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until 31.01. | #4881ARTatBerlin | Kuckei + Kuckei shows from Friday, 28. November 2025 the exhibition The minimal input by the artist Ingo Gerken.
Ingo Gerken’s series of works entitled ‘Bibliosculptures’ engages in visual dialogue with international book publications on contemporary art history. Temporary object interventions are created in public art libraries, taking place directly in the books and thus establishing contact with the works printed there. This results in a coexistence of object and image, a fusion of perspectives, an associative exchange or a formal-aesthetic leap.
At the interface between everyday artistic life and art-historical research, selected books become an expanded space for play and reception: trivial objects encounter significant works of art, shifting the boundaries between discourse and banal reality. Art and art books become accessible from new perspectives. In his photographs, Ingo Gerken creates fleeting sculptural constellations in the field of tension between representation, reference and resistance, which also question the relationship between authorship and artistic appropriation. He always understands the depicted works of art in the context of their journalistic reproduction and sees the open book as a mentally open terrain for poetic expansion or system-critical commentary. The works are sculptural assertions and contextual links between homage and subversion. They take place directly and immediately at and with their literary source, where they are composed ‘on site’ in pictorial space and documented photographically.
Ingo Gerken (Lippetal, 1971) lives and works in Berlin. From 1995 to 2000, he studied fine art at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Kiel and environmental art at the Glasgow School of Art. His work has received numerous awards (including from the Stiftung Kunstfonds, the Academy of Arts, and the Neuköllner Kunstpreis) and has been shown in numerous international solo and group exhibitions. His current works are also on display in the exhibition ‘Out of the Box – 75 Years of the Academy of Arts Archive’ at the Berlin Academy of Arts on Pariser Platz (until 18 January 2026).
Opening: Friday, 28. November 2025, 6 – 9 pm
Exhibition dates: Friday, 28. November until Saturday, 31. January 2026
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Titel image caption: Ingo Gerken, BIBLIOSCULPTURE 018, 2012/2021 (Champagnerglas, Champagner, Buch), Archival Pigment Print auf Barytpapier, 76 x 61 cm.
Exhibition Ingo Gerken | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin
