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Austin Eddy | Everything In Its Place | WENTRUP | 01.03.-19.04.2025

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 […]
Stefanie Seufert | The walls shake with laughter | Laura Mars Gallery | 22.02.-29.03.2025

until 29.03 | #4597ARTatBerlin | Laura Mars Gallery shows from the 22nd. February 2025 (Opening: 21.02.) the exhibition The walls shake with laughter by the artist Stefanie Seufert. The starting point for Stefanie Seufert’s exhibition “The walls shake with laughter” is a current series of text images. Based on the work of the writer Anna Kavan (1901-1961), they are created in a process of multiple exposures and enlargements: A detached passage of text becomes a freely circulating artefact and leads to an imagined image. In the opposite direction, i.e. from image to word, the path leads via representational photographs, which accompany the text works in precise combinatorics, and then on to camera-less photographic images and sculptures, in order to (perhaps) free perception from conceptual thinking for a brief moment. At the interface between photography, painting, sculpture and performance, Seufert works predominantly with analogue means. She utilises the material in its function and dysfunction, manipulating it in order to constantly test the photographic in the liminal space between subject and object. A system of superimposition and ambiguity is created in serial and repetitive processes. In the exhibition, this comes into contact with a poetic voice that radically refutes the logic and […]
Stories of your lives | Group exhibition | Galerie Max Hetzler | 01.03.-12.04.2025

until 12.04. | #4596ARTatBerlin | Galerie Max Hetzler ( Bleibtreustraße 15/16) shows from Saturday, 01. March 2025 the group exhibition “Stories of your lives” with works by: Giulia Andreani, Louise Bonnet, Glenn Brown, Manuele Cerutti, Marcus Cope, David Czupryn, Carroll Dunham, Walton Ford, Lenz Geerk, Ernst Yohji Jaeger, Ragnar Kjartansson, Sergey Kononov, Pia Krajewski, Victor Man, Danielle Mckinney, Keita Morimoto, Paulina Olowska, Pietro Roccasalva, Jan-Luka Schmitz, Rinus Van de Velde and Joseph Yaeger. The exhibition brings together a variety of remarkable contemporary artists who are redefining, expanding and challenging the possibilities and boundaries of portraiture, emphasising the enduring importance of this traditional genre in our complex and interconnected world. Curated by Eugenio Re Rebaudengo, the exhibition celebrates portraiture not merely as a reflection of physical likeness but as a profound storytelling act – one capable of holding the complexity and depth of lives lived, dreamed, and yet to be imagined. Through this lens, the exhibition redefines portraiture as a dynamic and resonant genre, affirming its relevance in capturing the multifaceted essence of humanity today. Inspired by author Ted Chiang’s acclaimed collection of speculative stories, Stories of Your Lives examines the contemporary portrait as a vessel for narrative. These works go beyond mere […]
Karel Appel | The Classic Themes | Galerie Max Hetzler | 01.03.-12.04.2025

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 […]
Otto Zitko | So What | Crone Berlin | 22.02.-24.04.2025

until 24.04. | #4594ARTatBerlin | Crone Berlin shows from the 22. February 2025 (Opening: 21.02.) the exhibition So What by the artist Otto Zitko. The art magazine “Monopol” once described Otto Zitko as the “Lord of the lines”. He himself says: “I started painting a line sometime in the late 1980s and never stopped.” Since then, this line has run through all of his works. He paints it on canvases, aludibond panels, walls and ceilings. He intuitively gives it free rein, depending on how he feels and what he is experiencing at the moment. Like a seismograph, Zitko uses this never-ending line to record what he absorbs from his surroundings, his environment or global events. In this way, he creates fascinating, shimmering meshes that captivate the viewer and touch them emotionally. In the exhibition “So What”, Otto Zitko shows particularly remarkable works that he has created over the last 30 years and that mean a lot to him personally – including new, current paintings, in which “his” line seems to seek a way out of the confusion and turmoil of our times. Otto Zitko, born in Linz in 1959, lives and works in Vienna. Major institutions such as the Hamburger Bahnhof, […]
Barbara Probst | Solo exhibition | Kuckei + Kuckei | 28.02.-12.04.2025

until 12.04. | #4593ARTatBerlin | Kuckei + Kuckei shows from the 28. February 2025 an exhibition by the artist Barbara Probst. This exhibition with current works by Barbara Probst is taking place as part of EMOP 2025 (European Month of Photography, Berlin). Barbara Probst’s works each consist of several photographs that show the same subject from different perspectives at the same time. The individual images are so different that this connection is only slowly revealed. For Probst, this fragmentation of the moment into a series of images is a means of exploring the ambiguity inherent in every photographic image. Thanks to a remote-controlled system, she can simultaneously press the shutter release of different cameras pointing at the same subject from different angles. The camera’s optics provide a different view of the same reality from each perspective, revealing the subjectivity of perception. The moment expands, becomes fragmented and unfolds before our eyes like a multi-layered, kaleidoscopic narrative. Probst uses this method to question the ambivalences of photographic representation while exploring the conventions and genres of photography, from reportage and surveillance to portraits, still lifes and fashion shots. Barbara Probst, Exposure #187: Milan, Fondazione Prada, Cisterna, 09.20.23, 5:35 p.m., 2023, Ultrachrome ink […]
Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt | TIPPEN FÜR DEN DRUCK | Galerie aKonzept | 14.02.-12.04.2025

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, […]
Anna Talens | Arcadia! – Idiliakós | Kewenig Berlin | 14.02.-11.04.2025

until 11.04. | #4591ARTatBerlin | Galerie Kewenig Berlin shows from 14. February (Opening: 13.02.) the exhibition “Arcadia! – Idiliakós” by the artists Anna Talens. Reflections on the metaphorical meaning of cultivating nature confront us with the complex legacies of exploitation. The gardens –a form of human control over the wild– that once symbolised an idyllic return to nature now, invites lingering questions: Can Arcadia still be dreamt today? Traditionally, idylls have represented serene, harmonious visions of nature—untouched paradises offering an idealised retreat from the complexities of human life. However, Anna Talens’ work challenges this notion, revealing the fragility and complexity inherent in both nature and human-made spaces. Opening: Thursday, 13. February 2025, 6 – 8 pm. Exhibition dates: Friday, 14. February until Friday, 11. April 2025 Title image caption: Anna Talens, Stillleben, 2018 (still life) Exhibition Anna Talens – Kewenig Berlin | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Ausstellungen Berlin Galerien | ART at Berlin
Jürgen Durner & Jörg Bach | Challenge of Colour – Hymnen an die Nacht | Galerie SCHMALFUSS BERLIN | 15.02.2025-22.03.2025

until 22.03. | #4590ARTatBerlin | Galerie SCHMALFUSS BERLIN shows from 15. February 2025 the exhibition “Challenge of Colour – Hymnen an die Nacht” by the artists Jürgen Durner and Jörg Bach. Jürgen Durner’s paintings are based on the perception of artificial light in urban space. Many differently colored light sources are reflected in reflecting window panes, which in turn merge very artificial illuminations of interior and exterior spaces. Jürgen Durner, Königsblau, Oil on canvas, 55 x 55 cm, 2024 Currently, Durner succeeds in immensely increasing the color values of these light situations and thus bringing them to absolute brilliance. He explores the possibilities of painting with oil on canvas anew through the experimental combination of colors and techniques, thus reaching the limits of what can be painted. Jürgen Durner, Planeten, 2024, Oil on canvas, 160x240cm Jörg Bach, Bleibe, Corten, Lack, 13 x 13 x 14 cm, 2024 Jörg Bach, Reflektor, 2024, Stainless steel, 45 x 80 x 32 cm Jörg Bach mainly produces sculptures made of sheet steel in numerous variations and sizes. He creates both large and small wall objects as well as floor and free-standing sculptures, which can be natural, painted or made of polished stainless steel. Jörg […]
Emma Sarpaniemi | Two Ways to Carry a Cauliflower | Jarmuschek + Partner | 15.02.-29.03.2025

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 […]
Jay Mark Johnson | NO STONE UNTURNED | Galerie Deschler | 28.02.-12.04.2025

until 12.04. | #4588ARTatBerlin | Galerie Deschler shows from 28. February 2025 the exhibition NO STONE UNTURNED by the artist Jay Mark Johnson. The large-format photographs by American artist and director Jay Mark Johnson achieve something that is otherwise denied to the medium of photography: with the help of a self-modified panoramic camera, they record continuous movement. To do this, Johnson breaks with our viewing habits and creates a new visual language that initially appears puzzling to the viewer. At the same time, he sets the parameters of his recordings in such a way that the visual shifts remain subtle: the visual appeal of his carefully staged images stems from the tension between the seemingly familiar and the mysteriously different. In the exhibition NO STONE UNTURNED, he focuses on the often invasive, short-sighted and non-holistic human interventions in nature, be it through mining, deforestation, urban sprawl, traffic, wars or tourism. The increasing destruction of our environment as an ever-advancing development is reflected in the processual nature of his photographs. Special attention is also paid to the contrast between nature and technology in the form of heavy machinery, such as in the works FLY ROCK #2 and CARBON DATING #1, both […]
Betram Jesdinsky | Mondkalb mit Reibekuchen | Galerie Thomas Schulte | 25.01.-01.03.2025

until 01.03. | #4587ARTatBerlin | Galerie Thomas Schulte (Charlottenstraße) is currently showing the exhibition “Mondkalb mit Reibekuchen” by the artist Betram Jesdinsky. Myths and motors, carpet landscapes, packed lunches and fantastical creatures – nothing in this world (or beyond it) escapes Bertram Jesdinsky’s artistic cosmos. The artist’s pictorial worlds bend time and space, everyday objects seem to take on strange lives of their own, and overpopulated canvases pulsate with life. Born in 1960, Jesdinsky studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and later went on to co-found the “Anarchistische GummiZelle” in 1980, which became known for its experimental films and performances. In April 1992, at the age of 32, Jesdinsky took his own life, leaving behind an diverse body of paintings, sculptures, music and films. Thomas Schütte’s dedicated 2022 exhibition in the Skulturenhalle in Neuss, offered a comprehensive view of his oeuvre. This year, the exhibition Mondkalb mit Reibekuchen (Moon Calf with Hash Browns), at Galerie Thomas Schulte takes a new look at Bertram Jesdinsky’s artistic life and work. The show illustrates the great autonomy of his work, which is reflected both in the breadth and versatility of the media he employs as well as the uniqueness of his artistic vision embodied in his […]
Elmgreen & Dragset | Momentan nicht erreichbar | Galerie Max Hetzler | 20.02.-12.04.2025

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 is pleased to present 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 […]
REVERIES OF A SOLITARY MUSE | Group exhibition | Haverkampf Leistenschneider | 30.01.-08.03.2025

until 08.03. | #4585ARTatBerlin | Haverkampf Leistenschneider is currently showing the exhibition REVERIES OF A SOLITARY MUSE by the artists Nadja Abt, Annabelle Agbo Godeau, Solweig de Barry, Isabella Fürnkäs, Suah Im, Alex Müller, Eglė Otto, Sophia Süßmilch and Sophia Tabatadze. In Greek mythology, the Muses were thought to speak in whispers, inspiring those they blessed with their gifts. In some accounts, these whispers were carried on the wind, often from Mount Helicon, the sacred mountain where the nine Muses were said to reside. As divine patrons of the arts, each Muse presided over a distinct domain of knowledge—spanning poetry, dance, music, history, and astronomy—collectively embodying the vast spectrum of human inspiration, guiding artists, poets, and musicians as they retreated into the depths of thought. This idea of whispers has transcended time, enduring as a metaphor for the muse’s mysterious aura, a source of inspiration and personal enlightenment. Building on this notion, the exhibition reveries of a solitary muse brings together the work of nine women artists. Spanning a wide range of mediums, their works offer multifaceted perspectives on the muse, unfolding a narrative imbued with a sense of dream, poetry, social critique and humour. Suah Im, Samsara, 2024 | Zwischen Schwäche und Stärke […]
Ralph Merschmann | Licht aus, Tür zu | RASCHE RIPKEN | 14.02.-12.04.2025

until 12.04. | #4584ARTatBerlin | RASCHE RIPKEN shows from 14. February 2025 the exhibition Licht aus, Tür zu by the artist Ralph Merschmann. From February 14 to April 12, 2025, the gallery Rasche Ripken will present new paintings by Ralph Merschmann in a solo exhibition titled Licht aus, Tür zu. In his latest works, the artist has adopted a new compositional approach that can be described as a kind of architectural planning exercise. He organizes the canvas using geometric color forms, almost as if they were modular elements of a construction set, combining in endless new arrangements. His paintings shift between top-down and side views, sometimes evoking floor plans or street maps, and at other times resembling fragmented house facades with embedded doors and windows. These elements are either symmetrically distributed across a monochromatic background or arranged – partly dark, partly lit – in free formations that deliberately defy any structural logic. As in his previous series, the artist continues to organize his latest works through the successive layering and superimposition of modular shapes to form complex, multi-layered compositions. The lacquered areas of paint sometimes resemble adhered, reflective foils, making both illusion and materiality central themes and subjects of his […]
Otto Piene | Sprüth Magers Berlin | 12.02.-05.04.2025

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 […]
Lucy Dodd | The Return: Works from the North Sea | Sprüth Magers Berlin | 12.02.-05.04.2025

until 05.04. | #4582ARTatBerlin | Sprüth Magers Berlin presents from 12th February 2025 (Vernissage: 11.02.) the exhibition The Return: Works from the North Sea by the artist Lucy Dodd. Lucy Dodd’s new paintings mobilise material, colour and shape to explore both personal and universal roots and ruptures. The two-part exhibition In Between Worlds reflects Dodd’s recent move from upstate New York to the Scottish countryside. It features paintings and found sculpture that examine the mythological and historical ties between the two places. Using unconventional pigments derived from nature and her immediate surroundings, Dodd traces the passage of time and an energetic shift that is echoed in the colours and spirit of the frenetic, at times large-scale, landscapes composed of painted spills, drops and stains. Working outdoors during the American autumn and later in the Scottish spring, the artist produced two cathartic groups of works that are a true display of place, time and setting. Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers are pleased to present the latter part of the cycle of works at the Berlin gallery. The solo show follows its counterpart, The End, staged at The Ranch, Montauk, from November 9 to December 20, 2024. Dodd employs a semiotic approach […]
Ethereal | Group exhibition | Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery | 21.02.-22.03.2025

until 22.03. | #4581ARTatBerlin | Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery Berlin shows from the 21. February 2025 (Opening: 20.02.) the Group exhibition “Ethereal” by the artists Bianca Barandun, Kim Booker, Carri, Saskia Fleishman, Michelle Jezierski, Anne Griffiths, Alessandro Keegan and Thomas Trum. Ethereal, a group exhibition at Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Berlin, brings together some of the most exciting artists working with abstraction today. The show considers how the abstract style has provided fertile ground for artists throughout history, inviting a playful approach to materiality, symbolism and texture, with particular attention paid to emotional states, rhythm and ephemerality. Exploring everything from memory and spirituality to our relationship with everyday objects, architecture and nature, Ethereal invites us to pay closer attention to the world around us. Working at the intersection of print, drawing and sculpture, Swiss artist Bianca Barandun seeks to capture complex emotions through colour and forms. For this exhibition, she presents a ceramic sculpture from her ongoing ‘Silos’ series, for which she interviews people about their memories, asking them to describe only the visual aspects. She then translates these details into a code, exploring how language affects not only the ways in which we communicate recollections, but the act of remembering itself. […]
Jason Martin | Pole Star | Buchmann Galerie | 31.01.-08.03.2025

until 08.03. | #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 […]
ACHIM FREYER | innen raum land schaften | Galerie Tammen | 07.02.2025-(to follow)

until (to follow) | #4579 ARTatBerlin | Galerie Tammen shows from 7th February 2025 the exhibition innen raum land schaften by the artist Achim Freyer. The painter, theatre maker, collector and university lecturer Achim Freyer was born in Berlin in 1934, studied painting and graphic art in Berlin-Schöneweide, became a master student of Bertolt Brecht in 1955 and fled the GDR to the West in 1972 due to artistic reprisals. He became one of the defining artistic personalities of post-war modernism in Germany and world-famous as a director, stage and costume designer. Having grown up in two dictatorships, his artistic work is characterised by a lifelong urge for artistic development. Achim Freyer „Horizont“, 2001, Mischtechnik auf Leinwand, 200 x 160 cm His work reveals the ruptures and continuities of an impressive artistic biography between East and West. As a visual artist, he was invited to documenta twice, in 1977 and 1987. Since then, Achim Freyer’s constantly growing oeuvre has been exhibited nationally and internationally. In his work, Achim Freyer fights for the visibility of perception itself; drawings and paintings reflect these processes on the border between introspection and exterior space. The development of his austere abstract painting in the 1960s […]
Highlights on Paper | Group exhibition | ARTES Berlin | 04.02.2025-(to follow)

until (to follow) | #4578ARTatBerlin | ARTES Berlin presents from 4th February 2025 the group exhibition ‘Highlights on Paper’. ARTES Berlin presents the new exhibition series ‘Highlights on Paper’. To kick off the series, the focus is on watercolour painting, which displays an impressive variety and expressiveness in its works. On display are watercolours by renowned artists such as Emil Nolde, Klaus Fußmann, Erich Heckel, Karin Kneffel, Günther Uecker, Gerhard Richter and many others. Each of these masters brings their own perspective and technique to the medium and shows just how multifaceted the world of watercolour can be. The ‘Highlights on Paper’ exhibition series invites visitors to discover the extraordinary variety and different expressive possibilities of works on paper. The works on display range from classic watercolours to innovative experiments with the medium of paper, which is brought to life through a wide variety of techniques and artistic working methods. Whether delicate, powerful or abstract – each work shows how versatile and creative paper can be used as a material. Vernissage: Tuesday, 04 February 2025 Exhibition dates: Tuesday, 04 February 2025 until (to follow) Image Caption: “Highlights on Paper”, Courtesy of ARTES Berlin (Detail). Exhibition “Highlights on Paper” […]
Nicole Heinzel | frgmntd lmnts / lmntl frgmnts | Galerie kajetan Berlin | 08.02.–05.04.2025

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. Nicole Heinzel presents ambiguous and fragmented elements of our natural world, exploring how we decode and reinterpret reality. “…my own fragmented understanding of science, religion, psychology and philosophy is very relevant to my artistic approach.” – Nicole Heinzel Heinzel establishes predefined parameters or a framework to help navigate within her practice, employing various methods of abstraction and defamiliarization through both digital and analog means. Mass and space are interchangeable, black and white images are inverted, distinctions between micro and macro are blurred, or the photographic motive is turned upside down and back to front. Nicole Heinzel was born in 1969 to German parents who had emigrated to Benghazi, Libya. After also living in Iran and Trinidad, the family moved to the UK, where she studied art and design. In 2002, Heinzel relocated to Berlin, Germany, where she continues to live and work as an artist. Heinzel’s practice encompasses painting, drawing, photography, film, and collage. Her work has been exhibited internationally in both private and public spaces. Vernissage: Friday, 07 February 2025, 6-7 pm Exhibition dates: Saturday, […]
Gudrun Brüne | Blumenball und Puppensträuße | Galerie feinart berlin | 13.02.-29.03.2025

until 29.03. | #4576ARTatBerlin | Galerie feinart berlin shows from 13th February 2025 the exhibition Blumenball und Puppensträuße by the artist Gudrun Brüne. Dolls, masks, floral still lifes: the exhibition looks at the central motifs in the work of Gudrun Brüne (†25.01.2025). Memorial exhibition Gudrun Brüne, Die Hexe, Mischtechnik auf Hartfaser, 1998 ©Foto-360Degrees.art What is the human being? An easily manipulated cognitive system? A biochemical apparatus, a constantly optimizing cultural machine, a herd animal? These questions are as topical as they are surprising, as they are posed to us by works by the painter Gudrun Brüne, born in 1941. Gudrun Brüne, Die Klassische Puppe, Mischtechnik auf Hartfaser, 1999 ©Foto-360Degrees.art While her husband Bernhard Heisig (†2011), one of the great founding members of the Leipzig School in the GDR, is being celebrated this year on the 100th anniversary of his birth, we wanted to dedicate a solo exhibition to Gudrun Brüne, one of the few female representatives of this group, during her lifetime in her native city of Berlin. Gudrun Brüne passed away on January 25. We are deeply touched that she will not see her exhibition. The exhibition is now a memorial event. Gudrun Brüne’s realistic style follows the craftsmanship […]
Andreas Hildebrandt + Susanne Ramolla | ANTIMODE | Galerie Schindler | 30.01.-08.03.2025

until 08.03. | #4575ARTatBerlin | Galerie Schindler is currently showing the exhibition ANTIMODE by the artists Andreas Hildebrandt and Susanne Ramolla. In the exhibition ANTIMODE, Andreas Hildebrandt and Susanne Ramolla present an exploration of the principle of Anti-Mode Technology™. This technology, which is used in sound engineering to reduce and eliminate disturbing acoustic room resonances, forms the starting point for the artistic exploration of the relationship between technology, space and material as well as aesthetic perception. In German, the title ANTIMODE also refers to an attitude against fashion in the traditional sense, to the principle of non-fashion – free from aesthetic conventions and without orientation towards current trends. Hildebrandt and Ramolla play with this term and use it as a metaphor for an artistic attitude that opposes superficial aesthetics and the constant hunt for novelty. It is the search for an aesthetic purity that is not subject to the dictates of fashion. Susanne Ramolla, Ramoon, 2023, Concrete, gauze tape white,22 x 16 x 15 cm Hildebrandt and Ramolla are interested in the ambivalence between the technical process of anti-fashion and the concept of anti-fashion as an aesthetic attitude that is not orientated towards fashionable trends. The technology, which can eliminate […]
In between | Group exhibition | Galerie Michael Haas | 20.01.-07.03.2025

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
XOOOOX | Faulty Paradise | AOA;87 contemporary | 08.02.-15.03.25

until 15.03. | #4573ARTatBerlin | AOA;87 presents from 08. February 2025 (Vernissage: 07.02.) the exhibition „Faulty Paradise“ by the artist XOOOOX. AOA;87 presents the solo exhibition “Faulty Paradise” by Berlin-based artist XOOOOX. The exhibition explores the cultural and artistic significance of superficiality. How does it shape our thinking and perception? A central reference point is the biblical story of the Fall of Man, which challenges our relationship with perception and meaning: “And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?” – Luther Bible (1912), Genesis 3:11 XOOOOX, Noczero, 2024, Sprühlack auf Karton, signiert, betitelt und datiert Rückseite, 70 x 50 cm XOOOOX, Think so, 2014, Sprühlack auf Leinwand, Metalltafeln, signiert, betitelt und datiert Rückseite, 150 x 537 x 2 cm The moment Adam and Eve become aware of their nakedness symbolizes the birth of self-awareness—a tension between identity and societal norms. XOOOOX delves into this theme to explore the dynamics between what we reveal and what we conceal. Inspired by Zeitgeist and pop imagery, his works challenge the illusion of perfection. By using ephemeral materials like eroded metal and cardboard, XOOOOX highlights the creative […]
Anna Leonhardt | SOULVA | Galerie Friese | 08.02.-05.04.2025

until 05.04. | #4572ARTatBerlin |Galerie Friese shows from Saturday, 08. February 2025 (Opening: 07.02.) the exhibition SOULVA by the artist Anna Leonhardt. We are used to reading a succession, a temporal sequence in pictures, just as we experience it in life. In Anna Leonhardt’s work, one might initially think: there is a background to the picture, which is the foil for the appearance of shiny, shimmering colour forms. An event of painting takes place on the surfaces of the background, which says a lot about Anna Leonhardt’s understanding of art. We are dealing with the material of colour in its most beautiful form, because it acts as such and at the same time evokes associations. On it are abstract forms in which a tremendous interaction takes place, an inner and outer dialogue of colour with itself and the viewer. Anna Leonhardt, VOIS, 2025, Öl auf Leinwand, 45 x 60 cm, Foto: Lars Wiedemann As with the so-called background of the picture itself, what is being talked about here is the in-between, the pathos and the importance of the incidental. Sometimes, it seems, all that matters in a picture is this small trace of colour, this difference, which is almost forgotten in […]
Matthias Esch | Karte und Gebiet | Galerie Brockstedt | 14.02.-30.04.2025

until 30.04. | #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, Öl, Stift, Perlmuttpigment auf Leinwand Matthias Esch, Chained to a cloud (Symbol), 170 x 110 cm, 2023/24_Öl, […]
ACCROCHAGE | Group exhibition | Galerie Gilla Lörcher | 01.02.-21.02.2025

until 21.02. | #4570ARTatBerlin | Galerie Gilla Lörcher shows from Saturday, 1st. February 2025 (Opening: 31.01.) the group exhibition ACCROCHAGE by the artists John Cornu, Ivan Liovik Ebel, Ivana Kličković, Quentin Lefranc, Sandrine Mahéo, Gonzalo Reyes Araos, Christian Pilz and Capucine Vandebrouck. The exhibition presents paintings, drawings and objects. Opening: Friday, 31st. January 2025, 7 – 9 pm Exhibition dates: Saturday, 1st. February – Friday, 21. February 2025 Title image caption: ACCROCHAGE, Photo: Quentin Lefranc, Objects 2024. Crushed paper and white cement. Group exhibition ACCROCHAGE – Galerie Gilla Lörcher | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Ausstellungen Berlin Galerien | ART at Berlin
Christa Jeitner | Nicht Schwarz, nicht Weiß, nur schmutziges Grau | DIEHL | 08.02.-14.03.2025

until 14.03. | #4569ARTatBerlin | DIEHL shows from Saturday, 08. February 2025 (Opening: 07.02.) the Exhibition “Nicht Schwarz, nicht Weiß, nur schmutziges Grau” by the artist Christa Jeitner. Opening: Friday, 07. February 2025, 7 pm. Exhibition dates: Saturday, 08. February until Friday, 14. March 2025 Title image caption: Christa Jeitner, Fortgeführter Zyklus Licht des Nichts X-XII, XII: Schostakowitsch: “Nicht Schwarz, nicht Weiß, nur schmutziges Grau”, 1990, machine seam drawing, 46.5 x 46 cm, © the artist, photo by Alicja Kielan Exhibition Christa Jeitner – DIEHL | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Ausstellungen Berlin Galerien | ART at Berlin
James Benning & Danh Vo | jb & dv | neugerriemschneider | 15.02.-15.03.2025

bis 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 […]
Kin Is Not Kind | Group exhibition | alexander levy | 17.01.–15.02.2025

until 15.02. | #4567 ARTatBerlin | Galerie alexander levy shows from the 17th. January 2025 the group exhibition “Kin Is Not Kind” by the artists Julius von Bismarck, Ximena Garrido-Lecca, Ayesha Hameed, Anne Duk Hee Jordan, Berenice Olmedo, Meret Oppenheim and Simon Speiser. The exhibition “Kin is Not Kind” explores the connections between humans and non-humans, focussing on the interactions of bodies, technology and nature. It illuminates how historical experiences and memories, shaped by colonialism and the exploitation of people and the environment, influence our understanding of identity, ecology and coexistence. The works in the exhibition deal with the construction of kinship and its effects. In her works, artist Ximena Garrido-Lecca examines the ecological, social and cultural consequences of the exploitation of natural resources, with a particular interest in how technologisation and urbanisation have historically influenced the relationship between nature and people. A recurring theme in Garrido-Lecca’s work is the impact of copper mining in Peru’s rural regions. The extractive practices of colonialism and their ongoing presence not only leave behind destroyed landscapes, but also have serious health consequences for local communities, while investors and consumers continue to come predominantly from the global North. The use of copper in the […]
Artists of the Gallery | Gruppenausstellung | Galerie Dittmar | 25.01-08.03.2025

until 08.03. | #4566ARTatBerlin | Galerie Dittmar presents from Saturday, 25. January 2025 the group exhibition Artists of the Gallery. Participating artists: Arcangelo, Mona Breede, Gerhard Fietz, Georg Frietzsche, Robert Jacobsen, Gottfried Salzmann, Emil Schumacher, Sean Scully, Jan Voss Emil Schumacher, 1994, Aquatinta und Collage, 52 x 65 cm It is not a themed exhibition. The selection is cross-national and cross-generational. The most diverse media and techniques are represented and the most varied processes are developed. But the result is nothing less than disparate. The selection and hanging of the works create tension, generate correspondences and open up references. At the same time, they sharpen the eye for the individual image. Vernissage: Saturday, 25 January 2025, from 12 pm Exhibition dates: Saturday, 25 January – Saturday, 08 March 2025 Image Caption: Mona Breede, Parc Citroen III, 1998, 50 x 60 cm Exhibition Artists of the Gallery – Galerie Dittmar | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Ausstellungen Berlin Galerien | ART at Berlin
Cemile Sahin | ROAD RUNNER | Esther Schipper | 01.02-05.03.2025

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 […]
Jerónimo Rüedi | And between us occurs the following conversation | Galerie Nordenhake Berlin | 25.01-22.02.2025

until 22.02. | #4563ARTatBerlin | Galerie Nordenhake Berlin shows from 25th January 2025 (Vernissage: 24.01) the exhibition And between us occurs the following conversation by the artist Jerónimo Rüedi. Jerónimo Rüedi’s works reject representational maneuvers and transcend categories. His is a notably different approach from the current landscape of figurative painting, one of immediate interpretation and quite often literal narratives. In his unique artistic process — rooted in a sophisticated conceptual basis developed over decades — Rüedi progressively moves away from figuration as a form of mediation with the world, to generate paintings and encaustics that emphasize presence over image. Rüedi paints against the grain of what is immediately identified as painting and considers the medium as the language itself. Its frail traces, like condensed scribbles on notepads, are like records of truncated acts, pointless journeys, and fleeting thoughts that come across the artist’s creative grapple with the empty surfaces of his canvases. Rüedi, interested in both the craftsmanship of making and the reception of his work, has developed unorthodox methods that captivate the viewer’s gaze and body. He elaborates on seemingly deep surfaces to compose a cosmology —or a language— that rejects artifices from Euclidian representation, vanishing lines, and […]
I though I had lost a soul here | Group exhibition | Meyer Riegger | 17.01.-22.02.2025

until 22.02. | #4561ARTatBerlin | Meyer Riegger shows from 17. January 2025 (Opening 16.01) the group exhibition “I though I had lost a soul here” by the artists Tamina Amadyar, Hangama Amiri, Horst Antes, Katinka Bock, Miriam Cahn, Eva Koťátková, Jeewi Lee, Paulo Nazareth, Salvo, Michael Schmidt, Mike Silva, Feier Yu and Meng Zhang. The title of the exhibition itself is drawn from the poem Aachen (2016) by Meng Zhang (1983, Tianjin, China), who studied literature before turning to the visual arts. Her poetic drawings and prints often resemble maps or branching paths, reflecting her navigation between both Western and Chinese art traditions and ways of life. The marks of charcoal and wax on the delicate transparent paper that Zhang uses in At, Nowhere No.1 (Nirgendwo) (2020), for the artist, conjure a feeling of being lost physically, geographically and culturally, but also the simultaneous desire to find one’s place. Meng Zhang At Nowhere No.1 (Nirgendwo) 2020, charcoal, wax on transparent paper 120 x 180 cm Meng Zhang At Nowhere No.1 (Nirgendwo) 2020, charcoal, wax on transparent paper 120 x 180 cm. Installation view The fabric work buji (2024) by Tamina Amadyar (1989, Kabul, Afghanistan) is created from discarded remnants of already […]
Group Exhibition in Variations | Painting and Sculpture | Galerie Mutare | 18.01-03.05.2025

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
Gordon Matta-Clark | (ex)urban futures of the recent past | Galerie Thomas Schulte | 18.01.-01.03.2025

until 01.03. | #4559ARTatBerlin | Galerie Thomas Schulte (Potsdamer Straße) presents from 18th January 2025 (Vernissage 17.01.) the exhibition (ex)urban futures of the recent past by the artist Gordon Matta-Clark. Galerie Thomas Schulte presents (Ex)Urban Futures of the Recent Past, an exhibition of films and photographs by Gordon Matta-Clark, at the gallery’s space in Mercator Höfe. Curated by David Hartt, the exhibition engages with critical histories of and experimental approaches to urban space, from a period defined by sweeping transformations that continue to structure the built environment today. Vernissage: Friday, January 17, 2025, 6 to 9 p.m. Exhibition dates: Saturday, January 18 to Saturday, March 01, 2025 Location: new space in the Mercator Höfe on Potsdamer Strasse Image Caption : Gordon Matta-Clark, “Walls”, 1972, Gelatin silver print, Image size: 47.9 x 60.6 cm | 18 7/8 x 23 7/8 in, Framed dimensions: 55.9 x 71.1 x 3.8 cm | 22 x 28 x 1 1/2 in, Courtesy of the Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark Exhibition Gordon Matta-Clark – Galerie Thomas Schulte | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Ausstellungen Berlin Galerien | ART at Berlin
Peter Rosenzweig + Ulf Meyer-Wachsmuth | IM STROM DER ZEIT | QGallery Berlin | 08.02.-05.03.2025
until 05.03. | #4556ARTatBerlin | Q Gallery shows from 08. February 2025 (Opening: 07.02.) the double exhibition “IM STROM DER ZEIT” with works by the sculptor Peter Rosenzweig and the painter Ulf Meyer-Wachsmuth. The two artists share a long common path. They have known each other since the 90s. Back then, Peter Rosenzweig founded the renowned summer academy for sculpture and painting Campo dell’Altissimo in Italy. And Ulf Meyer was one of the first lecturers in painting. Until today. Both have shown their work in exhibitions and projects in several European countries. They are now being presented for the first time in a joint exhibition at the Q Gallery Berlin. In addition to current works, they are also exhibiting works from these past years. Ulf Meyer-Wachsmuth – Inland Empire, Wachstempera auf Nessel, 176×137 cm PETER ROSENZWEIG’s sculptures reflect not only his long artistic exploration of stone as a material, but also his respect for the material itself. Thousands of years of the earth’s history, an immeasurable variety of colours and shapes. Peter Rosenzweig’s works are characterised by leaving these in their original state, sometimes working on them and shaping them artistically, creating a field of tension between nature, time and […]
Johnny Miller | Drawing Cabinet | Galerie Barbara Thumm | 18.01-07.03.2025

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
Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven | Dudoute_Toaster_Absolu (AMVK 1981-2025) | Galerie Barbara Thumm | 18.01-07.03.2025

until 07.03. | #4557ARTatBerlin | Galerie Barbara Thumm shows from 18th January 2025 (opening: 17th January) the exhibition Dudoute_Toaster_Absolu (AMVK 1981-2025) by the artist Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven. Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven (AMVK, *1951 in Antwerp, Belgium) has blazed a distinctive trail in contemporary art, renowned for her iconic collages, drawings, and mixed-media works that fuse art and technology. Her works often juxtapose seemingly random motifs, materials, and temporal references, yet a closer look reveals an underlying logic that ties them together. She has spoken of employing self-made systems of order—logical yet enigmatic, even to her, as they reflect the workings of her unconscious. Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, Optimal Performance, digital image printed on PVC, prints on paper, acrylic paints, 2024, Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Barbara Thumm The retrospective “Dudoute_Toaster_Absolu (AMVK 1981–2025)” exemplifies this approach, originating from AMVK’s desire to revisit and recontextualize her earlier works. At its heart lies the video “A-X+B=12”, a digital animation that brings to life a series of her drawings, collages, and installations from 1981 onward. This “coming of age” piece traces the journey of an entity entering the world and becoming an artist, mirroring AMVK’s own trajectory. To create the animation, she methodically selected works […]
David Moses | Broken Toys | Russi Klenner | 18.01.-01.03.2025

until 01.03. | #4555ARTatBerlin | Russi Klenner shows from 18. January 2025 (Vernissage 17.01.) the exhibition Broken Toys by the artist David Moses. Since 2017, artist David Moses has been exploring the Silly Symphonies, Walt Disney’s early cartoons, and exploring how movement and time can be transformed into visual spaces He transfers the filmic events of these cartoons into a new abstract-figurative space on the canvas by fragmenting, drawing and overpainting. Traces of the original remain recognisable, dissolving into an explosion of colour surfaces and lines. In his new exhibition Broken Toys at the Russi Klenner Gallery, he concentrates on the central characters of his works. He penetrates deeper into their innermost, hidden selves and not only captures their facial expressions and extreme movements, but also scrutinises everything anew by radically dissolving and rebuilding them at the same time. While the visual realisation of music played a central role in the Silly Symphonies, this is also echoed in David Moses’ work. In his new works, rhythm and musicality are reflected in lines and colours that create a poetry of the abstract and convey emotions even more radically and intensely. David Moses, not yet titled (after Three Blind Mouseketeers, 1936), 2025, […]
Kenneth Blom | METAMORPHOSIS OF VISION | Luisa Catucci Gallery | 17.01.-08.03.2025

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 […]
Titus Schade | Der Kiosk – Die Insel | Galerie EIGEN + ART Berlin | 23.01-07.03.2025

until 07.03. | #4554ARTatBerlin | Galerie EIGEN + ART Berlin shows from 23 January 2025 the exhibition Der Kiosk – Die Insel by the artist Titus Schade . There is a fire burning. In Titus Schade’s remote, gloomy, small town yet wide landscapes, fire and conflagrations light up the scenic darkness. Ignited by the powerful violet lightning strike as a sign of supernatural power, supposedly biblical and ancient ways of reception come up as associations around open res, like references to the Gospel of Matthew or mythological narratives about the Olympian ruler Zeus, with connections to the present. In the interaction of the depressing atmospheric scenes with certain ambiguous elements within them, the open fire appears dystopian. Titus Schade places a visual element in his paintings, which he refers to as a pyre, as part of his multifaceted kiosk offering of different and recurring motifs. Compositions with three or four fires and flames set in front of structures, in garages, and on window sills of abandoned houses demonstrate the relevance of the motif. As an attribute in the history of art, the pyre is dedicated to saints who died by fire, and thus conveys a martyrical reading. Destruction, deconstruction, and […]
Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt + Vincent Trasov | „In the end something begins with us“ + „Controlling Chaos“ | ChertLüdde | 11.01.-22.02.2025

until 22.02. | #4553ARTatBerlin | ChertLüdde (Potsdamer Str.) shows from 11. January 2025 the exhibitions „In the end something begins with us“ by the artist Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt and „Controlling Chaos“ by the artist Vincent Trasov. ChertLüdde presents a dialogue between Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt (1932, Wurzen – 2024, Berlin, Germany) and Vincent Trasov (1947, Edmonton, Canada). These exhibitions celebrate the dynamic and avant-garde spirit of Berlin, even during the geopolitical division of the city. Both artists were closely connected to their respective artistic communities and contributed to a vibrant network of collaboration and innovation. Together, their exhibitions tell the story of Berlin as a centre of artistic experimentation and international exchange, linked by the Mail Art movement. Among the like-minded is Anna Banana (1940-2024, Victoria, Canada), whose mail art correspondence is also shown as a bridge between the two exhibitions. The responses to the gallery’s Mail Art Open Call, inspired by Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt’s Divided Planet (1970), will also be on display in the gallery’s bookshop for the duration of the exhibitions. Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt – In the end something begins with us Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt in her atelier in Zitherstrasse, Berlin, circa. 1978 ChertLüdde presents In the end something begins with us, an exhibition […]
Thomas Arnolds | RUN (Fraktale) | KLEMM’S | 11.01.-22.02.2025

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 […]
Jan Van der Ploeg & Nicole Hassler | Blurred Lines & If I don’t have red I use blue| Taubert Contemporary | 17.01.-01.03.2025

until 01.03. | #4551ARTatBerlin | Taubert Contemporary shows from 17. January 2025 the Double-feature “Blurred Lines“ and „If I don’t have red I use blue“ by the artists Jan Van Der Ploeg und Nicole Hassler. Taubert Contemporary presents BLURRED LINES, the fifth exhibition by the renowned Dutch painter Jan van der Ploeg (*1959). The exhibition features a selection of works from the artist’s recent series of paintings (2022-2024) as well as a large-scale wall painting created especially for Taubert Contemporary. The Amsterdam-based artist is considered one of the leading representatives of contemporary geometric abstraction in the Netherlands. Jan van der Ploeg is best known for his large-format murals in museums, public institutions and private spaces. The minimalist graphic forms follow the architectural function of a space. For BLURRED LINES, van der Ploeg will create a mural that merges image, wall, space and architecture in the medium of color and form – systematically indebted to the Dutch De Stijl movement of the 1920s. In contrast, there are the artist’s works on canvas. In these acrylic paintings, Jan van der Ploeg plays through the grids, structures, forms etc. that are used at the same time in public and museum spaces in large […]
Rinus Van de Velde | Galerie Max Hetzler | 17.01.-22.02.2025

until 22.02. | #4550ARTatBerlin | Galerie Max Hetzler ( Bleibtreustraße 15/16) shows from Friday, 17. January 2025 the solo exhibition by the artist Rinus Van de Velde. In a practice spanning drawing, installation, sculpture and video work, Rinus Van de Velde creates a fictional autobiography, drawing on imagined memories of a life never lived. In his pictorial world, the possibilities of reality have no limits. Due to their unusually large format, Van de Velde’s drawings are reminiscent of paintings, giving the medium an autonomous character. While he initially worked exclusively with charcoal on paper, in recent years the artist began to introduce colour to his works, creating larger oil pastels, alongside small pencil drawings. In the works on paper, handwritten texts can be found underneath the pictures, testifying to fears, wishes and longings, among other things. The words anchor the drawings in a larger narrative and determine their place within it. The video works and sculptures, which are often props for the artist’s films or depict scenes in miniature, are also part of this construct. Here the textual element can be found again in the extensive titles. In addition to Van de Velde’s latest video work, the current exhibition also […]
Toby Ziegler | Escapism | Galerie Max Hetzler | 17.01.-22.02.2025

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 […]
Ursula Sax | Unuhren (Non-Clock) + Early Works | Semjon Contemporary | 23.01.-01.03.2025

until 01.03. | #4548ARTatBerlin | Semjon Contemporary shows from 24. January 2025 (Vernissage 23.01.) the exhibition Unuhren (Non-Clock) + Early Works by the artist Ursula Sax. Various motifs of Unuhren, all 2007, variable in size and material/technique | Various motifs of Unuhren by Ursula Sax, all 2007, variable in size and material/technique Vernissage: Thursday, 23. January 2025, 7 to 9:30 pm Exhibition period: Friday, 24. January until Saturday, 01. March 2025 Title image caption: Ursula Sax, Unuhr 18 (Römisch Platznot 3), 2007, variabel in Größe und Material/ Technik | Unuhr 18 (Römisch Platznot 3), 2007, variabel in size and material/technique Exhibition Ursula Sax – Semjon Contemporary | Zeitgenössische Kunst | Contemporary Art | Ausstellungen Berlin Galerien – ART at Berlin
Daniel Bodner | Remnant | Galerie Martin Mertens | 18.01-01.03.2025

until 01.03. | #4547ARTatBerlin | Galerie Martin Mertens shows from 18. January 2025 the exhibition Remnant by the artist Daniel Bodner. The American painter Daniel Bodner, whose work Galerie Martin Merte has been following since 2013 and is now presenting in a fifth solo exhibition, is treading completely new formal paths with his new group of works. On closer inspection, however, it becomes clear that even in his figurative paintings, which are based on urban landscapes or the human figure, his main interest lay in exploring the relationship between painting and photography and their respective ways of depicting light. The abstract paintings in this new exhibition intensify this interest. By moving on to images that he generates unconsciously, Bodner explores the simultaneous creation and destruction of images that can occur in the analogue photographic process with its pitfalls of overexposure and underexposure, unintended chemical reactions and the physicality of technology. When looking at “photographs”, the transition from analogue to digital image production can seem insignificant. However, as digital image creation replaces the analogue photographic process, its invisible, instantaneous mechanism erases the drama of an image’s creation. By moving from scenes drawn from the world around us to an unconscious approach […]
Winter exhibition. Artists of the gallery | Galerie feinart berlin | 12.2024-06.02.2025

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 […]
Parsa Hosseinpour | I CLOSE MY EYES TO SEE | LCG ARTLAB | 08.01.-14.01.2025

until 14.01. | #4564ARTatBerlin | LCG ARTLAB (Allerstraße) shows from 08. January 2025 the exhibition I CLOSE MY EYES TO SEE by the artist Parsa Hosseinpour. Parsa Hosseinpour, an Iranian artist, is currently part of a three-month residency at the Artlab of Luisa Catucci Gallery in Berlin. Her work has consistently fascinated audiences, and this residency marks an exciting and significant milestone in her artistic journey. Hosseinpour’s art revolves around painting, with a central focus on a solitary female figure. While not a literal self-portrait, this recurring motif serves as a reflection of her inner world, delving into themes of identity, emotion, and personal exploration. Through her practice, these deeply introspective themes resonate on a universal level. During her time in Berlin, she has expanded her work with a striking new series created on textured, hairy blankets. These unconventional canvases cross the boundary of traditional painting, as they are photographed with the artist in natural settings. This approach introduces a dynamic relationship between her art and the environment, pushing the boundaries of her classical roots. Hosseinpour’s work echoes the emotional depth of Edvard Munch and the delicate nuance of Impressionist art. Her paintings exude a melancholic intensity, capturing shared human […]
Grey Crawford | Transfigurations (1973-75) | Persons Projects | 22.02–19.04.2025

until 19.04. | #4545ARTatBerlin | Persons Projects shows from 22nd February 2025 (Vernissage: 21.02.) the exhibition Transfigurations (1973-75) by the artist Grey Crawford. Persons Projects presents, as part of the European Month of Photography in Berlin (EMOP), Grey Crawford’s third solo exhibition, Transfigurations (1973-75). His selfperformances from the early 1970s encapsulate the spirit of an era in Southern California, in which Performance Art moved away from the platform of the audience and into the photographic framing of the moment. During this time, performance art can be best described as any type of self-absorbed activity that questioned the essence of sculpture by eliminating the object itself. The focus was on the body and its movement, and how these activities created conversations rather than answers. It was a period of experimentation, and Los Angeles – along with its extended suburbs – was the perfect place for these happenings to evolve. Local artists such as John Baldessari, Ed Ruscha, Chris Burden, and Judy Chicago were all crossing artistic boundaries, and opening up new opportunities that challenged the existing parameters of what the establishment considered to be art. Anywhere and everything became potential stages for artistic intervention. It was in this cultural setting that […]
Christopher Roth | Europe Endless | Esther Schipper | 14.12.2024-17.01.2025

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 […]
WINTERSHOW | Group exhibition | Laura Mars Gallery | 14.12.2024-08.02.2025

until 08.02 | #4543ARTatBerlin | Laura Mars Gallery shows from 14th December 2024 (Vernissage: 13.12.) the group exhibition WINTERSHOW. WINTERSHOW with Peter Angermann Matias Bechtold Dennis Fuchs Jan-Holger Mauss Manfred Pernice Livia Rauch, Andreas Seltzer Stefanie Seufert Martin Städeli Ina Weber Marcus Weber Peter Woelck Vernissage: Friday, 13 December 2024, 7 pm. Winter break: Sunday, 22 December 2024 to Friday, 16 January 2025. Ausstellungsdaten: Saturday, 14 December 2024 – Saturday, 08 February 2025. Image caption : © Peter Angermann, B-52 vor dem Fenster, 7.03.2022, oil on canvas, 85 x 100 cm. Exhibition WINTERSHOW – Laura Mars Gallery | Zeitgenössische Kunst Berlin | Contemporary Art | Ausstellungen Galerien | ART at Berlin
Dawit Abebe | Barefoot – ባዶ እግር | Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery Berlin | 17.01.-15.02.2025

until 15.02. | #4542ARTatBerlin | Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery Berlin shows from the 17th January 2024 (Opening: 16.01.) the exhibition “Barefoot – ባዶ እግር” with the artist Dawit Abebe. From January 2025, the gallery will be located in Berlin’s Mercator Höfe (address below). “Barefoot – ባዶ እግር” presents a dynamic new series of mixed media paintings that continue the artist’s research into how historical events shape cultural, political and social identities. Abebe describes the human form as “an alphabet” that he uses to shape personal and collective narratives. In these latest works, the body appears at different scales with a contrast between huge painted limbs – disembodied feet that appear like mountain ranges, and legs and torsos that extend beyond the boundaries of the canvas – and tiny silhouettes of cut-out figures from magazines. Carefully positioned objects, many of which are recurring motifs in Abebe’s work, articulate complex ideas around origin and cultural identity. Cameras in various forms – handheld cameras, surveillance cameras or embedded in smartphones – allude to surveillance, vanity and performance. The current focus on feet and shoes stems from Abebe’s research into key moments in Ethiopian history, such as the battles of Dogali (1887) and Adowa (1896) […]
Christiane Schlosser & Beate Terfloth | Galerie Inga Kondeyne | 14.12.2024-15.02.2025

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 […]
Thomas Billhardt | Augenblicke: DDR-Fotografie 1956-90 | CAMERA WORK | 13.12.2024-01.02.2025

until 01.02. | #4539ARTatBerlin | CAMERA WORK shows from Friday, 13. December 2024 the exhibition with photo book presentation “Augenblicke: DDR-Fotografie 1956-90” by the artist Thomas Billhardt. Photography played the main role for Thomas Billhardt (born in Chemnitz in 1937) from an early age. At the age of 14, his mother, who also worked as a photographer, began to train him. He then studied at the technical college for applied arts in Magdeburg until 1957. At the beginning of his career, he gained his first practical experience as a factory photographer at the open-cast lignite mine in Großkayna before being employed as a publishing photographer at the postcard publisher Bild und Heimat. At the same time, he began his studies to become a photographer and photo designer at the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig. His diploma thesis on Alexanderplatz in Berlin was to be a harbinger of the fact that he would return to this historic location again and again throughout his life. While still a student in Leipzig, Thomas Billhardt became a member of the Association of German Journalists. He spent the following years working as a freelance photographer – a privilege that he valued, as it allowed […]
Beschwörung – Incantation | Group exhibition | DIEHL | 06.12.2024-24.01.2025

until 24.01. | #4540ARTatBerlin | DIEHL shows from Friday, 06. December 2024 the Group exhibition Beschwörung – Incantation. Participating artists: Evelyne Alcide, Roudy Azor, Marie Mireille Delisme, André Eugène, Nadine Fortilus, Jean-Baptiste Jean-Joseph, Jean Muller Milord and George Valris. The exhibition Beschwörung – Incantation brings together a compelling array of works inspired by the visual language of Haitian Vodou. Drawing from a deep spiritual tradition, these pieces are not sacred objects intended for ceremonial use but are instead extraordinary artistic expressions created to sustain the lives of their makers. The artists, many of whom navigate economic instability, channel the symbols and aesthetics of Vodou into works that speak to resilience, resourcefulness, and cultural pride. This exhibition offers only a glimpse into the contemporary Haitian art scene, which is gaining increasing recognition internationally for its innovation and depth, recently highlighted as part of documenta 15 in 2022. At the same time, it reflects the challenges of life in Haiti today, including ongoing political unrest, violence, and economic struggles. Through these works, viewers are invited to explore the rich and evolving traditions of Haitian art and spirituality, gaining a little insight into a culture that continues to thrive creatively despite adversity. Curated by Fanny Gjoni […]
SALON 24 II | Group exhibition | RASCHE RIPKEN | until (follows)

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
TRANS ZEN DENZ | Groupshow | AOA;87 contemporary | 13.12.2024-01.02.2025

until 01.02. | #4473ARTatBerlin | AOA;87 presents from 13th December 2024 (Opening: 12.12.) the group exhibition ‘TRANS ZEN DENZ’, curated by Hans-Peter Adamski and gallery owner Angela Kohlrusch. AOA;87 presents the group exhibition “TRANS ZEN DENZ,” curated by Hans-Peter Adamski and gallery director Angela Kohlrusch. The exhibition features works by twelve artists who have responded to the call for submissions titled “God Kisses Allah.” Inspired by an AI-generated artwork with the title “God Kisses Allah,” given by Prof. Hans-Peter Adamski, the exhibition symbolizes the spiritual and philosophical idea of dialogue within the tension between algorithmic and human creativity, aiming for unity beyond religion and culture. The presentation brings together contemporary artists who have deeply engaged with the theme of transcendence and the AI-inspired title. Their works are placed in a multidimensional dialogue with the AI-generated piece, exploring the relationship between human and artificial creativity through the lens of an existential theme. The AI-generated artwork will be revealed to the artists during the exhibition opening. The artists work in various media – from painting and sculpture to (video) installations – individually exploring the universal thematic complex. Prof. Hans-Peter Adamski, emeritus professor at the HfbK Dresden, and Angela Kohlrusch, founder and director […]
Kerstin Dzewior | MIT IHR – Explorations of Femininity | Galerie Z22 | 16.01.-22.02.2025

until 22.02. | #4536ARTatBerlin | Galerie Z22 presents from January 16, 2025 the exhibition MIT IHR (> WITH HER) – Explorations of Femininity by the artist Kerstin Dzewior. Kerstin Dzewior is a painter. And she paints women. In her realistically precise paintings, she portrays the childlike innocence, the erotic charisma, the graceful figure of women. Yet the spaces in which she places her figures remain enigmatically empty. Sometimes a structure surrounds them, then it is a glow or an abyss opens up. The women are isolated and at the same time absorbed in themselves. They play with threads, juggle with balls, draw lines on the wall or gaze into the distance. Frozen into still images of a narrative that the viewer must discover for themselves. What happened before and what happens afterwards remains hidden. But in this one magical moment, the figure becomes aware of itself. The works “Durch Sie” and “Her mind” show two women in calm certainty about their own identity. An artist can only bring this to the canvas so unerringly in expression and form if he immerses himself in the scene and finds parallels in his own emotional world. Kerstin Dzewior describes the act of painting […]
LODGER Berlin | Group Exhibition | EIGENHEIM Weimar/Berlin in Space for Art @Studio Frederik Foert | 30.11.–08.12.2024

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 […]
Uwe Bremer | serapiontischsiamesisch | Galerie Kremers | 06.12.2024 – 21.12.24

bis (to follow) | #4534 ARTatBerlin | Galerie Kremers presents from 6th December 2024 the exhibition serapiontischsiamesisch by the artist and author Uwe Bremer, inspired by E.T.A. Hoffmann’s ‘Nachtstücke’. It was a difficult birth. Not the symbiotic fusion of Uwe Bremer with E.T.A. Hoffmann, which is visualised in this gouache, but the planning and realisation of the exhibition and the publication of the book ‘Nachtstücke’ by Merlin-Verlag, which contains Bremer’s gouaches alongside texts by Jan-Peter Bremer, Uwe Bremer, Peter Fabian and Marie Christine Kremers. The events surrounding the project were, and could themselves provide the setting for a Hoffmann-esque narrative. For now, however, it is a joy that the 17 gouaches are finally on display in the gallery and that the book Nachtstücke, an essential complement to this exhibition, has been published on time by the highly esteemed and renowned Merlin publishing house. On December 6, this event would be crowned with a reading by Jan Peter Bremer. Castellan et cetera, 2023, Gouache, 56 x 38 cm The fact that E.T.A. Hoffmann’s night plays would spark Uwe Bremer’s creative tension and lead him to a symbiotic fusion with the author comes as no surprise to connoisseurs of Bremer’s visual language […]
Gereon Krebber | Lagelagelage | alexander levy | 15.11.–20.12.2024

until 20.12. | #4533 ARTatBerlin | Galerie alexander levy shows 15. November 2024 the exhibition Lagelagelage of the artist Gereon Krebber. Galerie Alexander Levy is presenting new works by Gereon Krebber under the title ‘Lagelagelage’. The gallery alexander levy is pleased to present the exhibition Lagelagelage by Gereon Krebber. Lagelagelage picks up on the well-known real estate slogan, location location location, in order to encapsulate Krebber’s fascination with the tension between stable construction and delicate fragility. The works reference large cities characterized by construction projects and real estate speculation which present our societies with social segregation and exclusion amid a globalized landscape. Our urban environment is built on geometric and symmetric construction materials – structures that are disrupted and have their symmetry dissolved in the exhibition. Lagelagelage consciously plays with imagery of situations of upheaval, precarious phases and disintegrating structures, as they often appear in an urban context. The sculptures made of ceramics, polyurethane, concrete and metal are evocative of defamiliarized versions of furniture: whether shelf or playground scaffolding, bathtub or electrical switch box – the utilitarian objects are removed from their initial purpose and have taken on a life of their own. The exhibition combines individual work groups that […]
Ziping Wang | Act Normal | Peres Projects | 29.11.2024–25.01.2025

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
Enrico Della Torre | Canvases, works on paper, etchings | Galerie Dittmar | 30.11.2024-23.01.2025

until 23.01 | #4531ARTatBerlin | Galerie Dittmar shows from Saturday, 30. November 2024 an exhibition by the artist Enrico Della Torre. “Della Torre never offers a ‘pictorial solution’, but the analysis of the pictorial enigma, the hermetic testimony of a confrontation with the object which, retrospectively, turns it into a mystery… Yet in these pictures the element of disturbance does not appear as a conscious movement, it is not the message, but the medium as manifesto, whose pathos is genuine and incontestable.” – Wolfgang Hildesheimer, 1979 1931 Pizzighettone (Cremona) – 2022 Milan. 1951-1955 Attended the Accademia di Brera, Milan. 1960 1st prize for painting San Fedele in Milan. Since 1961 studio and apartment in Milan. Since 1963 friendship with Lamberto Vitali, who had also discovered Giorgio Morandi. Numerous awards and solo and group exhibitions in national and international museums. Gradini, 1991, Radierung und Aquatinta, 17,4 x 23,4 auf 38 x 56 cm, E.A. Works in the Galleria d’Arte Moderna Bologna, the Herzog-Anton-Ulrich-Museum Braunschweig, the Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe of the Uffizi Gallery Florence, the Pinakothek der Moderne Munich, the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung Munich, the Museum of Modern Art New York, the Bibliothèque Nationale Paris and the Graphische Sammlung Albertina Vienna, among […]
Emmanuelle Rapin | Stitch of Transmission | Galerie aKonzept | 30.11.2024-07.02.2025

until 07.02. | #4530ARTatBerlin | Galerie aKonzept show from 30. November 2024 the exhibition Stitch of Transmission of the artist Emmanuelle Rapin. Stitch of Transmission is an artistic exploration of resilience, transformation, and transmission between nature, culture, and the cosmos. Inspired by the Cymbalaria muralis plant, Emmanuelle Rapin combines art history, science, and embroidery to explore the profound connections between past and present, earth and cosmos. Copper wire as a flow of living memory, embroidered constellations, and plaster casts embody the fragility and continuity of life. The exhibition invites reflection on our biological, cultural, and cosmic heritage – a poetic dialogue between matter, time, and the mystery of the universe. Vernissage: Saturday, 30 November 2024, 5 – 8 pm Exhibition dates: Saturday, 30 November 2024 to Saturday, 07 February 2025 Image above: Emmanuelle Rapin – Stich der Weitergabe – courtesy of Galerie aKonzept Exhibition Emmanuelle Rapin – Galerie aKonzept | Zeitgenössische Kunst | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Galerien Berlin | ART at Berlin
Gerold Miller | New works | WENTRUP | 23.11.2024-18.01.2025

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 […]
100 unter 1000 | Group exhibition | Schindler LAB | 07.12./08.12. + 14.12./15.12.2024

until 15.12. | #4528ARTatBerlin | Schindler LAB in Potsdam, the experimental art space of the Galerie Schindler, show from 07. Dezember 2024 the exhibition 100 unter 1000 with works by many artists. After the great success of the first two editions of the Christmas exhibition at Schindler LAB in 2021 and 2022, the gallery is entering its third round. Small and medium formats – all under 1000 EUR. Anja Nürnberg, Wind am Meer, 40 / 30 cm, Mischtechnik auf Leinwand, 2024 This year, as always at the beginning of December on two consecutive weekends, the extraordinary Christmas exhibition starts with more than 100 selected works of art by up-and-coming and established artists from the region, Germany and internationally. Paintings, drawings, graphics and sculptures will be on display. Alvar Beyer, Göschenen 24 / I, 21 x 15 cm, Acryl auf Papier, 2024 Anna-Lisa Unkuri, Slippery Cat, 41 x 33 cm, Mixed Media on canvas, 2021 Constantin Schroeder, o:T, 18 x 24 cm, Öl auf Leinwand, 2023 Included this year: Christoph Bartolmäs, Annette Beisenherz, Alvar Beyer, Elisa Beyer, Frauke Bohge, Sascha Boldt, Stefano Bosis, Manish Chandra, Andrea Damp, Christophoros Doulgeris, Caty Forden, Giuseppe Gonella, Lennart Grau, Max Grote, Sue Hayward, Nicole Heinzel, […]
Marike Schuurman | TODAY IS NOT POSSIBLE | Dorothée Nilsson Gallery | 29.11.-06.01.2024

until 06.01. | #4527ARTatBerlin | Dorothée Nilsson Gallery show from Friday, 29. November 2024 (Vernissage: 28.11.) the exhibition TODAY IS NOT POSSIBLE of the artist Marike Schuurman. Today is not possible consists of a selection of photographic and film works from the last 25 years. Marike Schuurman (*1964) uses the medium of photography to investigate the ambiguity of human-made spaces and landscapes. Starting point of Schuurman’s work are stories or situations that she observes and deal with absurd human attempts to change or influence the world around them. The artist uses a specific photographic technique for each theme, as well as reflecting on and illuminating the medium of photography and the associated production processes in her work. Marike Schuurman is an artist-photographer born 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 a stipendium from the Dutch Fonds BKVB (Mondriaanfund) for a one-year residency at Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin; in 2008 for a 6-months residency in Beijing, China and in 2009 for a residency in São Paulo, Brazil. Her work is […]
A CLOSER LOOK | Group exhibition | Haverkampf Leistenschneider | 06.12.-25.01.2025

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, […]
Eric Massholder | DANCE | Galerie Z22 | 23.11.-14.12.2024

until 14.12. | #4525ARTatBerlin | Galerie Z22 presents from 23. November 2024 the exhibition DANCE of the artist Eric Massholder. The artist Eric Massholder takes viewers into his world of dance. The author Dorothee Baer-Bogenschütz will give the laudatory speech at the vernissage and celebration of the gallery’s 10th birthday. The performance group collectif blitz-bereit will also be performing that evening. Vernissage: Saturday, 23 November 2024, from 7:00 pm Exhibition dates: Saturday, 23 November – Saturday, 14 December 2024 Image above: Eric Massholder, DANCE, Courtesy: Galerie Z22 Exhibition Eric Massholder – Galerie Z22 | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galerien | ART at Berlin
TAKE IT EASY | Duo exhibition | Luisa Catucci Gallery | 29.11.2024-11.01.2025

until 29.11. | #4524ARTatBerlin | Luisa Catucci Gallery (Brunnenstraße) presents from 29. November 2024 the exhibition TAKE IT EASY of the artists Gregory de la Haba and Easy. Gregory de la Haba is a renowned painter and sculptor who was born and raised in New York City. He is known for his vibrant artwork that seamlessly blends elements of fine art and street culture with a foundation of traditional artistic research. His creative journey is heavily influenced by his life in the city, which he describes as a constant source of inspiration. de la Haba uses the energy and rich cultural history of New York and the urban landscape as a constant backdrop for his artistic expression. This dynamic interaction between the chaotic yet captivating environment of city life combined with a sharp artistic vision fuels his exploration of themes related to hope, resilience and the human condition. With sweeping, freehand gestures and bold splashes of colour, de la Haba vividly negotiates the relationship between nature, poetry and form. His works exude a remarkable energy and depth of colour, drawing on the legacy of famous masters such as Mark Rothko, whose influence has left an indelible mark on de la […]
ECHOES OF WINTER. Spuren des Lichts. | Exhibition group | ARTES Berlin | 23.11.2024 – 01.02.2025

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 […]
drucken… | Group exhibition | drj art projects | 24.11.2024-26.01.2025

until 26.01. | #4522ARTatBerlin | drj art projects shows from 24. November 2024 the group exhibition “drucken…”. With works by Anette Haas: ornamental, and Aiko Tezuka [JP], Alain Biltereyst [BE], Astrid Schindler [DE], Denise Winter [DE], Don Voisine [US], Hansjörg Schneider [DE], Majla Zeneli [AL] and Sarah Smolders [BE]. drucken… (printing…) is an exhibition on the artistic technique of multiplication. It consists of two parts: »ornamental« displays new works from the print studio of Anette Haas in the main spaces. This focus is accompanied by works from eight selected artists. On the one hand, this illustrates how the specific use of printing expands positions of painting, as in the work of Alain Biltereyst and Don Voisine; or how printing has its own value for artists such as Aiko Tezuka or Sarah Smolders, who otherwise work in textile respectively installation art. On the other hand, special and very specifically used possibilities of printing are on display with the works of Majla Zeneli, Astrid Schindler, Denise Winter and Hansjörg Schneider. In this way, the juxtaposition and correlation of the exhibition’s sections are mutually reinforcing. Vernissage: Sunday, 24. November 2024, noon to 4 pm Exhibition period: Sunday, 24. November 2024 until Sunday, 26. January 2025 Image caption: Anette Haas — »OVAL«, 2024 [Detail]. screen printing on handmade paper, […]
Arte povera | Group exhibition | Konrad Fischer Galerie | 23.11.2024-01.02.2025

until 01.02. | #4521ARTatBerlin | Konrad Fischer Galerie shows from 23. November 2024 the Group exhibition arte povera by the artists Giovanni Anselmo, Mario Merz and Giuseppe Penone. The works on display capture the spirit of arte povera, celebrating its influence on painting, sculpture, and drawing. Through the use of unconventional, “poor” materials and forms inspired by nature, the works in the exhibition reflect the movement’s non-traditional and groundbreaking vision. Opening: Saturday, 23. November 2024, 3 – 6 pm. Exhibition dates: Saturday, 23. November – Saturday, 01. February 2025 Title image caption: arte povera, Courtesy of the artists and Konrad Fischer Galerie Exhibition arte povera – Konrad Fischer Galerie | Zeitgenössische Kunst – Contemporary Art – Ausstellungen Berlin Galerien | ART at Berlin
Meuser | Hängepartie | Galerie Nordenhake Berlin | 23.11.2024-18.01.2025

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 […]
Nicole Heinzel | FRAMEWORKS | Galerie Schindler | 28.11.2024-25.01.2025

until 25.01. | #4519ARTatBerlin | Galerie Schindler in Potsdam shows from 28. November 2024 the exhibition FRAMEWORKS of the artist Nicole Heinzel. “In my work I search for and explore hidden, ambiguous and fragmented parts and aspects of reality – a kind of indescribable ‘essence’ that, if I’m lucky, reveals itself from time to time. Through various methods of alienation and abstraction, sometimes perceived alchemical mutations, analogue and digital ‘filter processes’, as well as through photography, film, sketches and frequent looking with half-closed eyes, I sometimes discover this indescribable that I am looking for. Nicole Heinzel #4/24, 2024, oil and medium 5 on canvas, 140 x 100 cm Methods of alienation/abstraction: I turn motifs around, swap background and foreground, reduce information such as colour, form, depth and detail. Through deconstruction and reconstruction, I play with light and darkness, transforming space into mass, often through digital processing or cutting up. For example, I turn up the contrast to extreme values and study motifs in the negative. Nicole Heinzel, #4/25, 2024, oil and medium 5 on cavas, 90 x 60 cm Nature plays an important and original role, as it serves as a perfect portal to these hidden worlds. I work with […]
JEEWI LEE | Field of Fragments | Sexauer Gallery | 22.11.2024-18.01.2025

until 18.01 | #4518ARTatBerlin | Sexauer Gallery presents from 22. November 2024 the exhibition Field of Fragments by the artist Jeewi Lee. Field of Fragments For years, Jeewi Lee has been working artistically with traces, embodied memories and phenomena of time, often linked to natural processes. Some time ago, Lee turned her attention to sand as a soil material. In her exhibition Field of Fragments, she radicalizes this approach and presents a total installation that introduces visitors macroscopically and microscopically to this mineral-organic material that seems so familiar to us all, but is in fact full of wonders. Lee will show sculptures and pictures made of sand, but this time she will focus on individual grains and their astonishingly different shapes. Sand is often considered insignificant, but it is one of the world’s most important resources. Sand is used to make concrete, cement and glass, thus without sand there would be no roads or cities. Sand is used to produce electronic parts, without sand there would be no solar panels or microchips and no artificial intelligence. We use sand to make toothpaste, jeans and entire islands. Beyond use by humans, sand is also an important reservoir for drinking water and […]
plot twist | Group Exhibition | Galerie Georg Nothelfer | 23.11.-21.12.2024

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 […]
Karl-Heinz Adler | Raum und Ordnung | Galerie EIGEN + ART Berlin | 21.11. 2024-11.01.2025

until 11.01. | #4516ARTatBerlin | Galerie EIGEN + ART Berlin shows from 21. November 2024 the exhibition “Raum und Ordnung” of the artist Karl-Heinz Adler. The solo exhibition Raum und Ordnung by Karl-Heinz Adler will open on Thursday, November 21, 2024, in the Berlin gallery. Karl-Heinz Adler (1927-2018) is considered an important and independent representative of constructive-concrete art and was concerned with structures composed of repetitive elements in his visual and architectural work. In addition to his free artistic work, he pursued the applied concept of “producing systems” in the 1950s – in close collaboration with Friedrich Kracht – and transferred this to the field of architecture and environmental design. Today, some of these works are still accessible and visible in public spaces. This includes the wall design on Plauen’s New Town Hall from 1976, the restoration of which was completed this year after 5 years. The current exhibition presents works from his various creative phases. In addition to installative objects, serial drawings and collages, layers will also be on display. You can gain an initial insight from the leaflet published exclusively for the exhibition, which contains excerpts from an interview with Hans Ulrich Obrist and Karl-Heinz Adler from 2016. […]
Lena Marie Emrich | BRACE, BRACE | OFFICE IMPART | 15.11.-10.01.2025

until 10.01. | #4515ARTatBerlin | OFFICE IMPART shows from Friday, 15. November 2024 the exhibition BRACE, BRACE by the artist Lena Marie Emrich. Last Call: Platform Unknown “On the train, we swapped seats. You wanted the window, and I wanted to look at you.” – Mahmoud Darwish A lifetime’s worth of silver dust settles on the endless um’s and ah’s of Lena Marie Emrich’s exhibition BRACE BRACE, filling her images and sculptures with all the infinitesimal speculative dreaming found in departure. Her proneness to detachment is an enigmatic discovery of life’s limbos, unknown destinations, a love of uncertainty, and interstitial community stirrings that posture viewer-as-traveller. Travellers examine the environment and social conditions more closely than their usual inhabitants, who barely winch or flap at the particular whistles of their mise-enscène, tragic or otherwise. Aching with last-minute curiosity, she transforms into a pilgrim herself, with long tears on overnight trains, an outlaw, a nomad, fleeing, exiled in soft cruelty, slightly bent on orange sunsets and the poetic clicks of foreign tongues. What are our chances of survival when fleeing just about everything? All we really want is tenderness. Lena Marie Emrich, Brace, Brace (Bianca) , 2024, Photo mounted on security glass […]
Mariana Castillo Deball | Vùjá de – Paper Thresholds | Galerie Barbara Wien | 30.11.-01.02.2025

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 […]
Thomas Scheibitz | WÜSTE — DSCHUNGEL / Omega UND Tunnel | Sprüth Magers Berlin | 22.11.-11.01.2024

until 11.01. | #4512ARTatBerlin | Sprüth Magers Berlin presents from 22. November 2024 the exhibition WÜSTE — DSCHUNGEL / Omega UND Tunnel of the artist Thomas Scheibitz. Thomas Scheibitz’s paintings and sculptures represent a continuous exploration of the visual translation of complex thoughts and social models, which are transformed into multilayered, often fragmented pictorial structures—structures that are simultaneously open and in a perpetual state of flux. From his earliest to his most recent works, Scheibitz simultaneously solves and dissolves everything. These works symbolize the act of encoding and decoding and allude to one of the artist’s main themes: mapping, measuring, penetrating, and exploring a pictorial inventory. This is a difficult territory to explore, a journey between contradictions and extremely varied regions. In WÜSTE—DSCHUNGEL/Omega UND Tunnel, the process of thinking and visual exploration take center stage. As we follow these artistic thought processes, the exhibition leads us to models and stations that refer to words, letters, sketches, drawings, paintings, and sculptures by the Dresden-born artist A.R. Penck (1939–2017). The title of the exhibition itself is a quote from a letter written by Penck. What is especially fascinating here is the peculiar balance or polarity between capturing and letting go, learning and […]
Li Silberberg | Seitenwende | Semjon Contemporary | 29.11.2024-18.01.2025

until 18.01. | #4513ARTatBerlin | Semjon Contemporary shows from 29. November 2024 (Vernissage: 28.11.) the exhibition Seitenwende by the artist Li Silberberg. Vernissage: Thursday, 28. November 2024, 7:00 – 9:30 pm Artist Talk: Saturday, 7. December 2024, 3 pm Reading by Li Silberberg – Kurzgeschichten und Notationen (in German): Sunday, 8. December 2024, 3 pm Reading by Christoph Klimke and Gustav Peter Wöhler: Monday, 9. December 2024, 7 pm Reading by Harald Kohlmetz: Tuesday, 10. December 2024, 7 pm Exhibition period: Friday, 29. November 2024 until Saturday, 18. January 2025 Image caption: Li Siberberg, Wasserbruch (Detail), 2024, 220 x 220 cm, ink on paper on canvas; photo: Semjon Exhibition Li Siberberg – Semjon Contemporary | Zeitgenössische Kunst | Contemporary Art | Ausstellungen Berlin Galerien – ART at Berlin
Auriane Kolodziej | Beneath the black sand of time, I resist | LCG ARTLAB | 21.11.-05.12.2024

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 […]
Tina Braegger | Selected works | Galerie Société | 12.11.-21.12.2024

until 21.12. | #4511ARTatBerlin | Galerie Société present from Tuesday, 12. November 2024 the exhibition Selected works of the artist Tina Braegger. The first chapter It’s Not Looking Good For You was on view from September 2 to October 24, 2024 at Duarte Sequeira in Seoul. Tina Braegger’s work addresses questions related to originality, reproduction, authenticity, repetition, and difference. Since 2016, she has explored these topics through the motif of the “dancing bear,” a bootleg drawing that became an emblem of the American rock band The Grateful Dead in the 1970s. Braegger first started working with the bear after seeing it on a concert handbill and the image subsequently evolved into a reference system that has since permeated every aspect of her artistic practice. Braegger employs the bear as a “structuring logic to follow the same set of rules over and over again,” using it as an anchor in her painterly exploration of a diverse catalogue of styles. By taking the bear out of its historic context, she directs our attention to the motif itself and its visual and conceptual malleability. As a sign or symbol, the bear can be manipulated to mean anything—even to stand in for the creative process itself. […]
Kiriakos Tompolidis | The More It Hurts, the Less It Shows | Galerie Judin | 16.11.2024-25.01.2025

until 25.01. | #4507ARTatBerlin | Galerie Judin shows from 16. November 2024 (Opening 15.11. ) the exhibtion The More It Hurts, the Less It Shows by the artist Kiriakos Tompolidis. In his first solo exhibition at Galerie Judin, Kiriakos Tompolidis delves into the intimate world of his family history and presents a narrative rooted in his personal experiences. The artist invites us to follow the path of his Greek grandparents, who emigrated to Germany in search of a better life. Both they and his parents endeavoured to adapt to a new culture and strived for seamless integration. For Tompolidis and his sister, however, this experience led to a sense of separation that raised questions about identity, belonging and the concept of home. Pomegranate on Plate, 2024, Oil, acrylic and photo transfer, on linen, 25 × 35 cm The paintings in the exhibition offer a portrait of his family members, each with different perspectives on these themes, and reflect Tompolidis’ exploration of a life between two cultures. The series of 16 paintings looks at this ‘in-between space’, as the artist describes it, and captures the tension between two worlds. While family and togetherness are central motifs, the figures in these works […]
Lena Göbel | Lost in Transmission | PSM Gallery | 15.11.–11.01.2025

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, […]
ALL TOGETHER NOW II | Group exhibition | Galerie Tammen | 15.11.2024-18.01.2025

until 18.01. |#4506 ARTatBerlin | Galerie Tammen presents in the Year-end exhibition “All together now II” from 15 November 2024 sculpture and painting by several artists of the gallery. Participating artists Matthias Garff – Skulpturen – Objekte Katharina Gerold – Skulpturen – Reliefs Herald Gnade – Malerei Johannes Hepp – Skulpturen Heike Jeschonnek – Paraffinzeichnungen Karsten Kusch – Zeichnungen Michael Lauterjung – Malerei Ellen Mäder-Gutz – Skulptur Volker März – Skulpturen Sabine Ostermann – Linolschnitte Fahar Al-Salih – Mosaiken Alexandra Sonntag – Zeichnung – Malerei Rubica Von Streng – Malerei Michael Streun – Malerei Lars Theuerkauff – Malerei Andreas Theurer – Objekte Jan Thomas – Skulpturen Sador Weinsclucker – Malerei Trak Wendisch – Skulptur – Objektbilder Trak Wendisch, „Der Fang“, 1998, Bronze, patiniert 220 x 2 x 77 cm Exhibition dates: Friday, 15. November until Saturday, 18. January 2025 Image caption: Fahar Al-Salih „Munajat“, 2023, Mosaic: acrylic, resin on pot cleaner, 140 x 100 x 5 cm Exhibition “ALL TOGETHER NOW II“ – Galerie Tammen berlin | Zeitgenössische Kunst Berlin – Contemporary Art – Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin
Salomé | SALOMÉ 1974-1984, HdK bis MoMA | Galerie Deschler | 12.11.-07.12.2024

until 07.12. | #4509ARTatBerlin | Galerie Deschler show from 12. November 2024 the exhibition SALOMÉ 1974-1984, HdK bis MoMA of the artist Salomé. The first part of the exhibition, on the occasion of Salomé’s 70th birthday, provided an overview of Salomé’s work of the past fifty years. In a second part, the exhibition now focuses on the crucial first ten years of his career, from the year he began studying art at the Berlin University of the Arts in 1974 to his participation in an exhibition at MoMA, New York, in 1984—a truly impressive trajectory. Salomé (whose real name is Wolfgang Ludwig Cihlarz) is regarded as one of the most significant representatives of the free-spirited and diverse generation that profoundly shaped the wild West Berlin of the 1970s and 80s. His works reflect the energetic and rebellious punk atmosphere that defined Berlin during that era. The emphasis in these early works is on the depiction of an unabashed physicality and liberated sexuality, particularly an openly lived and displayed homosexuality, as well as his joy in cross-dressing (“Still Life for a Transvestite,” 1976). Vernissage: Tuesday, 12 November 2024 Exhibition dates: Tuesday, 12 November – Saturday, 07 Dezember 2024 Image […]
A soft edge to break a sword | Group exhibition | ChertLüdde | 16.11.-21.12.2024

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”, […]
Louise Bonnet | Reversal of Fortune | Galerie Max Hetzler | 15.11.2024-18.01.2025

until 18.01. | #4502ARTatBerlin | Galerie Max Hetzler (Potsdamer Straße) shows from Saturday, 15. November 2024 the exhibition Reversal of Fortune by the artist Louise Bonnet. Internationally renowned for her emotionally charged depictions of the human form in unusual, often exaggerated poses, Bonnet explores difficult feelings such as fragility, melancholy, loneliness and grief in her work. The title of the exhibition, Reversal of Fortune, insinuates a plot twist or turning point that leads to both tragedy and a moment of catharsis. The works all revolve around the notion of falling. In the paintings we see female figures slipping off beds, divans or couches, plummeting from unseen heights towards the ground, gliding or toppling headfirst, and lying on the floor, after a fall from beyond the picture frame. Exploring the feeling of downward descent as a recurring idea, the works come together to represent all the different strands of meaning that unravel for the artist from out of this theme. Bonnet explains: “I thought that falling, which betrays us as absolutely human – our bodies slipping from an ordained position, failing to perform an expected pose or an expected role – could therefore be a form of passive resistance, a way to show […]
Caro Stark | Engel, Teufel, Schwarze Löcher | Galerie Mutare | 22.11.2024-11.01.2025

until 11.01. | #4501ARTatBerlin | Galerie Mutare presents from Friday, 22. November 2024 the exhibition Engel, Teufel, Schwarze Löcher of the artist Caro Stark. Exhibition dates: Friday, 22 November until Saturday, 11 January 2025 Image caption: Caro Stark, Courtesy Galerie Mutare Exhibition Caro Stark – Galerie Mutare | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin
Gerard Waskievitz | On the edge | Michaela Helfrich Galerie | 29.11.2024-27.01.2025

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
Sandrine Mahéo | Structures d’apparaître | Galerie Gilla Lörcher | 30.11.2024-24.01.2025

until 24.01. | #4498ARTatBerlin | Galerie Gilla Lörcher shows from Saturday, 30. November 2024 (Opening 29.11.) the exhibition Structures d’apparaître by the artist Sandrine Mahéo. Discovering the work of French artist Sandrine Mahéo (born 1974) means “immersing oneself in a wealth of colors that constantly raises questions and subtly reveals the question of form in painting on several aesthetic levels (…) without necessarily questioning the canvas as such, without necessarily negating the gesture and without making it the be-all and end-all of painting.” Looking for historical “resonances, the closest connection is to be seen in the American Color Field movement, whose spiritualist, contemplative and purely formalist inspiration reached its peak in the 1960s. (…) And so Mahéo immerses us in large pieces detached from a fresco, as it were, here a fragment of Tiepolo’s sky, there a piece of gray wall, which on closer inspection turn out to be a network of micro-spots or finely speckled colors.” (Excerpt from a text by Jean-Francois Desserre) Sandrine Mahéo holds a National Diploma of Fine Arts and a Higher Diploma for Artistic Expression from the College of Fine Arts, Montpellier, France. The artist lives and works in Berlin. Opening: Friday, 29. November 2024, from […]
Nicolás Rupcich | OFFLINE ISLANDS | REITER | 15.11.2024-18.01.2025

until 18.01. | #4497ARTatBerlin | REITER shows from Friday 15. November, 2024 the Solo Exhibition OFFLINE ISLANDS by the artist Nicolás Rupcich. In his work, Nicolás Rupcich takes a critical look at the objectification of the world through the digital medium and reflects on the ability of technology to reduce the sublime and empirical to mere data. In his latest exhibition Offline Islands at REITER Berlin, he presents a series of video installations and works created over the last two years as a result of an artist residency in the Arctic Circle. They primarily deal with themes relating to image production in remote regions of the world and the often paradoxical nature of these processes. In his work, Rupcich explores the material conditions and physical aspects of digital consumption and their impact on our understanding of nature, thus encouraging a re-evaluation of the interface between the virtual and the real world. Rupcich analyses and reflects on the impact of digital conventions on our everyday lives, particularly in terms of how the digital image influences our perception of reality. His relationship to landscapes in his work is characterised by his southern Chilean origins. He studied fine arts in Santiago and later […]
Sara Sizer | Solo Exhibition| Galerie kajetan Berlin | 07.12.2024-25.01.2025

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. […]
stofflich … | Galerie SCHMALFUSS BERLIN | 16.11.2024-04.01.2025 – extended until 08.02.2025

extended until 08.02. | #4492ARTatBerlin | Galerie SCHMALFUSS BERLIN shows from 16. November 2024 the exhibition “stofflich …” with works from Wilhelm Frederking, Christiane Grimm, Nicola Hanke, Bodo Korsig, Sonja Weber and further artists. The multifaceted spectrum of works on display ranges from ‘woven moments’ and hyper-realistic paintings on brocade fabric to light-flooded wall objects. Wilhelm Frederking | Dance | 2024 | Brokat, Öl | 71 x 60 cm Visitors to the “stofflich …” exhibition embark on a journey of discovery to find out what the artworks are made of. Sonja Weber | Traces | Jacquardgewebe | 175 x 175 cm Wilhelm Frederking, Christiane Grimm, Nicola Hanke, Bodo Korsig and Sonja Weber work with different materials. Christiane Grimm | Peppiness IV | 2024 | Mischtechnik, Acrylglas | 100 x 100 x 10 cm What unites them is the desire to bring out the best in the chosen material, to elicit unexpected qualities from it and to motivate the viewer to question the laws of perception and time-critical themes. Bodo Korsig | Window of mind-1 | 2018 | Felt | 150 x 130 cm Michael W. Schmalfuß thus presents a cheerful cosmos of energetic images at the turn of the year. […]
Margarete Hahner | Romance of Digestion | ZWINGER Galerie | 16.11.2024-25.01.2025

until 25.01. | #4491ARTatBerlin | ZWINGER Galerie shows from 16. November 2024 (Opening 15.11.) the exhibition Romance of Digestion by the artist Margarete Hahner. Romance of Digestion You don’t really want to go through this door. Maybe give it a quick shake to open it a crack. Or knock? After all, the picture has the marvellous title ‘Knock, knock’, which oscillates between children’s book and horror movie – and the urge to take a step into the unknown while at the same time clinging to the door frame. ‘Sometimes painting is like a door that you bang against and it doesn’t open,’ says Margarete Hahner. Because deep down you might not want to. But then it often opens anyway. And then the painter feels her way forwards, step by step. Into depths in which the admonitions of a strict Catholic childhood, which she spent in Bamberg, still simmer. An arm peeks out pleadingly from under a lady’s skirt or a strange creature sinks its teeth into an octopus, which is actually a netsuke. A small figure of the kind used in Japan to weigh down kimono belts – and for protection. Or she has a palm tree shoot through an […]
Emmanuel Bornstein, Clemens Krauss + Robert Muntean | Knallzart | Crone Berlin | 16.11.2024-15.02.2025

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 […]
SALTIMBANQUES! | Group Exhibition | Galerie Mehdi Chouakri | 09.11.-21.12.2024

until 21.12. | #4500ARTatBerlin | Galerie Mehdi Chouakri presents from Saturday, 09. November 2024 the exhibition SALTIMBANQUES! the artists Saâdane Afif, Johanna Dumet, Lothar Hempel, Claudia und Julia Müller. Vernissage: Friday, 08 November 2024, 17:00 to 22:00 Exhibition dates: Saturday, 09 November to Saturday, 21 December 2024 Image above: Courtesy Mehdi Chouakri Berlin Exhibition SALTIMBANQUES! – Mehdi Chouakri | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galerien | ART at Berlin
Nancy Haynes & Franka Hörnschemeyer | COMPRESSING LIGHT & BLINDTEXT | Galerie Thomas Schulte | 23.11.2024-11.01.2025

until 11.01. | #4489ARTatBerlin | Galerie Thomas Schulte (Charlottenstrasse) shows from 23. November 2024 (Vernissage 22.11.) two Solo-exhibitions COMPRESSING LIGHT by the artist Nancy Haynes and BLINDTEXT by the artist Franka Hörnschemeyer. Franka Hönrschemeyer, “Blindtext”, Foto von Donat Schilling, Installation at Hamburger Kunsthalle, 2009 Vernissage: Friday, 22. November 2024, 7 – 9 pm Exhibition period: Saturday, 23. November 2024 until Saturday, 11. January 2025 Title image caption: Nancy Haynes, “Osamu Dazai (Library Series)”, 2022-2023, oil on linen, 22.9 x 27.9 cm | 9 x 11 in Exhibition Nancy Haynes & Franka Hörnschemeyer – Galerie Thomas Schulte | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin
Simon Starling | Project for an Exhibition, Part 1: Time Takes (Scenario for a Conversation) | neugerriemschneider | 23.11.2024-01.02.2025

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 […]
Mehmet Güler | Im Rausch der Farben | Galerie Sievi | 12.10.-15.12.2024

until 15.12. | #4487ARTatBerlin | Galerie Sievi currently shows the exhibition Im Rausch der Farben (> In a frenzy of colours) by the artist Mehmet Güler. Mehmet Güler 1965 Diploma in painting and graphics, Gazi University in Ankara. Lecturer at the Gazi University in Ankara. 1976 Diploma in painting and graphics, HDK in Kassel. Mehmet Güler, Blau träumen III, 2019, 72 x 90 cm He has lived and worked as a freelance artist in Kassel since 1977. Over 200 solo exhibitions in museums and galleries worldwide. Numerous participations in group exhibitions, international biennials, triennials and art fairs. Winner of international prizes and awards. Mehmet Güler, 2024, Reflexionen, 50 x 40 cm The works can be found in museums, public and private collections worldwide. Vernissage: Friday, 11 October 2024, 7 pm Exhibition dates: Saturday, 12 October to Sunday, 15 December 2024 Image caption title: Mehmet Güler, Blau träumen II, 2019, Oil on Canvas, 60 x 80 cm Exhibition Mehmet Güler – Galerie Sievi | Contemporary Art Berlin – Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin
Rineke Dijstra | Solo Exhibition | Galerie Max Hetzler | 09.11.-20.12.2024

until 20.12. | #4486ARTatBerlin | Galerie Max Hetzler (Bleibtreustraße) show from Saturday, 09. November 2024 the solo exhibition of the artist Rineke Dijstra. On show are photographs by Rineke Dijkstra at Bleibtreustraße 45, in Berlin. This is the artist’s fifth solo exhibition with the gallery. Rineke Dijkstra, one of the most highly regarded photographers of our time, achieved international recognition in the early 1990s with her portrait series of teenagers and young adults. In her photographs and video works, she develops a close connection with the people shown and captures their humanity through individual details such as a direct gaze or a characteristic gesture. Dijkstra accompanies some of her models for years to establish a trusting relationship. The artist’s works embody the human condition through universal aspects such as uncertainty, curiosity and vulnerability. Although the photographs have a spontaneous character due to their naturalness, the technical process of creating them is complex, as the artist uses an analogue large-format plate camera with a tripod. The concentration this requires from both the artist and the subjects creates an intense and intimate atmosphere. The people portrayed, including adolescents, schoolchildren, clubbers, bathers, emigrants and mothers, are united by a fundamental search for identity. […]
John Miller | Meyer Riegger Berlin + Trautwein Herleth + Meyer Riegger Karlsruhe | 06.11.-21.12.2024 / 11.01.2025 / 17.01.2025

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 […]
Annette Selle | Blue Memories | aquabitArt Galerie | 19.11.-01.12.2024

until 01.12. | #4484ARTatBerlin | aquabitArt Galerie shows from Tuesday, 19. November 2024 (Vernissage 22.11.) the exhibition Blue Memories by the artist Annette Selle. The color blue once again conquers the gallery space in a brilliant way. In early winter, when the memory of the blue summer sky slowly fades, aquabitArt gallery will open the exhibition “Blue Memories” by Berlin painter Annette Selle, artist of the gallery, on Friday, November 22, 2024. Annette Selle, Ich sehe Dich (I see you), 2024, ink on paper, 52 x 52 cm, framed, anti-reflective glass “Blue Memories” shows works by the artist that were created between 2019 and 2024. They mark a special, contemplative direction in her artistic practice, which deals with the creative process in time-lapse. The long, meditative brushstrokes weave an almost invisible thread of memories – of bright, but also profound, almost black-colored moments of the past. Parallel to the new oil paintings, smaller works on paper can be seen that take up the theme of repetition and seem to playfully transport the viewer into another dimension the longer one looks at them. Annette Selle, Rausch, 2021, oil and pigments on canvas, 120 x 160 cm Annette Selle, Anderswo 02, 2024, oil […]
Greg Bogin | Laughter was heard | Buchmann Galerie | 15.11.2024-25.01.2025

until 25.01. | #4483ARTatBerlin | Buchmann Galerie shows from 15. November 2024 the exhibition Laughter was heard by the artist Greg Bogin. In his consistently painterly practice, Greg Bogin explores the central historical developments in painting since the emergence of abstraction. He juxtaposes these historical developments with the specific visuality of contemporary culture. His work oscillates between conceptual rigour and a playful, sensual curiosity about the visible. Essential to Bogin’s work is his rejection of common rectangular forms as pictorial grounds and his confident handling of colour. His canvases are organically rounded, cut out or geometrically shaped, overcoming the two-dimensionality of traditional paintings and acquiring a sculptural quality. In combination with brilliant, sometimes fluorescent colours, his works refer to the visual rhetoric of a world of vernacular culture – striking, memorable and immediately effective – and develop a visual vocabulary that is characteristically borrowed from the everyday world and yet possesses an undisputed sublimity. Greg Bogin, born in 1965 in New York, where he lives and works, is a seminal figure in the field of contemporary American abstraction. His studies at The Cooper Union School of Art established the foundation for his pioneering investigation into the geometric and chromatic possibilities […]
Patty Carroll + László Máthé | Domestic Demise + Paradox | BBA Gallery | 31.10.2024-25.01.2025

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 […]
Maeve van Klaveren | A Room Filled With Memories, Where Everything Feels Ordinary Until It Is Not | 23.11.-18.12.2024

until 18.12. | #4481ARTatBerlin | Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery Berlin shows from the 23. November 2024 (Opening: 22.11.) the exhibition “A Room Filled With Memories, Where Everything Feels Ordinary Until It Is Not” by the artist Maeve van Klaveren. Maeve van Klaveren’s drawings invite us into a curious kind of twilight zone. “A Room Filled With Memories, Where Everything Feels Ordinary Until It Is Not”, the title of her solo exhibition at Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Berlin, is the place at which the boundaries between the internal and external worlds become soft and porous, where layers of time unravel. Rendered in delicate, textured tones, these quiet, intimate scenes reflect on our personal and collective environments and the ways in which our past experiences and dreams permeate the present. Van Klaveren’s compositions are drawn from her daily observations and thoughts which she records in written form before using found imagery and her own photographs to imagine a visual narrative that slowly evolves through the mark-making process and her engagement with colour. She sees each of the works in this latest exhibition as an individual story that plays out within its own confinements, but also contributes to a wider mood. We might notice, for […]
Jordi Alcaraz | TWO DECADES | Galerie Michael Haas | 16.11.2024-10.01.2025

until 10.01. | #4480ARTatBerlin | Galerie Michael Haas shows from 16. November 2024 (Vernissage 15.11.) the exhibition TWO DECADES by the artist Jordi Alcaraz. For the winter exhibition Galerie Michael Haas is showing works by the Spanish artist Jordi Alcaraz (*1963 Calella/Barcelona) from the last two decades. Vernissage: Friday, 15. November 2024, 6 – 8 pm Exhibition period: Saturday, 16. November 2024 until Friday, 10. January 2025 Title image caption: Jordi Alcaraz, Ohne Titel, 2023, Stein und Methacrylat, 95 x 50 x 50 cm Exhibition Jordi Alcaraz – Galerie Michael Haas | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin
Theo Eshetu | Veiled Woman on a Beachfront | Galerie Barbara Thumm | 07.11.-19.12.2024

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, […]
The world as a labyrinth | Duo Exhibition | Galerie Kremers | 01.11.-30.11.2024

until 30.11. | #4477ARTatBerlin | Galerie Kremers show from 01. November 2024 the exhibition The world as a labyrinth of the artists Evelyne Postic and Reiner Zitta. The French artist Evelyne Postic and the artist Reiner Zitta, who is living in an old Franconian mill, do not know each other and yet they are related. For both artists the creation of works of art is of vital importance. Evelyne Postic, La Liberté Blessée, 2022, Tinte auf Leinwand, 195 x 100 cm It is an activity that takes place with great naturalness and urgency. In her meticulously crafted drawings Evelyne Postic creates labyrinthine, interlaced worlds. Reiner Zitta, Domestic Scene Reiner Zitta’s mill is itself a labyrinthine realm, everything that is found there or is carried into it is processed in constant artistic production. Vernissage: Friday, 01 November 2024, from 7 to 9 pm Exhibition dates: Friday, 01 November to Saturday, 30 November 2024 Caption image: Evelyne Postic, Entre deux Universe, Ink on Canvas, 88 x 81 cm Exhibition The world as a labyrinth – Galerie Kremers | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galerien | ART at Berlin
solitary walks | Group exhibition | Michaela Helfrich Galerie | 26.10.-23.11.2024

until 23.11. | #4505ARTatBerlin | Michaela Helfrich Galerie shows from Saturday, 26. October 2024 the Group exhibition solitary walks. Participating artists: Klaas Bosch, Tina Engel, Ulrike Pisch, Alan Rankle, Nanako Shikata and Duong Thuy Duong. Vernissage: Saturday, 26. October 2024, from 4 pm Exhibition period: Saturday, 26. October until Saturday, 23. November 2024 Image caption: Duong Thuy Duong, Die Verwandlung, 2024, Öl auf Leinwand, 100 x 80 cm, courtesy of Michaela Helfrich Galerie Exhibition solitary walks – Michaela Helfrich Galerie | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin
Marlies Appel | Galerie Inga Kondeyne | 25.10.-07.12.2024

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 […]
Erotic Jungle | Group exhibition | Galerie Z22 | 07.11.-17.11.2024

until 17.11. | #4475ARTatBerlin | Galerie Z22 shows from 7. November 2024 the Group exhibition Erotic Jungle. Participating artists: Ariane Kipp, Camilla Marinoni, Axel Bunt, Wanda Stang, Conrad Artworx , Stephan Jorek-Zahn, Joax, Carolina Amaya, Nadia Valeska, Juana Anzellini, Victoria Rosenman and Inna Levinson. Vernissage: Thursday, 17. November 2024, from 7 pm Exhibition period: Thursday, 07. November until Sunday, 17. November 2024 Title image caption: Courtesy: Galerie Z22 Exhibition Erotic Jungle – Galerie Z22 | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin
Mathias Roloff | Poesie der Ferne | Galerie feinart berlin | 31.10.-07.12.2024

until 07.12. | #4474ARTatBerlin | Galerie feinart berlin presents from 31. October 2024 the exhibition POESIE DER FERNE of the artist Mathias Roloff. The „Poesie der Ferne“ (poetry of distance) that we find in Mathias Roloff’s landscape works arises from the sensitive coordination of partly luminous, partly pastel muted color fields and their dramaturgical intersection with lines, planes, paths. It is about the horizon and the appeal to our gaze through the organic space stretching into the distance. Developed from color and conceived from the abstract, the landscapes oscillate between dissolution and emergence and play with the fantasy of surreal or fantastic imagination. Mathias Roloff, Das innere Echo, 2024, oil on canvas, 70 x 60 cm © M.Roloff The artist describes his paintings as “timeless refuges with subtle references to human civilization. They follow the longing for seclusion and inspire reflection and self-awareness”. Mathias Roloff, Seichtes Wasser, 2017, oil on canvas, 130 x 90 cm © M.Roloff During his studies at the Berlin University of the Arts, where he graduated in 2006, Mathias Roloff studied Flemish-Dutch landscape and still life painting from the 16th century, Mannerism and Paul Klee’s theory on the abstraction of color fields and magic squares. Paintings such […]
Marck | MARCKS SPIELSALON | AOA;87 contemporary | 25.10.-07.12.2024

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 […]
Gina Lee Felber + Jürgen Klauke | Galerie Guido W. Baudach | 16.11.2024-22.02.2025

until 22.02. | #4472ARTatBerlin | Galerie Guido W. Baudach presents from Saturday, 16. November 2024 (Vernissage 15.11.) a duo exhibition by the artists Gina Lee Felber and Jürgen Klauke. In a joint exhibition, the Guido W. Baudach Gallery shows sculptures by Gina Lee Felber and photographic works by Jürgen Klauke. It centres on Felber’s table and wall objects, created between 1994 and 2014. They appear as enigmatic apparatuses that could come from a bygone era or from the distant future. At the same time they give the impression that they are architectural model studies for the set of a film based on a story by Philipp K. Dick, in which buildings and industrial plants are living creatures alongside people and replicants. JK/F 49, Jürgen Klauke, Schattenfresser, 1988 – 1991, C-Print, 3 parts, framed, 165 x 375 cm, edition number 2/3 (edition 3 + 2AP), Courtesy of the artist & Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin The sculptures are flanked by large-format black and white works on the walls, which belong to Jürgen Klauke’s cycle Prosecuritas (1988 – 1994), in which Klauke had himself and various objects x-rayed in a baggage scanner at the airport. The resulting photographs show a shadow play […]
Maximilian Rödel | VEILS OF PERCEPTION | Kewenig Berlin (Pied-à-terre) | 12.10.-09.11.2024

until 09.11. | #4471ARTatBerlin | Galerie Kewenig Berlin (Pied-à-terre) presents from 12. October the exhibition “VEILS OF PERCEPTION” by the artist Maximilian Rödel. “How does something new come about, and how does it affect what already exists?” This question could stand alone as an introduction to ‘Veils of Perception’, Maximilian Rödel’s (b. 1984 in Braunschweig) first exhibition at pied-à-terre. The show will feature seven new paintings that challenge traditional notions of perception, inviting viewers to delve beneath the surface and explore the hidden layers of reality within Rödel’s enigmatic works. Opening: Saturday, 12. October 2024, 2 to 5 pm Exhibition period: Saturday, 12. October until Saturday, 09. November 2024 Image caption: Maximilian Rödel, Prehistoric Sunset (Veils of Perception), 2024, Oil on canvas, 200 x 175 cm | 78 3/4 x 68 7/8 in, Photo: Nick Ash Exhibition aximilian Rödel – Kewenig Berlin | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin
PAST PRESENT FUTURE | Group exhibition | Galerie Schindler | 17.10.-23.11.2024

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), […]
Sherrie Levine | Galerie Buchholz | 25.10.-21.12.2024

until 21.12. | #4469ARTatBerlin | Galerie Buchholz shows from 25. October 2024 an exhibition by the artist Sherrie Levine. Vernissage: Friday, 25. October 2024, 6 – 8 pm Exhibition period: Friday, 25. October– Saturday, 21. December 2024 Image caption: Sherrie Levine, Courtesy Galerie Buchholz Exhibition Sherrie Levine – Galerie Buchholz | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin
Takayuki Daikoku | Ceres and Folded Drawing Dot | Semjon Contemporary | 18.10.–23.11.2024

until 23.11. | #4468ARTatBerlin | Semjon Contemporary shows from 18. October 2024 (Vernissage: 17.10.) the exhibition Ceres and Folded Drawing Dot by the artist Takayuki Daikoku. Semjon Contemporary shows from 18. October 2024 (Vernissage: 17.10.) the exhibition Ceres and Folded Drawing Dot by the artist Takayuki Daikoku. The artist from Shiga/ Japan will be present. Folded Drawing Dot RGB (Detail), 2024, 200 x 300 cm, Graphit, Acrylfarbe auf Papier | graphite, acrylic paint on paper Vernissage: Thursday, 17. October 2024, 7 – 9.30 pm Exhibition period: Friday, 18. October – Saturday, 23. November 2024 Title image caption: Doppel Ceres 2024-02, 2024, 23 x 18 x 11 cm, Kampferholz, Gips und Acrylfarbe | camphor wood, plaster and arcrylic paint Exhibition Takayuki Daikoku – Semjon Contemporary | Zeitgenössische Kunst | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries – ART at Berlin
Pius Fox | Fragments | Galerie Martin Mertens | 19.10.-21.12.2024

until 21.11. | #4467ARTatBerlin | Galerie Martin Mertens shows from 19. Oktober 2024 the exhibition Fragments of the artist Pius Fox. With the exhibition title “Fragments”, Fox refers to the fact that the fragmentary and unfinished, the detail or the fragment are generally recurring themes in his work. In his paintings, for example, he has taken up an antique torso, details from historical paintings or photographs, sign-like forms or pictorial structures that explore the tension between three-dimensionality and flatness. The new canvas paintings and pastels are complemented by works on glass, more precisely on fragments of glass plates. Fox is thus building on his reverse glass paintings, which he has been working on from time to time since 2015. With the glass fragments, attention is drawn more strongly to form and color than with a classic rectangular picture format. The result is an “object” somewhere between a panel painting and a wall sculpture. The glass fragments perhaps shed light once again on the artist’s fundamental search for the definition of a picture itself. Throughout his entire oeuvre, there are pictures that thematize edges, frames, windows, doors or transitions to something else. In many of his paintings of recent years, a […]
Maike Freess | SOLILOQUY | Luisa Catucci Gallery | 18.10.-23.11.2024

until 23.11. | #4466ARTatBerlin | Luisa Catucci Gallery (Brunnenstraße) show from 18. Oktober 2024 the exhibition SOLILOQUY the artist Maike Freess. The exhibition celebrates the publication of Maike Freess’ latest monograph volume and the inclusion of some of her major works in the permanent collections of the MAMCS (Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain de Strasbourg), the Ludwig Museum Koblenz and the Von der Heydt-Museum in Wuppertal in 2024. Maike Freess is an internationally renowned German artist whose artistic research over the years – using various techniques and forms of expression – has always centred on the multifaceted psychological world of the individual, triggered by personal, social and political processes. In her artistic creative process, the subjects transform and transmute, revealing hidden desires and blurring the boundaries between the tangible and the fantastic. Vernissage: Thursday, 17 October, 18:00 – 21:00 Exhibition dates: Friday, 18 October – Saturday, 23 November 2024 Image above: Maike Freess, Courtesy of Luisa Catucci Gallery Exhibition Maike Freess – Luisa Catucci Gallery | Zeitgenössische Kunst Berlin – Contemporary Art – Exhibitions Berlin Galerien | ART at Berlin
Kwadwo A Asiedu | In its Wistful Shatter | Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery Berlin | 19.10.-16.11.2024

until 16.11. | #4465ARTatBerlin | Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery Berlin shows from 19. October 2024 the exhibition “In its Wistful Shatter” of the artists Kwadwo A Asiedu. Through a swirling plane of vibrant, translucent colours, we catch glimpses of wild animals, seascapes, jagged rocks, coral blossoms and skeletal trees. These multi-layered, shifting landscapes are the work of Mexican-born, Nigerian-based Ghanaian artist Kwadwo A. Asiedu, whose work explores the evolution of nature and our relationship with it. His latest solo exhibition at the Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery in Berlin presents ‘In its Wistful Shatter’, a captivating new body of work that explores ideas of rupture and separation, but also of renewal and reconstruction. By bringing together elements from different ecosystems, Asiedu reflects on a more harmonious form of coexistence between humans and nature. Asiedu originally trained as a photographer and draws from his extensive archive as well as found images to create digital collages, which he then translates onto canvas. While he previously played with scale to abstract his image sources and create dream-like landscapes, this latest series marks a shift towards incorporating more figurative elements that contrast with the fluid brushstrokes and fragmented textures. These concrete details, Asiedu explains, are entry points […]
Inge H. Schmidt und Krzysztof Płaza | DREI PERLEN. UND EIN SEE. UZBEKISTAN – in Malerei und Fotografie | Q Gallery | 19.10.-16.11.2024

until 16.11. | #4464ARTatBerlin | Q Gallery presents from 18th October 2024 the exhibition “THREE PEARLS. AND A LAKE. UZBEKISTAN – in painting and photography”. In this double exhibition, artist Inge H. Schmidt and photographer Krzysztof Płaza will be showing their works created during their trip to Uzbekistan. Fascinated by the history of the ancient Silk Road, Krzysztof Płaza and Inge H. Schmidt have been travelling through Central Asia for almost two decades. Usually on arduous routes, packed with rucksacks, cameras and painting utensils, they try to visualise traces of this route artistically. In 2023 they travelled through Uzbekistan. They created works about the three pearls, Samarkand, Bukhara and Xiva, probably one of the most important stops on the historic Silk Road and reminiscent of the fairy tales from ‘One Thousand and One Nights’. But the two of them also ‘went’ to the north, to a region that is becoming increasingly devastated and desolate, to a place where the once mighty Aral Sea is wasting away and whose history makes you shudder. However, it is precisely this contrast that inspires the two artists immensely. Their works, including some from earlier years, are on display at the Q Gallery Berlin. Alte […]
BIRDS | Gruppenausstellung | Gallery Z22 | 10.10.-02.11.2024

until 02.11. | #4463ARTatBerlin | Galerie Z22 shows from 10. Oktober 2024 the group exhibition BIRDS On display are works by: Silvio Ukat, Kai Teichert, Katerina Belkihna, Jinran Kim, Nikolaas Boden, Monika Ross, Catrina Bourdon, Kurt Woldmann, Evelin Daus, Wolfgank Kleber, Karl De La Diushes, Matthias Göhr, Ilko Koestler, Visuman and Leah Rudolph. Vernissage: Thursday, 10 October 2024, 7:00 pm Exhibition dates: Thursday, 10 October until Saturday, 02 November 2024 Image above: Courtesy: Galerie Z22 Exhibition BIRDS – Galerie Z22 | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galerien | ART at Berlin
Carina Linge | THE UNSAID | Jarmuschek + Partner | 12.10.-16.11.2024 + 10.12.2024-08.02.2025

until 08.02. | #4462ARTatBerlin | Jarmuschek + Partner presents from 12. October 2024 (Opening: 11.10.) the exhibition THE UNSAID of the artist Carina Linge. The exhibition will be extended from 10 December 2024 to 8 February 2025 (see below for exhibition breaks). Atmospherically and symbolically charged photographs, presented in multi-part picture tableaux, are characteristic of Carina Linge’s artistic approach. With her latest works, the Leipzig-based artist continues her series of psychogram-like portraits of selected female artists. She also takes a look at herself. Profound emotional worlds become visible in Carina Linge’s perfectly staged still lifes and body paintings. Sensual beauty meets great melancholy and fragility, which not only affect the protagonists in their individual situations, but can also be felt and empathised with on a higher level. Losses, changes and the challenges of new phases of life are tangible in many different ways. A vintage car waits in a garage without a licence plate. A red thread leads the viewer to an old photograph. A number of ageing building blocks are placed on a flowered sofa, while a human skull lies on the floor below. Tracing hidden childhood memories and family histories, many of the photographic motifs are small emotional […]
David Yarrow | CAMERA WORK | 12.10.-23.11.2024

until 23.11. | #4461ARTatBerlin | CAMERA WORK presents from 12. October 2024 the exhibition from the artist David Yarrow. The majority of these works were created in 2024 and will be on display worldwide for the first time. Iconic animal portraits by the artist and a further development of his works influenced by classic Hollywood films are particularly represented in the exhibition. ComposiZons that are reminiscent of film shots are decisive for David Yarrow’s work. This is particularly evident in the way he uses light and shadows to create tension. These techniques are reminiscent of the visual language of classic Hollywood films and reinforce the dramatic effect of his photographs. His animal portraits look og like stills from an epic adventure film in which nature plays the leading role. In addition, Yarrow’s work reveals the influence of film directors such as Sergio Leone and Anthony Minghella. The monumentality and vastness of his scenery, as well as the use of perspecZve and proximity, create a narrative depth that gives the viewer the feeling of being part of a larger story. Through these cineasZc influences, Yarrow succeeds in detaching his photographs from the purely documentary framework and elevating them to iconic works […]
Test EN: Carola Schapals | architecture and wildernes | Galerie SCHMALFUSS BERLIN | 12.10.-09.11.2024

bis 09.11. | #4460ARTatBerlin | Galerie SCHMALFUSS BERLIN präsentiert ab 12. Oktober 2024 die Ausstellung architecture and wildernes der Künstlerin Carola Schapals. Die brandaktuellen Werken von CAROLA SCHAPALS brillieren erneut durch das feinsinnige Farbempfinden und ausgereifte Kompositionstalent der Künstlerin. In der ihr ganz eigenen Art und Weise entwickelt CAROLA SCHAPALS aus ihren Reiseeindrücken Bildmotive voller Kontraste. Hier verschmilzt geradlinige Architektur mit urwüchsiger Landschaft, kühle Farben erstrahlen durch gezielt gesetzte Leuchtpunkte in warmem Licht und das menschenleere Bild wird von den Betrachtenden selbst bevölkert. „Während des Malens im Atelier oder auch Plein Air wechsle ich stilistisch permanent von konkret zu abstrakt, von exakt beschreibend zu intuitiv erfassend. Häufig werden Bildpartien auch übermalt oder ausgewaschen. Wenn meine Malerei eine bestimmte atmosphärische Dichte erreicht hat, höre ich auf“, erläutert CAROLA SCHAPALS. Sowohl ihre groß- als auch kleinformatigen Gemälde sind mit Spannung aufgeladene, atmosphärische Bilderzählungen, von denen zugleich eine meditative Stille ausgeht. Es ist, als ob die Gemälde von CAROLA SCHAPALS eine imaginäre Aufforderung aussenden: Tritt ein und komm zur Ruh. Die 1954 in Wilhelmshaven geborene Künstlerin hat ihr Studium der freien Malerei an den Hochschulen für Bildende Künste in Hannover und Bremen absolviert. Heute lebt und arbeitet CAROLA SCHAPALS in Bremen. SCHAPALS wurde […]
Carola Schapals | architecture and wilderness | Galerie SCHMALFUSS BERLIN | 12.10.-09.11.2024

until 09.11. | #4460ARTatBerlin | Galerie SCHMALFUSS BERLIN presents from 12. Oktober 2024 the exhibition architecture and wilderness of the artist Carola Schapals. Carola Schapals’ brand-new works once again shine with the artist’s subtle sense of colour and mature talent for composition. In her very own way, Carola Schapals develops pictorial motifs full of contrasts from her travel impressions. Here, linear architecture merges with unspoilt landscapes, cool colours shine in warm light through deliberately placed highlights and the deserted picture is populated by the viewers themselves. ‘Whilst painting in the studio or plein air, I am constantly switching stylistically from concrete to abstract, from precisely descriptive to intuitively grasping. Parts of the picture are often painted over or washed out. When my painting has reached a certain atmospheric density, I stop,’ explains Carola Schapals. Both her large and small-format paintings are atmospheric pictorial narratives charged with tension, from which a meditative stillness emanates. It is as if Carola Schapals’ paintings are sending out an imaginary invitation: Enter and come to rest. Born in Wilhelmshaven in 1954, the artist studied painting at the Universities of Fine Arts in Hanover and Bremen. Carola Schapals now lives and works in Bremen. Schapals has […]
PORTRAITS OF POWER | Group exhibition | CAMERA WORK | 24.09-05.10.2024

until 05.10. | #4453ARTatBerlin | CAMERA WORK presents from 24. September 2024 the Group exhibition PORTRAITS OF POWER – U.S. PRESIDENTS IN PHOTOGRAPHY of the artists Cornell Capa, Elliott Erwitt, Jacques Lowe, Steve Schapiro and Mark Shaw. To mark the 60th presidential election in the USA, the CAMERA WORK gallery is presenting the exhibition Portraits of Power: U.S. Presidents in Photography from 24 September. It comprises a compilation of more than 40 photographs, some of them world-famous, in which portraits were taken of the majority of US presidents of the 20th and 21st centuries before, during and after their time in office – including Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Bill Clinton, John F. Kennedy, Dwight D. Eisenhower and Theodore Roosevelt. The works from 120 years of US Politics provide insights into the lives of US presidents, both in the political and public sphere and in private moments. In contrast to Europe, the photographic staging of US presidents and presidential candidates has played a more central role in the USA since the Kennedy election campaign in the early 1960s. The collaboration with renowned photographers such as Yousuf Karsh, Albert Watson, Patrick Demarchelier, Martin Schoeller, Michel Comte, Nadav Kander and Elliott Erwitt has […]
Jill Tegan Doherty | THE LINES THAT JOIN U | Schindler LAB | 27.09.-23.11.2024

until 23.11. | #4452ARTatBerlin | Schindler LAB at Potsdam, the experimental art space of the Schindler Gallery, shows from 27. September 2024 the exhibition THE LINES THAT JOIN US of the artist Jill Tegan Doherty. The Lines That Join Us presents a selection of paintings, etchings and drawings by British artist Jill Tegan Doherty from 2017 to 2020. Although primarily a painter, Doherty works with graceful versatility in a variety of media and materials. She invites the viewer to leave behind the chaos and noise of everyday life and embrace the unknown in an exploration of the unconscious. Creating art allows Doherty to reveal a greater unity of body and mind, and she invokes the example of Jorge Luis Borges, who once said, ‘The verbs “to live” and “to dream” are at all times synonymous; for me, thousands upon thousands of apparitions will merge into one.’ Beyond Everywhere, 2020, Oil on canvas, 140 x 135 cm Jill Tegan Doherty (born 1983) is an artist from Nottingham, UK. After studying painting at the University of the Arts London (graduating in 2006), Doherty moved to Berlin in 2012, where she now lives. She has exhibited widely throughout Germany and internationally. Her most […]
Harry Nuriev | The Foam Room | DITTRICH + SCHLECHTRIEM | 11.09.–16.11.2024

until 16.11. | #4451ARTatBerlin | DITTRICH & SCHLECHTRIEM is currently showing the exhibition “The Foam Room” by the artist Harry Nuriev. DITTRICH & SCHLECHTRIEM presents the debut solo show of Harry Nuriev (b. 1984), the New York- and Paris-based artist, designer, and founder and creative director of Crosby Studios. His exhibition, titled The Foam Room, opens during Berlin Art Week on Friday, September 13, 6–10 PM, and will be on view through November 16, 2024. Harry Nuriev, Soap © Harry Nuriev, 2024, Courtesy DITTRICH & SCHLECHTRIEM, Berlin, Photo: Benoit Florençon The Foam Room features a mirrored installation that generates and releases large amounts of white foam, gradually filling the underground gallery. The reflective surfaces, combined with the volumes of foam, create an atmosphere that provokes visitors to engage, reflect, and immerse.Conceptually, the foam party represents a fascinating phenomenon where millions of air bubbles are suspended within a thin film of water held together by soap molecules. This ephemeral wonder can rapidly expand and vanish, mirroring the fast-paced nature of industry and our fleeting attention to spatial and economic concerns. In today’s consultative era, art is often reduced to a mere party trick, with the artist serving as a commercial tool or marketing […]
Hyunsun Jeon | When you understand my secret, it becomes a ghost | Esther Schipper | 13.09.-19.10.2024

until 19.10. | #4450ARTatBerlin | Galerie Esther Schipper is currently showing the exhibition When you understand my secret, it becomes a ghost by the artist Hyunsun Jeon. Esther Schipper shows Hyunsun Jeon’s first solo presentation with the gallery: When you understand my secret, it becomes a ghost. On view will be 10 new paintings by Jeon whose representation was announced in February of this year. Hyunsun Jeon has developed a distinct iconography that combines figurative elements, such as trees, fruits, and objects from everyday life, with abstract forms, color planes and, increasingly since 2014, sets of classic geometric shapes. Jeon’s forms are engaged in a constant shift between dimensions and associations—a cone, for example, may occur as a triangle, rendered with color gradients to suggest depth, or in the form of volcanoes, mountains or hats. Jeon’s project has an all-encompassing, even world-building quality: quoting different styles as motifs, a work might simultaneously include painterly passages, pointillist sections or simulated brushstrokes, and motifs that have the linear quality of digital renderings or pixelation. Installed in a loose grouping across three walls, Jeon’s constellation makes the paintings appear to shift across the space. Echoing the overlapping and superimposition of motifs in the […]
20 Years – An Anniversary Show | Group exhibition | WENTRUP | 14.09.-16.11.2024

until 16.11. | #4449ARTatBerlin | WENTRUP presents from Saturday, 14. September 2024 (Vernissage: 13.09.) the exhibition 20 Years – An Anniversary Show. 20 years of exhibitions 20 years of dialog 20 years of traveling 20 years of interior design 20 years of encounters with new people 20 years of developing visions Art is such a meaningful way to reflect and create a dialog. And this is exactly what the anniversary exhibition is all about. All of the gallery’s artists enter into a dialog with one of their works and partners of their own choosing, who react to the respective artwork. The works and commentaries are cross-genre, they open up new perspectives and approaches, they look at art from different angles. They express what moves the visitors, themselves and their surroundings. 20 years of dialog – 20 years, a celebration With contributions by Nevin Aladag, Hicham Berrada, Phoebe Boswell, Jenny Brosinski, Axel Geis, Karl Haendel, Gregor Hildebrandt, John McAllister, Olaf Metzel, Gerold Miller, Mary Ramsden, David Renggli, Anastasia Samoylova, Jan-Ole Schiemann, Britta Thie, Wawrzyniec Tokarski, Marion Verboom, Sophie von Hellermann and Thomas Wachholz. With commentaries by Michael Berryhill, Jurriaan Benschop, Walter Dahn, Madeleine Frey, Irène Hug, Patricia Köstring, Dietmar Lutz, Edie […]
Jan Robert Leegte | Selection | OFFICE IMPART | 05.09-18.10.2024

until 18.10. | #4448ARTatBerlin | OFFICE IMPART shows from Thursday, 05. September 2024 the exhibition Selection by the artist Jan Robert Leegte. The language of the digital Based on the work of Jan Robert Leegte In Writing Degree Zero (1953), the semiotician Roland Barthes examines the formalism of language. He concentrates on the characteristics of language that go beyond those of a means of communication and a direct form of expression. Words become building blocks that recur in different constellations and with different meanings. Barthes is also the famous advocate of the metaphorical death of the author, which emancipates the (written) text beyond its author. In his view, a text is an object between sender and receiver and is therefore subject to various interpretations. After its creation, a text can acquire a more autonomous status that is separate from its creator. These two ideas have found expression in the visual arts, for example in the search for the specificity of the medium of painting in the 1950s and beyond. Here, artists set out to show a painting for what it is: nothing more than paint on canvas, without illusion. “Painting Degree Zero” even appears as a literal reference to Barthes […]
Dor Guez | Not knowing is a good place to start | carlier | gebauer | 13.09.-26.10.2024

until 26.10. | #4447ARTatBerlin | carlier | gebauer show from 13. September 2024 the exhibition Not knowing is a good place to start of the artist Dor Guez. Dor Guez Munayer’s works deal with traces and scars. By interrogating personal experiences and memories alongside official narratives of the past, he raises questions about the role of contemporary art in telling unwritten histories and recontextualising visual and written archives. Guez’s solo exhibition Not knowing is a good place to start uses archival material from public and private sources to uncover the multiple facets between first-hand accounts and dominant cultural narratives. Guez was born in Jerusalem to a Palestinian mother and father from a family of Arab-Jewish immigrants from North Africa. The exhibition emphasises the artist’s interest in German history and his ongoing engagement with the history of his family and his communities in Jaffa, Lydda, Jerusalem and Gaza. The exhibition was put together last year, during which the artist and his family experienced an unprecedented war in their homeland. Guez’s ongoing photographic series of suitcases of immigrants and refugees refers to the exile of his father’s (Guez) family from Tunisia after the Nazi occupation and the expulsion of his mother’s (al […]
Common Threads – Part II | Group exhibition | DIEHL | 13.09.-19.10.2024

until 19.10. | #4446ARTatBerlin | DIEHL presents from Friday, 13. September 2024 the exhibition Common Threads – Part II by the artists Ritzi Jacobi, Christa Jeitner, Christiane Möbus, Sheila Hicks, Jolanta Owidzka, Mariette Rousseau-Vermette and Irina Zatulovskaya. The exhibition Common Threads – Part II shows artworks made of fibers from 1964 to 2024, curated by Claudia Kudinova. The exhibition takes place at DIEHL during the specified opening hours and by appointment only in the DIEHL Remise. Vernissage: Friday, 13. September 2024, 2-7 pm Ausstellungsdaten: Friday, 13. September – Saturday, 19. October 2024 Image caption: Jolanta Owidzka, Interrupted Space II, 1998, polyamide, cotton, 200 x 187 cm, © Private Collection, Berlin, photo Marcus Schneider Exhibition Common Threads – Part II – DIEHL | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin
Rebecca Horn | Concert of Sighs | Galerie Thomas Schulte | 11.09.-02.11.2024

until 02.11. | #4445ARTatBerlin | The Galerie Thomas Schulte (Charlottenstrasse) currently presents the exhibtion Concert of Sighs of the artist Rebecca Horn. Galerie Thomas Schulte presents a new solo exhibition by Rebecca Horn, who recently passed away at the age of 80. This exhibition is a poignant reflection on her extensive artistic legacy and features her 1997 installation ‘Concert of Sighs’ alongside more recent painterly and sculptural works. Originally created for the Venice Biennale and now presented in Berlin for the first time, Concert of Sighs is a powerful evocation of loss that combines visual and acoustic elements. Vernissage: Wednesday, 11 September 2024, 6 to 9 pm Exhibition dates: Wednesday, 11 September to Saturday, 02 November 2024 Caption title: Rebecca Horn, Concerto dei Sospiri, installation at Galerie Thomas Schulte, 2024, photo by GRAYSC.DE, Exhibtion Rebecca Horn – Galerie Thomas Schulte | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibtions Berlin Galerien | ART at Berlin
Jenny Brillhart | My Fingers Against The Glass | Kuckei + Kuckei | 06.09.-12.10.2024

until 12.10. | #4444ARTatBerlin | Kuckei + Kuckei currently presents the exhibition My Fingers Against The Glass by the artist Jenny Brillhart. Jenny Brillhart finds the motifs for her exquisitely executed paintings in unexpected and often overlooked places, materials and scenes from everyday life that catch her attention. The everyday is photographed and assembled into collages or moulded into three-dimensional arrangements in the studio and thus becomes the subject of her sparse, elegant compositions. Painted in mostly muted tones with deliberate colour accents, light and shadow play a dominant role and lend her works an atmosphere of calm and tranquillity. The influence of Shaker design and craftsmanship is deeply rooted, as is that of Charles Sheeler’s precise painting. Her masterful mark-making defines form, space and gravity. Brillhart received her BFA from Smith College, Northampton, MA, and her MFA in painting from the New York Academy of Art, with additional studies at the Art Students League, New York, NY. Her work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Emerson Dorsch Gallery, Miami, Florida, and numerous other solo and group exhibitions in Maine, Florida, Germany and Spain. In 2019 Brillhart’s work was included in the New England Biennial Exhibition at the […]
Brent Wadden | ASLSP | Peres Projects | 13.09.-16.11.2024

until 16.11. | #4443ARTatBerlin | Peres Projects presents from Friday, 13. September 2024 the Solo Exhibition ASLSP of the artist Brent Wadden. ASLSP is Brent Wadden’s (b.1979 in Nova Scotia, CA) sixth solo exhibition with the gallery, and his fourth in Berlin. As slow as possible. This is how avant-garde composer John Cage intended for his 1985 piece ASLSP to be played, somehow weaving sound to silence by stretching time endlessly between notes. Brent Wadden’s ASLSP swaps musical chords for wool, cotton and acrylic threads, woven into large-scale, geometric abstractions. If not as slow as possible, Wadden’s process is still measured and meticulous, starting way before sitting down at the loom. First, some second-hand, used and old yarn is hunted and found over Craigslist, eBay or Facebook market, turning the material sourcing into an integral part of the practice and a quest of its own. This ritual is time-intensive, further increasing the distance between the inception of an idea and its completion. Slowness is deliberate, necessary, and in Wadden’s practice, it becomes an essential medium used to compose the image. Brent Wadden constructs the surface like a weaver, yet approaches it like a painter and refers to his weavings as paintings. He started out […]
Rachel Youn | Pleasure Circuit | Soy Capitán | 11.09.–26.10.2024

until 26.10. | #4441ARTatBerlin | Galerie Soy Capitán shows from Wednesday, 11. September 2024 (Vernissage: 13.09.) the exhibition Pleasure Circuit by the artist Rachel Youn. Soy Capitán presents Rachel Youn’s second solo exhibition at the gallery. Titled “Pleasure Circuit”, the exhibition features Youn’s latest sculptures and drawings that explore the space between automatic gratification and inevitable failure. Youn transforms used objects into dynamic kinetic sculptures that oscillate between the pursuit of self-improvement and failure. By reusing materials and equipment acquired from flea markets and online second-hand shopping – such as baby swings, massagers and gym equipment – Youn explores how plastic gears, screws, fabric and rubber work together to mimic the movements of a masseuse, a mother’s cradling arms, a personal trainer or a cleaner. How is it that cheaply made products that promise comfort, self-improvement and sociability often fail to meet these expectations? In what ways do anthropomorphized machines that simulate acts of care and service mirror parasocial relationships with working bodies? In “Pleasure Circuit”, Youn expands the view to larger automation and entertainment systems such as amusement parks, sushi conveyors, treadmills and runways. Highlighting the expectations and failures inherent in these transformative experiences, the exhibition explores themes of […]
Sebastian Schrader | FLOWERS | REITER | 12.9.–19.10.2024

until 19.10. | #4442ARTatBerlin | REITER shows from Thursday 12. September, 2024 the Solo Exhibition FLOWERS of the artist Sebastian Schrader. Vernissage: Thursday, 12. September from 5:00 until 9:00 pm Exhibition Period: Thursday, 12. September until Thursday, 19. October 2024 Special opening hours Berlin Art Week 2024: Friday, 13. September, 12 – 9 pm | Saturday/ Sunday, 14./ 15. September, 12 – 6 pm Image Caption: Sebastian Schrader, ohne Titel, 2024. Öl auf Leinwand, 50 x 60 cm – Courtesy of reitergalleries Exhibition Sebastian Schrader – Reiter | Berlin prospect | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin
Monilola Olayemi Ilupeju | BloodLetter | PSM Gallery | 06.09.–09.11.2024

until 09.11. | #4440ARTatBerlin | PSM Gallery shows from Friday, 06. September 2024 the Solo Exhibition BloodLetter of the artist Monilola Olayemi Ilupeju. The exhibition BloodLetter by Monilola Olayemi Ilupeju at PSM consists of 9 new paintings in oil on leather, as well as 4 works on canvas and Birch tree bark, and an accompanying collection of texts. In this new body of work, she references and alters source photographs pulled from personal and family archives, as well as found images, to process residual feelings and questions around ancestral belonging, homecomings and homegoings, memory, grief, and the beauty amidst it all. A text by José B. Segebre @juicyfilet will further enrich the exhibition. On the occasion of Berlin Art Week @Ber, on Saturday September 14th at 7pm, Monilola will hold a reading of the texts conceived around the exhibition’s themes. Monilola Olayemi Ilupeju (born 1996) is a Nigerian-American artist and author based in Berlin. She graduated with distinction from New York University, where she studied studio art and social and cultural analysis. She is also an alumna of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Through painting, writing, performance and installation, she balances intimate experiences of connection, violence, and healing against broader […]
It would storm. | Group Exhibition | Galerie Neu | 13.09.-02.11.2024

until 02.11. | #4439ARTatBerlin | Galerie Neu shows from 13. September 2024 the Group Exhibition It would storm. Participating artists Tom Burr Manfred Pernice Josephine Pryde Pol Taburet SoiL Thornton Iris Touliatou Valentina Triet Vernissage: Friday, 13. September from 10:00 am until 6:00 pm. Exhibition Period: Friday, 13. September – Saturday, 2. November 2024 Image Caption: Courtesy the artist and Galerie Neu, Berlin | Künstler/Titel: SoiL Thornton, Beginning Similarities For Sensorial Labor, Nerves aside, The Same, 2019, wooden paint stick on straw hat, 81 x 60 x 11 cm Exhibition It would storm. – Galerie Neu | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin
Salomé | SALOMÉ 70 | Galerie Deschler | 12.09.-09.11.2024

until 09.11. | #4438ARTatBerlin | Galerie Deschler presents from 12. September 2024 the exhibition SALOMÉ 70 of the artist Salomé. On the occasion of Salomé’s 70th birthday, Galerie Deschler is presenting an exhibition celebrating the groundbreaking work of this extraordinary artist. Salomé, born Wolfgang Ludwig Cihlarz, is considered one of the most important pioneers of a free-spirited and diverse generation that significantly characterised the wild West Berlin of the 1970s and 80s. His works reflect the energetic and rebellious punk atmosphere that characterised Berlin at the time. His art and his courageous commitment to freedom and tolerance have contributed significantly to shaping the Berlin of today – a Berlin that is known worldwide for its openness and diversity. Vernissage: Thursday, 12 September 2024, 7 – 10 pm Exhibition dates: Thursday, 12 September – Saturday, 9 November 2024 Caption title: Salomé, NY-Selbstporträt, 1978, Kunstharz auf Nessel / Resin on nettle, 120 x 100 cm Exhibtion Salomé – SALOMÉ 70 – Galerie Deschler | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galerien | ART at Berlin
Armin Boehm | LUST ANGST SCHMERZ EKSTASE | König Galerie (Nave) | 11.09.–27.10.2024

until 27.10. | #4437ARTatBerlin | König Galerie (Nave) presents from 11. September 2024 the Solo Exhibition LUST ANGST SCHMERZ EKSTASE of the artist Armin Boehm. KÖNIG GALERIE is delighted to present LUST ANGST SCHMERZ EKSTASE, a solo exhibition by Armin Boehm in the nave of St Agnes. The exhibition marks Boehm’s debut at the gallery and features his latest series of paintings that explore the tangled web of human emotions, exploring desire, fear, pain and ecstasy through his distinctive, multi-layered approach. Created between 2023 and 2024, the works explore a wide range of subjects, from the Donald Trump assassination to Berlin’s Berghain nightclub. Boehm dissects and criticises the political and social landscape through a lens that is both satirical and reflective, positioning himself as a keen observer of our times. In his paintings, which are accompanied by preparatory drawings that give an insight into his creative process, allegory and caricature intermingle in a rich tradition of social commentary. Vivid, hybrid characters and chaotic scenes are meticulously crafted to convey a sense of unease. This approach is reminiscent of medieval iconography, which used dramatic and often unsettling imagery to convey religious, moral and social messages. In addition, Boehm’s work draws on […]
Joan Hernández Pijuan | Solo Exhibition | Galerie Dittmar | 11.09.-02.11.2024

until 02.11. | #4436ARTatBerlin | Galerie Dittmar presents from Wednesday, 11. September 2024 the exhibtions of the artist Joan Hernández Pijuan. „Pijuan’s surfaces are physical. They have meaningful underneaths. Their physical thickness facilitates the metaphysical depths that belongs to the work… His surfaces are build up for the disclosing what is underneath.“ (Arthur C. Danto) Joan Hernández Pijuan (1931-2005 Barcelona) had his first museum exhibition in Mataró in 1955, curated by Santos Torroella, one of Spain’s leading art critics. Participated in the 1960 and 1970 Venice Biennales. 1989 Professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Barcelona. Major presentation in the Spanish Pavilion at the World Exhibition in Seville in 1992. 1993 Exhibition at the Museo Nacional Reina Sofía in Madrid. 2003 Retrospective in several European museums, starting at the Museu d’Art Contemporani in Barcelona. 1998, Gouache auf Japanpapier, 29 x 39 cm Consolidation of his position as one of the most important Spanish artists of the second half of the 20th century. The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art, New York, acquire works. 2005, the year of the artist’s death, special presentation with Agnes Martin at the 51st Venice Biennale. 2007 Gallery catalogue on Hernández […]
Mikko Rikala | So Little Changed, So Little Remained | Persons Projects | 10.09.-02.11.2024

until 02.11. | #4435ARTatBerlin | Persons Projects shows from 10. September 2024 (Vernissage: 13.09.) the Solo Exhibition So Little Changed, So Little Remained of the artist Mikko Rikala. Persons Projects is proud to present Mikko Rikala’s solo exhibition So Little Changed, So Little Remained. The title refers to the poetry of T.S. Eliot and attempts to strike a balance between the fleeting, crucial moments we experience in daily life and the overall importance of memory in forming our identity. He refers to how German Romanticism utilized nature as a way to absorb the human experience within it. Throughout his career, Rikala has focused on different conceptual ways of visualizing the passage of time. In Rikala’s Lethe / Mnemosyne series, he utilizes collected objects both natural and man-made from his childhood that carry a memory for him. The photographs depicting his hands touching this assortment of objects is symbolic for the act of releasing the memories embedded in their history. They all play a part in Rikala’s relationship with his approach to humanity and the natural order within the world we coexist with. “I have been collecting small items from both the natural and man-made worlds since I was a child. Each of these objects has […]
René Tavares | The Atlantic is Black | ARTCO Galerie Berlin | 11.09.-23.11.2024

until 25.11. | #4493ARTatBerlin | ARTCO Galerie Berlin shows from 11. September 2024 the exhibition The Atlantic is Black by the artist René Tavares. In collaboration with THIS IS NOT A WHITE CUBE (Angola/Portugal), ARTCO Gallery is pleased to present the first solo exhibition of the São Toméan artist René Tavares in Berlin. The exhibition will run from September 11 to November 2. Tavares’ artistic practice pays tribute to Austral and Atlantic Africa, regions historically shaped by continuous interaction with the Americas. Islands such as São Tomé and Príncipe served as logistical hubs, experimental grounds, and production sites, evolving into a marketplace for ideas and identities within the “Black Atlantic.” Tavares’ approach aligns with Paul Gilroy’s assertion that the cultural history of the African Diaspora is not purely African, American, or European, but emerged from the often violently enforced exchanges among these regions across the Atlantic. In his multifaceted body of work, Tavares re-explores these historic routes, proposing new narratives that reevaluate the historical importance of the African continent and its rich cultural diversity. Moving beyond Western epistemologies, he layers experiences, emotions, and associations in his creative process, fostering a unique form of knowledge production that highlights the ongoing interactions […]
Mikołaj Sobczak | Le Boudoir de l’Amour | Capitain Petzel | 11.09.-19.10.2024

until 19.10. | #4430ARTatBerlin | Capitain Petzel shows from Wednesday, 11. September 2024 the exhibition Le Boudoir de l’Amour by the artist Mikołaj Sobczak. The exhibition is inspired by the café and bookshop in the Montmartre district of Paris that Eva Kotchever, a Polish-Jewish writer, activist and queer icon, is said to have run after her deportation from the USA to Europe in the early 20th century. She was deported from the USA to Europe in the 20th century. The exhibition is dedicated to such legendary places – cabarets, bookshops, cafés and hotels – where queer people were able to live out their identity authentically and safely, emphasising the revolutionary character of these places and creating a sense of community. The gallery will be transformed into a theatrical setting, utilising its windows and multiple levels to show three scenographic rooms with puppets and furniture, seven wood carvings and a selection of paintings. At the centre of the exhibition are Kotchever and Sylvin Rubinstein, a Polish-Jewish dancer, performer and resistance fighter. Both historical figures are closely linked to theatre and the organisation of spaces for revolutionaries, resistance movements and queer communities. To explore these themes in greater depth, the exhibition offers […]
Brian O’Doherty | Galerie Thomas Fischer | 13.09.-02.11.2024

until 02.11. | #4433ARTatBerlin | Galerie Thomas Fischer shows from Friday, 13. September 2024 (Vernissage: 12.09.) the exhibition of the artist Brian O’Doherty. The new exhibition by Irish-American artist and author Brian O’Doherty (1928-2022) centres on his conceptual drawings from the 1960s and 1970s. In addition to their intellectual rigour, they are characterised above all by the fact that they undermine it at the perceptual level: through language, irony, aesthetic stimuli and physical-sensual experiences. Lecture on Brian O’Doherty – Kupferstichkabinett Berlin The Kupferstichkabinett Berlin will host a lecture on Brian O’Doherty’s ‘White Cube’, which has established itself as a global term for the neutral, objective exhibition space, regardless of whether it is a private gallery or a public institution. Conversation with: Dr Astrid Mania, independent art critic and Professor of Art Criticism and Modern Art History at the University of Fine Arts Hamburg. Dr Marie-France Rafael, Professor of ‘Art in Context’ at the Zurich University of the Arts Moderator: Dr Georg Imdahl, independent art critic and Professor of Art and the Public at the Münster Academy of Fine Arts. Vernissage: Thursday, 12 September, 6 – 9 pm Exhibition dates: Friday, 13 September – Saturday, 02 November 2024 Caption Title: […]
Yuken Teruya | TESTIMONY TO A FALL | Dorothée Nilsson Gallery | 11.09.-26.10.2024

until 26.10. | #4432ARTatBerlin | Dorothée Nilsson Gallery shows from Wednesday, 11. September 2024 (Opening: 10.09.) the exhibition TESTIMONY TO A FALL by the arrtist Yuken Teruya. There is a saying by Du Fu: “A country may fall, but its mountains and rivers remain.” After Japan’s defeat in World War II, many Japanese spoke this verse and quoted it often. However, the verse does not apply to Okinawa, where a total of 200,000 tons of bombs exploded during the Battle of Okinawa in 1945, including bombs dropped from planes and shelling on the ground. The colors of Okinawa’s landscape, the natural colors of greenery and the red tiles of homes, have mostly turned gray. Even in villages that had never seen the sea, the iron storms were a reminder of the threat of the sea that lay far beyond the mountains. The artillery fire of the US battleships filled Okinawa’s offshore landscape with blackness. In the battle for Okinawa, where the inhabitants were “a sacrificed stone” before the decisive battle on the mainland, one in four inhabitants perished. The bombs that actually cause death, injury and destruction are pieces of iron that go off in storms. The exploding weapons no […]
Grit Richter | Breathe Out | Galerie Tanja Wagner | 13.09.-08.11.2024

until 08.11. | #4428ARTatBerlin | Galerie Tanja Wagner pshows from 13. September 2024 the exhibition Breathe Out by the artist Grit Richter. Breathe Out is showing new paintings, each of which opens up a completely different world. In her latest works, figurative elements are moulded with concrete actions and placed in scenic spaces. Interpersonal relationships, sexuality, exhaustion, desire, a sense of irony and miscommunication are evoked, as in the large-format work tbt (Broken Hearts society), in which two curvaceous, faceless bodies sprawl on the floor. The scene, bathed in warm shades of red and purple, appears intimate, but on closer inspection the figures’ gestures reveal a fist formed into a casual fist bump on one hand and half of a hopeful heart on the other References to the digital world are present in Richter’s work in many ways. The ethereal colour gradients, cloud- and star-filled skies and grids are reminiscent of those familiar from computer programs such as Windows or Photoshop and reappear as a subtle white-grey grid throughout the exhibition space. Richter deliberately chooses such backgrounds to give her figures a pictorial-ritual space in a simple but effective way. tbt, Grit Richter, 2024. Oil on linen, 190 x 140cm. During […]
Ella Littwitz | Ontology of the Void | alexander levy | 11.09.-26.10.2024

until 26.10. | #4429ARTatBerlin | alexander levy shows from 11. September 2024 the exhibition Ontology of the Void by the artist Ella Littwit. Vernissage: Wednesday, 11. September 2024, 6 – 9 pm Exhibition perdiod: Wednesday, 11. September – Saturday, 26. October 2024 Image caption: Ella Littwitz, Ontology of the Void, 2024, courtesy of the artists and alexander levy Exhibition Ella Littwitz – Galerie alexander levy | Contemporary Art – Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin – Exhibitions Berlin Galleries – ART at Berlin
Jan Ros | SHOWCASE | RASCHE RIPKEN | 06.09.-16.11.2024

until 16.11. | #4426ARTatBerlin | RASCHE RIPKEN shows from 06. September 2024 the exhibition SHOWCASE by the artist Jan Ros. Big cities, architecture and space – these are the themes of the Dutch painter, who has been part of the Gale-rie programme for more than 15 years. Based on photographic models, he transforms these motifs into a multifaceted painting that is essentially oriented towards the subject, but also produces abstract passages defined entirely by colour. Showcase, 2024, Öl auf Holz, 93 x 90 cm He changes the degree of sharpness and movement depending on the subject, modelling sculptural volumes from broad brushstrokes, working with stencil-like inserts and sharp contours that stand out from their painterly surroundings like cut-outs. Paris Attic, 2024, Öl auf Holz, 122 x 83 cm His repertoire includes urban landscapes as well as famous buildings of international modernism, but also depictions of cars and aeroplanes, transitory places such as petrol stations and terminals, reminiscent of scenes from a road movie. However, he does not depict the hectic hustle and bustle of urban life, but rather the stillness of deserted spaces. Midnight, 2024, Öl auf Holz, 71 x 59 cm The fact that the interaction of inside and […]
NEXUS | Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler | 11.09.–26.10.2024

until 26.10. | #4427ARTatBerlin | Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler shows from 11. September 2024 (Vernissage 13.09.) the exhibition “NEXUS” with works by Davide Allieri, Allen-Golder Carpenter, Taina Cruz and Theodoulos Polyviou. Participating artists: Davide Allieri Allen-Golder Carpenter Taina Cruz Theodoulos Polyviou. Nexus is curated Sigrid Hermann Vernissage: Friday, 13. September 2024, 6 to 10 pm Exhibition period: Wednesday, 11. September until Saturday, 26. October 2024 Image caption: Allen-Golder Carpenter, NEXUS, Courtesy Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler Exhibition Nexus – Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler | Zeitgenössische Kunst – Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin
Louis Wessendorff | Blütenlese | Sexauer Gallery | 07.09.-19.10.2024

until 19.10. | #4422ARTatBerlin | Sexauer Gallery shows from 07. September 2024 the exhibition Blütenlese by the artist Louis Wessendorff. Louis Wessendorff has called his first exhibition at Sexauer “Blütenlese”. Wessendorff’s works have something anthological about them. Although not always recognisable at first glance, as the works are mainly based on painting and rarely on writing, the works nevertheless have a linguistic, i.e. communicative level. Wessendorff works with symbols, pictograms, ideograms and the most diverse linguistic forms of expression, without these forms of communication being immediately recognisable as such. He rarely uses words directly, occasionally also letters from an alphabet he developed himself. Linguistic communication takes place not only between pictures and viewers, but also between the pictures themselves. Mutual references between the pictures create a metatext that contributes to the understanding of each individual picture Opening: Saturday, 07. September 2024 Exhibition dates: Saturday, 07. September until Saturday, 19. October 2024 Opening dates Berlin Art Week: Saturday 14-Sunday 15, 2024: 3 pm. Title image caption: Louis Wessendorff, courtesy of Sexauer Gallery Ehibition Louis Wessendorff – Sexauer Gallery | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Ausstellungen Berlin Galerien | ART at Berlin
Iulia Nistor | Galeria Plan B | 13.09.-26.10.24

until 26.10 | #4425ARTatBerlin | Galeria Plan B presents from Friday, 13. September 2024 an exhibition by the artist Iulia Nistor. Exhibition period: Friday, 13. September until Saturday, 26. October 2024 Image caption: Iulia Nistor, Evidence L9 W8 A1, 2024, oil on wood, 50 x 40 cm, Courtesy Galeria Plan B Exhibition Iulia Nistor – Galeria Plan B | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin
Friedrich Kunath | One Day I’ll Follow The Byrds (Tutto Pasta) | Galerie Max Hetzler | 07.09.-26.10.2024

until 26.10. | #4424ARTatBerlin | Galerie Max Hetzler (Goethestraße) shows from Saturday, 07. September 2024 the exhibition One Day I’ll Follow The Byrds (Tutto Pasta) by the artist Friedrich Kunath. Galerie Max Hetzler presents One Day I’ll Follow The Byrds (Tutto Pasta), an exhibition of new paintings by Friedrich Kunath at Goethestraße 2/3, in Berlin. This is the artist’s second solo exhibition with the gallery, and his first in the Berlin space. Friedrich Kunath’s oeuvre spans painting, drawing, installation, sculpture and video. His works contain references to diverse subjects including music, film, Romanticism and pop culture. Born in Chemnitz, the artist grew up in East Berlin and later moved to Los Angeles. Both his personal history, as well as universal emotional experiences, are thematised in his work. Idealised landscapes are frequently depicted in which poetic phrases appear, sometimes clearly, sometimes hidden. For Kunath, the creative process resembles an intimate dialogue with the work. While the subconscious plays a major role, the carving of words into the wet paint creates a conscious message. The often playful motifs that follow create a complex interplay of serious and humorous elements that seem to interrelate or cancel each other out. The exhibition title, One Day […]
Danielle Mckinney | Haven | Galerie Max Hetzler | 07.09.-26.10.2024

until 26.10. | #4423ARTatBerlin | Galerie Max Hetzler (Bleibtreustraße) shows from Saturday, 07. September 2024 the exhibition Haven by the artist Danielle Mckinney. Galerie Max Hetzler presents the first solo-exhibition by Danielle Mckinney in Bleibtreustraße 45 and 15/16 in Berlin. Mckinney’s interior scenes capture moments of human introspection with painterly lyricism. Depicted in darkly lit domestic interiors, the artist’s exclusively Black and female protagonists sleep, read, smoke, or lounge languidly across sumptuous furniture, wholly immersed in their inner worlds. It is here that Mckinney’s figures find refuge – a state of being that permeates the fifteen new works on view. The titular painting, Haven, acts as a central work. A woman lounges on her golden bed as light filters in through the curtains to illuminate a small painting of a resting unicorn enclosed by a fence. The artist here imagines a mythological corollary to her protagonist, who finds a place of repose – a haven –amidst a turbulent world. Trained as a photographer, Mckinney arranges her subjects cinematographically, with an astute awareness of space, atmosphere and mood. The compositions are built from an all-black canvas, creating scenes which seem to emerge from darkness, echoing both the chiaroscuro of Spanish Golden Age painting and the evolution […]
Bod Mellor | People Who Knock on the Door | Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi | 10.09.-02.11.2024

until 02.11. | #4421ARTatBerlin | Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi shows from 10. September 2024 (Opening 10.09.) the exhibition People Who Knock on the Door by the artist Bod Mellor. Opening: Tuesday, 10. September 2024, 18:00 – 21:00 Uhr Exhibition dates: Tuesday, 10. September until Saturday, 02. November 2024 Opening hours Berlin Art Week: Friday, 13. September: 12 – 10 pm Saturday, 14. September: 11 am – 6 pm Sunday, 15. September: 11 am – 6 pm Title image caption: © Bod Mellor, courtesy of Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi Exhibition Bod Mellor – Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Ausstellungen Berlin Galerien | ART at Berlin
Cosima zu Knyphausen | Maestra | Galerie Thomas Schulte | 14.09.-02.11.2024

until 02.11. | #4420ARTatBerlin | Galerie Thomas Schulte (Potsdamer Straße) presents from 14. September 2024 (Vernissage 13.09.) the exhibition Maestra by the artist Cosima zu Knyphausen. For the inaugural show in the new space at Mercator Höfe on Potsdamer Straße, Galerie Thomas Schulte presents a solo exhibition of recent paintings and drawings by Cosima zu Knyphausen. Through varied techniques, formats and materials, zu Knyphausen draws on sources from the art historical, literary and pop cultural to the everyday, personal and self-referential. The works brought together here under the title of Maestra trace fragmentary paths to learning and discovery across different realms of education and desire. What opens up is a layered reflection: on historical representations of women, as artists and in art; and the vocation of artist, its current models and canons, through the lens of her own artistic training and practice. Vernissage: Friday, 13. September 2024, 6 – 10 pm Exhibition period: Saturday, 14. September until Saturday, 02. November 2024 Location: new space at Mercator Höfe on Potsdamer Straße Image caption: Cosima zu Knyphausen, “Erziehung des Herzens (ira, resaca y aguas termales)”, 2022, ink on fabric, 15 x 15 cm | 5 7/8 x 5 7/8 in Exhibition Cosima […]
Conny Maier | Drowning | Galerie Société | 13.09.-02.11.2024

until 02.11. | #4419ARTatBerlin | Galerie Société shows from 13. September 2024 the exhibition Drowning by the artist Conny Maier. Water and liquids are central motifs in the artist’s work, appearing in scenes in which they gush from human bodies, flow from urns or serve as a backdrop for enigmatic bathing scenes. Maier’s latest paintings take an even more pronounced aquatic turn, treating the notion of drowning – which evokes associations with the subconscious, the loss of control and the dissolution of the self – as an immersion into the deep, primal aspects of the psyche. For Maier, the metaphor of drowning symbolises the overwhelming nature of catastrophe, be it personal, political or ecological. But in this turmoil, she also finds the potential for renewal: the possibility of emerging from the depths reborn, purified and transformed Opening: Thursday, 12. September 2024, 6-9 pm. Exhibition dates: Friday, 13. September until Saturday, 2. November 2024 Title image caption: Conny Maier, courtesy of Galerie Société Exhibition Conny Maier – Galerie Société | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Ausstellungen Berlin Galerien | ART at Berlin
Edith Dekyndt | Animal Methods | Konrad Fischer Galerie | 13.09.-16.11.2024

until 16.11. | #4418ARTatBerlin | Konrad Fischer Galerie shows from 16. November 2024 the exhibition Animal Methods by the artist Edith Dekyndt. Opening: Friday, 13. September 2024, 6 – 10 pm Exhibition period: Friday, 13. September – Saturday, 16. November 2024 Image caption : Edith Dekyndt, Animal Methods, Courtesy the artist and Konrad Fischer Galerie Exhibition Edith Dekyndt – Konrad Fischer Galerie | Zeitgenössische Kunst – Contemporary Art – Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin
Axel Lieber | Daily Bread | Taubert Contemporary | 13.09.-02.11.2024

until 02.11. | #4417ARTatBerlin | Taubert Contemporary shows from 13. September 2024 the exhibition Daily bread by the artist Axel Lieber. Who hasn’t kneaded the insides of fresh bread rolls into balls or small creatures and then eaten these shapes, amazed at the altered flavour of the crumb caused by the compaction. Axel Lieber has hollowed out four loaves of bread and four rolls to transform this “Daily Bread” (1995/2024) into the rustic pantines of a family. MKA (240717), 2024, cardboard, wood, steel | 48 x 236 x 42 cm | 19 x 92 x 16 in | 1.6 x 7.7 x 1.4 ft Axel Lieber twists and turns the drawers, stacks them to form a tower, installs picture frames as windows – and the result is a structure that you immediately want to move into: a model for contemporary “private architecture” (the title of the series of works). The building “Light in the Attic” (2022), which is part of this series, opens up perspectives in all directions, with a bright tower room as a place of longing, elevated like a living machine by Le Corbusier. However, the interior of the tower is a single bright space, a shaft in […]
Andreas Mühe | Freitag den 13. | Galerie Bastian | 13.09.-16.11.2024

until 16.11. | #4416ARTatBerlin | Galerie Bastian presents from Friday, 13. September 2024 the exhibition Freitag den 13. by the artist Andreas Mühe. In his first solo exhibition at Bastian Gallery, Andreas Mühe presents new works created in recent months. The artist continues his exploration of modern and recent German history in his intense photographs. He confronts us with scenes of spaces where the starting and ending points of radical political actions and acts of violence by the RAF and NSU took place. Alongside the exhibition, Mühe’s series ›Bunker. Realer Raum der Geschichte‹ is on display at the nearby Museum Kunsthaus Dahlem. Vernissage: Friday, 13. September 2024, noon to 10 pm Exhibition period: Friday, 13. September until Saturday, 16. November 2024 Image caption: Andreas Mühe, Freitag den 13., Courtesy Galerie Bastian Exhibition Andreas Mühe – Galerie Bastian | Contemporary Art – Kunst in Berlin | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries – ART at Berlin
Iñaki Bonillas | Horizons of the Possible | Galerie Nordenhake Berlin | 14.09.-09.11.2024

until 09.11. | #4415ARTatBerlin | Galerie Nordenhake Berlin shows from 14. September 2024 the exhibition Horizons of the Possible by the artist Iñaki Bonillas. Working primarily with the history of image making in photography and cinema, Iñaki Bonillas, as a fervent believer in the ecology of the visual, uses archival material for his conceptual investigation of the medium. Since the early stages of his career in the late 1990s, Bonillas has analyzed the diverse techniques, leitmotifs and aesthetic parameters surrounding the production of images through the lens. Subsequently, the artist alters these found images, adding layers that reflect on different printing techniques or refer to the history of conceptual art. For the past few years, he has been working with one of the largest image archives ever produced: still frames of films. ‘Horizons of the Possible’ brings together four distinct series that explore different interpretations of the horizon in film history, from the positions of sleeping bodies to lines and surfaces in domestic spaces and open skylines, by reworking images from Bonillas own archive of still frames. The notion of the horizon serves as a conceptual anchor to explore connections between chance, narrative, and visual memory. Opening: Friday, 13. September […]
Oliver Bak | Ghost Driver, or The Crowned Anarchist | Sprüth Magers Berlin | 14.09.-02.11.2024

until 02.11. | #4408ARTatBerlin | Sprüth Magers Berlin shows from 14. September 2024 the exhibition Ghost Driver, or The Crowned Anarchist by the artist Oliver Bak. The mystical scenes of painter Oliver Bak unite the spirits of the past and present. Drawing from fiction and the real, mythology and life, and the tangible and the subconscious, he constructs enigmatic narratives by conflating different fragments of reality. Bak’s pictorial worlds are propelled by constant synthesis and anchored in a deep understanding of the medium’s history. It is Bak’s first exhibition at the Berlin gallery, marking the Danish artist’s debut show in Germany. Opening: Friday, 13. September 2024, 6-10 pm Exhibition dates: Saturday, 14. September – Saturday, 02. November 2024 Additional opening hours during Berlin Art Week: Saturday, 14. September 2024, 11 am-6 pm. Sunday, 15 September, 2024, 11am-6 pm. Bildunterschrift: Oliver Bak, Bouquet, 2024 (detail), © Oliver Bak, Photo: Timo Ohler Exhibition Oliver Bak– Sprüth Magers Berlin | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Ausstellungen Galerien Berlin | ART at Berlin
Joanna Jones | I feel you feeling me | Galerie Gilla Lörcher | 11.10.-22.11.2024

until 22.11. | #4413ARTatBerlin | Galerie Gilla Lörcher shows from Friday, 11. October 2024 the exhibition I feel you feeling me by the artist Joanna Jones. Over the last four decades, Joanna Jones (born 1945) has developed a very unique visual language that is probably most closely related to Abstract Expressionism. And yet Jones’ approach is completely different, more radical and immediate. Her pictorial language is very energetic and expressive and she allows the viewer to share in her incredible sense of colour and colour tone. The painter uses only her body to apply the paint, whereby it is not about frottage but rather about a dancing, flowing movement in the paint and an immediate expression of her inner self, her thoughts and feelings. Joanna Jones places the often large-format canvases on the floor of her studio and goes into the paint in a kind of blind flight; she then interrupts the process again and again, stands up and looks at what she has created almost blindly, and then decides which colour, which consistency of paint or which movement she will use to continue her composition. The depth effect achieved by her paintings, painted with egg tempera in many layers […]
Paul Pfeiffer | Revelation 21 | carlier gebauer | 13.09.-26.10.2024

until 26.10. | #4412ARTatBerlin | carlier gebauer presents from Friday, 13. September 2024 the exhibition Revelation 21 by the artist Paul Pfeiffer. carlier | gebauer, Berlin, is pleased to announce Paul Pfeiffer’s solo show Revelation 21. Engaging with the topics of spectatorship, architectural structures and mass media, this exhibition features sculptures from the Incarnator series and photographs from the series Temple of Solomon (After Villapando) alongside the heteronomous body of work titled Vitruvian Figure. This exhibition shows for the first time the early prints – large-scale sepia works depicting architectural floorplans of significant Western Churches – in context with the latest sculpture. Following almost 20 years, in 2008, Pfeiffer creates the first model: a miniature of the Sydney Olympic Stadium expanded by Pfeiffer to the capacity of 1,000,000 viewers. In 2009, Pfeiffer slices a model of London’s reconstructed Wembley Stadium to a quarter of the inner grandstand. Reflected by a mirrored glass, this work conjures the illusion of a complete circle. The to this date final Vitruvian Figure from 2015 is carried out in plywood and forms a half-circle divided by a mirror. The two meters high sculpture is based on the Philippine Arena, world’s largest indoor arena located outside of Manila. This colossal building was built in 2014 by religious […]
Jasmin Werner | Remote Control | Galerie Guido W. Baudach | 13.09.-26.10.2024

until 26.10. | #4411ARTatBerlin | Galerie Guido W. Baudach presents from Friday, 13. September 2024 (Vernissage 12.09.) the exhibition Remote Control by the artist Jasmin Werner. Jasmin Werner’s artistic practice employs sculptural forms to explore the infrastructures and lived experiences of global migration. Her works address the aesthetic and political dimensions of labor migration by attending to its unseen economic and emotional transactions. In her latest body of works presented in her second solo exhibition Remote Control at Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin, Werner’s installations offer a glimpse into the economies and communication technologies that migrants use to sustain transnationally dispersed lives. At the center of Remote Control is an image of an admiral butterfly painted onto a prefabricated roller shutter. The work stems from the series Send Money Fast (2023), a set of painted shutters that Werner produced with the Berlin sign painter Dawid Celek. The collaboration emerged when Werner took notice of signs that Celek painted on the shutters of a store in the district of Moabit. The store sells second-hand mobile phones and offers Western Union services, which migrant communities use to transfer monetary remittances back to their home countries. Drawing on the painted shutter as an aesthetic advertisement of this migrant economic […]
Carla Guagliardi | onde está o tempo que eu deixei nesse espaço? | Galerie kajetan Berlin | 14.09.-16.11.2024

until 16.11. | #4410ARTatBerlin | Galerie kajetan Berlin presents from 14. September 2024 (Vernissage: 13.09.) the exhibition onde está o tempo que eu deixei nesse espaço?/where is the time I left in this space? by the artist Carla Guagliardi. Galerie kajetan presents the second solo exhibition by Brazilian artist Carla Guagliardi (*1956) entitled Onde está o tempo que eu deixei nesse espaço? / where is the time I left in this space? Carla Guagliardi | onde está o tempo que eu deixei nesse espaço? / where is the time I left in this space? | Exhibition view 2024 Courtesy Carla Guagliardi & Galerie kajetan | Photo: Marcus Schneider For her minimalist installations and assemblages, the artist uses industrial materials such as concrete, copper, rubber, iron, wood and glass, which she combines with ephemeral elements such as air and water. The concept of time plays a decisive role here, which the artist makes visible as an active, formative material – as in her most recent in-situ works. Her works are characterized by stable and fragile moments, visible and hidden elements and a precarious balance. Whether a rope stretched to the maximum, latex balloons filled with air or a large glass ball full of water […]
Christoph Schlingensief | Deutschlandsuche | Crone Berlin | 12.09.-19.10.2024

until 19.10. | #4409ARTatBerlin | Crone Berlin presents from 12. September 2024 (Vernissage: 13.09.) the exhibition Deutschlandsuche by the artist Christoph Schlingensief. The exhibition comprises a wide range of film and video works, photographs, objects, manuscripts, and materials from Schlingensief’s work complexes Hamlet, Chance 2000 and Deutschlandsuche, some of them are previously unpublished and on view for the very first time. Christoph Schlingensief (*1960 in Oberhausen, † 2010 in Berlin) did not conceive of his work in terms of traditional genres, but rather merged film, theater, literature, performance, television, time-based media, visual arts, and political activism. For him, there were neither formal nor conceptual boundaries. Originally coming from film, he made use of all disciplines without the slightest fear of contact. Christoph Schlingensief, Deutschlandsuche, Namibia, 2004, Foto: Aino Laberenz, Courtesy Galerie Crone, Berlin, Wien und Nachlass Christoph Schlingensief, Berlin Consistent characteristics of Schlingensief’s works were a clear, striking language, the fascination with trash and the mainstream, whose mechanisms he exploited with relish, and an ethical and moral concern that he expressed through radical campaigns. The seriousness with which he questioned everyday life in Germany in the face of an insufficiently processed history went hand in hand with a humorous view […]
ARCADIA! | Group exhibition | Kewenig Berlin | from 13.09.2024

until … | #4407ARTatBerlin | Galerie Kewenig Berlin shows from Friday, 13. September 2024 the Group exhibition “ARCADIA!”. Arcadia! brings together various artists to explore landscapes as spaces where humanity seeks to shape and idealise nature. Drawing on myths, this exhibition reflects on the tension between beauty, control, and nature’s resistance. Just as the artists mold their material, gardens have long been crafted to represent Arcadian dreams–yet behind this creation lies a history of conquest and transformation. The question at hand is wether this equilibrium still stands or if we have passed the tipping point of where a reversal and disequilibrium in favour of nature is needed. Vernissage: Friday, 13. September 2024, 6 – 10 pm Exhibition period: Friday, 13. September – the end date follows Image caption: Exhibition Arcadia!, Courtesy KEWENIG Exhibition Arcadia! – Kewenig Berlin | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin
John Baldessari | Ahmedabad 1992 | Sprüth Magers Berlin | 14.09-02.11.2024

until 02.11. | #4406ARTatBerlin | Sprüth Magers Berlin shows from 14. September 2024 the exhibition Ahmedabad 1992 by the artist John Baldessari. Throughout John Baldessari’s prolific and impactful career, he consistently examined and defied the expectations that influence our perception of art. His unique methodology in the realms of painting, photography, source materials, and text redefined and challenged conventional art historical limitations, making him a pioneer of American Conceptualism. Drawing from a wide range of sources – advertising, film culture, Marcel Duchamp, and Ludwig Wittgenstein – he created absurdist, complex yet accessible juxtapositions. Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers are pleased to present the second iteration of Ahmedabad 1992, a solo exhibition of an alluring series of mixed media assemblages Baldessari produced during his residency in India. For the first time in decades, a selection from this unique period in the artist’s oeuvre was initially shown during summer 2024 at the London gallery. Introducing the body of work to Berlin viewers, Ahmedabad 1992 will travel to the gallery’s German space for Berlin Art Week. Exhibition dates: Saturday, 14. September until Saturday, 02. November 2024 Additional Opening Hours during Berlin Art Week: Saturday, 14. September 2024, 11-6 pm. Sunday, 15 September, 2024, 11-6 pm. […]
Richard Hawkins | Featuring 13 Flamboyant Fiends | Galerie Buchholz | 13.09.-12.10.2024

until 12.10. | #4405ARTatBerlin | Galerie Buchholz presents from 13. September 2024 the exhibition Featuring 13 Flamboyant Fiends by the artist Richard Hawkins. Galerie Buchholz shows the 12th solo exhibition by Richard Hawkins. For this occasion, the artist will present a survey of his work at our Berlin gallery beginning with his earliest polaroid collages from the late eighties, to his iconic inkjet prints depicting the severed heads of male models from the mid-nineties, to the last, largest of his haunted house sculptures from 2010, along with a group of his newest videos shown here for the first time. “Hawkins’s 1988 MFA thesis show demonstrated a synthesis of the methodologies he had picked up at CalArts and foreshadowed many of the themes that would eventually find their way into his mature work. [It] stemmed from the fact that Franz Kafka and Tom Cruise share a birthday [and] featured an enlarged, 8-by-8-foot reproduction of a drawing by Kafka of a man with his head on his desk, which Hawkins painted directly on one of the walls. On either side of the painting, he affixed […] grids of Polaroid photographs of Cruise – including scenes of him dancing in his underwear in […]
Garden of Earthly Delight | Group exhibition | Galerie Friese | 14.09.-26.10.2024

until 26.10. | #4404ARTatBerlin | Galerie Friese shows from Saturday, 14. September 2024 (Opening: 13.09.) the group exhibition Garden of Earthly Delight by the artists Willi Baumeister, William N. Copley, Asana Fujikawa, Karin Kneffel, Thomas Müller, Hartmut Neumann, Claire de Santa Coloma and Cornelius Völker. William N. Copley’s painting ‘Garden of Earthly Delight’ forms the starting point for the group exhibition of the same name at the Friese Gallery. Painted in 1960, Copley (1919-1996), who worked in the circle of Max Ernst, Man Ray and Marcel Duchamp, quotes Hieronymus Bosch’s ‘Garden of Earthly Delight’. Copley adapts the theme in his usual ironic visual language to create a garden of earthly pleasure without depicting hell: there is swimming, rowing, playing, music, flying, dancing on the globe – and all of this under the destiny of women. Karin Kneffel, Ohne Titel, 2024, Fotografie auf Alubond, 110 x 110 cm, Auflage 10 + 5 E.A., © Karin Kneffel, Courtesy: Galerie Friese In the centre of the picture, an army of women with a “Non” sign stands opposite an army of men with an “Oui” sign. The battle of the sexes – a recurring theme in Copley’s work – nevertheless appears as a peaceful […]
Elmira Iravanizad | In Limbo | Galerie Georg Nothelfer | 11.09.-09.11.2024

until 09.11. | #4403ARTatBerlin | Galerie Georg Nothelfer shows from 11. September 2024 (Vernissage 13.09.) the exhibition In Limbo by the artist Elmira Iravanizad. Galerie Georg Nothelfer presents the first solo exhibition of new works by Iranian artist Elmira Iravanizad (*1987). The artist’s work includes small and large-format paintings in oil on canvas, sculptures made of ceramic, metal and wood and collages, which she assembles from drawings, cut-outs, paste-overs and overpaintings. She archives, arranges and reuses the remnants of her artistic work in the form of cut-outs and scraps of material. Elmira Iravanizad I Image no. 28 I 2022 I Collage/pen I 100 x 70 cm. I Photo: Friedhelm Hoffmann The resulting forms move from oil painting to softly folded or playfully symbolic wall sculpture to collage and into the archive collection. Her working method combines the different genres in which she works: Layer by layer, she cuts the objects in her paintings out of the coloured background by applying black paint; layer by layer, she loosely assembles shapes cut out of paper in her collages or sticks transparent foil over drawings and colour imprints; layer by layer, she works the surface of her ceramic or wooden sculptures with pencil […]
WENDEPUNKT | Group exhibition | Q Gallery | 14.09.-11.10.2024

until 11.10. | #4401ARTatBerlin | Q Gallery shows from 14. September 2024 (Opening 13.09) the group exhibition WENDEPUNKT by the artist Jae-Seong Ryu, Hwan Myung Kim, Koeun Lee und Joo Young Kim. Each of the four Korean artists deals with very personal and artistic processes in their works. This exhibition offers an insight into the diversity and depth of contemporary Korean art This exhibition brings together four artists who, although coming from different perspectives, have had a decisive influence on the contemporary Korean art scene. Their works offer an insight into the artistic exploration of space, digitalisation, nature and personal transformation. About Jae-Seong Ryu Jae-Seong Ryu. Work in Process., 2024, Oil on canvas, 100 x 80 cm In his paintings, Jae-Seong Ryu (*1986, Suwon) shows the constant struggle to overcome the two-dimensional limitations of the canvas. ‘When I face the canvas, it feels like a wall,’ Ryu explains. ‘My painting is an attempt to overcome this wall. Through brushstrokes, I break through the two-dimensional surface and open up a free, flowing three-dimensional space.’ This dynamic approach is reflected in his impressive works, which have received international recognition, including solo exhibitions such as ‘X-Ray’ (2022) in Düsseldorf and ‘Fully Empty’ (2021) […]
Cudelice Brazelton IV | The Attic Is Full | Galerie Barbara Wien | 10.09.-16.11.2024

until 16.11. | #4431ARTatBerlin | Galerie Barbara Wien presents from 10. September 2024 (Vernissage: 07.09.) the exhibition The Attic Is Full by the artist Cudelice Brazelton IV. Cudelice Brazelton IV, Faux Currently, 2024, (detail), courtesy Barbara Wien gallery Cudelice Brazelton IV, Shiny Catastrophe, 2024, (detail), courtesy Barbara Wien gallery Cudelice Brazelton IV, Special Brand, 2024, (detail), courtesy Barbara Wien gallery Vernissage: Saturday, 7. September 2024, 5 to 8 pm Exhibition period: Tuesday, 10. September until Saturday, 16. November 2024 Image caption: Cudelice Brazelton IV, Punctuation, 2024, (detail), courtesy Barbara Wien gallery Exhibition Cudelice Brazelton IV – Galerie Barbara Wien | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin
BEYOND SYMBOLS | Group Exhibition | ARTES Berlin | 13.09.-16.11.2024

until 16.11. | #4400ARTatBerlin | ARTES Berlin shows from 13. September 2024 the group exhibition BEYOND SYMBOLS. The exhibition “Beyond Symbols” takes Pablo Picasso’s iconic series “Pigeon” from 1943 as its starting point. In this series, Picasso dismantled the pigeon in a cubist manner and reassembled it as a dove of peace in 1949. How do symbols change over time and how can they be reinterpreted today? These questions are at the centre of the exhibition. Among the assembled names are Christian Awe, Georges Braque, Luciano Castelli, Doppeldenk, Marion Eichmann, Lutz Friedel, Erich Heckel, Albert Hien, Thomas Jastram, Nari Jo, Helge Leihberg, Markus Lüpertz, Jon-athan Meese, Cathleen Meyer, Heiner Meyer, Ju-lian Opie, A.R. Penck, Pablo Picasso, Otto Piene, Jochen Plogsties, Michael Ramsauer, Gerhard Richter, Janos Schaab, Cornelia Schleime, Winnie Seifert, Stefan Szczesny, Lars Teich- mann, Günther Uecker, Dagmar Vogt, Bernd Zimmer and many more … Programme for Berlin Art Week Friday, 13 September 2024 – from 6 pm, reception and vernissage – 7 pm, Florian Illies / The journalist, art historian and bestselling author talks about the value of art – from 8 pm, social evening with flying food in the gallery courtyard Saturday, 14 September 2024 – from 4 […]
Kai Schiemenz | PRIEL | Galerie EIGEN+ART Berlin | 12.09.-09.11.2024

until 09.11. | #4399 ARTatBerlin | Galerie EIGEN + ART Berlin shows from 12. September 2024 the exhibition PRIEL by the artist Kai Schiemenz. Interview with Kai Schiemenz EIGEN + ART: Last year, you published a catalog titled “Priel”. To what degree is this exhibition based on the concepts described in this catalog, and how have you further developed them substantively? Kai Schiemenz: The word “Priel” is used in German to describe a narrow channel in a mudflat created by the tides. It is sometimes visible at low tide, but then at high tide perceptible only as a current under the surface of the sea. Such tideways are out-flushings from continuously branching, meandering river courses. In the first place, this is an image I like: a river that flows into the sea and takes on a new character because of the moon and its gravity. My work with glass is similar. Here I altered my work method, and with it the parameters and the emerging artwork. In this sense, the title of the exhibition is programmatic and a continuation of what is inherent in the catalog “Priel”. E+A: You mention the material, glass, with which you have long worked and […]
Conor Walton | SATURNALIA | Galerie feinart Berlin | 12.09.-24.10.2024

until 24.10. | #4398ARTatBerlin | Galerie feinart Berlin shows from 12. September 2024 the exhibition SATURNALIA by the artist Conor Walton. The Saturnalia, according to tradition the most popular festival in ancient Rome, still stand for exuberance, abundance, the exercised pleasure in the whole realm of the sensual and the suspension of class boundaries (slaves were treated as equals). Named after the venue, the temple of the god Saturn, they were also a ritual in honour of this god of sowing and reaping and the father of the mythical Golden Age. Three reasons lead from here to the title SATURNALIA for an exhibition of paintings by Conor Walton, one of Ireland's leading contemporary painters of international renown: the allegorical fantasy, the realism of sensuality, the provocation of the absurd. Conor Walton, Saturnalia, oil on canvas, 66 x 81cm, 2024 ©CWalton Allegorical fantasy. Conor Walton studied art history alongside fine art with a Masters degree from the University of Essex and has an immense knowledge of the history of motifs and ideas. Following the figures and scenes of his often large-scale allegorical oil paintings, as in the title image of the exhibition "Allegory of Wisdom" (2023), and their references to mythological […]
Arnulf Rainer + Dieter Roth | Galerie aKonzept | 11.09.-19.10.2024

until 19.10. | #4397ARTatBerlin | Galerie aKonzept shows from 11. September 2024 a duo exhibition by the artists Arnulf Rainer and Dieter Roth. Galerie aKonzept opens their new exhibition on 13 September 2024 from 5 pm. On display are six works by Arnulf Rainer and two joint works by Arnulf Rainer and Dieter Roth. Vernissage: Friday, 13. September 2024 from 5 pm Exhibition period: Wednesday, 11. September until Saturday, 19. October 2024 Image caption: Arnulf Rainer und Dieter Roth, © 2024 Galerie aKonzept Exhibition Arnulf Rainer + Dieter Roth – Galerie aKonzept | Zeitgenössische Kunst | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin
Unfolding | Group exhibit| KLEMM’S | 11.09.-19.10.2024

until 19.10. | #4396ARTatBerlin | KLEMM’S shows from 11. September 2024 the group exhibition “Unfolding” with works by 21 artists from KLEMM’S Berlin. KLEMM’S Gallery presents Unfolding, the inaugural group show of their new gallery space on Leipziger Strasse 57/58, opening on Wednesday, September 11, 2024, from 6—9 pm, in the framework of Berlin Art Week 2024. On this occasion, they have invited all twenty-one artists from their program to contribute works that engage in dialogue with the architecture of KLEMM’S new premises—either by revisiting older works within a new exhibition context or by introducing new pieces to the public for the first time. For the past fifteen years, KLEMM’S has been dedicated to providing artists with a platform to explore their conceptual approaches individually while also fostering mutual reflection and enhancement. It is through this collaborative lens that KLEMM’S opens their new doors to the public, working closely with their artists to lay the foundation for KLEMM’S new chapter on Leipziger Straße in Berlin. Participating artists Thomas Arnolds Erica Baum Viktoria Binschtok Gwenneth Boelens Peggy Buth Leelee Chan Juan Pablo Echeverri Keltie Ferris Ulrich Gebert Jan Groover Elizabeth Jaeger Falk Haberkorh Sven Johne Fiona Mackay Alexej Meschtschanow Bernard Piffaretti […]
Dietmar Brixy + Johannes Hepp | Galerie Tammen | 06.09.-02.11.2024

until 02.11. | #4395ARTatBerlin | Galerie Tammen shows from 06. September 2024 Sculpture and painting by the artists Dietmar Brixy and Johannes Hepp. In an exciting interplay of dialogue between his paintings and the exciting studio property in the old pumping station in Mannheim-Neckarau, the artist Dietmar Brixy repeatedly creates cyclical series of new works. In addition to the new exhibition in the TAMMEN GALERIE, which will show a cross-section of various series, Brixy is particularly present nationally and internationally this summer. Most prominently with his large exhibition in the Biblioteca Natioanale Marciana directly on St Mark’s Square in Venice, parallel to this year’s Bieenale. Johannes Hepp, Akt in Wärmflasche, 2023, Lindenholz, bemalt, Wärmflasche, 9 x 14 x 24 cm People are always at the centre of Johannes Hepp’s sculptures. Sometimes large, often small, his figures stand in found objects or movable constructions, on wall plinths or free-standing in the room. Sometimes a built-in mechanism provides surprising and humorous moments. Clothes fall off or a sausage swinging back and forth attracts attention in such a way that a bust can’t help but stare after it. However, the figures are also touching because of their delicate faces and intimate expressions. Most […]
Tomoyuki Ueno | When everything`s made to be broken | Galerie Martin Mertens | 07.09.-12.10.2024

until 12.10. | #4394ARTatBerlin | Galerie Martin Mertens shows from 07. September 2024 the exhibition When everything`s made to be broken by the artist Tomoyuki Ueno. Galerie Martin Mertens presents the third solo exhibition of Japanese artist Tomoyuki Ueno at the gallery. In this exhibition, Ueno combines three groups of works. The first group comprises a further development of his Sky Sculptures, in which he combines the structures of marble slabs with structures of cloud formations in the form of photographs. He has now merged the two slabs (marble and photograph), which were previously arranged next to each other, by inserting the photograph into an opening in the marble slab. This creates an even closer connection between the two elements. The second group comprises works from the “Forest” series, in which Ueno collects y-shaped branches in Berlin forests and connects them with metal rings to form transparent curtains or reliefs. An element shaped by nature is arranged in series, creating new geometric forms. The third group of works is a premiere in the gallery, as this is the first time that Ueno is showing the results of his exploration of ceramic art, which is very important and respected in Japan. […]
Alicia Echandía | When it gets Dark | DUVE BERLIN | 06.09.-18.10.2024

until 18.10. | #4392ARTatBerlin | DUVE BERLIN shows from 06. September 2024 the exhibition When it gets Dark by the artist Alicia Echandía. Slowly, dusk falls over unknown, uncharted landscapes. The sunlight is fading and darkness is approaching. Is it still day, or has night come? The moon appears, but its light does not seem to touch the leaves and branches – they glow as if illuminated from within. Despite the approaching evening, the colours remain vibrant in their full intensity. A hand reaches into the scene and a sharp knife slices through the rind of a lemon. A bird-like creature slumbers beneath dense foliage, while elsewhere a bull gazes sideways into the frame with its head slightly lowered. Shiny, patterned fabrics envelop entire rooms. But what is really happening? Is this dream or reality? In a strange liminal state, different impressions and scenarios merge, intertwining clear and vague motifs in a single space. The unfamiliar comes together in a wondrous way. One moment a visual anchor seems to offer stability, the next this trace dissolves into a chaotic tangle. Surreal worlds emerge, hovering between the known and the unknown, the possible and the absurd, dream and reality. Alicia Echandía’s […]
Matthias Groebel | Chemical | Schiefe Zähne | 13.09.-25.10.2024

until 25.10. | #4393ARTatBerlin | Schiefe Zähne shows from 13. September 2024 the exhibition Chemical by the artist Matthias Groebel. This exhibition marks the debut presentation of an early body of work made in the late 1980s, leading up to his widely acclaimed machine-assisted paintings. Opening: Friday, 13. September – 6-9 pm. Exhibition dates: Friday, 13. September – Friday, 25. October 2024 Title image caption: Matthias Groebel, Chemical Exhibition Matthias Groebel– Schiefe Zähne | Zeitgenössische Kunst – Contemporary Art Guide | Ausstellungen Berlin Galerien | ART at Berlin
Luigi Pirastu | Free Horses | aquabitArt Galerie | 10.09.-15.09.2024

until 15.09. | #4455ARTatBerlin | aquabitArt Galerie shows from Tuesday, 10. September 2024 the exhibition Free Horses by the artist Luigi Pirastu. The exhibition “Free Horses” by Luigi Pirastu will be shown at aquabitArt Gallery Berlin from September 11 to 15, during the 13th edition of Berlin Art Week. The Italian architect and sculptor Luigi Pirastu is an artist who combines tradition with innovation. His training at the Istituto Universitario di Architettura in Venice and his international experience have enriched his artistic approach and enabled him to develop his new position in art. Pirastu began his career as an interior designer in prestigious buildings such as the Corderie dell’Arsenale in Venice and the Italian Trade Center in London and also collaborated with the well-known Catalan artist Antoni Miralda for the Spanish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Luigi-Pirastu_Dipping-in-the-sea_14x10x-150cm_2023_1080x608 In recent years, Pirastu has concentrated primarily on sculpture, developing two different themes. On the one hand, he creates abstract horse figures made of stone, malachite, turquoise or blue krista, and on the other, fish made of composite materials. His most recent sculptural project, which is now being shown in Berlin, is called “Free Horses”. Luigi Pirastu’s depictions of horses are archaic, stylized […]
Ruth Nemet | A Ghost Returns | BQ | 07.09.-02.11.2024

until 02.11. | #4434ARTatBerlin | BQ shows from Saturday, 07. September 2024 (Vernissage: 06.09.) the exhibition A Ghost Returns by the artist Ruth Nemet. On the occasion of Berlin Art Week, BQ presents the third solo exhibition by Ruth Nemet, born 1977 in Tel Aviv, lives and works in Los Angeles. The exhibition “A Ghost returns” shows a new series of photographs in various formats that depict (and displace) sections of the apartment of a veteran peace activist near Tel Aviv. The apartment is crammed with books, magazines and souvenirs. The walls and doors are covered from floor to ceiling with political stickers, posters and paper clips, resulting in a mixed archive of slogans, objects and images. The title of the exhibition is written in German above an illustration of Karl Marx making the V-sign, which is embedded in one of the all-over collages and in some ways recalls the work of the décollagistes or the aesthetics of the billboards. In the exhibition, Nemet establishes a correspondence between photography as a mechanism of spectral imagery and what can be seen as a ghostly way of life in the current political and cultural climate, incorporating obsolete means of communication such as […]
Jens Pecho | Things That Are Over | EBENSPERGER BERLIN | 10.09.-09.11.2024

until 09.11. | #4391ARTatBerlin | EBENSPERGER BERLIN shows from 10. September 2024 (Vernissage 08.09.) the exhibition Things That Are Over by the artist Jens Pecho. EBENSPERGER presents Jens Pecho’s second solo exhibition Things That Are Over from 10 September 2024. For Things That Are Over, Jens Pecho presents several new works in dialogue with selected earlier pieces. Using a broad spectrum of media ranging from sound, text, photography, olfactory works to light art, he takes a closer look at concepts, worldviews and personal memories of loved ones that are connected by one aspect: Their time is over. Jens Pecho, Done That, 2024, acrylic glass, LEDs, aluminium Ø 130×10 cm Opening: Sunday, 8 September, 2024, 3–7pm Exhibition period: Tuesday, 10. September until Saturday, 09. November 2024 Special Opening hours during Berlin Art Week: Friday, September 13, 12–10pm Sunday, September 15, 11–6pm Image caption: Jens Pecho, Been There, 2024, acrylic glass, LEDs, aluminium Ø 130×10 cm Exhibition Jens Pecho – EBENSPERGER BERLIN | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin
Kazuki Nakahara | Strichhaltige Gründe | Galerie Inga Kondeyne | 07.09.-16.10.2024

until 16.10. | #4386ARTatBerlin | Galerie Inga Kondeyne shows from 07. September 2024 the exhibition Strichhaltige Gründe by the artist Kazuki Nakahara. Anyone who has ever encountered exhibits by the illustrator Kazuki Nakahara at Inga Kondeyne’s once or even several times will probably be able to activate vivid reminiscences of mostly large-format sheets covered with almost infinitely variable line formations and line breaks: atmospheric areas that emit the breath of an airy lightness. The fleetingness of appearances is always preserved in the new sheets; however, a different mood prevails in them. As before, the view is unobstructed of Nakahara’s line-by-line accumulation of the most diverse drawing abbreviations with the character of empty signifiers, whereby each line at the same time provides deliberate recesses, which in turn function as blank lineatures of the sheet ground in the overall view. All of this is organized into an abstract configuration that now has a more expressive/dramatic connotation. Strokes, lines and line breaks interlock to form tense counter-rotations or superimpositions, orchestrate interspersed agglomerations, swirls and distortions or end abruptly at vertical/diagonal ‘through-radiations’ of the sheet ground. Pronounced, sometimes rapid ‘impulses of movement’ come into play, flowing through the artist’s most recent series of drawings. […]
Michael Mcgregor | Temple of Euphoria | Galerie Kewenig Berlin (Pied-à-terre) | 07.09.-05.10.2024

until 05.10. | #4390ARTatBerlin | Galerie Kewenig Berlin (Pied-à-terre) shows from 07. September the exhibition “Temple of Euphoria” by the artist Michael Mcgregor. Los Angeles, the symbolic end of Western civilisation, and Athens, its historic beginning, meet in the creative journey of Michael McGre-gor (*1983), who divides his time between these two iconic cities Opening: Saturday, 7. September, 1-4 pm. Exhibition dates: Saturday, 7. September until Saturday, 05. October 2024 Title image caption: Photo: Douglas Eveleigh Exhibition Michael McGregor– Kewenig Berlin | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Ausstellungen Berlin Galerien | ART at Berlin