Currently on show at Project 2.0 / Gallery, step into our autumn group exhibition featuring the work of Sebastiaan Knot, Christian August, and Maurice van Venrooij. Experience Knot’s perception-bending photo work, August’s fantastical and radiant painted landscapes, and van Venrooij’s tactile and colourful minimalist paintings.
Sebastiaan Knot (b. 1970, Groningen, Netherlands) transforms the elemental forces of light and color into vivid abstractions that hover between image and object. Based in Rotterdam, he begins with the simplest of materials, arranging and illuminating them with precisely tuned colored light. From these quiet experiments emerge works that expand beyond photography into sculptural reliefs and immersive spatial encounters.
Christian August (b. 1977 in Halle / Saale, Germany and based in Berlin) works at the threshold between worlds. His paintings locate themselves in ecosystems that exist nowhere precisely, and August navigates this path within an abstract expressionist approach. His landscapes are imbued with memory and imagination, exuding an inviting and dreamy charm that is both recognisable and alien.
Maurice van Venrooij doesn’t paint, he constructs paintings. Starting from an apparently simple design that emerges from his background as an architect, he builds up the paint, layer by layer. Central to each work is the construction of a spatial order, formed through a repetitive, human action.
That human execution is not an imperfect addition, but a necessary condition to counterbalance the doctrine of an overly rigid system. His work constitutes an ongoing spatial investigation into the tension between order and imperfection.
Visit the gallery to view available works by these amazing artists.