Field Work brings together new and selected works by Tillmann Lauterbach and Weseeclearly in a spatial dialogue of material, form, and perception. Set within a vast industrial space in Milan, the exhibition unfolds as a sequence of interconnected fields that invite visitors to wander, linger, and engage intuitively. Through contrasting materials and processes, the two artists explore underlying structures that may be sensed before they are consciously understood. Functioning as an experiential framework, the exhibition leaves meaning open to emerge through attention, interpretation, and interaction.
What do we perceive before we understand?
Set within a vast industrial space in Milan, Field Work unfolds through a sequence of spatial situations that may be experienced as stages within a larger journey. The works form an open system of interconnected fields, each retaining its own identity while contributing to a unified environment. Inviting visitors to wander, linger, and reflect at their own pace, the exhibition draws attention to what is already present.
Presenting new and selected works by Tillmann Lauterbach and Weseeclearly, Field Work brings together two practices concerned with the underlying structures through which reality becomes perceptible. Both artists trace recurring patterns across different fields of knowledge, giving rise to works with distinct internal logics. Their works point towards forms of knowledge that may be intuitively sensed before they are consciously understood.
The works enter into dialogue through contrasting materials, processes, and states of matter. Lauterbach’s practice is rooted in the transformation and recontextualisation of stone, wood, metal, and found objects, whose surfaces retain traces of time, labour, and previous use. Through selection, reduction, and recomposition, these materials become vessels for questions of memory, perception, and the relationship between matter and meaning.
Weseeclearly approaches related questions through translucent fabric, geometry, light, and digital processes, exploring permeability, information, automation, and immaterial form. While Lauterbach’s works emphasise density and duration, Weseeclearly introduces lightness, rhythm, and flux. Together, the two practices create a shifting balance between the analogue and the digital, the tangible and the intangible, permanence and transformation.
Both artists are deeply invested in the processes through which their works take shape, remaining attentive to the unexpected moments from which meaning may emerge. This openness extends to visitors, who participate through their own perceptions and interpretations and, more directly, by contributing input to a generative digital work. The exhibition therefore functions as an experiential framework in which meaning remains open, emerging in response to the visitor’s encounter with the works.
ARTISTS BIOGRAPHIES
Tillmann Lauterbach (b. 1977, Germany; based in Milan) works across stone, space, and systems of transformation, situating his practice between material research and perceptual experience. Rooted in circular processes, his work recovers discarded matter and reintroduces it as a carrier of time, memory, and latent order.
Drawing from harmonic proportion and embedded geometries, Lauterbach encodes systems that operate below immediate visibility. His objects emerge as quiet instruments: forms that resonate before they are understood.
Selected exhibitions include Gallery P:C: Neumann during Art Basel; Galeries Lafayette, Paris; Gallery Gordon Pym, Paris; Gallery Kühlraum, Vienna; King Kong Magazine × Marsèll, Milan; Gewölbe, Cologne; Gallerie Soleile, Ibiza; and Gres Art 671 Museum.
Winston Chmielinski, working as Weseeclearly (b. 1988, Boston; based in Berlin), works across painting, textiles, and procedural software. His practice focuses on the edge of the image: the frame, the border, and the point at which one system meets another.
Drawing from projective geometry and reverse perspective, his works explore how perception changes at the margins. In his freestanding screens, dyed fabric is stretched across hinged wooden frames, creating translucent structures that stand independently as reflective objects while remaining in dialogue with their surroundings.
Selected exhibitions include Quantum Galerie, Berlin, 2025; Bhutan Innovation Forum, Paro, 2024; Galerie Wolfsen, Aalborg, 2023; Vienna Contemporary, 2018; Positions Berlin, 2018 and 2016; Blake & Vargas, Berlin, 2018; Antarctic Pavilion, Venice Biennale, 2017; Galerie Thomas Fuchs, Stuttgart, 2017 and 2015; Saatchi Gallery, London, 2014; Querini Stampalia, Venice Biennale, 2013; VOLTA NY, 2013; Envoy Enterprises, New York, 2012; and Sotheby’s, New York, 2010.
Private Preview
8 September 2026, 18:00–21:00
By invitation
Exhibition
9–20 September 2026
Daily, 17:00–21:00, and by appointment
Location
Factory Eleven
Via Padova 11, Milan
Curatorial Development and Production
Veronica Albio