Exhibition Almut Linde – PSM Gallery

until 29.05. | #4685ARTatBerlin | PSM Gallery shows from Friday, 02. May 2025 the Solo-exhibition “Between conformity and resistance” by the artist Almut Linde.

Almut Linde’s work revolves around the right questions: whose voices are really heard, how is security defined in a society that attacks people’s rights, and what drives acts of destruction? Between Conformity and Resistance presents three early works that laid the foundation for her artistic path since the 1990s, including a reactivated participatory work alongside its original form.

The series Dirty – Minimal #16.1 – Headrests Individualised by Vandalism (1997-2001) documents vandalised headrests on the tracks of the S-Bahn Hamburg Hbf – Ahrensburg, which Linde collected and photographed. In Dirty Minimal #9.1 – Postal Logistics Centre (1992), she captured the unnoticed, repetitive movements of postal workers and transformed functional processes into visual compositions.

In 1994, Linde commissioned a survey on personal well-being that resulted in unique drawings depicting people’s responses in Dirty Minimal #12.1 – State of Being. This survey is now being reissued and invites visitors to reflect on how perceptions of safety have evolved over three decades.

Linde has long scrutinised the social and institutional dynamics that marginalise groups of individuals, illuminating their actions in local examples of reality to reveal the unconscious structures of social systems. At its core, her work explores the tension between individual autonomy and social constraints, emphasising the shifting dynamics of conformity and resistance. Linde challenges the viewer to confront invisible norms and take a stand.

Opening: Friday, 02 May 2025, 12 – 6 pm

Exhibition dates: Friday, 02. May 2025 – Thursday, 29. May 2025

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Title image caption: Production of Dirty Minimal #12.1 — State of Being, employees of an opinion research institute at the Rathausmarkt, Hamburg, 1994, photo: Almut Linde

Exhibition Almut Linde – PSM Gallery | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Ausstellungen Berlin Galerien | ART at Berlin

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