Already in 2015, while exhibiting at the Kustoshaus of the Heiliges Grab in Görlitz, I arranged with the organiser from the Evangelische Kulturstiftung a date for an exhibition in the Nikolaikirche Görlitz. Exhibitions at the Nikolaikirche are planned far in advance; as a rule only one or two take place each year. The Nikolaikirche is a deconsecrated Gothic hall church, used today as a space for exhibitions and commemoration. Its owner is the Evangelische Kulturstiftung.
A very large room, with a great deal of wall space. To make the most of its possibilities I asked a Berlin-based artist, Jens Reulecke, whether we might develop a joint concept. I had already worked with him on performances - for example at the Ingolstadt Minster and at the KÜNSTLER HAUS BERLIN of the Catholic Academy. From this grew a complementary exhibition, with paintings of mine in the Nikolaikirche and installations by Jens Reulecke in the church and in six sepulchres in the adjoining Nikolai cemetery.
“Wolff’s motifs are set within dynamic pictorial contexts that widen the view of what is humanly possible. Give yourself over to the pictures and the feeling cannot be avoided of touching a corner of infinity. Wolff’s pictorial beings do not withdraw but instead ‘remain,’ holding the balance between ‘elsewhere’ and ‘here.’ In the Nikolaikirche these restless spatial figurations join with Jens Reulecke’s installation ‘anderswo hier’ (‘elsewhere here’) - and precisely at the point where the two bodies of work share an interest in the in-between,” runs the concept text for the exhibition.
We spent three days together in Görlitz, sharing a generous holiday flat. Many conversations, long walks through a mystical, history-laden, endlessly fascinating old town. For the first time I also showed six very large pictures in the format 100 x 70, hung on a single wall in two rows of three.
At the opening we performed together in a joint piece, “Darkness Shines,” through text, sound and movement within the shared exhibition. I was especially glad that Georg Kestel (Vicar General of the Archdiocese of Bamberg) came to open the exhibition.