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wach Kunstraum

Program

General

Artists

David Hepp

Hsu Che-Yu & Chen Wan-Yin

Harumi Miyato

Peter Holzhauer

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wach Kunstraum (Bremen)

wach Kunstraum is an exhibition space in Bremen, founded and directed by Kuo-Wei Lin. Its programme combines exhibitions, editions, publications, workshops, driven by sustained interest in image-making, from narrative construction to technique and imprint, held by social, political, and public-space concerns, and by interlocation: bridges an art space builds between Bremen’s scene and international networks.

Recent projects: Anti-Ghost, with Harun Farocki and Antje Ehmann; Ombres portées, with Hsu Che-Yu & Chen Wan-Yin and Jochen Lempert and more. wach Kunstraum operates as a site for rigorous, artist-driven inquiry.

Proposal

Shadow Now gathers four positions around one premise: shadow as an active, intermediary gray space, belonging neither to the white cube nor the black box. Between wood and metal, image and paint, body and data, light and film, gray marks the threshold where perception recalibrates. Resonating with wach Kunstraum’s Bremen program Ombres Portées: The Gaze in the Shadow, the exhibition treats shadow not as void but as relation: the space where material, gesture, and history converge.

David Hepp

David Hepp (b. 1989, Greußenheim, Germany) trained as a carpenter in Würzburg (2005–2006) and as a woodcarver in Bischofsheim an der Rhön (2006–2009), attended the Master School of Woodcarving in St. Ulrich, Italy (2010–2011), before studying fine art at the Hochschule für Künste Bremen, where he received his diploma in 2017 and completed a Meisterschüler year under Prof. Ingo Vetter in 2018, supported by a scholarship from the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (2015–2018). His solo exhibitions include mea sure (K25, Lucerne, 2017), Rips messina, fb090 (Galerie Mitte, Bremen, 2019), and AC (adhocraum, Bochum, 2020), alongside group presentations at Kunsthalle Bremen (Resonanz, 2023), Weserburg Museum für moderne Kunst (So wie wir sind / The Way We Are, since 2024), and, most recently, a two-person exhibition with Gregor Gaida at White-Dog-Galerie, Weil am Rhein (2026). He lives and works in Bremen.

Wk Davidhepp Sämtliche Zusammenschnitte (6) 2025 30x25x10cm Back Kuowei Lin

Wk Davidhepp Sämtliche Zusammenschnitte (6) 2025 30x25x10cm Front Kuowei Lin

Wk Davidhepp Untitled 2022 Dimensionsvariable Kuowei Lin

David Hepp 1989 Greußenheim Germany Img 7072

Hsu Che-Yu & Chen Wan-Yin

Hsu Che-Yu (b. 1985, Taiwan, based in Taipei and Amsterdam) completed his MFA at Tainan National University of the Arts (2009–2014), followed by the post-academic programme at HISK, Ghent (2019–2020), Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains (Tourcoing, 2020–2022) and a residency at the Rijksakademie, Amsterdam (2022–2024). His video and installation work explores how memory, private and collective, is constructed and visualized rather than simply recorded. He has received the Videonale Award of the Fluentum Collection (2021), the Loop Barcelona Video Art Production Award (Han Nefkens Foundation, 2020), and the Taishin Annual Grand Prize (2016), with exhibitions at MOCA Taipei, the Joan Miró Foundation Barcelona, the Gwangju Biennale, the Bienal de São Paulo, and the Shanghai Biennale.

Chen Wan-Yin moves between research and performance. She is an external PhD candidate in Modern and Contemporary Art at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, where her doctoral research examines East Asian media art and how colonial history and folklore traditions inform it, and she previously worked as an editor and writer for Artist Magazine, Taiwan. As a performer, she collaborates with Hsu Che-Yu, notably in Three Mourning Practices, a project staging performance alongside taxidermy to examine how institutions construct meaning around non-human life and historical loss.

Harumi Miyato

Harumi Miyato (b. 1992, Tokyo; lives and works in Bremen) studied oil painting at Tokyo University of the Arts before completing her Fine Art degree at the Hochschule für Künste Bremen under Stephan Baumkötter and Vincent Haynes, where she was awarded the Free Arts University Prize in 2025. Miyato transfers found commercial photographs, tourism brochures, and stock imagery onto canvas, reworking them with paint to transform mundane digital media into works of painterly subtlety that balance mechanical reproduction with the singular gesture of the hand. Her work has been featured in exhibitions including PRODUZENTINNEN 2026* at Galerie Mitte Bremen, the Bremer Förderpreis für Bildende Kunst at Städtische Galerie Bremen, solo presentations at Galerie FLUT and Ostertorsteinweg 40–41, and group shows such as SPILL OVER (Berlin).

Wk Harumimiyato Meer (sea) 2023 Laser Print Collage On Wood Panel, 30 × 24 Cm Kuowei Lin

Wk Harumimiyato Pådrag, 2026, Photo Transfer, Acrylic On Canvas, 18 X 25 Cm Kuowei Lin

Peter Holzhauer

Peter Holzhauer (US, based in Berlin) holds a BFA from the Art Institute of Boston (2004) and an MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles (2007). He relocated to Los Angeles in 2005 and spent close to two decades photographing the city while teaching at USC Roski School of Art and Design (2011–2024), UC Riverside (2010– 2013, 2017–2019), Pasadena City College (2020–2024), Otis College and California State University campuses, before relocating to Berlin, where he is now based. His solo exhibitions include Untitled, Los Angeles (No Moon LA, 2022), First Stone for a Film (Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica, 2019), and Works in the Lounge (Night Gallery, Los Angeles, 2011); recent group exhibitions include PlayTime – Narrative Operative Images at wach Kunstraum, Bremen (2026), Life in the Basement, Berlin (2025), and Iteration and Reproduction at The Fulcrum Press, Los Angeles (2024), alongside presentations at the Hammer Museum and LACMA. His work is held in the collections of the Hammer Museum, LACMA, the Eastman Museum, the Newark Museum, and Fundación/Colección Jumex.