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until 01.11. | #4778ARTatBerlin | AOA;87 contemporary shows from Friday, 12 September 2025 (Opening: 11.09.) the solo exhibition “Morpheus Mango Mau” by the artist Helga Schmidhuber. As part of the exhibition, a talk with journalist, biologist, and philosopher Cord Riechelmann will take place on Sunday, 14 September 2025, at 10:30 am.
Helga Schmidhuber’s paintings move between myth, dream, and organic materiality. Her images open fragmentary landscapes in which meanings shimmer, horizons dissolve, and instinct overlays logic.
Helga Schmidhuber, Untitled, No 10 from Krähen kommen -Titanweiß series, 2008, Mixed media on hand-made paper, 105 x 105 cm
At the center of her artistic practice is transformation: the dissolution of boundaries, the visualization of transitions, and the tracing of archaic energies—not as a return to the past, but as a radical experience of the present. Her working method is processual, experimental, and sensually imbued, carried by a synesthetic perception and a fascination for biodiversity and natural forms.
Helga Schmidhuber, Untitled, from Morpheus series , 2024, Mixed media & applications on canvas, 220 × 190 cm
In her current cycle Morpheus, predators, birds, and traces of micro-life meet in paradoxical, peaceful coexistence. What is considered a tension in nature becomes a fragile balance on canvas. Painting becomes a stage for simultaneous states: danger and beauty, presence and rapture, waking and dreaming.
Helga Schmidhuber, Untitled, from About Horizons series, 2021, Mixed media on cardboard, 42 x 29,7 cm
Her work spans from delicate miniatures to large-scale canvases and frequently extends into space as installation. Schmidhuber studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy under Dieter Krieg and Albert Oehlen. Her works have been shown at Hamburger Kunsthalle, Museum Wiesbaden, and CCA Kunsthalle Mallorca. She has received several awards, including the Hans Platschek Prize (2020) and a working scholarship from STIFTUNG_Kunstfonds (2024).
Opening: Thursday, 11 September 2025, 6–9 pm
Exhibition dates: Friday, 12 September – Saturday, 1 November 2025
To the Gallery
Image caption title: Helga Schmidhuber, o. T., aus der Serie Morpheus, 2025, Mischtechnik auf Leinwand, 220 × 190 cm. (Foto: Künstlerstudio)
Exhibition Helga Schmidhuber – AOA;87 | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Ausstellungen Berlin Galerien | ART at Berlin
