Anna Bogouchevskaia, Gudny Gudmundsdottir, Jonathan Meese: Trio des Wahnsinns

The exhibition at the Noack Gallery focuses on art as a place of freedom and questions its ability to multiply, dissolve, and reform identities.

In the joint exhibition Trio des Wahnsinns, paintings, sculptures, and works on paper by Anna Bogouchevskaia (born 1966, Moscow), Gudny Gudmundsdottir (born 1970, Reykjavik), and Jonathan Meese (born 1970, Tokyo) enter into an experimental trialogue and raise questions about the relationship between identity, freedom, and the transformative potential of artistic practice.

The tripartite structure serves as both a conceptual starting point and a structuring motif. As a “magical” number and a culturally and mythologically deeply rooted constant, the number three refers both to the religious Trinity and to the temporal order of past, present, and future. In the tradition of fairy tales and legends, the tripartite structure marks trials and turning points, while since the invention of psychoanalysis, the subject itself has also been conceived as a tripartite division. In Trio des Wahnsinns, the number three acts as a subtle reference and atmospheric framework that places boundlessness, difference, and mutual complementarity in an open relationship. Art is thematized as a place of freedom and questioned for its ability to multiply, dissolve, and reform identities.

Bogouchevskaia, Gudmundsdottir, and Meese each work with their own visual languages and fields of interest, ranging from body-related, psychologically charged settings to iconographic condensations.

Opening hours: Monday to Thursday from 12 noon to 4 p.m., Friday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Runtime: Fri, 05/12/2025 to Thu, 07/05/2026

Takes place here:

• Noack Galerie