Opening
Friday, 4 September, 6-9 p.m.
Saturday, 5 September, 1-7 p.m.
Sunday, 6 September, 1-5 p.m.

Exhibition  
4 to 25 September 2026

Grisebach, Bilker Straße 4–6, 40213 Düsseldorf

On occasion of Düsseldorf Cologne Open Galleries, Grisebach is exhibiting works by Ulrike Heydenreich that explore perception, memory and the visual construction of landscape. Her works play with shifting perspectives and the depiction of places one feels one is beginning to forget. They speak of the intersection between the inner and outer worlds, of perception, experience and memory, which are constantly coming into contact and overlapping. A fascination with perspectives, as well as the illusion of spatial depth and distance, runs through her entire practice and shapes the way in which she constructs her works.

The source material and conceptual framework for her work is her collection of historical Alpine photographs, topographical maps, panoramas and symbols of orientation and navigation. The motif of the deserted, snow-covered high-mountain landscape recurs time and again; for the artist, it symbolises untouched nature and distant, otherworldly places. The exhibition title Aus der Ferne (From Afar) refers precisely to this dual distance: the geographical distance from the depicted locations and the temporal, remembered distance from which the landscape in the image is constructed.

Heydenreich works primarily with pencil drawings, collages, paper objects and site-specific sculptures. Through cutting, folding and layering, she creates works that oscillate between drawing and object, and between representation and model. At the heart of her current work are Fundstücke (found objects): works composed of historical artefacts from half-forgotten landscape depictions dating from the era before high-speed photography and mass tourism in the mountains. Heydenreich works with 19th-century folding panoramas—some several metres long—which depict the view from a mountain summit, and restores them to their original, perfect panoramic view. For her, this encapsulates the human need to understand one’s own surroundings and to translate the vastness of the world into simple images. By working with historical photographs and panoramas, from which her found objects and drawings emerge, she embarks on a quest for discoveries and perspectives, for a mountain landscape that is emerging anew whilst simultaneously looking back on what is already a thing of the past.

Dr Antonia Lehmann-Tolkmitt
Head of Representative Office Düsseldorf North Rhine-Westphalia / Benelux

T +49 211 8629 2199
M +49 162 2417 602
E antonia.lehmann-tolkmitt@grisebach.com