Blues. Katja Liebmann und Jub Mönster

“Blues” describes a style of music, a mood and: the colour blue in all its nuances. The colour blue is also a special feature of the works of two contemporary artists from the Oldenburg region: Katja Liebmann and Jub Mönster.

Katja Liebmann prefers the Cyanotype process - one of the oldest photographic processes: strong paper is coated with light-sensitive iron salts, a negative is placed on it and exposed in the sun, yielding velvety blue iridescent tones. The images convey the impression of memories; sometimes layers of time seem to lie on the image. The works have both a painterly and graphic appearance. This makes new views of reality possible and suggests the transience nature of time.

Jub Mönster calls his blue cityscapes “longing photos”. They are silent memories of places in Paris, Hamburg's harbour, pubs and cafés and also of his native city of Oldenburg. Mönster does not take photographs, however, but draws his motifs with blue ballpoint pens. Countless biros refills have already been used to create his unmistakable, painterly blue drawings.

The exhibition at Oldenburg Castle brings together the works of Katja Liebmann and Jub Mönster for the first time and invites visitors to discover the poetic beauty of the colour blue. It allows visitors to immerse themselves in melancholy moods, transports them to places of longing in Paris, Berlin and London and also repeatedly brings to light familiar motifs from Oldenburg and the region - from the Kramermarkt to landscapes of the North Sea.