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  "description": "Katharina Busl builds a forest theater at Paltz Biënnale 2026, Soest. Camouflage tarps, silicone masks, sculptural ear forms. On view through June 21.",
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  "textContent": "## Katharina Busl’s Nothing Up My Sleeve at Paltz Biënnale Soest\n\nAt Landgoed De Paltz, a nineteenth-century estate on the Utrechtse Heuvelrug that opens its grounds to the public only once every two years, Katharina Busl builds a theater between the pines that nobody formally invited.\n\n****Katharina Busl**** ,  __Nothing Up My Sleeve__ , 2026, installation view, PaltzBiënnale, Landgoed De Paltz, Soest. Courtesy the artist and PaltzBiënnale. Photo: Robin Meyer.\n\nThe curtains are agricultural plastic printed in military camouflage, gathered into theatrical swags and tied to the trunks. The stage holds three metal lattice trusses from which large sculptural forms are suspended, each sitting somewhere between a human ear, a speaker horn, and a flower.\n\nBeneath the draped table, silicone face forms press through the fabric from underneath.\n\n* * *\n\n**Nothing Up My Sleeve**\n\n**Artist:**\nKatharina Busl\n\n**Exhibition:**\nNothing Up My Sleeve\n\n**Venue:**\n\nPaltzBiënnale / Landgoed De Paltz\n\n\n**City:**\nSoest, Netherlands\n\n**Dates:**\nMay 9, 2026 – June 21, 2026\n\n**Hours:**\nSaturday & Sunday, 11:00–18:00\n\n**Address:**\nPaltz 3, Soest (Entrance: Heezerspoor Westzijde)\n\n**Curators:**\nCecilia Rebergen, Veronique Hoedemakers\n\n**Photography:**\nRobin Meyer\n\n**Image Courtesy:**\nCourtesy the artist and PaltzBiënnale\n\n**Contact:**\ninfo@paltzbiennale.nl\n\n* * *\n\n## Nothing Up My Sleeve (2026) by Katharina Busl at Paltz Biënnale\n\n _Nothing Up My Sleeve_ examines a recurring dynamic of illusion and manipulation at Landgoed De Paltz.\n\nThe site-specific installation is a response to this year's edition theme, \"Date the Estate,\" presented by the Paltz Biënnale in Soest (NL), an inquiry into our contemporary and past relationship with the estate and its grounds.\n\n****Katharina Busl**** ,  __Nothing Up My Sleeve__ , 2026, detail, ****Paltz Biënnale**** , Landgoed De Paltz, Soest. Courtesy the artist and ****Paltz Biënnale.**** Photo: Robin Meyer.****Katharina Busl,**** __Nothing Up My Sleeve__ , 2026, detail, Paltz Biënnale, Landgoed De Paltz, Soest. Courtesy the artist and Paltz Biënnale. Photo: Robin Meyer.****Katharina Busl,**** __Nothing Up My Sleeve__ , 2026, installation view, ****Paltz Biënnale**** , Landgoed De Paltz, Soest. Courtesy the artist and ****Paltz Biënnale****. Photo: Robin Meyer.\n\nThe site’s history is defined by a legacy of staging, moving from romanticized, man-made follies like a simulated waterfall, to the strategic military camouflage deployed during World War II, and now to the occurrence of the biennial art event. The installation transforms the terrain into a hybrid of a stage and a camp, joining the site's theatrical lineage.\n\nA play between revealing and concealing, utilizing camouflage tarps draped like theatre curtains, blank staring silicone masks, a stage covered in pollen, and peculiar warning sirens shaped like ears, the work creates an uncanny atmosphere where the genuine and the fabricated blur.\n\n****Katharina Busl,**** __Nothing Up My Sleeve__ , 2026, installation view, ****Paltz Biënnale,**** Landgoed De Paltz, Soest. Courtesy the artist and Paltz Biënnale. Photo: Robin Meyer.****Katharina Busl,**** __Nothing Up My Sleeve__ , 2026, installation view, ****Paltz Biënnale,**** Landgoed De Paltz, Soest. Courtesy the artist and Paltz Biënnale. Photo: Robin Meyer.\n\n* * *\n\nThe camouflage does not hide anything from the forest. The installation announces itself plainly from the path, curtains looped to trunks, the ear-forms catching grey light, the table pressing small faces through its own draping.\n\nWhat the work conceals is more structural, a history of managed, romanticized, and at times militarized landscape, in which the aesthetic of nature has always required a director. Busl's theater is uncanny because it makes that management visible, and then declines to dismantle it. The curtains remain tied to the trees. What they frame keeps opening.\n\nInstagram Katharina Busl\nPaltzbiennale on Instagram\n\nKatharina Busl,  __Nothing Up My Sleeve__ , 2026, installation view, Paltz Biënnale, Landgoed De Paltz, Soest. Courtesy the artist and PaltzBiënnale. Photo: Robin Meyer.\n\n**About Catapult Contemporary - Art Platform Submission**\n\nThis is a exhibition review published by Catapult — an independent editorial platform for contemporary art, based in Vienna. We publish exhibition reviews, artist features, interviews, and critical context, with a focus on emerging and mid-career practices from Europe and beyond.\ncatapult.art\n\nWant to be featured? Submit your work →\n\n* * *\n\n## **More Readings**\n\nFeatured\n\n## Lisa Klinger: Painting the Body as System\n\nRead More\n\nExhibition\n\n## Boglárka Dankó: Heresy in the Small Hours\n\nRead More\n\nInterview\n\n## Tom Król on The Visible Trace of the Invisible Map\n\nRead More",
  "title": "Camouflage Means the Landscape Was Already Watching You",
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