En Plein Air

2025-2026 Düsseldorf/Emsdetten

Düsseldorf/Emsdetten

En Plein Air

Motorhomes, campervans, and caravans symbolise big dreams and longings, and appeal to a deeply rooted human desire: to set off, to be on the move, to discover new places. They embody freedom and mobility without having to sacrifice the comfort of one’s own bed or the security of home.

The work cycle ‘En plein Air / Under the Open Sky’ explores this form of temporary coexistence.

Through concrete models, films and watercolours, the work examines spatial practices from the world of motorhomes, where ‘living’ is intertwined with imaginings of landscape, freedom and security.

Synopsis – Been Everywhere

Been Everywhere is a multi-channel film installation that explores the endless journeys of campers on European motorways. Five monitors arranged in a circle create a carousel-like situation, with four camping stools in the centre inviting visitors to linger. The screens show landscape images edited from 400 clips filmed from a moving car. At regular intervals, caravans and motorhomes move in slow motion through the images – always the same, always different. The circular arrangement connects the sequences into a hypnotic camera movement without beginning or end. The motorhomes move seemingly endlessly in a circle, forming a peculiar landscape.

Oliver Gather, En Plein Air / Unter freiem Himmel, Weltkunstzimmer, Düsseldorf, 2025

Escape to Nature. Beton, Light Projection, Welkunstzimmer, Düsseldorf, 2025
©Jana Buch

Carousel: Been everywhere. 5-channel video installation
Monitors, camping stools,
Weltkunstzimmer, Düsseldorf, 2025
©Jana Buch

Désire En Plein Air, short film
Düsseldorf, 2025
©Jana Buch

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Located right next to a caravan site, Galerie Münsterland invites you to the exhibition ‘Oase Emsdetten’.
Here, artists Oliver Gather and Katharina Maderthaner explore two poles of coexistence:
the need for safe, secure comfort and the simultaneous urge for freedom.
Living is in flux – and a field of tension unfolds between the interior and the outside world, raising questions of retreat, mobility and self-positioning.
Using a variety of media and materials – from cast concrete and ceramics to large-scale installations and video works, right through to watercolours – Gather and Maderthaner develop a multi-layered reflection on freedom as a spatial, social and emotional category.

Escape to nature, "Oase"Emsdetten 2026

Carousel, "Oase" Emsdetten 2026

Vantasy, "Oase" Emsdetten 2026

Désire en plein Air, "Oase" Emsdetten 2026