Pip Culbert and Gerhard Hoehme at VAN HORN: Material, Space, and Memory
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When Material Becomes Memory: An Exhibition about Change, Space, and New Beginnings
With Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, VAN HORN in Düsseldorf presents an exhibition that artfully brings together two independent positions of modern and contemporary art: Pip Culbert and Gerhard Hoehme. The title references an English saying that stands for happiness, memory, and a new beginning. This is exactly how a concentrated art experience about transformation, material, and the poetic power of the existing develops.
Material as a Space for Thought
Both artists work with found or pre-formed materials, yet their signatures remain unmistakable. Culbert detaches clothing, bags, tents, and textiles from their function and reduces them to seams, lines, and fragile frameworks. Hoehme, on the other hand, releases painting, string, and plastic hoses from the classic picture frame and opens the work into space. This creates an exhibition atmosphere in which surface, tension, and emptiness appear equally.
Between Painting, Sculpture, and Drawing
The juxtaposition makes visible how closely related both artistic languages are. Culbert's works move between sculpture, drawing, and architectural structure. Hoehme's work belongs to the German post-war modernism and the informal, yet it transcends the boundaries of the panel painting in favor of a spatial, almost energetic presence. For the artwork appreciation, this means: Here, one does not only look, but relationships are read – between material, gesture, space, and memory.
Art Historical Tension and Contemporary Relevance
The exhibition does not tell a linear story, but represents an encounter across generations and contexts. This is precisely where its strength lies: it shows how new meanings can arise from existing things. This makes the visit also pedagogically interesting because it raises questions about reuse, transformation, perception, and the cultural significance of materials. For art-interested visitors, a precisely curated experience unfolds between abstraction and sensual presence.
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Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed promises an exhibition of great clarity and quiet intensity. Those interested in contemporary art, German post-war avant-garde, and the relationship between object and space will find a worthwhile reason to visit here. This exhibition invites you to see the familiar anew — live in Düsseldorf.
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