Eröffnung: Der Preis

In the organizer's words:

The Prize (Yaser Bashir / Fabian Beger / Leon Boden / Roman Toulany)

"The Prize" is an exhibition that makes the art market tangible as a game of chance. Four artists jointly invest a starting capital from their own pockets, each work sold feeds a growing jackpot, and in the end only one buyer wins the entire amount.

This setting creates a direct metaphor for the economic reality of art: while buyers are guided by hopes of profit, the artists also bear the risk and put their own future on the line.

Four artistic styles come together in the exhibition.

In his paintings,Yaser Bashir devotes himself intensively to the creation of surfaces that are both abstract and illusionistic and are rendered with great attention to detail. Repetition plays a decisive role as a means of continuity in his creative process.

Fabian Beger raises open questions without pointing a moral finger at the viewer. Multi-layered and rich in associations, his work is aimed at the viewer's reaction. To a certain extent, this also involves a curiosity to redefine and explore the concept of art itself.

Leon Boden'sworks deal with themes such as gender, sexuality, environmental and animal protection as well as loss and illness, using the supposedly obscene as a means of visualizing complex content. His detailed, multi-layered compositions invite interpretation and self-reflection.

In his works,Roman Toulany explores the interplay of identity, banality and hope. As a screenwriter and film director, he transfers pictorial products into the scenic film, and vice versa.

"The Prize" makes it clear that artistic work takes place beyond a clear concept of remuneration and that it is precisely the preliminary work that artists perform that becomes the most valuable, but also the most risky resource. In a spectacular finale with a jackpot draw and live acts with showmaster Fabian Beger , uncertainty finally comes to the fore: who will win everything? And what about the artists?