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until 07.02. | #4865ARTatBerlin | Galerie Martin Mertens shows from Friday, 21. November 2025 the Group exhibition “Colorful Abstraction” by the artists Thorbjørn Bechmann, Antje Blumenstein, Katrin Bremermann, Joanna Buchowska, Martin Bünger and Matthias Kanter.
Danish painter Thorbjørn Bechmann explores the tension between chance and control in his work. His pieces are created through the interplay of freely moving paint, which makes its way across the canvas, and the artist’s constant intuitive interventions. Bechmann creates soft gradients that resemble delicate veils of colour. The process of layering many colours creates surfaces full of tension. The large-format works have an impressive luminosity and are reminiscent of dazzling, harmonious plays of light.
In recent years, colour, light and spatiality have become central aspects of Antje Blumenstein‘s work. The Berlin-based artist often uses special materials such as neon tubes or fluorescent acrylic glass panels, which she layers and/or mills lines into to create fascinating geometric colour spaces that generate an intensely colourful interplay of surface and space through transparency and densification. The colour itself is transformed into a three-dimensional form. They encourage the viewer to move constantly and change their perspective.
Für die Berliner Künstlerin Katrin Bremermann steht das freie Spiel mit geometrischen Formen und die Erforschung positiver und negativer Formen, die Gewichtung von Flächen und Linien auf dem Blatt oder der Leinwand stets im Mittelpunkt. Ihre Bilder werden meist von einer kräftigen Primärfarbe dominiert und wirken oft wie Chiffren oder Symbole, Blaupausen oder Muster.
Joanna Buchowska‘s colourful and extremely (also in the literal sense) multi-layered works are created from paper, magazine or newspaper clippings. Concrete elements can flow into the picture, losing their original motif and taking on a completely different function within the collaged image network. Recently, spatiality and representationalism in her pictorial worlds have increasingly taken a back seat in favour of a freer, abstract composition.
Martin Bünger‘s painting moves between intuition and composition, between spontaneous gesture and precise structure. His works unfold a quiet intensity that captivates the viewer less through narrative motifs than through the immediate presence of colour, surface and rhythm. In his abstract works, painting becomes a process of searching and creation – each layer responds to the previous one, each densification to a pause.
In his exploration of the history of painting, Matthias Kanter focuses on colour as a carrier of meaning and as a space-creating element in the pictorial space. The exploration of subtle colour tones and the conveyance of emotions through colour alone has become his central theme. His works require the viewer to open up emotionally and to accurately sense the individual colour soloists, which only together form a concert.
Opening: Friday, 21. November 2025, 6-9 pm.
Exhibition dates: Friday, 21. November – Saturday, 07. February 2026
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Title image caption: © Courtesy Galerie Martin Mertens
Exhibition Colorful Abstraction – Galerie Martin Mertens | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Ausstellungen Berlin Galerien | ART at Berlin
