Waggle Dance, Cornelia Baltes’ first solo presentation at rodolphe janssen in Brussels, sees the space teeming with life, activating the gallery with large vividly pigmented paintings built from sprayed gradients, bold gestures and fine brushwork set within a space-wide wall painting. [READ MORE]

This year’s main exhibition at Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium, Girl Meets Girl, can be seen as a conversation between the unique voices of 25 significant artists, all gathered under the same roof. (...)

An exhibition made up exclusively of female artists will, of course, also address issues concerning the position of women in the art world, as well as the historical imbalance in the representation of female artists. (...) The unique dialogue set up by these artists gives the exhibition its fundamental premise: a conversation about ideas, lived realities, and emotions that have formed their world, and therefore also ours. Girl Meets Girl invites us to consider these artists as important voices – in our time, and on a much wider timescale – and also invites us to take part in their conversation about the world around us.

Participating artists:
Cornelia Baltes, Juliette Mahieux Bartoli, Katherine Bernhardt, Katherine Bradford, Jenny Brosinski, Emma Cousin, Ina Gerken, Rosie Gibbens, Vivian Greven, Wanda Koop, Liane Lang, Corinne von Lebusa, Lee Won-Kyoung, Rosa Loy, Camilla Løw, Annie Morris, Helena Parada Kim, Martine Poppe, Johanna Reich, Aurora Reinhard, Saelia Aparicio Torinos, Urara Tsuchiya, Caroline Walker, Rose Wylie, Yu Jinyoung

Text by George Vasey, Curator and Writer

DIAGONAL LOOKING: ON THE WORK OF CORNELIA BALTES

Cornelia Baltes trades in the diagonal look. This sideways glance betrays an omnivorous curiosity, absorbing the world at slant. The curve of a lapel, knobby knees, the profile of a dusty vase, a new trainer’s sole, flexed muscle: Baltes’ eye is restlessly precise. It scans the environment, translating the incidental into something monumental. Baltes produces images like we consume them, her references are panoramic. Attending to the everyday; she sees and undoes the world by harnessing the peripheral look. [READ MORE]