BENJAMIN BRONNI & LISA MÜHLEISEN »CIAO!«

Lisa Mühleisen and Benjamin Bronni will be celebrating the
farewell of Parrotta Contemporary Art’s exhibition site in
Stuttgart, before the gallery will reopen at a new venue in
Cologne.

Both artists share distinctive stages in their studies with
Andreas Opiolka and Birgit Brenner at the State Academy of
Fine Arts in Stuttgart, as well as asynchronous residencies at
art3 in Valence and of course exhibitions at Parrotta
Contemporary Art. At the same time both artists follow
entirely different approaches: Benjamin Bronni draws exact
lines out of chaos and wrestles for a biting clarity within the
form. Lisa Mühleisen on the other hand takes pre-existing
form’s and formats’ absolute clarity as precondition for an on-
going reshaping and examination. Construction and de-
construction are brought together into the happy-go-lucky
phrase “Ciao!” As a greeting it is ambiguous in itself, it can
equally be a farewell as well as a welcome – it’s meaning is
determined by context alone.