In the exhibition SHIFT OF VISION, the Kunsthalle im Glaspalast is dedicated to contemporary abstract painting, focusing on three equally distinctive and autonomous artistic positions from Germany: Jutta Haeckel, Peter Krauskopf, and Moritz Neuhoff. Although all three are rooted in the field of abstraction, each pursues a highly individual pictorial language, which in this constellation unfolds into a tension-filled and multilayered dialogue. The exhibition presents works from recent years as well as new pieces from the current production of the three artists.
The Augsburg Glass Palace, with its striking architecture and light-filled halls, not only provides the setting but also becomes part of the exhibition experience: as a former industrial building of the early 20th century, it combines openness with structure, clarity with history - creating a unique atmosphere in which the diverse positions of abstract painting enter into resonance with space and light.
Jutta Haeckel (1972 in Hanover) develops a painting practice that appears at once cartographic and imaginary. Her paintings emerge through the layering of a wide range of colour states, from delicate glazes to impasto. A distinctive feature of her process is the way she modifies the canvas before painting begins: by pulling individual threads, she widens the fabric's mesh, making it permeable and transparent in places. Onto this prepared surface she applies paint physically, saturating the fabric and combining abstract gestures from both front and back. In this way, fabric and painting interweave into a multilayered structure of surface, material, and mark.
Haeckel often draws on digital image sources such as satellite photographs, architectural fragments, or organic structures, which she translates into an abstract vocabulary. Linear grids, shimmering fields of colour, and delicate strokes condense into a vibrating pictorial space that resists unequivocal interpretation. Her works oscillate between construction and dissolution, surface and depth, opening meditative spaces for seeing and thinking. Painting, in Haeckel's practice, becomes a processual reservoir of visual layers - a place where perception is not merely represented but generated in the very act of viewing. Her work thus reflects the permeability between the real world and pictorial space, between map and landscape, medium of expression and materiality.
