Surface
Peter Krauskopf & Katharina Stadler
28 February – 30 March 2026
Curated by Evin Esen
Buysse Gallery presents Surface, a duo exhibition bringing together Peter Krauskopf and Katharina Stadler. The exhibition stages a focused dialogue between two generations of German abstraction, foregrounding surface as a material, structural, and temporal condition.
Working from distinct artistic positions, both artists approach painting beyond image and representation. Krauskopf’s practice is grounded in a durational engagement with oil paint, developed through processes of layering, compression, and partial erasure. His works register time through chromatic density and material resistance, positioning the canvas as a field shaped by accumulation and loss.
Stadler’s work intervenes directly in the structure of painting. Through cutting, stitching, and reassembling painted canvas and textile elements, her surfaces remain visibly constructed. Seams, overlaps, and joins are integral to the composition, emphasizing painting as an object assembled through interruption and repair. Colour is held within structure, distributed across breaks rather than unified across a continuous plane.
Rather than proposing a thematic synthesis, Surface prioritizes dialogue and spatial rhythm. The exhibition is conceived with restraint, favoring silence, negative space, and measured intervals between works. Krauskopf’s paintings anchor the space through chromatic gravity, while Stadler’s constructed surfaces introduce moments of structural awareness and interruption. Together, the works invite slow viewing and sustained attention.
Surface positions abstraction as an ongoing negotiation between material, process, and time. It reflects Buysse Gallery’s curatorial commitment to slowness, material specificity, and the careful staging of dialogue between practices, without narrative closure or spectacle.
