LILIAN KREUTZBERGER: INFINITE SCROLL

October 7 – November 19, 2022

373 Broadway
New York, NY 10013

We are pleased to announce Dutch contemporary artist Lilian Kreutzberger’s solo exhibition Infinite Scroll. The exhibition will take place between October 6 – November 13, 2022 at SARAHCROWN New York’s Tribeca location. The exhibition offers a glimpse into Kreutzberger’s body of work as a manifestation of  today’s world, and its physical, technological, and visual elements blurring into one another.

In Infinite Scroll, nothing is as it initially seems. Kreutzberger’s work with their marbled surfaces and irregular shapes, or stone tablets from the neolithic era, look thick and heavy, embellished with touches of gold and silver in their lustrous glory. Super Surface 1 (2017), for example, is a large-scale structure almost 5 feet wide, between a gold-framed painting and a slab of marble in smithereens. It’s like a reflection of a complete, unshattered version of itself in a body of water, or more likely, on a broken smartphone screen. It’s a window, just like our very own little devices are to information. In curator and writer Vincent van Velsen’s words, Kreutzberger’s art opens a window “a future where one can leap into, and where technomorphic malleable marble is a possibility, architecture has become obsolete and our environment is solely a bubble in the form of a screen.”

When our relationship as a viewer with material and ethereal, in this case digital, intertwines as such, artworks lose all temporality. Kreutzberger’s windows show to its beholder a state of existing in between a now and a then. They become post-historical, in Vilém Flusser’s own terms, a “dimensionless state.” Tablet 1 (2020) seems at the same time from the past and the future, a stele from Babylon and a motherboard from a not-yet-invented digital apparatus. Possibilities are endless at this time when post-history being is written. Kreutzberger knows this: because the marble slabs aren’t marble or paint but a digital image printed on plaster, the tablets aren’t heavy stones but plaster also. No wonder her previous exhibition “loook&&feel | surfacestricture” was inspired by graphic user interface design, which mimics the material within the digital realm––in post-history, the tables turn: Stone becomes pixels, and then plaster. 

Van Velsen continues: “As real boundaries and edges only exist in the physical vertigo, these works are indifferent to outmoded ideas such as impossibility or limits, and only conditioned by the ideas of incomprehensible and infinite – beyond any material realm.” Kreutzberger’s surfaces and structures are right there within our grasp, their essence remains, yet their form will forever escape us like the infinite scroll.

All works of art are for sale, and the proceeds will benefit the artist. For more information, please contact: info@sarahcrown.com / +1 (347) 393–4911 / www.sarahcrown.com

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Lilian Kreutzberger (b. 1984, the Netherlands) is a Dutch artist who works on the intersection of painting, photography, sculpture, and digital imaging. As a painter and sculptor, Kreutzberger aims to imagine the potentials and the futilities of utopias, urban space and digital space and materialize it into a visual and physical experience. Her recent projects combine the notion of materiality, surface and representation in an ever advancing connected digital world. Imagining the future as our surroundings covered in microLED surfaces that display images and moving images, Kreutzberger’s view foretells the shapes, function and volume related to materiality to be obsolete.

Kreutzberger received her BA from the Royal Academy of Fine Art in the Hague and her MFA from the  New School, New York. She was a resident artist at ISCP, New York in 2014, at Eyebeam, New York in 2015, and an Emerging Artist Fellow at Socrates Sculpture Park 2014. In 2016-17 she attended the Jan van Eyck Academie research residency program in Maastricht (NL). Kreutzberger was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship, and the Buning Brongers Award for painting. Kreutzberger’s work has been exhibited at the Kunstmuseum, The Hague; the Royal Palace, Amsterdam; The Kitchen, NY; World Expo 2010, Shanghai; 1709 Gallery, Richmond, VA; and Foam Museum for Photography, Amsterdam, among others.

For more information, please contact: info@sarahcrown.com / +1 (347) 393–4911 / www.sarahcrown.com