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Hjördis Baacke and Jörg Ernert

We cordially invite you and your friends to our Frankfurt gallery for the opening with Hjördis Baacke and Jörg Ernert on Friday, August 22, at 6 p.m.

Hjördis Baacke and Jörg Ernert play with the associative capacity of human visual perception. Their paintings appear sketchy at first glance and gain striking depth upon closer inspection.

Hjördis Baacke (*1980) captures atmospheric moods. Her pictures oscillate between freedom and minimalist constraint. Baacke's shimmering forest scenes develop a mysterious attraction. The scenes, reduced at first glance, reveal themselves as subtle, precise characterizations of the places depicted. Forests are individuals, and Hjördis Baacke portrays them as individuals, empathetically capturing their unique characteristics.

Jörg Ernert (*1974) is a painterly free spirit, the jazz musician among the artists of the New Leipzig School. His primary interest lies in the question of how far abstraction can go while the subject is still recognizable, and in what ways reduction enriches the image. His current works explore a ship passage, the open spaces at sea, and the claustrophobic situations of the big city at the voyage's destination. Jörg Ernert has held a professorship at the HGB Leipzig since 2012.

We are participating in the Frankfurt galleries' season launch from September 5 to 7, 2025.