In general one could say that Jacob Witzenhausen has a fascination for artists who work in a field where meanings cross, where something interesting starts to happen between the obvious elements. The kind of art that is not what it seems on first sight, when we give it only a quick glance, where the surface does not reveal its secret right immediately and where there is more to contemplate on beneath the skin.

Another element is the fascination the selected artists share for the look, the human gaze that tries to detect secrets and look behind the screen. Some of the gallery’s artists are very much occupied with the voyeuristic aspects of the act of looking and explore this in their work. Sometimes even leading us into an area where we are made to feel uneasy or even made an accomplice of this act. Accomplice or not, there is always enough to please the eye.

Witzenhausen Gallery looks for art that is confronting in a certain way. Art that touches upon the issues of life that we all have to deal with, family ties, love, sex, illness, loneliness, death and a society that can be questioned on the way it... [ Read all ]