The Other Lab

The Other Lab sees itself as an artistic space that combines free design with what is seen, heard and felt in the exhibition Shadow Catcher. Whether alone, in a group or as a family: here you can try things out, invent and interpret – without any guidelines and with plenty of room for your own ideas. In this laboratory, the classic idea of painting at an easel is expanded. Free-standing easels are arranged in a circle around the room, offering individual retreats for painting, drawing and creating.

Paints, pencils, brushes and paper are provided to capture the buzzing flight of insects – sometimes with precise drawings, sometimes with playful abstractions. What does a movement that is barely tangible look like? What lines emerge from the dance of wings, from the buzzing, hovering, circling? What happens when a drop of paint suddenly lands on the paper? What stories do lines that form unexpectedly tell? And how do random spots become living creatures, plants or mysterious landscapes? 

Colour becomes layer, gesture becomes structure, and the room itself becomes a canvas. The act of painting becomes a space-filling action: an interplay of movement, material, volume and spatial perception. The easel is no longer just a support, but the starting point for a physical and spatial experience.

Set yourself and the colours in motion, create colourful spots, strokes and lines – sometimes large, sometimes fine, sometimes wild, sometimes delicate. These random traces become the starting point for expanded images and drawings. Figures emerge from spots, leaves, wings or patterns emerge from lines. 

Evi Leutgeb
 

The Other Lab offers a workshop to accompany the Shadow Catcher exhibition, which can be visited as part of the Open Workshops programme on a walk-in basis or as a booked educational activity.