Name: Patrizia Casagranda: Touch My Heart
Start: 2026-09-05T16:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-09-05T19:00:00+02:00
Location: Museum Kaiserswerth

An art experience between portrait, color and attitude

With Touch My Heart, the Museum Kaiserswerth presents an exhibition that condenses painting, collage, urban art, and typography into an impressive visual language. At the center is the Krefeld artist Patrizia Casagranda, whose works connect female portraits, cultural quotes, and a distinctive material aesthetics.

Portraits that live both up close and at a distance

Casagranda's works unfold their effect in two visual registers: From a distance, they appear as powerful, clearly readable images; up close, they transform into vibrant surfaces of dotted patterns, pigments, plaster, and pasty color traces. This tension between figure and surface gives the exhibition a unique atmosphere and turns every viewing of the works into an aesthetic experience.

Between art historical reference and present

The artist draws on motifs from classical painting, including Vermeer, van Gogh, and Leonardo da Vinci, and translates them into a contemporary, urban visual language. It is precisely this friction between art history and the present, between iconic models and free reinterpretation, that shapes the charm of the exhibition. Casagranda's preferred themes are images of women, dignity, strength, and visibility – central motifs in an art that does not assert attitude but makes it visible.

Material, surface, and spatial effect

Particularly impressive is the technique of Sculptural Dot Painting developed by Casagranda. The surfaces recall relief-like structures, layered painting, and a work process at the interface of sculpture and image. Especially in the Museum Kaiserswerth, whose historical context provides a calm contrast to expressive contemporary art, an intense art experience with clear emotional presence is created.

Biographical strength and international recognition

Patrizia Casagranda has been working as a freelance artist since 2016, after graduating with honors in design and previously working as a graphic designer for, among others, Günther Uecker and Markus Lüpertz. Her works have been shown internationally, including in the context of the Venice Biennale, and have repeatedly been recognized in the press as an independent position in contemporary art. It becomes particularly clear: Here, an artist develops a distinctive signature from design, painting, and urban visual culture.

Conclusion

Touch My Heart promises an exhibition full of color, shifts in perspective, and cultural depth. Anyone interested in contemporary painting, portrait art, and art historical references will find here a sensuous yet reflective approach to art. A visit to the Museum Kaiserswerth is definitely worthwhile.