Welcome to a space where the boundaries between living, creating, and displaying dissolve. This exhibition explores the concept of the home not just as a sanctuary, but as an active Studio and Gallery. It is a place where daily life breathes into art, and art inhabits the corners of the everyday.
At the heart of this showcase is the story of a Sad Button. Unlike the world around it, this button turns counter-clockwise, drifting through the cycles of Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter in a search for belonging.
As the seasons pass, the "button finally pops" ( ihm geht der Knopf auf ) —a moment of release and realization. Old, heavy memories are not discarded; instead, they are transformed. Through the lens of childlike wonder, these memories are painted over, reimagined, and reclaimed.
It is a fragile balance between staying seated and standing up, between remaining and wanting to leave. Taboos are broken. Houses burn. What has long been pressing to come out finds its place through a childlike intervention into the adult pictorial plane. Buttons, clouds, flowers.
Food: hunger!