Susanne Altmann spoke at the opening on 23 September 2022.
"Henriette Grahnert moves brilliantly between, within and across the visual coordinate systems of a post-postmodern visual culture. Her painterly compositions - which sometimes seem like collages at first glance - are fuelled by quotations, associations and reminiscences. They bring together seemingly disparate elements from different times, styles and mechanisms. Sometimes they appear as a cheerful capriccio, sometimes they develop a differentiated analysis of painting, its possibilities and limitations. The resulting pictorial spaces are as complex as they are sometimes impressively clear. Art history - primarily that of modernism - is thus not only a source of motifs, but also a sounding board for intensive analyses of historical, social and cultural references and thus a tool for contemporary questioning."
