# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Great opening of "Who is the King" by Monika Thiele
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 24 Jan, 2026 at 06:00 pm – Sat, 24 Jan, 2026 at 08:30 pm
- **Event Description**: GALERIE SUPPER opens its exhibition year with Monika Thiele's solo exhibition "WHO IS THE KING"

The artist will be present. 
 
Dear Sir or Madam, dear friends of GALERIE SUPPER,

Monika Thiele opens our 2026 exhibition year with her solo exhibition WHO IS THE KING. She began studying art in 1987 at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts under Eberhard von der Erde. In 1991, she continued her studies at the Free Art Academy in Stuttgart and finally graduated in 1994 from the Karlsruhe Academy of Fine Arts under Max Kaminski. The paintings bring together her profound engagement with nature, the roots of world history, and a multi-layered pictorial structure. She creates color-intensive and dynamic visual worlds with depth, which convey the artist's thoughts in every gesture.
At the end of the exhibition, there will be a book presentation by the artist. This new publication will feature illustrations of Monika Thiele's current works.

Monika Thiele found her visual language early on in her large-format thread drawings, in which she combines the painterly and the textile. For many years, thread has defined her complex visual language, which speaks of formal precision and inner depth. Since 2018, paper has become increasingly present in her work, becoming the dominant material in her more recent pieces. Monika Thiele cuts, tears, layers, and perforates paper, creating intersections instead of mesh structures, surfaces instead of lines.

Initially, the paper works, with their emphasis on large surfaces and hard contours, form a stark contrast to the delicate and permeable thread works. As the process progresses, however, the closed surfaces dissolve more and more, oscillating between showing and hiding, forming filigree structures and maturing into curved, almost soft silhouettes. The artist draws on the diversity and versatility of paper as a material: from smooth to textured, from colorful to monochrome. Most of the papers she uses are hand-painted and sprayed by her, but also printed using various techniques before she cuts them up and reassembles them into a new whole with a visual connection. By primarily using elements she has painted by hand, the artist explores the painterly quality of paper collage as opposed to applying paint directly to the image carrier.

In Monika Thiele's work, paper represents load-bearing capacity. She uses drawing paper as a medium for her images, but she does not view paper solely as a passive surface; rather, she sees it primarily as a load-bearing material that transports color and form into the pictorial space, thereby becoming a messenger of meaningful narratives. Sound, depth, form, and resonance are essential principles that permeate Monika Thiele's artistic language. While working with paper may seem like a break from working with thread, it is in fact a return to the core of her work—a multiplicity and complexity—in an artistic and poetic sense.

The artist's working method is time-consuming. Many hours of iteration, rearrangement, and reevaluation of each individual paper fragment are required before the final image composition is achieved. Monika Thiele's paper collages are thus also a physical gesture, in that the pictorial space is condensed by the application of layer upon layer.

In her work, water is not a concrete motif or physical medium. Rather, the artist draws on the close connection between water and life, growth, and renewal that is anchored in most cultures, as well as the spiritual tradition's significance of water for emotions and feelings, and translates this into a conceptual and abstract metaphor of movement, fluidity, and inwardness.

In a new series by the artist, fragments and diversity interact to create dense, plant-like structures whose basic element is the leaf motif. Leaf by leaf, a lush visual world unfolds, featuring fantastical plant species whose flora blurs the line between the exotic and the familiar, remaining botanically indeterminate. The leaf in particular is a constant motif in Monika's paper works, representing the transitions in the cycle of life; it heralds new beginnings and also refers to vanitas. But it is only the rise of water in the tree's vessels that causes the first green shoots and leaf buds to sprout in spring, while in autumn the retreat of water from the crowns causes the leaves to gradually sink to the ground, only to grow again the following year. The leaf ultimately embodies the cycle of life itself, growing through the power of nutrient-rich soil and ultimately decaying back into nutrient-rich soil. It serves as a water reservoir and generally represents the virtue of nourishment in the sense of food, fertility, and growth. In Thiele's work, however, it goes beyond this, and the leaf becomes a symbol of spiritual flourishing, creation, and creativity. Through the layering and compression of sprayed and glued, closed and open paper elements, a plant landscape emerges that literally grows during the artist's working process, blossoming from her artistic creativity. Round shapes or discs are also familiar protagonists in the artist's pictorial space, surrounded or flowed around by smaller fragments and mostly referring to the full silhouette of the moon. Alongside the leaf, this celestial body is a central motif in the artist's oeuvre. It refers to the tidal current, dividing it into a constant stream of ebb and flow. In mythology and spiritual teachings, water and the moon are also closely linked, to the extent that both elements are believed to exert a transformative power on the human soul.

Monika Thiele develops the art-historical subject of the moonlit landscape as a place of longing into a landscape of the soul as a projection surface for feelings. Like no other element, water exhibits an immanent irregular state between order and chaos; it oscillates between contour and indeterminacy, between surface and depth, between silence and roar, between constancy and restlessness, between form and feeling.

Monika Thiele's works always deal with a poetic-artistic exploration of these transitions. With and through fragments of paper, she stages border crossings, provokes encounters, reveals an in-between, and provides impulses for transparency, flow, and reflection.

With best regards from Baden-Baden
Yours sincerely, GALERIE SUPPER
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/baden-baden/great-opening-of-who-is-the-king-by-monika-thiele/200029512909107
- **Event Categories**: art, exhibitions, fine-arts, drawing-painting
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 10

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Baden-baden
- **state**: BW
- **country**: Germany
- **location**: Kreuzstraße 3, 76530 Baden-Baden, Germany
- **lat**: 48.76009
- **long**: 8.23951
- **full address**: Kreuzstraße 3, 76530 Baden-Baden, Germany, Kreuzstraße 3, 76530 Baden-Baden, Deutschland, Baden-baden, Germany

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Sat, 24 Jan, 2026 at 06:00 pm
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