Name: Barbara Muhr: Remember that summer
Start: 2026-07-17T21:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-08-29T19:00:00+02:00
Location: Schaulager Erdel

Barbara Muhr brings memory, color and figure into vibrant tension

With Remember that summer Barbara Muhr presents a solo exhibition at the Galerie Erdel in Schaulager Regensburg, combining large-format painting, mixed media, and a precise observation of the present. Between portrait, gesture, and abstraction, an art experience emerges that understands memory not as a reflection, but as a living aesthetic experience.

Painting between type and temperament

Barbara Muhr works with colored contours, graphic placements, and flat picture spaces, in which figures emerge like snapshots from a culturally charged reality. Her works intertwine precision and impulse, observation and coincidence, tragedy and comedy. It is precisely this tension that gives the exhibition its special atmosphere: The eye gets caught on the lines, the color opens the space, and the motif continually tips between narrative clarity and abstract openness.

Between portrait, memory, and present

At the center is the typology of figures. Muhr is interested in how we unconsciously assign categories to people and how cultural images shape our perception. Her painting responds to this with a clever mix of objectivity and rupture. Props from the here and now, youthful bodies, expressive surfaces, and gestural interpolations create a visual language that historically connects to the tradition of figurative painting while simultaneously transferring it to the present.

The work with acrylic, oil, chalks, spray, and tape enhances this impression. Thus, works are created that do not narrate smoothly, but open experiential spaces. Those who enter the exhibition experience painting as a space of thought: sensual, reflective, and full of friction.

Galerie Erdel as a fitting resonance space

The Schaulager of Galerie Erdel provides an ideal framework for this presentation. The space on the Danube in Regensburg is designed for concentrated viewing of works and allows the large-format pieces to act in their full presence. The clear hanging, the calm light, and the open architecture enhance that perception which Barbara Muhr's art demands: look closely, compare, associate, and think further.

The exhibition is aimed at all those who not only want to observe contemporary art but wish to experience it in the interplay of form, material, and meaning. Especially for art-interested visitors, a multifaceted access to current figurative painting and its cultural references opens up here.

Conclusion: Remember that summer promises a concentrated, poetic, and at the same time intellectually stimulating exhibition. Those who experience Barbara Muhr's painting live discover how powerfully memory, figure representation, and color dramaturgy come together in space. A visit is definitely worthwhile.