Between Order and Life. Constructive Art Today
Museum Ritter, Waldenbuch, Germany
25 October 2026 – 18 April 2027

At Museum Ritter, Between Order and Life. Constructive Art Today brings together eight artistic positions that explore how geometric abstraction can engage with everyday experience rather than remain a purely formal system. Clare Goodwin’s contribution places domestic objects, architectural fragments and constructed forms in dialogue with painting, highlighting the social histories and patterns of behaviour embedded in familiar materials.

Goodwin’s work moves between the language of constructive art and the textures of lived environments. Furniture and other elements associated with the home are rearranged into sculptural compositions in which colour, proportion and surface are carefully balanced, yet never entirely detached from their previous uses. Their geometries suggest both the ordering of space and the habits, expectations and relationships that space can sustain.

This tension between visual clarity and everyday complexity is central to the exhibition. Across painting, ceramics, assemblage and installation, the participating artists approach constructive principles as flexible structures that can accommodate memory, personal experience and the contingencies of life. Goodwin’s works are particularly attentive to the point at which an object ceases to function as furniture or an accessory and begins to operate as an image, a sculpture or a proposition about how we live together.

Shown in the context of Museum Ritter’s longstanding engagement with geometric and concrete art, her contribution extends the conversation beyond the autonomous artwork towards the domestic and social spaces in which abstraction also takes shape.

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