news – Lou Baltasar

Edge Detection, Thisthat Gallery, Dusseldorf

I’m thrilled to be part of the group exhibition Edge Detection, presenting works developed within the context of the Odyssey Project alongside fellow artists from the class of Rita McBride at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf.

Thisthat Gallery
Hansaallee 22
Düsseldorf-Oberkassel

Edge Detection Ausstellung May 18 – June 15, 2025 ( visiting with appointment )

Artists:
Eliza Ballesteros
Erika Hock
Josephine Scheuer
Katerina Matsagkos
Lou Baltasar
Monika Stricker
Rebecca Grundmann
Rosa Sarholz
Wanda Koller

In image processing, “edge detection” is the algorithmic process through which stark contrasts within an image are located, delineating structural forms, boundaries, and points of transition. In this exhibition, however, the term is repurposed as a potent metaphor—a conceptual apparatus to reveal those subtle yet acute energies inhabiting the margins of the social body, perceptual experience, and visual culture.

“Edge Detection”gathers together the practices of female artists from Rita McBride’s class, whose work continuously probes the boundaries of perception, bodily politics, linguistic fissures, and spatial sensibilities. Rather than operating from any presumed center, these practices cultivate tension from positions of peripherality, generating new modalities of seeing within blurred and ambiguous territories. Traversing scales—from microscopic neural and cellular sensations to macroscopic ruptures within institutional histories, social frameworks, and structures of power—these works illuminate terrains of female experience that remain suppressed, unarticulated, or altogether unrecognized.

At its heart, the exhibition poses an urgent question: within the increasingly intricate architectures of contemporary imagery and meaning-making, how might we freshly identify, delineate, and even generate novel edges? Can the artistic production of these female practitioners itself be understood as a sophisticated form of edge detection—an aesthetic intervention that is simultaneously acute, delicate, and provocatively disruptive? (Text: Thisthat Gallery)

ArtArtist 2025

I am happy to participate at ArtArtist 2025 with many wonderful colleges. Come and say hi.
ArtArtist2025– parallel to Art Dusseldorf: Hansaallee 190, Dusseldorf
https://artartist.co/ausstellung-2025/

“Niederlassung 365”, a group show at Erkrather Str. 365 in Düsseldorf, 20 – 22 September 2024:

Opening hour: Fr 7pm – 10 pm, Sa 2pm – 8pm, Su 12pm – 6pm

I’m excited to be showcasing some of my sculptures and prints alongside many incredible artists. Come by and say hello!

My video work “Girl Talk” is on view at Küstlerverein Malkasten Dusseldorf:

In the rotunda of the Hentrichhaus, from October 16th to November 15th, 12PM to 9PM.

Video still “Girl Talk”

Some images of my work from the group show “Die Grosse 2023” at Museum Kunstpalast

Surrounded by the inspiring company of extraordinary artists, like Berit Schneidereit, Johannes Post, Daniele Franzella, Joel Roters, Michel Sauer, Julia Bünnagel, Kai Richter, Jonas Maas, Annette Wesseling, Christine Erhard, Irina Matthes, Sebastian Riemer, Boris Becker, Judith Samen, Benjamin Katz, Angelika Trojarnski, Morgain Schäfer, Christoph Westermeier, Anna Mirbach, Sebastian Wickeroth, Lars Breuer (background, left wall), Gaby Terhuven (back wall, left), Tyra Schmidt, Katja Schtucke, Oliver Sieber, Julia Zinnbauer, Simone Klerx (background, right wall), Markus Vater, Ulrike Möschel, to mention just a few of them.

Paintings and Sculptures Converge, May 23, 2023

I am currently combining my passion for modular sculptures with my fascination for vibrant colours. In my recent project I use shapes, cut from wood to print them directly onto unstretched canvas rolls. The canvases can be hung directly on the wall (even rolled on the bottom if the wall is not high enough). My studio space is limited, so, currently I can hardly snap an image without having some of my sculptures on the way.