Opening: May 14, 2025 7pm Exhibition duration: May 15 – June 28, 2025 Opening hours: Tue-Fri 12-6 pm, Sat 11am-2pm
In her works, Jana Marie Kolbert deals with processes of mirroring, fragmentation and shifting identity. Her works examine how the self is formed in the gaze – and its absence. In painting, sculpture and expansive installations, she creates visual situations in which reflection is experienced not as confirmation but as irritation, as a break or a void.
Kolbert adds a multi-layered dimension to her examination of the mythological figure of Narcissus: the classic mirror relationship between figure and water is broken. In her interpretation, Narcissus is reflected in the lake, while the lake is simultaneously reflected in his eyes – a circular moment in which subject and object, observation and reflection merge.
