Galerie Buchholz

Henrik Olesen, As yet Untitled, Installation view Galerie Buchholz, Köln 2026

The German word Icht means any thing, or any such thing. The word has nearly vanished in modern language, having survived only in Nichts - nothing, (or no-thing), which was formed out of the two words in (meaning no) and icht (any such thing) as in-icht. If we subtract the T from Icht , the Ich remains - the German equivalent to the I. Embedded and included in Icht , in any such thing, is the I, the inherent I of any such thing. The subtracted T is also the mathematical nomen for transcendental numbers, numbers that have been first suspected to exist by the mathematicians Leibniz or Euler,…