Katharina Hinsberg
New works - November 01 until December 06, 2025

 

opening: Saturday 1.11., 4 - 7 pm

We are looking forward to exhibiting the latest works on paper by Katharina Hinsberg.

For Katharina Hinsberg, the cut is as important as the line she removes from the sheet. The edge of the sheet is of great interest.

In the Marginalis group of works, the edge of the sheet becomes the defining theme. Hinsberg traces the edge of the sheet by hand with red ink and then cuts it out. The outside of the exposed line is the straight, machine-made edge of the paper, while the inside is moving, following the application of colour by hand. Presented freely on the wall, the red rectangles are fascinating.

In the latest group of works, ‘Säumnisse’, Hinsberg expands this approach and achieves new results. She writes:

"The edges of the leaves are narrow and razor-sharp. I colour these edges with red ink, they mark and line the outside of the sheet. Then I cut through the paper with a knife along a ruler and separate it into two parts. I cut through the still indifferently blank paper surface and thus differentiate them...

The resulting cut edges are coloured red again before I move them towards each other and assemble them into a new format. In these works, Säumnissen, the cutting does not follow the drawing, but the drawing follows the cutting, in the coloured tracing of the edges. The outer edges can merge into inner lines, the cut edges can become outer edges from the inside."

Hinsberg's works are part of national and international collections and have been exhibited in museums in Germany and abroad for many years. Hinsberg teaches as a professor of conceptual painting at the Saar University of the Arts in Saarbrücken. She lives and works in Neuss. From 13 June to 28 September, the Städtische Galerie Neunkirchen is showing an insight into the artist's work in the exhibition The Parts and the Whole.