Gauli Zitter, Brussels
Jakob Brugge, Katharina Schilling
Gauli Zitter brings together the sculptures of Jakob Brugge and the paintings of Katarina Schilling.
Both artists work with everyday objects and images, but push them into unfamiliar territory. Brugge builds vitrines filled with rubber versions of common things—clothes, shoes, belts, small tools. Arranged in piles or pressed into containers, they create a feeling of both abundance and emptiness. His negative rubber moulds shift the focus further: forms that usually shape the outside world suddenly feel like they are shaping our inner space. The objects he chooses carry multiple histories, moving between harmless, humorous, or quietly unsettling.
Schilling’s paintings, by contrast, slow time down. She paints small, ordinary objects—matches, fruits, needles—as if they were floating in a cosmic or timeless space. Her detailed, flat, and ornament-like style mixes influences from Dutch still life, illuminated manuscripts, and digital imagery. In her hands, perspective collapses, and the picture becomes a place where different eras meet. Her works often feel ritualistic, turning simple objects into symbols of collective memory.
Together, Brugge and Schilling create a shared world where the familiar becomes strange. Objects lose their usual role, images fall out of time, and viewers are invited to look again—more slowly, more curiously—at the things that shape everyday life.