We are delighted to welcome you to the group exhibition The Habit of Being. The show features work by six female and three male artists from the gallery programme. The works shown are exemplary for the artists – as far as this criterium can apply to an artistic activity at all.

In the first room, the large painting Versatzstücke by Klodin Erb from 2008 welcomes the audience. This confident painting already contains many elements that Erb will pursue in later groups of works. In the same room hang works by Jamie Isenstein created for the exhibition: four humorous voice clocks, called Mood Clock, which allude to states of mind and desires in different time zones.

The main room is dominated by large-format works. The long wall is taken up by the capital four-part series Hommage to a Triangle by Pierre Haubensak. The historic work was created in 1968 in Zurich for an exhibition at the Svensk - Franska gallery in Stockholm. It was shown the following year in the group exhibition Formen der Farbe / Shapes of Color curated by Harald Szeemann at the Kunsthalle Bern and subsequently at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.

Franziska Furter produced the large-format ink drawing Every Breath You Take especially for the exhibition. It is one of a series of five drawings so far, all executed with a drawing pen. This is a device that was used especially by architects for technical drawings before Rotring pens made this writing instrument (almost) obsolete. The drawings from this group were made on the floor: Furter projected the representations of explosions from mangas onto a lying paper. She then used the drawing pen to spread the ink on the paper.

Clare Goodwin explores forms of "Constructive Nostalgia". With great precision, she produced a wall painting with spatial illusions in whose spatial structure she placed a canvas. She often titles her paintings with two first names, in this case Ron and Sue – thus Goodwin alludes to relational structures, and there the memory and construction of nostalgia is not far away.

In the rear showroom hang works that require a close-up view or an intimate surrounding space. Sebastian Utzni introduces us to his multi-layered world of images with a work from the Scandinavian Landscapes series and several works from the Forms group. The glass engraved with the image of a bed with a base gives an indication of Utzni's choice of motif. The Swedish furniture and furnishing giant IKEA names part of its collection after Scandinavian landscapes. Utzni has now depicted the landscape in the intricate colour woodcut that gives the name to the respective piece of furniture, which can be seen engraved in the glass. In the work group Forms, forms are reproduced that are used in connection with questions of migration. The writing on the forms has been removed and the sections to be filled in by the applicants have been neatly cut out with a laser. The altered forms are reminiscent of the minimalist conceptual art of Lawrence Weiner, Hanne Darboven or Sol Lewitt.

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