Alison Yip: LOTTO

Woonhuis is pleased to present LOTTO, a solo exhibition by Alison Yip. Across painting, objects and spatial arrangements, LOTTO reflects on the uncertain and even uncomfortable relation between the artist and her role, as well as to and within image-making itself. The works in LOTTO are an attempt to uproot previous and more interior attachments to language, identity and figuration. As Yip’s own gaze oscillates between a hot drink and some business in the clouds, peculiar dissociations and distortions are generated. There is a vortex of thoughts, including- let’s think of each other in this great moment of re-wiring. 

The exhibition is accompanied by a text by writer and critic Martin Herbert,  offering a fresh perspective on Yip’s  practice. He writes:

“If there is an element, in all this, of wresting something from catastrophe, it’s perhaps epitomised by Yip’s semiabstract paintings rooted in violent celestial phenomena, explosive lightning etc, which avowedly have their roots in Gilles Deleuze’s thoughts about how painting might emerge from what he terms, a little gnomically, a ‘catastrophe’ in the early stage of making, but also track back to premodern eras in which such events in the sky were read almost as premonitions and were politically instrumentalised by leaders, fake news of yesteryear. It might also be appropriate that they relate to atmospheric conditions, because Yip’s entire show is a climate, an airspace crackling with ions, rather than a statement.”

About Alison Yip
Alison Yip is an artist based in Cologne. She studied at the Alberta College of Art and Design, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, and Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg. Solo exhibitions include Creative Background, Franz Kaka (2025), Touristorama, Chris Andrews (2025), Soma Topika, Contemporary Art Gallery (2022) and, Galerie Noah Klink (2021), 'Bare Heel Country', Dortmunder Kunstverein (2020) and Bare Heel Country, Dortmunder Kunstverein (2020). Recently she co-produced ‘Burn Folder’, a play by John Jesurun for Die Verabredung (2026). She is represented by Galerie Noah Klink.

Opening reception with “daisy bar”
For the opening we are delighted to host daisy bar, a travelling cocktail bar by artist and cook Derya Akay. Operating somewhere between bar, kitchen and sculpture, daisy bar treats hospitality as its working material. Each iteration adapts to its setting with a small menu of cocktails and snacks built from seasonal ingredients and kitchen experiments such as infusions, ferments, acids and homemade liqueurs.

About Derya Akay
Derya Akay is an artist and cook based in Frankfurt. Their practice moves between installation, food, living things, writing and reflection, often drawing on processes such as cooking, fermenting and gardening to think through time, seasons and transformation. Daisy Bar grows out of earlier food and bar projects including Girl Dinner at Pale Fire Projects (Vancouver) and Estradiol Kitchen at Moodswing Bar (New Westminster). Akay currently studies at Städelschule in the class of Dora Budor and holds a BFA from Emily Carr University (Vancouver).