01.05. - 03.05.2026
Vernissage 01.05., 18 - 22 Uhr / Opening 01.05., 6 - 10 p.m.
Öffnungszeiten 02.05., 15 - 19 Uhr + 03.05., 13 - 17 Uhr / Opening Hours 02.05., 3 - 7 p.m. + 03.05., 1 - 5 p.m.
100 people. 100 believes. 100 paintings.
the 100 smallest is an independent art project Alice Bischof started in spring 2023.
The idea: Asking 100 people what they believe in – and channelling this powerful energy into 100 5x5 cm paintings, each of which is dedicated to the person so brave to open up to the artist about one of their deepest strongholds.
Inspired by “The Ten Largest” by the world’s allegedly first abstract painter, Swedish Hilma af Klint, Alice Bischof takes up Hilma’s intuition of translating the intangible into material reality – a process she calls matter-realisation into NEUEREALITAET. This is a reality where everything exists at the same level of experiential reality: the material level. Believes thus become beautiful matter-realised preciousness to hold, to look at, and share.
This exhibition brings together more than 80 pieces and their stories. Visitors are invited to participate to the exhibition and share their answers to the question with the artist, who will take the time and matter-realise them – completing this 3-year project.
About the Artist
Alice Bischof (* 1992, Munich) is a painter based in Berlin, Germany, whose work originates from inner visions encountered in states between waking and dreaming. Rather than depicting external reality, her paintings matter-realise perceptual experiences accessed with closed eyes: light in darkness, symbolic configurations, and scenes that operate prior to linguistic articulation.
Bischof’s practice is structured around tensions between form and flow, containment and creation, structure and surrender. Recurring motifs such as starfish, diamonds, mermaids, and columns function as visual signifiers within an interior landscape, constituting elements of a symbolic system associated with liminal modes of perception.
Her work is characterised by luminous chromatic fields emerging from dark grounds, figures situated between legibility and dissolution, and holographic tonalities that operate as perceptual thresholds. These formal qualities articulate an inquiry into how inner experience, perception, and relationality can be rendered visible. Bischof understands painting as a third space — neither exclusively internal nor external, neither solely authored by the artist nor completed by the viewer — within which personal and collective inner worlds intersect. Her images propose subject-subject and subject-object relations not as fixed binaries, but as dynamic relational fields.
Website: www.neuerealitaet.art
Instagram: @neuerealitaet and @the100smallest