In her colorful, expressive works, the artist Ulrike Theusner (*1982) deals with the urban experience of generations X to Z, the world of theater and nocturnal amusements, nature far removed from the digital noise, and people themselves. The spontaneous-looking motifs that she captures in vibrant strokes open up a kaleidoscopic view of our modern society, which at second glance often turns out to be a gloomy, deceptive vision. The artist chooses themes that also characterize the work of August Macke, such as portraits, landscapes, cityscapes and genre scenes. At the same time, she uses a comparably intense and at first seemingly positive colorfulness, which, on closer inspection, shifts, is subversively undermined and sometimes distorted into the grotesque.

The exhibition presents around 80 works, including drawings, prints, paintings and installation objects, and thus opens up a contemporary perspective on August Macke's expressionist oeuvre.