Exhibition at the Caspar David Friedrich Centre’s gallery

From 31 July to 3 October 2026, the CDFZ will be presenting the exhibition ‘away from reality II’ by Giacomo Orth.

In his drawings, the artist explores those moments that break through automated perception – moments that manage to endure longer than the fleeting nature of the instant. Capturing these enduring images can be seen as the driving force behind his work. In this context, detached perception, observation and seeing are just as integral to the work as the process of drawing itself. His sculptures expand the artistic exploration of reality, which is more than the sum of its parts. At the heart of Giacomo Orth’s work lies the tension between subjective perception, the supposedly objective, and the impossibility of fully reconstructing reality.

Born in Rostock in 1996, the artist completed a Master’s degree in Fine Art at the Caspar David Friedrich Institute at the University of Greifswald. Since 2021, he has been working there as an artistic assistant in Professor Rozbeh Asmani’s Department of New Media and Applied Graphics within the field of Fine Art. Giacomo Orth has been successfully exhibiting his work for the past five years. Among other things, curator Tereza de Arruda invited him in 2023 to take part in the exhibition ‘ON WATER & PLANTS’ at the Troy House Art Foundation in London. He is the winner of the prestigious “Rostock Art Prize 2025” in the “Artistic Graphics” category and is taking part in the accompanying exhibition at the Kunsthalle Rostock. From 16 June to 10 July 2026, his works will be on display in the follow-up exhibition to the prize in the foyer of Provinzial Nord in Kiel, which is a major sponsor of the Rostock Art Prize.