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until 07.03. | #4907ARTatBerlin | Crone Berlin shows from 17. January 2026 (Vernissage 16.01.) the exhibition Counted Hours by the artists Hanne Darboven & Julia Gaisbacher.
Crone Berlin invites visitors to the opening of its first exhibition of the new year. Under the title ‘Counted Hours,’ the gallery in Berlin presents a dialogue between works by German conceptual artist Hanne Darboven and Austrian photo and video artist Julia Gaisbacher.
As part of the Foto Wien 2025 festival, Crone Berlin presented the first part of the exhibition at its Vienna premises, and now it is coming to Berlin in a modified and expanded form.
Purely visual means are used to establish a very personal, intimate relationship between two artists who never met: Julia Gaisbacher spent several weeks in Hanne Darboven’s former studio and living quarters, which have remained unchanged since her death in 2009. Her sensitive black-and-white photographs taken there are juxtaposed with large-format works by Darboven, in which she herself worked with the medium of photography.
Hanne Darboven (born in Munich in 1941, died in Hamburg in 2009) was one of the most important representatives of conceptual art. She devoted much of her work to the visualisation of time. As early as the 1960s, she began developing a system of numbers and codes with which she subjected hours, days, weeks, months, years and entire epochs to a new order and ‘described’ them.
Julia Gaisbacher (*1983 in Graz) bases her working method on extensive research and long-term observation. Her goal is to photographically trace and capture connections between architecture and society. Her works resist the pursuit of a classic narrative; rather, they seek to make the stories behind the stories tangible.
In ‘Gezählte Stunden’ (Counted Hours), Gaisbacher sets out in search of the ‘present absent’ – and encounters their complex force.
Vernissage: Friday, 16. January 2026, from 7 to 9 pm
Exhibition period: Saturday, 17. January until Saturday, 07. March 2026
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Title image caption: Courtesy of Crone Berlin
Exhibition Hanne Darboven & Julia Gaisbacher – Crone Berlin | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin
