Quale – zirkeln, flimmen

In the exhibition entitled ‘Quale – zirkeln, flimmen’ (Quale – circling, flitting), Leipzig artist Maja Behrmann transforms the exhibition rooms of DOCK 20 into a sensory field of experimentation. Bright colours, opulent forms, sculptures, collages, paintings and drawings are stacked and layered to create a visual journey and a living archive. Maja Behrmann (born in Frankfurt am Main in 1994, lives and works in Leipzig) studied book art and graphic design at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig from 2015 to 2017 and graduated in 2021 with a degree in painting and graphic design under Christoph Ruckhäberle. She then studied under Caroline Achaintre at Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle (Saale) from 2022 to 2023.⁠ ⁠ In her artistic practice, which can be located between painting, installation, object, and textile art, she develops formal structures and space-filling ensembles of color-intensive wooden sculptures, fluid knitting, and collaged tableaux. Her repertoire of formal fragments and elaborate characters is rooted in a bureaucratic procedure of collecting and organizing processes and continues to proliferate. In addition to numerous awards, Maja Behrmann's works have been presented internationally in solo and group exhibitions, for example at the AKI Gallery in Taipeh, the University Gallery of Applied Arts in Vienna, the Max Pechstein Museum art collections in Zwickau, the Kunsthal Charlottenburg in Copenhagen, and the Kunstquartier Bethanien in Berlin.⁠