Daniel Weissbach (b.1976 in Berlin, DE – d. 2020, DE) receives his fifth solo exhibition and second posthumous show, Stellen, at Ruttkowski;68 in New York.

Excerpts and details of everyday places form a central point of reference in Weissbach’s œuvre. By isolating these places, Stellen in German, and divorcing them from their original context, Weissbach transforms the quotidian into something unexpected and otherworldly. Within each scene, Weissbach simultaneously explores the permanence of change and the continuity of history. Each frozen moment reveals a build-up of marks and traces, artifacts from life that seem to both elude and represent the inevitable passage of time.

Through this series, Weissbach constructs various geometric grids, often referencing the tiled surfaces of train and subway stations. These zones of transition are then distorted, and once familiar public spaces appear alien and indeterminant. Weissbach’s abstraction transforms the grouting between tiles into sleek lines, which form his unmistakable visual language. Each surface functions like a body, inscribed with scars that preserve the past and hint at histories that are no longer known.

Stellen is part of a three-part exhibition, which began in Düsseldorf, is now on-view in New York, and will travel to Paris for the final component. At the core of this posthumous exhibition is the gallery’s first and most recent publication, Daniel Weissbach aka Cost aka DTagno œuvre, which includes texts and essays by Vincent Grunwald, Gregor Jansen, Olga Hohmann, Thomas Max Waldmann, Jöran Bellin-Lindberg, Robert Kaltenhäuser and Iris Hempelmann. Through this publication, we’re proud to showcase previously unpublished insights into Weissbach’s process and to share the artist’s legacy with a global audience.