Viscous City
Evelyn Plaschg, Vanessa Joan Müller 

Accompanying the exhibition Viscous City by Evelyn Plaschg, a publication of the same name will be released by Revolver Publishing, Berlin. The book features new essays by Vanessa Joan Müller and Kari Rittenbach, each offering distinct theoretical perspectives on the artist’s recent work. The evening centers on the presentation of Vanessa Joan Müller’s contribution, which she will present in person.

In her essay Views of the Indeterminate, Müller approaches Plaschg’s painting with a finely tuned sensitivity to the interweaving of bodies, pictorial space, and urban texture. Her reflections begin with the hybrid perceptual frameworks of contemporary life, in which cityscapes and subjectivities continuously permeate one another. In vivid and evocative language, Müller describes how Plaschg extracts the seemingly fleeting, mundane, and peripheral from digital observation and translates it into the slowness of painterly processes — transforming it into condensed surfaces charged with atmosphere, desire, and the echo of collective feeling.

Vanessa Joan Müller’s contribution brings into focus the extent to which Plaschg’s images oscillate between abstraction and figuration, developing a visual grammar that follows the logic of cinematic fragmentation: close-ups, blurs, rhythm, and cuts — motifs that in painting arrive at a kind of poetic stillness. Müller’s text reads as an atmospheric parallel to the artist’s painterly practice: analytically precise, yet imbued with a poetic attentiveness to ambiguity and the in-between.

The evening invites audiences to engage more deeply with Evelyn Plaschg’s work — beyond the exhibition itself, within a discursive format that centers on the interplay of image, text, and perception. Following the reading, there will be an opportunity for conversation and for purchasing the book.