Richard Leue, Durchs wilde Kurdistan, 2017 (Detail) © Richard Leue. Image description: A rough, lithography-like black and white cartoon drawing shows a neighborhood. You can see a crumbling street, a car at the end of the street, street lamps, and low walls separating the street from the residential properties. In the background is a mountain range. On a wall in the foreground of the picture a graffiti tag reads "APO".
Richard Leue, Durchs wilde Kurdistan, 2017 (Detail) © Richard Leue. Image description: A rough, lithography-like black and white cartoon drawing shows a neighborhood. You can see a crumbling street, a car at the end of the street, street lamps, and low walls separating the street from the residential properties. In the background is a mountain range. On a wall in the foreground of the picture a graffiti tag reads "APO".

Head or Tail

Lisa Pahlke and Richard Leue

For forty years, the Jürgen Ponto-Stiftung has been supporting young artists at the start of their careers. Its partnership with the MMK enables the Scholars from the area of the visual arts to exhibit their works at the MMK 3. The Scholars of 2016/17 Richard Leue and Lisa Pahlke come from the Academy of Fine Arts Dresden, where both developed a highly individual artistic style in the course of their studies.

The exploration of line as a space-defining, volume-forming element is characteristic of Lisa Pahlke’s (b. 1987) large-scale works on paper, which spark associations of abstract landscape depictions. Lined up in dense rows, the felt-tip lines yield organic structures suggesting movement and thus challenging
the limits of our perception.

Within the framework of his Ponto Scholarship, Richard Leue (b. 1986) travelled Northern Iraq, where he captured his impressions of the peoples life in different ways. His figurative
drawings are like snapshots that provide insights into the living conditions and the conflict-ridden reality of present-day Northern Iraq, which is home to the so-called autonomous Kurdish territory.

Exhibition

8 Dezember 2017 — 4 Februar 2018

ZOLLAMTMMK

Domstraße 3
60311 Frankfurt am Main


mmk@stadt-frankfurt.de
+49 69 212 30447

Artists

  • Lisa Pahlke
  • Richard Leue

Exhibition Views

Richard Leue, Durchs wilde Kurdistan, 2017 © Richard Leue, photo: Axel Schneider
Richard Leue, Durchs wilde Kurdistan, 2017 © Richard Leue, photo: Axel Schneider
Richard Leue, Durchs wilde Kurdistan, 2017 © Richard Leue, photo: Axel Schneider
Richard Leue, Durchs wilde Kurdistan, 2017 © Richard Leue, photo: Axel Schneider
Richard Leue, Durchs wilde Kurdistan, 2017 © Richard Leue, photo: Axel Schneider