Luise Unger Solo Exhibition "Inner and Outer Space"

Image turning inward - Image turning outward - Cella Wire Mesh Sculpture 86x54x54 cm 2009. Luise Unger's solo exhibition "Inner and Outer Space" is on display at Karsten Greve Gallery from September 5 to September 29. Born in 1956, Luise Unger is one of Germany's most alternative sculptors today, distinguished by her feminine sensitivity, warmth, delicacy, and sensibility, establishing a unique presence between object, sculpture, and installation. Previously working primarily in black—known as her Black Period—she excelled at mastering materials such as structural steel supports and wood, shaping elements like cotton, wax, and resin within architectural structures to present various models, sculptures, and installations resembling buildings. In recent years, she has adopted a new technique, freeing herself from the rigorous architectural structures of the past by removing physical volume and mass. She constructs works through ingenious combinations of fine wire mesh and thin steel sheets, presenting them in unusual hanging methods. This technique derives from women's delicate and patient weaving skills, creating poetic structures with organic anthropomorphic forms and multi-layered net-like compositions. These transparent forms reveal inner and outer structures, offering an illusion of black shadows and producing a retinal effect under light. Such transparent works make the internal visible and the external apparent, rendering the manifested itself an illusion. Writer and filmmaker O. Wilde said, "The true secret of the world is what can be seen and what cannot." Clearly, Luise Unger's works are simultaneously internal and external, visible and invisible.