The Germany-wide lockdown, which began on 16 December 2020 and was scheduled to last until 10 January 2021, will be extended until 31 January 2021. In the process, the measures to contain the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus will be tightened again. The Infection Protection Measures Ordinance is amended as follows: When leaving one’s own home or usual accommodation for valid reasons, the stay in the public space outdoors, in particular on streets, paths, squares and in green spaces is only permitted alone, in the circle of spouses or partners, members of one’s own household, for persons for whom there is a right of custody or access and additionally with a maximum of one other person, whereby in the case of single parents their children up to the age of 12 are not counted. The same applies to events or gatherings in the circle of family, acquaintances or friends (private events). After the Senate Department for Education, Youth and Family implemented particularly strict regulations over Christmas, we are now returning to the resolution of the Conference of Minister Presidents of 13 December 2020. Deviations for the purpose of a resumption of teaching and care operations in attendance adapted to the […]

Addendum: All measures limited until 10 January 2021, which are based on joint decisions, will be extended by the federal states until 31 January 2021 in the corresponding state ordinances. More on this shortly. Starting tomorrow, Wednesday, 16 December 2020, public life in Germany will be reduced to a minimum for at least three and a half weeks to contain the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. Yesterday (Monday) the Senate passed the ordinance to revise Berlin’s regulations for protection against infections with the highly contagious virus. The state of Berlin is thus implementing the results of the Minister Presidents’ Conference with the Chancellor last Sunday and adapting them to the infection situation in Berlin. There are also drastic changes for art galleries, which were still allowed to open in their capacity as retailers during the partial lockdown, but now also have to close. Due to the public holidays that fall during this period, various special regulations and tightenings apply. To the Infection Protection Ordinance previously in force in Berlin, the new ordinance receives these essential changes: Leaving one’s own home or usual accommodation is only permitted for valid reasons, for example for shopping, for the exercise of professional, mandate-related, honorary […]

Kunsthaus Dahlem shows from 30th October 2020 the exhibition “The unkown political prisoner”. The competition for the Monument to the Unknown Political Prisoner was probably the most important art competition of the post-war period. More than 3,000 artists from all over the world participated, including sculptors and architects such as Max Bill, Alexander Calder, Naum Gabo, Barbara Hepworth, and Bernhard Heiliger. Like no other competition after 1945, it reflects a highly ideological art policy: within the tensions of the East-West conflict, it was announced in January 1952 by the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London. Both the Eastern Bloc countries and the Soviet Union boycotted the competition – in all probability because they were aware that its financing had been arranged by the American secret service. Recent research has even conjectured that the competition was essentially directly financed by the CIA. More than 3,000 sculptors from 57 nations worldwide responded to the announcement and submitted about 1,500 designs. With 262 submissions, the still young Federal Republic of Germany had the largest number of participants. Whereas the older, mostly figurative generation did not join in, young artists saw it as an opportunity to attract international attention. For the first time, […]

until 27.02. | #2949ARTatBerlin | Galerie Eigenheim shows from 22nd January 2021 the group show Kollektion Kollektiv or: on a night visit to friends with painting, drawing, photography, video, object and installation. For many years, the house artists of EIGENHEIM Weimar/Berlin have formed a close community. Similar to a collective, they develop ideas, discuss new individual artistic tendencies, plan exhibitions, organise excursions and fairs – they think, work, celebrate and laugh together. Especially in times of social distancing or lookdown, such an ideal and institutional community is indispensable. Rao Fu, Nachtbesuch, 195 x 135 cm, Oil on canvas , 2020 (Detail), Banner der Ausstellung Participating artists Gökçen Dilek Acay, Konstantin Bayer, Christoph Blankenburg, Anna Bittersohl, Benedikt Braun, Frederik Foert, Enrico Freitag, Rao Fu, Timo Herbst, Marc Jung, Caucasso Lee Jun, Martin Mohr, Adam Noack, Stefan Schiek, Michal Schmidt, Julia Scorna, Lars Wild, Wang Yuhong. Acay, Eisbär sagte ‚Time Over‘ Stickerei auf selbstgenähter Fahne, 66 x 50,5 cm, 2020 In this exhibition, new works are presented – sketchy one project – far advanced the other. In this exhibition, we are giving rise to a momentary analysis and the opportunity to discuss the situation. In the course of the exhibition, we will […]

until 27.02. | #2948ARTatBerlin | Galerie Eigenheim shows from 22nd January 2021 the exhibition Slag Hook by the artist Christoph Blankenburg as solo show in the Salon of the gallery. Slag is a by-product of steelmaking, naturally similar in texture to volcanic rock. The slag hook, in turn, is the tool with which the metal smelter pulls this by-product out of the blast furnace. In this sense, the title of the exhibition can be understood as a connecting element between nature and man or industry and craft – because this is precisely where Christoph Blankenburg‘s work is to be situated. Christoph Blankenburg, Snipet, Architekturmodel, 2018 Christoph Blankenburg fires enamel panels to color intensive abstract landscape paintings or enamel objects whose forms are borrowed from nature or everyday industrial life, he explores the rural idyll and reclaims it as a stage in his video works, he draws uninhibitedly and powerfully, courageously without any hint of mannerism, he performs physically revealing often in direct dialogue with people or local occurrences, his photographs are experiments with physical laws of light or attentive observations of nature. Christoph Blankenburg, Er war da, Videostandbild, 2020 Blankenburg sees himself as a scientist who takes his legitimation for […]

until 27.03. | #2952ARTatBerlin | Galerie Z22 presents from 23rd January 2021 the group show THE FEMALE SIDE OF THE MOON. The exhibition features the photographs of forty photographers from twenty-eight countries where the framer and the framed are women. THE FEMALE SIDE OF THE MOON pursues the female gaze. But rather than examining what it is and if such a thing ever exists, it wants to render and foster the multiplicity of the looks of women* towards women*. The bodies photographed turn into the cracks of the earth, they witness the restless geographies they arise from. IRA ROKKA | ENDROPY OF DUALITY #3 | 2013 The work is a part of “Entropy of Duality Series.“ Every contemporary force is interconnected. It causes us to make ambivalent conclusions in every reason. Being an acting person and a judging one at the same time our mind is doomed to be involved into this unstoppable game. Duality of mind in the context of reliance on any objective point of view, a person is yearning and feeling acute loneliness. The faces change, the atmospheres alter, and the exhibition becomes a tiny archive of emotions of different geographies and generations portrayed in different genres. […]

until (tba) | #2951ARTatBerlin | Galerie Michael Haas currently presents a double exhibition of works on paper by the artist Fritz Klemm (1902-1990), best known for his collages and pioneering Caparol paintings, together with numerous photographic portraits of Klemm’s companions, captured by his daughter Barbara (*1939). Fritz Klemm, who only became intensely artistically active in his mid-forties, created a distinctiv eoeuvre, which in its increasing reduction, especially with the theme ‘wall’ (the representation of his studio wall), led him to almost abstract ‘painting’.He was already 68 years old when he found his way to those works which made him known to the public. He used paper and paint as a subtle and almost poetic source material for collaged, graphic works. Barbara Klemm, Fritz Klemm, Studio Akademie Karlsruhe, 1966 From the very beginning, drawing was his most important means of artistic expression, with which he portrayed the objects of his immediate surroundings: tables, chairs, bowls, brushes or easels.Barbara Klemm has worked as a photo reporter for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung all her professional life. She has accompanied historical political events in Germany and around the world, taking numerous iconic pictures thanks to her fantastic sense of the right moment and interpersonal […]

until 27.02. | #2948ARTatBerlin | Galerie Eigenheim shows from 22nd January 2021 the exhibition Slag Hook by the artist Christoph Blankenburg as solo show in the Salon of the gallery. Slag is a by-product of steelmaking, naturally similar in texture to volcanic rock. The slag hook, in turn, is the tool with which the metal smelter pulls this by-product out of the blast furnace. In this sense, the title of the exhibition can be understood as a connecting element between nature and man or industry and craft – because this is precisely where Christoph Blankenburg‘s work is to be situated. Christoph Blankenburg, Snipet, Architekturmodel, 2018 Christoph Blankenburg fires enamel panels to color intensive abstract landscape paintings or enamel objects whose forms are borrowed from nature or everyday industrial life, he explores the rural idyll and reclaims it as a stage in his video works, he draws uninhibitedly and powerfully, courageously without any hint of mannerism, he performs physically revealing often in direct dialogue with people or local occurrences, his photographs are experiments with physical laws of light or attentive observations of nature. Christoph Blankenburg, Er war da, Videostandbild, 2020 Blankenburg sees himself as a scientist who takes his legitimation for […]

until 30.01. | #2947ARTatBerlin | Köppe Contemporary shows since 1st December 2020 the solo show “Tegel Moments” des Fotografenby the photographer Bernd Rathjen, a tribute to the cult airport. The exhibition can be visited online via the gallery website. It should have been closed long ago, but for years its fans celebrated every single day of Tegel Airport’s involuntary extension. On 8 November the time has come and we will say goodbye. Bernd Rathjen has captured special views in his series Tegel Moments, showing us once again what we liked so much about the architectural gem, also taking us to places we carelessly overlooked in our haste. In a mix of moments “picked” in passing and carefully composed tableaus, a very personal homage to this exceptional airport is created. Bernd Rathjen | Geometrie, 2020 As early as 1948, a runway was built to relieve the airlift to Tempelhof. After the first civilian flight in 1960, an intensive planning and construction phase took place from 1965 onwards, which ended with the ceremonial opening on 23 October 1974. One week later, on 1 November 1974, the legendary Terminal A with its passenger bridges A0 to A14 went into operation. The hexagonal ground […]

until 28.01. | #2944ARTatBerlin | Galerie feinart berlin currently shows the exhibition AufBruch with paintings, drawings and photography by the artist Aurore Millet. The exhibition is also visible online as 3D Tour. The exhibition with the title “AufBruch” (English “BreakOut”) is inspired by the question to what extent Aurore Millet’s in content and style complex works produced between 1996 and 2020 can be looked at and understood in the continuum of an artistic development. The drawings, photo prints and paintings have in common that, at the origin of every creative process, the artist is concerned with the act of looking closely and seriously: looking between and behind the things in our everyday world of perception and their abstraction or, in some cases, radicalization of the essentials such as colors, contours, negative- and positive forms. To look closely in this way means to be attentive, alert and critical, as for example in the series Reminiscence, that was created from 2001 to 2004 out of personal experiences with the war in Palestine and Israel. Between everything and nothing stands life – and artistic freedom. Aurore Millet’s works challenge us to face the world again and again with alert eyes and senses. Exhibition period: Thursday, […]

until 27.02. | #2943ARTatBerlin | Galerie Born Berlin presents from 12 January 2021 on site and virtually the exhibition In Process with new works by artist Ilja Heinig . It took longer than I thought, in any case a whole year, until I agreed with Ilja Heinig on a date for a visit to his country studio in Wehnigen on the Elbe. We had both only loosely agreed on an exhibition date for the beginning of 2021, what we would exhibit was to be decided on site in Wehningen. The last of the 4 – 5 joint exhibitions was a more than three years ago, and I have known his work for more than 30 years. In contemporary art, Ilja Heinig is considered a representative of the “Neue Wilden”. When I first encountered his work, I was a little irritated by this at first. Because the so-called “Neue Wilden” such as Salome, Elvira Bach or Rainer Fetting all painted figuratively. Ilja Heinig – Papagena, Acryl auf Leinen, 2008, 30 x 40 cm Heinig, on the other hand, painted and paints abstractly. Always with a grand gesture, sometimes the canvases seem reminiscent of action painting. The impression is given that someone is […]

until (to be announced) | #2940ARTatBerlin | ifa-Galerie currently shows the Online Exhibition ARE YOU FOR REAL, a web-based project for interactive artistic practices to promote international cultural exchange. Imagine you are standing in the micro-studio of a street artist in Luanda, and the next moment you find yourself behind a guy picking up money from a Western Union Counter in Nairobi. Suddenly you are on a stage with a young spoken word poet in Berlin and see people in the audience sharing images of this moment on Instagram. You step out of that Berlin bar into a gallery space in Lagos and from there move into the abstract digital universe created by an art collective in Jakarta. ARE YOU FOR REAL is a new, participatory web-based project, testing unique and interactive artistic practices. It brings together artists, researchers, filmmakers, writers and coders to create exclusive works, each offering an understanding of and approach towards the concept of “reality”. Initiated by ifa and curated by Julia Grosse, Paula Nascimento and Yvette Mutumba, ARE YOU FOR REAL launches in December with newly commissioned participative and interactive digital works by artists Nushin Yazdani & Can Karaalioglu and Nolan Oswald Dennis via an […]

extended until 31.01. | #2939ARTatBerlin | Galerie Gilla Lörcher shows from 12th December 2020 the group show SMALL WONDERS with works by artists of the gallery.  With this exhibition, the gallery says goodbye to the pandemic year 2020 and directs the focus to everything that art has to offer: inspiration, joy, stimulation, pausing, expanding awareness, a fresh look at what is supposedly known, sharpening the ability to reflect, comfort, encounter with oneself yourself, encouragement, concentration, calm, being able to draw strength, desire to dream, moments of happiness, inner peace, amusement, irony, joke, oh … and so many little miracles. Installation view SMALL WONDERS at Galerie Gilla Loercher, Photo: CHROMA. 2021 With works by: John Cornu, Simone Strasser, Claudia Desgranges, Ivana Klickovic, Jürgen Jaehnert, Ivan Liovik Ebel, Claudia Zweifel, Michel Castaignet, Ab van Hanegem, Rosemary Lee, Iris Musolf, Gonzalo Reyes Araos, Francisco Rozas, Ute Schendel, Vincent Rischer, Tom Früchtl, Nikolaus Schneider and Manuel Salvat. Upcoming exhibitions 2021: February – April                      Ab van Hanegem April – July                             Francisco Rozas September – October           Claudia Zweifel Vernissage: Saturday, 12 December 2020, noon – 8 p.m. Exhibition dates: Saturday, 12 December 2020 – Friday, 22 January 2021, Thu – Sat 3:00 – 6:00 p.m. – ATTENTION: […]

until 23.01. | #2936ARTatBerlin | WENTRUP shows from 12th December 2020 the Solo Show “Berlin Childhood” with works by the artist Olaf Metzel. At the end of 2019, I bought the two-volume scholarly edition of Walter Benjamin’s Berliner Chronik/Berliner Kindheit um 1900 [Berlin Chronicle/Berlin Childhood around 1900]. I had remembered it as a small volume and was surprised by the background to its genesis. Originally written in 1930, Benjamin kept revising the various Pieces, as he himself called them, during the years of exile. Therefore, different versions exist, partly because—despite intensive efforts by friends like Theodor W. Adorno—Benjamin never found a publisher. Of course, while reading I was reminded of my own Berlin childhood. This was around the 1960s, but in Walter Benjamin there are certain descriptions that were quite familiar to me. The pantry, the special small of baked apples, the noisy atmosphere of the beer halls. These things had not changed all that much. A different thing, however, were the ruins of destroyed houses in between the new buildings, which seemed like alien objects. They had a different, inexplicable presence and attraction. Nonetheless, “kaputt” was the suitable term, even though a lot of construction went on. Maybe that’s […]

until 06.01. | #2935ARTatBerlin | Michaela Helfrich Galerie shows from 12th December 2020 the group show EVERY JACK HAS HIS JILL / JEDER TOPF FINDET SEINEN DECKEL with paintings, installation and sculpture. On show are works by: ROLAND BEHRMANN / GILBERT BROHL / SIMON CZAPLA / OLIVER DEHN / TINA ENGEL / FABIAN FREESE / THOMAS GATZEMEIER / CHRISTINA GAY / ANNA GENGER / SUSANNE HUSEMANN / THOMAS JÜPTNER / HORST KISTNER / JENS KLOPPMANN / CLAUDIA KOCK / DAVID D. LAUER / HEIKE MARDO / ULRIKE PISCH / ALAN RANKLE / PINA RATH / STEPHAN PAUL SCHNEIDER / ALEX SCHILOW / NANAKO SHIKATA / MARCIA R. SZÉKELY / ELENA TAMBURINI / GERARD WASKIEVITZ Opening: Saturday, 12. December 2020, 2:00 – 8:00 pm Exhibition period: Saturday, 12. December 2020 – Wednesday, 6. January 2021 Opening hours: Tuesday to Saturday, 2 – 6 pm and by arrangement     Image caption: © Alex Schilow Exhibition Every Jack has his Jill – Michaela Helfrich Galerie | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin  

until 16.01. | #2932ARTatBerlin | Esther Schipper shows from 6th December 2020 the exhibition false ruins and lost innocence with works by the artist Isa Melsheimer. It is the third solo show of the artist with the gallery. The exhibition entitled false ruins and lost innocence comprises three large-format ceramics, textile works and a series of gouaches. Isa Melsheimer is well known for her exploration of the history of architectural styles, her works reflect both her intensive research and form-based investigations. The artist, whose work is concerned with modernist, post-modern and brutalist aesthetics, has increasingly introduced organic elements into buildings in recent years – influenced by her reading of post-human theoretical debates as well as by her examination of metabolic architecture, a movement that has its origins in 1960s Japan. Isa Melsheimer’s works carry her far-reaching associations with ease: personal, literary, historical, philosophical, architectural references are dissolved in an intense materiality. Three large-format ceramics draw on existing buildings: the artist gives these groundbreaking structures an “inner” life that refers to theoretical debates in architectural discourse. For example, one of Le Corbusier’s works, “Villa Shobhan” (Ahmedabad, 1951-56), juxtaposes a horse’s head from the gable of the Greek Parthenon, ca. 438 BC, […]

extended until 26.02. | #2931ARTatBerlin | Luisa Catucci Gallery presents from 5th December 2020 the exhibition “And guess what? 2020!”, an artistic ceremony with works by artists of the gallery. Participating artists: Aqua Aura / Andrea Mariconti / Antti Pussinen / David Hochbaum / Edoardo Romagnoli / Enrico Pietracci / Florian Rexroth / Francesca Belgiojoso / Ilona Kowalschek / Irene Cruz / Kenneth Blom / Maike Freess / Nini Peony / Rowan Corkill / William Grob “To celebrate the end of a very peculiar, challenging year we, at Luisa Catucci Gallery, decided to put together a group show with our artists, focusing on gorgeous and meaningful small-sized artworks, lithographs, limited editions, wearable art, as a sort of artistic ceremony to dispel the harsh vibes of this 2020. Since the start of the pandemic we all experienced some degrees of setbacks – spiritual and/or economic – even art lovers! And now we are all feeling the urge to end this year with an auspicious, enjoyable, affordable, and artistic action, in the hope that 2021 will vibrate on favorable energies for everybody. In particular for our precious artists. Therefore, join us! We need YOU to be a co-player in this “exorcising” 2020 […]

until 21.01. | #2928ARTatBerlin | Galerie mutare presents from 5th December 2020 the exhibition SPIEGELUNGEN (> Reflections) with paintings by the artist Barbara Burck. Barbara Burck, born in Berlin in 1960, grew up near Rostock and studied painting and graphic arts at the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig. From 1985-86 she was a master student of Prof. Bernhard Heisig. Since 1987 she has worked as a freelance artist in Leipzig. Her work has been shown in numerous national and international solo and group exhibitions. Vernissage: not applicable due to the current situation Exhibition dates: Saturday, 5 December – Saturday, 9 December 2020 – extended until Thursday, 21st January 2021 Opening hours December to January: Wed – Fri 1:00 – 6:00 pm, Sat 11:00 am – 3:00 pm     Image caption: Barbara Burck, In der Glashalle, 2020, Öl_Leinwand, 150 x 230 cm Exhibition Barbara Burck – Galerie Mutare | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin    

extended until 28.02. | #2927ARTatBerlin | KLEINERVONWIESE shows from 27th November 2020 at enter art airshop opas Nr 1 the group show Paradise with works by and around Michael Buthe. Participating artists: Michael Buthe, Nasser Almulhim, Andreas Blank, Klaus vom Bruch, David Krippendorff, Stefan Kürten, Marcel Odenbach, Manfred Peckl, Angelika Platen, Stephan Rinck, Ulrike Rosenbach, Maik Schierloh, Pola Sieverding, Kerstin Serz, Barthélémy Toguo, Ricardo Peredo Wende, Abbas Yousif Co-gallery owner Stephan von Wiese, former museum curator in Düsseldorf, designed the 1977 solo exhibition “Homage to a Prince from Samarkant” in the Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf with works by Michael Buthe. In 1999 he organised a retrospective of his work there. In 1983 his book: Michael Buthe. Skulptura in Deo Fabulosa” was published by Silke Schreiber. In Buthe’s work, conventions are consistently broken, the spontaneous attitude to life flows directly into the works. The very near and the very different are reflected, happiness and sorrow are captured unbroken and authentically. Through the many cords and cloths in Butte’s work, these magical moments seem to be tied up. The art becomes a great voyage of discovery, the work is a mythical space. Michael Buthe, sometimes ennobled to “Michel de la Sainte Beauté”, was one […]

until 30.01. | #2924ARTatBerlin | EFREMIDIS GALLERY presents from 28th November 2020 the exhibition ! with works by the artist Marte Eknæs. At [erp], the project space of the gallery, works by Gerry Bibby, Marte Eknæs and Emanuel Rossetti will be on show. The exhibition ! centers around a series of bollards alongside maintenance tools, insulation materials and inflatables. Erected throughout the city, the uniform short posts act as a stoppage: to limit traffic or obstruct passage. Marte Eknæs’ motley ensemble of bollards draws attention to their individual make-ups. Marte Eknæs manipulates her materials to different degrees. Over time, she assembles different elements as much as she takes them apart. In the process, the material picks up information, the works become adaptable and take on many roles: activator, connector, occupant, vessel, communicator, body and material. The installation is in itself a system; the system is more than a collection of objects. Like a pulled tooth, a displaced element refers to its place of origin and utility; there is a strong whiff of its intended purpose. The object’s past life is evident in marks and traces. But while it retains its original meaning, it lacks the context to realize its function. Marte Eknæs […]

until 23.01. | #2922ARTatBerlin | Galerie Kremers shows from 20. November 2020 the group exhibition “Talking Stones and Mysterious Plates” with etchings, woodcuts and lithographs by the artists Natascha Mann, Uwe Bremer, Johannes Grützke, Gregor Hiltner, Friedrich Meckseper, Michael Runschke, Ernst Weil and Gerhard Wendland. “Lustful and colorful, obsessed with detail, mysterious and following an order that is unique to the artist, not always easy to decipher, romantic, poetic or drastically expressive, full of wit and depth or serious and thought-provoking, but artistically and technically always on the same highest level and with a variety of different formats, we present masterpieces of printmaking. Uwe Bremer, Zwitter, 1970, Farbradierung e.a., 44,4 x 49 cm There are only a handpicked number of artists who handle printmaking techniques in this mastery and only a few viewers know how much work and skill there is behind these graphic sheets. Such complicated techniques are hardly taught at the academies any more and most of the artistic gravure printing and lithography workshops have already closed. Johannes Grützke, Die Knochenbrecher, 2007, Lithographie 38/40, 100 x 130 cm We show a great selection of colour etchings and colour lithographs. During the Corona pre-Christmas period, sheets are available at […]

until 15.01. | #2920ARTatBerlin | Migrant Bird Space currently presents the group show A Future Without a Past with works by the artists Seulki Ki, Tomoko Mori, You Gu and Zhé Wang. The group show presents four young female Asian artists that explore concepts of identity through their artistic work. Taking a step back from the ordinary, the show invites its viewers to nurture a critical view of what brings us together and what keeps us apart. In an attempt to further the examination, the exhibition aids the viewer in positioning an awareness on questions about identity and on what terms it is of compelling importance in today’s world. Once the practical and daily roles we assume are laid aside, the unmistakable common ground is left to be here and now. Time and space are our lifelong companions, whether we have it minute capacities and share only a small portion of it with others, or whether we reside comfortably and inattentively enveloped in it. Yet the nexus of time and space also comprises an intersectionality of nation, community, faith and social status generating a universal condition of what it is to be human. We discover the unique circumstances of our […]

until 23.01. | #2919ARTatBerlin | Kewenig Berlin presents from 21st November 2020 the exhibition The women I know with works by the artist Ghada Amer, her second exhibition at the gallery. Titled ‘The women I know’, the show focuses on a new body of works consisting of four moving portraits of female friends in Amer’s signature embroidered painting style, along with a dramatic self-portrait in black and white. The exhibition also gathers a constellation of ceramics in an attempt to survey the artist’s most recent sculptural works. Painting is at the core of Amer’s creative process. When studying for her MFA she could not attend painting classes because the teacher only accepted male students. Hence painting became an act of rebellion against cultural output that was dominated by men – it was a sign of revolt. She had to find another way to paint, to create a pictorial language of her own in order to address and resist the systemic obliteration of females from art history. A craft traditionally associated with women, needlework is Amer’s starting point in developing an oeuvre that questions gender power structures whilst embodying the slow and laborious process of building one’s identity – through the […]

until 23.12.| #2916ARTatBerlin | Galerie Thomas Schulte shows from 14th November 2020 an exhibition with recent paintings by the artist Albrecht Schnider. Albrecht Schnider’s sixth solo exhibition with Galerie Thomas Schulte presents large-scale sprayed acrylic lacquer paintings alongside a selection of new works on raw canvas—contrasting textured and smooth surfaces and materializing shifts in the figure-ground relationship. In the interplay between images, what comes to the fore is the scope of constructive possibilities in Schnider’s work, emerging in parallel to the constancy of his distinctive visual language. Through processes of both intuition and analysis, Schnider constructs constellations of color fields that materialize images in a state of continual becoming. Forms and planes hover before our eyes, before the surface of the canvas, occupying a space entirely their own. Albrecht Schnider, Untitled 2020 Despite the clearly articulated edges of planes and the purposefulness of lines, to say Schnider produces his paintings with precision may be a strong understatement—if not entirely reductive. As the artist himself explains: “It’s not about realizing a thought or realizing a precise form you carry within yourself… It’s really just about being open-minded, being willing to say ‘yes’ when a form emerges.”[1] Schnider’s creative process typically begins with […]

until 13.02. | #2915ARTatBerlin | Bermel von Luxburg Gallery shows from 3rd December 2020 the solo show NEW BAUHAUS WOMAN with photographs by the artist Elina Liepina in dialogue with the world’ first presentation of Barcelona Pavilion objects by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, curated by PC Neumann. The exhibition NEW BAUHAUS WOMAN will present the first solo show of the artist ELINA LIEPINA. Her photographs will be in dialogue with unique design objects from the Barcelona Pavilion of 1929 by Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe. This exhibition is curated by the film producer and art collector PC NEUMANN. It is the dedication to the cool minimalism of Bauhaus furniture and an homage to the anonymous women of the Bauhaus. NEW BAUHAUS WOMAN There is hardly any other photograph that captures the spirit of the Bauhaus better than this mysterious photograph by Erich Consemüller from 1926. There is no doubt that the depiction has something magical, almost a subtle erotic effect. The depiction of the Marcel Breuer armchair that forms the basis of the photograph as if carried on air, the mysterious stranger wearing a mask of Oscar Schlemmer in a surrealistic manner, the skirt hem that ends freely above […]

bis 02.01. | #2911ARTatBerlin| Galerie Inga Kondeyne – Raum für Zeichnung shows from 14th November 2020 at the backstage of the gallery works by the artist Astrid Köppe as a follow-up to the August exhibition “Spontaneous Paradise”. Gallery owner Inga Kondeyne invites you on a voyage of discovery into the almost endless encyclopaedia of enchanting fantasy organisms of Astrid Köppe. The wondrous Din A 4 drawings by Astrid Köppe look like pages from expedition diaries, flipped open, taken apart and soon spread out on the walls of the gallery in a game of puzzle. And they are, as we know, the product of the artist’s imagination. Naturally grown forms, reduced to their origins, are rhythmically reoccupied with narrow and broad strokes, with large and small dots, which are chosen to be slightly flowing or strong. With the keyboard of drawing – together with striking, mostly strong colour settings – she brings forth surprising new existences, one follows the other; over the years endless in their individual appearances on the said sheets. One becomes an observer of an artistic amoeba world of almost inexhaustible shapes, whose irritating, sometimes bizarre otherness often enough seems to be underlaid with a wink of the […]

until 28.11. | #2910ARTatBerlin | GALERIE SCHMALFUSS BERLIN presents since 3rd October 2020 the exhibition TAGUNDNACHTGLEICHE with new works of the German portrait and landscape painter Thomas Jessen. Born in Lübbecke, Germany, in 1958, Thomas Jessen has long been one of the most renowned German painters. From 1980 to 1986 he studied at the art academy in Düsseldorf. There he was a student of Gerhard Richter and then a master student of Alfonso Hüppi. A scholarship from the state of NRW brought him to the Cité des Arts in Paris in 1986. Thomas Jessen, Morgen, 2017, Öl auf Leinwand, 125 x 90 cm Thomas Jessen, Susan, 2020, Öl auf Leinwand, 160 x 120 cm Thomas Jessen is a gifted portraitist and a sensitive flower and landscape painter. The stained glass paintings in various sacred spaces connect him once again with Gerhard Richter. Photography holds him under its spell and he links this with painting, bringing both together in one work, and the viewer has the task of recognizing the respective origin. His painting in the most magnificent colors embodies pure life for him and therefore usually triumphs over photography. Thomas Jessen, Waldlicht, 2020, Oil on Canvas, 200 x 130 cm […]