The Kunstverein in Schwerin is presenting a two-artist exhibition featuring Paul Goesch and Matthias Noggler
DE
The Art Association for Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Schwerin is pleased to present a two-artist exhibition that brings together the work of Schwerin-born artist and architect Paul Goesch (1885–1940) with contemporary paintings by Matthias Noggler (*1990). The exhibition focuses on the shared interest of both artists in questions of space, image production, and the representation of social structures.
Paul Goesch ranks among the significant—yet long-overlooked—figures of the early 20th-century artistic avant-garde. His work exemplifies a practice in which architectural utopia, aesthetic vision, and subjective experiences of the limits are uniquely intertwined. Goesch’s designs and pictorial spaces should be understood less as concrete architectural proposals and more as integrative conceptual models for alternative forms of community, perception, and both built and imagined space. The exhibition at the Kunstverein is the first presentation of his work in his hometown of Schwerin and thus honors an artist whose extraordinary body of work has only in recent years begun to receive increasing recognition in art history.
Matthias Nogglers’s painterly practice also engages with the representation of space as a social and symbolic construct. Drawing on architecture, interiors, and everyday situations, he develops painterly pictorial spaces in which social orders, institutional structures, and forms of interpersonal relationships are inscribed. In doing so, he draws on motifs and pictorial traditions from the history of architecture, modernism, and documentary visual culture—including works by Paul Goesch—and translates them into a precise, minimalist visual language. Through formal construction, shifts in perspective, and a two-dimensional use of color, pictorial spaces emerge that appear both concrete and psychologically charged.
Rather than offering a biographical comparison, the exhibition aims to initiate a visual dialogue between Goesch’s architectural and visual concepts and Nogglers’ contemporary paintings. Space appears here as far more than a mere backdrop: both artists conceive of it as a vehicle for social, psychological, and conceptual meanings. Between architectural vision and painterly construction, different strategies of spatial creation, image production, and social reflection interrelate, revealing the enduring relevance and connection between the two positions.
EN
The Kunstverein für Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in Schwerin is pleased to present a duo exhibition bringing together the work of Schwerin-born artist and architect Paul Goesch (1885–1940) with contemporary paintings by Matthias Noggler (*1990). At its core is the artists’ shared engagement with questions of space, image-making, and the representation of social structures.
Paul Goesch is regarded as one of the significant—yet long-overlooked—figures of the artistic avant-garde of the early twentieth century. His work exemplifies a practice in which architectural utopia, aesthetic vision, and subjective experience at the limits of perception are uniquely intertwined. Goesch’s designs and pictorial spaces are less to be understood as concrete architectural proposals than as speculative models for alternative forms of community, perception, and both built and imagined space. The exhibition at the Kunstverein marks the first presentation of his work in his hometown of Schwerin, paying tribute to an artist whose remarkable body of work has only recently begun to receive broader art-historical recognition.
Matthias Noggler’s painting practice likewise explores the representation of space as a social and symbolic construct. Drawing on architecture, interiors, and everyday situations, he develops pictorial spaces in which social orders, institutional structures, and forms of human interaction are embedded. His paintings engage with motifs and visual traditions from architectural history, modernism, and documentary imagery—including works by Paul Goesch—which he translates into a precise and reduced painterly language. Through formal construction, shifts in perspective, and a restrained use of color, Noggler creates pictorial spaces that are at once concrete and psychologically charged.
Rather than offering a biographical interpretation, the exhibition establishes a painterly dialogue between Goesch’s architectural and pictorial concepts and Noggler’s contemporary paintings. For both artists, space functions not merely as a setting but as a framework through which social, psychological, and conceptual structures are produced and negotiated. By bringing different strategies of spatial construction, image-making, and social reflection into dialogue, the exhibition reveals both the enduring relevance of Goesch’s work and its resonance within Noggler’s contemporary practice.
Curated by:
Hendrike Nagel
Events:
Opening:
August 8, 2026, 3:00 p.m.
Dialogical Curator's Tour:
August 27, 2026, 5:00 PM
September 17, 2026, 5:00 PM
Closing:
October 11, 2026, 3:00 PM
