Jakub Slomkowski and Joachim Lenz (Warsaw and Berlin) both deal with perspectives where coherence has been shattered, matter alienated from its context and narration settles into a contemplative pause. In seemingly otherworldly pictorial spaces, with their different painterly styles, they relocate subjects in an atmosphere of isolation and absence. At the same time, in both artist’s work, the tension is maintained through their particular handling of figurative painting as their medium of choice. Alexander Krug