Elisabeth Sonneck exhibition membrane at gallery apiece
On September 11, 6pm, Elisabeth Sonneck exhibition opens at “apiece”, a gallery strategically focused on autonomous artistic expression.
The exhibition marks the beginning of an exchange programme between the galleries Super Bien! (Berlin) and apiece (Vilnius).
The exhibition is part of the 10th Vilnius Gallery Weekend www.vilniausgalerijusavaitgalis.lt.
For the exhibition Elisabeth Sonneck created a temporary site-specific installation membrane, which takes the characteristics of the exhibition space, the showcase gallery in public space, as the starting point for the intervention and questions the permanence and dissolution of visual and physical boundaries.
E. Sonneck’s artistic practice is based on painting: on long, rolled sheets of paper, she creates differentiated, multi-layered colour spectra in a repetitive improvisation that emphasises the immediate physical moment: the staggered stops of the multiple overlapping brushstrokes reveal complex spectrums of colour and rhythm. Colour is the elementary expression of mutual dependence – each colour gains its specific emotional energy in direct interaction with its environment.
On site, E. Sonneck uses the production-related roll tension of the paper in continuous metamorphosis and recycling for flexible embodiments. Instead of solid crystallisation, each piece of paper can take on different forms at different times and in different places, such as lying, leaning, hanging, etc. Artist’s scrollpaintings are brought into precise physical balances with often found objects from the urban space – painting and worthless everyday remnants collide in new symbioses. The view opens up to the abundance of the unstable, fragile, and transitory. The often precarious balance of elements explores architectural reality as well as traces and atmospheres of use, history, and social atmosphere of a place – transformed into colour.
Elisabeth Sonneck (b. 1962, lives and works in Berlin) combines painting, sculpture, and installation in site-specific interventions. Her artwork was widely shown in museums, art institutions, galleries, off-spaces and in public space. Solo shows: Raum Schroth im Morgner Museum Soest (DE), Spazio Insitu, Rome, IWE Art Museum Kunming (CN), Kunstmuseum Ahlen (DE), Museum gegenstandsfreier Kunst Otterndorf (DE). Group shows: Galeria Promocyjna, Warsaw, Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan (IT), Studiogalerie HaL, Berlin, Kunstraum Hochdorf (CH), City Gallery, Prague, Künstlerhaus Dortmund (DE), Papiermachermuseum Steyrermühl (AT), Georg Kolbe Museum Berlin, Mies v. d. Rohe Haus Berlin, Guardini-Galerie Berlin, Staatl. Museum Schwerin (DE), nGbK Berlin.
Alongside her artistic practice, E. Sonneck curated/co-curated exhibitions focusing on contemporary research in the expanded fields of painting and sculpture, and since 2018, she has been running super bien! Berlin, an independent project space for site-specific projects.
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Exhibition coordinator – apiece
Graphic design: Marek Voida
Text translation: Martynas Galkus
Exhibition funded by the Lithuanian Council for Culture
Exhibition open until 26 October 2025