SUSANNE STÄHLI  | Just Color | AL’S OFFICE

September 21 - October 24, 2025

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I am interested in the perception and effect of color. 

The question of the connection between the materiality of paint and its sensory appearance leads to different series of painterly works on paper and canvas. The range of media extends from impasto oil painting and glazing acrylics to ink works on paper in which the watery, flowing properties of the paint can be vividly experienced. 

The relationship between color, light and space led my work to site-specific installations  made of colored foils on glass panes or colored glass for art in architecture works. The incident, non-static daylight creates a permanently changing atmosphere. For me a characteristic of color in general. 

In Just color I will show some small works on canvas painted in thin translucent layers of acrylic paint. By leading the color from a light transparency to dense concentration, I create a chromatic space, in the depth of which lively tensions unfold between the many shades, rising to the surface as a polyphonic chromatic sound and diffusing into the surrounding space.
 

Susanne Stähli was born in Munich, Germany, studied painting and art therapy at FH Ottersberg/near Bremen, 2006 artist in residence at the University Witten/Herdecke, since 2006 teaching art at UWH, since 1988 regular national and international exhibitions, works in private and public collections (Kunstmuseum Gelsenkirchen, Clemens-Sels-Museum Neuss, Märkisches Museum Witten, Emschertal-Museum Herne, Werner-Richard-Dr.Carl-Dörken Stiftung), art in architecture for private and public spaces.