In Franz Jyrch’s installations and sculptural settings, canvases and stretcher frames play a significant role. The basic approach to her work, which is characterized by coincidence and calculation alike, consists of arranging and deconstructing very diverse materials taken from artistic contexts and everyday life as well. Thereby, she creates complex sculptures and installations which can fill entire rooms. It leaves us with the impression that painting has emancipated itself from its central coordinates, with its ‘assistants’ conquering new spaces beyond the narrow square of the frame. Instead, the exhibit space now provides the actual framework for a much more complex pictorial narrative, one that integrates many things that are outside of the art context. (Text by Ralf F. Hartmann)

Franz Jyrch graduated from the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig in 2012. She received the Marion Ermer Award and completed her postgraduate studies in 2014. Solo shows include BONHEUR, Vincenz Sala, Paris; PARAVENT, Galerie EIGEN+ART Leipzig; KNICKE AND ORDER, Gallery of the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig; and La Pittura, Vincenz Sala, Berlin. Recent group shows include Plain Walls, White Teeth, Galerie Genscher, Hamburg; Yearzero, Kollektiv Unkonventionelle Kunst, Zurich; Mulhouse 015, Biennale d‘Art Contemporain, Mulhouse; WERKSCHAU, Spinnerei Galleries, Leipzig; A Room of One’s Own, Kunstverein Tiergarten, Berlin; and Sammlungsalphabet, Museum of Contemporary Art Leipzig.