Opening 1st June, 3 – 7pm
Music performance by Kateryna Titova at 4pm
artloft.berlin, Gerichtstrasse 23, 13347 Berlin — www.artloft.berlin

A waterfall of bright colors explodes from Joanna
Gleich’s paintings. Her gestures contain seductive,
vivid energy, that no one can pass by without being
instantly drawn in. Each single brushstroke gesture
plays an important part in this symphony, conducted

with a brave hand. Within the four categorical
edges of the canvas – each single colour is clearly
forming the perspective, the scale of the inner
composition, at the same time creating a particular
movement within each painting’s universe.
Her way of painting can be related to the sensation
of perceiving the matter through the eyes of the
modern Austrian physicist Fritjof Capra. In one of
his books he describes watching the world around
him while sitting by the ocean one late summer
afternoon. He suddenly becomes aware of his
whole environment being engaged in a gigantic
cosmic dance. As high-energy physicist he knew
that everything around us is made of vibrating
molecules and atoms, of cascades of energy
coming down from outer space to take part in the
gigantic cosmic dance.
One can feel this kind of motion in Joanna Gleich’s
paintings. One can participate in their phenomenon
by finding the interference of their own state of mind

invited to dance, one can absorb the chosen
color … or go with the flow sliding into another
intermediate color to find the one taking us along
to another emotion.
During the creative process, through the non-figurative

expression the artist confronts the viewer
with her highly energetic state of creative activity.
Can we imagine how intense this process is for the
artist? The demand for the extreme focus interweaved

with the cascade of prompt decisions,
a careful observation of the process, staying
continuously alert … the magnetism of Gleich’s
paintings is full of her creative presence. One
cannot resist engaging in a mind dance when
perceiving her paintings.