art cologne 2025
For this year’s Art Cologne, the galleries max goelitz and Temnikova & Kasela present a joint booth that highlights the intersections of their programs. Works by Rindon Johnson, Lukas Heerich, and Lou Jaworski, meet those of Edith Karlson and Katja Novitskova, represented by Temnikova & Kasela. Together with Jenna Sutela, who acts as a connecting figure between the two galleries, they unfold a multilayered dialogue in which complex systems, material processes, and sociocultural phenomena serve as central points of reference.
Lukas Heerich’s works explore tensions within personal and collective narratives of protection, isolation, and power. His sculptures, installations, and photographs are based on long-term research, integrating historical and sociocultural contexts. Heerich creates multilayered works with a strong material presence that allude to past events and emotions, often hovering on the threshold between visibility and invisibility. Sound provides an underlying structure within his practice, resonating through his works with a fluid, sculptural quality.
Lou Jaworski follows a post-minimalist approach in his sculptures, installations, and prints, characterized by a reduced formal language. By using charged materials such as marble, ferrite magnets, graphite, and meteorites, he reaches a timeless and universal level that evokes both mystical and digital references. His concept-based works combine material autonomy, ephemeral abstraction, and physical principles in site-specific installations. The wall sculpture YYYY (2025) exemplifies this approach: it abstracts a symbol used in digital space as a placeholder for a year, while simultaneously referring to all years, the calendar, natural cycles, the change of seasons, and, in a broader sense, the cosmos.
Rindon Johnson is a multidisciplinary artist and writer whose oeuvre is deeply rooted in language. Moving through physical and virtual spaces, he explores how language shapes our reality: by failing, contradicting, or empowering. Johnson uses text as one of many media that he reconfigures to explore the effects of capitalism, climate, and technology on our construction of personal reality. His modes of expression range from publishing and virtual reality to working with leather, wood, and stone.
In Edith Karlson’s sculptural practice, the exploration of existential human conditions takes center stage. Her monumental installations combine diverse materials and techniques to form compelling scenarios in which themes of vulnerability, transience, and collective experience converge. Balancing humor and seriousness, Karlson investigates the boundaries between instinct and consciousness, civilization and nature, creating multilayered reflections of human experience.
Katja Novitskova’s work deals with the complexity and potential fallibility of depicting the world through technologically driven narratives. She merges art and science to draw attention to the tools of mediation and representation used to visualize these realms. Her works question how we perceive and construct nature and reality through digital filters and scientific models.
Jenna Sutela's image and sound works and 'living sculptures' explore open systems from biology to computation. She seeks patterns, signs, and meaning within what might generally be considered random or chaotic, probing the relationship between consciousness and the material world. Through collaborative practice, Sutela traces decentralized forms of organization and interrelationships at scales from microbial to cosmic.
The booth offers a platform for reflection by bringing together works that explore the relationship between humans and technology, the autonomy of matter, and the social implications of control and perception. The presented positions generate essential impulses and open up new, critical perspectives on the urgent questions of our time.
max goelitz x Temnikova & Kasela
Booth A-204
Lukas Heerich
Lou Jaworski
Rindon Johnson
Edith Karlson
Katja Novitskova
Jenna Sutela
Preview 6 November 2025 | 12 – 4 pm
Opening 6 November 2025 | 4 – 8 pm
Fair Days 7 – 8 November 2025 | 11 – 7 pm
Fair Day 9 November 2025 | 11 – 6 pm
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