Beautiful and terrible in the showcase

Created: 08/06/2022, 16:06

By: Astrid Amelungse-Kurth

A large cupboard for small pictures: This month Ina Kohlschovsky is showing realistic black-and-white pictures the size of postcards in the museum's "Showcase 4".

Photo: Andrea Jaksch

Discover the positive in the negative and conversely see the positive in the negative.

That could be the motto of the works that the painter Ina Kohlschovsky is showing in the Starnberger See Museum.

The occasion is the exhibition series "Schaukasten 4", which museum director Benjamin Tillich brought to life and which opens every first Thursday of the month.

Starnberg

- The idea is that contemporary artists fill a historical display case from the museum's inventory with their own works and thus contemporary art.

The artistic bridge between the past and the present is curated by Elisabeth Carr, Annette Kienzle, Ulrike Prusseit and Katja Sebald.

Ina Kohlschovsky has now dealt with "Showcase 4", and since Richard Wörsching's photo and glass plate collection is currently being presented in the museum, she ties in with the work of the Starnberg photographer and paints photo-realistic black and white pictures in oil the size of postcards.

The picture alone is astounding.

The edges of the cardboard on which she paints are all jagged and cut out with fine scissors like historical prints.

In the showcase itself, she presents “negatives”, which, however, contain positive motifs such as the idyll by the lake, while the positive images show things that are threatening and unsettling.

"What would happen to us if the current issues in the world were here on our doorstep?" the artist asks herself.

"We live here like in a cocoon." And so she shows AKW on the lake promenade,

a rose island atoll, a landfill in Leoni.

“Events like this happen all over the world, but would we change something here?

would we change something

Turn around?” Such questions drive the artist, whose artistry and perfectionism are convincing.

It is also nice that the artist, who lives in Feldafing, has conquered the "dark room" in the old museum building, a windowless black room that has not yet been used and is ideally suited as an exhibition space.

Ina Kohlschovsky shows him two large paintings, she calls one “Last chance”.

Who knows?

Perhaps the space will continue to be used for exhibitions now that the station is history as a city art venue.

About the artist: Ina Kohlschovsky (born 1958) grew up in Söcking and was allowed to use up the remains of her father's oil paints as a child.

Even at school, they asked their classmates for portraits of a teacher who everyone adored.

She was given her first oil paint box when she was sixteen, but she first trained as a doctor's assistant.

She then applied to the academy in Munich, got a place at the university and worked as an art director after graduating.

From one day to the next she resigned and set up a studio in Söcking.

She showed her first exhibition at Baasel-Lasertechnik.

A scholarship in Mecklenburg followed, prizes in Esslingen (2004), the art prize of the city of Starnberg (2007),

"Showcase 4" can be viewed during the opening hours of the Starnberger See Museum (Possenhofener Straße 5).