Paper Positions | Edges and Études

Edges and Études brings together two distinct yet resonant artistic positions—Marianne Lang and Michaela Spiegel—each exploring the poetics of form, tension, and embodied experience through their art.

Marianne Lang’s intricately rendered water formations challenge our perception of natural forces. Her meticulously composed, symmetrical wave structures evoke both beauty and threat, combining an almost clinical precision with apocalyptic undertones. In Lang’s work, the natural order is destabilized, giving rise to surreal visions where physics falters and tension prevails.

In contrast, Michaela Spiegel’s ongoing Études series celebrates fluidity, sensuality, and feminist embodiment. Executed in pastel over acrylic-washed paper, her drawings unfold like musical movements—playful, evocative, and deeply intuitive. Her work channels feminist legacies of abstraction, invoking the body not as object, but as presence: joyful, assertive, and transcendent.

Together, these two bodies of work offer a dynamic dialogue between control and spontaneity, structure and sensation. Edges and Études invites viewers to contemplate the aesthetic and conceptual boundaries where form becomes feeling, and where drawing acts as both inquiry and revelation.