Lennart Brede
Allez Gut
Sep 4 – Oct 22, 2026
As part of DC Open, ANNA LAUDEL Düsseldorf presents ALLEZ GUT, a new solo exhibition by Berlin-based artist Lennart Brede. One of the Rhineland’s key art events, the annual gallery weekend marks the opening of the new exhibition season.
At first, the exhibition title reads like a casual, almost throwaway phrase. Yet ALLEZ GUT articulates a position between optimism and responsibility. At a time of growing uncertainty, it reflects a conscious decision not to abandon the belief in what is good. The exhibition begins precisely where familiar certainties start to lose their hold.
At its centre is the Broken Knight of Abendland. Deeply rooted in European cultural history, the figure of the knight appears here neither as warrior nor victor, but in a moment of vulnerability. Kneeling with his face buried in his hands, his armour is fractured by geometric forms that seem to both disrupt and hold it together. Suspended between strength and exhaustion, protection and exposure, the knight becomes an image of a present in which established certainties are beginning to fracture, while the need for orientation and connection remains.
For Brede, the knight embodies a contemporary hero’s journey. The decisive moment is not one of triumph, but the point at which the armour can no longer be worn. It is only through this moment of exposure that another kind of encounter becomes possible — with oneself, with others, and with one’s own history.
This transformation continues across the exhibition’s other bodies of work. Photographs move beyond the flatness of the image, reappearing as tapestries, works in glass, and sculptural objects. Floral motifs recur throughout and are closely tied to Brede’s own biography. Growing up in a family of florists, he approaches flowers not as decoration, but as witnesses and companions to fundamental human experiences — love, loss, farewell, and new beginnings.
ALLEZ GUT is ultimately a call to move forward. It asks what kind of position we might take in the face of uncertainty and change. Rather than offering simple answers, the works suggest that responsibility may begin precisely at the point where we become willing to question what we once took for granted.