Sweet Dreaming

Taking its title from a key work by Winnie Seifert, the exhibition opens up a painterly space between wakeful observation, memory and daydreaming. This exhibition brings together four contemporary painting approaches that engage with transitions between inner states and external reality in very different ways. Winnie Seifert's works combine playful lightness with subtle, impulsive precision. On the canvas, colors flow into one another, layers overlap, and delicate lines dissolve into the abstract. Spontaneous forms, plant motifs, animal silhouettes and fragments of thought emerge, only to merge back together again in the next instant. Much like watching clouds in the sky, her compositions shift before the viewer’s eyes, remaining an open invitation to personal associations and subtle emotions. In Katrina Pennington’s works, each painting emerges from a visual experience that leaves a lasting impression. Photographs, memories, daydreams and admiration for other artworks merge to create a unique atmosphere on the canvas. In her studio, her process is one of gradual reduction, stripping forms down to their essence. Rather than following a fixed plan, she allows the image’s own impulses space to breathe, creating an interplay of control, letting go and sheer visual delight. Klara Landwehr creates fascinating visual worlds based on analogue and digital collages of paper, sketches and everyday finds. As a former Master's student at the renowned Düsseldorf Art Academy, she combines technical perfection in oil painting with conceptual clarity. Drawing on her visual archive of memories, she creates minimalist landscape compositions that are dense with atmosphere, where construction and intuition converge. Her timeless works invite viewers to look deeper and interpret their own narratives. Dorothee Liebscher reimagines spaces and architecture on the canvas. Using watery acrylics and dense oil painting, she creates multi-layered works in which she strips built structures of their rigidity. The result is atmospheric, almost dreamlike places at the intersection of nostalgia and utopia, where external environments and inner sensations gently merge. “Sweet Dreaming” brings together pieces that do not offer ready-made answers, but instead open up spaces for encounters, discoveries and personal reflection. We cordially invite you and the Nordend community in Frankfurt to immerse yourselves in these four fascinating visual worlds together!