Galerie ANDREAE | Art Düsseldorf 2026 | To Harvest A Promise Dissolving In Heat
Presstext Art Düsseldorf 2026
We are delighted to announce our participation in this year’s Art Düsseldorf from April 16–19, 2026.
Booth J09
Areal Böhler Düsseldorf
Introducing the first artist of our duo presentation: Lucia Kempkes. On the occasion of Art Düsseldorf, Kempkes presents a new body of work, developed over the past year and shown here for the first time. The presentation also marks her debut with the gallery—we are pleased to now officially welcome her to our program.
Rooted in the tradition of landscape painting, Lucia Kempkes develops a radically shifted painterly approach: her works are constructed from individually painted threads, later woven into complex textile surfaces. Painting here does not sit on the surface—it emerges through structure, as a condensation of time, gesture, and decision. Kempkes’ practice unfolds at the threshold where perception, memory, and projection converge. Her new series introduces a speculative botany of the near future. Drawing on real climate adaptation strategies, familiar agricultural landscapes give way to sorghum, okra, amaranth, and lupine. These works do not depict what is, but what might be—quiet, anticipatory images that register subtle yet irreversible shifts in how landscape is formed, perceived, and remembered. Resisting the smoothness of digital image production, Kempkes insists on time-intensive, manual processes.
Introducing the second artist of our duo presentation: Rosalie Becher. Bechers works with stained glass, a craft historically intertwined with the visual language of sacred architecture. Her interest lies less in the painterly qualities of glass than in its transparency and surface, its relationship to light and in the narrative potential of its metallic lines and patterns.
Her artistic practice unfolds as a processual constellation: intuitive notes and associative narratives condense into drawings, sketches, and ultimately sculptural propositions, developing a precise contemporary visual language that opens up a paradoxical, even mythic, space between body and void. By detaching stained glass from its sacred origins, she fundamentally reconfigures its field of possibility and the question of who or what is venerated. Rather than invoking blind faith in higher powers, her works foreground, through their transcendent potential, a space for honest discourse, knowledge production, and alternative mythologies.
In her most extensive installation to date—a modular storefront complete with key-cutting signage and façade elements—the artist explores the conditions of urban space: ornamentation, transience, community, solitude, and limbo. Becher translates spaces that structure our everyday lives into the exhibition context, interrogating how public space negotiates exclusion, protection and belonging.
