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until 18.10. | #4743ARTatBerlin | Galerie alexander levy shows from Thursday, 11 September 2025 the solo exhibition Night on Earth by the artist Mischa Leinkauf.
With Night on Earth, Mischa Leinkauf creates a complex scenario between urban reality, political order, and subjective imagination. A large-scale video installation, accompanied by photographic collages and abstract compositions, weaves together documentary observation and poetic allegory into a dense narrative of visibility, control, and escapism.
The central element of the exhibition is a video installation whose visual spaces oscillate around the relationship between appearance and reality. An underground urban infrastructure becomes a projection surface for collective overstimulation — a contemporary cave allegory questioning the fragility of perception and reality. How do fragmented world conditions relate to the flight into self-created realities? How do we navigate the chaos on the surface to gain insight in deeper layers? The camera moves through an intermediate world, revealing not the desire to escape reality, but rather the necessity to deconstruct, undermine, and rethink reality as a response to loss of control, overload, and continuous digital bombardment. The work moves between documentary observation and staged allegory, opening viewers’ perception filters and poetically traversing urban underworlds.
A photographic series transfers this conceptual space to a second visual level. In collage-like montages, architectures of political power meet places of personal detachment, individual recoding, and symbolic relief. Interfaces arise between public order and personal relocation — zones where representation becomes fragile and alternative meanings appear.
The third narrative layer consists of large-format panels made from industrial high-reflective materials used in safety contexts — their abstract paintings derived from classic emergency exit pictograms. The surfaces react to light sources, changing with the viewer’s position and producing unstable readability. Orientation becomes an open guide: without clear direction, without safe escape.
The exhibition connects to Leinkauf’s long-standing artistic practice at the intersections of installation, performance, film, and photography. His work critically engages with territorial, social, and symbolic border zones. Central to this is the concept of Artistic Disobedience, using rule-breaking as a strategy against normative order. Cities and their architectural structures serve not only as backdrops but as conflict-laden, politically coded spaces that become newly readable through media transformation — and remain negotiable.
Opening: Thursday, 11 September 2025, 6:00–9:00 PM
Exhibition dates: Thursday, 11 September – Saturday, 18 October 2025
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Image caption title: Mischa Leinkauf, “Night On Earth”, 2025, courtesy of the artist and alexander levy, Berlin
Exhibition Mischa Leinkauf – Galerie alexander levy | Contemporary Art – Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin – Ausstellungen Berlin Galerien – ART at Berlin
