Daniel Weissbach (b. 1976, Berlin, Germany – d. 2020, Germany) receives his fourth – and first posthumous – solo exhibition Stellen at Ruttkowski;68 inDüsseldorf.

Stellen are excerpts and details of real places and form a central point of reference in Weissbach’s œuvre. In the isolation of these places from their original context, in their appropriation and transformation into new contexts of meaning, worldly conditions and limitations shift and create layers of time between the present and past.

Through the series of works, the geometric grid of tiled walls at transit points preferable of Berlin's subway stations, the zones of transition and are distorted, alienated and made available for the ambivalence of the indeterminate. Their successive abstraction turns the joints into lines, the lines into Weissbach’s unmistakable visual language. They function like a body that preserves the past, being both visibly and invisibly inscribed.

For their traces in the present, Weissbach developed multimedia languages, forms of expression and identities that run through his entire body of work. In addition to this exhibition, which will be shown in Düsseldorf, Paris and New York, a book with previously unpublished insights into his world of ideas has been published, allowing for the impact and value of his artistic legacy to live on.

Ruttkowski;68 presents a comprehensive retrospective on the life's work of the artist Daniel Weissbach. This book showcases the complexity and uniqueness of his creations. Whether on canvas, paper, walls, subway trains, or shop windows, whether indoors or on the street, each work expresses his high level of perfectionism, now fully accessible in its entirety.

Hardcover, 528 pages, 22 x 30.8 cm, German/English, Jan 2024
ISBN: 9783911028004
Editors: Dirk Gössler, Steffen Köhler, Matthias Hübner
Publisher: Ruttkowski;68

Get it here: Hitzerot, Ruttkowski;68
Texts: Jöran A. Belling-Lindberg, Vincent Grunwald, Iris Hempelmann, Olga Hohmann, Gregor Jansen, Robert Kaltenhäuser, Thomas Max Waldmann
Design: Büro Bum Bum