Ivana Matić & Elpida Tsaousidis – Kopf, Herz, Schwelle

From 14 March to 16 May 2026, Emde Gallery is pleased to present the double exhibition "Kopf, Herz, Schwelle" (Head, Heart, Threshold). The exhibition brings together new works by Ivana Matić and Elpida Tsaousidis that deal with tradition and cultural patterns of interpretation. The focus is on how rituals, belief systems and superstition shape our perception – and how inner states and uncertainty manifest themselves in signs, patterns and images.
While Ivana Matić has already been represented with a solo exhibition at the gallery, works by Elpida Tsaousidis will be presented here for the first time.

The exhibition takes its title from Ivana Matić's latest series, "Kopf, Herz, Schwelle" (2026). In delicate pyrographic drawings, she references the bean oracle rooted in the Balkan region – a centuries-old practice of interpreting formations and patterns made from bean seeds in order to find answers to existential questions. Here, the oracle does not appear as an irrational source of inspiration, but as an interface between everyday life and transcendence. At a time when data-based algorithms calculate forecasts and model probability scenarios, traditional bean reading seems almost like a historical counterpart to the digital "oracle" of our present.

Elpida Tsaousidis' work also moves within the tension between the visible and the invisible. Her photographs and drawings were created in a specific location – a clinic – and oscillate between documentation and subjective perception. Individual remnants of memory and dreamlike sequences condense into atmospheric pictorial spaces. Mysticism does not appear here as a religious postulate, but as an experience of the unspeakable – as a state between consciousness and unconsciousness.

While Ivana Matić depicts and examines traditional systems of order and symbols, Elpida translates the subjective perception of a highly emotional space into visual fragments.

The vernissage will take place on Friday, 13 March 2026, from 6 to 8:30 pm – a date that subtly and humorously references the theme. For the midissage on 18 April 2026, the exhibition will be rehung: as with the renewed throwing of the beans, connections shift and meanings become newly legible.

OPENING: Friday, 13th of March 2026, 6 – 8:30 pm
MIDISSAGE & REHANG: Saturday, 18th of April 2026, 12 – 4 pm