Caroline Kryzecki: (Non)sense

Caroline Kryzecki is a radically precise and conceptually reflective artist. Her new exhibition is titled Non(sense). What happened?

– BB 190/150–11, 2024

Caroline exhibits (non)sense paintings. At the beginning of her career, she first became known for her ballpoint pen drawings featuring thousands of lines. Years later, she developed her grid paintings from these drawings. Using the tip of a brush, she painted and dabbed thousands of small semicircular shapes with gouache and watercolor onto a grid. The grid paper was produced for her by the Handsiebdruckerei in Berlin according to her specifications. Kryzecki conducted her first experiments on grid paper at the Josef & Anni Albers Foundation, using old cartridge paper that was once used by textile designers to create patterns.

By changing the size and orientation of the shapes, as well as using different tones and modulating transparency and opacity, she created works of great variety despite always using the same technique. The spectrum of impressions ranged from very austere to almost psychedelic. In the current exhibition, the almost sixty thousand grid fields of the small works and the over three hundred thousand fields of the large works also offer unlimited possibilities for variation.

The grids of the works have different colors. Mallorca is printed on the edge of the grid of the smaller formats. Kryzecki developed this grid format during a scholarship stay in Mallorca. She therefore had the place of origin of the grid printed next to it in order to reference the original cartridge paper that served as her inspiration.

Opening hours: Wednesday–Saturday from 2 to 6pm

Runtime: from September 2025

Takes place here:

• Sexauer