhabiting our inner spaces, in an era marked by the search for singularity, the circulation of images, and the complexity of contemporary subjectivities.
