The solo exhibition IN THE BLIND SPOT OF THE SUN is a deeply personal investigation of depression, anxiety, vulnerability, and the longing for vitality – but at the same time also a search for joy, for self-love, and for the will to embrace life.

With this exhibition, Michael Würtz Overbeck seeks to create a space for reflection, where darkness and fragility may become a springboard for recognition, beauty, and connection. Drawing upon his own experience as a catalyst, the artist invites the viewer into a world where pain and heaviness coexist with the hope of light and renewal.

The exhibition presents a series of new works in which Overbeck combines his meticulous pencil drawings with sculptural objects and installations. At the same time, he expands into new material and technical territories: photochemically developed masking, engraving on brass, magnetic stirring, and microscopically printed text are among the strategies that extend the works’ visual and sensory register.

A key work is the triptych IN THE INTERIM OF BIRTH AND DEATH (2023), consisting of three drawings circling around life’s outer limits: birth and death – and the banal, yet all-encompassing, life unfolding in between. On a concrete plinth, a frozen clock ticks in STOP ALL THE CLOCKS (2024), where time appears to stand still at the moment when life fractures and experiences change us forever.