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until 08.06. | #4235ARTatBerlin | Galerie Martin Mertens shows from 20. April 2024 by the artists Katrin Bremermann and Riki Mijling.
“After showing the Dutch sculptor Riki Mijling for the first time at this year’s Art Karlsruhe and the combination with the works of Katrin Bremermann harmonized so wonderfully there, I would like to show these two artists, who appreciate each other very much, in a double exhibition in the gallery.
Bremermann says of herself that she sees herself as a “painting sculptor” and in recent years she has consistently added wall objects and free-standing sculptures to her work. The center of her work, however, remains the use of bold primary colors in her lacquer paintings, in which she has developed her own unique language of non-representational forms.
Genau wie Bremermann steht auch die niederländische Bildhauerin Riki Mijling (1954, Nijmegen, Niederlande) in einer reichen Tradition nicht-gegenständlicher, post-minimalistischer Kunst.
The genealogy of twentieth-century art shows a strong lineage of abstract geometry with pioneers such as Kazimir Malevich, Vladimir Tatlin, Piet Mondrian and Theo van Doesburg.
In the United States, artists such as Carl Andre, Donald Judd and Robert Morris came onto the scene, triggering a landslide with their minimalist approaches, a radical simplification of forms and the dissolution of “meaning” in the traditional sense.
And in the Netherlands, too, artists were looking for new forms of expression, for a formal and linguistic reduction that was no longer associated with the depiction and telling of stories. With her sculptures – and also with her works on paper – Mijling draws on this rich tradition of essentialism and develops a characteristic and unique visual language.
The combination of bold colors in Bremermann’s work and strictly reduced form and color in Mijling’s geometric works promises a very exciting dialogue.”
Text: Martin Mertens
Opening: Saturday, 20. April 2024, 6 – 9 pm
Exhibition dates: Saturday, 20. April until Saturday, 8. June 2024
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Image caption: Courtesy Katrin Bremermann and Riki Mijling – Galerie Martin Mertens
Exhibition Katrin Bremermann and Riki Mijling – Galerie Martin Mertens | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin
