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đŸŒȘ we currently present đŸŒȘ‘There’s a Man in a Smiling Bag’[GROUP SHOW]Heiner Franzen – Philip Grözinger – Lou HoyerFee Kle...
19/06/2026

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‘There’s a Man in a Smiling Bag’
[GROUP SHOW]
Heiner Franzen – Philip Grözinger – Lou Hoyer
Fee Kleiß – Kata Unger – Marlon Wobst
painting, drawing, sculpture, textile,
video installation
22. 05 > 18. 07. 2026

Curators: Philip Grözinger & Fee Kleiß

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CLOSING DAYS                      
21.06 > 29.06 — both inclusive

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At first glance, Lou Hoyer’s acrylic glass works have a certain air of randomness. Their form could
change at any moment. The motif chuckles, mocking the viewer. It is as if Snow White was peering out of the mirror and laughing in the Queen's face. It is distorted according to the laws of surface reflection. A grotesque body in the process of transformation. The viewer's authority is called into question, and a puddle gapes at the ground.
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extract from a text by co-curator Fee Kleiss

Fig.1.
LOU HOYER
‘Lache I’, 2025
ink and acrylic on acrylic glass
138 x 53 cm / 54.33 x 20.87 inches

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exhibition view - ‘There’s a Man in a Smiling Bag’ - artworks by LOU HOYER

18/06/2026

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LOU HOYER
'Minor second - Kleine Sekunde III'
pastel on papier
72 x 51 cm / 28.35 x 20.08 inches
2019

PART OF
‘There’s a Man in a Smiling Bag’
[GROUP SHOW]
Heiner Franzen – Philip Grözinger – Lou Hoyer
Fee Kleiß – Kata Unger – Marlon Wobst
painting, drawing, sculpture, textile,
video installation
22. 05 > 18. 07. 2026

Curators: Philip Grözinger & Fee Kleiß

💼 LINK IN BIO

CLOSING DAYS                      
21.06 > 29.06 — both inclusive



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đŸŒ” we currently present đŸŒ”â€˜There’s a Man in a Smiling Bag’[GROUP SHOW]Heiner Franzen – Philip Grözinger – Lou HoyerFee Kle...
16/06/2026

đŸŒ” we currently present đŸŒ”

‘There’s a Man in a Smiling Bag’
[GROUP SHOW]
Heiner Franzen – Philip Grözinger – Lou Hoyer
Fee Kleiß – Kata Unger – Marlon Wobst
painting, drawing, sculpture, textile,
video installation
22. 05 > 18. 07. 2026

Curators: Philip Grözinger & Fee Kleiß

đŸŒ” LINK IN BIO

CLOSING DAYS                      
21.06 > 29.06 — both inclusive

There’s a Man in a Smiling Bag

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In Twin Peaks, evil operates through charm, beauty turns suspicious, and kitsch is not the opposite of horror — it is horror's preferred disguise. The smiling bag is smiling for a reason. The artists in this exhibition have inherited that frequency. Textiles, glitter, lace and plastic flowers are not decorations against the darkness. They are what the darkness wears.

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extract from a text by co-curator Fee Kleiss
 
Fig.1-5
Exhibition views of ‘There’s a Man in a Smiling Bag’ – with artworks by LOY HOYER and FEE KLEISS.


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14/06/2026

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created in a building
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đŸ„Ž we currently present đŸ„Žâ€˜There’s a Man in a Smiling Bag’[GROUP SHOW]Heiner Franzen – Philip Grözinger – Lou HoyerFee Kle...
13/06/2026

đŸ„Ž we currently present đŸ„Ž

‘There’s a Man in a Smiling Bag’
[GROUP SHOW]
Heiner Franzen – Philip Grözinger – Lou Hoyer
Fee Kleiß – Kata Unger – Marlon Wobst
painting, drawing, sculpture, textile,
video installation
22. 05 > 18. 07. 2026

Curators: Philip Grözinger & Fee Kleiß

đŸ„Ž LINK IN BIO

CLOSING DAYS                      
21.06 > 29.06 — both inclusive


There’s a Man in a Smiling Bag

It makes no sense yet. The clue arrives before you are ready for it, in a language you don't yet

speak. It’s meaning will surface later. Where is our giant and what would he say? What can artists
do to deal with the situation?

To make something is to move: From passivity, watching the world falling apart, maybe not into
finding solutions immediately but into sorting out own hints and building mysteries and narratives.

Transforming material experimentally, questioning standards, suggesting alternatives.

The six Berlin-based artists gathered here at Galerie Maria Lund share this understanding. They
keep working — not out of optimism exactly, but out of conviction that the object made in the
studio carries frequencies the news cycle cannot transmit.

In Twin Peaks, evil operates through charm, beauty turns suspicious, and kitsch is not the opposite of horror — it is horror's preferred disguise. The smiling bag is smiling for a reason. The artists in this exhibition have inherited that frequency. Textiles, glitter, lace and plastic flowers are not decorations against the darkness. They are what the darkness wears.
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extract from a text by co-curator Fee Kleiss
 
Fig.1-5
Exhibition views of ‘There’s a Man in a Smiling Bag’ – with artworks by Heiner Franzen, Philip Grözinger, Kata Unger and Marlon Wobst


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Kata Unger
Marlon Wobst
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đŸȘ we currently present đŸȘâ€˜There’s a Man in a Smiling Bag’[GROUP SHOW]Heiner Franzen – Philip Grözinger – Lou HoyerFee Kle...
12/06/2026

đŸȘ we currently present đŸȘ

‘There’s a Man in a Smiling Bag’
[GROUP SHOW]
Heiner Franzen – Philip Grözinger – Lou Hoyer
Fee Kleiß – Kata Unger – Marlon Wobst
painting, drawing, sculpture, textile, video installation
22. 05 > 18. 07. 2026

Curators: Philip Grözinger & Fee Kleiß

đŸȘ LINK IN BIO

CLOSING DAYS                      
21.06 > 29.06 — both inclusive

The show gathers six artists from Berlin under the title ‘There’s a Man in a Smiling Bag’—a reference to one of the three clues given by a strange gentle giant to an FBI agent in episode 1, season 2 of David Lynch’s famous Twin Peaks. This quotation emphasises the six artists’ common feature: an approach tinged in mystery.
In KATA UNGER’s (born in 1961 in Berlin, East Germany) tapestries, codes and chaos are intertwined. The woven fabric is the vehicle for a rich imagery, reminiscent of medieval worlds, where imaginary beings and humans coexist. Her approach is punk, rebel, and critical: words like slogans intrude on scenes where the beings try to float. Raft of Medusa or Noah’s Ark— struggle, s*x, pain, and game are all brought together on shifting grounds or in the turbulences of a maelstrom. A struggle between romantic dreaming and bumpy illusions is carried by a delicate palette, as well illustrated in Mystical Anarchists. Philosophical Zombies. Through the slow and fastidious process of jacquard weaving, Kata Unger patiently reflects on the world, her gaze both looking straight ahead and back.

Fig.1 - 5.
KATA UNGER
‘Mystical Anarchists. Philosophical Zombies’
(4 fragments + the entire work of art)
250 x 235 cm / 98.43 x 92.52 inches
wool on wool
2024



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👁 we currently present‘There’s a Man in a Smiling Bag’[GROUP SHOW]Heiner Franzen – Philip Grözinger – Lou HoyerFee Kleiß...
03/06/2026

👁 we currently present

‘There’s a Man in a Smiling Bag’
[GROUP SHOW]
Heiner Franzen – Philip Grözinger – Lou Hoyer
Fee Kleiß – Kata Unger – Marlon Wobst
painting, drawing, sculpture, textile, video installation
22. 05 > 18. 07. 2026

Curators: Philip Grözinger & Fee Kleiß

👁 LINK IN BIO

CLOSING DAYS                      
21.06 > 29.06 — both inclusive

The show gathers six artists from Berlin under the title ‘There’s a Man in a Smiling Bag’—a reference to one of the three clues given by a strange gentle giant to an FBI agent in episode 1, season 2 of David Lynch’s famous Twin Peaks. This quotation emphasises the six artists’ common feature: an approach tinged in mystery.

Fee KLEIß’s (born in 1984 in Kuchen, Germany) work is built from collecting and adding —looking for beauty, grace, and even innocence in discarded mundane objects. Lost and forgotten items are brought together in her sculptures as in her paintings and collages, thus subverting the narrative given to them, but also offering a sensitive and critical viewpoint on the society that made them. A chair structure turned into a cocoon; Grey Lodge seems to be sheltering a colony of metamorphosing beings and plants. Its title mixes the Lynchian concepts of Black Lodge (pure evil) and White Lodge (its opposite) in Twin Peaks. Starfish caught in a net, Shelly harbours a shining treasure, like a pearl in an oyster. Playing with associations and contrasts across miscellaneous material, Fee Kleiß invites human feelings to intertwine —humour, tenderness, eroticism, drama, beauty, or despair. Like living and growing cells, the organic shapes she builds presents a sort of still life—or rather animated life, with a talkative, joyful, and tender landscape trying to open up new conversations.

Fig.1
FEE KLEIß
‘Shelly’
33 x 35 x 20 cm  / 12.99 x 13.78 x 7.87 inches
mirror, cotton, copper, bone glue, pigments
2026



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We present
‘There’s a Man in a Smiling Bag’
[GROUP SHOW]
Heiner Franzen – Philip Grözinger – Lou Hoyer
Fee Kleiß – Kata Unger – Marlon Wobst
painting, drawing, sculpture, textile, video installation
22. 05 > 18. 07. 2026

Curators: Philip Grözinger & Fee Kleiß

â›łïž LINK IN BIO

CLOSING DAYS                      
21.06 > 29.06 — both inclusive

The show gathers six artists from Berlin under the title ‘There’s a Man in a Smiling Bag’—a reference to one of the three clues given by a strange gentle giant to an FBI agent in episode 1, season 2 of David Lynch’s famous Twin Peaks. This quotation emphasises the six artists’ common feature: an approach tinged in mystery.

Through a multidisciplinary practice of ceramics, painting, drawing, and wool felt, MARLON WOBST (born in 1980 in Wiesbaden, Germany) stages the human body in all its simplicity. Using various media like ways to approach the body in space, he focuses his work around matter, like another bodily presence coming to absorb, dissolve, and blur boundaries. The motif of water, recurring in his work, allows him to play with murky, jerky, erased scenes, composing and decomposing the bodies he manipulates on and beneath the surface. Worked on as pictorial matter, the colourful flesh gathers, piles up, and comes together in a desire to make society. Right on the floor, the characters in Kuschler et Kuschler*innen —captured in feminine and masculine cuddles— get lost in a living, sensual hubbub, until their undoubtedly dusty silhouettes fade into the landscape.

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MARLON WOBST
‘Kuschler’
36 x 55 cm / 14.17 x 21.65 inches
olil on canvas
2022





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We present
‘There’s a Man in a Smiling Bag’
[GROUP SHOW]
Heiner Franzen – Philip Grözinger – Lou Hoyer
Fee Kleiß – Kata Unger – Marlon Wobst
painting, drawing, sculpture, textile, video installation
22. 05 > 18. 07. 2026

Curators: Philip Grözinger & Fee Kleiß

🎯 LINK IN BIO

The show gathers six artists from Berlin under the title ‘There’s a Man in a Smiling Bag’—a reference to one of the three clues given by a strange gentle giant to an FBI agent in episode 1, season 2 of David Lynch’s famous Twin Peaks. This quotation emphasises the six artists’ common feature: an approach tinged in mystery.

Both soft and direct, PHILIP GRÖZINGER (born in 1972 in Brunswick, Germany) does not beat about the bush: his visual language is simple but efficient. In his dense, colourful works, drama and daily intimacies meet: the morning coffee faces a coming accident, surrounded by a poetry of little flowers, suns, rainbows, and perambulating cats. With everything on the same plane, with drama elbowing the mundane, their vulnerable essence is visible. Disconcertingly contradictory, these images are misleading at first. Philip Grözinger strives to create tension, thus taking the absurd beyond a simple idea to flesh it out. With his painting True Love, the artist juxtaposes Camus’s Myth of Sisyphus and Johnston’s song True Love Will Find You in the End. Here, the boulder eventually becomes one with the man. Philip Grözinger shows Sisyphus mid-process, torn but alive. To Camus’s sense of meaninglessness, Johnston’s song answers: Something true will find you in the end. As for his painting Gorgone, it reflects the artist’s fascination for this tragic figure, a gorgon destined to kill with her gaze after her very existence being violated. With three faces with flaming eyes and three little closed mouths, we get a sense of the unspeakable, of silence after a tragedy.

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PHILIP GRÖZINGER
‘Gorgone’
40 x 30 cm / 15.75 x 11.81 inches
oil on canvas
2026




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We present
 ‘There’s a Man in a Smiling Bag’
[GROUP SHOW]
Heiner Franzen – Philip Grözinger – Lou Hoyer
Fee Kleiß – Kata Unger – Marlon Wobst
painting, drawing, sculpture, textile, video installation
22. 05 > 18. 07. 2026

Curators: Philip Grözinger & Fee Kleiß

🎯 LINK IN BIO

CLOSING DAYS                      
21.06 > 29.06 — both inclusive

The show gathers six artists from Berlin under the title ‘There’s a Man in a Smiling Bag’—a reference to one of the three clues given by a strange gentle giant to an FBI agent in episode 1, season 2 of David Lynch’s famous Twin Peaks. This quotation emphasises the six artists’ common feature: an approach tinged in mystery.

Inspired by cinema —both for its inexhaustible source of unreality and for its composite form of successive shots—, HEINER FRANZEN (born in 1961 in Papenburg, Germany) builds multi-faceted tales, in between dreams and myths of a murky present. Like explorations of the human psyche, his video installations and drawings, whether on paper or on felt, are built as fragments, as eclectic constellations feeding a larger system, in which images, spaces, movements, and memories are constantly rewritten. Using glitch as matter, he plays with cross-sections, lines, and planes to shift the context and widen the narrative. In his video installation Hands, he presents a fragmented choreography of Democratic senator Katie Porter’s hand gestures, staging her interventions between words and gestures. When Heiner Franzen saw her speak for the first time, he had the impression that she was using Albrecht DĂŒrer or Leonardo Da Vinci drawings as storyboards. Here, the physical presence and the active body language of the narrative is highlighted.

Fig.1
HEINER FRANZEN
‘Hands’
variable dimensions
3 channel video installation in custom-built metal Mount Loop
2024





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