Art Karlsruhe 2026

BBA is delighted to be attending Art Karlsruhe 2026. We will be presenting the work of 6 of our represented artists: Verena Bachl, Rhys Himsworth, Katarina Kudelova, Vincent van Gaalen, Nicolas Vionnet, and Katsutoshi Yuasa

Verena Bachl

Verena Bachl follows a post-minimalist approach in her sculptures and installations, characterised by a strong conceptual foundation. By employing charged materials — metaphorically and physically — such as marble, silicon, fluorescent tubes and magnets, she stages matter and its interactions as works of art.

Some of her works incorporate industrial objects as architectural structures through which she explores the potential of material memory and processes of storage by means of energy and information. The presence of her chosen materials often evokes both mystical and digital associations, allowing physical phenomena to transform into sculptural form.

Rhys Himsworth

Rhys Himsworth is an artist working at the junction of analogue and digital media. His paintings, prints, sculptures, photographs and multimedia installations attempt to form a discourse around issues of surveillance, authorship, the post natural and geopolitical. His work often utilises redundant electronics and e-waste as a material and medium.

For the last decade he has hacked, appropriated, and shredded and re-assembled various electronic and digital devices to create works and installations that blur the physical and discarnate; documenting a period in history that marks the transition from a temporal orientated experience of the world to an online one.

Katarina Kudelova

Katarina Kudelova is a Slovakian artist based in France. Her childhood spent amongst nature in a family of forest engineers - a widespread profession in a country marked by mountains and forests - has had a considerable impact on her artistic practice. Her works often represent woodland animals from deers to rabbits and tree-adorned landscaped teeming with silent life.

In her artistic process, Kudelova creates with mixed techniques, employing various mediums from barbed wire to firecrackers from which no human or animal incarnation is safe. The unstable and explosive undercurrent of her artworks screams danger and acts out the immutable cycle of change and decay.

Vincent van Gaalen

Dutch photographer Vincent van Gaalen travels to the darkest areas of Europe where nocturnal darkness remains untouched by artificial light pollution. Through his meticulous photography, van Gaalen explores the age-old tension between human creation and the autonomy of nature.

In his ongoing project Absence (started in 2020), van Gaalen ventures into Europe's last truly dark regions to capture a world where humanity is absent. Working alone in these landscapes, lit only by the moon and stars, he photographs the subtle interplay of natural elements like leaves, stones, water, and air. This nocturnal darkness enhances contrasts, transforms outlines, and shifts perception from reason to imagination. The barely visible landscapes become hauntingly tangible, highlighting humanity’s vulnerability amidst nature's enduring autonomy.

Nicolas Vionnet

Nicolas Vionnet’s primary medium is acrylic on canvas. His chiefly large-scale works play with space and expanse. Although almost always realistic, his paintings have more in common with abstract images than real landscapes. He paints disruptive grey strips across his clouds and allows coloured surfaces to drip down the canvas in accordance with the laws of gravity. Vionnet is fascinated by such irritations: interventions that approach and create a non-hierarchical dialogue with the environment. This discussion opens up a field of tension, which allows the viewer an intensive glimpse of both these phenomena.

Vionnet uses the same strategy for his installations and objects. Irritation and integration - and a subtle and precise intervention of the object. Vionnet: “The phrase ‘nonhierarchical dialogue with the environment‘ describes my conviction that the artwork itself may never be dominant. Indeed, there should be no hierarchy. Ideally, there is a balance between work and environment. This balance allows the viewer to perceive both components simultaneously.”

Katsutoshi Yuasa

Katsutoshi Yuasa is a contemporary Japanese artist whose practice critically examines the relationship between photography and traditional woodcut printmaking. At the core of Yuasa's practice is a profound exploration of sight, perception, memory, and remembrance. His work often uses ubiquitous, contemporary photographic imagery sourced from the internet, his own camera, or historical archives.

The time-intensive nature of carving is a key conceptual element, acting as an embodied form of remembrance. The final print, with its distinctive texture and grain, serves as a physical, deliberate record of a moment that was originally captured in an instant. The prints often possess a subtle, nostalgic quality, reflecting on the fragility and mediation of memory.