Cuturi Gallery is pleased to present Untaped, a new solo exhibition by German painter Jochen Mühlenbrink (b. 1980). The exhibition brings together a new body of works developed during his 2025 residency with the gallery, marking a return to Singapore following his previous exhibition with the gallery, AIR. In Untaped, Mühlenbrink deepens his ongoing inquiry into illusion, perception, and painterly deception, expanding on his tape series while drawing continued resonance from the atmospheric ambiguity of his Window Paintings.

Mühlenbrink’s practice consistently returns to a simple question: What do we think we see, and why? Drawn to the technical possibilities of trompe-l’oeil, he recognised early on how painting can transform everyday materials into something entirely new. Over time, he has refined this into his distinct visual language. In Untaped, layered strips of “tape”, torn, curling at the edges, take centre stage. A single crease in a strip of tape or a bead of moisture becomes a perceptual encounter, an ordinary detail sharpened into awareness. The exhibition will also include paintings that extend the artist’s ongoing Window paintings series. Tape layered over fogged surfaces, blurred passages of light, and half-glimpsed forms both conceal and reimagine what lies beneath, inviting viewers into a playful investigation.

Across the exhibition, Mühlenbrink performs a delicate balancing act. Highly technical yet poetic, the works are rooted in the materiality of lived experience and capture those brief moments when the familiar reveals itself differently.