DREI PERLEN. UND EIN SEE. UZBEKISTAN- in painting and photography.
QGallery presents from 18th October 2024 the exhibition “THREE PEARLS AND A LAKE. UZBEKISTAN in painting and photography”. In this double exhibition, artist Inge H. Schmidt and photographer Krzysztof Płaza will be showing their works created during their trip to Uzbekistan. Fascinated by the history of the ancient Silk Road, Krzysztof Płaza and Inge H. Schmidt have been traveling through Central Asia for almost two decades. Mostly on arduous routes, packed with rucksacks, cameras and painting utensils, they try to make traces of this route artistically visible. In 2023, they traveled through Uzbekistan. They created works about the three pearls, Samarkand, Bukhara and Xiva, probably one of the most important stops on the historic Silk Road and reminiscent of the fairy tales from 'One Thousand and One Nights'. But the two also 'went' to the north, to a region that is becoming increasingly desolate and deserted, to a place where the once mighty Aral Sea is wasting away and whose history makes you shudder. However, it is precisely this contrast that inspires the two artists immensely. Their works, including some from earlier years, are on display at Q Gallery Berlin.
