Wolfgang Ellenrieder – try & error
Wolfgang Ellenrieder stages a refined play with perception that lends his paintings a subtle tension. Pictorial space and surface merge; motifs appear tangible yet dissolve into soft blur. Tilting effects shift proximity and distance. Stains and pools of color created through material experimentation form an open structure in which shapes emerge, disappear, and continually reorganize themselves in a natural process of trial, irritation, and apparent failure. This creates a multilayered interplay between art and experimental research, revealing clear references to scientific ways of thinking.
Exhibition opening
The vernissage will take place on Thursday, 11 June 2026, at 6.30 p.m. in the gallery spaces at Tiedexer Straße 20, Einbeck.
Guests will be welcomed by Stephan Krings, Head of Global Marketing & Communication at KWS. Reinhard Spieler, Director of the Sprengel Museum Hannover, will introduce the works on display.
We would like to draw special attention to the artist talk on 6 July 2026 at 6:30 p.m., in which Wolfgang Ellenrieder will discuss the relationship between art and scientific thinking with Wolfgang Ullrich, art historian and author from Leipzig, and Thomas Ehrhardt, Head of Global Research and Services at KWS.
Admission is free, as always.
Elektro Twister, 1998, pigment and binder on linen 200 × 130 cm Copyright © 2026 Wolfgang Ellenrieder & VG-Bild Kunst All rights reserved
With Wolfgang Ellenrieder, the KWS Art Lounge opens up an expanded exhibition framework for the first time, bringing the previously presented focus on emerging art into dialogue with an internationally experienced artistic position developed over many years. In this sense, try & error marks a significant moment in the ongoing development of the Art Lounge’s program.
The exhibition brings together works from many years of artistic practice and offers insight into Ellenrieder’s process-oriented approach—a concentrated view of an oeuvre that has long been concerned with material, pictorial space, and visual perception.
Wolfgang Ellenrieder
Key visual: Stable Situation, 2025, pigment, binder, and oil on wood 130 × 210 cm
Copyright © 2026 Wolfgang Ellenrieder & VG-Bild Kunst, All rights reserved
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Wolfgang Ellenrieder – try & error
Exhibition: 11 June to 15 August 2026
The Art Lounge by KWS is open on Thursdays and Fridays from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. and on Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
In addition to the regular opening hours, several special openings and guided tours of the exhibition are planned.
KWS Art Lounge
Tiedexer Straße 20
37574 Einbeck
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