MONIKA BARTHOLOMÉ: Aus freier Hand

Monika Bartholomé has been drawing for many decades and she explores drawing as a means of expression between head and hand. With the mobile museum for drawing, she founded an inspiring space for seeing and thinking in 2009, which is now a guest at the Kunstmuseum Ahlen. A wealth of collected materials can be viewed, touched, compared and studied here: From cave drawings to everyday doodles, graffiti and tattoos to computer animation.

Monika Bartholomé's artistic work is characterized by forms of bringing things together and by intuitive reactions to what she sees or finds. In her reduced, sometimes pattern-like pencil or ink drawings, these impressions are transformed into poetic signs that tell of the fragility and fleetingness of man in the world. Melancholy and humour characterize her pictorial world in equal measure. For the artist, drawing is always an expedition into the unknown. The specific location plays an important role. In the Kunstmuseum Ahlen, she has created an expansive drawing that you can enter and immerse yourself in. In doing so, Monika Bartholomé goes beyond format and frame, extends the drawing into the space, initiates movements and changes in perspective.

THE EXHIBITION CAN BE SEEN FROM JUNE 23 TO SEPTEMBER 22, 2024.

MONIKA BARTHOLOMÉ: From a free hand
Ahlen Art Museum, Museumsplatz 1, 59227 Ahlen
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