The reduced and delicately composed skylines of todays cities of PETER RUEHLE (*1975 in Dresden) speak of Alphaville and dreamscapes of familiar towns. His approach to our modern world is departure, distance. Observation and recreation from afar.

French artist LINA JABBOUR (*1973 in Beirut) similarly encircles her subject, yet closer. Rocks, icebergs and clouds emerge as shells for new inhabitants, a new man. Shaping his world into form regardless of the insect and the mountain. Jabbour's art of drawing pierces precisely through the core of our vulnerability and our aim of its overcoming.

The final utopian journey inward is provided by TORSTEN RUEHLE's (*1975 in Dresden) architectural home interiors and arrangements. Still lifes. Yet his oilpaintings resemble rather filmstills of imaginative movies. While portraying beauty, bloodlessness and desaster advertise on the surface of archieved settlement. And what is this creepy little thing doing there?

Stephen Wilks (*1964 in GB) is a master of the animal world where pigs lounge in thrones wearing pin stripe suits while sauntering on the canale grande or beeing carried down Friedrichstrasse on the shoulders of men. The
journey inward is completed as man is facing the animal inside. Based on the failed utopia of Orwell's Animal Farm Stephen Wilks takes from us one ideal. But he provides us with another tool: A grim sense of humour.