18/08/2026
📣 New Artist Announcement
We’re delighted to welcome 𝑬𝒎𝒎𝒂 𝑲𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈 to the gallery. Emma joined us this spring, and her work was introduced to our audience in the exhibition Inner Spaces.
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Emma Kling (1996)’s artistic practice centers on the processes of translation and transformation between painting, sculpture, installation, and text. She conceives of her works as open spaces of inquiry, where personal experience and theoretical research intertwine and mutually shape one another. Her paintings are created on canvas and wood, but also take the form of sculptural elements, installations, texts, and publications.
The process of self-discovery, the perception of the body, and its continuous transformation play a prominent role in her work. A recurring motif is the “snail-shaped changing room”, familiar from the beaches of Lake Balaton, which serves as a metaphor for transience, metamorphosis, and the shifting states of identity. The tension between the private and the public, the internal and the external, and protection and vulnerability is a defining organizing principle in her work. Her paintings often feature fluid forms, multiple perspectives, shadows, absence, and negative spaces. She is particularly interested in everything that remains hidden or becomes visible only indirectly: the imprints of the body, shadow as a psychological and social metaphor, and the visual representation of invisible labor and experiences.
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Emma KLING
Spiral Changing Room, 2026
oil, wood, steel
200×165×130cm
Emma KLING
You Can‘t Ghost a Ghost 7., 2026
Oil on wood
60×40cm
