White Light

Gallery Gilla Loercher | Contemporary Art is pleased to present artist Simone Strasser's second solo exhibition in Berlin. The exhibition White Light contains a series of small sized portraits and landscape paintings of larger format. These two genres are the focus of Simone Strasser's work. Her paintings are always both figurative and abstract. In her painting, the artist proceeds entirely from perception. She captures fleeting sensual impressions directly on the canvas. Over the past 20 years, Simone Strasser has developed her very own style of landscape painting. She goes into the landscape with her canvas and paints pleinair. And she decomposes and transforms what she sees “into the finest color gradations such as two-dimensional color gradients (...) The principle is reminiscent of the method of the Impressionists or Pointillists, namely the light and color impressions in nature into a multitude of single color points, areas or lines, the overall composition of which then - as with Simone Strasser - transfers the impression of nature into an almost metaphorically lyrical exaggeration". Quote from the exhibition review of the radio culture channel on January 17th, 2022,
“Painting today is more about painting itself than ever before. Because other functions are being replaced by digital media, now it becomes clear what only painting can do,” says the artist

Simone Strasser
White Light
25 February – 13 April 2022
Opening 25 Februar von 17-20 Uhr

Wed – Sat 12:00-18:00


Simone Strasser (*1977) lives and works in Ingolstadt. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Prof. Anke Doberauer, whose master student and assistant she was. Her work has been shown in numerous cultural institutions and galleries: Kunstverein Ingolstadt, Stadtmuseum Amberg, Kunsthalle Bremen, Kulturverein Modern Studio (München-Freising), Goethe-Institut (München), Neuer Pfaffenhofener Kunstverein, Städtische Galerie am Rathausfletz (Neuburg), Kunstverein Grafschaft Bentheim (Neuenhaus), Städtische Galerie in der Harderbastei (Ingolstadt), Galerie Peripherie (Tübingen), Galerie Kampl (Köln), Galerie Ulrich Mueller (Köln), Galerie Reinhold Maas (Reutlingen), Galerie Weise (Chemnitz), Galerie Gilla Loercher (Berlin)