++ Please find updates and news listed below. +++ Since March 12, 2020, the ART@Berlin editorial team has been receiving more and more reports of cancelled events or temporarily closed art and culture venues in Berlin and the surrounding area in order to delay the spread of the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 and the infectious disease COVID-19 triggered by it. These measures will have a massive impact on public life in Berlin’s art and cultural scene in the near future, and in large parts will be completely shut down. You will find regularly updated information in the list below. ART@Berlin and DEEDS.NEWS has decided (after the Robert Koch Institute raised the risk of infection with the coronavirus to the highest level on March 17th – Details HERE), not to actively advertise any exhibitions at the moment, even if they still take place. Nevertheless, we would like to draw the attention of all art enthusiasts in the sense of the Berlin gallery owners* to the fact that although some (not all) galleries have decided to cancel vernissages or events and some exhibitions, a number of galleries present their current exhibitions virtually or invite individuals by appointment to their exhibitions (temporarily closed to normal visitor traffic) to […]

From 30 April to 3 May 2020 paper positions berlin presents 58 international exhibitors* from 14 countries with outstanding positions from contemporary and modern art on the subject of drawing and the medium of paper. The increased demand and the great interest of galleries in the fair can be seen not least in the considerable increase in international participants. In the impressive atrium of the Deutsche Telekom Capital Representation, paper positions berlin will focus on this special genre within art for the fourth time. The galleries and the artists they represent will have the opportunity to present their work in a … Read the article with all informations further on DEEDS.WORLD   Image caption: paper positions berlin 2018, Photo: ART@Berlin Stephanie Schneider

until 31.01. | #0210ARTatBerlin | Das Verborgene Museum, which means “The Hidden Museum” shows the Foto Exhibition “Dance of the Hands” (Tanz der Hände) from 10th September 2015 to 31st January 2016. The Dance of the Hands was created and shown by the dancers Tilly Losch (*1903 in Vienna, +1975 in New York) and Hedy Pfundmayr (*1899 in Vienna, +1965 in Vienna) during their performance at Salzburger Festspiele in the year 1927. Das Verborgene Museum stands for artworks by female artists, who fell into oblivion for different reasons. Exhibition period: Thursday, 10th September 2015 to Sunday, 31st January 2016    Dance of the Hands – Das Verbogene Museum – Exhibitions in Berlin ART@Berlin

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 29.02. | #2634ARTatBerlin | Stella A. presents on the occasion of the 20th gallery anniversary from 22nd November 2019 the exhibition THINK SMALL! with works by numerous artists. “For twenty years we have been presenting in about 100 exhibitions a program, which could be named (classified under the topic) „Think small“. The title refers to a contribution by George Brecht to an exhibition called „My Cologne Cathedral“ in 1980 (see illustration). The invitation „Think Small!“ not only concerns the size/format of the works but refers to an attitude of „Slower, smaller, less“ as well (notice our show in 2010). Persistently repeating ourselves, we present works dealing with quite complex questions while employing very little material costs, thus making it possible for the beholder to feel part of the creative act. On the occasion of our 20th anniversary in the location Gipsstraße we are presenting selected works of the artists listed below. We cordially invite you to the exhibition THINK SMALL!” Dorle Döpping & Michael Behn Artists:  Milena Aguilar, Roland Albrecht, Fritz Balthaus, Michael Behn, Joseph Beuys, Eddie Bonesire, Henning Brandis, George Brecht, Marcel Duchamp, Edel Exel, Robert Filliou, Nataly Hocke, Ralf Jurszo, Alison Knowles, Katharina Kohl, Jürgen Liefmann, Christoph Mauler, Marc […]

extended through summer | #2719ARTatBerlin | Galerie Barbara Wien currently shows the exhibition “L’Abécédaire de Georges Adéagbo: la civilisation parlant et faisant voir la culture”..! by the artist Georges Adéagbo, curated by Stephan Köhler. “L’Abécédaire de Georges Adéagbo: la civilisation parlant et faisant voir la culture”..! is the second solo exhibition by Georges Adéagbo at Galerie Barbara Wien. In this project, comprising of several assemblages and installations, Adéagbo develops a personal encyclopaedia of things and impressions he has collected throughout his research in Berlin and Benin, and sets them centre stage with his written comments. Adéagbo’s installations are both a cross-section of our time with its diverging geopolitical interests, as well as an evidence of the mediating function of cultures, which Adéagbo makes visible through his cultural transfer. In Benin, he has translated what he found in Berlin into images and reliefs; from there, he brings sculptures and masks which enter into conversation with Western artefacts. At the same time, as the title suggests, the new assemblage is a reflection on the artist’s own practice of collecting and questioning. Georges Adéagbo, L’Abécédaire 2020, Collage Dans Le Pays, Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Barbara Wien, Berlin, Photo: Nick Ash Adéagbo […]

initially until 18.04. | #2720ARTatBerlin | Galerie Martin Mertens shows from 21st March 2020 the exhibition Raum und Hülle by the artist Jens Hausmann. The exhibition can be visited virtually as a 3D Tour (GALLERY VISIT). For many years, Berlin-based painter, Jens Hausmann has been one of the most notable painters in the field of architecture in central Europe. Even if this label in itself is slightly misleading, because for Hausmann his work is not about architecture, but rather about painting. He is a constructivist in the best sense, as his architectural and pictorial spaces are constructions. While many of his architectural forms are based on real buildings, the buildings are mere triggers for the creation of an image. His scenarios are constructed realities, rather than a portrayal thereof. Although the landscape fragments and vegetation that inhabit his paintings have a seemingly romantic element to them, the confrontation between culture and nature is not to be understood in the romantic sense. In his paintings, Hausman makes it clear that nature no longer stands for the ‘other’ that is independent of humankind and therefore the opposite of culture, but rather something already “culturally contaminated” in the age of the Anthropocene and […]

until 04.04. | #2716ARTatBerlin | Galerie ART CRU Berlin shows from 20th March 2020 the”Strippenausstellung” (> String Exhibition) with the artists Uwe Paulsen & Emil Päffel, Achim Maaz, Norbert Backner, Concetta Cassarà, Thi Thu and Katinka Kaskeline. After severe water damage, Galerie ART CRU Berlin is presenting works at greatly reduced prices in a “string exhibition”. During the installation the gallery is also open on Sundays. On 04.11.2019 the non-profit gallery had to close its doors for 3 months. A neighbour had observed water flowing out of the entrance door. After the police and fire brigade had pumped off the water, which was up to 20 cm deep, the gallery management and the team were faced with a terrible sight. Dozens of pictures, stored in folders, were completely soaked. In addition, other works, which had been placed on the floor for hanging the next day, were an easy prey for the water. After viewing and assessing the disaster, it became clear that the gallery had suffered enormous financial damage. This was followed by weeks of clean-up work: unpacking, draining, pressing with absorbent blasting cartons. Paper works were also partly hung on clotheslines to dry in the gallery. Installationsansicht,Strippenausstellung, Galerie ART […]

until 18.04.| #2715ARTatBerlin | Galerie Thomas Schulte presents from 14th March 2020 an exhibition with the XYZ Portfolios by the photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. In addition, a film and other photographs by the artist will be shown, selected by Robert Wilson. Robert Mapplethorpe’s preeminent X, Y, and Z Portfolios will be exhibited for the first time in Berlin at Galerie Thomas Schulte. This is the second time the complete suite has been shown together in Germany since 1997. Created between 1978 and 1981, the three portfolios contain 13 photographs each: X features imagery from New York’s homosexual S&M scene; Y floral still lifes; and Z nude portraits of black men. Robert Mapplethorpe / Ken Moody, 1985/ gelatin silver print / 50,4 x 40,6 cm | 19.8 x 15.9 in © Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation. Used by permission. Robert Mapplethorpe / Joe/Rubberman, 1978 / gelatin silver print / 35 x 35 cm | 14 x 14 in © Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation. Used by permission. Simultaneously, the gallery presents a large group of Mapplethorpe prints selected by another artist of the gallery, avant-garde theater director and designer Robert Wilson. The exhibitions will be on view through 18 April with two special film screenings of […]

until 04.05. | #2712ARTatBerlin | Luisa Catucci Gallery presents from 6th March 2020 the exhibition Céci n’ est pas une Photo with works by Antti Pussinen and Mathilde Nardone. The dialog between the work of the Belgian artist Mathilde Nardone and the work of the Finnish artist Antti Pussinen, resemble more to an ancient dance, rich of contrasts and counterpoints spinning around a familiar melody. Even if the final result is easily mistaken with a classic photograph, both artist Antti Pussinen and Mathilde Nardone are not working with camera and lenses to create their art. Antti uses a personalized peculiar version of the ancient technique of Photogram to trap Lissajous curves onto photographic paper, and Mathilde composes her Nature Morte directly on the screen of a scanner. Antti transform the dynamic to static, while Mathilde catches the static and reveal its inner dynamic. One works in black and white, the other present the whole pompous color range of the floral world. The Finnish artist catches the unseeable frequencies waves and present them in their instantaneous forms of futuristic space design flavor, the Belgian artist picks carefully selected flowers to tell us about unknown stories out of her family history, facing […]

until 04.04. | #2711ARTatBerlin | Sprüth Magers Berlin shows from 11th March 2020 the installation THE SOVEREIGN CITIZENS SESQUICENTENNIAL CIVIL WAR CELEBRATION by the artist Kara Walker. Following on from the acclaimed Kara Walker exhibition at their London gallery, and concurrent with the artist’s ongoing Tate Modern Turbine Hall commission in London, Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers are proud to present a new exhibition of work by Kara Walker at their Berlin gallery. The exhibition in Berlin will present Walker’s film work National Archives Microfilm M999 Roll 34: Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands: Six Miles from Springfield on the Franklin Road, 2009, alongside a monumental 2013 installation piece that is a brilliant example of Walker’s silhouetted wall works – entitled THE SOVEREIGN CITIZENS SESQUICENTENNIAL CIVIL WAR CELEBRATION. This film, from 2009, was developed from Walker’s research into the U.S. National Archives on the War Department’s Bureau of Refugee’s, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, established in 1865 to aid former slaves in the transition to freedom following the American Civil War. The Bureau kept precise records of the brutal and senseless violence inflicted on former slaves during the Reconstruction period, and Walker’s film depicts one such incident, detailed in the archives through interviews […]

until 18.04. | #2708ARTatBerlin | CAMERA WORK presents from 7th March 2020 the exhibition »Fake vs. Reality« by the British artist Alison Jackson. The solo exhibition includes more than 40 works from her world-famous celebrity series, in which she explores the power of images, fake news, yellow press and voyeurism. It is Alison Jackson’s first exhibition at the CAMERA WORK gallery. The exhibition takes place in cooperation with Crossover. © ALISON JACKSON, TRUMP FUCKS MISS MEXICO NAKED (THIS IS NOT DONALD TRUMP), 2016 Alison Jackson’s impressive and often provocative photographs around the themes of fake news, “alternative truths” and news debates hit the nerve of the time. For her work, she uses celebrity doubles to stage convincingly realistic scenes in which seemingly famous personalities from politics, society, music and acting play the leading roles. She shows images of thoughts that the viewer has already imagined but never seen. She indirectly criticizes social and political circumstances and behavior. In addition to re-enacted celebrities, the exhibition also includes portraits of “real” personalities. This “fake vs. reality” game stimulates the viewer to question the truth content of images in their daily reception. © ALISON JACKSON, HARRY MEGHAN CROWN JEWELS, 2017 Jackson’s artistic concept […]

until 18.04. | #2707ARTatBerlin | Contemporary Fine Arts shows from 7th March 2020 the exhibition Space Lips with sculptures and collages by the artist Katja Strunz. The presence of the past is Katja Strunz’s subject, the fold is her method, metal and paper her material. The work is about getting from A to B—what it means, why we care—and in this way, about the relationship between space and time. The daunting continuum! The traumatized body folds time. Traumatic experiences are not processed like memories, instead they get stuck, stored in the body. In psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk’s 2014 bestseller The Body Keeps the Score, he describes how trauma “comprises the brain area that communicates the physical, embodied feeling of being alive,” revealing the physical dimension to the continuous reliving of the past that mires people with PTSD. In the present, survivors experience their traumas as fragmented images, sounds and emotions that the brain can’t register as belonging to the past. In angular flaps and folds, Strunz renders ruptures and intrusions. Metal fans into delicate shapes in neutral tones. Pages of old books find new form, spliced and overlapping. Suspended, sharp angles assume a softness. If life isn’t linear, the present […]

until 18.04. | #2704ARTatBerlin | Galerie aKonzept and Raphael Lévy present from 6th March 2020 the solo exhibition “Subliminale images” by the artist Jiří Valoch. “Our exhibition cannot pretend to explain Valoch’s prolific work, nor place it in the political and artistic context of his time. However, what we are exhibiting sums up fairly well the essence of his work, which is that of extracting meaning from life and of sharing it. It is not difficult to understand his work which, despite its graphic reduction, is generous because it leaves its interpretation open to all. His works often animate our thoughts so vividly that they provoke smiles and the joy of abandoning ourselves in spaces that quickly become familiar to us even if we had never been there. His works are joyfully serious and profound. They are like a friend who suggests to us in a word or two a thought that we make our own. As when Valoch printed in 1973 “fragment of a book that does not exist” on a single sheet, which was at the same time the title of the work. Jiří Valoch is good for us.” Raphaël Lévy fragment of a book that does not […]

until 25.04. | #2703ARTatBerlin | Kristin Hjellegjerde Berlin shows from 13th March 2020 the exhibition “Fragments of Life” by the artist Rebecca Brodskis. In gesture, expression and the subtle distortion of surface reality, Rebecca Brodskis captures whole lives, tells stories of place and friendship, charts love’s course – from exploration through to performance – as a colour, a tangle of limbs, an embrace, and a dance. For her first exhibition at the Kristin Hjellegjerde gallery in Berlin, she has created a truly immersive experience, a landscape of figures she describes as her characters, fragments of life on canvasses large and small. Eyes peer from between fingers and within scarves, hands protect, frame and seek comfort, a mother and child in shades of yellow stand in bright sunshine. The mother favours her right leg to compensate for the child’s weight. She listens to a disembodied voice while the child stares at the viewer with an intensity we suspect is familiar to the artist. “When I was a child, my mother was always telling me not to stare. It made people uncomfortable. When we visited my grandmother in Morocco, she gave me the opposite advice. She was an artist. I remember going […]

until 11.04. | #2700ARTatBerlin | Galerie EIGEN + ART Berlin presents from  27th February 2020 the group exhibition Stand 1D08 (Booth 1D08). Following the cancellation of this year’s Art Basel Hong Kong, the gallery will be showing the presentation designed for its stand 1D08 in the rooms of Galerie EIGEN + ART Berlin from February 27, 2020. Works by Marc Desgrandchamps, Tim Eitel, Uwe Kowski, Neo Rauch, Ricarda Roggan, Kai Schiemenz and Nicola Samorì will be on view. Vernissage: Thursday, 27th February 2020, 5:00 – 8:00 pm Exhibition period: Thursday, 27th February – Saturday, 11th April 2020   Image caption: Neo Rauch, Die Wächter, 2019, Oil on Canvas, 70 x 100 cm, courtesy Galerie EIGEN + ART Leipzig/Berlin, Photo: Uwe Walter, Berlin Exhibition Stand 1D08 – Galerie EIGEN + ART | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin

until 18.04. | #2699ARTatBerlin | Galerie Born Berlin presents from 6th March 2020 the exhibition To The Ground with artworks by the artist Felipe Cusicanqui.  “In 2010 I saw works by Felipe Cusicanqui in a gallery in Santiago de Chile for the first time. Abedules, Barro y Manuela, 2020, mud and acrylic on raw cotton fabric, 165 x 193 cm To The Ground is the third solo exhibition of the Chilean artist at Galerie Born who by now moved to Berlin with his family. Looking at his paintings from within the last ten years, the seemingly endless diversity of the materials used is remarkable. Colgados. Cielo Blanco, 2020, mud and acrylic on canvas, 150 x 190 cm Bosque, Recortes y Mapas, 2019, mixed media on paper, 71 x 100 cm But they all have one thing in common: In the paintings of Felipe Cusicanqui, we always encounter his immediate environments, be it landscape or family. In Chile it was the Andes and the rural work situation, the urban spaces there. You can now discover his Berlin surroundings, the Grunewald, streets, houses, and always his family. Troncos Negros. Brotes Verdes II, 2020, mixed media on jute, 86 x 162 cm In […]

until 28.03. | #2696ARTatBerlin  | Galerie Eigenheim shows from 22nd February 2020 the group exhibition SEE YOU THERE on invitation of the Leipzig artist Adam Noack, with artworks by Tom Ackermann, Anna Bittersohl, Sabine Graf, Olga Grigorjewa, Sebastian Hosu, Anna M. Kempe, Philipp Kummer, Henrike Pilz, Barbara Proschak, Sabine Rak, Yuko Takatsudo und Christiane Wachter. Parallel dazu im Salon der Galerie: Neue Malerei von Adam Noack als Einzelausstellung. Adam Noack has been living and working in Leipzig for 3 years – many new acquaintances have been made, new artist contacts made and studio visits undertaken. EIGENHEIM Weimar/Berlin would like to give this circumstance a forum and shows with this exhibition a selection of different artists made by Adam Noack. Following on from the exhibition I remember you well – Adam Noack invites from the year 2017, the gallery Eigenheim is developing a small tradition. For the gallery, too, it is exciting to work together with new discoveries such as Olga Grigorjewa, Henrike Pilz, Sabine Rak, Sabine Graf, Yuko Takatsudo or Christiane Wachter and to discuss these in dialogue with artists well known to them, such as Tom Ackermann, Phillip Kummer or Anna Bittersohl. This is how the fine watercolors with […]

until 28.03. | #2695ARTatBerlin| Galerie Inga Kondeyne – Raum für Zeichnung shows from 21st February 2020 in the backstage of the gallery a small selection of paperworks by the artist Jana Troschke.  At the same time the Wichtendahl Gallery opens on stage the exhibition Alexandera Deutsch I Eva Walker – Objects, Etchings, Drawings Jana Troschke did not start her artistic life as a draftswoman. After a long phase as a painter of large-format pictures, in which graphic works always played a role, she has been drawing exclusively since 2014. She follows the shapes from her everyday seeing while drawing. With collage or stencil fragments she playfully drives the development on the sheets. By overlaying structured fields and colored areas, a spatialization often arises. She transforms regularities of invented orders by means of free form structures – the artist sets the flow of drawing in motion. Jana Troschke, born 1973 in Münster; 1993-1997 studied sculpture at the AKI, Academy of Fine Arts, Enschede, NL; 2018 and 2019 teaching position for drawing at the University of Dortmund; lives and works in Schildow near Berlin. 4.3.2019, Tusche, 50,5 x 36 cm Exhibitions (Selection) 2019 Open studio, Schildow, René Farber, Jana Troschke 2018 paperfile […]

until 18.04. | #2692ARTatBerlin | Galerie kajetan Berlin shows from 22nd February 2020 the solo exhibition by the artist Elisabeth Vary. Elisabeth Vary builds geometrically clear constructed bodies as image carriers. These structures, serving as the base for painted color, become the painting pieces. “The other defines and develops from one,” says Elisabeth Vary. Elisabeth Vary | Ohne Titel | Untitled | 2009 | zweiteilig | two-partite |  Ölfarbe auf Karton | Oil on cardboard | 20 x 26 x 26,5 cm | Photo: Marcus Schneider   Elisabeth Vary | Ohne Titel | Untitled | 2018 / 2019 | zweiteilig | two-partite | Ölfarbe auf Karton | Oil on cardboard | 16 x 27 x 26 cm | Photo: Marcus Schneider The color is in dialogue with the constructed body and emerges in an increasingly autonomous way in the painting process and becomes the body itself. In this sense, the colour attains its very own life, sometimes pasty or opaque, sometimes transparent, gradually in all imaginable densities. The color gradient and deposition process is constantly observed by the artist, is sometimes revised, restarted, and thus is a rhythmic and continuous painting practice. Elisabeth Vary’s works are a synthesis of painting and sculpture, of strong color […]

until 18.04. | #2691ARTatBerlin | Galerie Barbara Thumm presents from 15th February 2020 the exhibition “The Picture Stands on the Window Sill” with works by the artist Anna Oppermann. It is the fourth gallery exhibition of the artist. Following two wonderful exhibitions at Kunsthalle Bielefeld as well as at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts in Boston, which focused on the development within Oppermann’s oeuvre to expand from two dimensional works into three dimensional installations. Both exhibitions premiered early works and ensembles of the late 1960s and early 1970s. The title “The Picture Stands on the Window Sill“ references the poetic ambivalence of Oppermann’s practice and points out the correlation between the single image and the ensembles, between the body and the gaze and the experience of the environment. The quality of Oppermann’s draftmanship is the basis of Oppermann’s reflections on normative aspects and conventional framing which develops into a multi-dimensional perspective of the later large scale ensemble work. Here are some excerpts from the catalogue text by Friedrich Meschede: Drawing from Nature One of Anna Oppermann’s key works is titled “Being an Artist. Drawing from Nature, for Example, Linden Blossom Petals”. This ensemble, created between 1968 and 1985, […]

until 04.04. | #2688ARTatBerlin | Galerie Brockstedt shows from 22nd February 2020 the exhibition Bäume Traum Räume (> Trees Dream Spaces ) with the artist Alina Cowan and the tree godfather Ben Wagin. Large-format drawings in black and white on the walls by newcomer Alina Cowan (born 1987) are in dialogue with a floor installation by old master Ben Wagin, who celebrates his 90th birthday this year. Wagin’s name has been known in Berlin since the 1960s as the spiritus rector of Weltenbaum I at the Tiergarten S-Bahn station, the painting of the walls of Savignyplatz S-Bahn station and the Parlament der Bäume (> Parliament of Trees) in the government district. Alina Cowan, Bewegung 1, 2013, 186 x 258 cm, Mixed media/paper Cowan, Decay Pinaceae, 2018, 62 x 102 cm, Pencil on paper Alina Cowan born1987 in Aschaffenburg grown up in Germany and Romania 2005-07 vocational baccalaureate for design at the Technical College for Social Work and Design, Munich 2009-15 Studies and diploma in freelance painting and graphic arts at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich since 2016 Study Art in Context (Master), University of the Arts, Berlin since 2016 various art and theatre projects, art actions, performances, video Exhibitions […]

until 28.03. | #2687ARTatBerlin| Daniel Marzona presents from 14 February 2020 the exhibition Death Chase by the artist Vajiko Chachkhiani. One week later, on February 21, Daniel Marzona opens the exhibition A Silent Conversation with Vajiko Chachkhiani and Raijiro Wada at Rolando Anselmi’s. Daniel Marzona is pleased to announce Death Chase, the third solo exhibition of works by Vajiko Chachkhiani. Vajiko Chachkhiani’s work operates somewhere between the outside world and the human psyche, bringing the shadowy aspects of our Conditio humanato awareness through subtle and intriguing visual poetry. Frequently based on performances or transformative actions, many of his sculptures share an affinity to minimalism while at the same time being charged with narrative meaning. Through his sculptures and installations, he addresses psychological conditions such as loneliness, violence and angst, interweaving them with topics from religion, politics, literature, and poetry. Recurring themes in his work are conflict, culture/nature and the oscillation between the outer reality and the inner life of the individual being. For his first exhibition at our new gallery space, Chachkhiani creates one large-scale installation based on a series of previous works titled Endless Ends. During the conflict with Russia in 2008, vast areas of the Georgian forest burned down and were ultimately […]

for now until 20.03. | #2684ARTatBerlin | Sexauer Gallery presents from 8. February 2020 the livestreamed long-term performance www.arturbating.com of the artist Alexander Iskin. In May 2020, the Mönchehaus Museum will honor the artistic work of Alexander Iskin for the first time on the occasion of his 30th birthday in the solo exhibition “Die Ursache liegt in der Zukunft”. Prior to this exhibition, the artist will do the performance www.arturbating.com in the SEXAUER gallery. It will last several weeks, during which Iskin will prepare his first museum exhibition. For about two months, 7 days a week, Iskin will expose himself to a live broadcast in the exhibition hall of the gallery, which will become his studio. Access to the gallery after the opening will only be granted to people who help Iskin to live (survive) in the exhibition space. Further information will be available at the Opening. Alexander Iskin, Foto: Johanna Laleh von Holst In this artistic experiment of an “exhibition preparation performance” the idea of a finished exhibition gives way to the production process. In this, a reference to the work of Joseph Beuys can be seen such as in the involvement of the audience and visitors Vernissage: Friday, 7th […]

until 14.03. | #2678ARTatBerlin | Köppe Contemporary presents from 14th February 2020 the exhibition Strange Days with paintings and drawings by the artist Daniel Harms.  The art of Daniel Harms (*1980 in Hamburg, since 2007 based in Berlin) is inspired by many sources. Even if one initially has the impression that Harms’ visual language is close to graffiti and comics before his paintings, it is above all references to the fine arts that have contributed to the stylistic quality of his works. His paintings are mainly made of acrylic and oil paints. Das Herz | Öl / Leinwand, 2019, 40 x 30 cm O.T. | 70 x 50 cm, Tinte und Acrylstift auf Papier, 2019 “The magic power of the pictures of the Dresden Brücke artists fascinates him, ‘their carefree and unadulterated nature’. The richness of detail in Daniel Harms’ art culminates in the sprinkling of text, which forms a diary-like foundation […]” (Christoph Tannert). But artists such as Max Beckmann, Egon Schiele and Francis Bacon also count among his models. Transitions between ‘high and low’ are thus characteristic of Daniel Harms’ art. The artist usually develops the themes in cycles. War, Little Red Riding Hood and Mirrors are examples […]

until 23.05. | #2681ARTatBerlin | Salongalerie Die Möwe shows from 28th February 2020 the exhibition … aus der Luft (> … from above) with artworks by the artists Zuzanna Skiba and Werner Drimecker. On display is art at the interface between painting and cartography. In its new exhibition “… from above”, the Berlin Salongalerie “Die Möwe” presents works by Zuzanna Skiba and Werner Drimecker, who were not only friends for more than two decades, but also worked together as cartographers. Cartography also influenced their artistic work and led them to an unmistakably individual view of the world and visual language. In his “Kopflandschaften” (> head landscapes) Werner Drimecker, for example, deals with the experiential space of landscape and the mental space of the head, while Zuzanna Skiba’s works can be seen as magnetic fields or aerial photographs as well as mental landscapes. In their first joint exhibition, on view from February 28 to May 23, 2020, the works of both artists enter into a wordless yet eloquent dialogue with one another. Zuzanna Skiba | Magnetfeld eingebettet | 2012-2014 pencil, fineliner, varnish on cardboard | 34 x 35 cm The lives of Zuzanna Skiba (*1968) and Werner Drimecker (1928-2011) meet in […]

until 14.03. | #2680ARTatBerlin | Semjon Contemporary shows from 8th February 2020 the group exhibition CollAGE. With artworks by the artists Colin Ardley, Edward Buchanan, Experimental Setup (Kata Hinterlechner und Bosko Gastager), Dave Großmann, Olaf Hajek, Vanessa Henn, Nataly Hocke, Ib Jorn, Katja Kollowa, Michael Kutschbach, Nanne Meyer, Jan Muche, Henrik U. Müller, D.M. Nagu, Christoph Niemann, Marcel Odenbach, Susanne Pomrehn, Thomas Prochnow, Katja Pudor, Ursula Sax, Sophia Schama, Li Silberberg, Marc von der Hocht, Bettina Weiß and Majla Zeneli. Nanne Meyer, Universe, 2019, 42.2 x 34 cm, Acrylic and collage on paper (Atlas book page); Photo: Nanne Meyer Marc von der Hocht, Niva, 2019, 14.8 x 10.5 cm, printed paper and adhesive foil on cardboard; Photo: Frank Zimmer Vernissage: Friday, 7 February 2020, 7:00 – 9:30 pm Exhibition period: Saturday, 8th February to Saturday, 14th March 2020 Exhibition CollAGE – Semjon Contemporary | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin – Contemporary Art – Exhibition Berlin Galleries – ART at Berlin