Cities are full of stories – simultaneous, contradictory, overlapping and inseparable. Living the City tells over 50 stories about projects in architecture, art and urban planning in the main hall of the former Berlin Tempelhof airport. The exhibition of the National Urban Development Policy shows processes and possibilities for action in cities throughout Europe. For three months, the former airport is transformed into a scene of urban life. In a walk-in city collage, visitors will encounter a large number of … Read the article further on DEEDS.WORLD   Image caption: Living the City, Exhibition, © Schnepp Renou, 2020

Also in 2020 – for the 9th time already – the EMOP Berlin – European Month of Photography will take place throughout the month of October. This month, more than 100 galleries, museums and cultural institutions invite visitors to discover the multifaceted nature of the medium of photography. Exhibition highlights of the photo festival – the revolutionary solo show hagiography Biorobotica by Andreas Mühe, starting October 9th in the St. Matthäus-Kirche in Tiergarten (Matthäikirchplatz at the Kulturforum) – the relentless exhibition Palermo and the Fight against the Mafia by the legendary photographer Letizia Battaglia, already from September 24 at the Italian Cultural Institute – unique contemporary historical documents in Read the artivle further on DEEDS.WORLD   Image caption: Helmut Newton, Stern, Los Angeles, 1980, © Helmut Newton Estate / Courtesy: Helmut Newton Foundation EMOP 2020 – European Month of Photography | ART at Berlin

From 16 July 2020, the Museum of Photography is showing the exhibition “FOTOGRAFIE. Wolfgang Schulz and the photo scene around 1980”. The focus is on the magazine “FOTOGRAFIE. Zeitschrift internationaler Fotokunst” and its editor Wolfgang Schulz. With around 240 works by Wolfgang Schulz and other photographers*, the exhibition is illuminating an important period of drastic change in the history of West German photography. Addendum: As has now become known, Wolfgang Schulz died on 14 July 2020, two days before the opening of the exhibition, after a long illness. In the years around 1980 photography gained a new status in the art world. New approaches to photography were explored; museums began to show interest in the medium; the first photo galleries opened; photography had its first major appearance at documenta in 1977; and photo magazines were launched. The starting point for the current exhibition on this exciting, transformative period is the photo magazine “FOTOGRAFIE. Zeitschrift internationaler Fotokunst“ (subsequently “Fotografie: Kultur jetzt“), produced in forty issues between 1977 and 1985 under the editorship of Wolfgang Schulz. Hans-Christian Adam, Unterwasser-Gruppenportrait, aus der Serie „Schwimmer“, Vigaun bei Hallein, Salzburg, 1985, Silbergelatinepapier, Leihgabe des Künstlers, © Hans Christian Adam The periodical quickly developed into a […]

until 14.11. | #2883ARTatBerlin | ChertLüdde currently shows the exhibition My Fifty Years In A Nutshell by the artist Vincent Trasov. The exhibition My Fifty Years In A Nutshell is constructed around the artist’s alter ego, Mr. Peanut, with drawings, videos, photographs, paintings, and archival materials narrating this long and ongoing love story. Together with recently produced ink and wash on paper drawings, the exhibition focuses on the 20 day performance Mayoralty Campaign of 1974, which featured John Mitchell as ideator of the peanut campaign, campaign manager and spokesperson. It was an event that brought many diverse artists and groups together in a collaborative context. The campaign fulfilled a real alternative to the political status quo. Art had become life. Mr. Peanut Mayoral Campaign: Mr. Peanut descends steps of Vancouver Court House, 1974; gelatin silver print, Collection of the Morris/Trasov Archive, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, University of British Columbia. Photo by Bob Strazicich. Vincent Trasov is a painter, video and performance artist. His work is often media based and collaborative in spirit, involved with developing networks. He is a Canadian born in 1947 in Edmonton. In 1970 he founded Image Bank with Michael Morris, a method for personal […]

until 09.12. | #2878ARTatBerlin | re|space gallery shows from 9. October 2020 the exhibition South.Southwest with exponents of contemporary Latin American photography by Sebastián Liste, Christina de Middel, Álvaro Ybarra Zavala, Laura León, Jesús Rocandio, Adriana Zehbrauskas, Stephen Ferry, Tomás Munita and Emilia Brandão. The works from the South.Southwest collection exhibited at re|space gallery in Berlin are a curated visual insight into Latin American identity. The visual palette is as diverse as the Latin American people, portraying culture, nature, folklore and the everyday. This fine art photography collection has been compiled by the artists Sebastián Liste, Christina de Middel, Álvaro Ybarra Zavala, Laura León, Jesús Rocandio, Adriana Zehbrauskas, Stephen Ferry, Tomás Munita and Emilia Brandão to showcase the strength of contemporary Latin American photography. As photographers, the artists are under the patronage of Leica Iberia, have worked extensively with world-renowned photography agencies such as Magnum and Getty Images, are represented in established fine-art collections such as the New York Metropolitan Museum and have been published in major international publications such as Time Magazine. Though partially stemming from documentary photography projects, the works within this collection have been chosen for their distinct artistic value. What distinguishes this collection from documentary photography […]

until 27.11. | #2890ARTatBerlin | Peres Projects presents from 30th October 2020 the exhibition Diálogos Remotos by the artist Dalton Gata. Peres Projects is pleased to present Diálogos Remotos, Dalton Gata’s (b. 1977, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba) first solo exhibition in Berlin. Born in Cuba and based in Puerto Rico, Gata’s work operates across multiple registers; the symbolic, political, as well as the personal to address themes of migration, desire, and consciousness. In Diálogos Remotos Gata, invites us into an imagined home and the six paintings on view are set in various rooms, looking out at the world beyond their walls. Their compositions hover between the intimacy of private interiors and distant vistas and are populated with details from the Gata’s real life and home – a photograph of the artist as a baby, the terrazzo flooring in his studio. These instances of the real are haunted by their own instability, as with the bloodied floor under the tiger’s lunch, and the sleek equine figure with a human face, uncanniness populates each canvas. Gata’s domestic spaces draw on an association of familiarity and safety while simultaneously offering unsettling revelations into the unconscious mind – that which is dreamed, the ego […]

until 22.11. | #2889ARTatBerlin | König Galerie (Chapel) shows from 30. October 2020 the solo show Renegade Dreams Hanging From The Clouds with new works by the artist Basim Magdy. It is the first solo exhibition of the artist in the gallery. At CHAPEL, eight works on canvas and a video work will be shown. In Basim Magdy’s film New Acid, the animals communicate with each other via text message, just like people. The lemurs plan their exit from the animal kingdom; a pensive sea lion contemplates the immateriality of Bitcoins; and close by, a hippopotamus monologises about weight complexes. At first sight, New Acid seems to be about humour and banality, but clearly the film soon enters the realms of more pressing issues: nationalism, racism, social hierarchies. Basim Magdy, New Acid, 2019, Super 16 mm film, computer generated text messages transferred to Full HD video, 1/6 + 2 AP, 14:18 min (still), courtesy of the artist and KÖNIG GALERIE Berlin, London, Tokyo Basim Magdy sets out to visualise our usual communication structures and show that all forms of society, no matter how open they may seem, are guided by similar structures and power relations. While New Acid centres on […]

until 19.12. | #2886ArtatBerlin | Kristin Hjellegjerde Berlin shows from 31st October 2020 the solo show A Stopped World with works by the artist Caroline Jane Harris. A vast textured sky, bruised blue, purple and pink, with billowing clouds of smoke simultaneously evokes a sense of stillness and motion, fragility and power. Turning her eye once again to reproductions of nature’s expanse, British artist Caroline Jane Harris’ new body of work explores the making and manifestation of imagery in the digital age. Combining subjects captured from books and internet videos with her signature process of cutting-out digital prints by hand, Harris creates visually complex and arresting works that re-examine the tactility and dimensionality of images. A Stopped World, her solo exhibition at Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery Berlin, offers a meticulous examination of our engagement with technology, habits of perception, and experience of time and space. In Harris’ work subject-matters aren’t preconceived. Instead, the artist collects images that she’s drawn to from various sources, which are detached from their original contexts and later, imbued with new meaning through her layered creative process. For this body of work, the artist photographed aerial photographs in found books, bestowing a lack of definition and veracity […]

until 04.12. | #2885ARTatBerlin | Luisa Catucci Gallery shows from 29. October 2020 the exhibition SIGNS with works by the artists Anne Cécile Surga and Paolo Treni. The works of French sculptress Anne Cecile Surga and the ones of the Italian artist Paolo Treni do not seem to have much in common at first sight. Anne Cecile uses one of the most classical materials and techniques in art history: marble and sculpting. Paolo Treni instead uses ultra-modern technology – plexiglass, enamels, varnishes, and laser – combined with handcraft for his creations, and we could say he’s making here and now the art history of its technique. Anne Cecile’s pieces are monochromatic, except for the nuances of the marble’s veining, while Paolo’s are an explosion of multiple colors. Surga’s sculptures are static, solid, and matte. Treni’s pieces are glossy, and their medium gives them illusionary organic fluidity, as their perception changes during the day, following the reflection and refraction of the natural light. The reasons behind the exhibition-dialog between these two artists are not only their fascinating opposites but their shared ability to create a powerful sign, a sort of hypnotic melody, to give voice to illusions. As the magical chant […]

until 10.01. | #2882ARTatBerlin | Haus am Waldsee presents from 18th October 2020 the exhibition INTO SPACE by the sculptors Berta Fischer, Björn Dahlem and Naum Gabo. “Into Space” deals with man’s longing for space, for weightlessness, distant galaxies and the belief in hitherto incomprehensible energies beyond our perception. Three sculptors reflect the interfaces between art and science over a century and from Berlin. Following the exhibition “Lynn Chadwick, Hans Uhlmann, Katja Strunz”, which explored the subject of “Fold” at Haus am Waldsee in 2019, Björn Dahlem (*1974), Berta Fischer (*1973) and Naum Gabo (1890-1977) are now taking up an artistic conversation about space and time between 1920 and 2020 with installations and sculptures. For Naum Gabo, art in the 1920s meant a means of gaining knowledge about the physics of our planet. The Jewish-Russian artist, who had emigrated to Berlin and who, together with his brother Antoine Pevsner, had shortly before written the “Realistic Manifesto”, which was groundbreaking for sculpture, was constantly searching for new materials and means of expression, “not for the sake of the new, but to find expression for the new view of the world around me and for new insights into the forces of life […]

until 09.01. | #2881ARTatBerlin | 68 projects shows from 7th November 2020 the exhibition Rooms & Beings with works by Georgian artist Rusudan Khizanishvili, curated by Nina Mdivani. Rooms & Beings is the first solo presentation of Georgian artist, Rusudan Khizanishvili in Berlin. Khizanishvili balances between Georgian culture, which is so rich in traditions, and the conceptually driven contemporary discourse on representation and its functions. The fourteen works on view were all created in 2020 while the artist was living in Tbilisi, and can be thematically divided into two categories: works centred around sacral transformations, and those featuring theatrically staged interactions within rooms. These two themes are implicitly interconnected for the artist, as the human being and her identity are of central interest. Questions of self, connections to biology, cultural memory and myths, and the female body are all the subjects of an ongoing investigation for Khizanishvili, who shows maturity of purpose and mastery of colour. Khizanishvili’s paintings go against the grain of constructed identity as expected from a post-Soviet artist. By creating a powerful and unique visual vocabulary, she remains only loosely connected to the preoccupations of post-colonialism, addressing them in more abstract terms, rather than aspects of mastery […]

until 09.12. | #2878ARTatBerlin | re|space gallery shows from 9. October 2020 the exhibition South.Southwest with exponents of contemporary Latin American photography by Sebastián Liste, Christina de Middel, Álvaro Ybarra Zavala, Laura León, Jesús Rocandio, Adriana Zehbrauskas, Stephen Ferry, Tomás Munita and Emilia Brandão. The works from the South.Southwest collection exhibited at re|space gallery in Berlin are a curated visual insight into Latin American identity. The visual palette is as diverse as the Latin American people, portraying culture, nature, folklore and the everyday. This fine art photography collection has been compiled by the artists Sebastián Liste, Christina de Middel, Álvaro Ybarra Zavala, Laura León, Jesús Rocandio, Adriana Zehbrauskas, Stephen Ferry, Tomás Munita and Emilia Brandão to showcase the strength of contemporary Latin American photography. As photographers, the artists are under the patronage of Leica Iberia, have worked extensively with world-renowned photography agencies such as Magnum and Getty Images, are represented in established fine-art collections such as the New York Metropolitan Museum and have been published in major international publications such as Time Magazine. Though partially stemming from documentary photography projects, the works within this collection have been chosen for their distinct artistic value. What distinguishes this collection from documentary photography […]

until 19.12. | #2877ARTatBerlin | Galerie Pugliese Levi presents from 2nd October 2020 the solo show Volumes with photographs by the artist Mary Ellen Bartley. The exhibition takes place as part of the EMOP – European Month of Fotografie. Mary Ellen Bartley is known for her photographs exploring the tactile and formal qualities of the printed book and its potential for abstraction. In her poetic minimalist images, the books’ contents are often hidden or only partially revealed, underscoring the tension between narrative and purely formal concerns. Bartley has made projects in the private libraries of artists Robert Wilson, Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner, as well as Giorgio Morandi. For this exhibition the multiple meanings of its title Volumes will be explored, in the subject of volumes of books, the quiet volume of color palettes, and the geometric volumes of the compositions. It will also include a photo of Jackson Pollock’s damaged jazz records. This exhibition at Galerie Pugliese Levi is the first solo show of the artist in Germany. Mary Ellen Bartley was born in New York in 1959. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Purchase College, State University of New York and currently lives in Sag Harbor, NY. Her work […]

until 31.10. | #2874ARTatBerlin | Galerie Eigenheim shows from 3rd October 2020 the exhibition Werk und Fortsetzung by the artists Gabriele Stötzer and Paula Wehrmann. The exhibition is curated by Bianka Voigt and Konstantin Bayer, in cooperation with the GfZK (Gallery of Contemporary Art Leipzig) and takes place in the framework of the EMOP – European Month of Photograpy. Gabriele Stötzer is one of the most impressive artists of our German-German present. Her multi-media, interdisciplinary working methods, including painting, photography, film, performance and fashion, photo books and above all writing, defied the oppressive power relations of the GDR dictatorship, rebelled against patriarchy and explored physical as well as collective conditions, thus testifying to an untiring process of questioning one’s own as well as society’s situation. On the occasion of the European Month of Photography (EMOP), EIGENHEIM Weimar/Berlin organised the exhibition Werk und Fortsetzung (Work and Continuation) together with the two artists Paula Gehrmann & Gabriele Stötzer. Paula Gehrmann developed already in 2019, based on her own artistic practice, a room installation for the exhibition, research and mediation project in three parts Conscious Incapacity – The Archive Gabriele Stötzer, in the GfzK Leipzig. Conscious Incapacity – The Gabriele Stötzer Archive was a […]

until 26.11. | #2873ARTatBerlin | Galerie mutare shows from 26th September 2020 the exhibition EIN KOMPLIZIERTES MÄDCHEN UND EIN ALPHA-TIER with sculpture and graphic by the artist Hans Scheib. Women in provocative yet aesthetic, even profound poses, animals with almost human features, the interplay of figures – an expressive, small, fine show of works by the sculptor and graphic artist Hans Scheib. The human figure is at the centre of his artistic work. Expressive, moving, at times absurd, no contradiction to her poses, which at times seem to be everyday. Hans Scheib takes us along to discover things we know, and at the same time he lets us see everything in a new way. The objects by Hans Scheib, one of the most influential German sculptors of the present day, captivate us with their expression and precise execution. For many decades his unique selling point. He constantly takes up current socio-critical, even political themes, but works that follow a fashionable direction within wood sculpture will be sought in vain. Probably also because they stand for his own search for unconditional truth and timeless beauty. In this way, the artist becomes a storyteller, both within his respective staging of his works […]

until 07.11. |#2865ARTatBerlin | Galerie Dittmar presents an exhibition by the artist Nicole Phungrasamee Fein starting September 10, 2020. Nicole Phungrasamee Fein, born in 1974 in Evanston, Illinois and raised in Santa Barbara, California, lives and works in San Francisco. She studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Tufts University, Medford, and Mills College, Oakland. Beginning in 2002, Wynn Kramarsky acquired works by the artist for his prominent collection of drawings. Fein’s works were introduced to Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, that same year.  Her works are in the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum, New York, Fogg Museum, Cambridge, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, Menil Drawing Institute, Houston, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, among others. Nicole Phungrasamee Fein, Iron oxide, 25,4 x 25,4 auf 38,1 x 38,1 cm, 2020 The starting point for the works is the line; one line runs into another forming the field. This is the underlying principle and also the basis for further, more extensive exploration. In the watercolours from around 2010, horizontal and transversing stripes of various widths define the image. The areas in between are kept in finely nuanced light or dark […]

until 14.11. | #2858ARTatBerlin | Bermel von Luxburg Gallery shows from 11th September 2020 the group show EQUILIBRIUM. The title comes from Latin and means “balance”. It is about the balance of three painters and three sculptors who are shown in dialogue: Works by Christo Daskaltsis, Philipp Haager, Masaya Hashimoto, Kosuke Kato, Nadège Mouyssinat and Robert Pan will be presented. Robert Pan, Gold Christo Daskaltsis, 0916-02, 2016, 80 x 120 cm, Oil on Aluminium It is also about a balance in unknown and unequal times. A balance in the post Covid-19 era, when the world was plunged into uncertain and unbalanced times. With this exhibition the gallery wants to set a sign of hope, stability and faith. Masaya Hashimoto, Narcissus tazetta var. chinensis, 33 x 17 x 7 cm, deer antler, 2019, Copyright Haruhi Okuyama, 2020 Kosuke Kato, Legato V Philipp Haager, Z2_Nahfeld Phase #15 4zu3 Asian Nebula, 2016, 170 x 260 cm, Indian ink, linen montiert In the cabinet, under the title SELECTIONS, selected works by Thomas Canto, Uli Fischer, Benjamin Herndon, Lev Khesin and Olaf Schirm are on display. Preview Days: Wednesday 9 September + Thursday 10 September 2020 from noon to 8 pm Vernissage: Friday, 11 September […]

until 17.10. | #2847ARTatBerlin | White Square Gallery is showing now the exhibition “PAPER  CARDBOARD WOOD CANVAS: PART 3” with works by Sebastian Heiner, Albrecht Klink, Ashley Scott and Heinrich Maria Davringhausen. Ashley Scott, The hands of a Bubi Woman – El Rakahua, paper and acrylic paint on wood panel, 80 x 72 x 13 cm, 2020 Exhibition dates: Friday, August 28 – Saturday, November 07, 2020     Exhibition PAPER CARDBOARD WOOD CANVAS: PART 3 – White Square Gallery | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin  

until 31.10. | #2868ARTatBerlin | BORCH Gallery presents the exhibition “Ideas of Utopia” with works by the artist Fiona Tan from September 12, 2020. The interview with the artist in the context of Gallery Weekend 2020 and background information on her work can be found on DEEDS.WORLD. The exhibition Ideas of Utopia shows photogravure projects and the video-installation Elsewhere (2018). Urban Utopia Fiona Tan’s Studies for Elsewhere (2018) comprises two diptychs referring to Thomas More’s book Utopia (1518). In his fictional travelogue, More describes an ideal society built on equality, religious tolerance, welfare, and justice. To give this society independency from the outside world, he imagined it to have its own alphabet and developed the coded written script that Tan would use 500 years later in her diptychs to express her own account of contemporary utopia, while spending a year in Los Angeles. Fiona Tan, Elsewhere (still), HD Installation, Color, Stereo, 2018 The transcripts of Tan’s thoughts are juxtaposed to photogravures in which we see skyscrapers fade into the hazy sky above the cityscape of Los Angeles in dreamy shades of purple and blue. A city loaded with connotations and preconceived imaginations from film and visual culture. Almost as a phenomenon […]

until 31.10. | #2870ARTatBerlin | Galerie Tanja Wagner shows from September 11, 2020 the exhibition “Mixed Feelings” with works of the artist Grit Richter. The interview with the artist in the context of Gallery Weekend 2020 and background information on her work can be found on DEEDS.WORLD. Foremost a painter, she uses oils on stretched linen and fabric to create her anthropomorphic abstract forms. Experimentation is an important part of her practice and led Richter to create her unique technique of dying and bleaching black denim fabric onto which she paints and sculpts with. The result is the deeply textured elements that bend, fold and contrast in both foregrounds and backgrounds. Grit Richter explores the representation of a collective human memory: an innately understood set of gestures and feelings that cannot be quantified or measured. Her multi-disciplinary practice of painting, sculpture, murals and textile work unites in a system of intuitive abstract forms and figurations. Grit Richter, The Other Side, 125 x 100 cm, 2020 Mixed Feelings refers to the multitudinous combinations of contradictory emotions that can be felt at any one time. In both their singularity and plurality, those mixed emotions, such as longing, hatred, love, fear, loneliness, frustration, shame […]

 until 14.11. | #2840ARTatBerlin | Sprüth Magers Berlin presents from 12th September 2020 the exhibition by the artist Andreas Gursky. Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers are pleased to present a substantial exhibition of new photographs by Andreas Gursky at their Berlin gallery, his first new body of work in almost three years, in which he takes up a range of themes that he has investigated for decades. The exhibition will also be accompanied by an online show on their website. Despite the continuity in theme and subject matter—our built environment and humankind’s impact on the natural world—the new pictures embed his analyses in current events, offering altered settings and situations to explore. Rhine III (2018) revisits his important work Rhine II (1999)—the dimensions, setting and composition of both are all almost identical. And yet, just twenty years later, the mood is drastically altered. The drought of summer 2018 reduced the river to a record low, and the new picture offers a dystopian vision of the once flourishing river landscape. Cruise (2020) also brings to mind an important earlier work, Paris, Montparnasse (1993). The same grid-like structure appears, but instead of a large apartment building, here there are hundreds of windows […]

until 31.10. | #2844ARTatBerlin | Galerie EIGEN + ART Berlin is currently showing the exhibition “In abisso” with works by the artist Nicola Samorì. The interview with the artist in the context of Gallery Weekend 2020 and background information on his work can be found on DEEDS.WORLD. Nicola Samorì’s relationship to the sources of his pictures is suffused with a continuous grappling with the history of visual art – not didactic, but substantive. His work as a painter and sculptor necessarily implies confrontation with this legacy, which nowadays is all too often regarded as unwieldy ballast. Samorì has no fear of the past or of his predecessors. He takes possession of them as role models and uses them to traverse the necessary path of knowledge and selfknowledge, using them as instruments to deconstruct their language and to found his own poetics. Nicola Samorì, La degenerazione di Daniel, Oil on Bardiglio marble, 40 x 30 cm, 2020 The suggestive power of an art-historical icon can be so great that it is reworked again and again over the centuries; each work becomes a building block that gradually loses every component of recognizability, increasingly becomes one with its respective creator, and moves ever further […]

until 17.10. | #2841ARTatBerlin + #2843ARTatBerlin | Michaela Helfrich Galerie presents from 10th September 2020 The exhibition Sag Was – Say Something with works by the artists Simon Czapla, Susanne Husemann, Thomas Jüptner, Ulrike Pisch,  Pina Rath, Elena Tamburini and Gerard Waskievitz. Simon Czapla “Pop culture meets hyperrealism. Once Simon Czapla sets up a new canvas, the drama starts. With precision and humor, he stages his protagonists and questions our identity and existence in its current state in a subtle yet sharp-tongued way.” Simon Czapla, Hans im Glück, Öl auf Leinwand, 180 x 130 cm, 2019 Susanne Husemann “Perhaps the contemporary heroic journey is a journey in ourself and the hero is somone who is able to transform the battleground between heart, larynx and brain into a departure point for hummingbirds. The power of the hummingbird transcends time and creates an image.“ Susanne Husemann Thomas Jüptner “You have enchanted me, beloved, my bride! “One look out of your eyes and I was spellbound. Tell me, does it have a charm, the jewelry on your neck? How happy you make me with your tenderness!” (Bible, Song of Songs 4: 9-11) Thomas Jüptner  Ulrike Pisch “If words are too sharp but colour […]

until 31.10. | #2859ARTatBerlin | Galerie Z22 presents the exhibition “The Beautiful Ones…” with works of painting and steel by the artists Joax and Zam Johnson from September 19, 2020. In his sculptures Joax processes current events. He says: Almost everything that a person thinks, i.e. that which swells out of his head, flows, emerges and is activated, symbolises the desire for constant research and development. The revolution in science has managed to manipulate genes and creatures like the cloned sheep Dolly have long been reality. The human being of today’s reality is in the first generation of a duality between natural and artificially man-made life. Frightening, fascinating hybrid creatures are born. The later consequences are not known. Through unnatural intervention, living conditions are changed, rejuvenation becomes possible, according to the desire as it has existed for thousands of years in the sense of the fountain of youth. By striving for rejuvenation, manipulated material intervenes in the natural processes of aging. Man thinks up processes with his brain, makes use of the technical possibilities and goes beyond ethical and moral concerns. Manipulation becomes an instrument, even normality. This also applies to politics and society. A new state of affairs emerges. […]

until 14.11. | #2851ARTatBerlin | Persons Projects presents the exhibition “Time Is No Longer Around” by the artist Santeri Tuori from September 11, 2020. Persons Projects is delighted to present Santeri Tuori‘s solo exhibition Time is No Longer Round, opening on Friday, 11 of September 2020, on the occasion of the Berlin Art Week. The show will also be part of the European Month of Photography (EMOP) Berlin. Santeri Tuori uses a camera to engage with the properties of nature and its power of change over the past two decades. Forests, skies, lilies, and wind are only some of the basic elements you might find in any Nordic landscape, and all become items of Tuori’s interest and observation. How should we value these essential features that make up the northern scenery is the fundamental question that lies behind Tuori’s work and his fascination with the passage of time. To fully comprehend his approach is to begin by seeing how he integrates his life into his projects. An avid sailor, Tuori tours the Finnish Archipelago each summer, searching for new locations to begin and follow his measured cyclical observations. The small island of Kökar outside of Åland has been his primary […]

until 14.11. | #2856ARTatBerlin | drj art projects shows from September 27, 2020, the exhibition “Schraffuren” with works of the artist Anette Haas. The third show of the year 2020 at drj art projects is a solo exhibition of programme artist Anette Haas [b. 1961 in Salzgitter, Germany]. In her work Anette Haas has been concentrating on essential questions of image and space for a long time. Materiality and technique, which constitute a work of art, interest her just as much as time and perception, both of which determine the creation and vision of art. In this respect, she is intensively engaged with their basic phenomena, such as line and space, colour and its nuances, the relationship between figure and ground or geometry and proportion. Anette Haas‘ artistic approach oscillates between elementary poles such as contrast and consistency, densification and openness, boundary and field, and also explicitly their transitions. The investigations and developments derived from this can be seen in her various groups of works such as paintings, drawings and prints. Anette Haas, Linien I, Graphite on plaster, 29 x 25 x 2 cm, 2020 In the current exhibition, in specific juxtapositions, it is displayed how Anette Haas reflects on […]

until 07.11. | #2857ARTatBerlin | EFREMIDIS GALLERY shows from September 11, 2020, exhibition “Good” with works of the artist Hadi Fallahpisheh. Hadi Fallahpisheh performs alone in the darkroom. The lack of light impairs his vision and, consequently, movements become absurd and cumbersome. To make his work he uses different tools and methods: balls and flashlights, ceramic and photographic techniques. The performance has elements of slapstick comedy. Isolated in a pitch-dark room, the artist throws a ball—again and again—at a sheet of metallic Kodak paper. Sometimes missing its target altogether, when the ball does hit the paper, a bulb lights up. The flash causes a photogram and by exposing different objects, creates faint outlines and grids. In the following step, he uses a flashlight to make line drawings on the light-sensitive paper. Hadi Fallahpisheh shrugs at the rules: he crosses boundaries between media and ideas and misuses his materials. The strength of his photographic surfaces lies in their remarkable painterly appearance. It’s only logical that the artist stretches the thick photographic paper to mimic and also taunt the idea of painting. Hadi Fallahpisheh, Love in the Room, 2020 The resulting artworks are twofold: a document of a lonesome performance and an […]