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Kay Kaul | ART ARTIST, Düsseldorf
April 17-19, 2026

Hansaallee 190
40547 Düsseldorf
Building 1 | 1. Floor | Room E2


Blind Spots is an immersive exhibition installation by the artists Paula Knaps Loos, Julija Skudutytė, Kay Kaul and Aylin Leclaire. The exhibition builds on the spatial concept from the previous year and develops it further by presenting the individual works not separately, but interwoven into a shared, walk-through whole. A central element is the lighting. The space is largely darkened, and
each work generates its own light or is specifically illuminated. This creates distinct visual zones that guide visitors through various artistic spaces. Orientation is not provided by the entire space, but through individual islands of light, between which transitions and breaks occur.

Julija Skudutytė works with materiality, references to everyday life and the transformation of objects. For the exhibition, the floor is lined with mirrored foil and transformed into a reflective, water-like surface. This ‘mirrored surface’ alters the per-ception of the entire space and directly engages the visitors. In the enclosed window niches, she installs three collages arranged as a triptych,
defined by painterly, reflective and textile elements.

Aylin Leclaire’s contribution builds on her interdisciplinary practice, in which sculpture, film
and sound combine to form narrative spaces. Miniature stage sets distributed throughout the room, developed from a cinematic context, function as condensed scenes. These sculptural installations play with shifts in scale and create intimate visual spaces that only reveal themselves upon closer inspection. They open up fragmentary
narratives that are not told linearly, but become perceptible as spatial constellations
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In his photographic work, Kay Kaul explores the visualisation of light and time, particularly through the superimposition of multiple moments within a single image. For Blind Spots, he has developed a large-scale wallpaper featuring motifs of galaxies and cosmic structures, which is applied to walls or ceilings. This visually opens up and expands the
space – it no longer appears enclosed, but rather as if embedded within a larger, infinite context.

In her work, Paula Knaps Loos explores décor, origin and the dissolution of boundaries between art, design and ornament. The starting point is her
collage-based practice, in which photographic, drawn and decorative elements combine to form multi-layered visual worlds. In the exhibition, she translates these principles into the space: Illuminated glass blocks are used as sculptural light sources that create a play of shadows, whilst bead curtains, acting as visual carriers, introduce
additional layers. These elements structure the space, create vistas and overlap like a walk-in collage.

Together, they create a space that works with reflection, light and varying scales. Blind Spots describes situations in which perception shifts –
between proximity and distance, surface and depth, reality and projection.




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