part VII-XI – Drawings by Isabell Schulte

Weekly market review and exhibition opening on Saturday, 09.03.2024 at 12:30 h

Otte1 presents its first exhibition of 2024 with critical works by scholarship holder, Isabell Schulte (b. 1987, Eckernförde), collected as drawings under the thematic title of part VII-XI.

Isabell Schulte studied art at Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in Leipzig (2012) and then at Universität der Künste in Berlin where she graduated as a master student (2016). Otte1 celebrates Isabell Schulte as part of its international programme and her important works as an acclaimed artist whose recognition has won numerous accolades and scholarships.

This exhibition, drawings part VII-XI, presents 4 works at otte1. In addition to the drawings the drawing Pflanzenkalender V is presented. The works part XI and Pflanzenkalender V were completed in 2023 and 2024 during Schulte’s residency at the Künstlerhaus otte1.

Since 2018, Schulte has been working on the series part I-XI and Pflanzenkalender I-V. The artworks are sprawling. Manifesting themselves across paper sheets, which are over six square meters in size. Each begins with a basic melody. From their emerges her notation. The artist develops a graphic vocabulary that combines rhythm and harmony into extremely dense structures that emotionally explode as contemporary compositions reflecting time. Unrolled on the studio floor Schulte kneels on the paper and follows the movement of various elements across the sheet. A daily devoir to individual art works that lasts several months.

“I see my drawings as notations emerging from movement sequences. A ground melody is the entry point into each individual drawing and links the entire series.The melody is an individual emerging from the repetition structure of a very specific sequence and combination. The rhythm is that repetition structure. I repeat my forms in different rhythmic sequences. The totality of rhythmic movements embodies the composition, in which one rhythm triggers the next. The sequences reflect processes, show developments, repetitions, changes and states of the fixed and the moving. I am interested in this simultaneity. The drawing process is an intense physical experience that alternates between a rush, control, conscious and unconscious states. In addition to the drawings, I work on plant calendars that provide a notation of time structuring days, weeks and months with the biological process of the plants that depict the period of a year”. — Isabell Schulte, 2024 March

Admission free