Carsten Fock Examines Germany's Political Divides in "Fault Lines" at Kunstraum München

Carsten Fock's exhibition "Fault Lines" at Kunstraum München interrogates how contemporary social upheavals surface in aesthetic form. The Bamberg- and Vejby-based artist treats landscape as a motif saturated with historical and art-historical weight rather than a neutral subject, working across painting, drawing, and installation to probe cultural memory and its survival into the present. His canvases render moods, ruptures, and tensions through landscape, architecture, and the figure. The show asks what responsibility painting carries amid political uncertainty, addressing the rightward shift, social division, and polarization of public discourse. Fock's practice sits at the intersection of landscape, painting's history, and the postwar history of a divided Germany.