Between Light and Shadow
Ana Daniela Koch & Tara Olsen
10.04.2025 - 31.05.2025
The exhibition, Between Light and Shadow, brings together the works of two artists who each explore the interplay of light, material, and hidden worlds in their own unique ways. Ana Daniela Koch captures fleeting, sensual moments. Illuminated by dramatic light, her works open a dialogue between beauty, melancholy, and humanity's deepest desires. Her art invites the viewer to adopt new perspectives, discovering interesting details or surreal elements while exploring the unconscious.
Tara Olsen addresses the tension between nature and industry by presenting salt bodies on industrial aluminum pedestals, which elevate them to an almost sacred height. Subtly illuminated by small glass spheres, the light highlights the confrontation between stable, inorganic minerals and the dynamic, synthetic process of transformation. The works invite the viewer to reflect on materiality and the passage of time, contemplating the balance between stability and decay.
Together, the two artists create an exhibition that sheds light on both the outer and inner world in its diverse forms and facets.
ANA DANIELA KOCH
Born in 1992
Lives and works in Berlin and Munich
Education:
2017 – 2024
Fine Arts studies under Prof. Gregor Hildebrandt
Diploma in Fine Arts, Academy of Fine Arts, Munich
Grants and Awards:
2023
Photography Award, H-TEAM e.V. / Munich
2019
Winner of the official visual identity for the Annual Exhibition of the Academy of Fine Arts
Press:
2024
https://www.kunstbar.de/
Selected Exhibitions:
2024
MOMENT / Diploma Exhibition / Academy of Fine Arts / Munich
CONFESSIONS TO THE SUN / Kunstpavillon / Munich
2023
LAUTER PUFFER / Goethestraße 43 / Munich
OBJECTS IN MIRROR ARE CLOSER THAN THEY APPEAR / Galaxie aus Galerie & Rätsel & Wolf / Berlin
DAPHNE / aquabitArt Gallery / Berlin
I will become the wind, the rain and the
MY MURKY WATERS BECAME CLEAR / Haus am Lützowplatz / Berlin
2022
STILL IN MOTION / Zossnerstraße 33 / Berlin
CANAL STREET RESEARCH / New York
2021
LOOKING BACK TO LOOK FORWARD / Galerie Klüser / Munich
2019
SUPERBOOKS / Haus der Kunst / Munich
TARA OLSEN
Born in 1994
Lives and works in Düsseldorf and Athens
Education:
Since 2023
Further studies at the Athens School of Fine Arts (ASFA)
Fine Arts program, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, class of Prof. Martin Gostner
2018 – 2022, University of Fine Arts Münster
Selected Exhibitions:
2025
LA FELCE / Kölner Kunstgalerie / Cologne
2024
NOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUND / Pumpwerk / KV Kreis Rhein-Sieg
SUPERSPORT#3 / Factory-psytrance / Athens
2023
ERECTA / Kö106 / Düsseldorf
2022
PROJECT MAYHEM / ES 365 / Düsseldorf
ÜBERSETZEN / Elektrizitätswerk / Eisenach
2019
VULVIERENDE VENUS / K4 / Düsseldorf