Bartha Contemporary is pleased to present Into the Surface , a two-person exhibition bringing together recent works by Defne Tesal and Stephan Baumkötter. Six works from Tesal’s Door series, made in 2025, are shown alongside five small-format paintings by Baumkötter from 2019. Distinct in material and method, both bodies of work create a subtle sense of depth through repeated gestures, layered surfaces and a tactile handling of colour. Tesal reduces the familiar image of a door to two colour…