Name: Annette Senneby: Attic at Kunstverein Braunschweig
Start: 2026-06-27T02:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-09-28T01:59:59+02:00
Location: Kunstverein Braunschweig

Annette Senneby: Attic opens a space between painting, sculpture, and perception

With Attic, Kunstverein Braunschweig presents the first institutional solo exhibition of Annette Senneby in Germany. The exhibition leads into an artistic practice that does not separate image, space, and material but intertwines them. Those who visit this exhibition experience not a closed narrative but a precisely composed art experience full of tension, concentration, and aesthetic experience.

An art association as a resonance space for contemporary art

Kunstverein Braunschweig is one of the renowned art associations in Germany and sees itself as a place for exchange, mediation, and open contemplation of works. In Villa Salve Hospes, the exhibition atmosphere unfolds particularly intensely: The historical architecture meets contemporary art and allows Annette Senneby’s works to appear in a space that makes visible her boundary crossings between surface and volume.

Between painting and sculpture

Annette Senneby, born in 1951 in Gothenburg and living and working in Stockholm, has been navigating the intersection of painting and sculpture for decades. The exhibition showcases a practice where the image is conceived as a spatial starting point. Pigment, material, and physical forces generate processes of condensation, flow, and dissolution. Thus, works are created that do not just represent gravity but make it tangible as a formative energy.

This art questions the stability of seeing. Lines dissolve, forms tilt into movement, and the canvas is read not as a boundary but as a threshold. This is exactly where the particular strength of Senneby’s art direction lies: it combines concentrated imagery with an openness that actively encourages the thought of space.

Space, movement, and material presence

Attic already refers in its title to a place of storage, preservation, and layering. In the context of the exhibition, this becomes a poetic thought space in which the past, present, and newly produced enter into a relationship. The works unfold a quiet, yet physically charged presence. Especially in the upstairs situation of the villa, a density arises that sharpens the gaze and slows down perception.

For visitors, this presents a demanding art experience that connects art historical reflection and sensual experience. The works invite viewers to closely observe material surfaces, spatial effects, and color transitions, experiencing the exhibition as a living dialogue between image and architecture.

Mediation, tours, and cultural education

Kunstverein Braunschweig complements the exhibition with a strong mediation program including public tours, artist talks, curator-led tours, children’s tours, and workshops. Thus, Attic becomes not only an exhibition but also a place of cultural education. Art is not explained here but jointly discovered - an approach that appeals to both beginners and experienced art lovers.

Particularly appealing is the connection of art historical classification and immediate engagement with the work. The exhibition makes visible how contemporary art develops new forms of seeing from material, movement, and spatial arrangement. Those interested in installation, painting, and sculptural processes will find a concise, inspiring exhibition visit here.

Conclusion: Attic promises an exhibition of particular intensity - smartly curated, spatially precise, and aesthetically multifaceted. Annette Senneby presents art that simultaneously challenges thinking and seeing. A visit to Kunstverein Braunschweig is definitely worthwhile for anyone who wants to experience contemporary art in its finest, most surprising form.