2023.3.18 - 2023.4.23

Venue: D06, Middle 2nd St., 798 Art Zone, No. 2 Jiuxianqiao Rd, BJ

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Tong Gallery+Projects is honored to announce that the solo exhibition of artist Malwine Stauss HEXEN will be open from March 18th, 2023 to April 23th, 2023, during which the artist's latest paintings and sculptures will be presented. Look forward to seeing you there!

When she graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Leipzig,  Malwine Stauss  made a little book called "Hexen" - German for "witch". Five girls sat on the cover, their long braids circled behind their heads, like sea snakes swimming meekly in the water.

As a graduation work, this book is not too serious. There are only women in the book, and the brightly colored flowers, dots, geometry and ripples in the picture all exude a feminine atmosphere wantonly. However, compared with the current discussions about feminism or artistic creation, Malwine seems to deliberately stay at the superficial level of so-called "art" - her works are only related to her personal life. The witches on the screen are her family and friends, the bright flowers come from her favorite gardening, and the geometry and polka dots pay tribute to her favorite female artists. That's what she meant.

There is no doubt that it is easy to be happy in front of Malvern's sculptures and paintings. This kind of happiness has nothing to do with any doctrine or discussion of any genre, it is just happiness. But people still feel skeptical and uneasy, just as Malwine was constantly questioned by her professors when she was in school: Can such a work be called "art"? However, perhaps we can ask this question in another way: what is the criterion of "art" or not? And who sets these standards? This is the happy little question Malwine invites us to ponder together.