Whether Ines Beyer is tracing the private sphere with filigree embroidery works, the relationship between text and image in reworkings of newspaper pages or the persuasive power of the image itself in her "Bauteilsätze", whether she is trying to get closer to the mystery of the grid with her series of experiments on image structures, Ines Beyer's work is always also an act of self-observation, an exploration of the connection between the artist's ego and the genesis of the work.
"It is the combination of complex content and unconventional, aesthetically convincing pictorial inventions in variously combined techniques that makes Ines Beyer's artistic works so extraordinary. They are able to attract the viewer's attention in a very subtle way at the first moment of encounter and encourage them to question the works in a more fundamental way. If they continue to engage with them, they will not be released from their intensive involvement with the work so quickly."
- KONSTANZE RUDERT -
Following Ines Beyer’s participation in the group exhibition ‘Disegno. Drawing for the 21st Century’ at the Kupferstich-Kabinett in Dresden, the Leonhardi Museum is now presenting ‘Handlungsspielraum’, the artist’s first solo exhibition, featuring around 60 works from the years 2000 – 2017, including key loans from the State Graphic Arts Collection in Munich, the Kupferstich-Kabinett in Dresden and the Art Fund of the Free State of Saxony. The exhibition is accompanied by a comprehensive catalogue.
At the opening on Friday, 1 December at 8 pm, Dr Michael Hering, Director of the State Graphic Arts Collection in Munich, gave a speech.
The artist was present at the opening.
The exhibition and catalogue were supported by the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony.
