10/08/2026
Two painters. Two very different ways of looking.
Louis Vivin painted Paris as if it were already becoming a memory — quiet streets, façades, gardens and winter landscapes held in a world of their own.
Michael Krebber approaches painting from the other side. His canvases hesitate, withdraw, interrupt themselves. A few lines, a fragment, an almost absent image — enough to make us question what we expect a painting to be.
One holds on to reality.
The other doubts the image.
And yet, their works meet in an unexpected place: in the refusal of certainty.
Vivin’s paintings are attentive, intimate and strangely timeless. Krebber’s are hesitant, ironic and deliberately unresolved. Both resist the heroic gesture. Both make space for vulnerability.
Wirklichkeit erschlägt Kunst (vielleicht) brings these two seemingly distant positions together and asks a simple but persistent question:
What can painting still do in the face of reality?
Perhaps more than we think.
Perhaps less.
Maybe that uncertainty is precisely where the exhibition begins.
Wirklichkeit erschlägt Kunst (vielleicht)
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