AI art by Michael Spengler

Constructive Emptiness

The series Constructive Emptiness pushes the exploration of abandonment further into abstraction. Instead of relying on recognisable spaces, the works build with constructions of planes, cuts, and overlays that evoke architecture without depicting it. The emphasis lies on the inner logic of these configurations: how much order is needed for something still to be called a space once its functions have been stripped away?

The work uses pictorial space as an experimental set-up. Geometric decisions take on the role of actions, while shifts become traces of absence. In this way, a visual world emerges in which emptiness does not appear as mere lack, but as an actively set structure — a form through which experiences of loss and detachment can be negotiated constructively.