Art Düsseldorf 2026

For Art Düsseldorf 2026, LA BIBI presents a group booth featuring Thilo Jenssen, Paul Riedmüller, Srger, and An Wei, bringing together four practices that approach the image through tension, adjustment, and material negotiation.

Across the booth, painting and image-making unfold through visible processes, where surfaces hold a tension between what is constructed and what resists full resolution. Materials, gestures, and images remain active, carrying traces of their own formation. What we encounter is not only a final form, but also the conditions that sustain it—pressure, repetition, translation, and change.

In some works, this tension takes the form of balance. An Wei’s installations, for instance, construct environments where fragments of memory and space are provisionally held together, never fully settling into a single image. In Paul Riedmüller’s work, the still life becomes a site of tension between painting and digital processes, where objects appear both present and constructed, their status shifting with perception.

A related attention to process runs through Thilo Jenssen’s work, where materials such as industrial paint, steel, and found footage register the marks of their own production. The surface becomes layered and uneven, exposing interruptions, repetitions, and decisions rather than concealing them. In Srger’s paintings, gesture plays a central role: drawing from urban textures and markings, his works build through movement, combining control and spontaneity. The marks retain a sense of energy, sustaining a tension between intention and contingency, as if the act of painting continues within the image.

Seen together, these works do not form a single narrative but a set of shifting correspondences. Each piece recalibrates the others, creating a space where balance, surface, and image are continuously negotiated. The presentation invites a way of looking that stays with these tensions, allowing them to persist rather than fully resolve.