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until 24.06. | #3857ARTatBerlin | Galerie Guido W. Baudach presents on 29. April 2023 the exhibition “Something secret about the Universe (I always wanted to tell you)” of the artist Björn Dahlem.
On the occasion of Gallery Weekend Berlin 2023, Galerie Guido W. Baudach is pleased to present its eighth solo exhibition with Björn Dahlem. Under the title Something Secret about the Universe (I always wanted to tell you), the artist, who lives in Potsdam, is showing a spatial installation in situ in which various new sculptures are embedded.
Björn Dahlem in his work explores the connection between an aesthetic universe and scientific images of the world since the late 1990s. His installations, sculptures and objects are mostly made of emphatically simple materials that he transforms into precisely composed and visibly handmade forms incorporating selected objets trouvés. The structural complexity of his work is derived from the intricacy of the cosmological models and astrophysical theories from which he gleans his motifs. Dahlem uses subtle humor to link the scientific knowledge with the aesthetics of everyday life while questioning the suggestive power of the scientific construct of the world, whose fundamental relativity he allows to find its material equivalent in the fragility of his sculptures.
The title of the exhibition contains the promise that it will reveal a cosmic secret. Which of the numerous mysteries of the universe it actually concerns is, however, irrelevant. What is decisive is that Dahlem’s plastic poetry demonstrates its fundamental ability to give visual form to the small and large enigmas of the universe and astronomy. In the course of this, the artist focuses on the contradictory, the erratic and the hidden, as well as the voids and gaps in the context of human knowledge creation, and at the same time repeatedly makes allegorical references to our everyday lives and experiences. In this respect, the universe and its exploration function here not least as proxies. Dahlem’s sculptural images deal above all also with us, the humans, in the sense of an extended (self-)portrait according to all that we know and do not know about our extraterrestrial environment, the cosmos and its principles.
Björn Dahlem, born in Munich in 1974, studied at the Dusseldorf Art Academy. Since 2017, he has been a professor for sculpture, object and installation at the Bauhaus University Weimar. His work has been shown in numerous institutions and major exhibitions at home and abroad, including La Triennale di Milano, Milan (2022), Haus am Waldsee, Berlin (2020), Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, South Korea (2018); ArtScience Museum, Singapore (2017); Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (2016); Berlinische Galerie, Berlin (2015); Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn (2014); MoCA, Taipei (2013). Currently, works by him are included in the exhibition It’s a World Machine at the ERES Foundation in Munich.
Opening: Saturday, 29. April 2023, 6 pm – 9 pm
Exhibition dates: Saturday, 29. April until Saturday, 24. June 2023
Special Opening hours during Gallery Weekend Berlin : Thursday, 27 April, 11am – 7pm (Preview),Friday, 28 April, 11am – 9pm (Preview & Opening), Saturday, 29 April, 11am – 7pm, Sunday, 30 April, 11am – 6pm
To the Gallery
Image caption: Björn Dahlem, Black Hole (Heidegger Schwarzschild), 2019, cuckoo clock, aluminum, steel, wood, lacquer, acrylic glass, lava stone, 65 x 65 x 50 cm, courtesy the artist & Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin, photo: Achim Kukulies
Exhibition Björn Dahlem – Galerie Guido W. Baudach | Contemporary Art – Kunst in Berlin – ART at Berlin
