Name: Pip Culbert and Gerhard Hoehme: Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed
Start: 2026-09-11T15:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-10-24T20:00:00+02:00
Location: VAN HORN

When material becomes space: a quiet, intelligent exhibition at VAN HORN

With Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, VAN HORN in Düsseldorf is presenting for the first time works by Pip Culbert and Gerhard Hoehme together. The exhibition, running from September 4 to October 24, 2026, showcases two artistic positions from very different generations that yet share a surprising closeness: both transform existing materials into open visual and spatial configurations. ([van-horn.net](https://van-horn.net/current-exhibition/?utm_source=openai))

Material that thinks

Pip Culbert works with shirts, bags, tents, and fabrics. She removes the unnecessary, leaves seams, lines, and fragile frameworks intact, and creates drawings in space from everyday objects. Her art moves between sculpture, drawing, and architecture, generating a quiet, focused aesthetic. Gerhard Hoehme, on the other hand, removes painting from the frame: strings, hoses, colors, and drawings open the image to the environment and make the space itself a part of the work. ([van-horn.net](https://van-horn.net/current-exhibition/?utm_source=openai))

An exhibition about transformation and trace

The title refers to the English wedding formula and alludes to happiness, memory, and new beginnings. This is exactly where the curation begins: nothing arises from nothing; rather, what is present is reinterpreted, reduced, and transformed into a new order. The works question visibility, selection, and omission - themes that feel more relevant than ever in the age of image editing. ([van-horn.net](https://van-horn.net/current-exhibition/?utm_source=openai))

Gerhard Hoehme: Informal with spatial tension

Gerhard Hoehme is considered one of the early German representatives of the Informal movement. The ZKM describes him as a co-founder of Galerie 22 in Düsseldorf and as a professor at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf; his work aims to expand the spatial horizon of painted images. His drawings are not preliminary stages but independent works that create lines, tensions, and open fields of energy. ([zkm.de](https://zkm.de/en/persons/gerhard-hoehme?utm_source=openai))

Pip Culbert: Reduction as a poetic method

Pip Culbert, born in 1938 and deceased in 2016, is known for her precise reduction. The Chartwell Project describes how she deconstructed everyday textile objects and reduced them to their essential seams and structures. This creates works that appear both physical, fragile, and strict - a quiet form of installation that trains the gaze and refines perception. ([chartwell.org.nz](https://www.chartwell.org.nz/making/artists/pip-culbert/?utm_source=openai))

Visit at VAN HORN

VAN HORN is located at Ackerstraße 99 in Düsseldorf and is open on weekdays by appointment, as well as Thursdays and Fridays from 1 PM to 6 PM and Saturdays from 12 PM to 4 PM. The exhibition opens on Friday, September 4, 2026, with a vernissage from 6 PM to 9 PM; the admission price is not listed on the website and could not be confirmed from available sources. ([van-horn.net](https://van-horn.net/about/?utm_source=openai))

Those who visit this exhibition will experience a calm yet highly concentrated art experience between painting, sculpture, and installation. Here it becomes evident how powerful artistic reduction can be. A live visit is highly recommended as the fine material tensions, the spatial effects, and the drawing in the space only fully unfold their presence on site. ([van-horn.net](https://van-horn.net/current-exhibition/?utm_source=openai))