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until 01.11. | #4766ARTatBerlin | Taubert Contemporary shows from Wednesday, 10. September 2025 the exhibition “Konkrete Aquarelle” by the artist Beat Zoderer.
Beat Zoderer has only been devoting himself to classical painting for a few years. For his latest works, the artist uses acrylic paint on MDF boards or cardboard in varying formats. Multicolored, rectangular surfaces, grids, and patterns overlap, shift in front of, behind, and on top of each other in these paintings. The transparency of the colors, used in a film-like manner, allows the overlapping fields to appear in mixed tones. Small squares of uniform size, black, white, or mixed colors, give this richness of color a structure that helps to explore the front and back, the depth of the space that is created. Beat Zoderer is rooted in concrete, not abstract but fundamentally abstract art; the visual exploration of spatiality is one of his main interests.
Beat Zoderer, three layered concrete watercolor, acrylic on MDF, framed | 102 x 102 cm | 40.2 x 40.2 inch | 3.3 x 3.3 ft
The use of water-soluble and therefore transparent acrylic paint led to the title of the new group of works: “Concrete Watercolors.” In analogy to the Japanese, strictly three-line poem form, most of the works are titled “Haiku”: in fact, these paintings are constructed from three layers of paint. This fact amazes the viewer and challenges their perception. By applying the physical optical laws of subtractive color mixing, Beat Zoderer creates an astonishing depth in these paintings. They seem to consist of many more layers of paint and develop a strong pull, but at the same time a playful floating of the colored elements.
These paintings also achieve a sense of lightness through their respective color choices, with Zoderer drawing inspiration from the palette of romantic landscape painters. The color choices and rhythmicity may also evoke distant memories of some of Paul Klee’s geometric works.
Beat Zoderer, three layered concrete watercolor, acrylic on MDF | 51 x 47 cm | 20.1 x 18.5 in
Despite the seemingly precise right angles and constructive geometry of the color fields, all of the paintings also display small imperfections: evidence of the creative process and the artist’s signature style. The rigidity of the grid pattern in terms of surface area and depth is broken up by these individual traces, which the artist deliberately leaves in place. This, too—as in his choice of colors—reveals Beat Zoderer’s quest for a romanticizing power in his paintings: ideally, in their complex simplicity, they may counteract the disenchantment of the world.
It is a wonderful addition that several new three-dimensional reliefs are also being presented. Beat Zoderer layers colorfully painted wood around an imaginary center and arranges it in grid structures. In the work “Würfelspiel” (2025), the small squares from the paintings seem to have taken on a life of their own and, with their spatial depth, structure a two-meter-high, narrow wall object.
About Beat Zoderer
Beat Zoderer *1955 in Zurich, Switzerland.
He lives and works in Wettingen, Switzerland, and Genoa, Italy.
Opening: Wednesday, 10. September 2025, 6 – 9 pm.
Exhibition dates: Wednesday, 10. September – Wednesday, 01. November 2025
Special opening hours (Berlin Art Week): 10. – 14. September 2025, Wed + Thu ,11 am. – 9 pm., Fri + Sat, 11 am. – 6 pm.
To the gallery
Title image caption: Beat Zoderer, acrylic on wood, gummed up | 39 x 34 x 8 cm | 15.4 x 13.4 x.3 inch
Exhibition Beat Zoderer – Taubert Contemporary | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Ausstellungen Berlin Galerien | ART at Berlin
