Arne Schreiber: On entering Galerie koal the viewer is immediately struck by the precise installation, reduced formal vocabulary and sheer presence of the works on show. Closer inspection of the pieces reveals that only two colours, two materials – oil and marker pen – and three different lines were employed in the making of the large canvases and the delicate wall drawing. It then becomes clear that this exhibition is driven by concept and process; the notion of repetition appears to be key to Arne Schreiber’s practice. Repetition is a universally valid principle, central in the states of being and becoming, movement and repose, flux and permanence, difference and identity. Repetition is seen as a fundamental part of psychological assimilation processes, as central to human learning and functional patterning as well as the basis of memory production. Repetition not only allows us to experience the world, the “eternal recurrence of the same is itself a recurring theme in philosophical and artistic debate.