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until 20.11. | #4830ARTatBerlin | Semjon Contemporary shows from, 16. October 2025 the exhibition “Something magic” by the artist Amélie von Heydebreck.
Amélie von Heydebreck’s second solo exhibition at Semjon Contemporary features works from her most recent studio production.
There is something buzzing in the exhibition space that is elusive and utterly fascinating: the physical presence of the works on the one hand as materialised, physical artefacts of an artistic idea and attitude that has been transformed into images – for themselves, but also in dialogue with each other – and the radiance of each light painting.
And the radiance is something else! In one group of works, there is a centre of light that radiates explosively into the surrounding dark-coloured pictorial space, finding its (radiant) boundary in the other colour space, and eventually extinguishing itself, setting the stage for the surrounding colour darkness (cf. AUTUMN VIBES and DAYDREAM). One might think one is witnessing the birth of a star or a planet. The concentration of light or energy is so high that the next thing one might expect is a cosmic formation, materialised as a solid, to leap out of the picture. At the same time, these works embody a dynamic in which the indefinable light figures in the form of beams of light are surrounded by an aura of light in a different colour, which in some cases even embodies a rotating moment, as if a trail of light were being dragged behind, tracing the rotating and “spinning” movement of the energy centre (cf. BALANCE). This pictorial principle, now inverted, reflects the same situation, except that the centres of light are replaced by darkness and are reminiscent of energy-charged “black holes” (cf. POTION in its mystical red).
Amélie von Heydebreck, Balance (Light Painting), 2025,
46 x 40 cm, pigment print on Alu Dibond, Photo: Amélie von Heydebreck
Or light-coloured clouds of colour diffuse into equally light-coloured spaces, creating a delicate, almost “fragrant” image that is animated by its tenderness and stable fragility.
A situation that naturally seems contradictory (i.e. incompatible), but which describes the visual experience quite well (cf. INTO THE BLUE and FREQUENCIES). The delicacy, also translated here by countless small dots of colour, is reminiscent of pointillism in early modern impressionist painting.
All light paintings seem to capture a moment that represents the energetic mixing of colour clouds. A sea of light dust shimmers and hisses, rushes and throbs, constantly reconfiguring itself into new constellations. An endless process, or does it come to a standstill at some point? We don’t know. However, it is impossible to escape the energies that are discharged here and unleash a very unique visual language. Something magical is happening here. Something magic.
The exhibition title for the new works couldn’t be more apt!
Semjon H. N. Semjon
October 2025
Opening: Thursday, 16. October 2025, 7 – 9:30 pm.
Exhibition dates: Thursday, 16. October 2025 until Thursday, 20 November 2025
To the gallery
Title image caption: Amélie von Heydebreck, Daydream (Light Painting), 2025, 25,5 x 20 cm (25,2 3 x 20,8 cm, gerahmt), Pigment-Druck auf Alu-Dibond; Photo: Amélie von Heydebreck.
Exhibition Amélie von Heydebreck – Semjon Contemporary | Zeitgenössische Kunst | Contemporary Art | Ausstellungen Berlin Galerien – ART at Berlin
