Christian Weihrauch
... a good hand ... - New Drawings - May 17 until June 14, 2025

 

Opening: Saturday 17 May, 4 - 7 pm

We are looking forward to the second solo exhibition of drawings and engravings by Christian Weihrauch. At the beginning of May, we showed his works at paper positions, the fair for works on paper, in Berlin and received great recognition from the expert visitors.

‘Drawing can be so beautifully modest, it can illustrate, interpret, it can simply represent something and celebrate itself as a mistake, the transparent, the maybe-ish is a comforting alternative to the pithy presence of the whole other surrounding us.’ (Christian Weihrauch)

Christian Weihrauch draws small to tiny objects from his everyday world and composes them into new pictorial worlds. Using ink, silverpoint and/or tempera, he creates both realistic and fantastic pictorial worlds. His drawings and engravings, which appear to be by the old masters, are enormously rich in detail. He feels visibly indebted to the old masters such as Altdorfer and Dürer.

As part of the exhibition: Frogs, Fire, Darkness at the Kunstforum Ingelheim since 2023, Christian Weihrauch has been working on ten etchings by the Dutch artist Jan Luyken (1649-1712) dedicated to the biblical plagues. Based on the hidden object-like depictions, he has since drawn around thirty sheets in historical playing card format (10 x 7 cm). In his miniatures, he addresses the historical plagues on the one hand and thematises current hardships and fears on the other.

Weihrauch was born in Zella-Mehlis in 1966 and lives and works in Leipzig. He studied at the Burg Giebichenstein Art Academy in Halle. He is Professor of Painting, Drawing and Composition and Dean at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig.