Markus Linnenbrink protagoniza la primera coproducción expositiva entre es Baluard Museu d’Art Contemporani de Palma y el Casal Solleric – Comunicación y prensa

Markus Linnenbrink protagonizes the first exhibition co-production between es Baluard Museu d’Art Contemporani de Palma and Casal Solleric. The proposal of the German artist, which can be visited in different locations of both spaces until September 7th, brings together various pictorial installations that create a dialogue between architecture, painting, and perception. On April 28, 2025, Casal Solleric and es Baluard Museu d’Art Contemporani de Palma hosted the presentation of the exhibition that German artist Markus Linnenbrink will inaugurate tomorrow under the title ‘Whatwethink as Insignificant Provides the Purest Air Webreathe’. The exhibition, which includes several ‘site-specific’ pictorial installations that occupy non-exclusively exhibition spaces, generating a dialogue between architecture, painting, and perception, can be visited until September 7th at various locations in Casal Solleric and es Baluard. The presentation press conference took place at the Solleric premises and was attended by es Baluard’s director, David Barro, the curators of the exhibition, Jackie Herbst and Fernando Gómez de la Cuesta, and Markus Linnenbrink himself, a creator born in Dortmund in 1961 with a broad international career that has led him to exhibit his works in cities like New York, Philadelphia, Berlin, Madrid, Istanbul, or Beijing. This is the first exhibition co-production shared by es Baluard and Casal Solleric, through which Linnenbrink invites the public to reconsider how they approach a work of art, completing a sensory journey that highlights the author’s interest in evolution and transience. In the case of es Baluard, the artist has intervened the walls of one end of the central corridor, from the floor to the ceiling, and the elevator on the opposite side. It is a large format proposal that guides the viewer towards new ways of experiencing, understanding space, and interpreting painting in an expanded way. As for Casal Solleric, Linnenbrink offers an immersive experience that completely changes the way the emblematic inner courtyard of the building is traversed. Once again, it is a large ascending installation that raises the visitor’s gaze to the open sky and then returns it to ground level, creating new viewpoints and escape routes that change at every moment. Indeed, Linnenbrink’s work is inspired by the continuous exploration of space as an experience and finds in painting the ideal means to transcend the physical limits of the environment. The title of the exhibition, derived from Stevie Wonder’s song ‘The Secret Life of Plants’, fully reinforces the author’s key ideas, conceiving emptiness not as a lack but as a fundamental presence. Besides the projects that Markus Linnenbrink has led in some of the world’s most important cities, the German artist has the honor of having his works in prestigious public and private collections such as the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the San José Museum of Art (also in California), the Hammer Museum at UCLA in Los Angeles, the Ministry of Culture of the Netherlands in The Hague, the German Senate in Berlin, or the Harvard Business School in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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