Where Light Lands brings together works by Donald Schenkel, Jeske Haak and Lisette Schumacher.
Within the exhibition, the space of the gallery plays an active role. Natural daylight shifts across the room during the day, changing how colours read, how bronze catches the light and how surfaces reveal their depth. The works respond to this movement and to each other.
The paintings of Donald Schenkel and Lisette Schumacher each approach colour and material in a different way. Schenkel works directly with the physical qualities of oil paint, building layered surfaces where traces of the process remain visible. Grain, interruptions and tonal shifts become part of the final composition. Schumacher’s work focuses on colour, transparency and rhythm. Subtle layers create surfaces that shift as light changes, allowing the image to unfold slowly over time.
Alongside the paintings are the bronze sculptures of Jeske Haak. Her forms draw inspiration from hidden structures in nature, ranging from microscopic life to geological formations. Cast in bronze and finished by hand, the sculptures carry both weight and presence while retaining small irregularities that reveal the making process.
Together the works create a balanced presentation in which painting and sculpture reinforce one another, inviting a slower way of looking.