Between Image and Space⎮ Luisa Baldhuber ⎮Ornella Fieres ⎮ Alexander Iskin ⎮ Louis Wessendorff

VARIOUS OTHERS, MAY 14-17, 2026

SEXAUER
hosted by BEHNCKE GALLERY
Artists: Luisa Baldhuber, Ornella Fieres, Alexander Iskin, Louis Wessendorff.

BETWEEN IMAGE AND SPACE 16.05. - 30.06.2026
BEHNCKE GALLERY is pleased to present its debut at VO with Between Image and Space, in cooperation with SEXAUER, Berlin. Dietlinde Behncke founded her gallery on January 31st, 2023 and establishes a gallery program featuring national and international artists, whose work continue to shape global conversations in contemporary art or art historical traditions. SEXAUER was founded by Jan-Philipp Sexauer in 2013, and represents international emerging and established artists of a younger generation. Luisa Baldhuber, Ornella Fieres, Alexander Iskin and Louis Wessendorff explore the interplay between image and space. Baldhuber’s wall objects, made of glass and digital paintings, open up imaginary landscapes; Fieres’ work with artificial intelligence explores the AI´s perception of space; Iskin’s painted spaces make the unconscious visible; and Wessendorff’s paintings reveal spaces that bridge reality and dream – together offering a shared investigation of how image and space interact. Friendly supported by Konstantina Grossmann.

SAVE THE DATE:
15.05., 6-9 p.m. BETWEEN IMAGE AND SPACE (Opening)
16.05., 12-2 p.m. LETS CELEBRATE OUR VO-DEBUT: COLLECTOR & ARTIST (Artist Talk) (tbd)

ARTISTS:
Luisa Baldhuber
Luisa Baldhuber (lives and works in Munich) studied art education at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich from 2015 to 2021 and received the Debutant Prize in 2021. Her artistic interest lies in the relationship between color, space, and light and how these influence our perception of space. Baldhuber is currently a PS61 Studios scholarship holder for the year IV - 2025/2026 in Munich.

Ornella Fieres
The works of media artist Ornella Fieres (born 1984 in Frankfurt am Main, lives and works in Berlin) portray the world of yesterday as seen through the eyes of today’s algorithms. She draws on photographs, films, and documents from personal estates and scientific archives, transferring them into the present through manipulated computing processes and artificial intelligence (AI).

Alexander Iskin
Alexander Iskin (born 1990 in Moskau, lives and works in Berlin) works on a multimedial narrative in a painterly, sculptural and performative manner. And yet he uses painting as his “mother tongue”. With interrealism, he has proclaimed an art movement of his own. He playfully sets the accompanying processes of virtualization and dehumanization against a postmodern myth of his own: the Interrealism.

Louis Wessendorff
Louis Wessendorff's (born in Hamburg in 1988, lives and works in Berlin) works are expansive fantasies, phantasmagorias, and dreamlike images in color. On the canvas, Wessendorff employs narrative techniques from painting, drawing, and film, but the result always remains firmly rooted in the realm of autonomous painting. In addition to his painting, he also creates videos. His work brings together the everyday, the sublime, irony, humor, comics, and art history – a pictorial world beyond the real, yet filled with its fragments.