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until 27.06. | #5053ARTatBerlin | Galerie Friese shows from Friday, 01. May 2026 the exhibition What no longer sustains us by the artist Slawomir Elsner.
Slawomir Elsner’s (*1976) work is characterised by a duality of techniques: abstract watercolours and representational drawings composed of intricate networks of coloured pencil lines. The latter transform images from art history and collective memory, familiar to us all, into a visualised image imbued with Slawomir Elsner’s artistic spirit.
The starting point for the exhibition “What No Longer Carries Us” is the figure of the horse – as a bearer of historical and symbolic meanings. In Elsner’s characteristic coloured pencil technique, in which he approaches the image stroke by stroke, working from light to dark, works such as Manet’s “Horsewoman, Full-Face (L’Amazone)”, Cranach’s “Saint George” and Franz Marc’s “Blue Horse” appear.
Traces of horses and riders can also be found in the second focal point of the exhibition – the almost abstract “Nachtstücke” (Night Pieces), a series of constellation watercolours – echoing a bygone order. Elsner’s works oscillate between memory and transformation, between quotation and dissolution, thereby creating a uniquely suspended, thoroughly contemporary visual world.
Slawomir Elsner was born in Poland in 1976 and studied Fine Art at the Kunsthochschule Kassel from 1995 to 2002; in 2001, he was a master student of Norbert Radermacher there. Today, the artist lives and works in Berlin.
Opening: Friday, 1. May 2026, 6–9 pm
Exhibition dates: Friday, 1. May – Saturday, 27. June 2026
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Titel image caption: Slawomir Elsner, Blaues Pferd II, 2026, Farbstift auf Papier, 112 x 86 cm, (nach Franz Marc, 1911, Kunstmuseum Bern)
Exhibition Slawomir Elsner – Galerie Friese | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin
