For his exhibition CONSTELLATIONS Sebastian Bartel, who holds this year’s Schloss Ringenberg scholarship, will develop a site-specific installation for centrum’s large window, which will include some of his most recent works in painting and drawing.

Bartel in his works is interested in scientific imagery and its potential to render spheres visible, which to the bare human eye are imperceptible. Having before concentrated on the microcosm (microscopic images), he currently focuses on the macrocosm (telescopic images): While we attempt to try explain certain phenomena in the universe with the help of tools like photography and simplified geometric, graphic forms, many of these occurrences still remain fundamentally abstract to us.