Veronika Günther at Popular Problems - The Tiger Room, Munich
Drawing after the surface
Artist
Veronika Günther
Exhibition
Popular Problems
Venue
The Tiger Room
City, Country
Munich, Germany
Photography
Lu Zhang
Dates
23 January – 21 February 2026
Exhibition Context
At first glance, Popular Problems reads as a quiet, almost sparse exhibition. The space remains open, the works are distributed with restraint. Yet the room is charged. Paper pigeons occupy the floor like observers, a suspended, tattooed arm hovers above them, garments cling to the wall without bodies. Drawing has left the surface and entered the room, not as spectacle, but as presence.
Günther’s practice is rooted in drawing, and the exhibition never loses sight of that origin. The papier-mâché objects follow the same logic as her works on paper: lines accumulate, motifs return, surfaces remain porous and uneven. These are not sculptures striving for autonomy. They are drawn objects, where line thickens into volume and hatching becomes skin. Baseball jackets, sports equipment, pigeons, stars, chains. Culturally loaded images circulate without hierarchy, moving between pop culture, private memory and political residue. Masculinity appears not as a statement, but as a field of signs, distorted, repeated, and slightly off balance.
What makes Popular Problems compelling is its refusal to resolve these images. Nothing is explained, nothing is dramatized. The works operate like fragments of a visual archive that has slipped into space. They feel provisional, vulnerable, and deliberately unfinished. Drawing becomes a way to register pressure rather than to stabilize meaning.
The exhibition holds together through rhythm and repetition, not through narrative. What stays is a sense of friction between intimacy and public imagery, between lightness and weight, between what is familiar and what remains unresolved.
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