SHIFT OF VISION | New Paths of AbstractionJutta Haeckel | Peter Krauskopf | Moritz Neuhoff
18.04.-11.10.2026 at Kunsthalle Augsburg im Glaspalast
OPENING | FR 17.04.2026 | 18.00
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.
Peter Krauskopf (*1966 in Leipzig) represents a painterly practice in which gestural reduction, the materiality of paint and support, and the dimension of time play a central role. His works emerge through a deliberate interplay of layering and removal. Often beginning with colour-intensive backgrounds, Krauskopf overlays them with broad, gestural strokes of a spatula. In an act of controlled destruction, he partially removes the upper layers, exposing what lies beneath – a dialogue between past and present on the canvas. This process generates a tense interplay between surface and depth, between chance and calculation. Krauskopf’s works are at once meditative and physically present. They speak of the image as a site of condensation, as the trace of a temporal event.
Moritz Neuhoff (*1987 in Osnabrück) belongs to the younger generation of abstract painters whose work is strongly influenced by digital image cultures. At first glance, his paintings resemble generated graphics or digitally manipulated images – yet they arise through a multistage painterly process. His compositions are built from grids, interferences, and colour disruptions reminiscent of glitches and algorithmic processes. Neuhoff deliberately probes the boundary between digital aesthetics and handcrafted painting. His works carry a certain coolness, almost technical precision, but on closer inspection reveal a subtle sensuality and painterly refinement. Neuhoff’s practice questions our perception, increasingly shaped by screens, and transforms digital phenomena into a sensually tangible painterly vocabulary.
Contrast & Resonance | A Painterly Dialogue
The exhibition SHIFT OF VISION is not only a presentation of three artistic positions but also a dialogue about the possibilities of abstract painting in the 21st century. While Krauskopf works with physical reduction and processual depth, Neuhoff translates digital aesthetics into painterly logic, and Haeckel creates abstract landscapes out of pictorial layering and perception. The exhibition emphasizes less the commonalities than the differences between these approaches – thereby highlighting the vital range and relevance of abstract painting today.
At a time when image overload and digital superimposition dominate our perception, the works of Krauskopf, Neuhoff, and Haeckel each set their own accents – quiet, analytical, or ambiguous – and open spaces for a conscious, decelerated engagement with images. SHIFT OF VISION invites visitors on a visual journey through colour, structure, and meaning, raising fundamental questions about the nature of image, surface, and perception.
The exhibition opens on Friday, April 17, 2026, at 6:00 pm, simultaneously with the exhibition »MANUEL FRATTINI | The Landscape of Painting«. The three artists will be present. No registration required – you are warmly invited!