Talk - Titus Schade with Raimund Stecker, Turit Fröbe and Helene von Saldern

Images of artificiality or hyper-realistic preconceptions like stage designs – the painting of Titus Schade, born in 1984, captivates with unprecedented yet seemingly familiar, remote and simultaneously familiar pictorial stagings. It transports the viewers into his profoundly individual, sometimes even autistically sealed worlds, in which we all must navigate with our own unique experiences – or better said: are allowed to!

The exhibition “TEKTONIK” at Konschthal Esch is staged like an opera. And that in multiple acts or "acts," as Richard Wagner, also born in Leipzig, called his operatic chapters. Windmill images are on display, and a windmill, Delft tile paintings without ceramic bases, and images within images of images...

Titus Schade's world of images is complex – as complex as the world outside his images. This must be acknowledged and accepted. Any simplification tends towards a populism that requires special responsibility.

Therefore, on Sunday, February 17, 2024, at 3:00 PM, Titus Schade will address the questions raised by his paintings during an artist talk. Joining him in the discussion are the author in the catalog, Helene von Saldern, Turit Fröbe, and Raimund Stecker, whose conversation with the artist is also available in the catalog.

Speakers: Titus Schade, Raimund Stecker, Turit Fröbe and Helen von Saldern.

Language : DE (simultaneous translation into French)

Free of charge | Subject to availability | Booking required.