With the exhibition Rissa – Back to painting, DIE GALERIE dedicates to the wife of the painter Karl Otto Götz (1914 - 2017) an extensive overview of her creative work. The artist, born Karin Martin  in 1938, was a student of the master of Informel at the Düsseldorf Art  Academy and from 1965 also his wife. Both cultivated an intense exchange  around art and society, researching, working, writing and thinking in  unison. Yet by 1964 Rissa had already distanced herself from the  informal style of painting and embarked on her own artistic path towards  representational painting. From the very beginning, it was her intention to stand out with her art and to create something innovative and unique. In  her compelling, tension-filled works, Rissa deals in her own way with  political and socially critical themes that play a prominent role in  social life and affect people in their everyday lives: Global conflicts,  religion, sexuality, social interactions, the approach to the  environment and the use of natural resources, phobias, neuroses and  addictions - all these topics are the object of a profound analysis that  unfolds within the two dimensions of the canvas. Through the vibrant  power of her colours, Rissa draws the viewer in, first shocking him with  the brutal honesty of her illustrations and, in the next step,  challenging him to think critically about the uncomfortable truths  hidden in her works. After many years in which Rissa had put herself on  the sidelines, she now finds time and new inspiration for her own art.  With around 30 paintings, prints and drawings, DIE GALERIE proudly  presents Rissa's figurative, narrative and very individual visual  language. Due to the influence of Karl Otto Götz on Rissa's painting as well as the profound connection between the two artists, DIE GALERIE simultaneously presents a cabinet exhibition dedicated to the master of the Art Informel.