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A Still, Windless Night
Links: Katharina Poos, Vermächtnis, Acryl/ Eitempera auf Lw, 2025, Copyright: VG Bild-Kunst Bonn 2026; Rechts: Ewa Finn, Freunde schauen Ijob an, Öl auf Leinwand, 2023/24
© Copyright: VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2026 Links: Katharina Poos, Rechts: Ewa Finn
The exhibition “Windstille Nacht” brings together two extraordinary Berlin-based painters, Ewa Finn (born 1979 in Warsaw) and Katharina Poos (born 1961 in Berlin), whose works explore the subtle, the uncanny, and the psychology of the unknown.
The artists invite viewers to visually glide over motifs, visual references, and allegorically charged symbols, without seeking to define themselves thematically or in terms of content. Rather, their canvas paintings and drawings are ambiguous in the best sense of the word, as they articulate a (re)cognizable visual canon that nevertheless consistently eludes precise interpretation.
Characteristic of Ewa Finn’s painting style are her monumental and often dark-toned pictorial spaces, in which all living beings—whether human figures or animals—appear to us largely adrift and lost. They find their communicative counterpart not so much outside the picture in the viewer, but rather in an inner dialogue with themselves—a dialogue with an unclear counterpart.
In a similarly unbound and freely intertwined manner, Katharina Poos places her chimera-like figures on mostly untreated monochromatic canvas. Their bodies—partly overlapping, partly interpenetrating—are often sketched solely with subtle contours in light colors. And yet a hint of physical threat and existential distress hovers around them when the situations become violent, when grimaces or weapons appear in the images.
In the works of both Ewa Finn and Katharina Poos, the figures move almost somnambulistically through symbolic pictorial spaces that offer no actual physical space. Rather, their intensity stems from both conscious and unconscious reminiscences of religious motifs, the visual worlds of Romanticism, or contemporary press photographs.
ZAK / Galerie / EG
Translated with DeepL
The artists invite viewers to visually glide over motifs, visual references, and allegorically charged symbols, without seeking to define themselves thematically or in terms of content. Rather, their canvas paintings and drawings are ambiguous in the best sense of the word, as they articulate a (re)cognizable visual canon that nevertheless consistently eludes precise interpretation.
Characteristic of Ewa Finn’s painting style are her monumental and often dark-toned pictorial spaces, in which all living beings—whether human figures or animals—appear to us largely adrift and lost. They find their communicative counterpart not so much outside the picture in the viewer, but rather in an inner dialogue with themselves—a dialogue with an unclear counterpart.
In a similarly unbound and freely intertwined manner, Katharina Poos places her chimera-like figures on mostly untreated monochromatic canvas. Their bodies—partly overlapping, partly interpenetrating—are often sketched solely with subtle contours in light colors. And yet a hint of physical threat and existential distress hovers around them when the situations become violent, when grimaces or weapons appear in the images.
In the works of both Ewa Finn and Katharina Poos, the figures move almost somnambulistically through symbolic pictorial spaces that offer no actual physical space. Rather, their intensity stems from both conscious and unconscious reminiscences of religious motifs, the visual worlds of Romanticism, or contemporary press photographs.
ZAK / Galerie / EG
Translated with DeepL
Runtime: Sat, 19/09/2026 to Sun, 03/01/2027
Price info: Almost every 1st Sunday of the month is Citadel Sunday and admission is free.
Price: €4.50
Reduced price: €2.50
Reduced price info: Pupils - children aged 6-14 - students - trainees - people who receive transfer benefits (ALG II, social welfare, benefits under the Asylum Seekers Benefits Act) - GdB 50, MdE on presentation of the relevant ID.
public guided tours of Spandau Citadel
every Saturday and Sunday at 2 pm
€4.50 per person plus Citadel ticket
(on the last Saturday of the month, the guided tour of the exhibition "Unveiled. Berlin and its monuments")
The following guided tours are canceled due to major events:
11.07.2026
03. + 04.10.2026
Price: €4.50
Reduced price: €2.50
Reduced price info: Pupils - children aged 6-14 - students - trainees - people who receive transfer benefits (ALG II, social welfare, benefits under the Asylum Seekers Benefits Act) - GdB 50, MdE on presentation of the relevant ID.
public guided tours of Spandau Citadel
every Saturday and Sunday at 2 pm
€4.50 per person plus Citadel ticket
(on the last Saturday of the month, the guided tour of the exhibition "Unveiled. Berlin and its monuments")
The following guided tours are canceled due to major events:
11.07.2026
03. + 04.10.2026
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