At the end of October 2019, the National Museums in Berlin published an outlook on the highlights of the extensive special exhibition programme that await us in the coming year 2020. “2020 will once again be an exciting and diverse exhibition year for the National Museums in Berlin,” says General Director Michael Eissenhauer. “From Raphael to Katharina Grosse, from the Germanic tribes to Pop Art, from late Gothic to GDR design, the spectrum of the special exhibition programme for next year ranges. Our visitors can look forward to big names and new discoveries, to large-scale presentations and concentrated cabinet exhibitions, to well-known positions and surprising perspectives. Once again, the National Museums in Berlin impressively underscore their status as a universal museum, whose 15 collections can generate from their art and cultural treasures an almost infinite variety of themes from up to 400,000 years of human history that is unparalleled internationally. I would like to thank all my colleagues in our collections and institutions for their great commitment and thank our international and national partners and sponsors without whose support such a rich program would not be possible. Last but not least, I wish our visitors an inspiring, happy and healthy […]

On November 1, 2019, the messages of the art installation “Visions in Motion” by artist Patrick Shearn of Poetic Kinetics rose into the air at the Brandenburg Gate. As part of the celebrations to mark the 30th anniversary of the Peaceful Revolution and the fall of the Berlin Wall, 30,000 wishes, hopes and ideas will float on 30,000 people’s ribbons as part of the installation above the Straße des 17. Juni at the Brandenburg Gate until 10 November. Together with Moritz van Dülmen and Simone Leimbach, managing director and project manager of Kulturprojekte Berlin, the artist gave an insight into the floating installation. Following the banners carried during the demonstrations of the Peaceful Revolution, tens of thousands of people in hundreds of workshops – including those of the Evangelical Church – have been involved in events and actions in schools, on the streets as well as at festivals, with their messages, wishes and hopes for the future or even their memories of the past. … Read the article further on DEEDS.WORLD   Image caption: © Art Installation: Patrick Shearn of Poetic Kinetics, curated by Kulturprojekte Berlin, Photo: Thomas Meyer

until 23.02. | #2633ARTatBerlin | Haus am Waldsee presents from 29th November 2019 the exhibition The Truth Resides In The Folds (> In den Falten das Eigentliche) by the artist Johanna Diehl. „The one who has once begun to unfold the fan of memory will continue to find new links […] no image will suffice for he can see that it can be unfolded, and only in the folds does the truth reside […].“ (from: Walter Benjamin, Das Passagen-Werk, transl.) In the winter of 2019/20, Haus am Waldsee is showing its first institutional solo exhibition by internationally acclaimed photo artist Johanna Diehl (*1977) in Berlin. Freely inspired by Walter Benjamin, she develops her work out of the idea that the essence of history lies in the folds of memory. Diehl traces the hidden and oftentimes also forgotten in Europe‘s recent memory and finds images which state something, rather than simply enlighten or impress. In her recent series, Diehl refers to private biographies of the West German postwar period. The grandniece of documenta founder Arnold Bode has evaluated slide magazines, diaries and archives of her grandparent’s generation for this purpose. Among these were well-known publishers and architects from Kassel. The artist precisely […]

until 31.01. | #2631ARTatBerlin | me Collectors Room Berlin presents from 16th November 2019 the exhibition Transverse Wave with artworks by the artists Mary Bauermeister and Rashid Al Khalifa, accompanied by sound design by Simon Stockhausen. „The difference between cultures, the difference between the arts, and the difference between the senses are the conditions, and not the limitations, of experience in general, just as the mutual intricacy of these differences is, as well.” (Jean-Luc Nancy, Listening) It is precisely these “conditions of experience” that are realized in the exhibition Transverse Wave. Featuring the work of Mary Bauermeister (b. 1934 in Germany) and Rashid Al Khalifa (b. 1952 in Bahrain), the me Collectors Room Berlin presents two artists who were not only socialized in different cultural realms; they also approach their artistic work from opposite ends of the spectrum. Rashid Al Khalifa, Pressure Wave (Mobile Column II), 2018, Emaille auf Edelstahl / enamel on stainless steel, 150 x 150 x 150 cm © the artist Whereas Bauermeister’s work is composed of found, mostly organic materials that nonetheless were previously involved in both natural and social processes, Al Khalifa uses synthetic materials derived from the industrial realm. Because of their consistent, gridded […]

until 14.12. | #2629ARTatBerlin | Galerie aKonzept and Raphael Lévy present from 16th November 2019 the exhibition  CORRELATION with artworks by the artists Anne-Lise Coste, Martin Disler and Guillaume Sebag. In this exhibition, gallery visitors are invited to a special interaction. “Some computer algorithms are designed to analyze and interpret behavioural patterns. Our artists often create works with a similar method. In addition, however, they employ their five senses. Anne-Lise Coste This combination of methods creates a symbiosis of feelings, overlapping thoughts, and countless impressions. These can be gleaned from the seven special works that we would like to share with you. Martin Disler Six of the works are already finished. The seventh is yours to bring to life. Your co-creation becomes part of the exhibition. We cordially invite you to impress your imagination upon the emptiness of the seventh canvas with the acrylic paint and brush provided in the gallery. It is a piece to be created by you who do not know each other, and yet interact through the medium of the canvas. It is aptly entitled “Correlation”. You may find inspiration in the works of Anne-Lise Coste, Martin Disler, and Guillaume Sebag. Guillaume Sebag We will share […]

until 10.01. | #2628ARTatBerlin | Köppe Contemporary shows from 29th November 2019 the exhibition Beyond Now with artworks by the artist Romy Campe. Man plays the central role in Romy Campe’s work. The artist’s portraits reflect human characteristics – inner states, sensitivities and moods. Although the motifs also show characteristics of the fantastic and surreal, all this refers to the early modern tradition of the psychological image of man. Thus, some motifs evoke associations with painting traditions (Caravaggio, Franz Hals, Rembrandt). Scheuklappen | 130 x 100 cm, Pigment HD Print auf Aluminium, 2018 | Auflage: 10 + 1 AP The artist’s painting technique is also related to the procedures of the Old Masters. She superimposes up to forty layers of glaze in the painting process. The fact that Romy Campe mixes surreal and fantastic dimensions into the Old Master’s form of expression lends her compositions a particularly idiosyncratic and individual touch. What she paints are imaginary worlds in the border area between reality and dream, true image and bizarre creation. A specific expression of the eyes, as well as the gestures and gestures of the people she depicts, point to inner constitutions. Such motives reflect feelings of life and feelings […]

until 25.01. | #2625ARTatBerlin | White Square Gallery presents from 9th November 2019 the exhibition JAHRESGABEN 2019: REVIEW & PREVIEW with artworks by Sebastian Heiner, Friederike Jokisch, Albrecht Klink, Pia Andersen, Ashley Scott, Heinrich Maria Davringhausen and others. This is the traditional exhibition  at the turn of the year. The existing program will be enriched here with the new positions, allowing a good look into the future. This brightly colored show, says gallerist Dr. Elena Sadykova, will guide the gallery customers through the dark winter season and help them choose exquisite Christmas gifts. Santa Claus is omnipresent now Vernissage:  Friday, 8th November 2019, 7 – 9 pm Ausstellungsdaten: Satuday, 9th November – Saturday, 25th January 2020   Image caption: Friederike Jokisch, fangen, 2019, Öl auf Leinwand, 50 x 60 cm Exhibition Jahresangaben 2019 – White Square Gallery | Zeitgenössische Kunst | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin  

until 07.12. | #2624ARTatBerlin | Galerie Z22 presents from 9th November 2019 the exhibition APOKALYPSE with artworks by the painter Eric Massholder on the occasion of the 5th anniversary of the gallery.  The apocalypse reaches Berlin-Wilmersdorf. Ring free for monetary snakes, skulls and the Antichrist. For the fifth anniversary of the Berlin gallery Z22, the German-French artist Eric Massholder presents his visions of the swan song on a society that has dedicated itself to its own vanities and that largely shifts away responsibility for the planet or an enriching peaceful coexistence. In large, intensive formats, he manifests the market criers of the present who have dedicated themselves solely to growth. Without realizing that too much property restricts personal freedom, status symbols condense life exclusively to the monetary. Lifetime is destroyed in the stupidest way. Charmed with wit! Increase your empathy! Think more! Question things! Get creative! Go ahead!! It will be an evening with unexpected ideas, a provocative implementation, special speeches and performances. Vernissage: Saturday, 9th November 2019, 7:00 pm, Opening speech: Dorothee Baer-Bogenschütz Exhibition period: Saturday, 9th November – Saturday, 7th December 2019   Image caption: Courtesy Galerie Z22 / Eric Massholder Exhibition Eric Massholder – Galerie Z22 | […]

until 21.12. | #2621ARTatBerlin | Galerie Martin Mertens presents from 9th November 2019 the exhibition Essential Beings by the artist Flavia Pitis. The gallery Martin Mertens has already presented the work of the Romanian painter Flavia Pitis in two double solo exhibitions 2016 and 2018 together with her husband Radu Belcin. Now follows her first solo exhibition in the gallery. This new group of works, which was created for the exhibition, has already begun in 2018. While at the time Pitis was even more strongly based on the human portrait, which was superimposed by porcelain-like forms, the porcelain figures now seem to develop a life of their own and want to transform themselves into human beings. Isolated and dramatically illuminated like on a theatre stage, a Baroque scenery emerges in which the forms seem to swell out of the picture in an opulent and overloaded manner. Flavia Pitis, Melted Shine, Öl auf Leinwand, 90 x 70 cm, 2019 Flavia says so: “Essential Beings” is an attempt to convey a fleeting impression of a living material that harbors a spiritual self in a constantly changing identity. The material of the seemingly porcelain-like substance is in constant flux in accordance with the […]

until 20.12. | #2620ARTatBerlin | alexander levy presents from 2. November 2019 the exhibition “X=Hase. Meret Oppenheim gegen alle Regeln der Vernunft” (X=Rabbit. Meret Oppenheim against all governing reasons) with works by the artist Meret Oppenheim. At the age of only 17, Meret Oppenheim (*1913 Berlin †1985 Basel) wondered, if mathematical equations had roots where then the rabbits stay – and collaged X=Hase (X=rabbit) into her exercise book. The artist’s entire work and thinking bespeak an independence and resistance that go against all logic as well as academic and social norms. Oppenheim’s œuvre is symbolic of the mysterious, the hidden, the unconscious and the unexpected, offering an astonishment that is driven by curiosity – just as in the case of the little girl in the painting Die Waldfrau, who alone in the forest discovers a huge, mythical female creature with a dragon’s tail. Her affinity for the works of psychoanalyst C.G. Jung allowed her to delve into the profund spheres of the human mind at already an early stage and gain an understanding of the cycle of becoming and passing but also nature as mythical place of human-animal primal forces. Meret Oppenheim, Die Waldfrau, 1939, oil on Pavatex, 28 x 37,5 cm  […]

until 21.12. | #2617ARTatBerlin | KLEMM’S shows from 2nd November 2019 the exhibition Sing Hallelujah! with works by the artists Falk Haberkorn and Sven Johne. In spring 2019, Falk Haberkorn and Sven Johne undertook their second joint road trip through the east of the country – exactly 15 years after their first trip. Again with the loosely laid out intention to take up what they have seen and experienced and to reflect on the found situations in their own and joint works. It was clear that time had progressed and some things had changed…- the current social climate, the heated debates, the alleged ruptures and disagreements are well known…Falk Haberkorn and Sven Johne understand Sing Hallelujah! as a joint project to gain an impression, as a critical inventory and comparison of their own attitude and artistic position in equal measure. Haberkorn focuses on the motorhome ‘vehicle’ of the journey and the immediate impressions of the night journey – these are talking images of isolation, bunker mentality, surfaces where one slips, strange details of empty places. Sven Johne focuses on disused production facilities – factories, tool halls, sports facilities, social space. Processing and the consequences… A text/sound work joins the visual […]

until 11.01. | #2616ARTatBerlin | Galerie Thomas Schulte currently shows the exhibition layers by the artist Angela de la Cruz. Layers is the title of the first solo exhibition by Angela de la Cruz at Galerie Thomas Schulte. In her works, the artist, who was born in Spain in 1965, puts the structural qualities of painting into question by liberating them from their two-dimensional existence. Canvases and stretcher frames are cut, torn, and broken for this purpose and emerge as objects that challenge their categorization as painting. De la Cruz thus—literally and quite brutally—detaches the idea of the picture from its physical carrier as well as from tradition: “The moment I cut through the canvas I get rid of the grandiosity of painting.” Angela de la Cruz / Layers – Small (Ultramarine Blue/Light Blue), 2019 Acrylic and oil on canvas / 70 x 50 x 7 cm (27 1/2 x 19 2/3 x 2 3/4 in) Vernissage: Friday, 25th October 2019, 7:00 – 9:00 pm Exhibiiton period: Friday 25th October – Saturday, 11th January 2020   Image caption: Angela de la Cruz / Layers – Small (Ultramarine Blue/Light Blue), 2019 / Acrylic and oil on canvas / 70 x 50 x 7 […]

until 18.01. | #2613ARTatBerlin | Bermel von Luxburg Gallery shows from 14th November 2019 the exhibition Colorful reveries and dreamy sculptures with works by the artists Louis Brummer and Nadège Mouyssinat. The gallery presents the German painter Louis Brummer and the French sculptor Nadège Mouyssinat for the first time. Nadège Mouyssinat, Pseudosphères #paysage doré 02, 67 x 40 x 47 cm, porcelain, 2019 Nadège Mouyssinat – Group Show 2020 Art Karlsruhe, Bermel von Luxburg Gallery, Berlin 2019 Design Miami Basel, Galerie Scène Ouvertes, Miami, USA 2019 Colourful reveries and dreamy sculptures, Louis Brummer & Nadège Mouyssinat, Bermel von Luxburg Gallery, Berlin 2019 Cologne Fine Art, Bermel von Luxburg Gallery, Cologne 2019 Luxembourg Art Week, Bermel von Luxburg Gallery, Berlin 2019 Positions Art Fair, Bermel von Luxburg Gallery, Berlin 2019 Formes vivantes, Musée national Adrien Dubouché, Cité de la céramique Sèvres&Limoges, France 2019 Art Elysées, avec 1831Artgallery, 17-21 Octobre 2019, Paris 2019 Inauguration du Mois des Collectionneurs au Carré Rive Gauche et du 12 ème Parcours de la Céramique et des Arts du Feu, avec 1831Artgallery 2019 Photogenic works avec la galerie Nishikawa à Kyoto, Japon 2019 Révélations, Paris, Grand Palais 2019 Les parenthèses de V. , Biarritz, France 2019 Voyages […]

until 07.12. | #2612ARTatBerlin | Galerie Guido W. Baudach presents from 26th October 2019 the solo exhibition Heedrahtrophia by the artist Andy Hope 1930. Monsters, Painters, Mutants The series of new paintings by Andy Hope 1930, exhibiting at Galerie Guido W. Baudach under the title HEEDRAHTROPHIA, stems from the artist’s first visit to Japan in the spring of 2018. In addition to the new impressions gained there, Hope found himself confronted by Japanese pop culture, face to face with the monsters and monster tales he had long been following. A dedicated collector of comics, films and figures from the areas of horror, supervillains and superheroes, dinosaurs and extraterrestrials, Hope attained his status and widespread international reception primarily by the manner in which he ploughed through the field of Americana, outmaneuvering the pitfalls of affirmation and anti-America criticism with an abundance of wit and a wealth of art-/historical allusion. Though a relatively late discovery, Japan must have been experienced as a kind of déjà vu. After his return, Hope took up a monster that had long held his fascination: a kaiju named Hedorah from the monster film Godzilla vs. Hedorah (Japan 1971, distributed in Germany under the title Frankensteins Kampf gegen die Teufelsmonster, Frankenstein’s […]

until 18.01. | #2609ARTatBerlin | Galerie Kornfeld shows from 22nd November 2019 the solo exhibition Les Nouveaux Constructeurs by the artist Stéphane Couturier. The exhibition “Les Nouveaux Constructeurs” will present, for the first time in Germany, photographer Stéphane Couturier’s work that resulted from his involvement with French painter Fernand Léger’s œuvre. Upon the invitation of Julie Gutierrez, curator of the Fernand Léger Museum in Biot, Stéphane Couturier worked intensely with the oeuvre of Fernand Léger, one of the masters of modern painting in early 20th-century France. Léger was particularly attentive to the radical transitions of his time. The central focus of his work was the changes people and cities went through due to machines and mass production. Drawing from the form experiments of the cubists, his body of work found its particular artistic expression, which merged the cubist avantgarde with communist engagement. Sète, Pont Sadi Carnot n°2, 2018, C-Print, 140 x 100 cm, Ed.: 5 “I became aware of the many elements that brought him closer to me–his fascination with the city, with industrial elements, with architecture, with the geometry of forms…”, comments Stéphane Couturier on his involvement with Léger’s body of work. As images of urban landscapes and industrial […]

until 20.12. | #2608ARTatBerlin | Galerie Born Berlin shows from 1st November 2019 the exhibition Procession with paintings by the artist Reinoud van Vught.  Works from Reinoud van Vught, born 1960, have featured in numerous group exhibitions with his Dutch painter colleagues Henri Jacobs, Han Klinkhamer, and Marc Mulders in the Galerie Born. His first solo exhibition in the Galerie Born, Berlin is titled “Procession”. This can be understood as a reference to the repeated forms in his often large-format works on paper and his paintings. However the title also resonates with references to the ritual of painting. Although we primarily encounter the term in religious contexts – the procession in honour of God – the artist understands it in its application to art. Vernissage: Thursday, 31st October 2019, 6 – 9 pm Ausstellungsdaten: Friday, 1st November – Friday, 20th December 2019   Image caption: Courtesy Galerie Born Berlin -Reinoud van Vught Exhibition Reinoud van Vught – Galerie Born Berlin | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin      

until 21.12. | #2605ARTatBerlin | Robert Morat Galerie shows from 26. October 2019 the exhibition Tempora Morte by the photographer Lia Darjes. Asked about the most important influence on her work, Lia Darjes answers: “Visits in the Berlin Gemäldegalerie.” This influence is clearly visible in her new book “Tempora Morte”. The photographic series was created in 2016 in Kaliningrad, Russia, and documents the modest roadside market stands where old women sell the modest harvest from their garden or the nearby forest to supplement their meagre pensions. “In autumn you may find three apples, some raisins and two bulbs of garlic. At other times of the year maybe two jars of homemade strawberry jam and two cabbages or dried fish.” Stillleben mit Drosselbeeren, Kaliningrad, 2014, 59 x 46 cm, Archival Pigment Print, Ed. of 7 + 2 AP’s Stillleben mit Quitten und Kürbis, Kaliningrad, 2016, 57 x 44 cm, Archival Pigment Print, Ed. of 7 + 2 AP’s Theoretically, these images are therefore documentary images, they could also be understood as a reportage on topics such as old-age poverty or micro-economics – but in fact, the subject matter is iconically exaggerated. Through the use of a small flash and the underexposure […]

until (tba) | #2604ARTatBerlin | Semjon Contemporary shows from 1st November 2019 the exhibitions edit_WHITE by the artist Thomas Prochnow and Curves by the artist Dirk Rathke. On show are wall objects, collages & assemblages by Thomas Prochnow as well as new works and installations by Dirk Rathke in the form of paintings, wall sculptures and objects. Thomas Prochnow Dirk Rathke Dirk Rathke Vernissage: Friday, 1st November 2019, 7:00 – 9:30 pm Exhibition period: Friday, 1st November to … (to be announced)   Events in the context of the exhibition and further dates of the gallery: Reading from Gustav Peter Wöhler The Alphabet of the Sea by Christoph Klimke in cooperation with Elfenbein Verlag Thursday, 28 November, 8 p.m. Meet the artist! Talk with Thomas Prochnow and Dirk Rathke Saturday, 30 November, 4 p.m. Fotofever Paris with works by Gerda Schütte & Nataly Squat 8. – 10.11.2019 Opening: 7 November marking time Exhibition on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Werkstättengalerie of the German Workshops Hellerau Curated by Colin Ardley Among others with works of the gallery artists Dittmar Krüger, Susanne Knaack, Dirk Rathke, Ursula Sax and Marc von der Hocht, as well as Colin Ardley Until 29.11.2019 […]

until 30.11. | #2601ARTatBerlin | Galerie EIGEN + ART Berlin shows from 24th October 2019 the exhibition A planets revolution by the artist Ryan Mosley. Ryan Mosley’s paintings have always been precarious, knife-edged, intuitive things, characterised by their exuberance, headlong free-wheelingness, sucking in motifs from the drifting, ever shape-shifting worlds of circus and carnival, the brawling anarchy of Dada. Rooted in figurative impulses, they revel in the bizarre, the improbable, the unpredictable and the grotesque. They are self-delighting, self-enclosed worlds of abandonment, staged performances, theatrical presentations which we willingly spectate. And behind them we have always felt the shadowy presence of all those artists who have helped to shape them, from Daumier to Kitaj, Hogarth to Degas, Manet to Picasso, Léger to Darger. Until now. His fourth solo show at Galerie EIGEN + ART marks a shift of tone and feeling. Its title, A planets revolution, nods in the direction of our political uncertainties as never before. A mood of perplexity seems to transform the romp of his heightened colours into exaggeratedly desperate throws of optimism. Ryan Mosley, Under a strange canopy, 2019, Oil on canvas, 183 x 150 cm, Photo: Jules Lister In the painting Songs for the sea […]

until 20.12 | #2600ARTatBerlin | galerie burster shows from 18th October 2019 the exhibition METRO by the Dutch artist Bram Braam. The gallery presents the second solo show of Dutch artist Bram Braam (*1980) at galerie burster berlin. Bram Braam’s work seems to overflow due to a remarkable tangible complexity in the material variety of his works and therefore in what precedes the creative act itself. The concept of Utopia turns out to be the fundamental interpretative key that allows one to gain a broader understanding of Braam’s work and somehow untangle the threads that make up the stratification of his works.   Bram Braam, METRO #2, 2019, steel, plastic, spray paint, wood,137 x 53 x 6 cm The word Utopia etymologically derives from the ū = ‘non’ and tópos = ‘place’ and therefore has the the hidden meaning of non-place. This non-place is an impossible place, an imaginary architecture, a vision which points in the direction of a non-futuristic future. Braam deals with this concept in a circular way through a vortex of reinvented materials, found objects, assembled furniture, rags of city walls, and almost any element can be exemplary of a constructivist historicity understood not only in relation […]

until 16.11. | #2597ARTatBerlin | Galerie mutare shows from 12th October 2019 the exhibition A Lifetime Achievement with paintings and graphics by the artist Alo Altripp. Alo Altripp, born 1906 in Altrip near Speyer, attended the Kunstgewerbeschule Mainz (applied arts, decorative painting) in 1921-24, followed by the Meisterschule für das Malerhandwerk in Munich and the Akademie für Kunst und Gewerbe in Dresden in 1925. In 1928/29 Altripp worked as a theatre painter at the Staatstheater Wiesbaden, then as a freelance artist. In 1932 he met Alexej Jawlensky for the first time and became his friend in 1934. He travelled to Strasbourg and Colmar, in the period 1935-39 he completed annual study stays at the Goetheanum in Dornach. He regularly visited Paul Klee and his family in Bern. 1943-45 he was employed as a draughtsman at the Opel company in Rüsselsheim, 1945-49 also as a draughtsman at the Central Collecting Point in the Wiesbaden Museum. In 1949 he stayed in New York with a scholarship from the Barnes Foundation, Merion. 1951-71 he taught as a lecturer at the Werkkunstschule Wiesbaden, today the Hochschule RheinMain. In 1976 he was awarded the Max Slevogt Medal of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate. The artist died […]

until 07.12. | #2596ARTatBerlin | Kristin Hjellegjerde Berlin shows from 8th of November 2019 the exhibition “Strangers in Town” with works by the international artists Amina Agueznay, Hiva Alizadeh, Ranti Bam, Liz Collins, Kyle Meyer, Outi Pieski, Erin M. Riley, Robin Kang and Sinta Tantra. As our world becomes increasingly digitised, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery Berlin presents a group exhibition celebrating traditional craftsmanship and tangibility. Strangers in Town brings together the works of nine international artists whose practises examine different forms of materiality through dynamic methods of stitching, weaving, carving and painting. Cultural dialogue and collaboration is at the heart of Amina Agueznay’s practise. The Moroccan artist works with local artisans to create jewellery and installation artworks, often utilising raw materials found in natural landscapes. In this way, Agueznay explores how tradition can be both preserved and progressed in the modern world. Similarly influenced by cultural traditions, Hiva Alizadeh modifies the methods of the nomadic carpet weavers of Kurdistan to create kaleidoscopic artworks. Viewed from a distance, these works appear to be shimmering and fluid, whilst closer inspection reveals layers of vibrant synthetic hair. This deception of materiality plays with the viewer’s expectations, offering a new perspective on both craft processes […]

until 26.10.| #2569ARTatBerlin | Galerie mehdi chouakri currently shows the exhibition 9102hoist / plasmatic breeze round-up by the artist Gerwald Rockenschaub in the gallery rooms at Fasanenplatz. The tenth solo exhibition of works by Gerwald Rockenschaub shows new and previously unknown works. The exhibition entitled 9102hoist / plasmatic breeze round-up is presented at our Fasanenplatz gallery and includes wall works and an object that—given their quasi-minimalistic nature—confront notions of space, colour, form, materiality, and the phenomenon of their own optical viewing experience. Rockenschaub works with a variety of synthetic and industrial materials: acrylic glass, colour vinyls, aluminium, MDF boards, etc. His art may have originated in painting from the 1980’s Neo-Geo movement; it has, however, subsequently developed increasingly towards video, sculpture, and installation. The technical production processes of his works have emerged as a theme—today the works are designed entirely on the computer. By additionally using the technical specifications as titles, Rockenschaub embraces the manufacturing processes. The practical realisation of the designs is delegated by the artist to professional specialist companies and experienced craftsmen. In the exhibition 9102hoist / plasmatic breeze round-up, Gerwald Rockenschaub primarily shows pictorial wall objects. These are composed of acrylic glass and lacquered MDF boards, which […]

until 14.11. | #2571ARTatBerlin | CAMERA WORK shows since 28th September 2019 the exhibition 365° by the artist Eugenio Recuenco. The exhibition includes more than 150 works from the “365°” series, which the artist completed in 2018 after several years of work. The works are presented as spectacular lightboxes, making the exhibition a visually unique experience. It is Recuenco’s second exhibition presented by CAMERA WORK after 2013. Eugenio Recuenco is represented worldwide exclusively by CAMERA WORK and is internationally regarded as one of the most creative photo artists in the field of staged photography. Eight years of work, 120 models, 300 employees and a photo artist: With “365°” Eugenio Recuenco has created an impressive series that is aesthetic, conceptual and content-wise avant-garde. “365°” invites you on a photographic journey through contemporary history. From the art of the late Middle Ages to social networks and contemporary political events, Recuenco stages world events in each of his photographs in a small microcosm. He constructs his sometimes subtle and often elaborately designed settings as scene graphics. These are bounded by a four-meter-high and two-and-a-half-meter-wide box built for the series, in which Recuenco works up “9/11” artistically, sets up Star Wars Stormtrooper, quotes Edward […]