The organisers of the art fairs POSITIONS Berlin and paper positions berlin have announced the event dates for 2021. The fifth paper positions berlin will take place from 29 April to 2 May 2021 at the Deutsche Telekom Capital Representation. The eighth POSITIONS Berlin Art Fair will be held from … Read the article further on DEEDS.WORLD and visit the POSITIONS Berlin 2020 virtually as 3D Tour in 360°. Links in the article!
The organisers of the art fairs POSITIONS Berlin and paper positions berlin have announced the event dates for 2021. The fifth paper positions berlin will take place from 29 April to 2 May 2021 at the Deutsche Telekom Capital Representation. The eighth POSITIONS Berlin Art Fair will be held from … Read the article further on DEEDS.WORLD and visit the POSITIONS Berlin 2020 virtually as 3D Tour in 360°. Links in the article!
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 […]
In WIEDERERWACHEN 31 artists* transform with their works for nine days the forecourts, terraces, windows as well as the car parks around the location of STATION Berlin and the Hotel Aletto in Luckenwalder Straße at Gleisdreieck in Kreuzberg. They metaphorically transform this location into a total work of art. The spectrum of genres ranges from sculpture, photography, painting, paper works and installations to performance art. The special feature is that the works of art can be Read the article further on DEEDS.WORLD. Image caption: Tracey Snelling, Fuck 2020
Prologue | Marcius, let’s act as if we had normal times and would sit together now in your studio. Please describe the location and the atmosphere. My studio is on the second floor of a building with a discreet entrance in the neighborhood of Santa Cecília, close to downtown São Paulo. I have two rooms, which […]
Prolog | Maike, wenn wir uns zu diesem Interview, das wir beide schriftlich geführt haben, persönlich hätten treffen können, wo würden wir dann jetzt miteinander sprechen? Wir treffen uns in meinem Atelier, in einem modern ausgebauten Fabrikgebäude in Berlin. Das Haus steht in zweiter Reihe zur Straße und ist mit einem Garten in recht ruhiger und […]
Prologue (please note the Epilogue in English language) Ron Miller ist das Berliner Artist Duo Marcus Klüh und Ronny Kindt. Marcus und Ronny, stellt Euch vor, wir würden uns zu diesem Interview persönlich treffen. Wo sprechen wir zusammen? Wir sitzen in unserem kleinen, aber feinen Atelier in den Heynhöfen, einem gewerblichen Hof-Ensemble für die Kreativwirtschaft […]
Prolog | Mary Ellen, imagine Corona would not determine the current situation and you would welcome us in your home or studio. Where do we speak together? My home and studio are in a wooden house built by a whaling captain for his daughter in 1833. The walls are a bit crooked and the wide wooden floor boards […]
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After the successful start in the Friedrichswerder Church and the Old National Gallery in November, the National Museums in Berlin are continuing their series with live tours of the currently closed museums and special exhibitions in December. The half-hour tours with director* and curator* are shown live on the Instagram Channel of the National Museums in Berlin and are also available online afterwards (link below). Museumsinsel Berlin, Alte Nationalgalerie: Dekadenz und dunkle Träume. Der belgische Symbolismus online since Friday, 27th November 2020, 4 p.m. The lustful gaze of a saturated society into the abyss, the morbid attraction between Thanatos and Eros are themes in art that found expression in the late 19th century, particularly in Belgian Symbolism. The large-scale special exhibition in the Old National Gallery is devoted to this artistic movement that emerged in the 1880s, with Brussels as its main centre, and presents the spectrum of hitherto little known Belgian positions such as Fernand Khnopff, Léon Spilliaert, or Jean Delville as an important reference for European Symbolism. Ralph Gleis, director of the Alte Nationalgalerie and curator of the exhibition, will guide through the exhibition. Kulturforum, Kunstgewerbemuseum: ATMOISM – Gestaltete Atmosphären Friday, 4th December 2020, 4 p.m. Designer Hermann […]
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, […]
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until 11.04. | #2950ARTatBerlin | Galerie Pugliese Levi presents from 20th January 2021 the exhibition one by one, in which one work by each artist of the gallery is shown for a few days in the gallery window. This form of presentation will take place until mid-April. The artist Juliana Borinski will be the first. #1 Juliana Borinski 20.– 24. Januar 2021 When she works on photography or cinema, Juliana Borinski never uses a camera or video camera. She creates images that are generally abstract, using photosensitive paper or film directly, in order to explore their inherent aesthetic and technical abilities. What should only be a receptacle for images, its medium, thus becomes the very material of her work. Juliana Borinski from the series Between Humiliation and Happiness 2013, photograms / ilford perl paper, 65.5 x 55 cm For the series Between Humiliation and Happiness, the artist reworks a sheet of photosensitive paper that has been previously overexposed, then subjects it to various rubbings and folds before exposing it again on a new sheet. Photographic skeleton-like forms against a black background result from this: a typology of image-less photographs. Juliana Borinski looks for errors, lacks and chance. She positions herself deliberately at the […]
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 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 10.04. | #2953ARTatBerlin | janinebeangallery shows from 4th February 2021 the exhibition High on Paper with works by Inna Artemova, Anna Borowy, Florian Fausch, Kathrin Günter, Juan Miguel Pozo and Arny Schmit. The opening will take place virtually. During the lockdown, the exhibition is visible through the large windows and digitally, after the lockdown regular (12-18 hrs) according to the then permissible guidelines of the federal government. In the exhibition „High on Paper“ (February 4th – April 10th 2021) janinebeangallery focuses on artworks on paper. Featured are works by the artists Inna Artemova, Anna Borowy, Florian Fausch, Kathrin Günter, Juan Miguel Pozo and Arny Schmit. The structure of the drawings of the Russian artist Inna Artemova resemble sequences of storyboards or film stills, in which phantastic sceneries unfold. The depicted people, objects and architectures poise in an oddly unsettling limbo, as if the order of space, time and gravity were suspended. Inna Artemova Paper-Utopia # 4374, 75 x 105 cm, Tinte, Marker, Bleistift auf Papier, 2020 The drawings of Swiss artist Florian Fausch are utopian architectural landscapes with a formal language which follows its own laws. These are places as well as „nonplaces“ at once, circling the concept of […]
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 11.04. | #2950ARTatBerlin | Galerie Pugliese Levi presents from 20th January 2021 the exhibition one by one, in which one work by each artist of the gallery is shown for a few days in the gallery window. This form of presentation will take place until mid-April. The artist Juliana Borinski will be the first. #1 Juliana Borinski 20.– 24. Januar 2021 When she works on photography or cinema, Juliana Borinski never uses a camera or video camera. She creates images that are generally abstract, using photosensitive paper or film directly, in order to explore their inherent aesthetic and technical abilities. What should only be a receptacle for images, its medium, thus becomes the very material of her work. Juliana Borinski from the series Between Humiliation and Happiness 2013, photograms / ilford perl paper, 65.5 x 55 cm For the series Between Humiliation and Happiness, the artist reworks a sheet of photosensitive paper that has been previously overexposed, then subjects it to various rubbings and folds before exposing it again on a new sheet. Photographic skeleton-like forms against a black background result from this: a typology of image-less photographs. Juliana Borinski looks for errors, lacks and chance. She positions herself deliberately at the […]
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 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 28.02. | #2946ARTatBerlin | König Galerie (Nave) presents from 12th January 2021 the Solo Show I HOPE with new works by the artist Chiharu Shiota. It is the first solo show of the artist at the gallery. On display is a large-scale installation in the gallery’s Nave. Her spectacular installation in the Giardini at the 56th Venice Biennale has left an indelible mark in our memories as one of the most impressive works at the event. Filling the entire Japan Pavilion, The Key In The Hand was instrumental in the international breakthrough of the Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota, who has been based in Berlin for the last 20 years. On entering the space, there was immediately a strong sense that this was about something quintessential – all too quintessential, in fact – that concerned all of humanity, without exception. Overhead was a handwoven sky of bright red yarn from which hung 180,000 metal keys from all corners of the Earth, floating like stars of life almost close enough to touch. Beneath them, resting on beams like bodies, were two old wooden boats, which, proclaiming the absence of people, had forever fallen out of time. Rising out of the boats, […]
until 18.03. | #2945ARTatBerlin | re|space gallery presents from 2nd February 2021 the exhibition Marking Territory, a group show featuring young and established illustrators. The exhibition provides an insight into the breadth of contemporary illustration. With works by the artists: Juliana Toro, Daniel Stolle, Leo Kaplan, Sebastian Kelemer, Aline Schwibbe, Malou Großklaus, Ofra Amit, Yves Haltner, Dayeon Auh, Leonie Behrens, Jiang Ailun, Paula Krause, Olga Bankova, Emily Brockmann, Georgi Senchenko, Karen Exner, Rojo & Kreß, Anna Dokuchaeva, Sina Metzkow, Maxim Kriukov, Leonardo Alessandro Alliata, Alexander Daniloff, Maria Chepisheva, Sophie Lazari. Marking Territory illustration, whether in the form of book illustrations, as a design medium or as a doodle in one’s own notebook. This ubiquity of illustration, however, does not serve to reduce its value, it rather proves the strength of the format as a mode of expression. However, illustration goes beyond its everyday use; in the context of fine art, illustration can outgrow its function as accompanying visual material and assert itself as a stand-alone work. This growth is a significant characteristic of contemporary illustration as it is no longer timid to approach and even cross the boundaries of its genre. Thus, in the introduction to Illusive 4: Contemporary Illustration […]
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 27.02. | #2942ARTatBerlin | 68 projects presents from 16th January 2021 the solo show Urlaub in Deutschland (> Holidays in Germany) with paintings by the Greek artist Paris Giachoustidis. The pictures of digital mass media form the basis of Paris Giachoustidis’ paintings. Who authored them, who has the prerogative of interpretation and how does this influence the image of a person, an entity, a (sub)culture?¹ The artist’s work revolves around such questions of image production, reception and their effects. Depending on the thematic orientation of the found material, he discovers new, adequate forms of painterly appropriation and alienation. For this solo exhibition he has created a series entitled Urlaub in Deutschland (Vacation in Germany). Using photographic images from postcards, he realistically renders holiday scenes in bright acrylic colours on paper. In addition to small groups of happy-seeming people, recurring motifs are camper vans, bathing water, lush green meadows, carefully trimmed hedges and bright blue skies. Idyllic moments are captured: a couple flirting in the pool, drinks with a view of the water, (sun)bathing in a lake surrounded by mountains. But unlike on the postcards, these scenes are interrupted: suddenly a fire, which seems to have gone unnoticed, appears in […]
until 27.02. | #2941ARTatBerlin | Galerie Kornfeld presents from 16. January 2021 the solo show All Saints with photographs by the Georgian artist David Meskhi. It is the artist’s first solo exhibition at Galerie Kornfeld. Within this newest body of works, Meskhi aims to capture the idealised moment of human gesture and sublime beauty. Religious ecstasy, homoerotic connotations and the gender fluidity of the male body in its transformative years brings us to a combination of heavenly and earthly states of being. The bodies, not yet ingrained with social definitions of gender, fall into a more natural setting of finer tones of masculine and feminine energies. Universal bodies who in turn reach out to the cosmos to assert their presence. The subject matter becomes the most important – not narrowly gender related, but rather humanistic as the work delivers a strong juxtaposition of defiance verses compliance. The bodies are cropped off at different angels flying free or kneeling in conformity to the confines of society – be it religious, political or social. As Meskhi captures the young athletes in training, the viewer witnesses the instant between leaping and falling – a brief moment of weightlessness when the body reaches the […]
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 March 2021 | #2938ARTatBerlin | drj art projects will be showing from December 2020 “insights unheard of …”, a space-oriented exhibition of installation, drawing and painting by the artist Anna Kubelík [CH] and the artist Matthew Hawtin [CA]. With sound performances by Oliver Schmid [CH]. The exhibition can only be visited by appointment. Dear audience of drj art projects, once again in this pandemic year 2020, an exhibition cannot be opened as planned – although a postponement has already been made. More than that, this time it remains completely unclear when and to what extent visitors will be able to see the works of Anna Kubelík and Matthew Hawtin that are installed inside our rooms. And thus also when and at what times the sound performances by Oliver Schmid will be able to be experienced there. It merely remains for us to announce insights unheard of … as such in the first place. It will be assembled from the beginning of December. As soon as there are reliable conditions under which we can offer dates for visits, we will announce them. Until then we will keep the website drj-art-projects.com/insights-unheard-of/ up to date. Best regards from Christiane Bail + Matthias Seidel Exhibition […]
until 23.01. | #2937ARTatBerlin | Semjon Contemporary presents from 12th December 2020 the exhibition SEMI COLLAPSE with works by the artist Dave Grossmann and an accrochage. Dance of the shavings – The order of things Thoughts on the exhibition SEMI COLLAPSE by Dave Grossmann Chaos is a fertile breeding ground for the emergence of new things. Most people, however, are suspicious of it because it threatens their own habits, a self-created set of rules. But chaos is not just chaos: it always requires the point of view of the observer, but above all openness and curiosity. Because chaos carries within itself the forces for new orders and is also – freely described – a universe of undeciphered order(s). Applied mathematics and mathematical physics approach exactly this fact – and have not yet reached an all-encompassing formula for understanding. When Dave Grossmann, born in 1989, deals intensively with the material of the OSB board, which has so far not been particularly conspicuous in art, one of the reasons for this is that chaos and order are apparently very close together here, a fact that fascinates him as a curious artist. Apart from the beauty of wood as a material with its […]
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 16.01. | #2934ARTatBerlin | ChertLüdde currently shows at the showroom the exhibition Stringfigures and Watercolours by the artists Zora Mann and Vivien Cahusac de Caux. The exhibition String Figures and Watercolours places Zora Mann’s watercolours next to two paintings by her mother Vivien Cahusac de Caux. Vivien Cahusac de Caux, born in 1955 in Kampala, Uganda, has painted for most of her life. After a nomadic life, during which she lived for 25 years between Uganda and Kenya, she moved to Germany in 1988. Her rich pictorial expression moves through different styles and themes in a fertile oeuvre and shows a great sensitivity for her surroundings and resources as an autodidact. In the series Dreamscapes Scenarios, to which the four works in the exhibition belong, fantastic scenes depict life and natural forces. Bright, intense colours contribute to her oneiric constructions. Unlike many of her other works, which look at different geographical locations, each with its own cultural characteristics, Dreamscapes Scenarios is abstract and introspective. Zora Star Cahusac Mann was born in 1979 in Amersham, Great Britain. She spent her childhood between Europe, Africa and America. She completed her art studies at the Villa Arson in Nice. Zora Mann, Untitled, 2016, Watercolor […]
until 09.01. | #2933ARTatBerlin | GALERIE SCHMALFUSS BERLIN shows from 5th December 2020 the group show H2O with 15 individual positions on the topic water and its different appearances. The selection shows realistic, romantic and naturalistic works, up to impressionistic, abstract and experimental positions. In the wide historical rooms of the gallery, these positions are particularly well represented. Water consists of oxygen and hydrogen, it is a chemical compound. Two thirds of the earth’s surface are covered by water. Water occurs in three forms: as water vapour, as liquid water and as solid water (ice). We experience liquid water as rain, in rivers and streams, in lakes and seas. JAN PETER TRIPP, Der Tag an dem W.G. Sebald mit Iwan Konstantinowitsch den Ärmelkanal überquerte, 2020, Acrylic on wood, 60 x 80 cm The solid water in the Arctic and in changing seasons on the continents. The exhibition H2O – alles im Fluss, the SCHMALFUSS Berlin – contemporary fine arts, tells of these water phenomena and movements. Fifteen artists share their views, experiences and sensations with this chemical compound. In their various representations we experience the visible water; the subterranean water remains hidden. Water is life, is movement. But water can […]
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 20.02. | #2930ARTatBerlin | CAMERA WORK presents from 5th December 2020 the exhibition “CIRCESQUE” with new photographs by the photo artist Christian Tagliavini. As a world premiere, the exhibition shows Christian Tagliavini’s latest art series, on which he worked for over three years. The cycle “Circesque”, which comprises more than 20 portraits, is the artist’s most elaborate series to date. The exhibition will also feature original objects and clothes, making the show a unique visual experience. Christian Tagliavini, Colpo di rullante, 2019, CW113172 Christian Tagliavini was inspired for the series “Circesque” by the famous Circus Sideshows in the USA in the 1920s. As part of American entertainment culture, special characters – often called “human freaks” – showed their special skills and unique personality in sideshows. For his own narrative “Circesque” Christian Tagliavini created fictional characters in several years of work, who are protagonists of his interpretation of a fantastic sideshow. The more than 20 sublime and mysterious portraits show charming characters beyond imagination from Tagliavini’s world of thought and fantasy. Each person in his photo-artistic cabinet – from the tightrope walker to the tamer to the burlesque dancer – is introduced with a scenic presentation as well as classical […]
until 09.01. | #2929ARTatBerlin | Esther Schipper presents from 27th November 2020 the Online Exhibition Virtual Leonardo’s Submarine with new works by the artist Hito Steyerl on the website of the gallery. Virtual Leonardo’s Submarine is Hito Steyerl’s first solo project with Esther Schipper and the first virtual exhibition organized by the gallery. This project is organized in collaboration with Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York. Originally conceived in 2019 as a video environment for the 58th Venice Biennale, Leonardo’s Submarine has been completely reworked as a Virtual Reality (VR) experience. Upon entering the virtual space—via the means of a VR headset or by web browser version—viewers will find themselves floating under water, surrounded by fish, seaweed, and coral. The artist’s avatar, outfitted in full PEOPLE gear, swims alongside. The VR experience offered by Virtual Leonardo’s Submarine echoes Steyerl’s concept of a Bubble Vision which she developed during her 2018 lecture at the Yale School of Art. VR experiences place the viewer at the center of an environment while also disembodying them: “The viewer is absolutely central, but at the same time, he or she is missing from the scene. (…) Is this ‘bubble vision’—this 360-degree vision—a training scheme to adapt […]
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 13.02. | #2926ARTatBerlin | Galerie kajetan Berlin shows from 5th December 2020 the Solo Show Various, Elsewhere, Ongoing with works by the Dutch artist Marc Nagtzaam. Marc Nagtzaam has been producing a body of work that is based on one main subject: the idea of pattern, the repetition. He draws lines, grids, circles, words or sentences as in an endless search for collecting pieces of information. The repetition and the graphic structure of his works seem reminiscent of minimal and conceptual aesthetics. Most of Marc Nagtzaam´s drawings consist of colourless, darkly filled in graphite surfaces. Abstracted elements from architecture, graphic design, details from found photographs, or parts from previous drawings are starting points for every series of works. Marc Nagtzaam’s series ‚Borrowed Space | An Index of Forms’ (drawings behind glass in the exhibition) is also about drawn compositions that are borrowed from shapes and elements from existing book covers, posters and paintings. Points, lines and surfaces form a kind of structure. Marc Nagtzaam | Various, Elsewhere, Ongoing | Exhibition view 2020 / 2021 | Courtesy Marc Nagtzaam & kajetan Berlin | Foto: Marcus Schneider Gentle, subtle and powerful, Marc Nagtzaam also maximizes perspective energies in the condensed surfaces […]
until 12.12. | #2925ARTatBerlin | Galerie aKonzept and Raphael Lévy show from 25th November 2020 the solo exhibition “13” with the artist František Kyncl. 13 corresponds to the number of works by František Kyncl that will be shown in the gallery aKonzept. The oldest of these works dates from 1965, when František Kyncl, born in the Czech Republic in 1934, was still in Prague. 1966 the artist had the opportunity to spend a short time in Austria and Italy, where he had an important encounter with the work of Lucio Fontana. In 1969 a Czechoslovakian court found him guilty of having fled the republic and sentenced him to prison in absentia. Kyncl left Austria and fled to West Germany, living first in Essen and later in Düsseldorf, where he lived until his death on 14 July 2011. To the exhibition catalogue Exhibition period: Wednesday, 25. November – Saturday, 12th December 2020 Image caption: František Kyncl, Ohne Titel, 1969, Tusche auf Papier, rückseitig signiert und datiert, 30,5 x 30, 5 cm Exhibition Frantisek Kyncl – Galerie aKonzept + Raphael Lévy | Zeitgenössische Kunst | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin
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 20.01. | #2921ARTatBerlin | Sexauer Gallery shows from 2nd December 2020 the exhibition “I consider it a tragedy that we have not found each other!”, an artistic reanimation from the spirit of AI by the artist Ornella Fieres. In her third exhibition at SEXAUER, Ornella Fieres transforms a bundle of letters, postcards and photographs into works of art with the help of artificial intelligence (AI): text-based video works, ready-made text objects, and AI-generated images of plants. In 2016, Fieres acquired a box containing about seven hundred letters from the 1960s and 70s from the former GDR that had been left behind. The letters, including postcards and photographs, were addressed to a woman in East Berlin who lived only a few hundred meters away from the SEXAUER gallery. Among the letters were also a few that she had written herself. The exhibition is divided into three groups of works. For the first, Fieres had the handwritten texts transcribed in print by an artificial intelligence based on a neural network. In this way, she made the texts accessible in terms of content with handwriting that was sometimes difficult to read. Some of the letters, more than half a century old, were […]
until 12.12. | #2923ARTatBerlin | The Showroom of the galerie georg nothelfer is currently showing an exhibition with paintings and works on paper by the artist Damien Daufresne, a selection of the artist’s works in drawing. Damien Daufresne (*1979 in Paris) studied photography, drawing and free graphic arts at the École Boulle in Paris, at the School of Visual Arts in News York and at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts-Décorat in Paris. He participated in numerous exhibitions at home and abroad. His last solo exhibition took place in 2020 at the Contemporary Art Center Chapelle Saint Jacques – Saint Gaudens / France under the title “Lunar Eclipse”. Damien Daufresne lives and works in Berlin. Exhibition dates: Saturday, 7 November to Saturday, 12 December 2020 Image caption: OT, 2020, Kohle/Kreide/Pigment/Papier kaschiert auf Leinwand, 100 x 150 cm Exhibition Damien Daufresne – galerie georg nothelfer | Zeitgenössische Kunst Berlin Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin
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 12.12. | #2918ARTatBerlin | Galerie Z22 presents from 21st November 2020 at Project Space Kimgo the exhibition “From Chaos to Order | Floorways to Art … touched by Danielle Benvenuto ” with works by the artists Frank Massholder and Danielle Benvenuto. Frank Massholder and Danielle Benvenuto join forces bringing their first duo exhibition to Berlin titled “From Chaos to Order”. Massholder presents his “Floorways to Art” project, one he conceived many years ago after following an impulse to photograph a spilled glass of wine lying on the floor. Afterwards he began photographing the random designs created by splashes of paint he saw on the floors of artists from all over the world. Benvenuto presents her circle paintings, a unique art form she developed in conjunction with her hallmark soul portrait paintings. In these works influenced by her prior career as a psychologist & energy healer, she uses colors, the geometry of circles & movement to express the unseen world of energy. Massholder & Benvenuto recently merged their signature art forms to create a third world where circles meet the random designs of paint splashes. One can see in this joint creation both chaos and form as they move in […]
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 […]
until 05.02. | #2914ARTatBerlin | Galerie Barbara Wien presents from 14th November 2020 the exhibition Endnote, yellow by the artist Ian Kiaer. Ian Kiaer’s Endnote projects began in 2010. Like marginal notes, he developed and adjusted these works as configurations of fragmented models. He has conceived an approach to painting as a ‘minor’ form with each of his installations linking to a thinker, writer or architect. Through two essays, an extended interview and numerous illustrations, this book offers the opportunity to revisit some of his main works and exhibitions over the last 10 years. Ian Kiaer’s new monograph “Endnote, Tooth” is available and can be signed at the opening. Vernissage: Saturday, 14 November 2020, noon – 6 pm, Ian Kiaer is in town, so there will be a talk with the artist after a tour of the exhibition. Exhibition dates: Saturday, 14 November 2020 – Saturday, 6 February 2021 Image caption: Ian Kiaer, Toothhouse Ceiling 2014 – 2020, detail, Photo Guenzel Rademacher, Exhibition Ian Kiaer – Galerie Barbara Wien | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin
online | #2912ARTatBerlin | The Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz has been showing the online exhibition TEGEL: FLIGHTS OF FANCY since 31 October 2020, a video programme as feedback on the closure of Berlin’s Tegel Airport. The project was organised in 2011 by Jaspar Joseph-Lester, Susanne Prinz and Julie Westerman and builds on a series of events, exhibitions and publications that have been realised through crosscultural collaboration between artists based in the UK and Germany. It was screened on the eve of Tegel’s originally planned closure on 02.06.2012 at Kino Babylon. Despite the current suspension of practically all privat air travel the closure of Tegel airport marks an important change in the way air travel is organised and experienced. The design of this airport is of a time when flight was associated with glamour, fantasy, technological progress, romantic chance encounters and fictional disasters. The building consists of a large concrete hexagonal structure circumnavigated by a corridor, punctuated with brightly coloured check-in desks. Viewing platforms and executive lounges populate the circumference of the building, inviting the traveller to enjoy a navigable thoroughfare instead of the shed-like enclosure with limited seating. There are commissioned art works, restaurants and bars, cafés and shops. The décor […]
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 […]
until 21.01. | #2909ARTatBerlin | Galerie ART CRU Berlin presents from 24th November 2020 a solo show with works by the artist Sonja Halbfass, who grew up between the USA and Germany. It is the first exhibition of the artist in Berlin. These extraordinary paintings reach us like messages from another world. We experience pulsating, teeming, abstract color compositions and challenging perspectives, somewhere between Pop, Op and Psychedelic Art; combined with blurred figurative scenes full of symbolism and enigmatic messages, oscillating between impression and expression. There is a lot of power in these 20+ works created over the last 25 years by the artist. Sonja Halbfass, Leben einer Frau, 1998, Acryl, 42 x 60 cm Sonja Halbfass, Kraftwerk, 1998, Acryl, 50 x 70 cm The paintings convey a spherical atmosphere with compositions that seem to float in the universe. In some of her works on paper, Halbfass forms almost surreal, delicately detailed motifs with a sweeping brushstroke and uncanny precision. She impresses with her broad artistic spectrum, perceptible as an exciting struggle between style and content. In the painting “Kraftwerk” (1998), for example, she groups a hospital bed and a winged woman supplemented by other ghostly figures around a central […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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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Immer auf dem Laufenden in Sachen Kunsttermine in Berlin.
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