Exhibition at the Caspar David Friedrich Center Gallery
From July 31 to October 3, 2026, the CDFZ will present the exhibition “away from reality II” by Giacomo Orth.
In his drawings, the artist explores those moments that break through automated perception—moments that manage to endure longer than the fleetingness of the instant. Capturing these enduring images can be understood as the motivation behind his work. In this context, detached perception, observation, and seeing are just as important a part of the work as the process of drawing itself. His sculptures expand the artistic exploration of reality, which is more than the sum of its parts. The core of Giacomo Orth’s work lies in the tension between the subjectively perceived, the supposedly objective, and the impossibility of fully reconstructing reality.
Born in Rostock in 1996, the artist completed his master’s degree in Fine Arts at the Caspar David Friedrich Institute at the University of Greifswald. Since 2021, he has been working there as an artistic assistant in Professor Rozbeh Asmani’s Department of New Media and Applied Graphics within the field of Fine Arts. Giacomo Orth has been successfully represented at art exhibitions for the past five years. Among other things, curator Tereza de Arruda invited him in 2023 to participate in the exhibition “ON WATER & PLANTS” at the Troy House Art Foundation in London. He is a recipient of the prestigious “Rostock Art Prize 2025” in the “Artistic Graphics” category and is participating in the accompanying exhibition at the Kunsthalle Rostock. From June 16 to July 10, 2026, his works will be presented in the follow-up exhibition to the award in the foyer of Provinzial Nord in Kiel, which is a major sponsor of the Rostock Art Prize.
