FLAGS ON THE HILLS
Jochen Kitzbihler is exhibiting a selection of works on paper at the Les Pros Bilingues language school in Château Bois Briand (address below).
Exhibition opening on November 28, 2025, 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.- You are cordially invited!
Visits after November 28 are welcome by appointment.
Visits after November 28 are welcome by appointment.
November 28, 2025 Conversation breakfast (English) with Jochen Kitzbihler and Paige Bowman from 8:00 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.
Les Pros Bilingues 10 rue du Bois Briand, 44300 Nantes
Les Pros Bilingues 10 rue du Bois Briand, 44300 Nantes
Admission is free — seats are limited, so don't hesitate to write to me directly to reserve your spot!
High-contrast, serial black-and-white images show laser-scanned mountain landscapes in artificially digitized representations (so-called hillshades). Houses and vegetation have been eliminated from the software-generated landscapes. The sculptor treats these "untouched" landscape topographies like stone material to be worked on: they are cut into, cut out, rotated, parts are pushed out or extended.
A wall collage of five strips of a divided mountain and valley landscape were crumpled rather arbitrarily and then unfolded again (Zwischen den Welten, 2017). The resulting bas-relief plays with the illusion of an apparent correspondence with the black-and-white hillshades – our perception is put to the test.
These terrain images are complemented by delicate paper and ink collages, which were created during a trip to Japan with minimal, readily available materials from a handmade paper sketchbook (handmade paper, endpaper, adhesive bookbinding tape, and ink). These collages (Crossing Sumiyoshi River, 1998) are deeply inspired by the travel impressions of the sensually reduced and contemplatively anchored Japanese cultural tradition, which forms the basis of Jochen Kitzbihler's oeuvre.
A wall collage of five strips of a divided mountain and valley landscape were crumpled rather arbitrarily and then unfolded again (Zwischen den Welten, 2017). The resulting bas-relief plays with the illusion of an apparent correspondence with the black-and-white hillshades – our perception is put to the test.
These terrain images are complemented by delicate paper and ink collages, which were created during a trip to Japan with minimal, readily available materials from a handmade paper sketchbook (handmade paper, endpaper, adhesive bookbinding tape, and ink). These collages (Crossing Sumiyoshi River, 1998) are deeply inspired by the travel impressions of the sensually reduced and contemplatively anchored Japanese cultural tradition, which forms the basis of Jochen Kitzbihler's oeuvre.