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New light for Old Masters: Reduced admission price attracts to visit Gemäldegalerie despite partial closures
The Berlin Gemäldegalerie is implementing an innovative lighting concept over the next two years. The museum will remain open to the public to a limited extent during this time. A reduction in the entrance fee is intended to make it attractive to visit the halls and cabinets, which will remain open. When and for how long you will not be able to visit which areas of the Gemäldegalerie is listed below. The changes to the lighting concept will represent a significant improvement in terms of conservation and aesthetics as well as ecology. Reduced overhead lighting, harmonious ambient lighting and precisely placed light accents on individual works can optimise the presentation of the collection. … Read the article further on DEEDS.NEWS. Image caption: Frans Hals, Catharina Hooft with her nurse, 1619-20 © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemäldegalerie, Photo: Christoph Schmidt
21. Oct 2021
Serkan Sarier | Generation Kanacke / DER SPIEGEL Nr.31 / 29. Juli 1973 | Zwölf-Apostel Church | 04.11.-08.11.2021
From 4 November 2021, the artist Serkan Sarier, who was born in Germany (Hanau) and now lives in New York, will show his exhibition “Generation Kanacke / DER SPIEGEL Nr.31 / 29. Juli 1973” at the Zwölf-Apostel Kirche in Berlin. The exhibition with the challenging title presents works by the artist, which contextualize a continuous and incalculable internal and external transformation of a person born in Germany, with immigrant background. … Read the article further on DEEDS.NEWS. Image caption: Serkan Sarier, courtesy the artist
20. Oct 2021
The Sun Machine Is Coming Down | Art at the ICC | 07.10.-17.10.2021
With “The Sun Machine Is Coming Down”, the Berliner Festspiele will open the International Congress Centrum (ICC), which has been closed for years, for ten days and revive the futuristic architectural icon from 1979 with new and adapted art in the fields of performance, artistry, music, film and installation with national and international artists. The ICC is open to the public since 7 October 2021. The project initiated by Thomas Oberender and curated by the team follows the principle of simultaneity; just as the architectural design by Ursulina Schüler-Witte and Ralf Schüler envisaged for the congress building. Visitors experience the gigantic building freely during their 3.5-hour visit and explore temporary – announced or spontaneous – elements of the live art programme as well as permanent screenings, concerts and installations. … Read the article further on DEEDS.NEWS Image caption: ICC Berlin © Berliner Festspiele / Eike Walkenhorst
8. Oct 2021
The Sound of Distance | Festival at Haus der Kulturen der Welt | 21.10.-24.10.2021
The Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) invites you to the festival “The Sound of Distance” with concerts, sound installations and talks from 21 to 24 October 2021. Evening tickets and festival passes will be available from the HKW from 04.10.2021. Admission to the sound installations is free. If the HKW were one big instrument – what would it sound like? The four-day festival The Sound of Distance takes this question seriously and seeks answers in the expanded resonance space: in concerts, performances, talks and sonic activations. Indoors and outdoors. In a radius that includes the … Read the article further on DEEDS.NEWS. Image caption: crys cole, Photo: Robert Szkolnicki
7. Oct 2021
THE INTERVIEW IN|DEEDS
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Omar Hassan
PROLOGUE | PERSONAL Omar, we do meet? We are at the Luisa Catucci Gallery, in the Schillerkiez-Neukölln Berlin. It’s an amazing contemporary art gallery, and I’m glad to show my artworks in this space, and in this wonderful city. Where do you come from, where were you born when? How and where do you currently live […]
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Walter Schels
PROLOGUE | PERSONAL (Interview in German language) Herr Schels, wo treffen wir Sie? Eine Fabriketage in Hamburg-Eimsbüttel, kreatives Chaos mit analoger Dunkelkammer. Woher kommen Sie, wo sind Sie wann geboren? Geboren bin ich 1936 in Landshut, als jüngstes von sechs Geschwistern. Wo leben und arbeiten Sie derzeit? Siehe oben. Welche Stationen und Menschen haben Sie geprägt? Kommt […]
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René Schoemakers
PROLOGUE | PERSONAL René, where do we meet? We meet in Kiel, on the western edge of the town, in my house. Surrounded by family houses and greenery. Behind the house is a large garden, behind that a small wood. If you look out of the window, you only see green, also because there is a […]
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Elvira Bach
PROLOGUE | PERSONAL (Interview in German language) Frau Bach, wo treffen wir Sie? Wir treffen uns in meinem Atelier, Fabriketage. Vielleicht sitzen wir an Ihrem Lieblingsplatz? Wir sitzen am Tisch. Woher kommen Sie, wo sind Sie wann geboren? Aus Neuenhain im Taunus. Geboren bin ich am 22. Juni 1951. Wo leben und arbeiten Sie derzeit? Ich lebe in Berlin-Charlottenburg und arbeite […]
SPECIAL EXHIBITIONS IN MUSEUMS
Tony Cragg | Drawing as Continuum | Haus am Waldsee | bis 09.01.2021
As an exhibition venue for international art, the Haus am Waldsee has had a special relationship with sculpture since it began exhibiting in 1946. Since the extension and general renovation of the building in 2017/18, the Haus am Waldsee is pleased to have on loan the large outdoor sculpture “Versus” (2011/19) by the British sculptor Tony Cragg (*1949). In autumn 2021, it will now dedicate a large exhibition to the drawing work of the internationally active and multi-award-winning sculptor with his works on paper, which will be complemented by individual sculptures in the interior. The show focuses on works from the 1980s until today. On display are hand drawings, watercolours, lithographs and etchings that allow a deep insight into the artistic-scientific thinking of Tony Cragg. … Read the article further on DEEDS.NEWS. Image caption: Installation view, Tony Cragg – Drawing as Continuum, Haus am Waldsee 2021, Photo: Roman März, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2021.
21. Oct 2021
First retrospective: Louise Stomps | Natur Gestalten Skulpturen 1928–1988 | Berlinische Galerie | 15.10.2021-17.01.2022
THE VERBORGENE MUSEUM is a guest at the Berlinische Galerie and presents the first retrospective of the sculptor Louise Stomps (1900-1988). With around 90 sculptures, the exhibition provides an insight into the life’s work of this extraordinary artist. Her bronze figures “Pilger”, “Einsamer” and “Gilgamesh”, which are over three metres high and were donated to the Berlinische Galerie by Louise Stomps’ heirs, can also be seen in the staircase hall for the first time. Louise Stomps hat ein imposantes Werk hinterlassen, das nach ihrem Tod jedoch nur selten ausgestellt wurde. Menschliches Leid und die schutzlose Kreatur sind für die Berliner Bildhauerin ein Leben lang Inspiration. Sie stehen im Mittelpunkt ihres bildnerischen Schaffens, das zwischen den ausklingenden 1920er und den späten 1980er Jahren entstand. „BE OPEN TO THE NEW AND TAKE MODERN ART IN ITS INDESCRIBABLE FRESHNESS AND DETACHMENT AS A COMPASS FOR A NEW TIME.“ Louise Stomps Read the article further on DEEDS.NEWS. Image caption: Photo: Anonymous, Louise Stomps and „Die Scheue“, Berlin 1946 © Louise Stomps Estate.
21. Oct 2021
The Collection Solly 1821–2021 | From picture “chaos” to Gemäldegalerie | 21.10.2021-16.01.2022
The acquisition of the painting collection of the English merchant Edward Solly in 1821 gave Berlin a world-class public art collection. With masterpieces by Raphael, Hans Holbein the Younger and Rembrandt, the “Solly Collection” still forms the basis of the Berlin Gemäldegalerie. On the occasion of the 200th anniversary, the special exhibition spanning the entire building pays tribute to this courageous coup, unique in Europe, and presents the works and protagonists of this invaluable stroke of luck for the Berlin museums. In the early 19th century, an unprecedented collection of paintings was created in Berlin, which was to become the basis of the gallery in the Royal Museum (today’s Altes Museum), which opened in 1830. Edward Solly (1776-1844), who came from England and worked in the Baltic region, had earned a lot of money from the trade in grain and wood – and invested it in paintings of all kinds. In the years 1813 to 1821 alone, he brought together more than 3000 paintings in his house in Berlin’s Wilhelmstraße, mainly from Italy, Germany and the Netherlands. “Imagine an accumulation of about 8-9 thousand pictures, of which at most 400 say four hundred are set up”, August von Goethe wrote […]
14. Oct 2021
GALLERY VISITS | EXBITION VISITS | STUDIO VISITS
360° panoramas and 3D tours of exhibitions in Berlin galleries, cultural institutions, artists’ studios, art fairs and museums that you should have seen. Visit exhibitions virtually now.
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
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Erika Stürmer-Alex | Malerei + Objekte | Galerie mutare | 23.10.-20.11.2021
until 20.11. | #3208ARTatBerlin | Galerie mutare shows from 23rd October 2021 an exhibition with painting and object by the artist Erika Stürmer-Alex as part of the gallery project “Die neue Brücke – durch Chaos und Ordnung zur Freiheit” (> The new bridge – through chaos and order to freedom). A brochure will be published to accompany the exhibition and a recent short film will be shown. Erika Stürmer-Alex, Corona überall, 2021 Erika Stürmer-Alex (signature EST), born in Wriezen/Oderbruch in 1938, studied painting, graphic arts and art in construction at the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art from 1958 to 1963. Then she moved to Woltersdorf near Erkner. She travelled to Eastern Bloc countries as well as Paris and Venice, and after reunification to Naxos, Brazil, London and New York. Since 1982 she has lived near Frankfurt/Oder, where she established the Kunsthof Lietzen. Here EST continued the art courses she had been giving at the Kulturhaus Rüdersdorf since 1969. In 1991 she co-founded the artists’ association “Endmoräne”. In 1992 she was awarded the Förderpreis des Landes Brandenburg. In 1994 she was guest of honour at the Villa Massimo Rome. In 2015 she was honoured for her life’s work with the Brandenburg Art […]
21. Oct 2021
Pam Evelyn | Spectacle of a wreck | Peres Projects | 08.10.-19.11.2021
until 19.11. | #3223ARTatBerlin | Peres Projects currently presents the solo exhibition “Spectacle of a wreck” by the artist Pam Evelyn. Pam Evelyn paints like the archaeologist digs, (ad)dressing her abstract art in much the same way as Wheeler’s archaeologist approaches their science. With a generosity for past paradigms but motivated by the spirit of discovery. Both execute their craft without any sense of premeditation, undertaking a process that abdicates any obligation or burden of schema – physical or intellectual – other than that dictated to them by the enigma of exploration and the resolve of revelation. Evelyn’s painterly excavation is not a formal concern but, rather, one driven by the mechanics of process. She’s not digging in the pigments of time looking for amulets of previous civilisations; she’s empowering her dig to such an extent that she lets it decree not just what but how she arrives at such aesthetic disclosures. She’s not looking to catalogue the chaos of the past, but rather clasp and clutch it in a very physical, personal way. To feel the very drama of an excavation of such extravaganza. It is this very freedom from any edicts of representation that allows Evelyn the opportunity […]
21. Oct 2021
Yves Scherer | Family Time | Guido W. Baudach | 23.10.-18.12.2021
until 18.12. | #3222ARTatBerlin | Galerie Guido W. Baudach presents from 23rd October the solo exhibition Family Time by the artist Yves Scherer. It’s the fourth solo exhibition of the artist’s work with Galerie Guido W. Baudach. Galerie Guido W. Baudach is delighted to present its fourth solo exhibition of works by Swiss born and New York based artist Yves Scherer. Under the title Family Time, Scherer shows, among other things, new works from the three most important work groups of recent years: a hyperrealistic sculpture, lenticular prints and combined paintings. In continuation of the crosswork narrative that has always characterized his practice, a targeted linking of celebrity culture, fan fiction and his own, sometimes very personal life experiences takes place here. For those who associate Yves Scherer primarily with the artistic appropriation of acting stars such as Emma Watson, Lindsay Lohan and Vincent Cassel, the sculpture placed centrally in the exhibition may at first seem unfamiliar. Modeled larger than life, the figure of a little boy stands there, bent over in front, completely absorbed in picking flowers. In an outfit that combines old-fashioned braces with modern jogging trousers, the boy wears a pensive smile on his face. Designed on […]
21. Oct 2021
Abraham Cruzvillegas | Unbetiteltes Tautologisches Selbstportrait | Galerie Thomas Schulte | 15.09.-06.11.2021
until 06.11. | #3224ARTatBerlin | Galerie Thomas Schulte currently presents the solo exhibition Unbetiteltes Tautologisches Selbstportrait by the artist Abraham Cruzvillegas. The colorful installation Unbetiteltes Tautologisches Selbstportrait stretches across the two nine-meter high walls of the Corner Space and consists of boxes of shapes and sizes the bottoms of which are painted in thirty-four different color hues. In his installations and sculptures Abraham Cruzvillegas often uses found or discarded industrially produced, simple, everyday objects. In preparation for his installation at Galerie Thomas Schulte, the artist asked the gallery staff to collect and accumulate all kinds of empty packaging. The various boxes made from cardboard, paper or wood range, for example, from shoe and egg cartons to cereal, chocolate, pizza and instant rice boxes, household appliances packaging, soap and detergents, make up and beauty products boxes, wine and champagne boxes, and six-packs for beer and soda, along with many of the products that the gallery and its staff had consumed over months. The bottoms of the boxes have been painted in thirty-four different colors, using a color system which the artist first used in his contribution to documenta in 2012. In Cruzvillegas’ color scheme, every color stands for a specific idea, […]
20. Oct 2021
Nengi Omuku | Chorus | Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery Berlin | 30.10.-18.12.2021
until 18.12. | #3207ARTatBerlin | Kristin Hjellegjerde Berlin presents from 30th October 2021 (Opening: 29.10.) the exhibition by the artist Nengi Omuku. body of a reclining woman lies stretched out like an undulating landscape in front of a crowd of bodies partially submerged in sea-like substance. This mysterious, textural painting entitled Fiyin at Rest is part of a new series of haunting artworks by Nengi Omuku who paints onto panels of a traditional Nigerian fabric known as Sanyan, lending each piece a distinct physicality. For her latest solo exhibition Chorus, at Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery Berlin, the artist continues her explorations of collective identity and notions of belonging with a new focus on spectatorship, ritual and spirituality. Omuku’s practice has long fluctuated between figuration and abstraction, and this latest body of work evokes a greater sense of fluidity and dynamism that serves to create an almost dream-like atmosphere. The painting Still Life, for example, depicts a faceless woman holding a pot containing a heart-shaped plant and resting her arms on a green, sloping surface with a terrazzo inspired pattern. Behind her, pink swirling clouds float in a pale blue sky. The soft colour palette evokes a sense of serenity and space, […]
19. Oct 2021
Kristina Okan | Artist Weekend | Hazegallery | 29.10.-31.10.2021
until 31.10. | #3206ARTatBerlin | Hazegallery shows from 29th October 2021 the solo exhibition Artist Weekend by the artist Kristina Okan, curated by Iren Russo and Sasha Grigg. It is the third artist weekend in the gallery. dedicates herself mostly to two mediums: watercolor and porcelain. Through them, she examines the beautiful fragility of the natural world. Curve by curve, drop by drop she creates the transparent narrative of her own vision. Untitled, 2021, watercolor, ink on paper, 50 x 70 cm The exhibition will be presented both of these mediums as a silent dialog with the artist and the viewer. Untitled, 2021, watercolor, ink on paper, 50 x 70 cm Kristina Okan is an award-nominated international visual artist, born in Russia in 1991. She lives and works in Berlin and Moscow. Okan received her Master of Arts Degree from Stroganov`s Academy of Industrial and Applied Arts in Moscow. Untitled, 2021, watercolor, ink on paper, 50 x 70 cm She has exhibited her works in solo and group exhibitions across Europe and Asia, including the UK, Italy, Greece, Germany, China. She was nominated for a prestigious international ceramic art award, “Blanc de Chine,” in 2019 and awarded an honorable mention […]
18. Oct 2021
Nat Apanay | The Saga of the Unencumbered by Form | Hazegallery | 12.11.–27.11.2021
until 27.11. | #3205ARTatBerlin | Hazegallery presents from 12th November 2021 (Opening: 11.11.) the exhibition The Saga of the Unencumbered by Form by with works by the artist Nat Apanay, curated by Iren Russo and Sasha Grigg. In November, Berlin based gallery HAZE GALLERY with the informational support of the independent art & fashion magazine PURPLEHAZE, will present a solo exhibition of the contemporary Russian artist and architect- Nat Apanay. The project called “The Saga of the Unencumbered by Form” recreates the author’s statement on the themes of corporeality, the place of man in the cosmic and digital world order, the relationship between the micro and macro levels. Portrait, 2019, 142 х 96 сm, oil on canvas On November the 4th, public performance will mark the opening day of the exhibition. The artist will practice a ritual dance that expresses the moment of the emergence of a form. The performance will begin at 19.00 and take place on the streets of the German capital next to the gallery (gallery address: Bülowstrasse 11, 10789, Berlin-Schöneberg). State of mind, 2019, 120 х 90 сm, oil, plaster, pigments on canvas The exhibition is an assemblage of different media. Nat seeks to express creation […]
15. Oct 2021
Andrea Lehnert | Painting | lorch + seidel temporary showroom | 02.10.-13.11.2021
until 13.11. | #3204ARTatBerlin | lorch + seidel contemporary is currently showing a solo exhibition of paintings by the artist Andrea Lehnert in the temporary showroom (Potsdamer Straße 93). The exhibition „Paintings by Andrea Lehnert“ shows an excerpt from different series of work from the years 2018-2021. Small plein-air- and medium formats up to large diptychs in the format 300 x 300 cm, the latter mostly on raw, colourless primed canvas or jute. Malerei von Andrea Lehnert, Photo Eric Tschernow The topics range from landscape, floral or animal motifs to figurative and portrait painting, but always combined with the endeavour to dissolve objectivity into abstraction, color space and color tone. Malerei von Andrea Lehnert, Photo Eric Tschernow Landscape suddenly turns into a volcanic eruption, a hurricane, a flood, a cloud fog or spherical ether. Malerei von Andrea Lehnert, Photo Eric Tschernow Magnolia blossoms shine against monochrome backgrounds in all their delicate, ephemeral and beguiling beauty. Andrea Lehnert, Magnolias, 105 x 140 cm, diptych, oil on jute, 2019 Portraits of the American jazz singer Billie Holiday reflect the inwardness of the singer in search of the melody. Andrea Lehnert, Billie Holiday, 41 x 30 cm, oil on canvas, 2018 Lonely “table dancers” […]
14. Oct 2021
Sabine Banovic | En Route | Jarmuschek + Partner | 16.10.-27.11.2021
bis 27.11. | #3203ARTatBerlin | Jarmuschek + Partner shows from 16th October 2021 (Opening: 15.10.) the exhibition En Route with current works by the artist Sabine Banovic. The Berlin-based artist’s large-format black and white compositions balance on the fine line between the planned undefined and the associatively representational. Under the title en route, Sabine Banovic now focuses on the processual and object character of her works. By showing videos and digital works in addition to canvases, she is able to ideally expand the spectrum of her artistic approach by adding the aspects of time and three-dimensional space, which are already present in her drawings. Not only does it become clear that each line is one consciously or unconsciously chosen path of many possible paths. The artist also shows us that every detail, every gaze and every mental link are individual and momentary – and always imply a decision. Sabine Banovic was born in Jena in 1973. She completed her studies in fine arts at the UdK Berlin and at St. Martins College of Art and Design in London in 2007 as a master student of Leika Ikemura. Since then, her works have been presented in numerous exhibitions and are represented in international […]
13. Oct 2021
Frank Gerritz | Kompass | Galerie Michael Haas + Kunst Lager Haas | 15.10.2021–15.01.2022
until 15.01. | #3202ARTatBerlin | Galerie Michael Haas presents from 15th October 2021 the exhibition Kompass with works by the artist Frank Gerritz. This is his first solo exhibition at Galerie Michael Haas in Berlin. With his aluminium works, iron sculptures and drawings, Frank Gerritz will occupy both the gallery rooms in Niebuhrstraße and the rooms of the Kunst Lager Haas in Lise-Meitner-Straße. A compass is a navigation device whose needle moves constantly and yet always points in the same direction. Frank Gerritz is also in permanent motion and at the same time goes his way very directly and purposefully. An important parameter of his works are human body dimensions, which run through his entire work in various proportions. At the same time, these are also found in references between the different groups of works. This shows in how many directions Gerritz is thinking at the same time to find out the possibilities of design. The process of creation of his works is decisive in this respect. His wall and floor sculptures are created in intensive and elaborate processes. Exemplary are his works in which he draws for months, with very soft pencils on MDF boards and thereby compresses the […]
13. Oct 2021
Marlies Appel | Galerie Inga Kondeyne – Raum für Zeichnung | 16.10.-20.11.2021
until 20.11. | #3220ARTatBerlin | Galerie Inga Kondeyne – Raum für Zeichnung presents from 16th October 2021 a solo exhibition featuring works by the artist Marlies Appel. From sheet to sheet, Marlies Appel curiously expands her new series of drawings from recent years. Under the title ‘fold and snow, the Jungfrau’ it can be seen in this exhibition. to be seen. The first drawings of this phase were already made around 2016, when inner images of the early snow on the Swiss mountain ‘Jungfrau Joch’ did not let go of the artist. When looking at the mountain massif full of crevices, she was overwhelmed by the different incidence of light and the shadow furrows that became dominant. But the memories of the folds of the robe of Jan van Eyck’s ‘Madonna in the Chamber’, which had been imprinted on her mind for a long time, were the real impetus for her to turn to the mountain massif. Consciously worked out free colour fields, influenced by this impression of nature, which is significant for her, now enter into a connection with simply structured line networks in her drawings. Viewers sense the underlying experience of nature absorbed by the artist. The masses […]
13. Oct 2021
Alvar Beyer | Loreley | probst galerie | 13.11.2021–22.01.2022
until 22.01. | #3201ARTatBerlin | probst galerie shows from 13th November 2021 (Vernissage 12.11.) the solo exhibition “Loreley” with new works by the artist Alvar Beyer. Alvar Beyer Alvar Beyer Alvar Beyer More information will follow shortly. Exhibition period: Saturday, 13th November 2021 – Saturday, 22nd January 2022 Exhibition Alvar Beyer – probst galerie | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin
12. Oct 2021
Kenneth Blom | DAS THEATER DER WIRKLICHKEIT | Luisa Catucci Gallery | 21.10.-13.11.2021
until 13.11. | #3210ARTatBerlin | Luisa Catucci Gallery shows from 21st October 2021 the solo exhibition DAS THEATER DER WIRKLICHKEIT by the norwegian artist Kenneth Blom. The internationally renowned Norwegian artist Kenneth Blom approaches his compositions with the attitude of a stage director: on engineered backgrounds, characters/actors go on scene to personify the theater of reality. The use of diagonal lines skillfully mixed with horizontal fugues and minimalistic geometric design – reminding of the tautness and charm typical of the buildings at the time of the birth of modern architecture – brings the focus of the viewer to the human drama happening in the painting, invariably. Blom’s sense of theatricality possesses an evident psychological substratum: the characters of his painting and their state of mind reflected in their actions – either if they stay put, jump, run or fall – are indisputable archetypes of the human psychological condition, and existential obsessions. Kenneth Blom, Conpound, 100 x 120 cm The latent sensitivity of the compositions is furthermore underlined by the sapient alternation of abstract and figurative painting, where wild strokes alternate with controlled ones, contributing to build the mystery, the inquietude and the narrative ofeach painting. Additionally, the scenographic backgrounds with […]
8. Oct 2021
Daniel Arsham | UNEARTHED | König Galerie (Nave) | 09.09.–24.10.2021
until 24.10. | #3211ARTatBerlin | König Galerie (Nave) currently shows the solo exhibition UNEARTHED by the artist Daniel Arsham. This is the artist’s first solo exhibition in Berlin. With UNEARTHED, KÖNIG GALERIE presents Daniel Arsham‘s first solo exhibition in Berlin. The show combines two separate but interrelated bodies of work, that aim to create a scenario in which objects from ancient past, are contextualized in the future. Arsham transforms the nave of the former brutalist church of St. Agnes into a hall of antiquities surrounded by three painted landscapes of rocky grottos. Being the largest paintings that the artist has made to date, they were inspired by the enormity and unusual scale of St. Agnes. Arranged on pedestals, an array of hydrostone busts appear within the nave, as if the first collection of antiquities had just been opened to the public. In the past, reproductions were often used in such presentations. Arsham’s reinterpretations of works from classical antiquity are recasts in various geological materials, such as volcanic ash and quartz crystal. Busts of Apollo, Augustus Cesar, and Venus are all familiar figures from antiquity, which the artist has reimagined: broken, dilapidated, eroded. At the center of the exhibition stands the […]
8. Oct 2021
Henning Strassburger | Die Unschuldigen II | Contemporary Fine Arts (CFA Berlin) | 09.10.-13.11.2021
until 13.11. | #3200ARTatBerlin | Contemporary Fine Arts shows from 9th October 2021 the solo exhibition “Die Unschuldigen II” by the artist Henning Strassburger. Henning Strassburger was born in 1983 in Meißen and works in the genres of painting, video, object and installation. Vernissage: Saturday, 9 October 2021, 3:00 – 6:00 p.m. Exhibition dates: Saturday, 9 October – Saturday, 13 November 2021 Exhibition Henning Strassburger – CFA Berlin | Zeitgenössische Kunst – Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin
7. Oct 2021
Cemile Sahin | It Would Have Taught Me Wisdom | Esther Schipper | 17.09.-30.10.2021
until 30.10. | #3199ARTatBerlin | Esther Schipper currently presents the solo-exhibition “It Would Have Taught Me Wisdom” by the artist Cemile Sahin. This is the artist’s first exhibition with the gallery. Sahin’s new installation creates an environment in which text and image are entangled: it is composed of colored plexiglass panels with digital prints, which form a sculptural structure, set against a wallpaper representing the signing ceremony of the Sèvres contract. In both the imagery and its underlying narrative, the new work draws on the artist’s research into the treaties of Sèvres (1920) and Lausanne (1923) and their ongoing impact a century later. A major motif is a digitally reconstructed 3D model of a porcelain statue of the goddess Minerva, which was the centerpiece on the table where the Sèvres treaty was signed. Cemile Sahin’s artistic practice operates between film, photography, sculpture, and literature. Freely deploying different media, without privileging one or the other, her work embodies today’s synchronicity of image- and text-based communications. Integrating images into her books and text in her image-world, Sahin moves with extraordinary agility between words and pictures, between still and moving image, between text as form, sign, and symbol. Sahin’s debut novel TAXI was […]
7. Oct 2021
Triad: Fantasies in shape and color | Salongalerie Die Möwe | 16.10.2021-22.01.2022
until 22.01. | #3188ARTatBerlin | Salongalerie Die Möwe shows from 16th October 2021 the exhibition Fantasies in shape and color with works by the painters Erwin Hahs, Curt Lahs, Heinrich Wildemann, Gerhart Hein and Erich Franke unter the triad and interplay of color, shape and fantasy. Three sculptures with elementary charisma by Michael Schoenholtz, one of the most important sculptors of his generation, continue the abstract play of forms in marble and shell limestone. The five painters of classical modernism were influenced by expressionism, avant-garde artist groups like the Bauhaus and the Breslau Art Academy and, like Erwin Hahs, Curt Lahs and Heinrich Wildemann, helped shape the following generation of artists as professors in the Weimar Republic and after 1945. During National Socialism, Hahs, Lahs, Wildemann and Hein were exposed to marginalization that threatened their existence. In addition, their art was defamed as “degenerate” and removed from museums. In the course of their artistic work, all five painters largely detached themselves from the objective motif. For them, colors and shapes became essential means of expression. The paintings in the exhibition show harmoniously coordinated as well as strongly contrasting colors. With a strictly or loosely guided brush, melodic swings, floating individual […]
6. Oct 2021
Ebrahim Ehrari | Shades of Water | Galerie feinart berlin | 14.10.-11.11.2021
until 11.11. | #3187ARTatBerlin | Galerie feinart berlin presents from 14. October 2021 the solo exhibition “Shades of Water” by the artist Ebrahim Ehrari. The exhibition brings together the masterful etchings from Ehrari’s early work with the intensely colored abstract oil and acrylic paintings of his later work. Ebrahim Ehrari, O. T. , 1998 © Ebrahim Ehrari From 1957 Ebrahim Ehrari, born in Urmia, Iran (West Azerbaijan Province) in 1938, worked for two years as a pipeline welder on the island of Kharg in the Persian Gulf. In some cases, diving was carried out to a depth of up to 40 meters without diving equipment. This haunting experience of the sea, its power and quiet depth as well as its variety of forms have shaped the artist’s work for a lifetime. Works from Ehrari’s early and late work now come together in an exhibition entitled “Shades of Water”. The focus is on the motif of water: water as an element of life, as a symbol for purification, time and knowledge, but also as a representative of fate, the unconscious and longings, as well as an elemental force and warning. Ebrahim Ehrari, Versuch zu atmen, 1998 © Ebrahim Ehrari Ebrahim Ehrari’s […]
6. Oct 2021
Axel Hütte | TRACES London – Berlin | Daniel Marzona | 10.09.–23.10.2021
until 23.10. | #3186ARTatBerlin| Daniel Marzona currently shows the exhibition TRACES London – Berlin with works by the artist Axel Hütte. In the third solo exhibition by Axel Hütte (born 1951), two formally clearly distinct groups of works are juxtaposed. In the front room of the gallery we show a series of medium-format architectural photographs taken in London between 1982 and 1984, which reveal a supposed closeness to the work of Bernd and Hilla Becher, with whom Hütte studied at the Düsseldorf Academy. The photographs are all in black and white and are mostly taken in strict frontality. At second glance, however, the seemingly sober and objective approach proves to be ambiguous. The view into the street line of the Peabody Estate, for example, leaves both the façades to the right and left and the situation in the depths a little unclear. Similarly, the view between two buildings to a third one behind: The eye jumps from the foreground to the background and sideways again to a corner of a house that is only just cut. James Hammett House, London, 1982-84, s/w Print, 67 x 80 cm, Courtesy the artist and Daniel Marzona, Berlin In Great Suffolk Road, spatial orientation […]
5. Oct 2021
Carola Schapals | URBAN JUNGLE | GALERIE SCHMALFUSS BERLIN | 02.10.-19.11.2021
until 19.11. | #3185ARTatBerlin | GALERIE SCHMALFUSS BERLIN shows from 2. October 2021 the solo exhibition URBAN JUNGLE with new works by the artist Carola Schapals. In a hazy atmosphere and rather dull light, CAROLA SCHAPALS lets her colours shine impressively, so that strong green and delicate violet are staged equally. Dreams of Mid-Century Bungalows in enchanted landscapes come true here. Flora, 2020, 120 x 160 cm, Oil on Canvas The artist Carola Schapals, born in Wilhelmshaven in 1954, is inspired by her everyday impressions and acts painterly between exact description and intuitive capture. The austere architecture surrounded by wild nature gives rise to compositions of compelling clarity. Time stands still here. One is invited to experience these works in their abstracting figurativeness and to let oneself be carried away into the gardens of paradise … How to catch a wow with a view, 2019. 120 x 160 cm, Oil on Canvas Carola Schapals The artist, who lives and works in Bremen, completed her studies in free painting at the Universities of Fine Arts in Hannover and Bremen. Her working method emphasizes painting outdoors – plein air – in addition to studio painting, where she immerses herself completely in her […]
5. Oct 2021
Jubilee Jubilee | 20 Years Laura Mars Gallery | 18.09.-23.10.2021
until 23.10.| #3197ARTatBerlin | Laura Mars Gallery currently shows the group exhibition Jubilee Jubilee on the occasion of its 20th anniversary. The Laura Mars Gallery turns 20 years young this year and celebrates its existence with a festive group exhibition. On view are works by numerous artists, most of whom have been with the gallery for a long time and vice versa. The artistic positions presented at Laura Mars bring into play work-immanent logics and aesthetic concepts that stand for a certain independence. Perhaps this is why the group exhibitions Gundula Schmitz has been putting together since 2001, occasionally in cooperation with others, always seem coherent – despite the most diverse works of art that are sometimes assembled for these shows. The group or solo exhibitions of national and international artists are often accompanied by a supporting program of lectures, film presentations, discussions, concerts, and more. In addition, the affiliated Fantôme Verlag publishes accompanying catalogs and artist books. The most visible highlight of the glamorous birthday exhibition Jubilee Jubilee will be an installation created by artist Bettina Allamoda especially for the occasion. A sequined fabric stretched across the room acts as a ‘support material,’ a specific ‘wrap’ for the heterogeneous […]
30. Sep 2021
Paulo Nazareth | Garden Eden | Meyer Riegger | 16.09.–23.10.2021
until 23.10. | #3196ARTatBerlin | Meyer Riegger currently shows the exhibition Garden Eden by the artist Paulo Nazareth. Exhibition dates: Thursday, 16th September to Saturday, 23rd October 2021 Image caption: Paulo Nazareth, From the series Hans Staden or the eden Garden [Three men], 2019, acrylic on canvas, 30 x 40 cm. Photo: Oliver Roura Exhibition Paulo Nazareth – Meyer Riegger | Contemporary Art – Kunst in Berlin – Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin
30. Sep 2021
Lotta Antonsson | I AM SILVER | Dorothée Nilsson Gallery | 11.09.-30.10.2021
until 30.10. | #3192ARTatBerlin | Dorothée Nilsson Gallery currently presents the exhibition I AM SILVER by the artist Lotta Antonsson, the first solo show of the artist with the gallery. Lotta Antonsson’s new works explore the search for one’s own or the constructed identity. The exhibition title is based on the poem The Mirror (1960) by Sylvia Plath, who – like Lotta Antonsson – uses mirror symbolism as a metaphor for a search for identity. The conflict between rejection and acceptance, the autonomous perception of the ‘self’ and the ‘other’ as well as the strive for self-knowledge by refuting the objectified identity imposed by society is a recurring element in her work. Lotta Antonsson, Her Kind (Possible self portrait), 2021 © Lotta Antonsson Based on the aesthetics of the 1960s and 1970s – a time of social upheaval – Lotta Antonsson complements vintage photographs from her archive of fashion, erotic, and lifestyle magazines such as Twen, Das Magazin, and Playboy and printed matters with natural materials (shells, driftwood, gemstones) in her collages. She examines the historical and photographic representation, the objectification of women, and the male gaze under formal and psychological aspects. A recurring theme in her work has involved […]
29. Sep 2021
Jamie Diamond | 365 Days: 1938/2017 | Kewenig Warehouse | 15.09.-30.10.2021
until 30.10. | #3193ARTatBerlin | Galerie Kewenig Berlin / Warehouse currently presents the solo-exhibiton “365 Days: 1938/2017” by the artist Jamie Diamond. KEWENIG is pleased to present Jamie Diamond’s first exhibition at Warehouse in Berlin Moabit, featuring a series of photographs. Through performance and photography, Diamond explores concepts of identity, memory and intimacy that form the core of ‘365 Days: 1938/2017’. The starting point for this series is a family album Diamond found at a flea market during a visit to Berlin in 2015. The photographs, dating from 1938, record the first year of a young child’s life, with each page showing the child’s age in days. A year later, after the US presidential election cast a shadow over the years to come, Diamond, who was pregnant, remembered the photographs and began to identify with the child’s mother, imagining her story at the start of World War II. Diamond acted out the scenes from the 1938 pictures, using similar locations, furniture and poses, matching the album’s time frame. She then merged the two photographs into one composition, emphasising the transparency of the two images. The discrepancies between the superimposed images reveal the tensions and similarities between 1938 and 2017, Germany […]
29. Sep 2021
Digital Art Collection (Gallery) | Martin Mohr (Salon) | Galerie Eigenheim | 02.10.–06.11.2021
until 06.11. | #3194ARTatBerlin | Galerie Eigenheim presents from 2nd October 2021 (Opening: 01.10.) the group exhibition “Digital Art Collection” in cooperation with the medienkunstverein Berlin (mkv) as well as the solo-show “REAL GAME PLAY” with paintings by the artist Martin Mohr shown in the salon. EIGENHEIM Edition #5 – Digital Art Collection A highlight of the year for EIGENHEIM Weimar/Berlin – the presentation of the new edition. In 2021, we will focus on digital art. In cooperation with the medienkunstverein (mkv), an edition with works by 30 national and international artists has been created. Versatile media formats from video, AR, GIFs to 360° applications have been brought together. The constitutive element of the edition is the NFC chip technology (Near Field Communication), which serves as a data exchange point for activating the works on the accompanying tablet. A playful and intuitive discovery tour through the world of digital art. The artists of the 5th edition deal with the conditions and effects of the (post)digital age on our everyday life, our culture and our society. They reflect on these and create the possibility of a contemplation that sharpens the understanding of media and enables an aesthetic experience of digital art. […]
29. Sep 2021
Daniel Bodner | Constructed Images | Galerie Martin Mertens | 01.10.-13.11.2021
until 13.11. | #3195ARTatBerlin | Galerie Martin Mertens shows from 1st October 2021 the solo-exhibition Constructed Images by the artist Daniel Bodner. For Galerie Martin Mertens’ fourth solo exhibition with Daniel Bodner, the gallery would like to let the painter himself have his say. Here is an excerpt from the conversation Bodner had with Axel Rüger, the director of the Royal Academy of Arts London: “I work with the relationship between painting and photography. As you know, the representation of light in a traditional painting creates the illusion of space and objects. In overexposed photographs, the light depicted does not describe spaces, but blurs them. It does not describe objects, but blurs them. I am interested in how the eye completes the image. Maybe it’s more about memory then. When I use Photoshop to move things around, I am already leaving the photograph and working my way towards the painting. Ultimately, the painting is the constructed image. When I edit an image, it has to go through me. The transformation of these sources of inspiration then comes out of my hand in the form of paint. This transition is very important for me. Daniel Bodner, New York Before 3, Acryl […]
29. Sep 2021
Martin Hollebecq | Réminiscence | Galerie Sievi | 01.10.-06.11.2021
until 06.11. | #3184ARTatBerlin | Galerie Sievi shows from 1st October 2021 the solo exhibition Réminiscence with sculptures by the Belgian artist Martin Hollebecq. Between ying and yang, between storm and abundance, between industrial and organic materials, the works of Martin Hollebecq offer all the richness of a human reflection on the environment and the poetry of the living world. Silent and alive, with a thousand and one cries, depending on the bumps or the quieter areas, the material comes to life and leaps from its veins to water the heart of man … Rift, 59 x 35 x 12 cm, Blauer Stein, Polychrom S’il existe une voie menant de l’emotion a l’abstraction, c’est assurement celle que suit avec bonheur depuis plus de quinze ans Martin Hollebecq (Comines, 1962). Eveillant ses mondes de pierres a la poesie du visible, il les tatoue de mille battements de creur aux relents d’humanisme. A la fois totems des temps modernes et volumes geometriques petris de veines sensibles, ses creations appellent a la rencontre et a l’echange des sentiments. En brillant chef d’orchestre, Martin Hollebecq sait faire se tutoyer des elements de prime abord dissonants comme des metaux de recuperation, des pieces de bois, des […]
27. Sep 2021
Sig Waller | IN EVERY DREAM HOME A HEARTACHE | Galerie Z22 | 01.10.-03.10.2021
until 03.10. | #3183ARTatBerlin | Galerie Z22 shows from 1st October 2021 for three days only the solo show IN EVERY DREAM HOME A HEARTACHE with paintings by the artist Sig Waller. The pop up exhibition was conceived by Z22 and C4. Sig Waller’s art questions social norms in a clear visual language and sheds light on taboos surrounding family structures. She also takes her artistic position by embedding her themes in a bourgeois society with a touch of pop. Sig Waller, My Valentine, oil on canvas, 2018, Exhibition view Galerie Z22, 2021, Photo © Kerstin Jasinszczak, C4, 2021 The most recent oil paintings deal with the aspect of deception, within the family or a relationship, but also in society in general. In the series ‘Goodbye to Love’ and ‘Shadow Lines’ Waller creates a timeless parallel world in which sleepwalking protagonists act out their roles. Men are shadowy, absent figures, women are hypnotised and enchanted, children devilish and mischievous; nothing is as it seems. Sig Waller, Sunday Morning, Oil on canvas, 2018, Photo © Kerstin Jasinszczak, C4, 2021 Waller’s dark, dynamic female figures harbour aspects of the monstrous feminine. This archetype embodies primordial mother, vampire, possessed monster, witch and castrating […]
23. Sep 2021
Hans Feurer | CAMERA WORK | 02.10.–30.10.2021
until 30.10. | #3191ARTatBerlin | CAMERA WORK shows from 2nd October 2021 the solo exhibition by the photographer Hans Feurer, which with more than 40, partly large-format works, provides insight into the creative work of the internationally renowned photographer and traces the development of fashion photography exemplarily. This is Hans Feurer’s second solo exhibition at CAMERA WORK after 2017. Hans Feurer was born in Switzerland in 1939 and, after studying art in the 1960s, worked as a graphic designer, illustrator and artistic director in the UK. During a two-year journey through Africa from 1965-67, he developed a pronounced passion for photography, which he professionalised from then on. His international breakthrough came the following year. From then on, his work was published in leading magazines such as “Vogue”, “Nova”, “Elle” and “Twen”. To this day, Hans Feurer works in fashion photography and travels to the remotest countries of the world to do so. His works are represented in numerous renowned art collections and are presented in museum exhibitions. The Kunstpalast in Düsseldorf, for example, is currently showing the exhibition “CAPTIVATE!” curated by Claudia Schiffer on fashion photography of the 1990s. The supermodel has also selected her very personal favourite portraits by […]
22. Sep 2021
HR Giger + Mire Lee | Schinkel Pavillon | 18.09.2021-02.01.2022
until 02.01 | #3190ARTatBerlin | Schinkel Pavillon currently shows a duo exhibition with the artists HR Giger and Mire Lee. The Schinkel Pavillon brings together the worlds of the late Swiss visionary HR Giger (1940-2014) and the South Korean artist Mire Lee (b. 1988), transforming into a site for an exploration of the darkest aisles of the human body and psyche. This equally seductive and dystopian scenario is the first institutional exhibition of Giger’s work in Germany, as well as the first major presentation of Lee’s work here. HR Giger was a painter, sculptor and designer known as the ‘father’ of Xenomorph – the protagonist monster in Ridley Scott’s 1979 film ‘Alien’. The Schinkel Pavillon exhibition not only showcases the artist’s iconic works that led to the creation of the Alien protagonist, but also repositions Giger as a late surrealist. It presents the artist’s influential Gesamtkunstwerk – his early surrealist oil paintings, ink drawings, sculptures, as well as previously unexhibited private diaries – highlighting the age-defying Freudian horror and societal fears so deeply implanted in his work. Giger’s universe is paired with that of Mire Lee, who has recently become known for her kinetic sculptures and quasi-alchemical installations. Newly commissioned, […]
22. Sep 2021
Emma Jääskeläinen | Running Up That Hill | PSM Gallery | 21.09.–24.10.2021
until 24.10. | #3169ARTatBerlin | PSM Gallery presents since 21st September 2021 the exhibition Running Up That Hill by the artist Emma Jääskeläinen. It is Emma Jääskeläinen’s first exhibition in Germany. Born in Finland in 1988, the sculptor continues with her new marble sculptures and textile works what she started in 2020 in her first solo museum presentation at Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki. Emma Jääskeläinen avoids monumentality in her sculpture. Massiveness lies in the physical nature of the works and in their materials. Even the smallest everyday objects become meaningful in the heavy mass of the sculptures. mass of the sculptures become meaningful, while the big questions of life are clothed in gentle humor. The works are references to very concrete things like domestic chores and found objects, as well as family members, memories, and embodied experiences. Often a sense of the personal connects the individual elements. Never too serious, typically spiced with humor. The first thing Jääskeläinen carved in stone was a Po-like balloon sculpture. The works are woven together as parts of a story, a bouquet of anecdotes and fragments that nevertheless have no beginning or end and contain countless secondary traces. Although text is an […]
22. Sep 2021
Becker Schmitz | Entgrenzung | Köppe Contemporary | 25.09.-23.10.2021
until 23.10. | #3181ARTatBerlin | Köppe Contemporary shows from 25th September 2021 (Opening: 24.09.) the exhibition Entgrenzung (> Demarcation) with works by the artist Becker Schmitz. Becker Schmitz’s painting has developed from the search for new artistic solutions in the constant experimental use of pictorial means and materials. From representational (mostly landscape-related) painting, the path led to abstraction. The authenticity of expression, the balance between emotion and calculation and the dialogue between the poles of reality and fiction were already essential characteristics of earlier phases of the artist’s work. These characteristics can also be transferred to his new, abstract series of works. Among the special features of the new works: they are created on synthetic canvases (or on glass plates) and painted on both sides, i.e. on the front as well as on the back. The artist forms his pictures through a dynamic cipher. It is the primary perceptual signal of the works created from 2020 onwards. In their vitality and multiformity, the abstract structures seem to want to explode every limitation of the indefinable space through which they move. Sometimes it seems as if a rhythmically tuned music, inaudible to the viewer, is influencing the painting process, putting the […]
21. Sep 2021
Isabel Quintanilla | Painting + Drawing | Galerie Brockstedt | 01.10.-31.12.2021
until 31.12. | #3180ARTatBerlin | Galerie Brockstedt shows from 1st October 2021 a solo exhibition with paintings and drawings by the artist Isabel Quintanilla (1938-2017). The 3 G-regulations apply (tested, vaccinated, recovered). Isabel Quintanilla, Sierra de Guaderrama, 1990/91, 79,5 x 100,5 cm, Oil/Wood Isabel Quintanilla Spanish Realist painter and draughtswoman 1938 born in Madrid 2017 died in Madrid Isabel Quintanilla, Luisa Diaz, 1987, 74 x 58 cm, Pastel, Paper Isabel Quintanilla, El muelle (Harbour pier ), 1972, 33 x 40,5 cm, Oil/Wood 1949-52 Attends drawing and painting classes in the workshop of the painter Trinidad de la Torre in Madrid; also takes classes with Gutiérrez Navas and Maruxia Valero. 1952-53 Attends evening classes at the School of Arts and Crafts in Madrid; awarded the extraordinary prize of the Central Council; in her free time she paints plaster models of art reproductions plaster models of classical sculptures to prepare for the entrance examination to the Academy of Arts 1954-59 Studies at the Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes, Madrid, 1959 first participation in an exhibition in Granada, Rodriguez-Acosta Foundation 1960 works as a drawing teacher; marries Francisco López, who in that year wins the Grand Art Prize of the Spanish Academy in […]
21. Sep 2021
Yafei Qi | Fall Right Back To Sleep After A Terror | Migrant Bird Space | 15.09.-15.10.2021
until 15.10. | #3179ARTatBerlin | Migrant Bird Space currently presents the solo exhibition Fall Right Back To Sleep After A Terror with works by the artist Yafei Qi. Taking the Nordic ‘Law of Jante’, a fundamental cultural trace of Norway and Scandinavia, as a point of departure, Yafei Qi travelled around Northern Norway and Svalbard in preparation of this exhibition. In so doing, she documented and contemplated on the binaries that these desolated landscapes and their man-made constructions present, between the culturally specific and the universal, the local and the global, history and the present. Qi Yafei, Fall Right Back To Sleep After A Terror, Courtesy of Migrant Bird Space As the title implies, what she found in these Northern areas were post-climatic, material witnesses to the forces that has shaped recent history, such as the Cold War, which made its presence in Svalbard through the now ghostly, abandoned towns that used to be Soviet settlements. Yet, it also implies a calm tranquility, a silent peace, which is both comforting and terrifying – what will happen next in these landscapes? Perhaps nothing at all? And is that not the most frightening scenario of all? Qi Yafei, Fall Right Back To […]
20. Sep 2021
Christine Jackob-Marks | Painting | Galerie mutare | 20.09.-20.10.2021
until 20.10. | #3182ARTatBerlin | Galerie mutare presents from 20th September 2021 (Opening: 24.09.) a solo exhibition with paintings by the artist Christine Jackob-Marks as part of the gallery project “Die neue Brücke – durch Chaos und Ordnung zur Freiheit”. Christine Jackob-Marks, born in Mainz in 1943, studied painting at the free Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris and the Hochschule der Künste (HdK) West Berlin, then educational sciences at the Freie Universität (FU) Berlin, where she worked at the youth psychiatric service in Zehlendorf. Christine Jackob-Marks, Stier In her second marriage she was married to the American Jewish pianist Alan D. Marks. Since 1984 her works have been shown in solo and group exhibitions. She taught at the HdK and at the Thuringian Summer Academy. In 1995 she and other artists won first prize in the competition “Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe” in Berlin; however, the group’s concept was not realised. Jackob-Marks lives in Berlin and Ibiza. Christine Jackob-Marks, Zwei Affen A brochure will be published to accompany the exhibition. Vernissage: Friday, 24 September 2021, 7:00 – 9:00 pm. The artist will be present. Due to the current situation, every guest will be able to view […]
20. Sep 2021
Erich has just left the building | In Erinnerung an Erich Reusch | Galerie kajetan Berlin | 17.09.-20.11.2021
until 20.11. | #3178ARTatBerlin | Galerie kajetan Berlin presents from 17 September 2021 in the framework of the inauguration of the new gallery premises in Charlottenburg the exhibtion Erich has just left the building, a group exhibition in memory of the artist Erich Reusch. With works by: Monika Brandmeier, Marc Goroncy, Werner Haypeter, Ingrid Lønningdal, Norbert Kricke, Erich Reusch, Günter Umberg, Elisabeth Vary, Jan Wawrzyniak This year, the German sculptor and “pioneer of decentralised space” Erich Reusch would have turned 96. On this occasion, kajetan Berlin is presenting a group exhibition of nine positions from different generations and genres in its new space at Grolmanstrasse 58 – works by Reusch’s companions, friends, students and colleagues that can be read as direct and sometimes surprising commentaries on his artistic legacy. In 2019, the gallery hosted Reusch’s last solo exhibition during his lifetime. With the participating artists, kajetan Berlin looks to convey the space as the actual event, in the spirit of the media experimenter. Jan Wawrzyniak | Erich Reusch | Monika Brandmeier | Norbert Kricke | Werner Haypeter | Erich Reusch | Exhibition view | Erich has just left the building | In Erinnerung an Erich Reusch | Galerie kajetan 2021 | […]
16. Sep 2021
Knut Wolfgang Maron | Bilder über Landschaften. SX-70 Polaroids 1978-2021 | Alfred Ehrhardt Stiftung | 18.09.–23.12.2021
until 23.12. | #3177ARTatBerlin | Alfred Ehrhardt Stiftung presents from 18th September 2021 (Opening: 17.09.) the exhibition Bilder über Landschaften (> Images on Landscapes) with SX-70 Polaroids from 1978 until 2021 by the artist Knut Wolfgang Maron. Knut Wolfgang Maron counts as one of the pioneers of modern color photography and Polaroid photography in particular. For his solo exhibition at the Alfred Ehrhardt Stiftung, he has selected several hundred images from a total body of work comprising over 8,500 Polaroids. The inherently political dimension of Knut Wolfgang Maron’s imagery becomes apparent against the backdrop of climate change. Ecological issues have had an influence on Maron’s view of nature as far back as the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster: “Landscape photography with a Polaroid camera was considered an avant-garde quirk at the time. I was interested in using a contemporary medium to express the dialectic of a brave New World and the changing environmental conditions, especially after Chernobyl’s realworld and psychological impacts. Over the past forty years, the overall consciousness has changed considerably. Once again, a younger generation of photographers is paying attention to landscape, nature, and climate change.” Knut Wolfgang Maron Sonnenfinsternis, Marmara-Meer, 2000 Polaroid SX-70 © Knut Wolfgang Maron In 1978, […]
15. Sep 2021
Henni Alftan | Night-time | Sprüth Magers Berlin (Window) | 17.09.-30.10.2021
until 30.10. | #3176ARTatBerlin | Sprüth Magers Berlin (Window) shows from 17th September 2021 the window exhibition Night-time with new works by the artist Henni Alftan. Henni Alftan is a Paris-based painter who creates pictures based on a complex process of observation and deduction. Working in figuration but rejecting a narrative dimension, Alftan’s compositions use the tight framing of close range photography to explore the similarities between painting and image-making. “I paint pictures,” Alftan says, and “painting and picture often imitate each other.” Inviting viewers to consider the history, materiality, and objecthood of painting, Alftan’s vignettes represent a fragmented vision of the real and address pictorial issues such as color, surface, flatness, depth, pattern, texture, and framing devices. Exhibition period: Friday, 17th September – Saturday, 30th October 2021 Image caption: Henni Alftan, Center, 2021 © Henni Alftan, Courtesy the artist and Karma, New York Exhibition Henni Alftan – Sprüth Magers Berlin | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin
13. Sep 2021
Andro Wekua | It Seems Like That | Sprüth Magers Berlin | 17.09.-30.10.2021
until 30.10. | #3175ARTatBerlin | Sprüth Magers Berlin shows from 17th September 2021 the solo exhibition It Seems Like That with new works by the artist Andro Wekua. Concurrently, Sprüth Magers announces a solo exhibition by Andro Wekua, presenting new paintings. Wekua’s works have an almost magnetic quality that oscillates between seduction and repulsion, creating a mysteriousness and intrigue that is captivating–if also slightly unsettling–to the viewer in its direct appeal to their emotional psyche. Exhibition dates: Friday, 17th September – Saturday, 30th October 2021 Image caption: Andro Wekua, june berlin, 2021 (Detail) © Andro Wekua, Courtesy the artist, Sprüth Magers, and Gladstone Gallery Exhibition Andro Wekua – Sprüth Magers Berlin | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin
13. Sep 2021
Louise Lawler | LIGHTS OFF, AFTER HOURS, IN THE DARK | Sprüth Magers Berlin | 17.09.-30.10.2021
until 30.10. | #3174ARTatBerlin | Sprüth Magers Berlin shows from 17th September 2021 the exhibition LIGHTS OFF, AFTER HOURS, IN THE DARK with new works by the artist Louise Lawler. LIGHTS OFF, AFTER HOURS, IN THE DARK features a new series of works by Louise Lawler in which she has photographed the Judd exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. These photographs–taken over two evenings with the lights off, after hours, in the dark–offer an alternate view of an artwork’s existence and the abstract potential of an image itself. This exhibition is supported by Stiftung Kunstfonds as part of their NEUSTART KULTUR program. Exhibition dates: Friday, 17. September – Saturday, 30. October 2021 Image caption: Louise Lawler, Untitled (Reflection), 2021, courtesy the artist, Sprüth Magers, and Metro Pictures, New York Exhibition Louise Lawler – Sprüth Magers Berlin | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin
13. Sep 2021
Joan Hernández Pijuan | Der intime Raum – Die Erfahrung der Natur | Galerie Dittmar | 16.09.-04.11.2021
until 04.11. |#3173ARTatBerlin | Galerie Dittmar presents from 16th September 2021 the solo exhibition Der intime Raum – Die Erfahrung der Natur (> The intimate space – The experience of nature) with works by the artist Joan Hernández Pijuan. „Repition – a return to the same subject, an insistence on the familiar, an evocation of memory – is a clearly recognizable constant throughout Joan Hernández Pijuan’s oeuvre. That is made explicity clear in his „Iris“ series, which he began in earnest in 1994 during the Holy Week and Easter vacations at the family home in Folquer. – Joan’s drawings tend to be exercises in memory, created from images seen on his walks through the countryside, his reencounters with nature, the places and landscapes to which he enjoyed returning.“ Elvira Maluquer Joan Hernández Pijuan was born in Barcelona in 1931. Since 1967 participation in the international survey exhibitions of Spanish art. Participated in the Venice Biennials in 1960 and 1970. 1989 professorship at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Barcelona. Represented in the Spanish Pavilion at the 1992 World’s Fair in Seville. 1993 comprehensive survey of his work at the Museo Nacional Reina Sofía in Madrid. Subsequently numerous […]
13. Sep 2021
UNMASKED #3 | aquabitArt Galerie | 17.09.-30.10.2021
until 30.10. | #3172ARTatBerlin | aquabitArt Galerie shows from 17th September 2021 the duo exhibtion UNMASEKD #3, the third show from the series UNMASKED, with paintings and drawings by the artists Wilfried Habrich and Peter Lindenberg. The fact that the exhibition takes place in a very striking time for our society is reflected in the name. UNMASKED can be associated with many things – dropping the mask, showing one’s true face, revealing oneself, but also with crossing boundaries and discovering the feeling of liberation. Peter Lindenberg, Blicke 1, 40 x 33 cm, 2015 For the duration of the exhibition, artist presentations will take place ONLINE and the series “2 minutes for ART” will provide a brief insight into the work of each artist. Peter Lindenberg, Blicke 4, 50 x 40 cm, 2015 Peter Lindenberg, Gerade so, 120 x 100 cm, 2020 “Wilfried Habrich and Peter Lindenberg share wall and space in “UNMASKED #3“, without challenging each other or contesting the course. In a comparable and yet co pletely different way, they had already entered into a dialogue in the aquabitArt gallery in the fall of 2020. Once again, as befits people of their profession, they both lean far out of […]
13. Sep 2021
Eigenlicht | Group Exhibition | re|space gallery | 15.09.-18.11.2021
until 18.11. | #3171ARTatBerlin | re|space gallery presents from 15th September 2021 (Opening: 17.09.) the group exhibition Eigenlicht with works by the artists Aline Schwibbe, Deborah Wargon, Janina Brauer and Paula Krause. The term ‘Eigenlicht’ (which translates to ‘intrinsic light’) is a generally outdated scientific term used to describe the shade of dark grey which people report seeing in the absence of light. The absence of light engenders moments of introspection, remembrance and dreams. The works exhibited in Eigenlicht relate to the concept of the subconscious in unique ways. Whether it be by drawing from dreams or from memories (individual as well as collective) the works explore a type of knowledge that is gained in moments of introspection – moments in which one’s eyes see no more than the dark grey of ‘Eigenlicht’. Memory and past trauma play a significant role in Aline Schwibbe’s varied practice. Through different media such as drawing, film and photography, Schwibbe revisits fragmented memories which she considers to be in a cyclical occurrence rather than a linear history. In Schwibbe’s words, “there is no beginning and no clear end”. Just as in a dream, individual events and storylines intermingle and cross-reference to result in a […]
13. Sep 2021
Matthew Barney | After Ruby Ridge | Galerie Max Hetzler | 14.09.-06.11.2021
until 06.11. | #3164ARTatBerlin | Galerie Max Hetzler presents from 14th September 2021 the solo exhibition “After Ruby Ridge” with new works by the artist Matthew Barney in the Galerie Bleibtreustraße 15/16. The exhibition presents over 20 new drawings and 2 sculptures and is part of a series of projects that relate to Barney’s 2018 feature-length film Redoubt. All of the works draw on the visual language of the film, which is set in the remote Sawtooth Mountains of Idaho and explores such wide-ranging themes as cosmology, American frontier myths and the role of artistic production. The exhibition is named after Ruby Ridge, the site of a deadly confrontation between a separatist’s family and American Federal Police, an incident that caused a stir in North Idaho in the 1990s. The title transforms Barney’s statement that Redoubt is a portrait of a place, in all its complexity, its beauty and its ugliness. Barney works in clear series developed over several years, creating works that combine sculptural installations with performance, video, sculpture, printmaking and drawing. Drawing plays a major role in his oeuvre, with the medium functioning both preparatory, in the form of sketches in the planning phase of a film or […]
10. Sep 2021
CURRENT PHOTO EXHIBITIONS
Lotta Antonsson | I AM SILVER | Dorothée Nilsson Gallery | 11.09.-30.10.2021
until 30.10. | #3192ARTatBerlin | Dorothée Nilsson Gallery currently presents the exhibition I AM SILVER by the artist Lotta Antonsson, the first solo show of the artist with the gallery. Lotta Antonsson’s new works explore the search for one’s own or the constructed identity. The exhibition title is based on the poem The Mirror (1960) by Sylvia Plath, who – like Lotta Antonsson – uses mirror symbolism as a metaphor for a search for identity. The conflict between rejection and acceptance, the autonomous perception of the ‘self’ and the ‘other’ as well as the strive for self-knowledge by refuting the objectified identity imposed by society is a recurring element in her work. Lotta Antonsson, Her Kind (Possible self portrait), 2021 © Lotta Antonsson Based on the aesthetics of the 1960s and 1970s – a time of social upheaval – Lotta Antonsson complements vintage photographs from her archive of fashion, erotic, and lifestyle magazines such as Twen, Das Magazin, and Playboy and printed matters with natural materials (shells, driftwood, gemstones) in her collages. She examines the historical and photographic representation, the objectification of women, and the male gaze under formal and psychological aspects. A recurring theme in her work has involved […]
29. Sep 2021
Jamie Diamond | 365 Days: 1938/2017 | Kewenig Warehouse | 15.09.-30.10.2021
until 30.10. | #3193ARTatBerlin | Galerie Kewenig Berlin / Warehouse currently presents the solo-exhibiton “365 Days: 1938/2017” by the artist Jamie Diamond. KEWENIG is pleased to present Jamie Diamond’s first exhibition at Warehouse in Berlin Moabit, featuring a series of photographs. Through performance and photography, Diamond explores concepts of identity, memory and intimacy that form the core of ‘365 Days: 1938/2017’. The starting point for this series is a family album Diamond found at a flea market during a visit to Berlin in 2015. The photographs, dating from 1938, record the first year of a young child’s life, with each page showing the child’s age in days. A year later, after the US presidential election cast a shadow over the years to come, Diamond, who was pregnant, remembered the photographs and began to identify with the child’s mother, imagining her story at the start of World War II. Diamond acted out the scenes from the 1938 pictures, using similar locations, furniture and poses, matching the album’s time frame. She then merged the two photographs into one composition, emphasising the transparency of the two images. The discrepancies between the superimposed images reveal the tensions and similarities between 1938 and 2017, Germany […]
29. Sep 2021
Hans Feurer | CAMERA WORK | 02.10.–30.10.2021
until 30.10. | #3191ARTatBerlin | CAMERA WORK shows from 2nd October 2021 the solo exhibition by the photographer Hans Feurer, which with more than 40, partly large-format works, provides insight into the creative work of the internationally renowned photographer and traces the development of fashion photography exemplarily. This is Hans Feurer’s second solo exhibition at CAMERA WORK after 2017. Hans Feurer was born in Switzerland in 1939 and, after studying art in the 1960s, worked as a graphic designer, illustrator and artistic director in the UK. During a two-year journey through Africa from 1965-67, he developed a pronounced passion for photography, which he professionalised from then on. His international breakthrough came the following year. From then on, his work was published in leading magazines such as “Vogue”, “Nova”, “Elle” and “Twen”. To this day, Hans Feurer works in fashion photography and travels to the remotest countries of the world to do so. His works are represented in numerous renowned art collections and are presented in museum exhibitions. The Kunstpalast in Düsseldorf, for example, is currently showing the exhibition “CAPTIVATE!” curated by Claudia Schiffer on fashion photography of the 1990s. The supermodel has also selected her very personal favourite portraits by […]
22. Sep 2021
Yafei Qi | Fall Right Back To Sleep After A Terror | Migrant Bird Space | 15.09.-15.10.2021
until 15.10. | #3179ARTatBerlin | Migrant Bird Space currently presents the solo exhibition Fall Right Back To Sleep After A Terror with works by the artist Yafei Qi. Taking the Nordic ‘Law of Jante’, a fundamental cultural trace of Norway and Scandinavia, as a point of departure, Yafei Qi travelled around Northern Norway and Svalbard in preparation of this exhibition. In so doing, she documented and contemplated on the binaries that these desolated landscapes and their man-made constructions present, between the culturally specific and the universal, the local and the global, history and the present. Qi Yafei, Fall Right Back To Sleep After A Terror, Courtesy of Migrant Bird Space As the title implies, what she found in these Northern areas were post-climatic, material witnesses to the forces that has shaped recent history, such as the Cold War, which made its presence in Svalbard through the now ghostly, abandoned towns that used to be Soviet settlements. Yet, it also implies a calm tranquility, a silent peace, which is both comforting and terrifying – what will happen next in these landscapes? Perhaps nothing at all? And is that not the most frightening scenario of all? Qi Yafei, Fall Right Back To […]
20. Sep 2021
ART@BERLIN PRESENTS
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Fratres in Spiritu
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MASTERPIECES IN BERLIN
You can visit numerous impressive artistic masterpieces from all eras in Berlin’s museums. But where exactly will you find works by Albrecht Dürer, Claude Monet, Vincent van Gogh, Sandro Botticelli, Peter Paul Rubens or the world-famous Nefertiti? We will introduce you to the most impressive artistic masterpieces in Berlin. And can lead you to the respective museum with only one click. So that you can personally experience and enjoy your favourite masterpiece live. Click here for the masterpieces in museums.
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Sandro Botticelli – Madonna with Child
Thanks to Count Atanasius Raczynski one is able to marvel at “Madonna with Child” and eight singing angels by Sandro Botticelli in Berlin. In 1824 he bought the art piece for 2500 francs (for his collection in his art gallery at his palace). A not so well known fact is that his palace was situated […]
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Adolph Menzel – Flute concert in Sanssouci
Adolph Menzel grants us a detailed insight of a cultural evening at the court of Friedrich the Great in the palace Sanssouci. Music is being played. The king himself is playing the flute. He is standing in the centre of the picture. To the right his chamber ensemble and to the left an audience of […]
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Jan Vermeer (van Delft) – Man and Woman drinking Wine
The glance falls into a room that is furnished with a table, a bench and two chairs. The table is covered in an expensive manufactured table cloth. A painting in a gold frame is hanging on the wall. A woman dressed in a fancy red dress is sitting on a chair opposite the window. The […]
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Caravaggio – Cupid as Victor
Caravaggio is said to be the master of light and shade like how his piece “Amor vincit Omnia” or “Cupid as victor” undoubtedly proves. The specific focus was on the use of light and shade causing the painting to seem plastic, showing a naked and winged cupid embodied by a young boy. His pose is […]
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Rembrandt van Rijn – Man in a Gold Helmet – from the circle around
In 1897, the Kaiser-Friedrich-Museums-Verein, a sponsor of the Gemäldegalerie Berlin, purchased the masterpiece “Man in a Gold Helmet” as an original work by Rembrandt. Less than 100 years later, in the 1970s, it came to light as part of the “Rembrandt Research Project” initiated in 1968 that the painting was created by someone close to […]
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