Art is the daughter of prosperity

Timur Lukas and Anna Ley have been friends since their student days at the ADBK and HFBK. They have already exhibited together in Hamburg and Munich.

In his work, Timur Lukas focusses on the ‘lost and leftover’. His works reflect transience. By buying up family archives and searching for motifs, Lukas demonstrates his fascination with the composition of old photographs. He establishes a connection to the unknown families and transforms them into universal spaces of memory. His painterly transformations make the past of those portrayed seemingly tangible. Figures, which become shadowy figures through impressionistic colour gradients, move through dream-like landscapes and interiors. Works such as ‘Monks’ or ‘Shisha’ reinforce this illusionistic mood with bright, oscillating colour palettes. 

Anna Ley’s paintings deal with social and political themes, among others. In her ‘Bibliography’ series, she shows book covers of books that have shaped her life and that of entire generations. Works such as Erich Maria Remarque’s ‘Nothing New in the West’ serve as cautionary symbols against armament and war. The collected works of Marx and Engels in connection with ‘Danton’s Death’ link historical, far-reaching social upheavals and point to the current grievances of our present-day capitalist society.

The connection between the works of the two painters is intended to raise new questions or concretise them. What happens when a work like ‘Monks’ or ‘Shisha’ hangs next to the Marx and Engels work?