Endless Canvas is an ongoing, lifelong project initiated by German visual artist Tilo Schulz and conceived as a monumental painting that refuses containment. Rather than existing as a bounded object, the work expands indefinitely—extending left and right, upward and downward—without a predetermined limit. Composed of modular panels, each measuring 152 × 260 cm, the painting unfolds as a continuous field. Painterly gestures traverse the seams between modules: lines pass beyond edges, colors spill across boundaries, each panel is a self-contained work of art, yet seamlessly embedded within a greater painterly universe. What emerges is not a series of discrete works, but a painting in perpetual extension.
The project situates itself within a lineage of artistic practices that engage with ideas of infinity, seriality, and spatial continuity. Its modular logic and open-ended growth recall Constantin Brancusi’s Infinity Column (1938), in which repetition becomes a vehicle for transcendence and boundlessness. At the same time, Endless Canvas resonates with The Continuous Monument (1969) by the radical architectural collective Superstudio, whose speculative megastructure proposed an unbroken architectural form spanning landscapes and cities. Like these precedents, Schulz’s work employs modularity and extension not to achieve closure, but to maintain the possibility of endless becoming. Further affinities can be traced to postwar abstraction, Minimalist seriality, and Conceptual strategies that challenge the autonomy and fixity of the art object.
Beyond its material and painterly dimensions, Endless Canvas is envisioned as an open platform for collaboration. Schulz understands the project as a framework that can be activated by contributors from across disciplines, including sound, writing, coding, film, and 3D practices, as well as research in the social and natural sciences, engineering, philosophy, aesthetics, and theology. Through these engagements, the canvas becomes a site of co-creation—an evolving constellation in which multiple forms of knowledge intersect and continuously reshape the work’s meaning. For the inaugural exhibition, Hungarian experimental music composer and media artist Lázár Gábor collaborates with Tilo Schulz, engaging in a dialogue with his painting through sound.
This exhibition at acb Plus marks the first public presentation of Endless Canvas. Sixteen modules are shown as an initial articulation of the system. The installation follows a multi-level arrangement that activates the gallery architecture: modules are stacked vertically, extend around corners, appear at floor level, and are visible from an elevated viewing platform.