Something Old, Something New at VAN HORN: Art Between Material and Space

Between Seams, Lines and Space: An Exhibition about Transformation

With Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, VAN HORN opens a clever, poetic exhibition about transformation, material and the power of reduction in Düsseldorf. For the first time, the works of Pip Culbert and Gerhard Hoehme meet in a joint presentation, creating new image spaces from existing materials. The title refers to an English proverb that connects happiness, memory, and new beginnings, setting the tone for an art experience that bridges art history, the present, and aesthetic experience. ([van-horn.net](https://van-horn.net/current-exhibition/?utm_source=openai))

Material Becomes Meaning

Pip Culbert works with shirts, bags, tents, and textiles that she removes from their original use. What remains are seams, contours, and fragile frameworks – like drawn lines in space. Her practice combines sculpture, drawing, and architecture into a quiet, precise contemplation of the work, where the hidden becomes visible. The works of Gerhard Hoehme similarly open the image space: Since the late 1950s, he increasingly liberated painting from the frame and integrated strings, tubes, and other materials into his pictures. This creates a painterly spatial effect that directly involves the viewer. ([van-horn.net](https://van-horn.net/current-exhibition/?utm_source=openai))

Informel, Space and Open Systems

Hoehme is regarded as one of the early German representatives of Informel and as an artist who understood the picture carrier as an open field. His works emerged from a movement that did not let the course of painting end at the canvas edge. Instead, the composition expands into the exhibition space. This attitude gives the presentation in the gallery a special tension: painting, drawing, and object engage in a dialogue that consistently transcends the boundaries of genres. Culbert's works also show how form emerges from function and how a quiet, concentrated poetry arises from functionality. ([zkm.de](https://zkm.de/en/persons/gerhard-hoehme))

A Dialogue Across Generations

The exhibition is not merely a juxtaposition but a curated approach to two artistic mindsets. Both positions work with reduction, reinterpretation, and the shifting of meanings. The result is a finely calibrated art experience that reorders space, line, materiality, and perception. Those interested in Informel, post-war art, textile art, installation, and the material aesthetics of the present will find a precise, intellectually dense, and at the same time sensual access here. ([van-horn.net](https://van-horn.net/current-exhibition/?utm_source=openai))

With this exhibition, VAN HORN presents a concentrated encounter of two independent artistic attitudes that do not illustrate the visible but rethink it. Anyone who appreciates subtle material art, art historical depth, and a clear exhibition atmosphere should definitely experience this presentation live in Düsseldorf. ([van-horn.net](https://van-horn.net/current-exhibition/?utm_source=openai))

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Sources:

• VAN HORN - Current Exhibition
• VAN HORN - Gallery in Düsseldorf
• VAN HORN - Imprint
• ZKM - Gerhard Hoehme
• Chartwell Project - Pip Culbert
• VAN HORN - Schaulager