Bastian Börsig. Viewing Room

"Only when the painting surprises me myself, however, can I assume that I have distanced myself far enough from the original idea, that is, from myself."
– Bastian Börsig –

The forms behave like fragments, which he assembles in the works to form new entities. Behind these shapes stands an idea of an object that manifests itself two-dimensionally on the canvas. The fragments of clearly recognizable shapes that stand out from the color surfaces act as access points for the viewer. This creates a tension between the visible and the non-visible. The question "What do I actually see?" arises.

Bastian Börsig was born in 1984 in Schwäbisch Hall. The artist lives and works in Karlsruhe. Earlier group exhibitions include: Jahresgaben, Kunstverein Reutlingen, DE, 2021; Die Hand am Abzug, Z3 Contemporaries, Schwäbisch Hall, DE, 2021; Das Nordbeckenkollektiv zu Gast im Kunsthaus R3, Ansbach, DE, 2020; Regionale 18, Stapflehus, Weil am Rhein, DE, 2018. Bastian Börsig was a grantee of the Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg in 2014 and received the Kulturstipendium of the city of Karlsruhe in 2015 and the working scholarship of the Stiftung Kunstfonds Bonn in 2019.

You can find more information on Bastian Börsig here.