Caro Enax

My drawing practice

is rooted in an almost childlike fascination with the very essence of drawing: leaving visible traces on a surface – drawing as a physical process, the drawing itself as the visible manifestation of a fleeting action. In this sense, I explore the facets of autonomous drawing in terms of rhythm, speed and control, and practise drawing as an intuitive, meditative game. The form of the series is essential and ever-present here, as it is only through repetition and variation that the possibility of an intense experience arises. All the works on display here on my website are therefore part of larger bodies of work and merely a snapshot of a comprehensive drawing process.

I am interested in exploring the specific properties of various drawing media in dialogue with my drawing body, and the possibilities and limitations of the traces they leave together on paper or canvas. Factors such as rhythm, density and complexity play a key role in this.

It is always about the act of drawing, not about producing a drawing. The process determines the result. This openness imbues the works with a poetic character, to which I give a certain direction, in part through the titles, but which I never fix in place. The drawings open up spaces for association, the shaping of which begins anew with every individual viewer’s gaze.

Solo exhibitions

2023 ‘Dickicht’

, Stairwell Gallery at the Elsbachhaus, Herford

2022 ‘Wachstumsversuch’

, Sculpture Gallery, Osnabrück

2022 ‘zeich.nen’

, Haus des Gastes, Rödinghausen

2021

‘

Exuvia

’, CUBIC Art Space, Greifswald

Group

exhibitions

2025 ‘Fenestration’

Draw Space, Sydney, Australia

2025 ‘Capturing Nature’

Culture

Centre Jelvaga, Latvia

2024 ‘Marathon der Zeichnung VII’

Kunstraum hase29,

Osnabrück

2023 Call and Response

Glasgow

Project Room, Glasgow, Scotland

2023 Confluence of Lines

Galérie Abstract Project, Paris, France

2022 Drawing Box A5 Pop-up Show

Gallery Onkaf, New Delhi, India

2022 Drawing Box A5 Pop-up Show

Inishowen Artists’ Retreat and Studio, Donegal, Ireland

2021 Fleeting Glances

,

Herford

city centre

2021 one subject, one drawing a day

, Athens School of Fine Arts, Greece

2021 Drawing Box A5 Pop-up Show

, Questa Public Library, New Mexico

2021 Drawing Box A5 Pop-up Show

Athens School of Fine Arts, Greece

2021 Drawing Box A5 Pop-up Show

Studio of Wilma Vissers, Netherlands

2021 Drawing Box A5 Pop-up Show

Dunoon Burgh Hall, Scotland

2020 konstruktiv.ist

Virtual exhibition by the Drawing Collective

2020 Drawing Marathon V

Kunstraum hase29, Osnabrück

2019 Be absolutely concrete! – Drawing Worlds

Kunstraum hase29, Osnabrück

2019 Drawing Marathon IV

Kunstraum hase29,

Osnabrück

2019 BIC – Drawings – Caro Enax and Frank Gillich

Old Quarry at Piesberg, Osnabrück

2019 A Sort of Potluck

Gallery at St. Spiritus, Greifswald

2019

Three-D

imensional

Sculpture Gallery, Osnabrück

2018 Anonymous Draughtsmen

, Körnerpark Gallery, Berlin

2018 Heise Art Prize, Exhibition of

the

Nominees

, Old Fire Station, Dessau

2018 Drawing Marathon III

, Kunstraum hase29, Osnabrück

2018 ‘Reaction and Space’

, Artists Unlimited Gallery, Bielefeld

2018 ‘Young Sculpture

’, Sculpture Gallery, Osnabrück

2017 ‘Drawing Marathon II’

, Kunstraum hase29, Osnabrück

2017

‘BIOS’, Kunstraum hase29, Osnabrück

2016 Piepenbrock Art Promotion Prize,

University of Osnabrück

2015 Dornum Art Days,

Dornum Water Castle

Works in public collections

NIVAL National Irish Visual Arts Library, Dublin,

Ireland; Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine