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until 14.03. | #4922ARTatBerlin | WENTRUP shows from Friday, 30. January the exhibition hey, I’m still here by the artist Jeehye Song.
Wentrup is pleased to present Jeehye Song’s first solo exhibition with the gallery: hey, I’m still here. The exhibition opening will take place on Friday, January 30, from 6 to 8 p.m. and will run until March 14, 2026.
In Stephen Hawking’s black holes, the world curves inward. Mass accumulates, time loses its direction, and everything visible is pushed to a boundary beyond which meaning does not disappear but becomes more concentrated. Black holes are not emptiness, but superabundance.
Jeehye Song’s paintings have a similar effect. Her paintings show bodies and faces that dissolve and shift, their contours unstable. Identity seems to disintegrate at the moment of viewing. The bodies flow, skin becomes color, color becomes movement. The fluidity creates both closeness and unease. One recognizes bodies, but cannot hold on to them. Like water, they are in flux, and therein lies their courage: not to freeze.
Hawking’s event horizon is a boundary of knowledge. In Song’s paintings, it is the boundary of the self. One does not see the whole, but traces, like light reaching the edge of a black hole.
Black holes in the universe and in painting are places of transformation, places of extreme closeness. There is no dissolution, but a different way of seeing.
Opening: Friday, 30. January 2026, 6–8 pm
Exhbition dates: Friday, 30. January until Saturday, 14. March 2026
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Titel image caption: Jeehye Song, ADHD (2023). Acrylic and oil on linen, 150 x 100 cm. Courtesy WENTRUP, Berlin
Exhibition Jeehye Song – WENTRUP | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin
