David Lynch is known as an internationally renowned director of films such as ‘Mullholland Drive’ and ‘Eraserhead’. However, few people realise that he is also a visual artist: his work includes paintings, drawings and prints. Since 2007, his lithographs have been produced in the famous Parisian printing workshop IDEM (formerly Mourlot), where Picasso, Matisse and Chagall had their works printed.

Although the American David Lynch (*1946) and the North German Horst Janssen (1929-1995) probably did not notice each other, there are striking similarities in their work. Both utilise a visual language of the ‘uncanny’ and focus their gaze on the supposedly familiar, which becomes strange and ambiguous in the twilight. 

In the exhibition ‘My House is on Fire’, the two artists will meet for the first time from 9 November. 36 lithographs as well as film stills and short films by David Lynch will be juxtaposed with selected etchings, drawings and photographs by Horst Janssen from the 1960s to the 1980s.