Charlotte Grube is a student at the Düsseldorf Art Academy. Her paintings feature characteristic figures from cafés, hotels and travel situations – characters from semi-public everyday life, rendered in a mixture of sketchy lines and bold areas of colour. In her first solo exhibition, ‘MENAGERIE – Portraits of a Tamed Time’, she explored the question of who is looking and who is being looked at: her figures themselves appear as though on display, in scenes that oscillate between observation and exhibition.