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until 28.06. | #4701ARTatBerlin | Laura Mars Gallery shows from 24. May 2025 (Opening: 23.05.) the exhibition -Du- by the artists Anke Völk and Frank Maier.
The exhibition -DU- presents two independent artistic positions that could hardly be more connected – a couple for over 30 years: the Berlin artists Anke Völk and Frank Maier.
The focus is not on the individual work or its stylistic characteristics – as present as they are. Rather, the focus should be on the deliberately chosen title -DU-. And here on the fundamental human experience that we do not recognise ourselves, the world – and also art – by retreating into the ego, but only in the other person – in You. In this exhibition, the “you” not only becomes a metaphor for relationship, but also a space for thinking about difference, closeness, reflection and independence.
In the works on display, two attitudes unfold, different in expression and materiality, which do not harmonise but coexist, question, complement and sometimes contradict each other.
-DU- is an exhibition about closeness and difference, about connection without dissolution and about the profound knowledge that art, like life, only experiences its breadth in the other.
Frank Maier, Über Simulation im Allgemeinen, 2024, mixed media, 77 x 44 x 50 cm. Courtesy of Laura Mars Gallery
About Anke Völk
1965, in Idar-Oberstein, studied 1994 – 2000 at the Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe under Helmut Dorner. 1995 at the Karlsruhe State Academy of Art and Design (HfG) under Günther Förg, 1996 at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna under Peter Kogler. She lives and works in Berlin. Her works can be seen in national and international exhibitions. She is co-founder of the exhibition project “L’oiseau prèsente”, Berlin, 2010. She was a fellow at Villa Aurora, Los Angeles, 2023.
About Frank Maier
1966, in Stuttgart, studied 1989 – 1995 at the State Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe under Werner Pokorny, Elisabeth Wagner and Harald Klingelhöller. He lives and works in Berlin. His works can be seen in national and international exhibitions.
Opening: Friday, 23. May 2025, 7:00 pm.
Exhibition dates: Saturday, 24. May – Saturday, 28. June 2025
Title image caption: Anke Völk, untitled, 2023, mixed media, 60 x 50 cm. Courtesy of Laura Mars Gallery.
Exhibition Anke Völk & Frank Maier – Laura Mars Gallery | Zeitgenössische Kunst Berlin | Contemporary Art | Ausstellungen Galerien | ART at Berlin
