Viola Bittl, sieben jahre | Berlin - Walter Storms Galerie GmbH

With the solo exhibition sieben jahre (seven years), the Walter Storms Gallery presents an overview of the works created by Viola Bittl (born 1980) over the past seven years. The exhibition marks a moment of retrospection that can be interpreted both as an end point and a new beginning.

The title initially functions as a temporal bracket. sieben jahre understands time not as a linear narrative, but as a condensation. As a period in which processes, ideas, and formal decisions are bundled and brought together in the exhibition. In Bittl’s painting, time is not depicted, but inscribes itself as a trace in the layering of color.

In her paintings, Bittl takes up the intellectual clarity and reduced formal language of modernism. She questions the historical boundaries of abstraction and develops an aesthetic that combines and renegotiates geometric-biomorphic forms with art-historical references.

sieben jahre is the first solo exhibition in Berlin by former Städel master student Viola Bittl.