Elisa Rungger. The Great Game
Reinsburgstraße 68A
November 29 – December 28, 2024

Opening – Elisa Rungger will be present
Friday, November 29, 2024, 6 pm – 9 pm

In the exhibition "The Great Game", Elisa Rungger invites us to leave everyday life behind and engage with the playful and profound facets of life.

The new works address the need to break through routines and playfully explore the boundaries of everyday reality – be it in a childlike or adult sense.

The works present different motifs – from teddy bears and card games to enigmatic scenes that oscillate between festival, carnival and theater. They ask questions about pleasure, fate, accident, improvisation and the way we perceive and interpret life.

While "misty rose" captures the fleeting, dream-like atmosphere of a festival or a party, "commedia dell'arte" combines life with the improvisation of theater and raises the question, to what extent our everyday lives are shaped by masks and stagings and whether life itself is not a kind of improvisational theater. "Palazzo Fortuna" addresses the interplay of fate, luck and chance as fundamental aspects of life, while "Schatz" focuses on a plush toy that raises questions about value, memory and personal attachment.

Elisa Rungger works with intense, mostly self-mixed colors, which characterize her works through clear contrasts and a special luminosity. Color is used here not only as a design tool, but also to create an atmosphere and emotion that draws the viewer into the scenes depicted. The exhibition "The Great Game" thus becomes an allegory for life: a constant interplay between order and chance, routine and fantasy, seriousness and play. It invites visitors to rediscover the facets of life – and to question themselves in the mirror of the pictures.

Elisa Rungger was born in 1997 in Bruneck, Italy. She has been studying fine art at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Karlsruhe since 2019, first under Franz Ackermann, and is now a master student of Sophie von Hellermann. She lives and works in Karlsruhe, Germany, and Selva di Val Gardena, Italy.