David Bade, Nathan Henderson en Sebastiaan Schlicher

Impressive group exhibition

David Bade's (1970) art is characterised by a strong social commitment. In his own work, he broaches current themes such as discrimination, social inequality and economic power structures, which he depicts in a catchy, sometimes absurdist way. The humour in the work makes the often fraught subjects accessible and offers an opening to a positive approach to social problems.

Nathan Henderson (b 1978) is an American artist living and working in Berlin. In his youth, he wanted to be a cartoonist but also developed a fascination for the old masters that he started copying. In the often large drawings you see virtuoso quotes from artists such as Giotto, Van Eijk and Albrecht Dürer in which dot characters akin to Disney, The Simpsons or underground comics appear, a peculiar mix of high and low culture, humour and seriousness, present and past.

Sebastiaan Schlicher (1974) started the series Pink Adrenaline during the lockdowns of the corona pandemic: the nickname of a substance that can induce delusions and thought disorders. The drawings have an overwhelming energy of swirling lines in which faces and figures loom and fictional diary notes haunt. A similar energy have his noise machines constructed from a jumble of transistors, resistors and wires that produce unpredictable sounds and rhythms