In parallel with the 2019 Venice Biennale, an exhibition by the artist Lore Bert (b. 1936) was held at the Church of San Samuele, Venice. Bert’s play with light and paper was exemplified by Ways to Eureka, a site-specific installation-illumination exhibited inside the church, consisting of two columns of dichroitic glass protruding from an undulating sea of white paper.

This environment-installation was supplemented by further images and collages. The artist’s formal vocabulary consists of constructive forms, geometries, architectural elements, ornaments, numbers, and letters. Having studied at what is now the University of the Arts (UdK) in Berlin from 1953 to 1957, the intellectual content of Bert’s work is characterized by both the humanities and natural sciences, the world views of Galileo and Copernicus, philosophical and poetic writings (Kant, Goethe and Rilke, Goodman and Quine, Macchiavelli and Dante), as well as mathematics (Cantor's set theory) and logical connections (‘tables of truth’), abstract properties, universal relations, and the absolute in its poetic beauty.

The Dr. Christiane Hackerodt Arts and Culture Foundation provided significant support for the exhibition in Venice and for the preparation and publication of the catalogue.