Between Image and Space

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.

Gallery owner Jan Philipp Sexauer talks about the exhibition, collector Konstantina Grossmann about aspects of collecting and the artists (Luisa Baldhuber, Ornella Fieres, Alexander Iskin and Louis Wessendorff) about their artist's practices, presented by Dietlinde Behncke

ARTISTS:
Luisa Baldhuber
The relationship between colour, space and light, and their influence on our perception of reality, is the main subject of Luisa Baldhuber’s (born 1994, lives in Munich) art. Her first institutional solo exhibition Afterglow took place from 2024 to 2025 at Haus der Kunst Munich, while Baldhuber was still studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. In 2025, she completed her studies in fine arts as a “Meisterschülerin” of Prof. Peter Kogler. Baldhuber was awarded the CeU Art Award in 2025 and the Debutant Award of the Academy of Fine Arts in 2021. She was a recipient of the PS61 Studio Scholarship 2025 and has participated in several residency programs, including A-Z West / High Desert Test Sites in California, Rocking S Art Ranch in Arizona and G.Urban Platform in Armenia. 

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).