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NEWS ++ MEAT UTOPIA. A SOLARPUNK EXHIBITION | P61 Gallery | 22.09.-08.10.2023
The group show MEAT UTOPIA – A SOLARPUNK EXHIBITION will be shown at the P61 Gallery in Berlin-Schöneberg from 22 September 2023. It offers insights into the world of solar punk. Unlike the gloomy and dystopian atmosphere of cyberpunk, solarpunk is characterised by an optimistic perspective on the future. This art movement creates encouraging worlds based on the community’s management of the ecological crisis. The exhibition presents 47 installations on three themes, created by 31 international artists. It is sponsored by The Vegetarian Butcher. MEAT UTOPIA – A SOLARPUNK EXHIBITION is dedicated to the emerging movement of solar punk and presents its artistic approaches to solving the current disparity between humans, animals and nature. On two levels, in the form of utopias, it offers hopeful and colourful insights into a world in which technology is used to … Continue reading the article on DEEDS.NEWS Image above: (f.l.t.r.) Rolando Cedeño de la Cruz, Alexandra Roslik, Digital Alchemy Studio, Eli Johnson, Orhan Izmirlier
28. Sep 2023
NEWS ++ Season opening premiere Staatsoper Berlin: Verdi’s AIDA | 03.10.2023
On 3 October, the curtain will rise on the 2023/24 season opening premiere of Verdi’s AIDA at Staatsoper Unter den Linden. The new production will be staged by Calixto Bieito, with Nicola Luisotti as musical director. The proven Verdi expert will perform for the first time with the Staatskapelle Berlin and the Staatsoper Chorus. Marina Rebeka will make her role debut in the title role of Aida. The rest of the ensemble includes … Continue reading the article on DEEDS.NEWS. Fig. above: Photo: Calixto Bieito The 2023/24 season opening premiere is Verdi’s AIDA on 3 October, directed by Calixto Bieito. In his production, Bieito focuses on the chamber-play-like moments in AIDA as well as the tension between the political events of the time the play was written and our present day. Nicola Luisotti will conduct the new production of AIDA. The renowned Verdi expert will perform for the first time with the Staatskapelle Berlin and the Staatsoper Chorus. With, among others, Marina Rebeka (title role / role debut), Elīna Garanča, Yusif Eyvazov, Vladislav Sulimsky and René Pape. Credits: Paco Amate
27. Sep 2023
NEWS ++ Deichtorhallen Hamburg / Hall of Contemporary Art: Dix and the Present | 30.09.2023-25.02.2024
From 30 September 2023 to 25 February 2024, the Deichtorhallen Hamburg will present a major exhibition on Otto Dix and his influence on art up to the present day. For the first time, Dix’s oeuvre from the time of the Nazi dictatorship will also be comprehensively presented, a time when some of his works were considered “degenerate”. The focus is on the artistic effects of political censorship, conformity and political iconography with reference to contemporary art. 50 works by Dix enter into dialogue with 100 works by 50 international artists. The first focus of the exhibition curated by Dr Ina Jessen concentrates on Dix’s only supposedly apolitical work from the Nazi era. Starting from Otto Dix’s (1891-1969) radical and provocative works of the 1920s, which are still popular today, an œuvre emerged from 1933 onwards that was far less offensively sociocritical in its visual language: the previously striking images of society were transformed after 1933 into partly subversive, partly subtle forms of … Continue reading the article further on DEEDS.NEWS Fig. above: Yael Bartana, Degenerate Art Lives (video still), 2010 © Yael Bartana. Courtesy of Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, and Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
25. Sep 2023
NEWS ++ CLB Berlin: The Infinite Library – A multi-sensory VR experience that reinvents libraries | 29.09.-14.10.2023
The “Infinite Library” is not a place full of books. It is no ordinary library, no conventional institution. It is a unique experience that unfolds in a virtual environment and transports visitors into a fascinating world of knowledge and stories. The Infinite Library is a travelling installation that reimagines the future of libraries as interactive spaces, engaging visitors through multi-sensory forms of storytelling. In doing so, it goes far beyond the traditional notion of a library and integrates human stories into a much larger … Continue reading the article on DEEDS.NEWS. Image above: Photo: The Infinite Library VR-Stills – © Mika Johnson
23. Sep 2023
THE INTERVIEW IN|DEEDS
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Leszek Skurski
PROLOGUE | PERSONAL (in German language) Leszek, wo treffen wir Dich? Wir sind in meinem Atelier bei Fulda. Es ist eine relativ große Halle und auf den Wänden hängen ein paar Bilder von mir und von meiner Frau Joanna. Es ist hoch und von oben, durch die Dachfenster leuchtet die Sonne. In der Mitte stehen […]
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Adam Bota
PROLOGUE | PERSONAL (in German language) Adam, wo treffen wir Dich? Raum 1: Vorzimmer. Raum 2: Mittleres Durchgangszimmer mit Bilderlager, Büro, Kunstsammlung, Büchersammlung, Antiquitätensammlung und Rastplatz. Raum 3: Arbeitsraum (Atelier) mit ausschließlich Arbeitsmaterial und teilweise Lagerstätte. Ich arbeite direkt an der Wand im Stehen und nicht an der Staffelei. Um meine Arbeit betrachten zu können, sitze […]
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Justine Otto
PROLOGUE | PERSONAL (in German language) Justine, wo treffen wir Dich? Ich arbeite, wo ich wohne, d.h. mein Atelier grenzt direkt an meinen Wohnbereich an. Mein Atelier ist umgeben von Grün, viel Grün, denn es liegt im Biosphärenreservat an der Elbe vor den Toren Hamburgs. Vor meiner Malwand habe ich links und rechts zwei große Fenster, links […]
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Bettina Hauke
PROLOGUE | PERSONAL Bettina, where do we meet you? We would meet in Berlin Pankow in my studio. The studio is bright and large. Many of my paintings hang on the wall, there are probably many scraps of paper on the floor, wood glue, oil paints, books…photos…spread over the two rooms…all a bit messy. For you […]
SPECIAL EXHIBITIONS IN MUSEUMS
Edvard Munch. Magic of the North – Berlinische Galerie | 15.09.2023–22.01.2024
Edvard Munch’s (1863-1944) radical modernism in painting challenged his time. This was especially true of the Berlin art scene at the turn of the century, on which the Norwegian symbolist had a great influence. The exhibition “Edvard Munch. Magic of the North” is a cooperation with MUNCH in Oslo and tells of the relationship between the Norwegian painter and Berlin through 90 works of painting, graphic art and photography. Thomas Köhler, Director Berlinische Galerie: “Edvard Munch was a central pioneer of modernism. What is far too little known: the Norwegian artist had a great influence on the Berlin art scene at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. An art scandal helped him to first fame in 1892, and finally, in 1927, the Nationalgalerie Berlin hosted the largest retrospective of his work to date. It is a unique opportunity to be able to show Munch’s high-calibre works in such abundance.” Tone Hansen, Director MUNCH: “For Edvard Munch, Germany was the country of his artistic breakthrough and became an important … Continue reading the article on the Edvard Munch exhibition on DEEDS.NEWS Image above: Edvard Munch, Rot und Weiß, 1899–1900, Foto: © MUNCH, Oslo / Halvor […]
16. Sep 2023
Lin May Saeed. Im Paradies fällt der Schnee langsam. A Dialogue with Renée Sintenis – Georg Kolbe Museum | 14.09.2023–25.02.2024
From September 14, 2023, the Georg Kolbe Museum will present the exhibition ” Im Paradies fällt der Schnee langsam” (“In Paradise, the Snow Falls Slowly”) by artist Lin May Saeed as a dialogue with Renée Sintenis. Styrofoam creatures climb out of their cages and colonize the Georg Kolbe Museum, wire lobsters free themselves from captivity with their scissors, figures, taken from ancient sagas reflect in Arabic-language poetry the close relationship between animals and humans. The opening will take place as part of the Berlin Art Week on September 13, 2023 from 6 pm. The German-Iraqi artist Lin May Saeed (1973, Würzburg – 2023, Berlin) spent a good 20 years exploring the lives of animals and their role in a world now dominated by humans. The Georg Kolbe Museum is showing her first solo museum exhibition in Germany. With sculptures, reliefs, expansive silhouettes and drawings, the sculptor created a new visual language of solidarity and … Continue reading the article about this exhibition on DEEDS.NEWS Image above: Exhibition view “Lin May Saeed. Im Paradies fällt der Schnee langsam. A dialogue with Renée Sintenis” Georg Kolbe Museum, 2023, Photo: Enric Duch
7. Sep 2023
Tolia Astakhishvili: THE FIRST FINGER (CHAPTER II) – Haus Am Waldsee (House by the forest lake) | 23.06. – 24.09.2023
In her solo exhibition The First Finger (chapter II), Tolia Astakhishvili (*1974 in Tbilisi, Georgia) transforms the Haus am Waldsee in the course of an expansive installation. In addition to structural interventions, drawings, paintings, text and videos, the exhibition includes new collaborative works with Zurab Astakhishvili, Dylan Peirce and James Richards as well as contributions by Antonin Artaud, Alvin Baltrop, Kirsty Bell, Nat Marcus, Vera Palme, Andreas Rousounelis, Judith Scott, Ser Serpas and Giorgi Zhorzholiani. At the beginning of The First Finger is the image of a physical borderline experience: a body exposed to extreme cold must set priorities in order to protect itself as a whole. For its survival, it rations its energy and sacrifices piece by piece, finger by finger, its most Continue reading the article on the exhibition of Leiko Ikemuras on DEEDS.NEWS Fig. above: Tolia Astakhishvili and James Richards, I Remember (Depth of Flattened Cruelty), 2023, film still, video installation, 10 min, Courtesy the artists; Cabinet, London; Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin; LC Queisser, Tbilisi (HIGHER RESOLUTION FILE ON REQUEST)
2. Jun 2023
GALLERY VISITS | EXBITION VISITS | STUDIO VISITS
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
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abstract | Group Exhibition | Semjon Contemporary | 30.09.-28.10.2023
until 28.10. | #4053ARTatBerlin | Semjon Contemporary shows from 30. September 2023 (Opening: 29.09.) the exhibition abstract by the artists Colin Ardley, Takayuki Daikoku, Dittmar Danner aka Krüger, Ute Essig, Dave Grossmann, Renate Hampke, Nataly Hocke, Michael Kutschbach, Stefan Ludes, Thomas Prochnow, Dirk Rathke, Ursula Sax, Gerda Schütte, Gil Shachar, Li Silberberg, Klaus Steinmann, Hitomi Uchikura, Amélie von Heydebreck, Marc von der Hocht, Bettina Weiß and Nicole Wendel. Much has already been thought and written about abstract art, about abstraction. We know that at the beginning of the 20th century, abstraction was making its way in art – until now, Wassily Kandinsky has always been defined as the pioneer, the beacon, so to speak. In research, however, the reception has been changing for some years: Hilma af Klimt, since the rediscovery of her works after decades of self-banishment, is suddenly helping art history to think anew… The exhibition abstract is neither a curatorial assertion nor an epoch-making show. Rather, it is a pleasurable summary of the programme that defines the Semjon Contemporary gallery, whereby the fields of the representational and photography are also part of the gallery’s self- Ute Essig, Bubble (detail), 2014, 140 x 90 cm, 156 x 105 […]
27. Sep 2023
Alexander Basil | Tidings from the Orbit | Galerie Judin | 12.09.-28.10.2023
until 28.10.| #4054ARTatBerlin | Galerie Judin shows since 12. September 2023 the exhibition Tidings from the Orbit by the artist Alexander Basil. This fall, Galerie Judin will present its first solo exhibition of Alexander Basil, who was born in Russia in 1997 and subsequently raised in Germany. The 25 paintings in this group of works depict scenes and still lifes that are consistently set in an interior – that of the artist’s Berlin apartment. This interior world is dominated by a kind of clone or prototype – perhaps even an alter ego? It is a bald man with rosy skin, curvy limbs, and an ornate beard. The man is often unclothed, revealing delicate scars on his nipples that testify to a gender reassignment having taken place. We accompany this prototype during seemingly everyday activities: making phone calls, working on a laptop, lying in bed, drinking coffee, and ironing. The objects found in these tableaux are appropriately commonplace. But Basil’s narrational arrangements are by no means mundane or banal – they exaggerate the everyday into the surreal. Irons and sockets are set on fire, one of the prototypes melts, another sheds his skin. In attempting to peer through this compositional complexity, […]
26. Sep 2023
Paul McCarthy | Them as Was Is | Galerie Max Hetzler | 13.09.-21.10.2023
until 21.10. | #4052ARTatBerlin | Galerie Max Hetzler (Potsdamer Str.) shows since 13. September 2023 the exhibition Them as Was Is by the artist Paul McCarthy organised by Cornelius Tittel. Galerie Max Hetzler is pleased to present Them as Was Is, the first solo exhibition of Paul McCarthy with the gallery, at Potsdamer Straße 77-87, in Berlin. Bringing together past and present, then and now, Them as Was Is presents two fundamental aspects of McCarthy’s practice. On the ground floor, eighteen sculptures constitute an early endeavour by the artist to combine different periods of sculpture into one, allowing visitors to draw out the similarities that weave together his most iconic sculptural projects. On the gallery’s upper floor, a series of drawings and video works from the artist’s more recent ‘A&E’ (2019–) project show film and performance to be at the heart of McCarthy’s practice. At once playful and uncanny, the Colored Carbon Fiber Group (CCFG), 2004–2012, revisits many of the motifs for which McCarthy is most known. Two sculptures depict Michael Jackson with enlarged head and feet, distorting the King of Pop while simultaneously paying homage to Jeff Koons’ Michael Jackson and Bubbles of 1988. Eight ‘Pirate Heads’ complicate the historical bust, and point to the pirate’s dual symbolism […]
23. Sep 2023
Albert Oehlen + Richard Prince + Rudolf Stingel | Group Exhibition | Galerie Max Hetzler | 15.09.-28.10.2023
until 28.10. | #4051ARTatBerlin | Galerie Max Hetzler shows since 15. September 2023 a group exhibition by the artists Albert Oehlen, Richard Prince and Rudolf Stingel. Galerie Max Hetzler is pleased to present an exhibition of work by Albert Oehlen, Richard Prince and Rudolf Stingel at Bleibtreustraße 45 in Berlin. The dictionary definition of a remix in music is as follows: ‘A remix is a new version of a piece of music which has been created by putting together the individual instrumental and vocal parts in a different way.’ 1 The works in this exhibition all refer recognisably and decidedly to art from the 20th century but differ widely in their intellectual attitudes, variety of techniques, and diverse perspectives which the artists take in riffing off their inspirations. Albert Oehlen’s admiration for the Kyiv-born American artist John Graham reaches back to the 1990s. Executed nearly four decades later, in 2019, the two large-scale works on view in this exhibition are rendered in charcoal on canvas in different tonalities of grey. Presenting a cartoon-like figure juxtaposed against a vast white ground, the compositions interpret and transform Graham’s painting Tramonto Spaventoso (Terrifying Sunset), 1940–1949. Throughout his career, Richard Prince has included elements of American popular culture, as well as the icons of modern art history. The […]
23. Sep 2023
Beatriz Milhazes | Paisagem em Desfile | Galerie Max Hetzler | 15.09.-28.10.2023
until 28.10. | #4050ARTatBerlin | Galerie Max Hetzler shows since 15. September 2023 the exhibition Paisagem em Desfile by the artist Beatriz Milhazes. Galerie Max Hetzler is pleased to present Paisagem em Desfile (Landscape on Parade), a solo exhibition of new paintings by Beatriz Milhazes at Goethestraße 2/3, in Berlin. This is the artist’s fifth solo presentation in Berlin and marks 20 years of cooperation with the gallery since her first exhibition in Zimmerstraße. Internationally renowned for her large-scale, vibrant and highly colourful paintings, Milhazes presents a new body of work in her own form of abstraction, self-termed ‘chromatic free geometry’. These were made over the last two years, using her meticulous and complex process of ‘monotransfer’, first developed in 1989. This very controlled method of image-transfer is based on experiments with acrylic paint and monotype printing. By painting motifs onto plastic sheets before carefully transferring them onto canvas, Milhazes imbues her work with a sense of vitality. The artist has referenced Henri Matisse’s collages as related to her own technique of layering, creating the appearance of a glossy, highly finished surface, disrupted by small chips and fissures. Additionally to the works on canvas, the exhibition presents a new wall painting executed entirely in grey […]
23. Sep 2023
RED ROMANCE | Group exhibition | Köppe Contemporary | 23.09.-04.11.2023
until 04.11. | #4048ARTatBerlin | Köppe Contemporary shows from 23. September 2023 (Opening: 22.09.) the group exhibition Red Romance with works by the artists Jojo Caramelle, Becker Schmitz, Willi Tomes and Robert Rudiger. The color red is a striking color. One that catches the eye and triggers a strong appeal. Provocative and dynamic, the color red screams for attention. In countless variations, the color red is used in art – from delicate rose red to vermilion, crimson and ruby red to fire red and blood red. The color red is a joyful and passionate color. It is a color of life and energy. It represents joy, passion and eroticism as well as aggression. Politically, red is a color of revolution. For communism and socialism, for example, it is the central symbolic color. Everywhere in the streetscape, in the media and in advertising we encounter it as the central signal color. Willi Tomes, Krater, 2020, Vinyl on alu dibond, 117 x 117 cm Red has always played a special role in the history of art, whether in the luminous robes of the saints in religious paintings, the stirring emotions in expressionist works, or the abstract interpretations of modern artists. In the […]
22. Sep 2023
Nazir Tanbouli | Postcards from Paradise | Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery Berlin | 20.09.-14.10.2023
until 14.10. | #4044ARTatBerlin | Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery Berlin shows from 20th September 2023 (Opening: 19.09.) the exhibition “Postcards from Paradise” with works by the artist Nazir Tanbouli. The title “Postcards from Paradise” is significant: the images are a window into a tender, radiant world of timeless tranquillity, but as “postcards” they imply that we too can visit it. These writings depict a heavenly paradise – but it is not a theocratic heaven of condemnation or reward. It is a place of tranquillity, free from strife, battle and fear. It is a garden where humans and animals come together to enjoy each other. Tanbouli exposes the folly of human supremacy and exposes it as a fabrication that rejects the concept of the “wild” and the hierarchy of species. Tanbouli’s work includes traditionally therianthropic figures – mixed creatures of man and beast – such as the centaur and the minotaur, but also creatures of his own invention. These forms reject the ancient Greek concept of human superiority in favour of the Egyptian method of combining man and animal to create gods. The animal (or material) nature of the god is seen as equal to his human (or intellectual) nature. The work […]
15. Sep 2023
Thomas Etzold | MOVE – ALL – WAYS | Michaela Helfrich Galerie | 19.09.-19.10.2023
until 19.10. | #4041ARTatBerlin | Michaela Helfrich Galerie shows from 19 September 2023 the exhibition MOVE – ALL – WAYS by the artist Thomas Etzold. Thomas Etzold was born in Frankfurt am Main and has lived and worked in Berlin for a long time. He is a cameraman and photographer. In his photographic works, he shows us magical moments from his experience and tries to convey the special atmosphere of the moment and trigger emotional associations. Terrazza Beach – Grosseto Mare, ColorPrint on Alu-Dibond, 95 x 70cm, Aufl.1/3, Alu shadow gap frame Q206 Night, FineArt-Print b/w, glossy, 60×40 cm framed, edition of 2/3 Chicago City Summer, ColorPrint from PolaScan Original, 65 x 78 cm edition 1/3, Artbox frame Whitney Museum of Modern Art – running woman, ColorPrint on Alu-Dibond, 50 x 87 cm, edition 2/3, ArtBox frame Opening: Tuesday, 19 September from 7 pm Exhibition dates: Tuesday, 19 September – Thursday, 19 October 2023 Artist talk: Thursday, 28 September at 7 pm / Moderated by Günter Jeschonnek Finissage: Thursday, 19 October 2023 from 7 pm Caption titel: Ital al Mare ll, fine art print on canvas, 195 x 70 cm, edition 2/3, shadow gap frame Exhibition Thomas Etzold […]
14. Sep 2023
Asta Gröting + Ming Wong | Fortune | carlier gebauer | 16.09.-18.11.2023
until 18.11. | #4043ARTatBerlin | carlier gebauer shows from 16. September 2023 (Opening: 15.09.) the exhibition Fortune by the artists Asta Gröting and Ming Wong. “(…) the relation between our bodies, our physical being and the space around us, our working space. In our case it’s the studio, because this is something which is fragile, which is being threatened to become miniaturized through external forces – the cost and the commercialization of our physical space (…) The ever-decreasing comfort zones.” Ming Wong in conversation with Asta Gröting (June 2023) Fortune marks a decade of friendship between Asta Gröting and Ming Wong, who both had their first exhibitions with carlier | gebauer over ten years ago. Fortune presents a reflection and mirroring of the two’s perspectives on work, space, media and materials in a changing Berlin, an increasingly precarious city for artists. The gallery space is transformed into a scenography of shifting spaces, colours, lights, sounds, objects and ideas that emerge from conversations about their evolving artistic practices in response to the ever-changing conditions of the city. Central to her collaborative approach to the occasion are two new films that emerged from experiments in re-experiencing the physicality of the artist’s studio […]
14. Sep 2023
Willem De Rooij | Root | Galerie Thomas Schulte | 14.09.-28.10.2023
until 28.10. | #4040ARTatBerlin | Galerie Thomas Schulte shows from 14 September 2023 the installation “Root” by the artist Willem De Rooij. Root is a new installation by Willem de Rooij, developed especially for Galerie Thomas Schulte. Touching on notions of identity and nationalism, it juxtaposes a seventeenth-century painting on loan from the Stadtmuseum Berlin with thirtyfour unique photographic responses made by De Rooij. In the seventeenth century, the Dutch Republic housed many prolific painters who developed numerous specialized painting genres. Individual artists crossappropriated each other’s formal and iconographical techniques, which led to a rich and complex visual culture. Because of their innovations, Dutch artists became sought after by wealthy patrons across Europe. One of them, Willem Frederiksz van Royen (ca. 1645, Haarlem, NL–1723, Berlin), arrived in Berlin from the Dutch Republic in 1669 to become a court painter to Friederich Wilhelm, Elector of Brandenburg, and his successor, Friederich I. Van Royen later became one of the founders of the Akademie der Künste, and after, a director and a professor there. Inspired by artists such as Melchior d’Hondecoeter, he specialized in flower still lifes and menageries. These were decorative genres that were popular with the elites of the time, and […]
14. Sep 2023
Alan Rankle + Gerard Waskievitz | Landscapes, so far… | Michaela Helfrich Galerie | 13.09.-19.10.2023
until 19.10. | #4038ARTatBerlin | Michaela Helfrich Galerie shows from 13 September 2023 the group exhibition Landscapes, so far… by the artists Alan Rankle and Gerard Waskievitz. Alan Rankle in an interview with Anna McNay about his Pastoral Collateral series the artist stated: ‘I wanted to relate ideas about historical, idealised, pastoral landscape in art to the grim reality of the environmental crisis that we are in, which isn’t just an environmental crisis anymore, it’s a totally impregnated social and political crisis heading towards disaster. Considering the historical origins of the genre in relation to my own paintings, I wanted to convey the irony implicit in how the 19th century Romantic movement, with its emphasis on the idyllic natural world of an imaginary past, was sponsored by people who, having made gigantic fortunes out of the Industrial Revolution by building their empires on the slave trade and the criminal use of the Enclosures Acts forcing the poor from their traditional peasant homes to work in their factories and mills, also laid the foundations of environmental pollution on a catastrophic scale’. Turner and other artists were commissioned by the barons of the Industrial Revolution to take the Grand Tour and pick up ideas from […]
14. Sep 2023
Juan Uslé | Norte Abierto | Galerie Thomas Schulte | 14.09.-28.10.2023
until 28.10. | #4039ARTatBerlin | Galerie Thomas Schulte shows from 14 September 2023 the solo exhibition “Norte Abierto” with paintings by the artist Juan Uslé. Repetitions and variations radiate across a series of new medium-scale paintings by Juan Uslé in Norte Abierto at Galerie Thomas Schulte. Opening on the occasion of Berlin Art Week, the exhibition marks the artist’s ninth solo exhibition at the gallery. In elongated, vertical canvases comprising horizontal rows of stacked brushstrokes, Uslé’s paintings are full of oscillations: gradients in a state of flux. As well as contradictions: they are paced and structured though meandering, marked by lyrical turns. The environments they open up are woven from continuous, processual paths that are nonetheless susceptible to sudden shits, interruptions and moments of pause. This openness and continuity filters through the works in the exhibition. In accumulations of time, color, gestures and signs, the repetitional continuity of the works gives way to a richly layered fabric, a constellation of experiences and sensations. We can peer through the cracks and slippages, soak up the reflections that bounce off the surface, follow the threads that construct the whole—line by line, row by row. Like screens, they offer glimpses into another layer […]
14. Sep 2023
Maki Na Kamura | Contemporary Fine Arts (CFA Berlin) | 16.09.-04.11.2023
until 04.11. | #4034ARTatBerlin | Contemporary Fine Arts presents from 16. September 2023 (Opening: 15.09.) a double exhibition by the artist Maki Na Kamura. The double exhibition will take place at Galerie Michael Werner Berlin and Contemporary Fine Arts. Modernism confronted painting with the finding of social insignificance. Since then, no theory has been able to justify why painting is still being done and why it should concern even the last person. Painting’s struggle for survival in the 20th century, which was nevertheless so successful, can be traced back to a special strategy of the artists, namely to transform the traditional means of painting into a contemporary form. The legitimacy of this discipline is based on the inexhaustible possibilities of using colour, surface, form, lines, light and mass to produce new, unprecedented images. And as assertive as this strategy was in the metropolis of Paris, it found a new home in West Berlin after 1960 in the gallery of Michael Werner and in the late nineties in the Contemporary Fine Arts Galerie of Nicole Hackert and Bruno Brunnet. Maki Na Kamura now places her new paintings in the tradition of these galleries. In an act of concentration, she has perceived […]
14. Sep 2023
Andy Hope 1930 | COURBETTE INDUSTRIA | Galerie Guido W. Baudach | 16.09.-28.10.2023
until 28.10. | #4037ARTatBerlin | Galerie Guido W. Baudach presents from 16. September 2023 (Opening: 15.09.) the exhibition COURBETTE INDUSTRIA by the artist Andy Hope 1930. Andy Hope 1930’s new cycle of paintings Courbette Industria, which is at the center of his exhibition at Guido W. Baudach, originates – even if it reaches far beyond this first source of inspiration – from an impressionable experience with a Bolting Horse. This is the title of Gustave Courbet’s strange and monumental painting in Munich’s Neue Pinakothek. A saddled horse dashes riderless at full gallop through a dark, otherwise empty forest scene. Painted in 1861, Courbet had conceived the canvas as the left-hand piece of a group of hunting scenes, sometimes called the “Hunting Trilogy”, for the Paris Salon of that year. The centerpiece of this triptych was Fight of the Deer (now in the Louvre), and the painting on the right was Deer by the Water (Marseille, Musée des Beaux Arts). Courbet himself was a passionate hunter; during a one-year stay in Frankfurt am Main in 1858, he had killed a capital stag during a New Year’s Eve hunt in the Taunus, as he proudly wrote to his sister. During his Frankfurt period, he had participated in several par […]
14. Sep 2023
45 Years Kunsthaus ARTES | Special Exhibition | ARTES Berlin | 15.09.-11.11.2023
until 11.11. | #4036ARTatBerlin | ARTES Berlin shows from 13 September 2023 the special exhibition „45 Years Kunsthaus ARTES“ with more than 120 artworks by over 50 artists. In the most exciting week of the Berlin art year, Berlin Art Week, Kunsthaus ARTES Berlin cordially invites you to celebrate 45 years of ARTES together for one weekend. ARTES Berlin is also expanding its gallery space and doubling the exhibition area in the beautiful Gründerzeit building. Visitors to the exhibition can look forward to an extensive exhibition with more than 120 works of art by over 50 artists and a charming bar in the courtyard, where it is wonderful to immerse oneself in conversations about art. In the special exhibition “45 years of Kunsthaus ARTES”, ARTES Berlin shows paintings, installations, sculptures and editions. Among them are collectors’ items from Classical Modernism by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Erich Heckel, Max Liebermann and Emil Nolde, among others, as well as contemporary, renowned positions such as Stephan Balkenhol, Cornelia Schleime, Georg Baselitz, Gerhard Richter, Günther Uecker, Neo Rauch and Tony Cragg. The exhibition is rounded off by works by younger artists from the ARTES programme, including Christian Awe, Marion Eichmann, Willi Siber, Karoline Kroiß, Winnie […]
13. Sep 2023
Hana Usui | Fragile Beauty – The Age of Uncertainty | Galerie Dittmar | 13.09.-25.10.2023
until 25.10. | #3965ARTatBerlin | Galerie Dittmar presents from 13 September 2023 the solo exhibition „Fragile Beauty – The Age of Uncertainty“ with works of the artist Hana Usui. The Japanese artist Hana Usui, born in Tokyo in 1974, moved to Vienna in 2000. With this move, she opened up new areas of expression based on her earlier cultural imprint. This concerns the relationship between oil drawing and ink painting and, related to this, the way in which the drawn and the painted are combined. In addition, in recent years there have been an increasing number of diverse photographic processes and installation works. The artist’s work has increasingly focused on political issues and the dangers of our time, also triggered by the reactor catastrophe in Fukushima. Based on her artistic language, which she has developed over the years, she approaches these difficult issues in a more mediated, indirect way, giving them a new visual expression. Hana Usui’s delicate works do not offer simple solutions, are not apodictic, rather they point to a fragility, provoke reflection and open up a principled, existential level. Participation in important survey exhibitions, for example in the Metropolitan Art Museum in Tokyo, in the Museum Residenzgalerie […]
12. Sep 2023
Begegnung an der Spree | Q Gallery Berlin | 15.09.-05.10.2023
until 05.10. | #4035ARTatBerlin | QGallery shows from 15. September 2023 the grou exhibition Begegnungen an der Spree (Encounters at the river Spree) with works by Russian artists in exile: Anastasia Astakhova, Innokenti Baranov, Mika Plutizkaya, Anna Rumyanseva and Vladimir Sorokin. Bridges of Freedom: Berlin has once again hosted Russian artists, as it did a hundred years ago. Russian artists who disagree with Putin’s regime and the war in Ukraine have found refuge in Berlin to start a new chapter of their lives in a country where truth, humanism and freedom are an absolute value. The exhibition “Begegnung an der Spree” not only presents art, but also builds parallels between the immigration of Russian artists* in the 1920s. Anastasia Astachova, Sie träumen nur vom Frieden (They dream of peace only), 2023, oil on canvas, 120 x 90 cm Today, as a hundred years ago, many Russian artists choose Berlin as a symbol of freedom and diversity, hoping that their art and voice can be expressed freely, without fear of censorship and repression. The exhibition “Begegnung an der Spree” not only presents a variety of artistic works, but also delves into the historical context. It recalls the times a century ago […]
11. Sep 2023
Wolf von Kries | The Economy of Plenty | Galerie aKonzept | 13.09.-18.11.2023
until 18.11. | #4049ARTatBerlin | Galerie aKonzept shows from 13. September 2023 the exhibition The Economy of Plenty by the artist Wolf von Kries. The Economy of Plenty refers to a group of works that, despite all their differences in content and concept, all have in common that their production does not require any special technical skills and that they can be produced as often as desired with ever new results by whomever. Many of the works shown in this exhibition are excerpts from long-term projects that have neither a fixed beginning nor a fixed end point, but rather are potentially always evolving. Opening: Friday, 15 September 2023 Exhibition dates: Wednesday, 13 September to Saturday, 18 November 2023 Artist tours: Saturday, 30 September 2023 from 4 to 7 pm Saturday, 14 October 2023 from 4 to 7 p.m. Saturday, 28 October 2023 from 4 to 7 p.m. Saturday, 11 November 2023 from 4 to 7 p.m. Artist’s tour through the exhibition The Economy of Plenty by the artist Wolf von Kries. The artist will guide the guests through his exhibition. The duration of the tour is about 20 minutes. In German, English or French. Image caption: Wolf von […]
10. Sep 2023
Ivana Kličković | RECENT WORKS | Galerie Gilla Lörcher | 16.09.-27.10.2023
until 27.10. | #4033ARTatBerlin | Galerie Gilla Lörcher shows from 16 September 2023 (Vernissage: 15.09.) the solo exhibition „RECENT WORKS“ with paintings by the artist Ivana Kličković. Galerie Gilla Loercher | Contemporary Art is very pleased to present the second solo exhibition of Ivana Kličković. The focus of Ivana Kličković’s practice rests on the process of selection and “sampling” of culturally and chronologically distant visual patterns – such as Japanese woodblock prints, drawings of old theatrical scenery or digital images pulled from the Internet – which she recreates on canvas as simultaneously overlapping layers of reduced image fragments that form large-scale compositions, spatially flat and open to interpretation, both abstract and/or quasi-representational. Confirming atemporality as one of the main features of her painterly gesture, Kličković indirectly but accurately comments on the multidirectional, constant and often chaotic circulation of images in our everyday lives, in which everything has already been seen and exists intertwined, independently from isolated cultural patterns and social phenomena. By reacting to and participating in a global economy of images, in which dissemination of visual information is organised in such a way, Kličković takes over and examines the logic of overlapping, mixing, flexibility, conflict, and simultaneity of visual motifs […]
9. Sep 2023
Ugo Rondinone | i don’t live here anymore | Esther Schipper | 15.09.-21.10.2023
until 21.10. | #4032ARTatBerlin | Galerie Esther Schipper shows from 15 September 2023 the solo exhibition “i don’t live here anymore” with photographs by the artist Ugo Rondinone. Which place did you leave? Why don’t you live there anymore? And where did you move? The statement as title i don’t live here anymore immediately raises questions that will most likely remain unanswered, but it doesn’t matter. It looks like a good place, with room to express oneself; to deepen understanding of the self; to experiment with fetishist interests; to play with gender; to show fierceness as much as vulnerability; to probe the sculptural potential of the body by morphing it into abstraction. Nevertheless, it is not only a space of joy and happiness, as the photos’ references to Pierrot indicate—a quietly observing archetype known to symbolize a sense of melancholy. What is the melancholy about? Is it about what one leaves behind when moving away, moving on or up? Goodbyes are indeed always part of change, markers of transition to move into a new mode, state, or phase. A certain ease with change is, however, also discernable in these five photos, as much as in the larger body of Rondinone’s photographic […]
8. Sep 2023
Katarina Kudelova | Burning Bright in the Forest of the Night | BBA Gallery | 12.09.-27.10.2023
until 27.10. | #4026ARTatBerlin | BBA Gallery presents from 12. September 2023 the exhibition Burning Bright in the Forest of the Night by the slovak artist Katarina Kudelova. During Berlin Art Week 2023, BBA Gallery will present the exhibition “Burning Bright in the Forest of the Night” from Slovakian artist Katarina Kudelova. The exhibition of the 1st Prize winner of the BBA Artist Prize 2022 exhibition will feature a site-specific installation composed of firecrackers, and fuse; a video recording of her winning Artist Prize installation; as well as ceramic sculptures and landscape tapestries made of feathers from the past 10 years. A childhood spent in the Slovakian countryside among a family of forest engineers provides the idyllic backdrops of her works and acute awareness of the natural world. Dichotomic, the topical works are a critique of the contemporary dialogue between man and nature and the role of man in its unsalvageable destruction. Kudelova’s explosive practice makes use of firecrackers, wick and fuse to address themes of transience, mortality, predetermined cycles of life, climate and forest fires. Opening: Tuesday, 12 September 2023, 6 pm to 9 pm Exhibition dates: Tuesday, 12 September – Friday, 27 October 2023 Artist Talk & Finissage: […]
8. Sep 2023
Anicka Yi | A Shimmer Through The Quantum Foam | Esther Schipper | 15.09.-21.10.2023
until 21.10. | #4031ARTatBerlin | Galerie Esther Schipper shows from 15 September 2023 the solo exhibition “A Shimmer Through The Quantum Foam” by the artist Anicka Yi. Esther Schipper is pleased to announce Anicka Yi’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. Entitled A Shimmer Through The Quantum Foam, the exhibition features a series of unique animated pod sculptures that pulse and undulate, casting their flickering light across the surfaces of luminous algorithmically-generated paintings. Below this suspended constellation of bio-techno lifeforms, the soft glow of an aqueous ooze—indicative of life’s marine origins—sprawls in a shallow crater in a built-up section across the gallery floor. Anicka Yi has produced a unique body of work over the past decade, that operates at the intersection of politics and macrobiotics. Her practice questions traditional distinctions between what is human, animal, plant, and machine, and is the result of an alchemical process of experimentation that explores often incompatible materials. Yi collaborates with researchers to create materials and media that are often inherently political, delving into the cultural conditioning of sensation and perception in a way she describes as a “biopolitics of the senses.” Yi’s diverse installations draw on scientific concepts and techniques to activate vivid fictional scenarios, asking […]
8. Sep 2023
Wenn die Sirenen heulen (it´s on us) | Sexauer Gallery | 08.09.-13.10.2023
until 13.10. | #4030ARTatBerlin | Sexauer Gallery presents from 8. September 2023 the group exhibition Wenn die Sirenen heulen (it´s on us) by the artists Martin Assig, Aram Bartholl, Hannah Hallermann, Verena Issel, Anne Mundo , Nik Nowak, Raul Walch, curated by Anne Mundo & Dirk Teschner. When the Sirens howl (it’s on us) deals with the threats of climate change and war. The focus is on the question of the influence of man-made threats to our existence. Since the outbreak of the 2020 pandemic many things have been put to the test. It became apparent who acted in solidarity and who used the crisis for their own interests. The Russian attack on Ukraine brought war back to Europe. Gas deliveries were stopped, the climate crisis became more prominent. Art can help close the communicative gaps regarding these crises. Since facts alone are often not enough to move a society to change, it can help to address senses and feelings as well. Opening: Friday, 08 September, 6 pm – 9 pm Exhibition dates: Friday, 08 September – Friday, 13 October 2023 Image caption: Courtesy Sexauer Gallery Exhibition Wenn die Sirenen heulen (it´s on us) – Sexauer Gallery | Zeitgenössische Kunst in […]
8. Sep 2023
Anna Leonhardt | MALEREI | Galerie Friese | 16.09.-28.10.2023
until 28.10. | #4029ARTatBerlin | Galerie Friese shows from 16. September 2023 (Opening: 15.09.) the exhibition MALEREI by the artist Anna Leonhardt. For Art Week 2023, the gallery presents works by the painter Anna Leonhardt for the first time. Based in New York and Berlin, she was born in Pforzheim in 1981 and began studying painting under Ralf Kerbach at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Dresden in 2002, where she graduated with a master’s degree in 2010. Displayed in the first two rooms of the gallery, Anna Leonhardt’s paintings explore color, materiality, and space. By sculpting and layering the paint with a palette knife, the artist creates polychromatic, vividly rendered color fields with strong textures and spatial depth that form the background to floating abstract blocks of color. The gradual transformation of color, shape, space, and light creates a charged relationship between figure and ground. Leonhardt’s earlier representational and figurative compositions have steadily dissolved into clashing fields of color over time, culminating in a consistently abstract style of painting that emphasizes the working process. In her current works, Anna Leonhardt stretches out infinitely expansive spaces containing abstract blocks of color that interact with each other. The backgrounds of the […]
8. Sep 2023
Richard Rezac | HARLEQUIN | Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi | 09.09.-14.10.2023
until 14.10. | #4026ARTatBerlin | Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi present from 09. September 2023 the exhibition HARLEQUIN by the artist Richard Rezac. Opening: Saturday, 9 September 2023, 6:00 – 9:00 pm Exhibition dates: Saturday, 9 September – Saturday, 14 October 2023 Caption title: Richard Rezac, courtesy of Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi Exhibition Richard Rezac – Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galerien | ART at Berlin
7. Sep 2023
Jana Schröder | VIBR ANX 80 | Meyer Riegger | 16.09.-21.10.2023
until 21.10. | #4025ARTatBerlin | Meyer Riegger shows from 16 September 2023 the exhibition “VIBR ANX 80” by the artist Jana Schröder. When it comes to painting, Jana Schröder has always imposed rules on herself. The works in her PERLASYNTHIC , NEUSEC , and HAWO series , however, which are now on view for the first time at Meyer Riegger , are di ff erent: Schröder works more freely , there are n o longer any fixed rules. As the artist herself says, “I tried to do everything possible with colour here. The one rule here was probably that I was allowed to do any thing.” These are some of the rules that are normally in force: only two colours, r ound shapes only , and no corners. Or: n o interrupted lines, only continuous ones. If she breaks a rule , but the visual result makes sense, then adapted rules will follow. In this way, Schröder systematically re – evaluates the fundamental mechanisms of paint ing. These restrictions enable her to find the freedom of her own pictorial language time and time again . Before Schröder began the PERLASYNTHIC series in 2021, she tended to work with oil paints. […]
7. Sep 2023
Jeanette Mundt | God Told Him to Wait | Galerie Société | 08.09.-21.10.2023
until 21.10. | #4024ARTatBerlin | Galerie Société present from 08. September 2023 (Vernissage: 07.09.) the exhibition God Told Him to Wait by the artist Jeanette Mundt. This is Jeanette Mundt’s fifth solo exhibition at the gallery. Mundt’s dynamic, formally omnivorous practice freely taps a variety of input, ranging from art historical references to personal photographs. Reworking and repurposing motifs from sources as diverse as Odilon Redon, illuminated manuscripts, medieval tapestries, Wade Guyton, and Matthias Grünewald, Mundt’s recent paintings eschew adhering to an individual style in favor of a poly-aesthetic approach. Two ongoing currents in Mundt’s practice come to the fore in this exhibition: an interest in painting elements in motion, such as fire and light, and bringing art historical imagery into new configurations that explore the ambiguous space between how we consume images in everyday life and art. Her richly seductive works, which construct images from multiple sources, speak to questions of painting, depiction, correction, and construction. The mood of these works—which are in turns contemplative, sensual, foreboding, and celestial—respond to the rage and rapture that pervade a cultural moment marked by climate change, the rise of religious extremism, and the curtailment of women’s rights. Art historian Bettina Funcke describes […]
7. Sep 2023
Nora Turato | NOT YOUR USUAL SELF? | Sprüth Magers Berlin | 16.09.-11.11.2023
until 11.11. | #4023ARTatBerlin | Sprüth Magers Berlin shows from 16 September 2023 the solo exhibition “NOT YOUR USUAL SELF?” by the artist Nora Turato. In recent years, Nora Turato has emerged as one of the most exciting new voices on the contemporary art scene. Throughout her practice – which spans performance, video and graphic design – she examines the ephemeral nature of language, using text as her artistic source material. Drawing from film, advertising, literature, conversations, social media captions and theater, she deploys a collection of appropriated words, sentences, fragments and quotes with sharp wit and studied precision. Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers are pleased to announce a solo exhibition by Nora Turato at Sprüth Magers, Berlin, which will debut a series of new enamel panels featuring a custom typeface as well as a site-specific wall painting that cut through the cacophony of everyday life and reflect on the vernacular of present-day visual culture and zeitgeist. Collating the information streams of the world in text pools, Turato publishes “scrapbooks of our culture” once a year. For her performances, murals and enamel panels alike, she culls from these collections that reflect not only her personal influences and surroundings but also […]
7. Sep 2023
Pamela Rosenkranz | Alien Blue | Sprüth Magers Berlin | 16.09.-11.11.2023
until 11.11. | #4022ARTatBerlin | Sprüth Magers Berlin presents from 16 September 2023 the solo exhibition “Alien Blue” by the artist Pamela Rosenkranz. An alluring and extramundane blue light emanates from the Window, Sprüth Magers’ Berlin storefront exhibition space that is sunken and high-ceilinged, allowing visitors to view displayed works from the street around the clock. The spectacular color or, to be precise, the wavelengths emitted by Pamela Rosenkranz’s Alien Blue Windows permeate the entire room and pour out of the building. Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers are pleased to announce a solo exhibition by the artist, showcasing five unique pieces from her enticing series alongside a selection of intricate kirigami works on paper. Four large and one smaller luminous work line the wood-paneled wall. From a distance, they seem to sink into the gallery’s architecture, while at close range, it becomes apparent they protrude into the space. Reminiscent of upside-down lancet windows found in Gothic churches, the shapes always correspond to an actual window in a building – modern or historical – somewhere in the world. The light works possess an unusual density of luminance, infusing the room and its exterior with an alien atmosphere Evoking many narratives, the […]
7. Sep 2023
Bryan Adams | »In Colour« | CAMERA WORK | 14.10.–18.11.2023
until 18.11. | #4021ARTatBerlin | CAMERA WORK present from 14. October 2023 the exhibition »In Colour« by the artist Bryan Adams. The CAMERA WORK gallery presents an exhibition of over 20 large-format photographs by Bryan Adams from 14 October 2023. All the works are from the impressive “In Colour” series by the photo artist, which is being shown in a gallery in Germany for the first time. The exhibition is a comprehensive manifestation of the artistic development of the renowned photographer Bryan Adams. Inspired by the phrase “seeing the world through rose-[nted glasses”, Adams began experimenting with coloured Plexiglas, which adds an artistic component to his works and gives them another aesthetic and atmospheric level. In the elaborately conceived process, the high-quality fine art prints are combined with clear Plexiglas, which has previously been printed with various individual colour tones, to finally be laminated onto Alu Dibond before the final framing. In this way, the autodidact reinterprets selected portraits from his oeuvre. His “In Colour” works are produced in five colour variations: red, orange, blue, pink and nude. All spectrums will be represented in the exhibition. © Bryan Adams / Courtesy of CAMERA WORK Gallery Bryan Adams (*1959 in Kingston, Canada) […]
7. Sep 2023
Bernd + Hilla Becher | Sprüth Magers Berlin | 16.09.-11.11.2023
until 11.11. | #4020ARTatBerlin | Sprüth Magers Berlin presents from 16 September 2023 the solo exhibition of the artist couple Bernd and Hilla Becher. For over five decades, Bernd and Hilla Becher produced a remarkable oeuvre in the pursuit of a straightforward theme: variation within limits. Precision, fine detail and methodology mark the Bechers’ work, which straddles several artistic categories. By systematically photographing commonplace industrial buildings across Europe and North America, they captured an architectural landscape in the process of disappearing. Approaching the structures with scientific interest, the artists classified, compared and contrasted their subjects in varying groups and “typologies,” as they named their celebrated grids. Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers are pleased to announce Bernd and Hilla Becher’s first solo exhibition at Sprüth Magers, Berlin. Showcasing the Bechers’ iconic style and formal rigor will be several rarely seen works along with two typologies that allude to the cultural and social significance of the constructions the artists referred to as “anonymous sculptures.” The show outlines the career of the German artist couple who, from the 1960s onwards, began challenging the perceived gap between documentary and fine-art photography. Developing a precise visual lexicon, they chronicled the architecture of heavy industry in […]
6. Sep 2023
Markus Weggenmann | missing pink | Taubert Contemporary | 13.09.-04.11.2023
until 04.11. | #4019ARTatBerlin | Taubert Contemporary present from 13. September 2023 (Vernissage: 15.09.) the exhibition missing pink by the artist Markus Weggenmann. It was the commitment to “flatness”, to the fundamental flatness of the medium of the image, which the American critic Clement Greenberg demanded of all advanced painting in the post-war decades and which still finds its distant echo in the paintings of Markus Weggenmann. For his paintings, too, stage a sovereign surface art in spatiality that can at best still be found in the fading stage of form superimpositions. LW 421, 2022, high pigmented distemper on cotton, 120 x 100 cm, 47.2 x 39.4 inches This decided two-dimensionality manifests itself in two ways in the new works currently on show at Galerie Taubert Contemporary. On the one hand, the highly abstracted paintings refuse to open up any perspective space – all the colour forms seem to lie on one plane like silhouettes – and on the other hand, they confront the viewer with an absolutely flat (almost “photographic”) surface, in whose design the artist dispenses with both the relief of the paint application and any form of “handwriting”. Accordingly, these works also lack anything confessional or ostensibly […]
6. Sep 2023
Michael Streun | IN RAGE | Galerie Tammen | 08.09.-15.10.2023
until 15.10 | #4017ARTatBerlin | Galerie Tammen shows from 8th September 2023 the exhibition “IN RAGE” with paintings by the artist Michael Streun. In his first exhibition at TAMMEN GALERIE, Swiss artist Michael Streun is showing a selection of works from the last six years. “Dystopias that take shape, visualised utopias and surreal pictorial worlds with ambivalent validity – these are the central elements in Streun’s paintings,” writes art historian Mario Schlachter. The works address social upheavals and radical changes and at the same time contain hopeful components. In 2017, shortly after the attack on Breitscheidplatz, Michael Streun spent an intensive six months in this lively metropolis, which was in a kind of state of shock, thanks to a scholarship from the city of Thun. The mood in Berlin at that time and the developments of recent years with the pandemic, the increasing social tensions and the momentous war occupy the artist’s mind. And the increasingly “frenzied” world. Michael Streun, Warner, 2022, oil on canvas, 200 x 180 cm, courtesy of Galerie Tammen Michael Streun is constantly developing his figurative painting and increasingly works on larger formats. The compositions do not reflect the actuality of the day, but make the […]
6. Sep 2023
archiv SANDER | SCHAAL | INVENTORY | Galerie Georg Nothelfer | 14.09.-11.11.2023
until 11.11. | #4018ARTatBerlin | Galerie georg nothelfer shows from 14th September 2023 the exhibition INVENTORY with the archiv SANDER | SCHAAL in community with Eduardo Chillida, Christo & Jeanne-Claude, Galli, Gerhard Hoehme, Walter Menne, Robert Motherwell, Max Neumann, Georges Noël, Arnulf Rainer, Richard Serra and Fred Thieler. The two Berlin-based artists Finja Sander (*1996) and Daniel Schaal (*1990) take the exhibition title INVENTORY literally and embark on an open-ended exploration of selected positions from the collection of Galerie Georg Nothelfer. Both artists work independently and under the collaborative name archiv SANDER I SCHAAL. The focus of their collaboration is on long-term, multimedia narratives that evolve continuously over several years and are explored and expanded through ongoing repetition. Richard Serra, Min, 1990, Litography, Ed. 22. 133 x 205 cm. Courtesy Galerie Georg Nothelfer For INVENTORY, Sander and Schaal selected eleven different artists from Galerie Georg Nothelfer, who are initially juxtaposed during a happening with the two artists’ mere pool of material. Then Sander and Schaal radically expose themselves to the curated works: For several days a week, they will work through the selection, visible to the public at all times, developing confrontational strategies in a multimedia manner. The initial rational […]
5. Sep 2023
Gunter Reski | ZWINGER Galerie | 09.09.-04.11.2023
until 04.11. | #4016ARTatBerlin | ZWINGER Galerie shows from 9. September 2023 (Opening: 08.09.) the exhibition of the artist Gunter Reski. Opening: Friday, 8. September 2023, 6pm to 9pm Exhibition dates: Saturday, 9. September– Saturday, 04. November 2023 Special opening hours Berlin ART Week: Friday, 15. September 12 – 21 Uhr Image title: Gunter Reski, o.T., 2023, Acryl auf Baumwolle, 170×40 cm Exhibition Gunter Reski– ZWINGER Galerie | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Ausstellungen Berlin Galerien | ART at Berlin
4. Sep 2023
Antonio Paucar | Weaving and Uniting Silenced Voices | Galerie Barbara Thumm | 01.09.–13.10.2023
until 13.10. | #4015ARTatBerlin | Galerie Barbara Thumm presents from 1. September 2023 the exhibition Weaving and Uniting Silenced Voices of the artist Antonio Paucar. Antonio Paucar’s recent body of work, created during his residencies in different continents, builds bridges between diverse geographies and cultural traditions: those of the West, the Andes and the Peruvian Amazon, both times past and future. His work addresses contemporary conflicts, such as the murder of indigenous leaders and environmentalists, climate change and surveillance technology, current wars and totalitarian regimes. Some of his pieces evince his research into ancestral Andean textile art and its materiality, in relation to the body and textile-making. In the gallery, Antonio’s hands weave a spiral with white and black Alpaca fibers, an allusion to the principle of dual reciprocity in Andean worldview. The spiral symbolizes Andean thinking—inclusive, collective, linking reflection and action, and the past and the present as a cycle—in contrast to the linear Western conceptualisation, with its unidirectional notion of time. All action is offered as a meditative practice, creating energy, being in communion with the All, with nature, with Pacha Mama (Mother Earth). In fact, all of his exhibition constitutes a healing ritual for a world increasingly […]
4. Sep 2023
A Retrospective – A Century of LOTHAR QUINTE | Bermel von Luxburg Gallery | 13.09.-05.11.2023
until 05.11. | #4014ARTatBerlin | Bermel von Luxburg Gallery presents from 13. September 2023 the exhibition A Retrospective – A Century of LOTHAR QUINTE by the artist Lothar Quinte. Like no other painter of his generation LOTHAR QUINTE combined in his life’s work several approaches of abstract painting from the 1960s to 2000. Bermel von Luxburg Gallery pays tribute to his work on the occasion of his 100th anniversary (Lothar Quinte would certainly have celebrated his birthday in Wintzenbach, France, where the internationally recognized painter died in the year 2000). Bermel von Luxburg Gallery will showcase artworks from different periods and creative phases: From the purely painterly-gestural artworks of the early 60s up to OpArt and then again, the very calm paintings of the 80s and 90s. Lothar Quinte surprises with paintings that could also have been created today as he convinces in colour, composition and monochrome. In addition to painting, his focus was on art in public spaces. Thus, Quinte developed in the course of the years several stained-glass windows (for example the Lübeck Cathedral) and wall works (textiles, carpets). However, Lothar Quinte was not only broadly positioned in terms of mediums, but he also opened up viewers to look at his artworks with a new visual language. […]
4. Sep 2023
Bruce Clarke | ECCE NATURA | ARTCO Galerie Berlin | 13.09.-21.10.2023
until 21.10. | #4013ARTatBerlin | ARTCO Galerie Berlin presents from 13. September 2023 the exhibition ECCE NATURA by the artist Bruce Clarke. ECCE NATURA is the preamble to the museum production ECCE HOMO, which was presented for the first time at the Musée national de la Résistance et des Droits humains in Luxembourg. The exhibition looks at the themes it deals with – economic growth, power and the understanding of nature – from a different perspective and presents new works that delve into the latter theme in particular. In this elaboration, Clarke asks about the existential relationship of human beings to nature and uncovers the subtleties and conflicts of this field of tension. On 15.9, the exhibition will be activated with a performance by the renowned choreographer Tebby W.T. Ramasike. The South African choreographer, performer, dance teacher, dance researcher, Butoh practitioner and cultural activist was born in Johannesburg in 1965. Bruce Clarke will be present. Exhibition dates: Wednesday, 13. September to Saturday, 21. October 2023 Performance by Tebby W.T. Ramasike: Friday, 15 September 2023, 8:00 pm Image caption title: Performance von Tebby W.T. Ramasike, courtesy of ARTCO Berlin Exhibition Bruce Clarke – ARTCO Galerie Berlin | Zeitgenössische Kunst in […]
4. Sep 2023
Marta Guisande | Neue Arbeiten | Galerie kajetan | 16.09.-25.11.2023
until 25.11. | #4012ARTatBerlin | Galerie kajetan Berlin shows from 16. September 2023 (Opening: 15.09.) the exhibition Neue Arbeiten by the artist Marta Guisande, *1965, Seville, Spain) at BERLIN ART WEEK 2023. Marta Guisande is a painter who applies the colour material she uses – such as egg tempera, casein, acrylic and sometimes oil – swiftly and spontaneously onto unprimed cotton fabric. Some of Marta Guisande’s artworks are also created by soaking the fabric in the respective colour substances. Marta Guisande | Neue Arbeiten | Exhibition view 2023 Courtesy Marta Guisande & Galerie kajetan | Photo: Marcus Schneider In her works, the artist follows the painterly means and the material in all consistency, also insofar as Marta Guisande’s working process up to the valid creation of the picture includes moments of observation, reflection and doubt about what is being created or what has been created before. Guisande’s works, which often oscillate between the monochrome and its many shades, are formed in the course, layering, overlaying and removal of the paint. Marta Guisande | Neue Arbeiten | Exhibition view 2023 Courtesy Marta Guisande & Galerie kajetan | Photo: Marcus Schneider In some cases, graphic lines are drawn or scratched into the […]
3. Sep 2023
INTERESTS | Group exhibition | Schiefe Zähne | 02.09.-14.10.2023
until 14.10. | #4011ARTatBerlin | Schiefe Zähne presents from 2. September 2023 (Opening: 01.09.) the group exhibition INTERESTS by the artists Matthias Groebel, Ariane Müller, Phung-Tien Phan, Lukas Quietzsch, Richard Sides, Philipp Simon and Angharad Williams in its new location at Potsdamer Straße 103, 10785 Berlin-Mitte. Opening: Friday, 1. September – 6:00 to 9:00 pm Exhibition dates: Saturday, 2. September – Saturday, 14. October 2023 Image caption: Matthias Groebel, Untitled, 2003 Exhibition INTERESTS – Schiefe Zähne | Zeitgenössische Kunst – Contemporary Art Guide | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin
3. Sep 2023
Franz Schmidt | TELEVISION | Rasche Ripken | 08.09.-04.11.2023
until 04.11. | #4010ARTatBerlin | RASCHE RIPKEN presents from 8. September 2023 the exhibition TELEVISION by the artist Franz Schmidt. Work, living, leisure, consumption – from these and other spheres of life, the Berlin-based artist selects exemplary everyday objects that he translates into sculptures made of lacquered MDF. In the process, he transforms the objects to a subtle abstraction of minimalist appearance, changing proportions, details and colouring. Franz Schmidt, Automat, 2018, 140 x 70 x 60 cm, MDF, paint, 140 x 70 x 60 cm For example, he builds technical appliances, washing machines, radios, televisions, a beverage dispender, a cash register or a sewing machine, which are partly presented on pedestals and, in their iconic character, evoke images of memories and arouse individual desires. But there are also celestial phenomena such as a yellow star or half a rainbow, taking on an unexpectedly material shape. Franz Schmidt, Nähmaschine, 2018, MDF, paint, 168,5 x 89 x 40 cm In addition, the artist expands the arsenal of his objects with large-format black-and-white photographs – and thus creates a stage-setting that repeatedly evokes surprising perspectives and mental cross-connections. Opening: Friday, 8. September 2023, 8:00 – 9:00 pm, in the presence of the artist. […]
2. Sep 2023
Jānis Šneiders | 1 : x ≤ ∞ Internal Topographies | Jarmuschek + Partner | 02.09.-30.09.2023
until 30.09. | #4009ARTatBerlin | Jarmuschek + Partner shows from 2. September 2023 the exhibition 1 : x ≤ ∞ Internal Topographies by the artist Jānis Šneiders. Worlds open up in the paintings of Jānis Šneiders. The fine lines of his single-point perspective grids get lost in the impenetrable depth of shadows and darkness. The high-contrast pictorial spaces created with few means seem at once clear and mysterious, highly objective and extremely dramatic. Without any scale or context, they leave us reeling between inner and outer infinities. In spite of a perceived representational nature, they are abstract structures that can be located both externally-topographically and internally. Not fixed on a meaning, they are open projection surfaces for the viewer’s imagination, for insights, memories, fears and longings. Jānis Šneiders (*1995) lives and works in Riga. He studied painting at the Art Academy of Latvia from 2015 to 2019 and at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp during an Erasmus residency in 2018. He continued his studies at the Art Academy of Latvia until 2022, where he graduated with a Master’s degree in Visual Communication. His works have been shown in numerous solo exhibitions in Latvia and Sweden and are included in prestigious […]
2. Sep 2023
Astrid Köppe | look deep into nature | Galerie Inga Kondeyne – Raum für Zeichnung | 02.09.-14.10.2023
until 14.10. | #4008ARTatBerlin | Galerie Inga Kondeyne – Raum für Zeichnung presents from 2. September 2023 the exhibition look deep into nature by the artist Astrid Köppe in backstage of the Galerie. As a viewer of Astrid Köppe’s drawings, one becomes an observer of an artistic amoeba world of sheer inexhaustible gestalt development, whose irritating, sometimes bizarre otherness seems at the same time often enough to be underlaid with a wink and thus invites one to a voyage of discovery of its own kind. Naturally grown forms, reduced to their origins, are imaginatively reshaped by her. With the keyboard of drawing, combined with striking colour settings – brilliant radiance sometimes appears in passing – she produces surprising existences in drawing again and again. Endless in the individual expressions, one follows the other charged by observations of nature on journeys. Astrid Köppe, o.T. (Z23_058), 2023, Watercolour, ink, pencil, 29,7 x 21 cm Astrid Köppe, lives in Berlin since 2001; 1992-99 Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig, diploma + master student; born 1974 in Köthen / Anhalt; solo exhibitions (selection): 2023 Pretty Shiny Stuff, Seizan Gallery, New York; Look Deep into Nature, Galerie Inga Kondeyne; Concrete Matters (with Susanne Piotter), Galerie Carolyn Heinz, […]
2. Sep 2023
Phoebe Boswell | Liminal Beach | WENTRUP | 15.09.-21.10.2023
until 21.10. | #4007ARTatBerlin | WENTRUP presents from 15. September 2023 the exhibition ” Liminal Beach ” of the artist Phoebe Boswell. Wentrup presents “Liminal Beach”, the first solo exhibition of London-based artist Phoebe Boswell in Germany. She was born in Nairobi in 1982 and studied at the Slade School of Fine Art and Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London. In 2022, she participated in the Lyon Biennale with a large two-channel video installation entitled dwelling. Her solo exhibition “A Tree Says (In These Boughs The World Rustles)” is currently on view at Orleans House in Twickenham near London. A woman flings herself into the air on a secluded beach, her red dress lifting from the force of that leap, its color a vibrant splash against the blue sky and endless horizon. She is so exuberant that she seems to defy gravity. Any moment now, those graceful arms might carry her away beyond where we can see. Phoebe Boswell’s Liminal Deity could be a portrait of joy and exhilarating freedom. But that dress: it is both elegant and harrowing, made of either feathers or flesh. Its shade of red hovers on the edge of darkness. Those could be […]
1. Sep 2023
CURRENT PHOTO EXHIBITIONS
Thomas Etzold | MOVE – ALL – WAYS | Michaela Helfrich Galerie | 19.09.-19.10.2023
until 19.10. | #4041ARTatBerlin | Michaela Helfrich Galerie shows from 19 September 2023 the exhibition MOVE – ALL – WAYS by the artist Thomas Etzold. Thomas Etzold was born in Frankfurt am Main and has lived and worked in Berlin for a long time. He is a cameraman and photographer. In his photographic works, he shows us magical moments from his experience and tries to convey the special atmosphere of the moment and trigger emotional associations. Terrazza Beach – Grosseto Mare, ColorPrint on Alu-Dibond, 95 x 70cm, Aufl.1/3, Alu shadow gap frame Q206 Night, FineArt-Print b/w, glossy, 60×40 cm framed, edition of 2/3 Chicago City Summer, ColorPrint from PolaScan Original, 65 x 78 cm edition 1/3, Artbox frame Whitney Museum of Modern Art – running woman, ColorPrint on Alu-Dibond, 50 x 87 cm, edition 2/3, ArtBox frame Opening: Tuesday, 19 September from 7 pm Exhibition dates: Tuesday, 19 September – Thursday, 19 October 2023 Artist talk: Thursday, 28 September at 7 pm / Moderated by Günter Jeschonnek Finissage: Thursday, 19 October 2023 from 7 pm Caption titel: Ital al Mare ll, fine art print on canvas, 195 x 70 cm, edition 2/3, shadow gap frame Exhibition Thomas Etzold […]
14. Sep 2023
Willem De Rooij | Root | Galerie Thomas Schulte | 14.09.-28.10.2023
until 28.10. | #4040ARTatBerlin | Galerie Thomas Schulte shows from 14 September 2023 the installation “Root” by the artist Willem De Rooij. Root is a new installation by Willem de Rooij, developed especially for Galerie Thomas Schulte. Touching on notions of identity and nationalism, it juxtaposes a seventeenth-century painting on loan from the Stadtmuseum Berlin with thirtyfour unique photographic responses made by De Rooij. In the seventeenth century, the Dutch Republic housed many prolific painters who developed numerous specialized painting genres. Individual artists crossappropriated each other’s formal and iconographical techniques, which led to a rich and complex visual culture. Because of their innovations, Dutch artists became sought after by wealthy patrons across Europe. One of them, Willem Frederiksz van Royen (ca. 1645, Haarlem, NL–1723, Berlin), arrived in Berlin from the Dutch Republic in 1669 to become a court painter to Friederich Wilhelm, Elector of Brandenburg, and his successor, Friederich I. Van Royen later became one of the founders of the Akademie der Künste, and after, a director and a professor there. Inspired by artists such as Melchior d’Hondecoeter, he specialized in flower still lifes and menageries. These were decorative genres that were popular with the elites of the time, and […]
14. Sep 2023
Ugo Rondinone | i don’t live here anymore | Esther Schipper | 15.09.-21.10.2023
until 21.10. | #4032ARTatBerlin | Galerie Esther Schipper shows from 15 September 2023 the solo exhibition “i don’t live here anymore” with photographs by the artist Ugo Rondinone. Which place did you leave? Why don’t you live there anymore? And where did you move? The statement as title i don’t live here anymore immediately raises questions that will most likely remain unanswered, but it doesn’t matter. It looks like a good place, with room to express oneself; to deepen understanding of the self; to experiment with fetishist interests; to play with gender; to show fierceness as much as vulnerability; to probe the sculptural potential of the body by morphing it into abstraction. Nevertheless, it is not only a space of joy and happiness, as the photos’ references to Pierrot indicate—a quietly observing archetype known to symbolize a sense of melancholy. What is the melancholy about? Is it about what one leaves behind when moving away, moving on or up? Goodbyes are indeed always part of change, markers of transition to move into a new mode, state, or phase. A certain ease with change is, however, also discernable in these five photos, as much as in the larger body of Rondinone’s photographic […]
8. Sep 2023
Nora Turato | NOT YOUR USUAL SELF? | Sprüth Magers Berlin | 16.09.-11.11.2023
until 11.11. | #4023ARTatBerlin | Sprüth Magers Berlin shows from 16 September 2023 the solo exhibition “NOT YOUR USUAL SELF?” by the artist Nora Turato. In recent years, Nora Turato has emerged as one of the most exciting new voices on the contemporary art scene. Throughout her practice – which spans performance, video and graphic design – she examines the ephemeral nature of language, using text as her artistic source material. Drawing from film, advertising, literature, conversations, social media captions and theater, she deploys a collection of appropriated words, sentences, fragments and quotes with sharp wit and studied precision. Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers are pleased to announce a solo exhibition by Nora Turato at Sprüth Magers, Berlin, which will debut a series of new enamel panels featuring a custom typeface as well as a site-specific wall painting that cut through the cacophony of everyday life and reflect on the vernacular of present-day visual culture and zeitgeist. Collating the information streams of the world in text pools, Turato publishes “scrapbooks of our culture” once a year. For her performances, murals and enamel panels alike, she culls from these collections that reflect not only her personal influences and surroundings but also […]
7. Sep 2023
ART@BERLIN PRESENTS
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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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