TIMO KUBE
WEATHERWORKS
6-30 MAY 2026
3 LIVERPOOL LANE DARLINGHURST
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Kube´s meticulous attention to aesthetics and the tangible qualities of mineral informs each unique impression and colour palette. The Weatherwork series continues Kube´s pursuit of experience in physical action, process and change. This may arise through the prolonged labour of artistic creation and maintenance with a cohesive sensibility to how the surface may appear (or disappear).
Kube finds aesthetic value not in the imitation of landscape, but in engaging with the materiality of nature - its tactile and resistant reality. His extensive grinding, washing, sieving, and a lavish process of extraction into pigment, often time-consuming highly valued process for maintaining the integrity of delicate mineral compounds. The choice of minerals are obtained from multiple continents - Afghanistan, Southern France to Australia and Peru - coincide with his rigorously observant practice and patience, Kube´s analysis in their own specific aesthetic properties are examined.
Coined by the artist as`monomineralic painting` the Weatherwork series referring to the concept of mineral composition or the observations of a material surface derived from a single mineral source - iron oxide, lapis lazuli, iron pyrite, flint, porphyry and volcanic rock to indigo, a plant based pigment. The surfaces oscillate between figuration and abstraction registering imagery of vast skies and seascapes with exquisite detail and elegant atmospheric impressions.
Selected solo exhibitions include Galerie Wilma Tolksdorf, Frankfurt, Galerie Wilma Tolksdorf, Berlin, Künstlerhaus Dortmund, Galerie Gisela Clement, Bonn, Gallery Annarumma, Naples and recently Atmospheric Pressure at Inspection Pit, West Sussex, United Kingdom. Group exhibitions include Weltkunstzimmer, Düsseldorf, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Nunnery Gallery, London, Galerie Ulrich Müller, Cologne, Glasgow International, Edison Lisboa and duo presentation with CHAUFFEUR at Aotearoa Art Fair, New Zealand.
Debut artist monograph, Sensibilities published by Distanz. Kube graduated from Academy of Fine Art Münster, Germany and Chelesa College of Art, University of London where he currently lives and works.
Untitled Weatherwork (Indigo) #1
indigo pigment, gesso on linen
25 x 35 x 2.5 cm
2025
Untitled Weatherwork (Green Porphyry) #1
Porphyry and Laucaux on linen
25 x 35 x 2.5 cm
2025
RESERVED
Untitled Weatherwork (Lead Tin Yellow) #2
Lead tin yellow and gesso on linen
25 x 35 x 2.5 cm
2025
Untitled Weatherwork (Côte d'Azur Violet) #1
Côte d'Azur violet and gesso on linen
25 x 35 x 2.5 cm
2025
" From the Weatherwork series the slight variations of tone,
the almost visible gestures in the mark-making,
the materiality of the pigments used, coupled with undulations of light,
recall the expansiveness of skies or the vastness of seascapes. "
Séamus McCormack
Untitled Weatherwork (Lapis Lazuli) #1
Lapis Lazuli and gesso on linen
25 x 35 x 2.5 cm
2026
Untitled Weatherwork (Silicone) #1
Siliceous and gesso on linen
35 x 25 x 2.5 cm
2025
Untitled Clay (Iron Oxide) #2
Red earth clay and black acrylic primer on linen
36 x 41 x 4 cm
2025
AVAILABLE INSTALLATIONS
From Earth
Polished Bronze alloy, unique
8 x 41 x 41 cm
2025
images courtesy of the artist
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