The group exhibition includes works by five artists who have chosen painting as their preferred medium of expression. The works by Natacha Donzé, Ray Hegelbach, Ivan Mitrovic, Anna Schirin Schneider and Nora Steiner are characterized by the engagement with everyday impressions and symbols, specifically the social power differentials and the digital and pop-cultural imagery they inherently express and reproduce. They experiment with and freshly interpret traditional conventions of visual representation, gestural habits, and viewing regimes within the context of painting. The title of the exhibition, “Soft Shell”, makes reference to the contradictory materiality of painting as well as the clash of assertiveness and vulnerability and playfulness and seriousness in the artists’ respective practices.