The Infinity of Space. Spatial Concepts in Modernism

 31/10/2026 – 25/07/2027

The construction of pictorial space has been, at least since the Renaissance, the most significant principle of the visual arts. The canvas is understood as an open window that grants a view onto another reality. The composition—ranging from balanced to dynamic— supports the statement of the depiction. In modernism, however, the image confronts viewers as a real surface. The infinity of painting is replaced by new spatial concepts that intertwine image and reality through different methods. Expressionism, for example, creates spaces from unusually steep perspectives, while Constructivism visualizes its non-objective spatial compositions as utopian architectures. The departure from the object turns pictorial space into a site to be renegotiated - one that may appear to viewers as flat and without depth, or alternatively continue to present itself as an infinity.