Noemi Weber critically engages with dominant narratives of Western painting and traditional art history, proposing reinterpretations that expand the established registers of artistic production and reception. Her work reveals the entanglements of gestural painting with ornament and dance, and questions dichotomies between folklore and fine art, as well as individual and collective modes of creation.
Exploring whether a re-coding of painting is possible in light of its historical emergence since the Renaissance, Weber conceives of painting—its materials, mannerisms, and myths—as a structure through which hegemonic power relations persist, yet also as a site open to hybridization, renegotiation, and transformative inhabitation. Her practice thus enables alternative historical narratives that incorporate reflections on the conditions of painting, corporeality,
and the social, personal, and spatial dynamics of artistic processes. ...
Emerging out of a former project space, Drei has been established as a commercial gallery in 2015 by Dennis Hochköppeler and Jakob Pürling in Cologne, Germany. The gallery features an international and trans-generational program with a focus on cross-disciplinary practices and pushes the cooperation with international galleries and institutions.
