Thoralf Knobloch is one of the renowned East German painters who have anchored a new representationalism in contemporary art over the last decade. His motifs are mostly found in landscapes dominated by human intervention. The cropping and obscured nature of the motifs suggest an everyday perspective, but the painting is permeated by a tendency towards abstract forms and is characterised by an experimental and controlled application of paint.
Thoralf Knobloch's painting gives a prominent pictorial effect to supposedly secondary objects - places where one usually passes by, where something like silence is concentrated in today's hustle and bustle. The exhibition mainly shows canvas paintings from the most recent creative phase. Paintings from America are juxtaposed with motifs from the region, from Dresden and Berlin, from Lake Schwielochsee and the Spreewald.