until 31.05. | #4676ARTatBerlin | Konrad Fischer Galerie shows from 01. May 2025 an exhibition by the artistduo Bernd & Hilla Becher. Exhibition period: Thursday, 01. May – Saturday, 31. May 2025 Special opening hours during Gallery Weekend: Thursday, 1 May, 11 am – 9 pm Friday, 2 May, 11 am – 9 pm Saturday, 3 May, 11 am – 7 pm Sunday, 4 May, 11 am – 6 pm     Image above: Bernd & Hilla Becher, Detail, Zeche Hannover, Bochum, D, Bandübergabe, 1971–1974 | © Estate Bernd & Hilla Becher/Max Becher Exhibition Bernd & Hilla Becher –  Konrad Fischer Galerie | Zeitgenössische Kunst – Contemporary Art – Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin

until 28.06. | #4670ARTatBerlin | Haverkampf Leistenschneider shows from Thursday, 1. May (Opening: 30.04) the duo-exhibition NEXT BUT TWO by the artists Lois Dodd und Anna Grath. A withered leaf, a curved stem of a spring blossom, a shady slope under a wintery blanket of snow – Lois Dodd (born 1927) has been depicting her immediate surroundings in her paintings for over seventy years. The artist, who lives in New York City and on the Mid-Coast in Maine, works predominantly en plein air, documenting forests, urban architecture and interiors on the Lower East Side as well as rural landscapes around the Delaware Water Gap. Her oil and watercolour paintings follow a realistic colour principle, but are characterised by a reduced pictorial structure. In a conversation with Bill Maynes (2007), Dodd emphasised: “Not everyone really sees what’s around them. I try to look closely and capture what I see.” Lois Dodd, Sunroom Door in Rain, Spring, 2021, oil on Masonite, 12 1/8 x 9 7/8 in © Lois Dodd, Courtesy of Alexandre Gallery, New York Anna Grath (*1985) develops a counter-position to Dodd’s painting in her sculptures. She works with found materials – branches, wire, glass, scraps of fabric and clothing, […]

until 14.06. | #4665ARTatBerlin | Galerie Thomas Fischer shows from Saturday, 26. April 2025 (Opening: 25.04.) the exhibition Watercolors by the artist Joachim Bandau. The new exhibition by Joachim Bandau brings together watercolors from the years 2006 to 2019. The works are composed of precisely and evenly applied layers, which create a sense of spatial depth within the watercolor medium. Joachim Bandau, Watercolor, 2019, Watercolor, 76 x 57 cm Opening: Friday, 25. April, 6 – 9 pm Exhibition dates: Saturday, 26. April – Saturday, 14. June 2025     Image caption title: Joachim Bandau, Schwarzes Aquarell, 2007, Watercolor, 76 x 57 cm Exhibition Joachim Bandau  – Galerie Thomas Fischer | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Ausstellung Berlin Galerien | ART at Berlin

until 13.06. | #4663ARTatBerlin | Galerie Gilla Lörcher shows from Saturday, 02. May 2025 the exhibition “Moody” by the artist Simone Strasser. The artist’s works are always both figurative and abstract. Simone Strasser’s paintings are based entirely on perception and she transfers her sensory impressions directly onto the canvas. Over the past 20 years, Simone Strasser has developed her very own style of landscape painting. She paints in the “old-fashioned” pleineair style and takes her canvas directly out into the landscape. And breaks down and transforms what she sees into the finest gradations of colour, such as two-dimensional colour gradients. “Painting today is more about painting itself than ever before. Precisely because other functions are being replaced by digital media, what only painting can do is now crystallising,” says Simone Strasser. About Simone Strasser Simone Strasser (1977) lives and works in Ingolstadt. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and was a master student of Anke Doberauer. Opening: Friday, 02. May 2025, 6:00 pm. Exhibition dates: Friday, 02. May –  Monday, 13. June 2025     Title image caption: Simone Strasser, courtesy of Galerie Gilla Lörcher Exhibition Simone Strasser – Galerie Gilla Lörcher | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin […]

until 31.05. | #4660ARTatBerlin | Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery Berlin shows from the 03rd. May 2025 (Opening: 02.05.) the Solo-exhibition  “Blue Blossom Lions” by the artist Ralf Kokke. In his latest solo exhibition at the Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery in Berlin, Ralf Kokke leads to a world of twilight bathed in blue. It is a world of community and pleasure, where people come together to rest, make music and bathe in harmony with nature. The title of the exhibition, “Blue Blossom Lions”, alludes to the recurring presence of lions in Kokke’s dreams, guardians of his inner world and symbols of power and strength. In these paintings, predators of various kinds become companions, guiding both the artist and the viewer through the composition while retaining their mysterious and wild nature. As a child, Kokke struggled with the vividness of his imagination, which evoked both magical dreams and intense nightmares. Painting became not only a means of control but also of expansion, centred on the concept of paradise, which for Kokke is associated with a sense of safety and security as well as unity with nature. While his earlier works focussed more on figures or animals populating his dream world, in this series they […]

until 08.11. | #4658ARTatBerlin | Galerie Tanja Wagner shows from Friday, 02. May 2025 the exhibition In the Darkened Rooms by the artist Šejla Kamerić. Galerie Tanja Wagner will present the solo exhibition In The Darkened Rooms by Šejla Kamerić during Gallery Weekend Berlin 2025. The exhibition features a new installation composed of three black crochet objects, handcrafted by women in Sarajevo. These works build upon Kamerić’s previous series Rose Garden and Hooked, the latter of which was shown at Manifesta 14. While crochet is often associated with traditional domestic crafts, Kamerić uses the medium within a contemporary sculptural context. Her series Thorn (Bitch) (2021/2025), comprised of analog instant photographs, documents close-up images of the artist’s body in contact with thorny branches. The small-format images invite close inspection, while a dark vertical strip of color rises from the floor, visually reminiscent of protective barriers found in public spaces. The exhibition engages with themes such as bodily representation, intimacy, viewer perception, and the intersection of personal and political narratives. Accompanying the photographs are new brass sculptures, inspired by thorn branches, which expand the installation into three dimensions. Šejla Kamerić (born 1976 in Sarajevo) works across various media including film, photography, drawing, […]

until 28.06. | #4655ARTatBerlin | neugerriemschneider (christinenstrasse) shows from 3rd May 2025 (Vernissage: 02.03.) the solo exhibition „Bewegung im Stillstand“ by the artist Thomas Bayrle. Thomas Bayrle’s fourth solo exhibition with neugerriemschneider, bewegung im stillstand, features a new body of prints alongside collages and film from the 1980s and 1990s. Guided by the presentation’s title – “idle movement” – each of the works on view in this unique constellation are centered on the interfaces between an accelerated modern life, systems in and of motion, and the nature that, against all odds, persists in their midst. Snaking escalators, uniform metropolises, and traversing pedestrians become potted plants, floral motifs, or overflowing bounties by way of Bayrle’s signature compositional approach, the Superform – developed as a pre-digital technique and expanded here. Subjects and their component parts, duplicated and reshaped, enter a dialog around the manufactured and the organic, evolved from close engagement with the art-historical legacy of the still-life. Throughout the exhibition, the artist brings into conversation dual fascinations that pervade his practice: modes of conveyance, and consumption of the mass-fabricated products of an industrialized society. Mobility, and the networks that enable it, have long appeared in his body of work as schematic […]

until 05.06. | #4651ARTatBerlin | ARTES Berlin shows from Friday, 02. May 2025 the exhibition FARBTANZ – visible energy by the artist Christian Awe. A catalogue will be published to accompany the exhibition. For Gallery Weekend 2025, ARTES Berlin is showing the exhibition ‘FARBTANZ – visible energy’ with new works by Berlin artist Christian Awe, whose works are in the tradition of artists such as Gerhard Richter, Pablo Picasso and Andy Warhol, who have previously been presented by the gallery. Christian Awe, courtesy by ARTES  Awe’s work deals with colour, light, contrast and composition. His works make reference to music, dance, urban influences and elements of nature. His formal language combines gestural and organic approaches with various techniques. Awe combines spontaneous forms of expression with experimental methods and a structured way of working. His works use intense colours and different material effects, revealing both dynamic and more restrained moments. The compositions are created from a combination of classical painting, drawing, spray technique, pouring and – according to the artist – a controlled coincidence. In a contemporary context that demands both clarity and openness, Christian Awe’s art addresses aspects of perception and impact. The curator Dr Alexander Leinemann describes Awe’s works […]

until 14.06. | #4649ARTatBerlin | Galerie Guido W. Baudach presents from 3rd May 2025 (Vernissage 02.05.) a solo exhibition „wood, oil and spiral“ by the artist Hinako Miyabayashi. For Gallery Weekend Berlin 2025, Galerie Guido W. Baudach is pleased to present new paintings by Hinako Miyabayashi. wood, oil and spiral is the Tokyo-based artist’s (*1997) first solo exhibition with the gallery. “I paint as a “hand” that “accepts” the individual textures and all else that comes with each material: coarsely woven cloth or fine cotton, wood or paper. When I assume I am stretching my own hand out to paint the picture, this “accepting hand” comes to me, takes me in, and sets me free. And thus we move together. As I sit down to paint, I do not lose sight of all that exists around us. Physical distance is not reducible to gesture, but exists in tandem with space (temperature, humidity, and so on).” –Hinako Miyabayashi It is clear from Miyabayashi’s words that she seeks to connect with the surroundings and objects she contemplates, expressing the subtle sensory nuances from deep within herself. This careful and intimate poetry of hers is also evident in her work titles, and her […]

until 14.06. | #4646ARTatBerlin | Galerie Thomas Schulte (Charlottenstraße) shows from 3rd Mai (Vernissage: 02.05.) the exhibition „Horizontale & vertikale skulptur“ by the artist Lena Henke. Opnening: Friday, 2nd May 2025, 6 to 9 pm Exhibition dates: Saturday, 3rd May to Saturday, 14th June 2025     Bildunterschrift Titel: Lena Henke, 2025. Work in progress at Kunstgiesserei St Gallen, Photo: Emil Sandström, courtesy of Lena Henke Exhibition Lena Henke – Gallery Thomas Schulte | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Gelleries | ART at Berlin

bis 31.7. | #4643ARTatBerlin | Galerie Brockstedt shows from 10. May 2025 (Opening: 9.05.) the exhibition “privat work” by the artist Reiner Bajo. Born in West–Germany in 1961, Reiner Bajo began his career in the early 1980s as an assistant to a fashion photographer in West–Berlin. His subsequent simultaneous work as a photographer, graphic designer and art director characterised his work from an early stage.  From 1986 onwards, he has been freelance, photographing fashion & portraits, while also designing fashion catalogues and advertising campaigns. Since 2001, he has worked mainly as a stills photographer for the international film industry in Europe and North America. Reiner Bajo lives in Berlin/Germany.  Opening: Friday, 9 May 2025, 6 – 9 pm Ausstellungsdaten: Saturday, 10 May- Thursday, 31 July 2025     Image caption title: MELS Nr. 2, Montreal 2018, 18 x 24 cm, Pigment-Giclée-Print auf Baryta 325gr. Exhibition Reiner Bajo – Galerie Brockstedt | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Ausstellungen Berlin Galerien | ART at Berlin

until 31.05. | #4639ARTatBerlin | Galerie Esther Schipper shows from the 02. May 2025 a Solo-exhibition by the artist Merikokeb Berhanu. Merikokeb Berhanu’s work combines abstract and representational elements, forging a distinct formal vocabulary. Her biomorphic imagery evokes associations with life: Rounded shapes invoke cells, buds, seed pods, or embryonic life, suggesting processes of conception, gestation, reproduction, or birth – underlying themes that are more intuited than stated. A circular form recalls celestial bodies such as sun or moon, but can also be positioned as a figure’s head, organ or, in a formal vocabulary that powerfully destabilizes our sense of scale, even as a cellular structure. References to animal life bespeak an understanding of the connectedness of all life-forms.  Equally fluid in their meaning are Merikokeb’s representations of the human elongated shapes with rounded heads could represent a group of flowers just as much as a community of men and women. Untitled XCX features fragments of the human body and beautifully demonstrates this conflation of vegetal, organic, and perhaps even mineral form. Multiple elongated shapes can be seen as abstract, organic, and human at the same time. Solid colors alternate with intricately patterned sections where lines can become cell membranes, currents of […]

until 21.06. | #4632ARTatBerlin | Galerie Max Hetzler (Potsdamer Straße 77-87) shows from Friday, 25. April 2025 the exhibition by the artist Thomas Struth. Galerie Max Hetzler presents a solo exhibition of works by Thomas Struth at Potsdamer Straße 77-87 in Berlin. This exhibition offers visitors a new and, at times, surprising insight into Struth’s oeuvre over the past four decades. Thomas Struth’s work is characterised by his long-term and careful pursuit of themes that revolve, in various guises, around the relationship between people and their environment. His photographs, which harmonise forms of documentation and contemplation, capture today’s society through images of cultural spaces, as well as the natural world, portraiture, and places of industrial and technological innovation. Thomas Struth, Paradise 28, Peru 2005, 2005, inkjet print, 222 x 171.8 cm. (framed)  At the start of the exhibition, one of Struth’s most recent works, The Big Island, Hawaii 2024, draws viewers into the depths of densely wooded Hawaiian mountains. On the gallery’s far wall, Semi Submersible Rig, DSME Shipyard, Geoje Island 2007 depicts an industrial megastructure on the southern coast of South Korea. Its monumental size and four mighty pillars are emphasised by the perspective of the steel colossus, which […]

until 19.07. | #4631ARTatBerlin | CAMERA WORK shows from 7th June 2025 the exhibition by the artist Ruud van Empel. Galerie CAMERA WORK presents the first solo exhibition of the renowned Dutch artist Ruud van Empel in Germany from 7 June 2025. With a selection of 20 works from twelve series, the exhibition provides a comprehensive insight into the work of the artist, whose works operate at the interface of photography, digital art and painting. Van Empel is internationally renowned for his surreal, hyper-realistic photo collages, which develop a fascinating, unique visual language and reveal dreamy yet profound worlds. The exhibition includes works from the series Floresta, Voyage Pitoresque, Dawn, Generation, World, Moon, Floresta Negra, Photosketch, Perception, Collage, Sunday and Boy & Girl. Each of these series is characterised by a visual signature that oscillates between depictions of nature, nostalgic childhood moments and cultural reflections. While the Floresta series shows lush, natural scenery in intense colours, Generation deals with the depiction of childhood and identity. In Moon and World, van Empel creates strange, almost mystical landscapes reminiscent of utopian or dream-like worlds. Voyage Pitoresque and Dawn, on the other hand, take up classic pictorial motifs and transform them into a […]

until 22.04. | #4628ARTatBerlin | Dorothée Nilsson Gallery currently shows the exhibition KOHLE by the artist Marike Schuurman. Dorothée Nilsson Gallery presents KOHLE, a solo exhibition by Dutch artist and photographer Marike Schuurman as part of EMOP Berlin 2025. Under EMOP’s leitmotif What stands between us, Schuurman’s exhibition examines the profound social and environmental scars left by lignite mining in former East Germany. Schuurman’s photographic practice navigates the tension between documentation and abstraction, capturing human-altered landscapes with a perceptive eye. Her images, rooted in specific locations, document both their transformations and their enigmatic, often overlooked qualities. Yet rather than functioning as straightforward records, her photographs invite a conceptual and sensory contemplation – what remains, what disappears, and how we perceive the traces of history imprinted on the land. With KOHLE, Schuurman brings her distinctive perspective to the legacy of erasure and resilience in the Lusatian landscape, creating a dialogue between past destruction and future uncertainty. Marike Schuurman is an artist-photographer born 1964 in Groningen, The Netherlands. She studied photography at Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, where she got her BFA in 1998, immediately followed by a two-year residency at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam. In 2003, she got […]

until 05.04. | #4623ARTatBerlin | CAMERA WORK shows from Saturday, 05. April 2025 the group exhibition “Naomi” with photo book presentation of the photographers Bryan Adams, Michel Comte, Anton Corbijn, Patrick Demarchelier, Arthur Elgort, Russell James, David LaChapelle, Chris Levine, Vincent Peters, Herb Ritts, Ellen von Unwerth und Albert Watson. From 5 April, the CAMERA WORK gallery will be presenting the group exhibition NAOMI with around 30 photographic works by twelve renowned photo artists. The curated selection includes iconic portraits, nudes and fashion photographs and not only honours Naomi Campbell’s extraordinary career, but also documents the complexity of her work, her versatility and her influence on fashion photography and pop culture. The exhibition brings together works from four decades (1986-2017) by photographers who have staged Campbell in different ways. While Herb Ritts and Patrick Demarchelier reveal her timeless elegance in stylised portraits, Ellen von Unwerth celebrates Campbell’s energy and sensuality in dynamic, often playful works. Arthur Elgort’s spontaneous, reportage-like ‘En Plein Air’ photographs express Campbell’s natural lightness, while Russell James and Vincent Peters show her in intimate nudes. Chris Levine’s fascinating, three-dimensional work from 2017 occupies a special place in the exhibition and captures the supermodel’s iconic charisma in a […]

until 19.04. | #4621ARTatBerlin | neugerriemschneider (Linienstraße) shows from 22nd March 2025 (Opening: 21.03.) the exhibition “on top of surface – beneath some thought” by the artist Tobias Rehberger. on top of surface – beneath some thought, Tobias Rehberger’s ninth solo exhibition with neugerriemschneider, continues the artist’s extended engagement with the languages of design, architecture and advertisement, as they take hold with an eccentric melancholy. A suite of LED-lit sculptures, watercolor paintings and an imposing indoor fountain, elements of which reappear throughout the presentation, act as vehicles for reflection upon his personal and artistic development. installation view #3: Tobias Rehberger on top of surface – beneath some thought, March 22, 2025 – April 19, 2025, neugerriemschneider, Berlin © Tobias Rehberger. Courtesy the artist and neugerriemschneider, Berlin. Photo: Jens Ziehe, Berlin They unite to a tragicomic ensemble that spans from the gallery’s courtyard and façade, before populating its interiors, shaping introspection by way of spatial assemblage. Both laudatory and critical, this contemplation manifests here in works that mimic and encapsulate the human experience, energetically guiding entry into a nuanced, pensive realm in which humor and sincerity come to a head, and are brought to coexist. installation view #1: Tobias Rehberger on […]

until 05.04. | #4619ARTatBerlin | Galerie Z22 is currently showing an exhibition by the artists Annabelle and Marion Mandeng. Marion Mandeng is an artist who has recently been exploring the links between social prejudices and the role of women. She holds an MA from Central Saint Martin (with distinction). Marion Mandeng’s work focuses on human behavior to draw attention to what she sees as persistent discrimination in society. Her practice reflects her experiences as a woman and mother of three daughters. The Me Too movement has reminded us that society continues to struggle with gender conflict. In politics, too, the image of strong male leaders associated with nationalist and populist ideologies seems to be resurgent. Her projects aim to raise awareness and concern for a shift in the masculine and feminine elements in society. The objects are often shown in large numbers. This refers to the concept of repetition as a reference to Freud’s analysis of conflict resolution. Repetition is a psychological phenomenon in which a person repeats or replays an event, often associated with a traumatic incident or anxiety, several times. Annabelle Mandeng, Courtesy Galerie Z22 Annabelle Mandeng about herself: I started to focus on my art as a […]

until 17.04. | #4615ARTatBerlin | Galerie Thomas Schulte (Charlottenstrasse) shows from 15. March 2025 (Vernissage: 14.03.) the exhibition “Nightswimming” by the artist Iris Schomaker in the gallery and a solo exhibition by the artist Pieter Vermeersch in the corner space of the gallery. In the exhibition Nightswimming, Galerie Thomas Schulte presents new large-format works by Iris Schomaker. Her paintings explore the interplay of time, movement, and stillness—people and animals linger in moments that seem both fleeting and enduring. Layers and corrections lend the surfaces a temporal depth, while the motifs oscillate between reality and imagination. The viewer encounters images and traces that elude disappearance. Pieter Vermeersch, “Untitled”, 2009, acrylic paint on wall, found object, variable dimensions, exhibition view ‘WITH YOUR EYES ONLY, Kunstverein, Medienturm, Graz, Austria, 2009, photo by Rainer Iglar, courtesy of the artists Galerie Thomas Schulte presents a solo exhibition by Pieter Vermeersch, featuring new works and immersive interventions, which, through color and spatial relationships, respond intuitively to the surroundings of the Corner Space and adjacent Window Space. The complementary, coexisting aspects of representation and abstraction are probed through their different interactions within and between works of varying dimensional and material properties – comprising painting, silkscreen and found objects. […]

until 25.04. | #4613ARTatBerlin | Galerie Michael Haas shows from Saturday, 15. March 2025 (Opening: 14.03.), a solo exhibition by the artist Günter Haese. The German sculptor Günter Haese (1924-2016) had already been active for some time before he achieved a rocket-like breakthrough as an artist. In the winter of 1960/61, he dismantled a clock – and discovered a fascinating new material inside it. From 1962 onwards, he used these watchmaking materials – delicate metal plates, parts and wires, fragile springs – for his sculptures. He joins and solders together delicate towers, spheres and cubes and other fantastic shapes with extreme care. Although Haese himself did not conceive them as kinetic works, the pieces react sensitively to external influences. Even a light breeze sets them into subtle vibration. His choice of materials is not only an absolutely unique selling point, Haese’s work hits a nerve. His first exhibition at the Museum Ulm was followed in 1964 by an invitation to participate in documenta III in Kassel and the leap to America: a solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, which also immediately purchased several works for its own collection. Further stops on his extraordinary journey […]

until 03.05. | #4609ARTatBerlin | Galerie Schindler shows from 13. March the exhibition SOL by the artist Berit Mücke. The exhibition “SOL” by Berit Mücke at Galerie Schindler reveals a broad spectrum of artistic perspectives that are deeply rooted in light, sound and materiality. Born in Potsdam in 1968, the artist studied at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig in the class of Wolfram Ebersbach and Neo Rauch, spent a year abroad at the Accademia delle belle Arti a Roma and today presents “SOL”, a multi-layered reflection on sun, salt and sound. Berit Mücke , Santa Cruz, 92 X 80 cm, Tempera und Öl auf Leinwand, 2025 “Sun” stands for a source of energy and universal light, while “salt” symbolises the fragility and preservation of life. At the same time, “sol” refers to music, specifically to the pitch, the soloist and the transition between fourth and fifth – a symbol of change and harmony. These themes flow together in Mücke’s paintings and merge into a visual cosmos that invites the viewer to rethink space, time and their own perception Critics recognise in Mücke’s working method a masterly balance between representationalism and free interpretation. Although what is depicted is clearly present, […]

until 26.04. | #4606ARTatBerlin | Galerie Martin Mertens shows from 07. March 2025 the exhibition Remnant by the artist Peer Kriesel. Peer has continued to develop his various groups of works in parallel and has also added completely new elements. Here we show examples of his new large-format paintings on canvas, which have developed from smaller works on paper. In these pictures, Peer Kriesel’s typical swarm of figures, grimaces and animal forms develop in front of a dark blue pictorial space that is reminiscent of a view into space. Structured by geometric shapes (circles, triangles …) or lines that connect or separate certain areas, the figures seem to float in front of this bright blue cosmos. The group of collages is also new in his oeuvre and takes up a large part of his current work. In these works, he combines parts of packaging (e.g. Nike shoe boxes) with historical copperplate engravings, colour surfaces and his figures. Modern advertising aesthetics meet reproductions of artworks from the past and something completely new is created in combination with Kriesel’s worlds of figures. One is reminded of the pioneers of the collage technique such as Max Ernst, Kurt Schwitters and Hannah Höch, who […]

until 05.14. | #4603 ARTatBerlin | Galerie Kremers shows from the 7. March 2025 the grop exhibition “Magic Spaces” with works by Christian Achenbach, Fiona Ackerman, Uwe Bremer, Sean Dawson, Jan Gemeinhardt, Edite Grinberga, Gregor Hiltner, Vitaly Medvedovsky, Erik Nieminen, Gerhard Rießbeck, Christian Rösner, Paul Schwietzke, Andreas Theurer. Edite Grinberga, Midday in Sellin, 2023, Oil on Canvas, 130 x 200cm Surrealism is back! Following on from the major themed exhibition “real surreal hyperreal” five years ago, Galerie Kremers is showing a new selection of works associated with this art movement, which has now become topical again. This time the theme is magical pictorial spaces. Whether as fantastic hyperrealistic interiors, still lifes and landscapes or as magical abstract pictorial spaces, whether as figures in visionary spaces or mobile objects – all the works in this exhibition approach the magical space in their own way. Fiona Ackerman, La Modèle Rouge, 2012, Acrylic on Canvas, 160 x 140 cm Opening: Friday, 07. March 2025, 6 – 8:30 pm Exhibition dates: Friday, 07. March – Saturday, 05. April 2025     Title image caption: Christian Achenbach, Fruits, 2023, 2015, Oil and Acrylic on Canvas, 200 x 180 cm Exhibition Magische Räume – Galerie Kremers | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin […]

until 06.04. | #4601ARTatBerlin | BBA Gallery shows from the 1st. March 2025 the exhibition “The Flood” by the photographer Markus Rock. Markus Rock’s solo exhibition The Flood at BBA Gallery is a striking exploration of water as both a life-giving and destructive force. Captured in the summer of 2021, shortly before and during the catastrophic flooding in Germany’s Ahr Valley, the series balances themes of existential threat with an unwavering celebration of joie de vivre. While the timing and title suggest an ecological commentary, Rock’s focus lies in the defiant enjoyment of life. Water, ever-changing in its form and meaning, becomes both a subject and a medium—at times appearing hard and solid, trapping bodies as if cast in acrylic, then fluid and soft, dissolving contours into abstraction. Elsewhere, it fractures and fragments into restless, flickering structures. Presented as part of the Monat der Fotografie OFF-Berlin, The Flood invites viewers to confront the precarious balance of life, to embrace both its light and its shadows, and ultimately, to revel in its unyielding vibrancy. Opening: Friday. 28. February 2025, 6 – 9 pm Exhibition dates: Samstag, 1st. March until Sunday, 06. April 2025     Title image caption: BBA Gallery, Markus […]

until 19.04. | #4598ARTatBerlin | WENTRUP shows from Saturday, 01. March 2025 the exhibition “Everything In Its Place” by the artist Austin Eddy. Austin Eddy is known for his colorful and abstract paintings. His works combine geometric forms with figurative allusions and are reminiscent of the Cubist and Modernist traditions. Eddy often works with texture and layering, giving his works a tactile quality. His themes revolve around everyday scenes, emotions, and narratives, which he captures in stylized, often humorous compositions. His works reflect an intimate, personal dimension and invite viewers to discover stories and relationships behind the abstracted forms. Inspired by folk art, modernist painting, and graphic elements, Austin Eddy combines tradition and innovation, which has led to his developing a distinctive aesthetic. In his first solo exhibition at Wentrup – “Everything In Its Place” – the Brooklyn-based artist presents a new cycle of still lifes. Everything seems to be in its place, as in the painting whose title has become the exhibition title. Fruit and fish are placed on a table, a bouquet of flowers; a purple bird on the right-hand side of the picture is somewhat out of place. Despite the flatness of the painting, the overlapping of […]

until 12.04. | #4595ARTatBerlin | Galerie Max Hetzler ( Bleibtreustraße 45) shows from Saturday, 01. March 2025 the exhibition The Classic Themes by the artist Karel Appel. ‘The major Karel Appel retrospective at the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag in 2016 – ten years following the artist’s death – was set to radically renew the traditional view of Appel’s extensive oeuvre. Within its thematic structure, only one of the six large halls was dedicated to the CoBrA movement, while three of the others focused on very classical themes – nude, landscape or portrait. The prominence given to these classical themes flagrantly contradicted CoBrA’s primitivism. In addition, it was shown for the first time that Appel did not always paint ‘spontaneously’, but very often started from drawings, selected from the graphic diversity of his constantly active, visual thought process. This, too, shed a new light on Appel’s traditional image, which is usually associated with the intuitive improvisation that set the tone for the avant-gardes of the fifties and sixties: the CoBrA Group, the Nouvelle École de Paris and Abstract Expressionism. The exhibition at Galerie Max Hetzler concentrates on these three classic themes and, where preliminary drawings can be linked to the paintings on […]

until 12.04. | #4592ARTatBerlin | Galerie aKonzept shows from 14. February 2025 the exhibition TIPPEN FÜR DEN DRUCK by the artist Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt. Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt, who was largely unknown for a long time, has gained late recognition in recent years. In 2016, her gallery Chert Lüdde introduced her work at Art Basel, after which Adam Szymczyk invited her to participate in documenta 14. In the years that followed, her works were exhibited across Europe, including in Malmö, Riga, Oslo, London, Paris, and Tirana. Highlights included exhibitions at the Albertinum in Dresden (2018), the Lindenau Museum where she was awarded the Gerhard Altenbourg Prize (2021), and the Kupferstichkabinett in Berlin, where she received the Hannah Höch Prize (2022). In 2023, DAS MINSK – Kunsthaus in Potsdam dedicated a comprehensive retrospective to her work. In 1981, she exhibited at the S:t Petri Gallery in Lund, Sweden, but due to restrictions imposed by the German Democratic Republic (GDR), she was unable to travel to the exhibition. However, her artistic ideas, communicated through mail, effortlessly crossed borders and formed the foundation of the current exhibition at the aKonzept gallery. In the art of the GDR, Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt was a unique figure. Her typewritten art, […]

until 29.03. | #4589ARTatBerlin | Jarmuschek + Partner shows from 15. Februar 2025 (Vernissage: 14.02.) the exhibition Two Ways to Carry a Cauliflower by the artist Emma Sarpaniemi. The exhibition is part of the European Month of Photography Berlin 2025. Two Ways to Carry a Cauliflower (2021-ongoing) is a performative photo series that playfully explores the self-presentation of women. In order to liberate the portrayed woman and the view of her from certain patriarchal ideals of femininity, she is portrayed playfully and tenderly as a woman who behaves, looks and performs according to her own conditions and rules. Playfulness is often perceived as naivety when associated with a female artist. Sarpaniemi, however, uses it as a source of power. The characters portrayed offer the opportunity to reconstruct themselves again and again. Identity, reality and fantasy intertwine in her universe. Sarpaniemi does not create an alter ego, but presents an honest portrayal in which she recognises herself. Visitors are invited to the opening of the exhibition on Friday, 14 February 2025 from 6 pm. The artist will be present. Vernissage: Friday, 14 February 2024, 6-9 pm Exhibition period: Saturday, 15 February until Saturday, 29 March 2025     Image captions: EMMA […]

until 12.04. | #4586ARTatBerlin | Galerie Max Hetzler (Potsdamer Str.) shows from Thursday, 20. February 2025 the exhibition Momentan nicht erreichbar by the artist duo Elmgreen & Dragset. Galerie Max Hetzler presents Momentan nicht erreichbar, Elmgreen & Dragset’s first exhibition with the gallery, at Potsdamer Straße 77-87 in Berlin. Through a series of figurative sculptures, the artist duo invites viewers to step into a world of introspective and fragile everyday moments. They pose the question: are the characters that populate the space lost, or are they about to find themselves? Momentan nicht erreichbar opens with a black-patinated bronze sculpture of a vulture perched on a bare tree (Von Oben), as if waiting for the right moment to feed. Just beyond, a sculpture of male figure dressed in hiking gear (L’Addition (Black Bronze)) appears to trek through a distilled snowscape. With his face turned slightly away from the viewer, the lone wanderer seems remote yet trapped within the surrounding walled environment of the white cube. Upstairs, a figure with a camera leans over the bridge leading to the first-floor galleries, poised to take a photo of the scene below (The Examiner, Fig. 3 (Black Bronze)). Absorbed in his voyeuristic activity, he inversely becomes […]

until 05.04. | #4583ARTatBerlin | Sprüth Magers Berlin presents from 12th February 2025 (opening: 11.02.) an exhibition by the artist Otto Piene. Otto Piene, a founding member of the influential postwar art collective ZERO, consistently explored evolving notions of the material and immaterial in his work. Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers are pleased to present a solo exhibition at the Berlin gallery that showcases a selection of Piene’s Fire Paintings alongside his final ceramic works. Both bodies of work explore the element of fire and its creative potential, which the artist began experimenting with as early as 1959 and continued throughout his entire career. Images of alchemistic transformation, Piene’s Fire Paintings push the boundaries of the medium by harnessing the archaic power of fire. Rooted in his fascination with light, they exist on the perilously fine line between destruction and creation: burning a layer of pigments and a fixative on the canvas and manually shifting it, Piene lets chance invent organic forms that record the movement of the flames. In Blue Black Coalition (1983/90), for example, the impact and trace of fire has translated into the melding of blues and blacks—as the title aptly suggests—and heavily textured areas of blistered […]

until 22.03. | #4580ARTatBerlin | Buchmann Galerie currently shows the exhibition Pole Star by the artist Jason Martin. A central focal point of the exhibition is an extensive series of new works on paper created by the artist with dyes. Unlike the color pigments used in oil or acrylic paints, these dyes react to moisture, light, and heat in complex ways. Accordingly, the painterly results generated via the artist’s process are at times unpredictable, allowing for a compelling interplay between control and chance. The works on paper were realized during extended travels; they are painterly travelogues, created in the mangrove swamps of Bahia, Brazil, among other places. Since the dyes interact with the elements—scorching heat and tropical humidity—the works are responsive to all climatic variables. Thus, for the painter, nature functions as both sparring partner and collaborator. Jason Martin describes these works as “records of a belated naturalism”—testaments to a “naturalism of afterwardsness,” in which the imaginary and real intersect. Whereas historical naturalism strove for an accurate portrayal of nature’s forms, Jason Martin infiltrates nature with his material—through color and texture—using processes that inscribe themselves in the paper. The technique developed for these vibrantly colorful works on paper allows the […]

until 05.04. | #4577ARTatBerlin | Galerie kajetan Berlin presents from 08th February 2025 (Vernissage: 07.02.) the exhibition frgmntd lmnts / lmntl frgmnts by the artist Nicole Heinzel. Galerie kajetan is pleased to present frgmntd lmnts / lmntl frgmnts, the first solo exhibition of the artist Nicole Heinzel (*1969) in its rooms. Heinzel’s works impressively combine painting and drawing as well as abstraction and figuration. With an impasto technique perfected over the years and the resulting plasticity of her two-dimensional works, the artist creates pictorial worlds based on natural forms. Through reduction, fragmentation and re-formation, however, she ultimately creates a non-natural, universal vocabulary. Nicole Heinzel | frgmntd lmnts / lmntl frgmnts | Ausstellungsansicht / Exhibition view Galerie kajetan 2025 | Courtesy the artist & Galerie kajetan | Photos: Gunter Lepkows The fragment as a method and the structure as a visual result have always determined Heinzel’s artistic practice. It is a constant search for the essence and the unifying moment of all visible and invisible things, which the artist captures by means of formal reduction and a sometimes microscopic approach. Her Scapes and LINEscapes impressively illustrate her artistic approach, which is characterized by a multidisciplinary approach: The artist projects specially photographed landscapes, forest, […]

until 07.03. | #4574ARTatBerlin | Galerie Michael Haas currently shows the group exhibition In between by the artists GL Brierley, Otto Dix, Werner Heldt, Richard Jordan, Helmut Kolle (Helmut vom Hügel), Graham Little, Markus Lüpertz, David Nicholson, Reinhard Pods, Félix Vallotton and Hans-Peter Zimmer. The winter exhibition at the Michael Haas Gallery shows 18 works of art, ranging from paintings and works on paper to sculptures. In between, Installationsansichten, Foto: Sebastian Eggler Exhibition dates: Monday, 20. January 2025 until Friday, 07. March 2025     Title image caption: In between, Installationsansichten, Foto: Sebastian Eggler Exhibition In between – Galerie Michael Haas | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Ausstellungen Berlin Galerien | ART at Berlin

until 04.05. | #4571ARTatBerlin | Galerie Brockstedt shows from 14. February 2025 the exhibition “Karte und Gebiet” by the artist Matthias Esch. “These paintings draw their power from the contrast between lively, expressive painting and strict geometric patterns. The one forms the basis of each work, the other lies above it as a strict system of order. In a symbolic sense, this contrast symbolises the tension between the individual’s desire for expression and freedom and the controlling systems of society, from the family to language and the state. In relation to the individual, the juxtaposition can also be understood as the difference between the seething, instinctive unconscious, the id or the dream on the one hand and the conscious, controlling ego on the other. The one is characterised by the colour red, the other by the “spiritual” silver sheen of mother-of-pearl that is added to the colour. It is not least this lustre that is the decisive feature of this art beyond all theory: it is vital, luminous painting.” (Dr. Ernst A. Busche) Matthias Esch, Describe pain (leaking), 2022, 200 x 130 cm, Oil, pencil, mother-of-pearl pigment on canvas Matthias Esch, Chained to a cloud (Symbol), 170 x 110 cm, […]

until 15.03. | #4568ARTatBerlin | neugerriemschneider (Linienstraße) shows from the 15th. February 2025 (Opening: 14.02.) the exhibition “jb & dv” by the artists James Benning and Danh Vo. The long-time friendship between James Benning and Danh Vo, cultivated around a mutual exploration of histories through details and relics, physically manifests, for the first time, in jb & dv at neugerriemschneider. Found, collected and reproduced objects, depicted or re-presented in matter-of-fact stagings, stand at the core of the artists’ methodologies. Their approaches see immediate surroundings appropriated and transformed, as political and personal significances are extracted from divergent geographical and cultural origins as subtle narratives. This two-artist exhibition highlights their shared tactics through a selection of recent filmic, sculptural and photographic works, each dissecting portraiture, tributes, memory and ecology as tenets that define their practices as they cross, entangle with and negotiate one another. The deconstructed portrait is critical to both, functioning as a means of examining its subjects through their effects, distilling personas in actions that reimagine the process of identification. Physical traits are isolated, highlighted or done away with entirely, with what remains functioning to define figures a new. Benning’s clothes (2024) comprises garments worn by eight figures formative to […]

until 05.03. | #4565ARTatBerlin | Galerie Esther Schipper shows from 1st February 2025 the exhibition ROAD RUNNER by the artist Cemile Sahin. ROAD RUNNER transforms the exhibition space into a vivid environment that employs the colorful, staggering visual language of pop culture and video games to address contemporary political topics, among them the use of drones by corporations, authoritarian regimes, and the military. On view will be a film, sixteen unique aluminum panels, and six custom-made punching bags. Reflecting on a world of loudly competing stimuli, the new works are presented within an eye-catching exhibition design, with multi-colored text passages and a yellow carpet. Sahin’s work speaks about family and loss, as well as about the technologies facilitating digital disembodiment and political oppression. She not only comments on these defining technologies, such as drones and AI, but uses them as tools in her cutting-edge artistic process. The film, also entitled ROAD RUNNER, employs a fast mix of genres: cinematic storytelling alternates with drone footage, faux commercials, animations and video games. ROAD RUNNER imagines a dystopian future in which killer drones have seized control and established a brutal order. It tells the story of Bêrîtan, who struggles to free her sister from digital captivity in […]

until 03.05. | #4560ARTatBerlin | Galerie Mutare presents from Saturday, 18 January 2025, the exhibition Group Exhibition in Variations, with paintings and sculptures. Participating artists: Caro Stark, Peter Herrmann, Shuji Hijiya, Hans Scheib Shuji Hijiya, courtesy of Galerie Mutare Peter Herrmann, courtesy of Galerie Mutare Exhibition dates: Saturday, 18 January to Saturday, 03 May 2025     Image Caption: Group Exhibition in Variations, courtesy of Galerie Mutare Exhibition Group Exhibition in Variations – Galerie Mutare | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Ausstellungen Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin

until 07.03. | #4558ARTatBerlin | Galerie Barbara Thumm shows from 18th January 2025 (Vernissage: 17.01.) the exhibition Drawing Cabinet by the artist Johnny Miller. Johnny Miller, Dreadger in the bath, 2002, Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Barbara Thumm Johnny Miller bids us to enter an uncertain world that exists beyond the comforting illusion of intellectual meaning. Drawing on vivid childhood memories, historical and contemporary figurative imagery, he searches out hidden aspects of the human condition. Creating a poetic patchwork of disparate symbols, Johnny Miller invites us to draw on our lived experience to explore the puzzling islands of identity that we inhabit. A common theme is the culturally imposed and/or fragile nature of masculinity. The ‘Drawing Cabinet’ with more than 100 works by Miller invites the viewer to dive into the artist’s complex yet beautiful practice. Vernissage: Friday, 17 January 2025, 6 – 9 pm Exhibition dates: Saturday, 18 January – Friday, 07 March 2025     Image Caption: Johnny Miller, Control until in the bathroom, 2002, Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Barbara Thumm Exhibition Johnny Miller – Galerie Barbara Thumm | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Ausstellungen Berlin Galerien | ART at Berlin

until 08.03. | #4562ARTatBerlin | Luisa Catucci Gallery (Brunnenstraße) presents from 17. January 2025 the exhibition METAMORPHOSIS OF VISION by the artist Kenneth Blom. In a rapidly evolving world, the concept of metamorphosis has become central to the exploration of identity and perception. In the series of works presented in the exhibition Metamorphosis of Vision, Kenneth Blom examines contemporary identity and its ties to the past—whether distant or recent. These reflections manifest in works that serve as abstract, though not distorting, mirrors of society. Blom captures the essence of architectural forms within our landscape, often overlooked by the inattentive gaze, transforming them into a profound visual language that transcends geographical and cultural boundaries. Blom’s paintings explore the interplay between architectural archetypes and the presence of the Self. The inclusion of shadows and indistinct human figures introduces the idea of a universal human archetype—shared behavioural, emotional, and thought patterns deeply embedded within the collective unconscious. These archetypes encapsulate life’s core experiences and the narrative frameworks that connect different cultures, eras, and contexts. Blom’s world is composed of structures that aspire to exist yet remain incomplete, and forms that aim to contain yet leave their content ambiguous. His work transcends time, freezing […]

until 22.02. | #4552ARTatBerlin | KLEMM’S shows from 11. January 2025 the exhibition “RUN (Fraktale)“ by the artist Thomas Arnolds. “With RUN (Fraktale), Klemm’s presents Thomas Arnolds’ second solo exhibition at the gallery. On display are six of the latest works from the extensive RUN series, which Arnolds has consistently updated and reworked in ever new chapters since 2018. He expands existing chapters, reconfigures or interweaves them anew, and continues to develop his painterly cosmos, which oscillates between abstraction and figuration. For RUN (Fraktale), Arnolds has created three monumental, multicoloured oil paintings and three smaller, nearly monochromatic works in shades of grey, black, and olive green. The figurative pictorial vocabulary he developed in recent years that was previously contrasted with large monochromatic surfaces, is in these newest works either interwoven with abstract, multicoloured, densely layered backgrounds or entirely pushed out of the picture.” RUN (WURZEL) 2, 2024, oil on canvas, 80 x 60 cm, detail “Above all, the pictorial elements and artistic techniques used here serve him as an opportunity to deal with the fundamental questions of painting. He seeks to explore the limits and possibilities of abstraction and figuration, figure and ground, painting and graphic art, architecture and nature, as well as to establish […]

until 22.02. | #4549ARTatBerlin | Galerie Max Hetzler ( Bleibtreustraße 45) shows from Friday, 17. January 2025 the exhibition Escapism by the artist Toby Ziegler. Memory and the passing of time have long been two of the central themes in Ziegler’s work. In his practice, the artist combines figurative and abstract elements, computer modelling and painting, careful planning and chance. In his preparatory modelling of the images on the computer, a process which he describes as both alienating and mathematical, Ziegler builds non-narrative scenes. He creates a sense of stillness within his compositions, comparable to Dutch Old Master paintings, or the work of Giorgio Morandi and Vilhelm Hammershøi, where the experience of a long stretch of time is compressed into a single image. One of the entry points of the current series of works is elements taken from family photographs, which Ziegler has altered and transposed into imagined spaces. At times remaining visible and at others all but disappearing, these figures serve as gateways into certain moods and memories. Painting over the initial printed image in countless layers of transparent colours, Ziegler further modifies the appearance of the work. This build-up of transparent paint causes the lighter works to become […]

until 06.02. | #4546ARTatBerlin | Galerie feinart berlin is currently showing prints, paintings and sculptures by 14 artists from the gallery. From pencil, aquatint, relief printing, etching, collage to oil and acrylic paintings, photography and bronze sculpture — the 14 artists represented in the exhibition are part of the gallery’s regular program and represent a broad spectrum of techniques. Every one of them impresses in his/ her own field with the quality of their craftsmanship and originality with regard to the themes and issues of their artistic work. The artists of the exhibition: C.D. Aschaffenburg (painting) Marek Benczewski (drawing) Louis G.N. Busman (painting) Danielle de Picciotto (drawing, painting) Michael Dressel (photography) Ebrahim Ehrari (aquatint, etching) Michael Jastram (sculpture) Boriana Pertchinska (painting) Wolfgang Petrick (prints) Ulrich Reimkasten (drawing, prints) Mathias Roloff (painting, drawing, etching) Elisabeth Störmer-Hemmelgarn (painting) Jürgen Tenz (relief print) Maud Tutsche (collaged book cover) Jürgen Tenz, Freiraum V, 1988, relief printing, hand print 01/22, sheet 44 x 35cm ©feinartberlin Michael Dressel, Los Angeles (Downtown), 2018, Pigmentdruck auf Archivpapier, 01/07 ©M.Dressel Exhibition period: December 2024 until Thursday, 06. February 2025 Finissage: Thursday, 06. February 2025, 6 to 9 pm Special opening hours Thursday 16. January, 2 to 7 pm Friday […]

until 17.01. | #4544ARTatBerlin | Galerie Esther Schipper currently shows the exhibition Europe Endless by the artist Christopher Roth. Esther Schipper is pleased to announce Europe Endless, a presentation by Christopher Roth with Materials, Trailers, Out-Takes. Christopher Roth’s presentation takes place on occasion of his forthcoming trilogy of films exploring the history of geographical and philosophical borderlands, family and friendship and the future. Setting the scene with sculptures of over dimensional bags of French Fries and a colorized edition of English PEL chairs (redesigned by Jasper Morrison for TYP) as a make-shift cinema, the presentation addresses Europe as a constantly moving target. The daytime opening in the gallery will feature a reading by Lukas Kubina from his new novel Boludo, followed in the evening by a concert by Macedoniasintetica (Carlo Camerin, Mattia Rigon, Simone Carraro) and a screening of Metagoon 24h by Matteo Stocco and Matteo Primiterra. At the gallery a selection of materials and out-takes from the films will be screened. Roth’s trilogy—The Spectre of Eurocommunism, Infinite Histories, Look! We have come through! —is in the tradition of the essay film, weaving found footage, documentary and interviews to construct competing histories of Europe through personal stories, political ideas and […]

until 15.02. | #4541ARTatBerlin | Galerie Inga Kondeyne shows from 14. December 2024 two exhibitions by the artists Christiane Schlosser and Beate Terfloth. Christiane Schlosser ‘…For Christiane Schlosser, drawing is similar to composing music. For her, the meaning of her drawings is to be sought in a similar way as the meaning of music would be sought. What sound do the drawings have? How does the composition build up? What rhythm does it set? How does it affect the bodies that listen to the drawing…’ ‘…What would happen if the movement, the rhythm and the surprise, the overwhelmingness of the phenomenon described found their way into the language, if the formation of the sentences happened in the moment of overflow, and the rivers spread across the riverbed, but also beyond it, flowing in side arms & strands unpredictably. If the movements that grammar directs, predetermines and organises into paths were overridden, and instead of being linear, the sentences could be connected from several sides (at the expense of the grammar that enables the flow of understanding through the sentence). What if the errors in grammar – which cause a sentence to fall apart in the middle, or parts in a […]

until (follows) | #4538ARTatBerlin | RASCHE RIPKEN is currently showing the group exhibition SALON 24 II. As a meeting place for free spirits, SALON 24 II brings together works by the gallery’s artists that have not yet or rarely been shown. Jan Ros, courtesy Rasche Ripken Ralph Merschmann, courtesy Rasche Ripken Hein Spellmann, courtesy Rasche Ripken Rita Kanne, courtesy Rasche Ripken Martin Brüger, courtesy Rasche Ripken Exhibition dates: until mid-January 2025     Title image caption: Herbert Lammers, courtesy Rasche Ripken Exhibition SALON 24 II –  Rasche Ripken | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin

until 08.12. | #4535ARTatBerlin | EIGENHEIM Weimar/Berlin presents from 30. November 2024 (Opening: 29.11.) the exhibition “LODGER Berlin – Raum für Kunst” by the artists Anna Bittersohl, Enrico Freitag, Konstantin Bayer, Lars Wild, Frederik Foert, Nina Röder and with many more of the gallery’s in-house artists. The exhibition takes place in the studio, flat and showroom of the artist Frederik Foert. At the end of the year, Galerie EIGENHEIM Weimar/Berlin is adding a special highlight: LODGER Berlin – Raum für Kunst @ Studio Frederik Foert is opening its extraordinary location for the in-house artists of Galerie EIGENHEIM. From 29 November to 8 December 2024, the studio, flat and showroom in the old Berlin flat in the heart of Friedrichshain will become a melting pot for selected works by artists such as Anna Bittersohl, Konstantin Bayer, Timo Herbst, Enrico Freitag, Nina Röder, Gökcen Dilek Acay, Lars Wild, Stefan Schiek and Benedikt Braun. The name LODGER (meaning ‘lodger’ or ‘guest’) emphasises the concept of presenting works of art in a private, intimate space and thus making the exhibition space a living space. In true Foertian style, the name also pays homage to iconic works from film and music, which are subtly incorporated […]

until 25.01. | #4532ARTatBerlin | Peres Projects presents from Freitag, 29. November 2024 the Solo exhibition Act Normal of the artist Ziping Wang. Peres Projects Berlin presents the opening of Act Normal, a solo exhibition by Ziping Wang, on Friday, 29 November, from 6 to 9 pm. This is Wang’s first solo exhibition in Berlin and her third with Peres Projects. Through a series of new large-scale oil paintings, Act Normal explores the overwhelming flood of visual information in the digital age, creating vibrant, collage-like compositions that reflect our fragmented attention. By mixing symbols of consumer culture, elements of street signage and references to traditional art forms such as ancient Roman frescoes, Wang creates kaleidoscopic realities that challenge perception and meaning. Vernissage: Friday, 29. November 2024, 18:00 – 21:00 pm Exhibition dates : Friday, 29. November – Saturday, 25. January 2025     Image caption: Ziping Wang, Courtesy of Peres Projects. Exhibition Ziping Wang – Peres Projects  | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Ausstellungen Berlin Galerien | ART at Berlin

until 18.01. | #4529ARTatBerlin | WENTRUP shows from Saturday, 23. November 2024 the exhibition New works by the artist Gerold Miller. Gerold Miller is renowned for his minimalist and geometric works that explore the intersections of space, form, and perception. His works are characterized by precise execution and clean lines, often employing industrial materials like aluminum and lacquer. Miller’s sculptures and wall objects blur the boundaries between painting and sculpture, challenging traditional categorizations and engaging viewers in a dialogue about the nature of visual experience. Exhibition view: Gerold Miller, New Works, 2024, Wentrup, Berlin. Photo: Matthias Kolb In his second exhibition at Wentrup, titled “New Works,” Miller unveils two new series to the public for the first time. The first series, known as the ‘corner’ works, builds upon “Set”—Miller’s most extensive and successful group of works, which occupies a central position in his oeuvre. In this remarkable development, Miller shifts focus within the series, concentrating on the corner as a key design element. He employs a striking diagonal to define a prominent triangle, transforming the remaining rectangular surface into an asymmetrical pentagon. This use of the diagonal as a core element creates dynamic tension, inviting viewers to explore the interplay […]

until 25.01 | #4526ARTatBerlin | Haverkampf Leistenschneider show from 06. December 2024 the exhibition A CLOSER LOOK of the artists Katherine Bradford, Anne Buckwalter, Madeline Donahue, Aubrey Levinthal, Laila Tara H, Sophie Treppendahl, Maximilian Kirmse, Fabian Treiber and Evian Wenyi Zhang. Of course, it is always worth taking a closer look when looking at art. But some works demand it more than others. The exhibition aims to take a closer look at precisely such works, works that – as the title suggests – require a sharper gaze than others, pictures that ‘hide’ details that are only visible to the viewer if they get closer, linger longer, zoom in or look from a new perspective. These details can be obscured by reduction, fragmentation, distortion or other distortions. They can be revealed by reflections in mirrors and by narratives unfolding in the background of the ‘main plot’ or simply by small objects scattered on tables, desks or beds that may hold a key to new interpretations. But why do artists incorporate these subtle or less visible motifs into their works and draw the viewer closer, as if they wanted to whisper something in their ear? Is it a matter of exploring scale and proportion, […]

until 01.11. | #4523ARTatBerlin | ARTES Berlin presents from 23. November 2024 the exhibition ECHOES OF WINTER. Spuren des Lichts. ARTES Berlin presents the group exhibition ECHOES OF WINTER. Traces of Light, which will be on view from November 23, 2024 to February 1, 2025. The exhibition takes visitors on a poetic journey through the quiet magic of winter, exploring the subtle beauty and mesmerizing moments of light and shadow of this special time of year. At a time when light and darkness merge in a unique interplay, the works of selected artists present the quiet tones of the cold season. ECHOES OF WINTER rediscover winter in all its quiet beauty Beauty, be it in frosty landscapes or in shimmering reflections of light, the reflections of light that permeate the room. ECHOES OF WINTER makes it possible to rediscover winter in all its quiet beauty, be it in frosty landscapes or in shimmering reflections of light that permeate the room. Marc Chagall, a master of dream worlds, is also part of the exhibition. His works create an atmosphere of nostalgia and magic in the winter season and allow visitors to experience winter through his magical, symbolic landscapes. Also represented is […]

until 18.01. | #4520ARTatBerlin | Galerie Nordenhake Berlin shows from 23. November 2024 the exhibition Hängepartie of the artist Meuser. ‘Things are traditionally rather under- than overstated in the Ruhrpott,’ says Meuser about the language of his origin. In line with this, the artist presents the solo exhibition Hängepartie (adjournment), his sixth at Galerie Nordenhake Berlin and tenth with Galerie Nordenhake. The industrial background of the material, which shapes his work, is reflected both in his laconic visual language and in the humorously subtle tone of his titles, visible in this exhibition through sculptures spanning the years 1970 to 2024. After the intellectual excess of his studies with Beuys from 1968 left him with endless knowledge but little direction, Meuser drew a line under it in 1975 with the encouragement of Imi Knoebel: ‘It’s fine now, just do it.’ This prompted the artist to head to the scrapyard, ‘out of necessity,’ where he found his beginnings. ‘I really immersed myself emotionally. Whether it stunk, was broken, greasy or dirty, I was able to abstract from that.’ Meuser works with scrap metal finds, beginning the process by letting his gaze wander over places of discarded objects. Contrary to the familiar artistic […]

until 21.12. | #4517ARTatBerlin | Galerie Georg Nothelfer shows from 23. November 2024 (Vernissage: 22.11.) the ehxibition with works by the next generation of artists from the Valérie Favre class (UdK Berlin). plot twist Nora Awad / Jamila Barakat / Linus Beckmann / Leo Beddermann / Momo Bera / Calman / Geli Derzapf / Lea Deutscher / Antonia Döß / Hannah-Sophia Eckart / Theo Goldbach / Max Gröger / Vero Haas / Florine Kirby / Luca Kramer / Minh Kha Le / Pia Maier / Kanni Oh / Philipp Schwinning / Martin Sieron / Laura Suryani Thedja / Wei Xia / Yiyi Wang Galerie Georg Nothelfer is showing works by the next generation of artists from the class of Valérie Favre (UdK Berlin) in the upcoming group exhibition. Statement by the artists: Colour becomes surface, forms an image, becomes tangible and ends in multi-perspective narrative moments. In the exhibition plot twist, 23 artists from the Favre class provide insights into their works. Different narratives come together and demonstrate the mutability of painting. The medium is revealed in all its complexity, creating contrasts that range from whispering to roaring tension. The artists form and curate their own as well as borrowed […]

until 01.02. | #4514ARTatBerlin | Galerie Barbara Wien presents from 30. November 2024 (Vernissage: 29.11.) the exhibition Vùjá de – Paper Thresholds of the artist Mariana Castillo Deball. Statement by the artist As I often work with documents that have been altered, destroyed or stored in distant and inaccessible libraries and museums, I frequently deal with printed copies, facsimiles and digital reproductions. From a Western, art-historical perspective, these copies are seen as mere additions to the original object, without any intrinsic value. However, it was the devastation and looting during colonization that prompted us to make such copies in the first place – as a means of preserving and protecting documents so that if something is lost, other versions of it exist. I would therefore like to see this genealogy of copies as a dissonant polyphony, as a collective, anonymous heritage. We can understand these documents as objects that have experienced the same trauma as those who preserve their memory. The Nahua term ixiptla reflects this complexity. Ixiptla can be translated as “representation”, “embodiment” or “replacement” and thus encompasses all versions, representations and echoes as part of the original – even if such an original no longer exists. Crocodile Skin […]

until 05.12. | #4510ARTatBerlin | LCG ARTLAB (Allerstraße) presents from 21. November 2024 the exhibition Beneath the black sand of time, I resist of the artist Auriane Kolodziej. Auriane Kołodziej (b. 1993, Paris) is an artist whose work delves into themes of memory, presence, and fragility. Educated in graphic design at ECV Creative School & Community and in semiology at Sorbonne Paris Descartes, Kołodziej transforms mirrors and resin blocks into poetic reflections on human impermanence. Her use of black-painted resin and fragmented imagery evokes a sense of decay, with mirrors acting as haunting canvases that hold light and fleeting memories. Blurring the line between presence and disappearance, her work invites introspection and a confrontation with the ephemeral nature of identity. MIROIR MIROIR 78 odalisque à la lune Beneath the black sand of time, I resist Does the mirror mourn the ghosts it holds, or does it remain indifferent to the countless faces that have flickered across its surface? Both fragile and resilient, suspended between presence and disappearance, the mirror is a beholder, but not a vessel for memory. It does not record or recollect. Instead, it bears witness to the passage of things, and the passage of time. There’s a […]

until 11.01. | #4508ARTatBerlin | PSM Gallery show from Friday, 15. November 2024 the exhibition Lost in Transmission of the artist Lena Göbe. Lena Göbel (born 1983 in Ried im Innkreis, Austria) works on the basis of the traditional printing techniques of woodcut and drypoint in combination with painting and collage techniques. However, she does not transfer her motifs into soft, non-fraying wood in the traditional way, but uses found wood or historical wooden objects, whose history is often decisive for the resulting motifs. For her exhibition Lost in Transmission, Göbel uses discarded everyday objects from her mother’s side of the family. In addition to cider barrels from the family wine press, a former door from her grandfather’s locksmith’s workshop, behind which all the machines were centrally driven via a transmission, a belt drive, was used as the basis for a printing block. For the artist, the element of propulsion symbolizes movement and the passage of time. In the technical and visual transformation of the historical objects into print templates in her own visual language, she carefully and powerfully approaches her own family history and transmits it into the present. Vernissage: Friday, 15 November 2024, 18:00 – 21:00 Exhibition dates: Friday, […]

until 21.12. | #4503ARTatBerlin | ChertLüdde (Potsdamer Str.) shows from 16. November 2024 the group exhibition A soft edge to break a sword. With works by: Monia Ben Hamouda,Stephanie Comilang,Patrizio di Massimo,Kasia Fudakowski,Petrit Halilaj,Heike Kabisch,Wilhelm Klotzek,Zora Mann,Beatriz Morales,SofíaSalazar Rosales,Young-jun Tak,Tyra Tingleff,Álvaro Urbano,Zhibo Wang and Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt Hosted at the gallery’s temporary location on Potsdamer Straße97, the exhibition showcases a broad range of artistic approaches—spanning etching,weaving, painting, and welding—unified by their exploration of the subversive powerof softness and vulnerability. At the entrance of the space is Sofía Salazar Rosales’s striking fiberglass beam,which bends under the weight of the artist’s personal talismans from her home. Symbolsof protection, the artist’s string of red beads appear deceptively heavy, causing thesturdy reproduction of the IPN beam to curve. This theme of material transformationcontinues in Tyra Tingleff ’s abstract oil paintings, where her expansive fields of colormelt and swirl into marbled surfaces, evoking a seemingly periment fluidity. MoniaBen Hamouda also expands on this notion with her abstract, calligraphic drawing.Smudged with medicinal spices, the artwork is part of her growing practice of blendingEuropean figuration with the Islamic tradition of aniconism to askew their differences. Sofía Salazar Rosales, Installation view of “Des lignes de désir – Félicités 2023”, […]

until 27.01. | #4499ARTatBerlin | Michaela Helfrich Galerie shows from Friday, 29. November 2024 the Solo exhibition On the edge by the artist Gerard Waskievitz. Opening: Friday, 29. November 2024, from 8 until 9 pm Exhibition dates: Friday, 29. November- Monday, 27. January 2024     Title image caption: courtesy of Michaela Helfrich Galerie Exhibition Gerard Waskievitz – Michaela Helfrich Galerie | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Ausstellungen Berlin Galerien | ART at Berlin

until 25.01. | #4496ARTatBerlin | Galerie kajetan Berlin presents from 07. Dezember 2024 (Vernissage: 06.12.) the exhibition of the artist Sara Sizer. Sara Sizer’s Raft, a project for Kajetan Galerie, opens on December 6, 2024. For this exhibition, Sizer presents a series of paintings on cotton/silk fabric. As is characteristic of her work, the choice of substrate—whether velvet, bleached raw linen, or wood—shapes the narrative language of each piece. When ink interacts with silk, certain effects occur naturally. Sizer harnesses and manipulates these organic processes to construct her compositions. While her work may be described as „abstract,“ metaphors emerge through the arrangement, color, and texture of the painted blocks. Sara Sizer | REMIND | 2024 | Bemaltes Seidenbaumwollgewebe | Painted cotton / silk | 100 x 80 cm | Courtesy the artist, Gallery Sofie Van de Velde & Galerie kajetan | Photo: Marcus Schneider Silk, a natural fibre with a rich tradition, which in our western culture is used less in the fine arts than in handicrafts, becomes the decisive carrier of the artistic statement in Sara Sizer’s works. The artist uses the capillary effect of the material to allow colours to fuse together organically, creating dynamic fields of colour and association. […]

until 15.02. | #4490ARTatBerlin | Crone Berlin present from 16. November 2024 (Vernissage: 15.11.) the exhibition Knallzart with the works of the aritsts Emmanuel Bornstein, Clemens Krauss and Robert Muntean. The opening of the exhibition ‘Knallzart’ by Emmanuel Bornstein, Clemens Krauss and Robert Muntean will take place on 15 November 2024 at Crone Berlin. On display are new paintings that explore the themes of identity, intimacy and physicality. Bornstein, Krauss, and Muntean studied painting at German art academies in the 2000s, but each has followed a stylistically distinct path. Bornstein sees himself in the tradition of a figurative-deconstructivist expressionism, influenced by Francis Bacon. Krauss is known for his thick, impastoed layers of paint, often several centimeters deep, while Robert Muntean captivates with a very even, harmonious brushstroke that follows musical rhythms. Though their approaches may appear vastly different at first glance, their works and artistic practices are deeply intertwined. The three artists are not only close friends and all based in Berlin, but they also share a common affinity for figuration and a focus on similar themes in their practice: Bornstein, Krauss, and Muntean’s works consistently reflect a preoccupation with societal processes, addressing aspects such as loneliness, isolation, massification, and […]

until 01.02. | #4488ARTatBerlin | neugerriemschneider (Linienstraße) shows from 23. November 2024 (Vernissage: 22.11.) the exhibition Project for an Exhibition, Part 1: Time Takes (Scenario for a Conversation) by the artist Simon Starling. In Project for an Exhibition, Part 1: Time Takes (Scenario for a Conversation), Simon Starling’s eighth solo exhibition with neugerriemschneider, the artist dedicates a series of sculptural portraits to the integral role that collaboration plays in his body of work. A group of minimal, abstracted figures presents key accomplices from throughout the artist’s career – architect and astronomer Mike Davies, marine biologist Sam Bowser, playwright and director Graham Eatough, pianolist Rex Lawson, designer Fulvio Ferrari, conservator Sherry Phillips and artist Rasmus Nielsen – standing as tributes to the diverging apprehensions of time that each embodies, and to the cross-disciplinary expertise embedded within Starling’s research-intensive projects. Surveying an artistic approach of over three decades, the likenesses find their counterparts in a collection of photographs and sculptures that stems from the contributions of those depicted. The cultivated ethos of collaboration has indelibly marked Starling’s practice, forming and informing it since its inception. As a trained photographer and artist whose far-reaching complexes of historical and cultural inquiry often pull from […]

until 17.01. | #4485ARTatBerlin | Meyer Riegger presents from 6. November 2024 three exhibitions by the artists John Miller. The exhibitions are on show at Meyer Riegger in Berlin and Karlsruhe, as well as at Trautwein Herleth in Berlin. Many people have written about John Miller’s work as an artist, musician, writer, teacher and friend, and most of them know that no one can do it as pointedly as he does himself: “Inscribed within the demand to produce is the inexorable demand to consume. The political economy consigns the labor of consumption, however, to so-called leisure or ‘free’ time. Nevertheless, how free is free?” In Cavalcade of Brown at Trautwein Herleth, viewers encounter a cavalcade of paintings, sculptures and prints that are less grandiose and solemn than disturbing. John Miller’s signature brown (which has earned him the reputation of being the “Yves Klein of brown”),gives rise to infantile, fecal mind games with the repulsive, even the abject, while simultaneously referencing the earthiness of Land Art and the grandeur of artistic subjectivity in the sprawling impasto brushstrokes of Abstract Expressionism. Instead of being reminiscent of a painterly flex, Miller’s brushstrokes are more cartoon-like and, at the same time, “real”. Once an […]

until 25.01. | #4482ARTatBerlin | BBA Gallery shows from 31. October 2024 the exhibitions “Domestic Demise” by photographer Patty Carroll and “Paradox” by painter László Máthé. BBA Gallery presents two extraordinary solo exhibitions of the winners of the BBA Artist Award and the BBA Photography Award 2023: Painter László Máthé and photographer Patty Carroll. The exhibitions Paradox by Máthé and Domestic Demise by Carroll are dedicated to the exploration of identity, psychology and social expectations through different artistic media. László Máthé’s exhibition ‘Paradox’ deals with the complexity of human existence. To this end, he explores the psychological causes that characterise our lives. Based on his Romanian origins and his experiences in Germany, Máthé depicts the tension between pain and transformation. The result is a deeply personal and universally valid visual narrative. Patty Carroll, Mad Mauve, 2018, Archival Digital Inkjet Print In ‘Domestic Demise’, Patty Carroll explores the complex relationship between a woman’s identity and her domestic environment. In her colourful and complex stage designs, Carroll criticises social expectations of women. These are humorously mixed with visually appealing social commentary. The common thread running through these two exhibitions is a profound reflection on human experience. Thus, the BBA Gallery presents two artists […]

until 19.12. | #4479ARTatBerlin | Galerie Barbara Thumm shows from 07. November 2024 (Vernissage: 06.11.) the exhibition Veiled Woman on a Beachfront by the artist Theo Eshetu. Please join us for the opening of our inaugural exhibition with Theo Eshetu. The show Veiled Woman on a Beachfront opens at Galerie Barbara Thumm on Wednesday, 06 November, 6–9 p.m. Theo Eshetu, Veiled Woman on a Beachfront, Galerie Barbara Thumm 2024, Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Barbara Thumm The exhibition Veiled Woman on a Beachfront at Galerie Barbara Thumm consists of excerpts from The Lamu Project, a multimedia collection of artworks created during a one-month stay on the Islamic island of Lamu, Kenya, in 2011. By finding points of contact, the project aims to create a meaningful dialogue between two cultures with often diverging views on the role of images in forming and representing a culture. The exhibition’s title stems from one of the video installations from the project with the same name, originally presented at the 54th Venice Biennale’s Italian Pavilion in 2011. Vernissage: Wednesday, 06. November,  2024, 6 to 9 pm Exhibition period: Thursday, 07. November – Thursday, 19. December 2024     Image caption: Theo Eshetu, Veiled Woman on a Beachfront, Galerie Barbara Thumm 2024, […]

until 07.12. | #4476ARTatBerlin | Galerie Inga Kondeyne shows from 25. Oktober 2024 the exhibition Vision of the artist Marlies Appel in the backstage of the gallery. From sheet to sheet, Marlies Appel curiously expands her new series of drawings from recent years, entitled ‘fold and snow, the Jungfrau’, which can be seen in this exhibition. Looking at the mountain massif with its many crevices, she was overwhelmed by the different incidence of light and the dominant shadow furrows. In her drawings, deliberately created free colour fields, characterised by this natural impression that is so important to her, are now combined with simply structured networks of lines. Viewers sense the underlying experience of nature absorbed by the artist. The masses of snow on the mountain, the birds flying in formations, the play of clouds – everything is lyrically connected in the flow of the drawing. Marlies Appel, (Dongen, 1945) lives and works in Overveen (NL); studied at the Rietveld Academy; she taught from 1979-1996 at the AKI, Enschede The Netherlands and from 1986-2006 at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam The Netherlands. Since 1978 she has had many exhibitions in the Netherlands and Germany. She exhibited at Gallery Apunto, Amsterdam; Gallery […]

until 07.12. | #4473ARTatBerlin | AOA;87 contemporary presents from 25. Oktober 2024 (Vernissage: 24.10.) the exhibition MARCKS SPIELSALON of the artist MARCK. A coin and three or more matching symbols, often in the form of numbers or fruit, and a little luck lead to a win. The payout is a clinking, clashing metal – the sound of joy. Or does it fail to materialize? MARCKS SPIELSALON, Außenansicht AOA;87 Berlin Confronted with the typical urban, pop-culture aesthetics of gaming arcades, the visitor gazes at a shop window that is closed off from view by a heavy red velvet curtain. In front of it are flickering LED illuminated lettering, an outdated but excitingly designed slot machine and the lettering: MARCKS SPIELESALON. Such places of entertainment seem familiar to us, and yet there is something unsettling about them. We are in Sophienstraße, an area with the typical old town charm of the Spandau suburb. In the shop window is a slot machine that is not decorated with the symbols and lettering we are familiar with. ‘INVEST IN ART’ is written on it. An invitation that does not seem absurd in the context of a gallery exhibition, but here it has a very decisive […]

until 23.11. | #4470ARTatBerlin | Galerie Schindler in Potsdam shows from 17. October 2024 the exhibition PAST PRESENT FUTURE for the fifth anniversary of the gallery. The Schindler Gallery has had more than 30 exhibitions and 25 artists have shown their work in solo exhibitions since its founding in October 2019. The Schindler Gallery is celebrating this first impressive anniversary with a large group exhibition. Andreas Hildebrandt, 2021, Crystal linoleum print on canvas, 65 x 50 cm, courtesy Galerie Schindler Alvar Beyer, Goldstücke, 2024, Copper on canvas, 30 x 30 cm, courtesy Galerie Schindler Anna-Lisa Unkuri, Do you want to know, 2023, oil and pastel on canvas, 70 x 50 cm, courtesy Galerie Schindler The following artists will be shown: Hannah Becher Alvar Beyer Birgit Borggrebe Rosanna Burford Frauke Bohge Isabelle Dutoit Sue Hayward Andreas Hildebrandt Florentine Joop Birgit Klerch Berit Mücke Jeanette Niebelschütz Anja Nürnberg Susanne Ramolla Kathrin Rank Constantin Schroeder Bettina Sellmann Tanja Selzer Karen Simon Jill Tegan Doherty Anna-Lisa Unkuri Su Weiss Simone Westphal Sabine Wewer Brigitte Yoshiko Pruchnow Vernissage: Thursday, 17. October 2024, from 7 pm Exhibition period: Thursday, 17. October until Saturday 23. November 2024     Image caption: Anja Nürnberg, Ruhe am Morgen (2024), […]