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until 06.12. | #4839ARTatBerlin | Galerie Inga Kondeyne shows from Saturday, 25. October 2025 the anniversary exhibition “Auf den Punkt gebracht” on the occasion of 45 years of gallery work. With works by Marlies Appel, Eve Aschheim, Curt Asker, James Bockelman, Claudia Busching, Nadine Fecht, Thomas Gosebruch, Hanna Hennenkemper, Alexander Klenz, Astrid Köppe, Bettina Munk, Kazuki Nahkahara, Johannes Regin, Dorothee Rocke, Christian Schiebe, Hanns Schimansky, Carsten Sievers, Christiane Schlosser, Malte Spohr, Sam Szembek, H. Frank Taffelt, Beate Terfloth, Jana Troschke and Konrad Wohlhage.
“45 years of gallery work – a long road with countless exhibitions up to today’s drawing gallery in Carmerstraße on Savi-gnyplatz in Berlin. Each one was and is a new challenge. This one too. There are mainly current drawings by 24 artists on display. Some works also come from the depot. Let us surprise you.
In the mid-1980s, during the time of the Rotunde Gallery in the Altes Museum, I fell under the spell of the medium of drawing through the art of my generation. This generation reacted to the traditional attitudes of the so-called East Berlin school of painting in an increasingly experimental way with abstract formulations on paper.
With works by Joachim Böttcher, Volker Henze, Hanns Schimansky and Harald Toppl, just three months after 9 November 1989, as an art historian I became part of the magnificent exhibition in Paris at the Grand Halle de la Vilette: L’autre Allemagne hors les murs.
Soon afterwards, I opened a new gallery in the Hackesche Höfe. This was the beginning of a fruitful and eventful collaboration with the gallery owner Rainer Borgemeister (1953 – 2001). My vision and my programme opened up through expanded visual experience and the insights that came with it. After Rainer Borgemeister’s fatal road accident, Galerie Seitz&Partner joined me in this place.
The cosmopolitan drawing worlds of the Swedish artist Curt Asker, the clearly composed black and white paper objects by Claudia Busching, the fascinating spatial installations with everyday materials by Bernhard Garbert, Hanns Schimansky’s drawings and folds with those foreboding spaces of thought in which the imagination lives itself out were groundbreaking for me.
From then on, I concentrated even more on linear formal inventions in drawing in the programme: Eve Aschheim, Thomas Gosebruch, Astrid Köppe, Christiane Schlosser, Malte Spohr, Sam Szembek, Dorothe Rocke, Beate Terfloth. The Hackesche Höfe were sold. I moved the gallery to Linienstraße, next door to the Swiss gallery owner Marianne Grob.
In the so-called noughties, I gradually opened up my programme to younger artists – mainly graduates of the Weissensee Kunsthochschule Berlin. Today, at Carmerstraße 10, where the gallery has been located for almost 15 years, drawings by Hanna Hennenkemper, Kazuki Nakahara, Johannes Regin, Alexander Klenz and Christian Schiebe are integrated into my exhibition programme.
In Carmerstraße, the co-operation with Galerie Wichtendahl has been running for 10 years now. Cornelia Wichtendahl is a very committed collaborator when it comes to works on paper.
My thanks go to all named and unnamed artists and to all those who have accompanied and supported my drawing endeavours over the past 45 years.”
Text: Inga Kondeyne
The Wichtendahl Gallery shows backstage: KRISTIN GROTHE | Etchings.
Title image caption: © Galerie Inga Kondeyne
Exhibition Auf den Punkt gebracht – Galerie Inga Kondeyne | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Ausstellungen Berlin Galerien | ART at Berlin
