Claudia Chaseling

Born in 1973 in Munich, Germany
Lives and works in Berlin

SPOTLIGHT
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Out of a Text by Dorothée Bauerle-Willert:
Claudia Chaseling - muddy waters
Our understanding of the world is increasingly put to a hard test—experiences, connections, processes are obscured and single-minded solutions are no longer to be had in the mud of half-truths, interests, ideologies, promises. It is precisely this opacity that is alluded to in the title of Claudia Chaseling's exhibition. That insightful form and beauty can materialise from such disturbing opacities is no less than the riddle of art. Claudia Chaseling's often expansive paintings act in the complex field of aesthetics as resistance and revolt, transformation and distancing from experienced or mediated reality: banishment and release at the same time. These images are not theory based pamphlets. The thematic starting point chosen in each case and the research of the explosive facts— change as they are implemented, come to life in the painting process, draw ever wider circles that frame the theme, open it up, expand it, sometimes even call it into question. …

Dorothée Bauerle-Willert, Berlin, March 2021 / www.claudiachaseling.com