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until 06.03. | #4897ARTatBerlin | Galerie Haas shows from Friday, 23. January 2026 the exhibition Lackskins by the artist André Thomkins.
Gallery Haas is delighted to announce that is now representing the estate of Swiss artist André Thomkins (1930 Lucerne – 1985 Berlin). André Thomkins combines surrealist impulses, Dadaist language games, and experimental openness to create an artistic language that is truly one of a kind. At heart, Thomkins was less a painter than a draftsman, poet, conceptual and object artist with a penchant for poetic language systems and absurd worlds.
Despite his experimental oeuvre, Thomkins is best known for his drawings. It was only in the last fifteen years that his group of works known as Lackskins was rediscovered; an unusual technique that the two-time documenta participant developed by chance in the 1950s: derived from a bookbinding process, he experimented with dropping lacquer onto a water surface using chopsticks. As in the traditional production of marbled paper, he worked on the resulting color film, incorporating chance, and finally removed the resulting image from the water with paper.
Location: Niebuhrstraße 5, Berlin-Charlottenburg
Opening: Friday, 23. January 2026, 6-8 pm
Exhibition dates: Friday, 15. November – Freitag, 06. März 2026
Winter break: Saturday, 20. December until Sunday, 4. Januar 2026
To the gallery
Title image caption: André Thomskins, Ohne Titel, 1962-63, Lackskin auf Papier, 165 x 193 cm
Exhibition André Thomkins – Galerie Haas | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin
