The Lee-Bauwens Gallery is pleased to present the artist Esther Stocker (b. 1974, Italy), who lives and works in Vienna, for her first solo exhibition at the gallery.
Opening
Saturday, 14.06.2025
11 → 18h
Exhibition
until 12.07.2025
The opening of this exhibition is part of the Volxem, Art in Forest event. 16 venues dedicated to contemporary art, offering a rich programme of exhibitions, performances and guided walks.
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Poktsun performance by Amy Kiu-Yan Cheng & Momiji Kuromaru, at the gallery on Saturday 14.06, 12:00-12:40 & 13:00-13:40
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In a world where visual order provides reassurance and structures our perceptions, Esther Stocker chooses to challenge its very foundations. Titled Disrupting Order, the exhibition explores the fertile tension between structure and disruption, between rigor and controlled chaos.
Esther Stocker engages in a radical visual inquiry, rooted in the geometric tradition of abstraction, yet constantly renewed by a desire for rupture, questioning, and movement. Paintings, sculptures, and site-specific installations form a universe in black & white where the grid—a recurring motif becomes both a framework and a fault line. Initially regular, the grid bends, breaks, and dissolves.
Inspired by mathematical languages as much as perceptual paradoxes, Esther Stocker creates a mental space where rational thought meets emotional experience. Rather than guiding the viewer’s gaze, she seeks to disorient it, to suspend certainties, and to open the way for a moment of vertigo.
Throughout the exhibition, the viewer is no longer a passive observer but is invited to physically and mentally inhabit a world where order is tested, and imbalance becomes a form of awakening. It is within this disorientation that the artist finds a new visual freedom, a poetics of disruption.
Disrupting Order is an invitation to lose one’s bearings, to inhabit a space where thought twists and turns, and where art becomes a field of exploration for our most fundamental perceptions.
The Lee-Bauwens Gallery is pleased to present the artist Esther Stocker (b. 1974, Italy), who lives and works in Vienna, for her first solo exhibition at the gallery.
In a world where visual order provides reassurance and structures our perceptions, Esther Stocker chooses to challenge its very foundations. Titled Disrupting Order, the exhibition explores the fertile tension between structure and disruption, between rigor and controlled chaos.
Esther Stocker engages in a radical visual inquiry, rooted in the geometric tradition of abstraction, yet constantly renewed by a desire for rupture, questioning, and movement. Paintings, sculptures, and site-specific installations form a universe in black & white where the grid—a recurring motif becomes both a framework and a fault line. Initially regular, the grid bends, breaks, and dissolves.
Inspired by mathematical languages as much as perceptual paradoxes, Esther Stocker creates a mental space where rational thought meets emotional experience. Rather than guiding the viewer’s gaze, she seeks to disorient it, to suspend certainties, and to open the way for a moment of vertigo.
Throughout the exhibition, the viewer is no longer a passive observer but is invited to physically and mentally inhabit a world where order is tested, and imbalance becomes a form of awakening. It is within this disorientation that the artist finds a new visual freedom, a poetics of disruption.
Disrupting Order is an invitation to lose one’s bearings, to inhabit a space where thought twists and turns, and where art becomes a field of exploration for our most fundamental perceptions.
