Galerie 3AP
Galerie 3AP
A021/ Jacqueline Hen – Lara Werth
Jacqueline Hen (*1989), an emerging German light artist, studied at the Universität der Künste Berlin and at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena and has worked in the studio of Thomás Saraceno. Her practice bridges light installation, painting, and spatial experiments, generating layered perceptual experiences. In 2019, her work „Ligh High“ was awarded the International Light Art Award. Jacqueline Hen lives and works in Cologne and Wiesbaden and has developed an international exhibition practice, including Hong Kong, San Francisco, and Paris. Alongside her artistic practice, Hen also engages in research and teaching as professor on contemporary design approaches, exploring principles such as interaction, rhythm, and spatial perception.
The light installation One’s Sunset Is Another One’s Sunrise expands this inquiry to a planetary scale, approaching light as a global rhythm and connecting individual perception with collective time. Chromosphere is another of Hen’s sun-related works, referencing the chromosphere, a transitional solar layer. With its glowing orange core, the installation oscillates between scientific observation and sensuous abstraction, evoking energy. perception, and presence
Her ongoing H-Series unfolds through reflective, color-shifting surfaces and impasto structures that respond to changing light, perspective, and time. Oscillating between color and greyscale, presence and dissolution, her works create atmospheric visual fields in which image and surface remain in constant transition.*
*please note: The works are built on a light-reflective and color-shifting ground, layered with impasto paint to create a relief-like depth. Depending on the viewer’s perspective, the light, and the time of day, the surfaces appear in shades of grey, blue, red, or green, occasionally revealing a vibrant interplay of colors.
Sitespecific installations:
*please note: The works are built on a light-reflective and color-shifting ground, layered with impasto paint to create a relief-like depth. Depending on the viewer’s perspective, the light, and the time of day, the surfaces appear in shades of grey, blue, red, or green, occasionally revealing a vibrant interplay of colors. The technique subtly references historical painting processes, including the use of squeegee tools, whereby color, surface, and texture engage in a dynamic and complex dialogue.
Lara Werth
Lara Werth (* 1996 in Bonn) graduated from Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in June 2024 with Katharina Wulff, previously studying with Siegfried Anzinger. The subject of Werth’s works are deserted hidden object images of dystopian urban spaces, created with Edding, acrylic marker, chalk, oil pencil and ink on large-format paper. These detailed and infinitely intricate drawings bear witness to chaotic cityscapes and fragile balances of urban (sub)cultures – every detail, no matter how small, seems to have been taken from real life. This urban texture – consisting of houses, power lines, fight clubs, flying streets, railroad tracks or jumps and floating suspension bridges – is paired with natural scenes of flowing water veins and animals. Long-extinct, domesticated or endangered creatures such as tigers, dinosaurs, donkeys or prehistoric fishes roam through a fictional world created by the artist, in which very concrete references to human civilization and the built environment can be found time and again. Urban fiction? Werth’s work process reflects personal impressions from her years of traveling as a competitive athlete. In addition to her work as an artist, she is a professional martial artist and holds titles in Full-Muay-Thai and Fullcontact Kickboxing.
