Possibilities of an Island. Thinking in Images from Gerstenberg to Scharf

The world is restless, and it is difficult. How fortunate, then, that islands exist — out in the open air, or inwardly imagined, discoverable anywhere: at home or in other places entirely.

Art collections, and private ones in particular, are islands of a special kind. Free from any pressure to justify themselves, they follow their own logic, shaped by personal passion rather than institutional mandate. This exhibition takes that idea as its starting point, bringing together works that span the collecting histories associated with figures from Gerstenberg to Scharf, and asking what it means to think in images — to find, in art, a place apart.