This year, the Neue Nationalgalerie is celebrating its 50th anniversary. The architectural icon by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe opened on 15 September 1968 for the art of classical modernism from the collection of the National Gallery – National Museums in Berlin. For the anniversary site tours take place as well as a film screening and a public poster exhibition on the fence of the currently renovated building. In addition, a publication on the exhibition’s history will be published. The Neue Nationalgalerie was the last independent work of the architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969). With the glass upper hall of the museum he completed his long-term occupation with the flowing, open space. Shortly after the inauguration of the building, the architect died. The New National Gallery, with its steel roof and reduced formal language, is not only considered an icon of modernity, but also a legacy of a visionary master builder of the 20th century. Neue Nationalgalerie, Anhebung des Daches, 5. April 1967 © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie The museum on Potsdamer Straße was built as a location for the collection of the National Gallery in the former West Berlin and is now the main place of […]

On September 29, 2018 the Academy of Arts on Pariser Platz opens its so-called picture cellar (Bilderkeller) for the public after nearly 30 years. In the former boiler room of the Akademie building on Pariser Platz, a series of murals has survived that were created in 1957 and 1958 for two carnival festivals. Painted by Manfred Böttcher, Harald Metzkes, Ernst Schroeder and Horst Zickelbein – former master students of the German Academy of Arts – they are the only original remnant of the historic building in addition to the exhibition halls. Photographed for the first time in 1989, published and carefully preserved since then, they can now be visited for the first time in almost thirty years. On display are unique testimonies of a young opposition in East Berlin painting, whose former conflict potential can still be guessed at today. Akademie der Künste, Bilderkeller Foto: Andreas FranzXaver Süß The tradition of master class education had been continued in the succession of the Prussian Academy of Arts in the GDR. Supervised by individual members, she offered young artists the chance to work relatively independently in the studios at Pariser Platz 4 for two years. However, in the politico-cultural and explosive period […]

until 30.09. | #2153ARTatBerlin | Galerie oqbo shows from 1st September 2018 the group exhibition paperfile #14 with works by eight artists. Exhibition with Marcus Bjernerup (Berlin) Markus Linnenbrink (New York City) Alice Musiol (Cologne) Jochen Schneider (Berlin) Martin Schwenk (Dusseldorf) Sylvia Schwenk (Berlin) Jana Troschke (Berlin) Heiko Wommelsdorf (Hamburg). This year, paperfile enters the 14th round. The heart of the producer gallery oqbo | room for picture word and sound offers a carefully selected mix from drawings, photographs, digital prints, collages and many other forms of expression on paper. paperfile #14 complements 2018 the drawing archive in the paper cabinets of the gallery with new, exciting positions. paperfile #14 2018 Container Love | Andreas Schalhorn A plan or graphic cabinet, ie what is called paperfile in English, is by no means uncommon in the art world beyond museum collections of drawings and prints. Plan cabinets can be found, for example, in the administrative and ancillary rooms of galleries, art shops or art associations. However, direct use by the public is only possible in exceptional cases. The actual music plays anyway in the exhibition rooms, in which then large-scale paintings, sculptures or (video) installations are shown. As a rule, in […]

until 01.12. | #2178ARTatBerlin | Galerie Berinson currently shows the Solo Exhibition Nathan Lerner (1913-1997): Photographs. Galerie Berinson is exhibiting 17 works by photo artist and designer Nathan Lerner. These are the originals from Lerner’s first solo show in 1973 at Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois, USA. At the curator’s suggestion Lerner for that made large prints of motifs, which he made during his studies at the New Bauhaus between 1938 and 1943 and which had never been exhibited before. Nathan Lerner (1913-1997) – Eye and String | 1939, Print 1972 | 37,5 x 50 cm Courtesy of Galerie Berinson, Berlin At the age of 18, Lerner was a student of the Russian-French painter Samuel Ostrovsky at the Art Institute of Chicago and later engaged in photography. In 1935 he made a series on the immigrant neighborhood „Maxwell Street“. On recommendation of Alexander Archipenko Lerner attended the school of the New Bauhaus in Chicago as from 1937 which was founded by László Moholy-Nagy. He studied i.a. with Gyorgy Kepes, became his assistant in 1939, and developed artistic photographic experiments, such as the light box. Lerner’s trademarks are light installations and light drawings. From 1939 to 1942 Lerner taught at the School of Design (former New Bauhaus, since 1944 Institute of Design) and was […]

until 03.11. | #2225ARTatBerlin | Grimmuseum shows from 26th September 2018 the Single Exhibition MOULT by the artist Merete Vyff Slyngborg. It spun its silken cocoon and transformed into a pupa, which had its limbs and wings folded beside its body. Ecdysis had ended, and the precise, circular hole of maturity led the way out in the open. There was no dead wood in the new surroundings besides the circular sphere it had just occupied. Instead it found itself in a moulded, concrete building where walls, floor and ceiling merged into one another in a perfectly, choreographed composition. It was like flying through a desert landscape with the dusty colours of the furniture and objects and the grey shade of the concrete: All placed in a neatly arranged order that abandoned all former historical hierarchies of architecture over content. Merete Vyff Slyngborg’s practice is centred around curating, sampling, installation, interior design, and decorative arts. Drawing from an eclectic array of sources, including art- and design history, contemporary culture, architecture and current trends, the resulting works are rich with references and challenge our notions about the role of the artist by encompassing a wide range of visual forms. Working as an […]

until 10.11. | #2222ARTatBerlin | REITER | Berlin prospect presents from 28th September 2018 the exhibition PICTURES OF FACTS by the artist Hans Aichinger. Hans Aichinger (*1959) studied 1982-86 at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig with Prof. Bernhard Heisig and Prof. Arno Rink. 1992-1999 he taught at the same academy and at the Emory University of Atlanta, USA. His works can be found in international museums and public collections. Hans Aichinger’s figures perform on a minimalist stage; mostly solitary figures without tangible opponents – but instead counter-balances, or slight resistances: a wooden stick, folded cardboard boxes, a brush, fabrics, or reduced even further with only a physical gesture as an expression of an internal compression. Mostly we are confronted with adolescents, young people who are still on the way to accepting their own appearance, with naive self-assurance and openness. The background and space are strangely indefinite and mute, and in the medium format, the figures appear almost life-size at eye level with the viewer. Hans Aichinger »Realismus« 2017, Oil on Canvas, 50 x 40 cm, courtesy: REITER Leipzig | Berlin Hans Aichinger’s works are filled with concentration: not only his own concentration in painting highly accurate figures but through the […]

until 17.11. | #2211ARTatBerlin | Blain|Southern Berlin presents from 29th September 2018 the solo exhibition The World Upside Down by the artist Ali Banisadr. For his first solo exhibition in Germany, The World Upside Down, Ali Banisadr presents twelve paintings on canvas and twelve works on paper. Banisadr’s new body of work demonstrates a change of direction for the artist, showing a looser, freer depiction of space in the paintings, as well as a shift in palette and tone. The new work exhibits a perspective that is more intimate and direct, yet with greater freedom and openness in his brushwork. The result is a more evocative sense of narrative compared to much of his earlier work, where Banisadr painted from a broad, bird’s-eye perspective, suggesting a relatively detached view of his subjects. In paintings such as Language of the Birds or Riders on the Storm (both 2018), Banisadr composes his visual drama like a theatre director or musical conductor orchestrates the interweaving voices or the stage scenery, yet the depiction of the forms and figures remains ambiguous. ‘In theatre, or opera,’ comments the artist, ‘you are presented with figures in costume and automatically you know that this one is the authority […]

until 10.12. | #2227ARTatBerlin | 35 Exhibition Space + Art Management berlin show from 4th December 2018 a solo exhibition by the artist Heidi Fosli with the participation of the artist Josée van Schuppen. This exhibition is being curated by Gabriela Caranfil and Art Management Berlin. 35 Exhibition Space is talking place at Auguststraße 35. This exhibition presents Contemporary artist Heidi Fosli from Norway in her solo exhibition with the extraordinary participation of Contemporary artist from Holland, Josée Van Schuppen; artists that has been featured in The First Berliner Art Book© series. HEIDI FOSLI; Amor Fati, 100 x 120 cm, oil on canvas, 2015 JOSÉE VAN SCHUPPEN, Composition in Green and Yellow, detail Vernissage: Tuesday, 4th December 2018, 5:00 – 8:00 p.m. Exhibition period: Tuesday, 4th December to Monday, 10th December 2018 Exhibition location: 35 Exhibition Space, Auguststraße 35, 10119 Berlin-Mitte (otherwise WHITECONCEPTS)   Image caption cover: Heidi Fosli (links) & Josée van Schuppen (rechts) Exhibition Heidi Fosli – 35 Exhibition Space | Contemporary Art – Kunst in Berlin – ART at Berlin    

until 09.02. | #2169ARTatBerlin | Salongalerie Die Möwe presents from 13th October 2018 the group exhibition Radical. Visionary. Nonconformist. Centenary of the November Group. Since the opening of the ‘Möwe’, artists of the November Group have been a main topic of the gallery’s exhibition and collection activities. Our presentation ‘Radical. Visionary. Nonconformist.’ pays tribute to the foundation of this artists’ association, 100 years ago. From 13 October 2018 to 9 February 2019, the ‘Möwe’ exhibits works of art, not only by the founding members Cesar Klein and Moritz Melzer, but also paintings by Hans Brass, Herbert Behrens-Hangeler, Erwin Hahs, Gert H. Wollheim, and Richard Ziegler. The presentation is completed by the works of many other Novembrists, as Rudolf Ausleger, Gottfried Graf, Paul Grunwaldt and Albert Mueller. The director of the Bröhan Museum Berlin, Dr. Tobias Hoffmann, will give the laudatory speech. Albert Mueller, Erwachen, 1920s, watercolor The November Group was inspired by a democratic and liberal idea: Its members wanted to unite the art and the masses, and they were open to all contemporary stylish trends, as Expressionism, Cubism, Futurism, Dadaism, Neorealism, and Abstraction. Furthermore, they cultivated contacts with progressive artists’ groups in Germany and other European countries. The diversity of […]

until 17.11. | #2175ARTatBerlin | Galerie Barbara Wien shows from 8th September 2018 the Exhibition The Ballad of Special Ops Cody and other stories by the artist Michael Rakowitz. The Ballad of Special Ops Cody and other stories is the second solo exhibition by Michael Rakowitz at our gallery, in which Rakowitz expands on his ongoing project The invisible enemy should not exist, that he started in 2007, and presents his recent film work The Ballad of Special Ops Cody. The title of the exhibition derives from Rakowitz’ 2017 film, which was shown for the first time as part of the artist’s solo show at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago during the same year. The Ballad of Special Ops Cody is a stop-motion video, in which an action figure, voiced by a veteran of the Iraq War, confronts Mesopotamian votive statues in vitrines at the Oriental Institute in Chicago. In 2005, an Iraqi insurgent group posted a photograph online of a captured US soldier named John Adam. They threatened to behead him in 72 hours if prisoners being held in US jails in Iraq were not freed. The US military took the claim seriously but couldn’t locate a John Adam within their ranks. John […]

until 10.11. | #2216ARtatBerlin | KLEMM’S shows from 28th September 2018 the solo exhibition [[[GENAU]]] by the artist Keltie Ferris. KLEMM’S is very pleased to present the second solo exhibition of works by New York-based artist Keltie Ferris (b.1977) at the gallery. The exhibition will bring together a new set of paintings and drawings by the artist. Ferris is known for her expressive geometric color fields that synthesize an array of schools of painting, ranging from Abstract Expressionism to Graffiti art on her signature, large-scale canvases. With a specific technique of oil-based air-brushing and markings from other tools such as palette-knives, the artist constructs her rhythmic abstract language and layers of distinct, rich textures and marks on her paintings—simultaneously inscribing and removing her own presence on canvas. Her new works presented at KLEMM’S now display an energetic shift towards a new sense of plasticity and expressive gestures. While maintaining her unmistakable unruly patterns and electric chromatism, Ferris’ recent paintings showcase a newfound sophistication in the pastose use of color and assertive brushwork, furthering her investigation about the ‘being of painting’. Keltie Ferris, [[[GENAU]]], 2018, oil and acrylic on canvas in artist’s frame, 187 x 156 cm, Photo: Mark Woods Keltie […]

until 21.12. | #2203ARTatBerlin | Kicken Berlin presents since 12th September 2018 the group exhibition HIGHLIGHTS I. As an autumn exhibition, Kicken Berlin will be showing a selection of iconic 20th century photographs as a dialogue between forms and motifs under the title Highlights I. The camera makes visible what is hidden from the human eye or draws attention to the beauty of everyday life. A close-up of a butterfly’s lobster or the split second of Möwenfug open up fascinating insights into the nature of things. Organic-vegetal forms or serial structures have inspired the artists of New Vision and New Objectivity such as László Moholy-Nagy, Horacio Coppola or the photographers of Ernst Fuhrmann’s Folkwang-Auriga publishing house. The new views of modernity lead to abstraction, as in Moholy-Nagy’s or Marta Hoepffner’s photograms, which find their echo in Sigmar Polke’s playful photographic exploration of the world. The Bauhaus was a focal point of New Vision, bringing negativprint, close-up or fragmentation as different perspectives as the Gertrud Arndts, Erich Colleins or Umbos on an experimental denominator. To the present day, the effect of this language of forms extends from cut and alienation, as Jitka Hanzlová makes clear. LÁSZLÓ MOHOLY-NAGY (1895-1946) ‘Pigeons‘, c. 1925-1930, […]

until 22.12. | #2214ARTatBerlin | photo edition berlin shows from 19th September 2018 the exhibition INSZENIERT – PROVOZIERT – ANALYSIERT  (STAGED – PROVOCATED – ANALYZED) with three photographic positions of the GDR. On display are three different and outstanding artistic positions with the medium of photography in the former GDR up to 1989. INSZENIERT (Staged): Matthias Leupold shows the series Fahnenappell PROVOZERT (Provoked): Kurt Buchwald shows action photos and rare works of performances ANALYZIERT (Analyzed): Manfred Paul shows previously unpublished still lives Vernissage: Wednesday, 19th September 2018, 7:00 – 9:00 p.m. Exhibition period: Thursday, 20th September to Saturday, 22nd December 2018   Image caption cover: Manfred Paul, Stillleben o.T. 1986 INSZENIERT – PROVOZIERT – ANALYSIERT – photo edition berlin | Contemporary Art – Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin – Exhibition Berlin Galleries – ART at Berlin                  

until 22.10. | #2212ARTatBerlin | Andreas Reinsch Project shows from 22nd September 2018 the exhibition abendland (occident) by the artist Günther Haußmann. Anyone who says Occident also has Orient in mind, and Christianity and Islam. It is a thinking in opposites. In the case of Judaism, the catastrophe had to happen first in order to be able to say: Judaism belongs to Germany. The question of whether Islam belongs to Germany will not be answered first by a catastrophe, but by reason. Günther Haußmann – Abendmahl 2015 – Fotografie auf Alu-Dibond 200 x 100 cm But we are impatient and calculate everything on the monetary value and do not realize that we think in much too small a coin. The incidents after autumn 2015, when about 50 mostly Muslim refugees arrived in his hometown on the Baltic Sea, have released something that has not been called on for a long time in our rich world: compassion, helpfulness and the good feeling of doing the right thing. Something he hoped was the popular mind and soul. It turned out differently. Vernissage: Saturday, 22nd September 2018, 6:30 to 8:30 Uhr. Speech: Prof. Hans-Dieter Knapp Exhibition period: Saturday, 22nd September – Monday, 22nd October 2018   […]

until 21.12. | #2181ARTatBerlin | Galerie Hilaneh von Kories shows from 22nd September 2018 the exhibition “Blende f/5.6 –BrightMoments” by the filmmaker Bogdan Dziworski. Filmmaker and photographer Bogdan Dziworski is arguably one of the most important artists associated to the Polish avant-garde and experimental cinema. Dziworski developed a huge reputation as an image artist in his home country; whereas in Germany especially his photographic images are a fresh discovery to the local art scene. His contrasty analogue black and white images deliver an insight into the everyday life of Polish cities during the second half of the 20th century. Since the 1960’s he created this particular body of work, which often gave him the cognomen “Polish Cartier-Bresson”. Similar to the French photographer, Dziworski has a distinct aesthetic for the momentum and follows a humanistic approach in his photography. Bogdan Dziworski, f5,6-001, A52-DZ001, 14-604-Warszawa 1964, 30 x 22 cm “My photography from that time was never staged. It is ‘ran to’. Day after day I photographed, sometimes up to eight hours. You need to wait for this precise moment, in which reality determines the stage. You need to be lucky. And I was.” Bogdan Dziworski Bogdan Dziworski, Warszawa 1964, Lodz 1961 Vernissage: […]

until 24.11. | #1954ARTatBerlin | Ikeda Gallery currently shows the solo exhibition Naked with works by the artist Heribert C. Ottersbach. Drawing ↔︎ Painting 1980 – 2018 Alles nur Tapete,  2017, Acrylic on Canvas, 190 x 140 cm o.T.,  1981, Emulsion Paint on Bed Sheet Fabric, 108 x 70 cm Exhibition period: Saturday, 8th September – Saturday, 24th November 2018   Image caption: o.T.,  1981, Emulsion Paint on Bed Sheet Fabric, 108 x 70 cm Exhibition Heribert C. Ottersbach – Ikeda Gallery | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin

until 05.10. | #2149ARTatBerlin | Arndt Art Agency shows from 14th September 2018 the Solo Exhibition ANXIOUS LUSTLESS PECHAY by the Filipino artist YEO KAA. Presented with the kind support of the Embassy of the Philippines, Berlin. I am delighted to invite you to Filipino artist YEO KAA‘s presentation ANXIOUS LUSTLESS PECHAY opening on Friday the 14th of September in our Berlin premises from 6pm onwards, that coincides with the Charlottenburg Open Galleries evening the “Charlottenwalk”. As one of the rising stars of the Filipino arts scene, we are extremely pleased to stage the artist’s debut solo show in Europe. The exhibition is curated by Ruel Caasi in collaboration with The Working Animals Art Projects. YEO KAA will present a new series of characteristic figurative paintings and an installation created in situ during her A3 PROJECTS SUMMER RESIDENCY in Berlin in the lead up to her presentation. Matthias Arndt Vernissage: Friday, 14th September 2018, 6 pm – 8 pm Exhibition: Friday, 14th September – Friday, 5th October 2018 Opening hours during BERLIN ART WEEK: 24.09. – 27.09. 10 AM – 6 PM, 28.09. 10 AM – 7 PM, 29.09. 12 – 7 PM, 30.9. 12 – 6 PM   Image caption: Kaa Yeo, “Dry and Confused 2” (2018), acrylic on canvas, 152 × 122 cm Exhibition YEO KAA – Arndt Art Agency | Zeitgenössische Kunst […]

until 31.10. | #2194ARTatBerlin | Galerie mehdi chouakri shows from 21st September 2018 at the gallery rooms Fasanenplatz an exhibition by the artists Claudia & Julia Müller. Opening: Friday, 21st September 2018, 7 – 9 pm Exhibition period: Friday, 21st September  – Wednesday, 31st. October 2018 Where? Galerie mehdi chouakri, Fasanenstraße 61 / Ecke Fasanenplatz, Berlin-Wilmersdorf   Image caption: Courtesy of mehdi chouakri – © Claudia & Julia Müller Exhibition Claudia + Julia Müller – Galerie mehdi chouakri (Fasanenstraße) | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin

until 07.10. | #2207ARTatBerlin | Galerie Verein Berliner Künstler (VBK) shows from 15th September 2018 the group exhibition GEBUNDENE ZEIT with 21 artists, in which unique pieces of artist’s books and artist’s diaries are shown. TIED TIME opens an association area of remembering, forgetting, holding on and documenting life expressions. Documentation of an experience, a time course as in the diary, a creative idea or taking up a topic. At the same time, viewing or reading a book is a temporal process: turning pages, paging forwards and backwards. “- a book is a certain sequence of moments. … To make a book is to realize its ideal space-time sequence by creating a synchronous string, be it verbal or other characters. … The new art knows that books exist as objects of an external reality and are subject to concrete conditions such as perception, existence, exchange ect. ” Ulises Carrión, 1988 The exhibition uses a variety of media, ranging from artistic and graphic approaches to photography and digital diaries. Participating artists: Jutta Barth, Nele Probst, Sigi Torinus, Norma Drimmer, Ute Faber, Andrea Streit, ameret, Rosika Janko-Glage, Monika Bartsch, Claudia Kochsmeier, Sandra Becker, Simone Kornfeld, Helga Wagner, Barbara Zirpins, Ulrike Frank, Peter […]

until 27.10. | #2205ARTatBerlin | Galerie ART CRU Berlin shows from 14th September 2018 in the framework of the 10th anniversary of the gallery artworks by Peter Pankow, Betty Feix, Christo Lufundiso Luanza and Melanie Edwards. Peter Pankow (*1968) works in the Thikwa Workshop for Theater and Art. Its baroque painterly feel, at first glance, thanks to its color and format, has a powerful and impressive effect. On a closer look, complex relationships emerge from figurative and delicately colored narrative. His leaves are his mental deposits, which he plows with needles and exposes again. There are precise notes or protocols about themselves, as superego, Unterich, Altich and Neuich. Words and descriptions of his searches, which Pankow also uses on stage, when he gives information about himself. The artist has been exhibited many times, has been awarded the Lothar-Späth-Förderpreis and the European Art Award / EUCREA Prize and nominated for the euward 7 in 2014. Peter Pankow The art of Betty Feix (born 1990) emerges in books or on canvases and is about her dreams, in the middle of which the artist often writes or paints herself, weddings, trips to the South Seas or bizarre encounters of her characters. Characteristic of the canvas works […]

until 17.11. | #2176ARTatBerlin | Galerie Thomas Schulte shows from 29th September 2018 artworks by the artists Alice Aycock and Jonas Weichsel.  alice aycock – early works jonas weichsel – echo box Opening: Friday, 28th September 2018, 6 – 9 pm Exhibition period: Saturday, 29th September – Saturday, 17th November 2018   Image caption:  Alice Aycock / Tropico de Cancer: Boundary Line 23 1/2 degrees North, Tamaulipas, Mexico. Left (side): Torrid Zone. Right (side): North Temperate Zone, 1973 / vintage photograph / Photo: Mark Segal / 17 × 25,4 cm | 6 ¾ × 10 in (Top) Exhibition Alice Aycock + Jonas Weichsel – Galerie Thomas Schulte | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin

until 26.10. | #2151ARTatBerlin | Peres Projects shows from 14th September 2018 the Group Exhibition Strange Messengers with art works by Rebecca Ackroyd, Steffen Bunte, Donna Huanca, Dorothy Iannone, Ad Minoliti, Jack O’Brien und Manuel Solano. Strange Messengers September, 2018 update: the rise of right-wing nationalism still seeping across Europe, visible and banal as sweat stains on t-shirts after this ‘uncharacteristically’ hot summer (read: climate change). The energy that is spent on the daily task of filtering out what we are not able to emotionally handle has us drained. Every week there is a planet in retrograde. We are surviving so far. Peres Projects presents Strange Messengers, a group exhibition presenting strategies and reflections on navigating contemporary life including works by Dorothy Iannone, Ad Minoliti, Donna Huanca, Rebecca Ackroyd, Manuel Solano, Jack O’Brien and Steffen Bunte. Strange Messengers approaches the impossible task of interpreting the murky semiotics of contemporary life and the seven artists included act as messengers. Their role is both to relay as well as to enact. They are the strange and non-normative. The messages they deliver are vague, obscure, resisting categorization and slipping out from an often violent, patriarchic gaze. The message is at times unintelligible and frequently non-verbal. It depicts non-discrete […]

until 10.11. | #2155ARTatBerlin | Aurel Scheibler presents from 29th September 2018 the Solo Exhibition a  m  o  r  e with works by the artist Vivian Greven. For Vivian Greven, the story of Armor and Psyche is the starting point of her new works. It is the ancient representation of a unity destroyed by Psyche’s desire to recognize the true form of her lover: her mind demands to see the nature of Cupid, for what we see is easier to comprehend. Knowledge and visualization are central themes in the art of Vivian Greven. As an artist of a generation that grew up with the Internet, she transfers the mechanisms of media image production to the construction of her sculptures. The digital distribution of idealized images is now permeating all areas of life. Characteristic is their smooth surface, which usually only presents itself and under which nothing is present. Impeccability and smoothness are attributes that promise success, and the pursuit of it explains the ubiquitous urge for self-optimization and the excess of design. Vivian Greven paints such surfaces. Vivian Greven, Unda, 2018, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 60 x 60 cm Finely crafted incarnation meets monochrome colors, volume on a disembodied surface. […]

until 30.11. | #2164ARTatBerlin | Galerie TVD ART shows from 3rd September 2018 the group exhibition WOMEN IN ART with selected paintings by several artists of the gallery. Group Exhibition WOMEN IN ART – Paintings of the following artists: Anna Afanasjeva, Agate Apkalne, Anna Baklane, Flera Birmane, Krista Dzudzilo, Svitlana Galdetska, Valentyna Protzak, Paulis Postazs, Vineta Priste  – Karkla, Georgios Kitsos, Elena Tarasenko, Vija Zarina, Kaspars Zarins Anna Afanasjeva, 1983 Riga – tätig ebd. Der Brief, 2018 – Öl auf Leinwand, signiert, datiert, 100 x 90 cm Since the turn of the millennium, figurative painting has been making a comeback worldwide. For a long time she was marginalized as a depiction of reality by the sensuous means of color, by the power of imagination and the pleasure of observing the reality surrounding us: by abstract expressionism after 1945, then by a multitude of new postmodernist currents of the 1960s and 1970s. Minimal and concept art, performance, video and installation art further pushed the reduction of artistic means and depersonalization of art. Artists, curators and critics proclaimed the “death of painting”. Vija Zarina, 1961 Riga – tätig ebd. Der Moos, 2017, Öl auf Leinwand, signiert, datiert, 200 x 200 cm For this reason, the exhibition “TVD ART” in […]