30/05/2026
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PARIS GALLERY WEEKEND 2026
29.05 > 31.05.2026
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We present
‘There’s a Man in a Smiling Bag’
[GROUP SHOW]
Heiner Franzen – Philip Grözinger – Lou Hoyer
Fee Kleiß – Kata Unger – Marlon Wobst
painting, drawing, sculpture, textile, video installation
22. 05 > 18. 07. 2026
Curators: Philip Grözinger & Fee Kleiß
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CLOSING DAYS
21.06 > 29.06 — both inclusive
The show gathers six artists from Berlin under the title ‘There’s a Man in a Smiling Bag’—a reference to one of the three clues given by a strange gentle giant to an FBI agent in episode 1, season 2 of David Lynch’s famous Twin Peaks. This quotation emphasises the six artists’ common feature: an approach tinged in mystery.
Through a multidisciplinary practice of ceramics, painting, drawing, and wool felt, MARLON WOBST (born in 1980 in Wiesbaden, Germany) stages the human body in all its simplicity. Using various media like ways to approach the body in space, he focuses his work around matter, like another bodily presence coming to absorb, dissolve, and blur boundaries. The motif of water, recurring in his work, allows him to play with murky, jerky, erased scenes, composing and decomposing the bodies he manipulates on and beneath the surface. Worked on as pictorial matter, the colourful flesh gathers, piles up, and comes together in a desire to make society. Right on the floor, the characters in Kuschler et Kuschler*innen —captured in feminine and masculine cuddles— get lost in a living, sensual hubbub, until their undoubtedly dusty silhouettes fade into the landscape.
Fig.1
MARLON WOBST
‘Kuschler’
36 x 55 cm / 14.17 x 21.65 inches
olil on canvas
2022