With Quantum Oddity, PERG presents a body of work by Veit Schmidleitner in which material experimentation becomes both method and subject. Moving between painting, sculpture and research, the exhibition explores surfaces that remain unstable — shifting through light, movement and chemical transformation.

Working as a developer and researcher for NASA and BASF, Schmidleitner approaches art through the logic of experimentation. His practice pushes technologies and materials beyond their intended functions, resulting in sculptures and paintings that occupy unfamiliar territory.

Central to the work is metamerism: the shifting relationship between colour and light. Using pigments developed exclusively for his own practice, Schmidleitner creates surfaces that resist a fixed reading and instead unfold through movement, reflection and changing conditions.

Cut, folded and distorted metal panels appear as fragments of an unresolved narrative. Their reflective surfaces do not simply reveal the work, but also destabilise the space around it — producing images that remain partial, elusive and in constant transition.

This precision is countered by the unpredictability of chemical processes. Schmidleitner combines contemporary materials with an interpretation of a 6,000-year-old Japanese lacquering technique, allowing control and reaction to exist in tension.

Quantum Oddity explores the possibility of creating something from nothing: a pursuit of the unseen, the unknown and the questions that emerge when certainty begins to dissolve.