In their work, the two Berlin-based artists share an affinity towards Neo
Povera (Germano Celant) and its use of non-traditional everyday materials
and unconventional processes. Hard foam insulation boards or newspaper
spreads become support structures to further explore and deconstruct
painterly abstraction and figuration.

„Mr. Vormstein’s feeling for slight, impoverished materials and his emphasis on
drawing are shared with many of his contemporaries. But his historicist mixing
and matching seems typical of an older generation of male, German painters. It
makes an intriguing combination (…).“ Roberta Smith, NY Times

Stefan Kaminski meticulously embosses seemingly archaic motives into his
artistic material. He uses various everyday tools (hammer, screw driver, cutter,
etc.) to generate sculptural paintings which question the nature of what it
means to be making art, what place the artwork has within the gallery walls and
the relationship with commercialism.

Exhibition view "THE HOLES OF THE WORLD AND THE WHOLE WORLD"STEFAN KAMINSKI, KNASTA, softfoam, 35 x 52 x 17,5 cm, 2015 (r) STEFAN KAMINSKI, EMANATION, embossed hardfoam insulation board, acrylic, 180 x 250 x 10cm, 2016 (l)

Exhibition view "THE HOLES OF THE WORLD AND THE WHOLE WORLD"STEFAN KAMINSKI, HEADLESS SUPREMACY, embossed hardfoam insulation board, acrylic, 180 x 250 x 10cm, 2016

Exhibition view "THE HOLES OF THE WORLD AND THE WHOLE WORLD"

Exhibition view "THE HOLES OF THE WORLD AND THE WHOLE WORLD"STEFAN KAMINSKI, EMANATION, embossed hardfoam insulation board, acrylic, 180 x 250 x 10cm, 2016 (l) STEFAN KAMINSKI, VAN LAAK, embossed hardfoam insulation board, acrylic, 180 x 250 x 10cm, 2016 (r)

Exhibition view "THE HOLES OF THE WORLD AND THE WHOLE WORLD"

Exhibition view "THE HOLES OF THE WORLD AND THE WHOLE WORLD"STEFAN KAMINSKI, EMANATION, embossed hardfoam insulation board, acrylic, 180 x 250 x 10cm, 2016 (r) GABRIEL VORMSTEIN, BLACK HOUSES II, pencil, watercolor, wallpaint on newspaper, 111 x 156 cm, 2014 (l)

Exhibition view "THE HOLES OF THE WORLD AND THE WHOLE WORLD"GABRIEL VORMSTEIN, pencil, watercolor, wallpaint on newspaper, 111 x 156 cm, 2016 GABRIEL VORMSTEIN, RETURN TO THE SOURCE IV, wood, spraypaint 45 x 190 x 40 cm, 2016 (l)

Exhibition view "THE HOLES OF THE WORLD AND THE WHOLE WORLD"STEFAN KAMINSKI, EMPOWERMENT, softfoam, 73 x 86 x 12 cm, 2016 (r) GABRIEL VORMSTEIN, FILTH, pencil, newspaperpulp, ink flowers, on canvas, 55 x 75 cm, 2016 (m) GABRIEL VORMSTEIN, ALPHABETA, acrylic on newspaper, 107 x 150 cm, 2016 (l)

Exhibition view "THE HOLES OF THE WORLD AND THE WHOLE WORLD"

Exhibition view "THE HOLES OF THE WORLD AND THE WHOLE WORLD"GABRIEL VORMSTEIN, TODAY, paper, watercolor, wallpaint on newspaper, 110 x 156 cm, 2014

Exhibition view "THE HOLES OF THE WORLD AND THE WHOLE WORLD"STEFAN KAMINSKI, DIE GESUCHTE, embossed hardfoam insulation board, 61 x 122 x 10cm, 2016

Exhibition view "THE HOLES OF THE WORLD AND THE WHOLE WORLD"STEFAN KAMINSKI, DOWNFALL, softfoam, 42 x 47 x 12 cm, 2016 (r) GABRIEL VORMSTEIN, OPEN MOUTH, pencil, newspaperpulp, ink flowers, on canvas, 55 x 75 cm, 2015 (l)