A Place Between the Pines
South Oxfordshire | 31 May - 28 June 2026 | Private View, 31 May 14:00 - 16:00
Curated by Lucy von Goetz
von Goetz to present 16-artist exhibition exploring the tension of opposites at Crowsley Park, Oxfordshire, UK
von Goetz is pleased to announce A Place Between the Pines, a 16-artist exhibition hosted at the historic Crowsley Park estate in South Oxfordshire, from 31 May - 28 June 2026.
Leading contemporary artists from ten countries - Max Bainbridge, Johanna Bath, Alicja Biala, Anna Blom, Salvatore Fiorello, Lavinia Harrington, Beatrice Hasell-McCosh, Jin Han Lee, Callum Harvey, Henry Hudson, Jemima Moore, Polina Piëch, Martine Poppe, Jill Tate, Yijia Wu, and Xu Yang - will explore the exhibition thematic through their painting, sculpture, and photography.
Carl Jung proposed that transformation - whether personal, cultural, or symbolic - does not occur through the resolution of conflict but through the sustained tension of opposites. From this tension emerges what he termed the transcendent function: a third position, neither one pole nor the other, through which new forms of meaning become possible. A Place Between the Pines stages this psychic principle to avoid the reductive simplicity of binaries.
The pine forest with its vertical striving and subterranean root systems becomes a symbol of individuation, linking earth and sky, unconscious depth and conscious form.
Jung understood nature as one of the primary screens onto which the unconscious projects its contents. Contemporary landscape here becomes a theatre in which identity, loss, belonging and transformation are rehearsed.
Crowsley Park manor, near Henley-on-Thames was built in 1720. The ancient parklands surrounding it were known from the13th century and held a royal deer herd in 1595. The estate was famously owned by the Baskerville family from 1845, who hosted the author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in one of the rooms used in this exhibition. The property was requisitioned in 1942 by the BBC and became a vital receiving station during WWII and later the Cold War.
Lucy von Goetz, Director of von Goetz & Curator of A Place Between the Pines, said “This is going to be a powerful exhibition. Hugely varied works, precise and intriguing visual languages and technical excellence. It will be wanting for nothing, not to mention the incredible setting it will be housed in. These artists are all working through very refined conceptual and philosophical ideas, nothing is by mistake.”
This unique exhibition has been made possible by the kind personal permission of Jeff Banks CBE PPCSD FRSA.
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The exhibition will be open from 31 May - 28 June 2026, by appointment (info@vongoetz.uk)
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A catalogue will accompany the exhibition with an essay written by Lucy von Goetz www.vongoetz.uk
About von Goetz:
von Goetz was launched in 2017 by Lucy von Goetz in a warehouse in Brixton to present a
programme of contemporary artists with a curatorial focus in London. Now von Goetz is based in Holland Park, London and travels around the world to unique sites to organise and curate exhibitions of the most exceptional contemporary artists. Lucy von Goetz is an art adviser, curator, and gallerist.
