When does the exhibition take place?

The exhibition runs from September 4, 2026, to October 24, 2026.

Where is VAN HORN in Düsseldorf?

VAN HORN is located at Ackerstraße 99, 40233 Düsseldorf.

Is the visit barrier-free?

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Are there guided tours or educational offers?

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What is the admission fee?

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Which art form is the focus?

The focus is on contemporary exhibition art, material art, installation, and painterly spatial concepts.

Two artistic worlds meet in Düsseldorf and transform material into memory.

Name: Pip Culbert and Gerhard Hoehme: Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed
Start: 2026-09-12T14:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-10-24T20:00:00+02:00
Location: VAN HORN

When Material Becomes Memory: an Exhibition about Change, Trace, and New Beginnings

With Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, VAN HORN in Düsseldorf presents for the first time the works of Pip Culbert and Gerhard Hoehme in a joint dialogue. The exhibition is based on a simple yet poetic idea: what exists is not replaced, but transformed. This creates an art experience that communicates between material aesthetics, history, and the present.

A Dialogue of Two Artistic Attitudes

Pip Culbert worked with clothing, bags, tents, and textiles, that is, with everyday objects that lose their function in the exhibition space and become readable as formal, bodily objects. Gerhard Hoehme expanded painting into space, assembling color, string, and plastic tubes into open pictorial spaces and understood the image as an energetic field. Both positions are connected by the precise gesture of reinterpretation.

Material, Space, and Aesthetic Experience

The exhibition promises a concentrated examination of the works, where textile surfaces, painterly placements, and spatial lines question each other. Culbert's reduced, contextually detached materials meet Hoehme's informal openness. It is precisely in this tension that an exhibition atmosphere arises, which does not present itself loudly but works with subtle shifts.

Art Historical Relevance between Informal and Contemporary

Gerhard Hoehme is among the important representatives of German post-war art and the Informal. His works have been shown in significant institutions and read as attempts to open the image as a space of thought and experience. Pip Culbert, on the other hand, represents art that poetically condenses everyday materials and connects with conceptual art, installation, and a sensitive perception of materials. The exhibition makes it visible how current these two attitudes have remained.

The Venue: VAN HORN as a Precisely Curated Space

VAN HORN in Düsseldorf is a gallery with a clear focus on contemporary art and a program that brings together international and Rhineland positions in conversation. The presentation at Ackerstraße 99 is suitable for an immediate encounter with the works, where reduction, form, and meaning meet closely together. The exhibition opens a space for cultural education and concentrated observation.

Conclusion

This exhibition demonstrates how new pictorial worlds emerge from used materials, painterly traces, and spatial placements. Anyone interested in art history, material aesthetics, and the poetic power of transformation should not miss this show in Düsseldorf.