Image: Reinhard Ernst Museum, Wiesbaden
‘Wolfgang Hollegha. Denk nicht, schau!’ is identified as a special exhibition running from 15 March to 25 October 2026.
The exhibition presents Hollegha as a painter whose work begins with observing nature, where a dialogue develops between representation and abstraction. Hollegha described the visible world as the starting point he needed: without it, he said, what he made would be merely arbitrary scribbling; he needed the visible as a basis in order to change it.
That position places observation at the beginning of a movement between the recognizable and the abstract, while retaining the visible world as an essential point of departure. The exhibition’s description therefore connects Hollegha’s painting to both the act of looking at nature and the subsequent alteration of what has been seen.
Hollegha also exhibited in the United States alongside painters including Helen Frankenthaler, Morris Louis and Kenneth Noland. The American critic Clement Greenberg, described as one of the most influential US art critics, regarded Hollegha as being on an equal footing with leading figures of Abstract Expressionism.
The presentation describes Hollegha as highly relevant at a time when visual stimuli are ubiquitous. Its closing date is 25 October 2026, making the exhibition’s stated final opportunity one that ends on that date.
