Driss Ouadahi on view at “Line, Plane, Space: 100 Years of the Ratingen Museum” at Ratingen Museum, Germany. Images courtesy of the artist and Ratingen Museum, Germany.
Driss Ouadahi is currently participating in “Line, Plane, Space: 100 Years of the Ratingen Museum”, a major anniversary exhibition celebrating the collection of the Museum Ratingen.
The exhibition traces the development of the museum’s collection from 1945 to the present, highlighting key acquisitions and exploring connections between geometric and lyrical abstraction, as well as art and architecture. Taking inspiration from Wassily Kandinsky’s seminal 1926 text Point and Line to Plane, the exhibition reflects on the formal relationships between line, structure and spatial composition.
Ouadahi’s presentation includes three paintings, among them ‘Mosaik’ and ‘Zeitlinien’. Across his work, the artist examines the built environments of contemporary urban life — from modernist housing developments to wire mesh barriers and passageways. Through layered compositions that balance geometry, transparency and the suggestion of the veil, Ouadahi transforms these stark architectural spaces into paintings of striking, paradoxical beauty.
“Line, Plane, Space: 100 Years of the Ratingen Museum” is now open at the Ratingen Museum, Germany and on view until 16 August 2026. The exhibition and its diverse accompanying program are supported by the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia.