EMILY
WEINER
Renaissance
Techniques,
Mythology
&
the
Mystery
of
Painting
"I see art, science and spirituality as the same thing in that
they're all models for the way that we see the world."
– Emily Weiner
"I see art, science and spirituality
as the same thing in that they're
all models for the way
that we see the world."
– Emily Weiner
KÖNIG GALERIE presents LUNACY, Emily Weiner's third exhibition with the gallery, staged in the Nave of St. Agnes.
The title LUNACY poetically evokes the moon as a symbol of cyclical change and eternal recurrence, while also hinting at a loss of balance in contemporary political life. Yet rather than addressing politics directly, the paintings draw on art history, archetypal symbolism, Buddhist notions of interdependence, and insights from modern physics to explore how humans construct meaning from a complex and often incomprehensible world.
Across the works, Emily Weiner moves between the cosmic and the intimate—connecting ancient myth with images from the James Webb Space Telescope, vanitas symbolism with quantum physics, Renaissance painting techniques with Zen philosophy. Works such as HOW HIGH (ICARUS), COHERENT SOURCES, PASSING THROUGH, and HOW THE LIGHT GETS IN suggest that meaning, like reality itself, is not fixed but arises through relationships, resonance, and ongoing interpretation.
The exhibition invites viewers to look deeper and discover that the more they look, the more mystery remains.
