Name: Pip Culbert and Gerhard Hoehme: Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed
Start: 2026-10-22T15:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-10-22T20:00:00+02:00
Location: VAN HORN

When material becomes memory: Pip Culbert and Gerhard Hoehme at VAN HORN

The exhibition Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed brings together the works of Pip Culbert and Gerhard Hoehme for the first time at VAN HORN in a shared resonance space. At the center is a precisely curated encounter of two artistic positions that work with found materials, shift meanings, and question the act of seeing itself. The presentation runs from September 4 to October 24, 2026, offering a concentrated look at art as an open system, as a viewing of works, and as an aesthetic experience. ([van-horn.net](https://van-horn.net/current-exhibition/?utm_source=openai))

Material, Line, and Space as Artistic Language

Pip Culbert creates fragile constructions from clothing, fabrics, tarps, and bags that hover between sculpture, drawing, and architecture. Gerhard Hoehme extends painting into space with strings, tubes, and drawings, understanding the image not as a closed surface but as an open field of energy and experience. Both artists work with reduction, transformation, and displacement; both transform the found into a new visual order. ([van-horn.net](https://van-horn.net/current-exhibition/?utm_source=openai))

An Exhibition about the Visible and the Hidden

The title references an English saying that connects luck, memory, and new beginnings. This very tension characterizes the exhibition: The old does not disappear but remains as a trace. Culbert exposes seams, and Hoehme extends lines into space. Thus, an exhibition emerges that intertwines art history, material aesthetics, and contemporary questions of imagery. The proximity to Informel, Object Art, and spatially extended painting, which Hoehme has significantly shaped since the late 1950s, is especially striking. ([van-horn.net](https://van-horn.net/current-exhibition/?utm_source=openai))

VAN HORN as a Place of Concentrated Contemporary Art

VAN HORN is one of the Düsseldorf galleries that connects international contemporary art with the local scene. The gallery presents the exhibition at Ackerstraße 99 and is regularly open on Thursdays and Fridays from 1 PM to 6 PM, as well as on Saturdays from 12 PM to 4 PM; visits are also possible daily by appointment. This transforms the tour not only into a gallery visit but into a consciously decelerated art experience that makes space, light, and material distinctly perceivable. ([van-horn.net](https://van-horn.net/about/?utm_source=openai))

Conclusion: An Exhibition Visit for Those Who Want to Experience Art as a Thought Space

Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed offers no loud gestures, but a clever, sensual, and art-historically rich exhibition. Those interested in drawing, sculpture, spatial art, material research, and the poetic logic of modernity will find a strong reason to visit Düsseldorf here. The exhibition invites you to see the seemingly familiar anew – live, precisely, and with lasting effect. ([van-horn.net](https://van-horn.net/current-exhibition/?utm_source=openai))