– Hiroe Saeki

THE SPACE IN BETWEEN

Dates: 27 November - 17 January 2026
Venue: 171 Gallery
Pfistergasse 15, 6003, Luzern, Switzerland

171 Gallery announces its inaugural exhibition The Spaces In Between, opening on Thursday, 27 November 2025 in the Old City of Lucerne. The exhibition brings together works by Nicole Henning, Keiko Kimoto, Lipp & Leuthold, Claudia Limacher, Kai Matussik, René Odermatt, Hiroe Saeki, Pascal Sterchi, Ann Tracy and Jörg Wiele.

Through painting, sculpture and drawing, The Spaces In Between considers how form, perception and absence intersect. The exhibition focuses on the intervals that give structure to experience, the subtle shifts in awareness that occur between one state and another. Each artist approaches this idea through distinct material vocabularies, examining the balance between stillness and movement, solidity and openness, gesture and restraint.

The works invite a mode of looking that is both concentrated and responsive. They suggest that intimacy arises not only through proximity, but through sustained attention, through the quiet recognition of presence and the awareness of distance as an active field rather than a void.

Referencing the Japanese concept of Ma (間), understood as the relational space that defines both object and experience, The Spaces In Between proposes that meaning is shaped not by what is filled, but by what remains unarticulated.

As its first exhibition, The Spaces In Between introduces 171 Gallery’s program, which is committed to supporting contemporary artistic practice through research, dialogue and cross-disciplinary collaboration. The gallery aims to build a context in which material, thought and process coexist, a space that values reflection as much as production.