KORNFELD Galerie Berlin is pleased to present works by the artist Dieter Jung in the exhibition „The Light Behind". A rare opportunity to see a concentrated selection of his groundbreaking holographic art. The exhibition centres on the work "Pendulum und sein Schatten" and the holograms, accompanied by paintings, drawings and graphics from the last few decades.

The exhibition's standout feature is a vibrant holographic forest, a spectacle engaging in a continuous dialogue with the ever-shifting light conditions of both the gallery's interior and the external space adjacent to the garden-facing windows. This section of the exhibition transforms with each passing hour, making the holographic image a dynamic visual marvel that transcends individual perspectives. Functioning as translucent canvases, the holograms become artistic moments unfolding in the present, embodying the aesthetics of the moment in a direct sense—a form of kairos poetry.

The concept of the exhibition centers around the hologram, Dieter Jung’s passion and prowess which earned him his worldwide reputation. The hologram is fractually structured. Each individual segment of the image body contains its whole. Even when fragmented, we can see the entire composition. The same applies to the individual works in the exhibition. They have been carefully selected so that each individual exhibit contains the artist's huge oeuvre, which consists of more than 20,000 pieces.

Dieter Jung began exploring the particle-wave dualism of quantum physics in his paintings back in the 1970s in New York and Paris. His filigree coloured pencil drawings are meticulous studies of how lines and delicate nuances of colour can be brought into a harmonious relationship with one another. The large-format canvas paintings anticipate and reflect his light art in equal measure. The network in which Dieter Jung has developed and established himself artistically includes the ZERO artists Piene, Mack and Uecker as well as Gerhard Richter's colour and geometry games. The reference to Alexander Calder appears with a beautifully filigree mobile, the "Navigator" from 1996/97, which hovers in front of the painting "See Through Landscape" from 1982 and seems to form an indissoluble unity with it.

Furthermore you will be treated to a selection of Dieter Jung's lesser known works, which nevertheless epitomise his extremely heterogeneous oeuvre. Jung's close collaboration with the great intellectuals of the twentieth century, which he cultivated throughout his life, is reflected in the text-experimental hologram on the Prague cultural philosopher Vilém Flusser. Peter Weibel, who dedicated the most extensive solo exhibition to Jung to date at the Centre for Art and Media (ZKM) in Karlsruhe in 2019, also appears here.

Siegfried Zielinski