Next Exhibitions
Next Exhibitions
Galerie La Ligne in Basel presents exhibitions with a particular focus on geometric, concrete and constructive art. The gallery focuses on international and national artists who explore line, form, surface, colour, light, space, structure and movement.
Our exhibitions combine historical perspectives on modern art with contemporary artistic approaches. This fosters a dialogue between established artists and current trends in abstract art.
La Ligne Gallery presents 5–6 group and solo exhibitions each year. Each exhibition offers a unique perspective on geometric and abstract art and highlights a variety of artistic strategies.
The exhibitions demonstrate just how diverse geometric abstraction can be. Clear lines and geometric forms can create order, but they can also generate movement, tension and a sense of spatial disorientation.
Artists such as Vera Molnar, Sonia Delaunay, Aurélie Nemours, Günther Uecker and Christian Megert demonstrate different ways of working with geometric structures. Their works make it clear that geometric art cannot be reduced to mathematical precision: it combines system and intuition, rationality and sensuality, order and freedom.
Upcomming Exhibitions
Paul Ouwerkerk – Between Mathematics and Painting
Paul Ouwerkerk’s artistic work combines painting with mathematical and geometric principles. The focus is on numbers, grids, repetitions and geometric shapes. The artist develops his compositions based on clear rules, but alters them through intuitive and individual decisions.
Ouwerkerk explores the question of how mathematical structures can be translated into visual and painterly forms. Numbers and geometric systems serve as the starting point for the design of colour, proportion, perspective and space.
His paintings often emerge from a clearly defined grid. Through shifts, variations and deviations, a complex pictorial structure develops from this. Geometric forms can create the impression of three-dimensional objects, even though they are depicted on a two-dimensional surface.
A key feature of his art is the interplay between order and intuition. Although his works are based on mathematical rules, they do not appear to be purely technical. The personal, artisanal execution leads to individual and, at times, unexpected results.
Ouwerkerk’s art thus combines mathematics, geometry and painting. His works demonstrate how, through variation and artistic decisions, a distinct and vibrant visual language can emerge from a fixed system.
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