Until February 13, Jarmuschek + Partner is presenting new works by Corinne von Lebusa and Moritz Schleime in a duo exhibition. In addition to individual works by the two artists, numerous collaborative works will be on display in a spectacular showcase.

Likeable and cheerful little monsters, lively animals and celebrating skeletons bring crowded scenes that seem to be inspired by film sets and travel posters to life. In MORITZ SCHLEIME's oil paintings, pirate adventures, Caribbean dreams and road trips are mixed with the subliminal gloom of cemetery stories and ghost trains. In these intoxicating images full of references to our pop culture and the places of longing of our time, human depths, excesses and great fun take turns at the steering wheel. Moritz Schleime picks up his audience in this powerful, sometimes overwhelmingly colourful and at the same time sensitively detailed world and lets them ride along on his motorbike – potholes, drinks and big emotions included.

Not every palm tree has a coconut (Nicht an jeder Palme hängt ‘ne Kokosnuss), as the title of the exhibition notes, but the bathing protagonists in one of CORINNE VON LEBUSA's watercolour drawings do not hesitate to send a naked man up the tree to pick one. With wit and determination, what at first glance might appear to be the cliché of a man's dream in her work, turns out at second glance, to be something entirely else: in the supposed idyll of perfect physicality, stylish interiors and sunny oases, expectations and role models are subverted with mischief and a wink. With great lightness and openness, the artist uses pictorial spaces full of bright, precisely placed splashes of colour to depict erotically charged encounters in which women take centre stage. Viewers are invited to indulge their voyeuristic tendencies and allow themselves to be surprised by tingling, lustful and often comical scenes.

When Moritz Schleime and Corinne von Lebusa draw and paint together, it is like listening to an unconventional duet. The joint works of the two artists combine the figures and artistic styles from two visual worlds. Corinne von Lebusa's figures appear on canvases or adorn themselves with Moritz Schleime's tattoos, faces with Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde sides reveal a lot, and little Schleime monsters appear in landscapes, behind windows and on the clothes of von Lebusa's women. Contrasts and differences find their place in a creative way, are by no means adapted or transitioned, but emphasised and cheerfully celebrated along with some frivolities – as if all the diverse inhabitants of the house had come together to sip coconut water and experience many adventures...Cheers!

Opening: 31 October, 6–9 pm