German-American artist Esther Teichmann has opened a solo exhibition, TO HOLD YOU IN DARKNESS, at Kunstverein Schwäbisch Hall in Germany. The show runs from 27 September to 22 November 2026, and was announced by Flowers Gallery, which represents the artist. Teichmann was born in Karlsruhe in 1980 and lives and works in London. She holds both an MFA and a PhD in fine art from the Royal College of Art and is a senior lecturer at the London College of Communication. Recent solo museum presentations include Heavy the Sea at the Transformer Station in Cleveland and Mondschwimmen at the Reiss-Engelhorn Museum in Mannheim. Her practice moves across large-scale photographic and film works in which fragmented bodies appear in hues of pale blue and liquid, inky black, or are staged within dense jungle undergrowth rendered in dripping, psychedelic inks. The works form part of an ever-evolving archive that slides between autobiography, fiction and myth, and between still and moving image, sculpture and painting. At the centre of the work lie questions of loss and an impossible return — grief, and a sense of inherited homesickness — alongside an exploration of where fantasy and desire come from and how they remain bound to experiences of absence. One thing continually transforms into another: a figure becomes a landscape, a memory becomes a myth. Teichmann has exhibited widely in recent years, with group shows at the Houston Centre of Photography and the Dong Gang Museum of Photography in South Korea, and solo presentations in the UK, Australia, Germany, Ireland and Switzerland. Alongside her studio practice she teaches — a senior lecturer at the London College of Communication and a visiting lecturer at the RCA, with a year spent as guest professor at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco.