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until 30.03. | #4183ARTatBerlin | Galerie Kremers presents from 1. March 2024 the exhibition “Heimlich, still und leise….” by the artists Fiona Ackerman, Uwe Bremer, Timur Çelik, Gregor Hiltner, Karl Kunz, Wolfgang Kunz, Juan Logan, Natascha Mann, Paul Schwietzke and Ernst Weil.
How now: “Still or alive?”, some people may have asked themselves. The term still life (French: nature morte) refers to the depiction of inanimate or motionless objects (e.g. flowers, fruit, hunting spoils, utensils of all kinds) arranged according to formal, compositional and aesthetic criteria. But what makes a still life come alive? Each of the artists exhibited here has their own answer to this question …
Fiona Ackerman arranges the most diverse things in the broadest sense – working materials such as paint, stretcher frames and paper, drawn symbols, but also copies of her own pictures with great artistic freedom and compositional sophistication. The unconventional ensemble nevertheless radiates harmony and lightness – is this due to the call of the sea (Vocation by the Sea)?
Fiona Ackerman, A Vocation By The Sea, Acrylic on Canvas, 171,5 x 228,5 cm
Uwe Bremer also works with different levels. How do you make physical theories the subject of still lifes? Can waves or particles and mathematical concepts such as tesseracts take on colours and shapes and interact with everyday objects such as playing cards or pretzels? They can!
Timur Çelik masterfully stages everyday objects and brings them to life: his lonely suitcase on the treadmill – a modern version of the vanitas still life – is a tragic figure without its user. You feel sorry for this suitcase, and how could something that generates pity not be alive?
But there are also abstract still lifes to discover. Gregor Hiltner, Juan Logan and Ernst Weil know how to compose geometric shapes, symbols and gestures in such a way that they are superimposed, superimposed and superimposed in a poetic, sometimes dramatic exchange: red dots, grey, black, blue and white squares, bars and lines, yellow semicircles or pink clouds of colour are allies or adversaries in a dialogue on canvas or paper.
Karl Kunz and Natascha Mann combine old and new in form, texture and colour in a very lively way to make mundane things appear enigmatic and question familiar hierarchies in a unique atmospheric density.
In Paul Schwietzke’s work, organic and mechanical, solid and flying, heavy and light forms come together to fundamentally challenge our measuring and viewing habits.
There is much more to discover and unravel. You will be amazed at how alive dead nature can be …
Opening: Friday, 1. March 2024, 7 – 9 pm.
Exhibition dates: Friday, 1. March until Saturday, 30. March 2024
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Image caption title image: Karl Kunz, Stillleben mit Trommel
Exhibition Heimlich, still und leise…. – Gallery Kremers | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin
