The catalogue “Anne Neukamp. Impossible Object” is published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name at the Leopold-Hoesch-Museum, Düren. Anne Neukamp’s paintings and works on paper are dedicated to central questions of painting. To this end, she intensively explores the functionalities of visual communication. More than ever, pictorial symbols and language abbreviations determine our perception of the world. This also and above all applies to digital space, which has an impact on our understanding of what reality is and what is considered a representation of reality. Transferring this phenomenon to the analogue (and time-consuming) medium of painting and thus questioning its significance for our concept of the image is the aim of Anne Neukamp’s works. She thus makes reference to key developments and discourses of modernism, recognising them as relevant to our engagement with the present and tracing the mechanisms of image creation in the field of tension between self-referentiality and representation.

The catalogue “Anne Neukamp. Impossible Object” is published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name at the Leopold-Hoesch-Museum, Düren. Anne Neukamp’s paintings and works on paper are dedicated to central questions of painting. To this end, she intensively explores the functionalities of visual communication. More than ever, pictorial symbols and language abbreviations determine our perception of the world. This also and above all applies to digital space, which has an impact on our understanding of what reality is and what is considered a representation of reality. Transferring this phenomenon to the analogue (and time-consuming) medium of painting and thus questioning its significance for our concept of the image is the aim of Anne Neukamp’s works. She thus makes reference to key developments and discourses of modernism, recognising them as relevant to our engagement with the present and tracing the mechanisms of image creation in the field of tension between self-referentiality and representation.