Expanding Painting

We invite you to encounter the historical medium of painting as a valuable tool to challenge the narrations to which we hold on today. Please sign up if you are interested in having a relaxed conversation about the role of painting in contemporary art and how we can appropriate painting to discuss and practice commoning strategies. This event is organized as a lunch conversation with the artist Sigrid Holmwood. By acknowledging the practice of pigment-making from organic materials as a parallel to food-making processes, the participants are invited to enjoy the relationships in the proposal of 'painting as lunch'.

*The lunch served at the event is vegan but contains sunflower seeds and linseeds. In case of allergies or intolerance, feel free to contact ida.bomm@posteo.de to discuss alternatives.

Sigrid Holmwood is an artist who works with the figure of the peasant and how she has been used to construct modernity. Central to her practice is the research of plant dyes, unearthing their relationships with folklore, colonialism, and modernity. Recent exhibitions include The Commons: Reenchanting the World, at the Museum of English Rural Life, Reading, UK and Blue Wood, Black Iron at Kunsthalle Seinäjoki, Finland.

Ida Bomm explores historically preconceived ideas and tropes about painting as a form of artistic production and 'the painter' as artist. She approaches painting as a productive field that can open up conversations on how we are, allowing us to imagine alternatives.