pure at the Bad Godesberg Art Association: Abstract Art between Clarity and Tension


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pure: Between Line, Surface, and Inner Tension
With the vernissage of the exhibition pure, the Bad Godesberg Art Association opens on October 30, 2026, a meeting of two independent artistic positions. Martina Stürzl-Koch and Christina Koester combine printmaking, drawing, and object art into a quiet, abstract visual language, where clarity and uncertainty meet directly.
An Artistic Experience of Reduction
The exhibition focuses on the essentials: line and surface, material and space, density and emptiness. In the exhibition atmosphere, a concentrated examination of the works emerges, not aiming for decorative effect but for an aesthetic experience between perception, movement, and inner tension.
Martina Stürzl-Koch: Natural Materials as Impulse
Martina Stürzl-Koch develops her prints from the immediate encounter with natural materials. An archaic language of forms and experimental methods lead to a reduced engagement with being. The material takes on an active role: it points the way into an open artistic process, where new forms emerge from the unknown.
Christina Koester: Precision Meets Spontaneity
Christina Koester examines clear, reduced forms and combines them with dynamics and lightness. Her works navigate between precise construction and sketchiness, between conscious placement and the allure of the imperfect. It is precisely from this tension that her art gains its vibrant, open effect.
Art Historical Perspective and Cultural Education
pure can be understood as a contemporary engagement with abstraction, materiality, and process. The exhibition invites a re-examination of familiar categories of painting, graphic art, and object art. For cultural education, the exhibition opens a vivid approach to questions of form perception, material aesthetics, and artistic decision-making processes.
Conclusion: Experience Abstract Art Directly
The vernissage offers art enthusiasts the opportunity to meet two different, yet correspondingly related positions in a concentrated atmosphere. Those wishing to discover the quiet intensity of prints, drawings, and objects will experience an artistic journey at pure between clarity, material, and inner movement. A visit to the Bad Godesberg Art Association enriches the aesthetic experience and opens the view for what emerges when art is brought back to its innermost core.
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