29/05/2026
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Membranes
The idea for this exhibition emerged, evolved, nearly disappeared, and then found its form again over the course of almost a year. Throughout all this time, it never let go of me.
Often, when projects become too difficult to realize, it is a sign that perhaps they are not meant to happen. But in this case, the answer to the question, “Should this exhibition exist?” felt completely clear to me, and almost inevitable.
I know Reiner Heidorn personally, while I first met Katrin Bittl on a video call while working on a project for Loop City Screen. And I am absolutely, unwaveringly in love with their work. As an added gift, they are people with a finely tuned sense of irony toward both the world and themselves, but above all, they are delicate, sensitive, profound, and genuinely empathetic human beings.
What unites them is a particular way of looking at reality, as if through a microscope, studying not the surface of things, but their internal structure.
In the exhibition Membranes, Katrin Bittl and Reiner Heidorn enter into a dialogue in which the membrane becomes a metaphor for our perception of the world.
A membrane, as a thin enclosing layer, simultaneously separates and selectively allows passage. It is a boundary through which exchange occurs between the inner and the outer.
We often perceive “normality” visually, remaining on the surface. Yet the visible exterior is only a thin boundary behind which an entire universe unfolds, in plants, in the human body, in every living form.
