Kunstmuseum Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen, a contemporary art museum in Magdeburg, Germany, has featured five paintings by Lucas Reiner in a group exhibition titled “NAH & FERN – Steine, Fische, Wege, Blumen, Wolken” (“NEAR & FAR – Stones, fish, paths, flowers, clouds”), which opened September 15 and runs through November 15, 2020. This exhibition also includes works in various mediums by four other contemporary artists: Inken Hemsen, Dietrich Oltmanns, Carl Vetter, and Jeffrey Yang.
Two of the paintings in tempera titled Himmelsleiter (2017) and Gathering #1 (2017), shown above (left and right), were previously exhibited in 2019 by Galerie Nordenhake, in Berlin, Germany.
For this exhibition, the museum’s curators selected works reflecting art’s mediating role between nature and culture in visualizing what often becomes invisible to us. They state in the exhibition notes that Reiner “adheres with conceptual rigor to a topic that has always had a mythical fascination for people: the sky” and further observe that “aspects taken for granted are shown in a different light and point to the sensitive network between people and nature.”
Housed in a former Medieval Romanesque monastic complex for women near the Elbe River, established in the 11th century by St. Norbert of Xanten of the Order of Canons Regular of Prémontré, who served as Archbishop of Magdeburg, the Kunstmuseum Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen opened in 1975 as an arts center to present international contemporary art in all genres in the German federal state of Saxony-Anhalt. The museum’s permanent collection includes sculpture, painting, photography and video by artists from Germany, Italy, France, United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Poland, Greece, Israel, Japan, and the United States.