In spring 2027, Haus am Waldsee will present an exhibition by the painter Almut Heise, offering a comprehensive overview of five decades of her work.

With great intuition, Almut Heise captures interiors and portraits in her paintings and drawings as testaments to the spirit of an era. Furnishings and décor thus become stylistic devices of social presentation, in which the zeitgeist is distilled. In these works—which range from commissioned pieces to fictionalised depictions of her social circle—the initially clearly defined shapes become ambiguous upon closer inspection. Through playful exaggeration, fashion, patterns and décor appear as performances of the self and of the external world. Her depictions reveal themselves not only as studies of decorative structures, yet also expose their disruptions.

An exhibition presented by Haus am Waldsee Berlin and Hamburger Kunsthalle