THE STABLES

In both abstract and figurative depictions, Charlott Weise (1991, Germany) creates a tension between the sketchy, the brutal and the elaborate. Bodies appear and disappear again, or become abstract forms. The focus is on various ghostly and angelic beings as well as female protagonists, who come together in a kind of vaudeville, detached from time and space.

In her works, the Amsterdam-based artist examines the representation and reproduction of femininity and its performance, issues she explores in various realms such as literature, fashion, (mainstream) media and theatre. At the same time, painting and its rich history offer a crucial starting point for her artistic inquiry. Her practice can be seen as a form of intuitive visual writing through which she reflects on an unconscious inner world composed of relationships, images and obsessions – a terrain in which important roles are played by female archetypes. These crop up in mundane as well as stylised explorations, whereby theatricality emerges as a central element of her work, both in the narratives within the individual works and in their spatial mises-en-scène.

The depictions do not follow a singular narrative, but instead show scenes that seem to have sprung from dream worlds, play with reality and fantasy or are reminiscent of film sets through their different moods.

Charlott Weise (b. 1991, DE) lives and works in Amsterdam, NL and Görlitz, DE. Exhibitions include; Tinted Glass, Kunsthalle Münster, Münster, DE, 2021 (solo); Notes on Wine, NEVVEN Gallery - hosted by Cascina Gilli, Castelnuovo Don Bosco, IT, 2021 (solo) and Schulz & Weise, W139, Amsterdam, NL, 2019 (duo). Weise previously undertook residency at De Ateliers, Amsterdam, NL and was awarded the Koninklijke Prijs voor Vrije Schilderkunst, Amsterdam, NL in 2020.