Stella Sieber & Frank Gross

11.03.2022–
24.04.2022

Interior Mirage


Group 1 & Group 2
X-rays (Group 1) were taken of small paintings (Group 2) depicting paintings that my father or I made in the past alongside my father’s home and furniture he built in the 80s and 90s. The unrevealed small paintings‘ priming coat is showing slippers, newspapers or a whip.

Group 3 & Group 4
In a walk-in room in the room made of wooden panels, designs of my father’s furniture and interiors (Group 3) are pinned next to digital drawings of mine (Group 4).

Group 5
New works of his hang on the walls of the gallery - framed prints (Group 5). It remains  open whether these are digitally edited photographs, edited images from the Internet or  a combination of these. You can see rows of motifs with heads , body parts , figures or  flying objects. The four larger graphics obviously show different views of one and the same world.

Group 6
Regardless of their time of origin and author, paintings hang independently from the  other groups to open up spaces in between.

After studying interior design, spending a year at Studio Alchimia and taking part in a  number of furniture exhibitions, Frank Gross has been a designer since the mid-1980s who implements his designs himself.

In the exhibition designs are shown that were largely never realized.(www.2d2do.info)

In my last decade I have dealt with academic painting as an autonomous location facing  an (un)authorized photographic, moving and digital imagery while commenting on such with a fugitive gaze.

Stella Sieber




Stella Sieber “Superior Mirage”, oil on canvas, 82 x 60 cm, 2022



Frank Gross “Untitled”, silk screen, dispersion on canvas, 1983



Stella Sieber, series of six: “Selfemployed Father Paintings”, “Zeichenmaschine", oil on linen, 27 x 20 cm, 2022

Stella Sieber ,series of five: „X-Ray Paintings“, “Peitsche”,, Inkjet print on paper, artist made frame, 82 x 60 cm, 2022

Stella Sieber “Gap 1 of 1”, oil on wooden board, 85 x 120 cm, 2022


Stella Sieber series of six: “Selfemployed Father Paintings”, “Heatwave”, oil on linen, 58 x 20 cm, 2022


Stella Sieber, series of five: „X-Ray Paintings“, “Feuilleton”, Inkjet print on paper, artist made frame, 50 x 60 cm, 2022


Stella Sieber series of six: “Selfemployed Father Paintings”, “Ge malte Kamele über’m Bett”, oil on linen, 30 x 29 cm, 2022


Stella Sieber, series of six: “Selfemployed Father Paintings”, “Deutschland By Night”, oil on linen, 37 x 15 cm, 2022


Stella Sieber, series of five: „X-Ray Paintings“, “Hausschuhe”, Inkjet print on paper, artist made frame, 50 x 60 cm, 2022



Stella Sieber, series of six: “Selfemployed Father Paintings”, “Untitled”, oil on linen, 18 x 16 cm, 2022

Stella Sieber, series of five: „X-Ray Paintings“, “Hausschuhe & Peitsche”, Inkjet print on paper, artist made frame, 42 x 45 cm, 2022

Stella Sieber, series of six: „Selfemployed Father Paintings”, “My father called them a couple and everyone could sit on them”, oil on linen, 35 x 50 cm, 2022

Frank Gross, “Paar”, documentation of furniture ensemble, steel, tubular steel, plywood, lead, clay granules, chipboard, epoxy resin, paints, varnishes, 1983 to 1986

Stella Sieber, series of five: „X-Ray Paintings“, “Untitled”, Inkjet print on paper, artist made frame, 50 x 60 cm, 2022