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For the showcase exhibition Quadro, based on an expanded notion of painting, Deichtorhallen director Dirk Luckow selected Kerstin Brätsch, Kati Heck, Stefanie Heinze, and Laura Link as four outstanding contemporary painters to supplement the exhibition Now! Young Painting In Germany.

Kerstin Brätsch (born 1979 in Hamburg, lives and works in New York) deals with the influences of digital techniques on painting in her multifaceted oeuvre. She creates large-scale wallpapers, site-specific installations, performances, and videos in which she explores the relationship between painting and subjectivity.

Kati Heck’s (born 1979 in Düsseldorf, lives and works in Pulle, Belgium) monumental paintings are captivating for their humorous stylistic mix of photorealistic figures as well as drawings and linguistic elements. Heck assembles these into collage-like, intensely colored image compositions.

In Stefanie Heinze’s (born 1987 in Berlin, where she also lives and works) oeuvre, the canvas becomes an experimental space of freedom and experimentation. The starting point of her large-scale, intensely colored paintings, which show collections of imaginative figures and anthropomorphic forms, is small-scale drawings. Issues such as sexuality and social affiliation play a major role in Heinze’s artwork.

In her striking scenes composed of bodies, animals, and plants, Laura Link (born 1987 in Frankfurt am Main, lives and works in Leipzig) shows what usually remains hidden. Link attempts to give a face to those who are excluded from society in her large-scale paintings. Thus, her works oscillate in subject matter and materials between inexorable transience and an impressive fullness of life.