In painting, Franziska Reinbothe is interested in what is usually hidden: the back of a painting and its edges. In order to make them visible, she compresses canvases, exposes stretcher frames again or dispenses with them altogether. She stretches, folds, breaks, cuts and/or sews her paintings after the painting process is finished. Some of them then protrude far into the room, others have already completely detached themselves from the wall. But it is always about contemporary painting, its means and possibilities.

Franziska Reinbothe does not work on a project basis, but continuously in a process. In doing so, she relies on doing, instead of making restrictive decisions in advance. What does the picture look like when she breaks his groin? And what does it look like when she subsequently repairs those lasts, as in her latest pictures? Curiosity and impulsiveness are Reinbothe's driving forces. The desire to exhaust the possible and to combine seemingly contradictory elements characterize her artistic work.