anke blaue
project room 41
june-september 2026
nothingness
aba art
pl. porta de sta. catalina 21b 07012 palma. mallorca
Only without me can the mystery be revealed.
Does color exist without light?
Where does the light come from?
Silence is not the absence of sound or thoughts, but the absence of me
Who are you in front of this color?
I see my hand painting the painting. Who is painting?
Everything arises in emptiness and dissolves into emptiness.
What makes the world appear makes the painting appear
Is the painting silent, or are you silent?
Does the painting exist without you?
Where does your gaze end and the painting begin?
When you look at the painting, what do you see without naming anything?
Where do color and light meet?
Anke Blaue (1967, Schleswig) creates colour eld paintings that explore the spiritual and emotive dimensions of chromatic subtlety. Working predominantly on antique linen, her surfaces are structured by delicate shifts in tone, light, and linear rhythm. Minimalist in expression, her works resist overt signature or narrative, instead o ering a space of visual clarity and quiet. Her compositions often develop within rectangular formats, their boundaries shaped by the weave of the linen and the precision of chromatic gradation. Her approach re ects a lineage of postwar abstraction ltered through Eastern philosophical ideas of presence and stillness. Blaue’s work has been exhibited widely across Europe and remains rmly situated within a tradition of slow, intentional painting.
Where does this painting end?
