Color Spaces Between Assertion and Dream

Three installations comprising 66 paintings: In the exhibition Painting and Questioning, Seeing and Knowing, artist Henning Haupt brings visitors’ own perceptions into sharp focus. The first installation, Asserting and Doubting, consists of 54 small-format paintings arranged in a horizontal line. These works could be seen as excerpts from larger paintings. Here, on each sheet, an assertion was made as a painting process—as a stroke of paint—and immediately painted over. Henning Haupt challenges our understanding of the finished artwork. The second installation, Hope, Believe, Ask, Dance, Know, Arrive, forms its own space out of six large-format (220 cm high) paintings standing close together, in which the artist’s memories—primarily as non-representational phenomena—open up a new world and reveal new visual experiences. The third installation, Here and There, leads further into an environment featuring constellations set against endless spaces of color. The unique exhibition at Berlin’s Kunstforum ep.contemporary opens on May 8 at 6 p.m. and runs through June 6. An artist talk will take place on May 15 starting at 6 p.m.

Henning Haupt’s paintings and installations explore the perception of color spaces and their relationship to three-dimensional spaces. Haupt studied architecture and art, and earned his doctorate in 2009 with a dissertation titled Experiments in Color at the Technical University of Braunschweig. Since 2020, he has held the Chair of Design Theory at the Technical University of Dresden. Prior to that, he lived in the United States for over 10 years, where several of his large-scale murals can be seen in public spaces. His work has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions, including in New York and Miami.