Bühnenbild (sitzen, stehen) places the viewer before a quietly unsettling stage. In this 2021 silkscreen print on Yamada Hanga handmade paper, Silke Otto-Knapp compresses the language of theatrical space into a composition that refuses to settle into conventional depth or perspective. Figures rendered in grayscale sit and stand amid full and half circles, their silhouetted forms offset by a surrounding darkness that reads less as shadow than as atmosphere or aura. The title, roughly translated as "Stage design (sit, stand)," signals the work's central preoccupation: the construction of an illusory space that is simultaneously flat and volumetric, surface and scene. Otto-Knapp has spoken of her desire to build pictorial spaces that hold both the material reality of a painted surface and the suggestion of a staged interior, and this print enacts exactly that ambiguity, hovering between abstraction and figuration without resolving into either. The work extends directly from Otto-Knapp's 2020 exhibition at the Renaissance Society, in which large-scale watercolor paintings were installed within freestanding architectural structures to create a multidimensional stage set throughout the gallery. That project introduced scenic elements alongside choreographed bodies, drawing on the tradition of painted theatrical backdrops while complicating it through a rigorously reduced palette of a single black pigment. The silkscreen carries this sensibility forward in edition form, with the handmade Yamada Hanga paper lending an organic warmth that tempers the graphic precision of the printing process. The intimation of movement, of a body about to sit or rise, gives the composition a suspended quality, as though the work records a moment between gestures rather than any fixed pose. Produced in an edition of thirty, each print is hand-signed by the artist and offered at an accessible price point that reflects the Renaissance Society's commitment to connecting collectors with serious contemporary work. Otto-Knapp, who is based in Los Angeles and has exhibited widely across Europe and North America, works across painting, drawing, and print with a consistency of vision that gives each object in her practice a concentrated authority. Collectors acquiring this edition gain entry into a body of work that has attracted sustained critical attention for its ability to make atmosphere feel structural and gesture feel inevitable, all within compositions of apparent simplicity and genuine depth.