Julia Reisinger. Iniusta iustitia
The studio window at the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf is being transformed into an exhibition space for art. The new ‘Atelierfenster’ project series creates an exhibition space that bridges the gap between indoors and outdoors.
The Kunsthalle Düsseldorf regards the studio as a space for encounter and a laboratory for artistic experimentation. We invite artists to intervene – between the exhibition venue and urban space, between fine art and applied art, between the logic of exhibitions and its absence.
In her work *Iniusta iustutia* (Unjust Justice), created specifically for the Kunsthalle as part of *Atelierfenster 1*, Julia Reisinger combines coloured, translucent films with reflective elements as an analogy for social diversity and the fluidity of boundaries. The colourful installation is reminiscent of the links in a chain. Light and colour shift with a natural dynamism: shades overlap, flow into one another, and seem to dance in a contemplative movement. Amidst the colourful ensemble, yellow and blue, for example, blend together to create green. The primary and mixed colours thus bring the art-theoretical study of colour directly to the very place where it is taught – right into the studio.
On closer inspection, a structure made of mirrored foil becomes visible in the upper centre. Individual chains of links form the outline of an abstracted set of scales, the lowest links of which are reminiscent of two melancholic, sorrowful-looking eyes. The work changes depending on the viewer’s perspective, reflection and position, so that every process of perception undergoes a unique exchange. Viewed from the outside, from the pavement opposite, the motif of the oversized set of scales appears with heightened presence on the Kunsthalle’s façade – fragile and threatening to lose its balance at any moment.
Anyone approaching the reflective scales from inside becomes part of the work themselves. With the Latin title *Iniusta iustitia*, the artist raises questions that arise at the intersection between the Kunsthalle and Düsseldorf’s old town: How do we experience the contrast between prosperity and suffering? What does justice mean in a space where different social realities come into direct contact with one another? What legitimises justice? And what position do we ourselves occupy within this framework? (Source: Kunsthalle Düsseldorf)
Exhibition dates: 11 September 2026 to 17 January 2027