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Beth Letain | Dumbbell | Peres Projects | 07.03.-13.04.2024
until 13.04. | #4209ARTatBerlin | Peres Projects currently shows the exhibition Dumbbell by the artist Beth Letain. Pursuing visual experimentation, Dumbbell builds upon Beth Letain’s ever-expanding methodology. Faced with the boundlessness of abstraction and fascinated by the possibilities contained within limitation, both in materials and in visual composition, Letain develops idiosyncratic systems and structures as a way of charting her field of action. While drawing from a deliberately limited pictorial language, made up of interlocking geometric shapes and saturated colors bouncing off a gesso ground, her work is anti-formulaic, and it is with a certain humbleness, imbued with playfulness, that she revisits the principles of her practice. Dumbbell is an exercise in process, where Letain draws upon a shared vocabulary of elemental forms such as squares, stripes, bars, and circles, and reconfigures them into a unique visual poetry brimming with emotional nuances. Myriad pairings of shapes and colors burst forth, which she permutes and rearranges, shifting them around until they fall into place in a way that, just like the combination of a safe, unlocks new ways of seeing. Opening: Thursday, 7. March 2024, 6 – 9 pm Exhibition dates: Thursday, 7. March until Saturday 13. April 2024 Image caption: Courtesy […]
Thomas Baumgärtel and Otto Alexander Jahrreiss | PLAKAT | Raab Galerie | 16.03.-16.04.2024
until 6.04. | #4208ARTatBerlin | Raab Galerie shows from 16. March 2024 (Opening: 15.03) the duo exhibition PLAKAT by the artists Thomas Baumgärtel and Otto Alexander Jahrreiss. More than 400 years ago the word PLAKAT -poster is born in the Netherlands. During a war of liberation that lasted more than eighty years, one of the means of communication was to glue printed leaflets to their houses’ walls. Since than there have been many useful applications to the medium in public notices and advertisement. Among the most beautiful species are posters for museums exhibitions, inviting us to visit very special shows. Today however, posters in our cities yield more and more to digital formats. This is where Thomas Baumgärtel and Otto Alexander Jahrreiss intervene, each of them in a very special way. Both are interested in these products of the street, especially what remains after exposure to wind and storm. While the artworks of both artists could not be more different. Otto Alexander Jahrreiss loves a formative coincidence, recollecting images from various posters that he finds in the South of Italy. With a trained eye the fotografer, director, author, advertising and theater artist is looking for a spark of […]
tierisch … | Group Exhibition | Galerie SCHMALFUSS BERLIN | 09.03.-27.04.2024
until 27.04. | #4207ARTatBerlin | Galerie SCHMALFUSS BERLIN shows from 9. March 2024 the group exhibition tierisch … (> beastly …) with works by ten artists. GALERIE SCHMALFUSS BERLIN presents the group exhibition “tierisch…” with works by Ariane Boss, Christiane Erdmann, Pierre Fischer, Michael Lauterjung, Hannes Mussner, Sigrid Nienstedt, Florian Pelka, Silke Rehberg, Hans Scheib and Roland Stratmann. The exhibition focuses on the characteristics, symbolic content and life cycle of an animal in relation to humans. They are friends, everyday companions, food or mythical visions. They appear individually, in company and in clusters. When we look at them, we feel the sleek movement of a predator or the dynamism of a school of fish. The exhibition includes the classic lifelike animal portrait as well as human-animal creatures and imaginative creatures that are difficult to categorise. The exhibited works are not only multi-faceted in terms of material, technique and motif, but also critical of the times. Roland Stratmann’s series of works entitled “Ich bin dann mal weg” (“I’m off then”), for example, scrutinises people’s sense of responsibility towards the animal kingdom. Seen through the eyes of the artist, the animal becomes visible in its various facets – from lamblike to ferocious. […]
Clara Brörmann | Das Gewicht einer Farbe | Schwarz Contemporary | 15.03.-13.04.2024
until 13.04. | #4206ARTatBerlin | Schwarz Contemporary shows from 15. March 2024 (Opening 14.03.) the exhibition Das Gewicht einer Farbe by the artist Clara Brörmann. Opening: Thursday, 14. March 2024, 6 – 8 pm Exhibition dates: Friday, 15. March until Saturday, 13. April 2024 Image caption: A colour’s weight IV, 2024, oil, pigments & acrylics on canvas, 50 x 40 cm Exhibition Clara Brörmann – SCHWARZ CONTEMPORARY | Zeitgenössische Kunst – Contemporary Art – Exhibitions Berlin Galleries – ART at Berlin
Richard Burton | Uphold | Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery Berlin | 22.03.- 20.04.2024
until 20.04. | #4205ARTatBerlin | Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery Berlin shows from 22. March 2024 (Opening: 21.03.) the exhibition Uphold by the artist Richard Burton. Imagine that you are in the back of a car, an airport, a doctor’s waiting room. You have been in this space for hours, it seems like days and you begin to wonder what it would be like to be stuck here forever, numbly staring at the rows of chairs and that guy sitting impossibly upright in front of you. Are you feeling claustrophobic? Or is there something oddly comforting about the padded upholstery and eerie artificial glow? These are the kinds of environments that British artist Richard Burton obsessively paints, capturing the ways in which the restless mind can bend even the most banal of imagery into something slippery and strange. Uphold, his first solo exhibition at Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Berlin presents a captivating new body of work, including a series of small-scale frescoes, that explore feelings of isolation and longing. While the environments that Burton paints vary, they all belong to the same synthetic world, the regular blocky forms and fluorescent glow recalling the aesthetics of sci-fi films from the 1970s and 80s. And […]
Edward B. Gordon | Windspiel | ARTES Berlin | 23.03.- 04.05.2024
until 04.05. | #4204ARTatBerlin | ARTES Berlin shows from 23. March 2024 the exhibition Windspiel by the artist Edward B. Gordon. Gordon is a passionate contemporary portraitist whose works are characterized by his unmistakably subtle style. It is Gordon’s view of the world that he transfers to his pictures in ever new sections. A view that is always clear and undisguised, capturing more details than the common passer-by. The artist stimulates a touching potential of stillness and interprets his surroundings, his city of Berlin, his family, friends and acquaintances with a special focus and color tone – a panorama of uniqueness hidden in everyday life. Opening: Saturday, 23. March 2024, 6 – 9 pm Exhibition dates: Saturday, 23. March until Saturday , 4. May 2024 Bildunterschrift Titel: Courtesy Edward B. Gordon, ARTES Berlin Exhibition Edward B. Gordon – ARTES Berlin | Zeitgenössische Kunst Berlin – Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin
Ute Essig + Henrik U. Müller | It happened tomorrow | Semjon Contemporary | 15.03.- 13.04.2024
until 13.04. | #4203ARTatBerlin | Semjon Contemporary shows from 15. March 2024 (Opening: 14.03.) the duo exhibition It happened tomorrow by the artists Ute Essig + Henrik U. Müller. Opening: Thursday, 14. March 2024, 7 – 9:30 pm Exhibition dates: Friday, 15. March until Saturday, 13. April 2024 Image caption: Courtesy Ute Essig + Henrik U. Müller, Semjon Contemporary Exhibition Ute Essig + Henrik U. Müller – Semjon Contemporary | Zeitgenössische Kunst – Contemporary Art – Exhibitions Berlin Galeries – ART at Berlin
Malwine Stauss | Erdlinge | Jarmuschek + Partner | 16.03.- 18.05.2024
until 08.05. | #4202ARTatBerlin | Jarmuschek + Partner shows from 16. March 2024 (Opening: 15.03.) the exhibition Erdlinge by the artist Malwine Stauss. Face, arms and legs. Although some of them are only made of drops, of blossom hough they may consist of leaves or stars, the creatures in Malwine Stauss’s watercolors have something human about them. Each of the figures conveys a mood, seems to have a complex mind and a unique character. Beyond clichés, they also seem like types – mysterious allegories that could take their place alongside images of muses or personifications of seasons and virtues. And yet one may search in vain for a clear code to understand these colorful figures. They tell us nothing about established orders. Inspired by science fiction and fantasy authors such as Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018), Malwine Stauss takes a step back with her latest series of works and takes a look at the human condition from the outside. The bodies of her ERDLINGE do not have a conventional shell, but with their associatively charged colors convey insights into emotional worlds and stages of emotional constitution far beyond their roles as roses, rain or roots. With disarming transparency, the artist […]
Angela de la Cruz | Barricade | Galerie Thomas Schulte | 17.03.- 13.04.2024
until 13.04. | #4201ARTatBerlin | Galerie Thomas Schulte shows from 17. March 2024 (Opening: 16.03.) the exhibition Barricade by the artist Angela de la Cruz. Incorporating paintings and furniture in pictorial installations that reshape and punctuate the space, Barricade / Berlin presents a recent body of work by Angela de la Cruz. In the exhibition at Galerie Thomas Schulte, de la Cruz continues to draw on the languages of minimalist painting and found objects in corporeal, emotionally weighted works that reveal processes of destruction and transformation. Here, they are characterized by defensive postures, unrelenting and firmly grounded, yet fragmentary and vulnerable—suggesting an exertion of power that could produce a shift at any moment. The space is charged with a tense stillness—perhaps it’s an aftermath, or the unsettling calm that precedes a confrontation. The works, as well as the exhibition, are united under the title of Barricade. This, along with further commonalities and the relationships between them, emphasizes repetitions while acknowledging what makes each distinct: added in parentheses, individual titles include the specific colors, materials, or objects they’re made of. Referring to structures that block passage, shielding or redirecting bodies in an act of defense, protection or fortification, the works bear […]
Jana Troschke | Einzelausstellung | Galerie Inga Kondeyne | 15.03.- 27.04.2024
until 27.04. | #4200ARTatBerlin | Galerie Inga Kondeyne shows from 15. March 2024 (Opening: 15.03) the exhibition by the artist Jana Troschke. Jana Troschke orchestrates a ballet of signs, lines and gestures in her drawings. She creates a pictorial event with pen and ink. The richness of form of this artistic language unfolds in her drawings, in a flow, as a flow. The pictorial ciphers, circles, dots, hatchings, blobs are always in dance-like motion around a hidden center. They entwine around themselves, correspond, communicate in the finest nuances. The texture of the signs emerges in a pulsating, rhythmic, vibrating movement, in constant becoming. The eye wandering into the drawing follows the constant oscillation between legible allusions and abstract material play. This space of possibility constantly demands and achieves a new search, a linking, a looking away and looking further. The visual space is filled with intensities and forces: a mise-en-scène of potentialities in which the revelation and dissolution of appearances are inextricably linked – in such an event of showing and concealing, a different understanding is made possible in the first place. Jana Troschke’s drawings are fields of vision in which the drawing pursues its own adventure, its becoming visible. […]
Alexander Iskin | USE THE EXIT AS AN ENTRANCE | Sexauer Gallery | 15.03.- 25.05.2024
until 25.05. | #4199ARTatBerlin | Sexauer Gallery shows from 15. March 2024 the exhibition USE THE EXIT AS AN ENTRANCE by the artist Alexander Iskin. From the very beginning of his career as an artist, Alexander Iskin was concerned with transformations – metamorphoses and metamorphoses – and with different realities (i.e. physical and virtual reality). Iskin called the space between these realities Interreality, and his art movement based on it Interrealism. In his seventh exhibition at SEXAUER, Iskin now brings the world of spirituality and spirits into his painting in addition to virtual and physical reality. In recent years, the digital world has increasingly merged with the physical world. For Iskin, this increasing fusion evokes associations with 19th century spiritualist writings. In 2022, Iskin worked as a Pollock-Krasner fellow in New York. There he became acquainted with the spiritualist teachings of Pestalozzi’s student Hippolyte Léon Denizard Rivail, better known as Allan Kardec. In 1857, he published his “Book of Spirits”. Kardec postulated a world of multidimensionality and spirits alongside the physical world. According to Kardec, these could incarnate as souls and wander between dimensions (metempsychosis). In “USE THE EXIT AS AN ENTRANCE”, Iskin’s interrealism unfolds into an exploration of three […]
Katsuhiko Matsubara | THE GARDEN | REITER | 07.03.- 18.04.2024
until 18.04. | #4198ARTatBerlin | REITER shows from 7. March 2024 the exhibition THE GARDEN by the artist Katsuhiko Matsubara. In Katsuhiko Matsubara’s work, everything that has accumulated in the eternal painting grounds of the savages of all countries comes together in a furious way. Control and chance guide his brush. It was Descartes who wanted to see spirit and matter as separate from each other. The Japanese use the words “mono” (the thing, the substance, matter) and “kokoro” (which, rather broadly, stands for heart, soul, spirit, compassion and idea). Ordinary life separates these things. But on a spiritual level, the Japanese see “mono” and “kokoro” as being interrelated. In order for Matsubara’s fusions to succeed, the artist throws himself into a dynamic process in which he first separates and then reunites that which corresponds to the flesh and that which is determined by the spirit in an act of aesthetic formulation. Opening: Wednesday, 6. March 2024, from 5 pm Exhibition dates: Thursday, 7. March bis Thursday, 18. April 2024 Image caption: Christoph Tannert in Dissonance – Platform Germany, 2022 (Auszug) Exhibition Katsuhiko Matsubara – Reiter | Berlin prospect | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | […]
Barry Flanagan | Sculpture is always going on | Galerie Max Hetzler | 07.03.-13.04.2024
until 13.04. | #4197ARTatBerlin | Galerie Max Hetzler (Bleibtreustraße) shows from 07. March 2024 the exhibition Sculpture is always going on by the artist Barry Flanagan. One of Britain’s most important and innovative sculptors, Barry Flanagan worked across a variety of media over his five-decades-long career. Without establishing a hierarchy, he explored their properties, texture and elasticity. From industrial sand, rope, cloth, plaster and stone to elusive elements such as daylight, moonlight, sounds and smells, Flanagan embraced all materials for their potential to be turned into sculptural forms. This novel approach enabled a radical change in the understanding of sculpture. After exploring minimalistic practices in the 1960s and 1970s, the artist turned to figuration from 1979 onwards. During this time, he created his biomorphic bronze sculptures, which often allude to animals, human figures or mythological creatures, and constitute some of his best-known works. In addition to Flanagan’s conceptual works, linocuts and film, mostly created in the 1960s and 1970s, the current exhibition also includes audio and visual recordings of the 1998 performance Mantra of the Awoken Powers, as well as his later bronze works. A poetic, mystical reference to nature is consistently present. The exposure of processes and methods is another central […]
TAL R | Rosa See | Galerie Max Hetzler | 07.03.-28.04.2024
until 28.04. | #4196ARTatBerlin | Galerie Max Hetzler (Goethestraße) presents from 07. March 2024 the exhibition Rosa See by the artist Tal R. Presenting a new body of work inspired by a trip to Iceland, Rosa See delves viewers into Copenhagen-based artist Tal R’s rich visual lexicon whilst probing the boundaries of representation itself. In these compositions – including drawings created en plein air and paintings developed in the studio – the artist depicts Icelandic lakes in vivid, non-naturalistic colour. The landscapes slip in and out of abstraction, suggesting a universe of luminous colours, exuberant patterns and palpable rhythm. Depicted from various vantage points, Tal R’s lakes resemble amoebic forms which surge toward the viewer and push against the broad, curving shorelines that surround them. Brightly coloured mounds conjure mountain ranges, while globular clouds deliver rainfall in thick, agitated downward strokes. Elsewhere, bouncing lines suggest ripples in the water’s undulating surface, while minimally delineated pebbles, plants and spruces decorate the rocky shore. Tal R’s play with shapes and colours finds centre stage in these compositions, which capture the landscape as much as they do the act of creation itself. ‘The interesting thing for the artist is that you start to develop language,’ Tal R says, […]
Alma Feldhandler | Who’s the Captain of All These Boys of Death? | Meyer Riegger | 16.03.-13.04.2024
until 13.04. | #4195ARTatBerlin | Meyer Riegger shows from 16. März 2024 (Opening: 15.03) the exhibition Who’s the Captain of All These Boys of Death? by the artist Alma Feldhandler. Alma Feldhandler’s paintings harbour feelings that cannot be named without the risk of collapse. They are filled with wounded creatures, tattered existences and anxious forms that seem to be waiting in the corridors of time. The boy on his bed knows a thing or two about that. Above, puppets perform a frightening dance, but this doesn’t detract from the strange gentleness emanating from his convalescent body. Who’s the captain of all these boys of death? Who commands these figures that pass through my body? In French, the index card or small wooden board used in libraries to mark the place on a shelf where a book belongs while it is being consulted is known as a fantôme, a phantom. If the book isn’t returned, the phantom stays there, sometimes forever. It is this definition of a phantom that interests me here. I imagine Alma at the Jewish Museum in Berlin, exploring a collection of works, objects, images and traces arranged like a funeral composition. Each of these traces is like […]
Armin Mueller-Stahl | SICH FINDEN IM GEGENÜBER | ARTES Berlin | 11.05.-29.06.2024
until 29.06. | #4194ARTatBerlin | ARTES Berlin shows from 11. May 2024 the exhibition SICH FINDEN IM GEGENÜBER by the artist Armin Mueller-Stahl. He is a Hollywood star from Germany: Armin Mueller-Stahl. The actor, musician, writer and painter has fans all over the world. In our ARTES Berlin gallery, we are showing more than 50 works by the artist in a wide-ranging exhibition. We know Armin Mueller-Stahl as a versatile artist in acting, music and painting as well as an astute social observer. He has always accepted this responsibility as an artist, as Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier recently stated in a speech about the artist. Mueller-Stahl himself once described it as follows: “Better a kink in my career than in my spine”. When he signed the open letter against the expatriation of Wolf Biermann in 1976, it meant the end of his career in the former GDR. However, Mueller-Stahl did not allow his art, his skills and his success to be taken away from him, but simply took them with him: to West Germany in 1980, later to reunified Germany, then to Hollywood in the USA and all over the world. Armin Mueller-Stahl moves between countries as well as between […]
Jan-Ole Schiemann | Knirsch | WENTRUP | 14.03.- 13.04.2024
until 13.04. | #4193ARTatBerlin | WENTRUP shows from 14. March 2024 the exhibition Knirsch by the artist Jan-Ole Schiemann. In his third solo exhibition at Wentrup, Jan-Ole Schiemann presents new paintings that are a continuation of his most recent cycle of works. The two large-format canvases BigDataCorrupter and ContourBoostWust (both 2023) here serve as the starting point and were most recently on display in his solo museum exhibition “WAH WAH” at the Neue Galerie Gladbeck. Now, they take on a central role in Berlin. Stencils, acrylic paint, oil pencil, charcoal, or drawing ink – these are the tools Jan-Ole Schiemann uses to create his often large-format paintings, which move between gestural abstraction and organic figuration. A superimposition of different levels creates an intangible depth in the canvas. In recent years, the artist has succeeded in developing his very own formal vocabulary for his paintings, which art critic Estelle Hoy describes as “visual scatting” and art historian Philipp Fernandes do Brito compares to “musical sampling”. In music, “scatting” is the improvised singing of rhythmically and melodically strung together sequences of syllables without a word meaning or coherent sense. Onomatopoeic instrumental phrases are imitated improvisationally and layered on top of each other in different scores. A […]
Jörn Vanhöfen | AFTERMATH | Kuckei + Kuckei | 01.03.-13.04.2024
until 13.04. | #4192ARTatBerlin | Kuckei + Kuckei shows from 13. April 2024 (Opening: 01.03) the exhibition AFTERMATH by the artist Jörn Vanhöfen. Berlin photographer Jörn Vanhöfen, born in 1961, has vividly expressed his artistic and social position with his extensive work AFTERMATH and the book of the same name. Twelve years after the first presentation of the AFTERMATH series in our gallery, we are now showing new works from recent years on the subject. Like his other works from AFTERMATH, the current pictures again contain the discrepancy between beauty and horror, a theme that runs like a red thread through his entire photographic oeuvre. Images of the eternal cycle of creation and decay, enticing in their aesthetic beauty, frightening because of the content lurking behind them, are the subject of his interest. The structures of the surface and its colourful texture seduce and impress. The narrative quality of his early works recedes. Beauty and fright continue to be the irritating poles that make up the fascination of his works. Image caption: Rhonegletscher #8259, 2023, C-Print, 2 parts, each 130 x 180 cm Opening: Friday, 01. March, 2024, 6 – 9 pm Exhibition dates: Friday, 01.March until Saturday, 13. April […]
XOOOOX | Nightingale’s Stories | AOA;87 contemporary | 15.03.- 20.04.2024
until 20.04. | #4190ARTatBerlin | AOA;87 contemporary shows from 15. March 2024 (Opening: 14.03.) the exhibition Nightingale’s Stories by the artist XOOOOX. In “Nightingale’s Stories”, Berlin-based artist XOOOOX, known for his delicately developed stencils of mysterious women, skillfully creates a poetic dialogue between his iconic aesthetics and state-of-the-art technology. Using new techniques, XOOOOX develops his characters that not only create an avant-garde fusion, but also express the artist’s profound exploration of the intersection of technology, zeitgeist and traditional art, challenging the viewer’s viewing habits. Through the congenial, almost symbiotic fusion of the pigments and their artistic reworkings, “Nightingale’s Stories” symbolizes the coherent evolution of XOOOOX’s poetic narrative of beauty and transience. The subtle use of spray paint creates an ephemeral atmosphere that emphasizes the importance of finiteness, highlighting the value of the moment. XOOOOX, Mastor (XYA) | Pigment print / paper, 100 x 70 cm, 2023 XOOOOX; Medusa (PPY) | Pigment print / paper, 70 x 100 cm, 2023 XOOOOX; Sundi (BYP) | Pigment print / paper, 40 x 30 cm, 2023 Opening: Friday, 14. March 2024, 7 – 10 pm Exhibition dates: Friday, 15. March until Saturday, 20. April 2024 Image caption: XOOOOX, Dura (YBO) | Pigment […]
Apricity | Group exhibition | Bermel von Luxburg Gallery | 01.03.-13.04.2024
until 13.04. | #4191ARTatBerlin | Bermel von Luxburg Gallery shows from 01. March 2024 the exhibition “Apricity” with works by the artists Anke Eilergerhard, Hiroko Nakajima and Giulia Tombolato. In the warm embrace of the light that warms even the coldest months, the exhibition Apricity opens its doors for an experience that awakens the senses and uplifts the spirit. Apricity, an almost forgotten word that describes the warmth of the winter sun, serves as the leitmotif for an extraordinary gathering of three outstanding artists: Anke Eilergerhard, Hiroko Nakajima and Giulia Tombolato. Through their unique perspectives and media, they explore the indescribable moments of life, the fleeting emotions and the deep connection between form and meaning. Anke Eilergerhard, known for her sculptural works that play at the intersection of tradition and contemporary provocation, presents a series of sculptures that are seductive in their apparent sweetness and delicacy. Often inspired by confectionery and painted in bright colours, her works question the role of femininity, transience and consumption. Eilergerhard’s sculptures, moulded in silicone and carefully layered, are reminiscent of cakes and offer a visual and conceptual density that is thought-provoking. Hiroko Nakajima, a master of abstract calligraphy, weaves words and shapes into a visual poem that […]
Bettina Sellmann I GUILTLESSNESS I Galerie Schindler I 06.03.- 20.04.2024
until 20.04. | #4189ARTatBerlin | Galerie Schindler shows from 06. March 2024 the exhibition “GUILTLESSNESS” by the artist Bettina Sellmann. Bettina Sellmann’s painting oscillates between the Baroque/Rococo period and the present day. She updates the aesthetics of the Baroque and Rococo periods by incorporating manga aesthetics, thus challenging cultural, gender-specific and social norms as well as the conventions of art history. The Baroque era – a period in which the utmost importance was placed on outward appearance and representation – shows great parallels to today’s dictates of self-optimization in life and social media. The cultural markers of the Baroque appear in Sellmann’s work as metaphors for the present. Bettina Sellmann, Pink Carpet Dream, 45 x 40 cm, Acryl on Canvas, 2023, Courtesy Galerie Schindler However, she uses the conventions of art history to dissolve the individuals depicted in translucent color gradients of intense color. The result is translucent negative images immersed in colorful explosions. Her paintings are “see-through versions” of old masters, as Ann Wilson Lloyd (from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston) defines them: “Inspired by art historical imagery, Bettina Sellmann creates ‘see-through versions’ of Old Master paintings.” * What becomes visible is the fragility of […]
Leiko Ikemura | Momstars | Contemporary Fine Arts | 16.03- 20.04.2024
until 20.04. | #4188ARTatBerlin | Contemporary Fine Arts shows from 16. March 2023 (Opening: 15.03.) the exhibition Momstars by the artist Leiko Ikemura. Opening: Friday, 15. March 2023, 6 – 8 pm Exhibition dates: Saturday, 16. March until Saturday, 20 April 2024 Button title: Blue Mom (detail), 2023, tempera & Öl Auf Jute, 120 x 100 cm, Courtesy: Contemporary Fine Arts Berlin, Exhibition Leiko Ikemura – CFA Berlin | Zeitgenössische Kunst – Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin
Lada Nakonechna | Below Ground Level | Galerie EIGEN + ART Berlin | 07.03.-20.04.2024
until 20.04. | #4187ARTatBerlin | Galerie EIGEN + ART Berlin shows from 7. March 2024 the exhibition “Below Ground Level ” by the artist Lada Nakonechna. The Ukrainian artist Lada Nakonechna has been living in Germany since the beginning of the war. Here she has also been preparing for her seventh solo exhibition with Galerie EIGEN + ART and we are delighted to present her work at the Berlin gallery. In the exhibition entitled Below Ground Level, Lada Nakonechna questions suitable artistic forms for depicting the present from her position in the midst of the Russian-Ukrainian war. She focuses on photographic material from the internet and social media–images of the destruction of buildings and deserted areas of land. Through her physical processing, cutting out and overdrawing, she explores the aspect of how we perceive images, what they are triggering in us and when we begin to question them. Opening: Thursday, 7. March 2024, 5 to 8 pm Exhibition period: Thursday, 7. March until Saturday, 20. April 2024 Image caption: Lada Nakonechna, Below Ground Level 1.1, 2024, Inkjet print on photo paper, cut out, graphite, 40 x 60 cm Exhibition Lada Nakonechna – Galerie EIGEN + ART | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin […]
Tanja Selzer | Wild Claims | nüüd.berlin | 08.03.-13.04.2024
until 13.04. | #4186ARTatBerlin | nüüd.berlin Galerie shows from 8. March 2024 (Opening: 07.03.) the exhibition Wild Claims by the artist Tanja Selzer. By superimposing images from mass media and film stills with her own feelings, she creates new images that express freedom, closeness to nature, eroticism and individuality, but also vulnerability. Real and fabulous creatures want to seduce the viewer to lead a free and self-determined life in a safe place. With effortless, fluid and lightly applied colours, the artist playfully underlines the seriousness of her works. Opening: Thursday, 7. March 2024, 6 pm Exhibition dates: Friday, 8. March until Saturday, 13. April 2024 Image caption: Tanja Selzer, Playing Venus 3, 2022, Oil on canvas, 220 x 170 cm Exhibition Tanja Selzer – nüüd.berlin gallery | Zeitgenössische Kunst | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galeries | ART at Berlin
Mukenge/Schellhammer | Forward flight | Galerie Barbara Thumm | 02.03.- 20.04.2024
bis 20.04. | #4185ARTatBerlin | Galerie Barbara Thumm shows from 2. March 2024 (Opening: 01.03.) the exhibition by the artists Mukenge/Schellhammer. The exhibition presents works by the German-Congolese artist duo Mukenge/Schellhammer. Their practice goes beyond the boundaries of traditional painting and encourages a dialog about the diverse possibilities of the medium. The vernissage will be accompanied by a performance by the artists, which will provide an in-depth insight into their artistic practice. A discussion with the artists and selected guests will take place on March 7. Invited guests include the writer Dzekashu MacViban, curator at HKW and publisher of Bakwa Books, with whom Mukenge/Schellhammer are developing a joint project in Kinshasa this year, and the media theorist, author and dramaturge Marian Kaiser, with whom the duo have been working for several years. Opening: Friday, 1. March, 2024, 6 – 21 pm Exhibition dates: Saturday, 2. March – Saturday, 20. April 2024 Image caption: Mukenge/Schellhammer: Forward flight, digital collage, combining acrylics on canvas, acrylics on congolese wax filled with cotton, digital drawing, Berlin 2024, Courtesy the artists and Galerie Barbara Thumm Exhibition Forward flight – Galerie Barbara Thumm | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibition Berlin […]
Stefan Vogel | eigentlich schön | Gallery Michael Haas | 07.03.-19.04.2024
until 19.04. | #4184ARTatBerlin | Galerie Michael Haas shows from 7. March 2024 the exhibition eigentlich schön by the artist Stefan Vogel. Painting is normally understood as a process in which paint is applied to a surface. The artist Stefan Vogel shows how much more painting can be. He was involved in the exhibition “Jetzt! Young Painting in Germany”, which was shown at the Kunstmuseen Bonn and Wiesbaden and the Kunstsammlung Chemnitz in 2019 and at the Deichtorhallen in Hamburg the following year, and had his first solo museum exhibition “Relax, it’s only Paranoia” at the Kunstsammlung Chemnitz in 2021. Here he showed how he reacts to spaces and creates new spaces within them. Both his paintings and his spatial installations are the product of a process in which Stefan Vogel transcends the usual boundaries of the medium of painting in terms of material and installation, but does not abandon it entirely. The exhibition eigentlich schön at Galerie Michael Haas illustrates this process: Vogel hangs ten large-format canvases in the rooms in Niebuhrstraße, in which the painting appears more as a collage of materials, sometimes reduced, sometimes lavishly designed, whereby these become a new pictorial ground and the paintings become […]
Heimlich, still und leise…. | Group exhibition | Galerie Kremers | 01.03.-30.03.2024
until 30.03. | #4183ARTatBerlin | Galerie Kremers presents from 1. March 2024 the exhibition “Heimlich, still und leise….” by the artists Fiona Ackerman, Uwe Bremer, Timur Çelik, Gregor Hiltner, Karl Kunz, Wolfgang Kunz, Juan Logan, Natascha Mann, Paul Schwietzke and Ernst Weil. How now: “Still or alive?”, some people may have asked themselves. The term still life (French: nature morte) refers to the depiction of inanimate or motionless objects (e.g. flowers, fruit, hunting spoils, utensils of all kinds) arranged according to formal, compositional and aesthetic criteria. But what makes a still life come alive? Each of the artists exhibited here has their own answer to this question … Fiona Ackerman arranges the most diverse things in the broadest sense – working materials such as paint, stretcher frames and paper, drawn symbols, but also copies of her own pictures with great artistic freedom and compositional sophistication. The unconventional ensemble nevertheless radiates harmony and lightness – is this due to the call of the sea (Vocation by the Sea)? Fiona Ackerman, A Vocation By The Sea, Acrylic on Canvas, 171,5 x 228,5 cm Uwe Bremer also works with different levels. How do you make physical theories the subject of still lifes? Can […]
Yoana Tuzharova | FOLDING VOID | Galerie Gilla Lörcher | 15.03.-10.05.2024
until 10.05. | #4182ARTatBerlin | Galerie Gilla Lörcher shows from 15th March 2024 the exhibition Folding Void by the artist Yoana Tuzharova. With this exhibition, Galerie Gilla Lörcher is opening its new premises at Grolmannstr. 28 in Berlin-Charlottenburg. “In her light installations, Yoana Tuzharova (born 1986) plays with the boundaries of the perception of color, light and space. Tuzharova’s superimposition of surfaces in the image cites a sculptural approach, while the monochromatic color surfaces and the colored light of her installations retain a painterly character,” writes Maren Klinkhammer (Insel Hombroich Foundation) about the artist’s work. (from: Catalog Yoana Tuzharova, light matter, 2023) Yoana Tuzharova (born 1986) is a visual artist. She currently lives and works in Cologne. She studied from 2005 – 2009 at the University of Arts in Veliko Tyrnovo, Bulgaria (Bachelor). From 2013 – 2019 she studied sculpture and art in public space at the Kunstakademie Münster and received the title of master student in 2017 under Prof. Maik Löbbert and Prof. Dirk Löbbert. In 2021, the artist was awarded the “Förderpreis Junge Positionen NRW” by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. In 2021 she was nominated for the art prize “Junger Westen”, Recklinghausen and in 2022 she received […]
Heavy Water | Group exhibition | alexander levy | 27.01.-28.03.2024
until 28.03. | #4180ARTatBerlin | alexander levy is currently showing the group exhibition Heavy Water. Participating artists : Diana Akoto-Yip, Justin Barton and Mark Fisher, Julius von Bismarck, Stephanie Comilang, Jessica Edwards and Nik Nowak, Steve Goodman (aka Kode9), Ayesha Hameed, Fabian Knecht, Mischa Leinkauf, Ella Littwitz, The Otolith Group, Su Yu Hsin (and Angela Goh) Heavy Water | of Coordinates, Containers and Containment sees itself as a mutating encounter between the exhibited works of the participating artists and invites us to to rethink how we might understand these works by reformulating and reframing them in a poetics of relationship and dialog with each other, drawing on the “aquatic” theories of the late Édouard Glissant (1997) and Denise Ferreira da Silva’s concept of a “deep or abyssal implicature” (2019). The exhibition brings together a range of exciting international artists, some from the diaspora, with a generation of Berlin-based artists from the alexander levy gallery, and explores how their approach to the entanglements of a shared global history can contribute to how we can counter the dominant narratives of history to intervene in the future that has been foreseen for us. Heavy Water | of Containers, Coordinates and Containment considers the entanglements […]
Stephanie Kloss and Joshua Zielinski | Instant Replay | Laura Mars Gallery | 24.02.-06.04.2024
until 06.04.| #4179ARTatBerlin | Laura Mars Gallery shows from 24. February 2024 (Vernissage: 23.02.) the Exhibition Instant Replay by the artists Stephanie Kloss and Joshua Zielinski. Lenin’s left ear lies by the Berlin City Palace. What sounds like a yellow press headline is a very abbreviated description of the first room of Instant Replay, the first joint exhibition by Stephanie Kloss and Joshua Zielinski at the Laura Mars Gallery. Here, Kloss has realized a fragment of the backdrop-like architecture of the reconstructed palace as a photo wallpaper. Zielinski’s Ausgleichsgewicht (Counterweight, 2023), a giant ear made of red granite, which for one day as a site-specific intervention on the Platz der Vereinten Nationen (formerly Lenin Platz) referred to the Lenin Monument, which was dismantled in 1992, thus becomes a fictitious archaeological find on the former position of the Palace of the Republic. Repressed, poorly digested, overwritten and yet constantly resurfacing of history also manifests itself in the facades of the buildings in Kloss’ photographs in the second room: the Sonnenblumenhaus (Sunflower House) in Rostock- Lichtenhagen, the site of massive racist attacks by right-wing extremists against Vietnamese contract workers living there in 1992; the Zeppelin Tribune at the former Nazi Party Rally Grounds in Nuremberg, as well as […]
Kerstin Grießhaber + Vasyl Koval | Out of the Forest + Rooted Realms | QGallery Berlin | 02.03.-22.03.2024
until 22.03. | #4178ARTatBerlin | Q Gallery shows from 2. March 2024 (Vernissage: 01.03.) two exhibitions by the artists Kerstin Grießhaber and Vasyl Koval. The works of the artists Vasyl Koval and Kerstin Grießhaber are characterized by significant differences, yet both projects are united by a profound reflection on their own origins and the central theme of home. Vasyl Koval: Rooted realms Vasyl Koval, born in the village of Kolodruby in the Lviv region, is an artist whose œuvre focuses on the picturesque representation of rural Ukraine. His impressive landscape paintings transport viewers to the picturesque beauty of the Ukrainian homeland. Koval’s works are distinguished by a masterful depiction of nature and surroundings, with vibrant colors and the technique of prima painting bringing the landscape diversity of Ukraine to life in an impressive way. Vasyl Koval, Autumn in the Carpathians, 2020, 70×50, oil on canvas, Courtesy: Q Gallery After his move to Germany following the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2021, Vasyl’s artistic focus shifted. The urban landscape became the new center of his painting, yet he continuously sought motifs that reminded him of his homeland. The works from this period reflect the transformation of his artistic perspective, bridging the […]
Pawel Althamer | Das Himmel | neugerriemschneider | 02.03.-06.04.2024
until 06.04. | #4177ARTatBerlin | neugerriemschneider shows from 2. March 2024 the exhibition “Das Himmel” by the artist Pawel Althamer. In das himmel, Pawel Althamer’s seventh solo exhibition with neugerriemschneider, themes of love, healing and renewal manifest as a universal venue for reflection. Taking shape through a complex of sculptural forms divergent in scale, medium and approach, the presentation becomes an artist’s salon, its role tinged in the wake of its reconfiguration of access and purpose. Decidedly dense in its arrangement, das himmel possesses a material bulk that paradoxically serves as a blank canvas for artist and visitor alike – a sandbox for freely associative connections and projections. At the conceptual center of das himmel is a sculptural fireplace: a symbol of a home, those that inhabit it and its unique gravitational pull, by way of which physical warmth becomes interpersonal and emotional. Here, two angelic figures, their poses reminiscent of imagery of antiquity and the Renaissance, raise their arms to support a mantel of swirling forms that approximate clouds, smoke and waves. Contained between the pair is a constructed fire, its flames emanating from a dragon inspired by the figures of Pablo Picasso’s 1937 Guernica. The hearth as a […]
Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys | PASTA FATAL | Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi | 20.02.-30.03.2024
until 30.03. | #4176ARTatBerlin | Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi shows from 20. February 2024 (Vernissage 17.02.) the exhibition PASTA FATAL by the artists Jos de Gruyter and Harald Thys. Vernissage: Saturday,17. February 2024, 6 – 9 pm Exhibition period: Tuesday, 20. February – Saturday,30. March 2024 Title image: Jos de Gruyter and Harald Thys, Pasta Fatal, Courtesy: Isabella Bortolozzi Galerie Exhibition Jos de Gruyter and Harald Thys – Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibition Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin
Neil Gall | Day Release | Aurel Scheibler | 01.03.-13.04.2024
until 13.04. | #4174ARTatBerlin | Aurel Scheibler shows from 1. March 2024 the exhibition Day Release by the artist Neil Gall. In his fifth solo exhibition at Aurel Scheibler Day Release, Neil Gall is showing the most extensive presentation of his sculptures to date along with some of his recent paintings. Neil Gall is known for his imaginative arrangements that run through his painting, sculpture and drawing work. Their playful and poetic quality is enhanced by the pictorial illusion of everyday materials. The artist’s suggested title of the exhibition, Day Release, makes an ironic, sentimental reference to a day with limited freedom. For Gall, the question arises of who or what has freedom here: perhaps his sculptures, which, in their essence, have become dear to the artist in his studio and are now released for his exhibition in Berlin on the European mainland. Often they were props for his paintings, but here they are independent objects that, in their partly amorphous figurations, recall fantastical beings. Good-for-Nothing, the title of one of the works, whose form could very well find its way into his painting, is the brightly colored cast of an assemblage of ping-pong balls wrapped in tape on a […]
Dieter Kiessling | the expansion of possibilities | Taubert Contemporary | 16.02.-20.04.2024
until 20.04. | #4173ARTatBerlin | Taubert Contemporary shows from 16. February 2024 the exhibition the expansion of possibilities by the artist Dieter Kiessling. “Is the glass half full or half empty?” is a well-known question that refers to a fundamental attitude of life. But who would argue for the latter? According to the Greens politician and Federal Minister Robert Habeck, it’s more about “expanding possibilities”. And it was precisely this fundamentally optimistic attitude that he represented with great commitment, emotion and rhetorical determination in his speech at the Greens Party’s state conference in Karlsruhe in November 2023. Dieter Kiessling’s (b. 1957) latest video, “the expansion of possibilities” (2023), also displays this energy and self-confidence, transferring it from the field of politics to art. While the Berlin-Düsseldorf-based artist is otherwise known for his self-referential, sometimes even circular videos and photographs, this work marks his first foray into political art – and emphasises both components. His expansive work is not content with the acoustic documentation of a political opinion. Rather, in its size and unexpected motivic concentration on the speaker’s water glass, it creates a tension between the political and the aesthetic. His interventions are both small and serious: in addition to […]
Rita Maikova | Find Me in the Garden | Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery Berlin | 15.02.-16.03.2024
until 16.03. | #4172ARTatBerlin | Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery Berlin shows from 15th February 2024 (Opening: 14.02.) the exhibition Find Me in the Garden with works by the artist Rita Maikova. A collection of fuzzy, sagging, translucent, ghoulish and rock-like creatures gather against moody pink skies, in the depths of the forest, on the banks of a lake. These eccentric, friendly and sometimes fragmented characters are, to the Ukrainian artist Rita Maikova, a kind of family. They have followed her through different stages of her life; mutating in form and colour, coming and going, seemingly, at their own will, while also providing a sense of stability and solace. Featuring all new work, Find Me in the Garden, Maikova’s solo exhibition at Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Berlin documents a period of personal transition during which the artist moved countries and also became pregnant with her first child. However, rather than capturing external upheavals, these paintings offer a space of calm and reflection. They are not so much a retreat from the real-world as a journey deep into the self. For Maikova art-making is a form of healing and freedom – it allows her to access her unconscious mind, to dream without the boundaries […]
Hortensia Mi Kafchin | Cheerful Melancholia | Galerie Judin | 24.02.-06.04.2024
until 06.04. | #4171ARTatBerlin | Galerie Judin shows from 24th February 2024 (Opening: 23.02.) the exhibition Cheerful Melancholia by the artist Hortensia Mi Kafchin. While Hortensia Mi Kafchin’s title for her third solo exhibition at Galerie Judin describes an ambivalent emotional state, the artist also refers to German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer, one of the first ever to depict himself as an artist, and to Melancholia, his famous etching. Dürer’s poised self-portraits mark the beginning of a tradition of artistic self-reflection that Kafchin continues today in a way that is as poignant as it is unsettling. The 15 paintings of the exhibition can be interpreted biographically, but always aim at larger contexts of meaning. At almost six meters in width, Kafchin addresses the beginning of her rocky life path in her monumental Drained Danube. The ship with an oversized compass is a code for the young artist’s endeavors navigating her way from the Romanian hinterland to Western Europe and the international art scene. Vernissage: Friday, 23rd February 2024, 6:00 – 8:00 pm Exhibition period: Saturday, 24th February – Saturday, 6th April 2024 Image caption: Drained Danube, 2022-2024, oil on canvas, 193 × 570 cm, photo: Trevor Good Exhibition […]
Agnes Scherer, Rosemary Mayer & Theresa Weber | ChertLüdde | 16.02.-28.03.2024
until 28.03. | #4170ARTatBerlin | ChertLüdde shows from 16. February 2024 three solo-exhibitions by the artists Agnes Scherer, Rosemary Mayer and Theresa Weber. ChertLüdde invites the viewer to a joint opening reception for the three solo exhibitions of Agnes Scherer, Rosemary Mayer, and Theresa Weber. From an exploration into court rituals to floral tributes to the memory of goddesses of the past, all of these shows respond to the rise of feminism as it intersects with art history. Agnes Scherer | Savoir Vivre For her upcoming exhibition titled Savoir Vivre, Agnes Scherer (1985, Germany) transformed the gallery into a medieval jousting tournament in order to problematize the persistence of the culture of “courtly love” with a Papier-mâché installation. Climate issues also charge to the surface as early deforestation and environmental exploitation in Europe are traced back in time. Rosemary Mayer | You can’t pin down a flower for very long This is Rosemary Mayer’s (1943-2014, USA) second solo exhibition at a gallery and the first since her major traveling exhibition Ways of Attaching brought her work to a broader, International audience. Gathering largely unseen drawings, watercolors, and photographs of flowers, the show summons the passage of seasons. It also hosts a revival of Mayer’s temporary sculpture Roses (1981). Theresa Weber | Universe of […]
Eugenio Recuenco | LAS MIL Y UNA NOCHES | CAMERA WORK | 24.02.–13.04.2024
bis 13.04. | #4169ARTatBerlin | CAMERA WORK shows from 24. Februar 2024 the exhibition “Las Mil y una Noches” by the artist Eugenio Recuenco. CAMERA WORK Gallery presents from 24 February 2024 an exhibition by Eugenio Recuenco with around 20 predominantly large-format works from three decades of the photo artist’s career (2006-2023). Eugenio Recuenco is exclusively represented worldwide by CAMERA WORK. Eugenio Recuenco’s work is characterised by an artistic vision with a high recognition value. Photography and staging are interwoven and often inspired by art history, film and fairy tales. This results in opulent, surrealistic works that are realised with technical and aesthetic perfection. The works are based on an emotional depth that leads to a narrative complexity. These innovative approaches and artistic originality become visible in the exhibition with motifs from “One Thousand and One Nights”. They make it clear that Eugenio Recuenco’s oeuvre has had a lasting impact on contemporary photography and the art market. Eugenio Recuenco (*1968 in Madrid) studied fine art before focussing on photographic art. The renowned photographer’s creative spectrum includes advertising, fashion, stage design and art. Early in his career, he worked for magazines such as “GQ”, “View” and “Vogue” as well as on […]
Katia Mossina | VIVA! | Luisa Catucci Gallery | 14.02.-02.03.2024
until 02.03. | #4175ARTatBerlin | Luisa Catucci Gallery shows from 14. February 2024 the exhibition VIVA! by the artist Katia Mossina. The exhibition VIVA! (meaning both alive and hurray in Italian) is an ode to life. Heavily influenced by Pop Art and Fashion, the work of Russian-born, internationally-raised artist Katia Mossina is a celebration of carefree “joie de vivre.” Katia’s art unquestionably mirrors her sunny personality. Classically trained as a fashion designer and architect, the numerous rules in those realms couldn’t contain her explosive temperament, leading her to turn to art. There, her elegantly drawn silhouettes, still imbued with a fashion flavor, broke free from the constrictive clothing of fashion—just as their creator liberated herself from constrictive bonds. They appeared reborn and liberated by nakedness, discovering their true essence. Katia Mossina, Courtesy Luisa Catucci Gallery Like nymphs and muses of ancient times, Katia’s characters live in harmony with their naturalness, completely at ease with their lack of complexity. They revel in life in a way we rarely can, trapped as we are in our own complexity. This prompts the viewer to reflect on the joyful effect of simplicity. Simple is great, and lightness achieved through honest recognition and the shedding of redundant complications, societal […]
Martina Hoogland Ivanow | With Eyes Sensitive for Green | Dorothée Nilsson Gallery | 20.01.-02.03.2024
until 02.03. | #4168ARTatBerlin | Dorothée Nilsson Gallery currently shows the exhibition “With Eyes Sensitive for Green” by the artist Martina Hoogland Ivanow. Our relationship with nature has become political and intertwined with identity politics in many ways, where an interest or commitment to nature can be seen as an ideological stance. Hoogland Ivanow’s exhibition consists of selected fragments and art objects in the Dorothée Nilsson Gallery from her ongoing work on a feature-length documentary entitled Second Nature, which follows a group of individuals who dream of a communal existence in nature, drawing inspiration from hunters and gatherers. It serves as a contemporary documentation that illuminates our propensity for irrationality and our search for meaning in these challenging times. For Hoogland Ivanow, the film serves as a mirror reflecting the paradoxes of human behavior and the disorientation that characterizes our times, conveying these complexities through an interpretation that blends humor, absurdity, and evocative imagery. With Eyes Sensitive for Green ist part of Vorspiel / transmediale & CTM 2024. Exhibition period: Saturday, 20. January – Saturday, 2. March 2024 Bildunterschrift: ©Martina Hoogland Ivanow, 2023 Exhibition Martina Hoogland Ivanow – Dorothée Nilsson Gallery | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin
Louis G.N. Busman | Wanderjahre | Galerie feinart Berlin | 15.03.-18.04.2024
until 18.04. | #4167ARTatBerlin | Galerie feinart Berlin shows from 15 March 2024 the exhibition Wanderjahre by the artist Louis G.N. Busman. In the year of the 10th anniversary of his death, the Galerie feinart berlin is dedicating the exhibition to the landscapes of a passionate painter and world traveller. Louis George Nicolas Busman was born 80 years ago in Maarssen, the Netherlands. “You always want to get away in order to come home again”, the art historian, writer and critic Dr. Olav. Münzberg quoted him in 1991 in the foreword to a catalogue entitled “Excursions”. A modest title, because perhaps nothing has shaped Louis G.N. Busman’s life more than travelling: Europe from Italy to Norway, from England to Hungary; Argentina, Chile and Peru, Panama, Guatemala, Mexico, USA, Canada, Japan, Hong-Kong, Thailand, Lebanon, Namibia, Morocco. Louis G.N. Busman, Esteros del Iberá, acrylic on canvas, 100 x 120 cm, 2011 © feinartberlin In the year of the tenth anniversary of his death, the exhibition “Wanderjahre” (English “Travelling Years”) is dedicated to the landscapes of this passionate painter. The various faces of his landscape paintings symbolise a longing for faraway places, adventure and freedom, but also something deeply inward and peaceful. As […]
Willi Baumeister & Georg Karl Pfahler | Begegnung zweier Künstler in den 1950er Jahren | Galerie Friese | 10.02.-13.04.2024
until 13.04. | #4166ARTatBerlin | Galerie Friese shows from 10. February 2024 (Opening: 09.02.) the exhibition “Begegnung zweier Künstler in den 1950er Jahren” from the artists Willi Baumeister & Georg Karl Pfahler. Willi Baumeister (1889-1955) was one of the pioneers of 20th century art who did not care about apparent opposites such as abstract or figurative. He was always concerned with the whole of art, which, if taken seriously, means its interweaving with human history. Baumeister’s legacy as a teacher is just as important as his work: he initially taught at the Städtische Kunstgewerbeschule in Frankfurt from 1928 until he was dismissed by the National Socialists in 1933. In 1946, Baumeister, who worked undercover during the war years and earned his living as a commercial artist, was appointed professor at the newly reopened Stuttgart Art Academy by the then Minister of Culture, Theodor Heuss. He was the symbolic figure for the new beginning of the art academy, integrated the teachings of the Bauhaus into his lessons and advocated the morally based freedom of art. His programmatic essay “The Unknown in Art”, published in 1947, and his position at the Darmstadt Talks in 1950 further cemented his reputation as an advocate […]
Johanna Dumet | La Vie Secréte des Fleurs | Kewenig Berlin | 09.02.2024-…
until … | #4164ARTatBerlin | Galerie Kewenig Berlin opens from Friday 09. February 2024 the exhibition “La Vie Secrète des Fleurs” by the artist Johanna Dumet. Exhibition period: Friday, 09. Ferbruary until … Image caption: Johanna Dumet, La Fête est finie (jaune), 2023; oil, oil pastel, glazed Limoges porcelain on poplar wood, 165 x 130 cm Exhibition Johanna Dumet – Kewenig Berlin | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries| ART at Berlin
Jamie Diamond | Faking it | Kewenig Berlin (Pied-à-terre) | 13.01.-10.02.2024
until 10.02. | #4163ARTatBerlin | Galerie Kewenig Berlin (Pied-à-terre) currently shows the exhibition “Faking It” by the artist Jamie Diamond. Exhibition period: Saturday, 13. January to Saturday, 10. February 2024 Image caption: Installation view, Jamie Diamond: Faking It, at KEWENIG and pied-à-terre, Berlin. Photos: Lepkowski Studios Exhibition Jamie Diamond – Kewenig Berlin | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin
Another Spring | Group exhibition | Haverkampf Leistenschneider | 26.01.-09.03.2024
until 09.03. | #4162ARTatBerlin | Haverkampf Leistenschneider is currently showing the exhibition “Another Spring” by the artists Zina Isupova, Sasha Kurmaz and Felix Oehmann. For the exhibition ANOTHER SPRING, Berlin-based artist Felix Oehmann (b. 1985) has invited Ukrainian artists Zina Isupova (b. 1996) and Sasha Kurmaz (b. 1986) to present new works with him in the gallery. The artists have joined to provide a personal insight into how the war has reshaped their perspective on a world no longer the same as they have known it. Through a fusion of new collages, photography, and sculptures, the artists unite to present a visual narrative of the fractures running through Ukraine and, by extension, the entire world. Zina Isupova, ”Barricades”, 2023, color paper, stickers, 60 x 70 cm Opening: Friday, 26. January 2024, 6-9 pm Exhibition period: Friday, 26. January – Saturday, 09. March 2024 Image caption: Children‘s drawing, 28.8.2016, Berlin-Neukölln“ © Felix Oehmann, 2023 Exhibition Another Spring – Haverkampf Leistenschneider | Contemporary Art – | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries| ART at Berlin
Pictorial Resonance | Groupexhibition | Galerie Thomas Schulte | 27.01.-02.03.2024
until 02.03. | #4161ARTatBerlin | Galerie Thomas Schulte currently shows the exhibition “Pictorial Resonance”, curated by Fabian Marcaccio and Jonas Weichsel. An exchange between and among distinctive painterly positions, Pictorial Resonance at Galerie Thomas Schulte presents works by 18 artists spanning from 1970 to 2024. The exhibition is curated by Fabian Marcaccio and Jonas Weichsel, whose respective approaches, alongside those brought together here – though varied in process and focus – find common ground in their epistemological and analytical engagements with the medium. The pictorial possibilities that the works individually and collectively investigate bring up questions of where, how, or perhaps even why, we might situate painting today, in our image-saturated digital age, as well as what it is to think, or picture, in painting more broadly. Participating artists: Polly Apfelbaum Kerstin Brätsch Ernst Caramelle Marieta Chirulescu Paul Czerlitzki Friederike Feldmann Wade Guyton Toulu Hassani Nancy Haynes Jürgen Krause Jonathan Lasker Fabian Marcaccio Iulia Nistor Blinky Palermo David Reed Pieter Vermeersch Dan Walsh Jonas Weichsel Exhibition period: Saturday, 27, January until Saturday, 02. March 2024 Image caption: Dan Walsh, “Channel”, 2020, Acrylic on canvas, 140 x 140 cm | 55 x 55 in Exhibition Pictorial Resonance – Galerie Thomas Schulte […]
Faszination Landschaft II | Group Exhibition | Galerie SCHMALFUSS BERLIN | from 03.02.2024
until 02.03 | #4158ARTatBerlin | Galerie SCHMALFUSS BERLIN shows from 3rd February 2024 the group exhibition Faszination Landschaft, part II. contemporary fine arts gallery are woven, built, painted and created using the tilt and pour technique. 15 contemporary artists use individual techniques and motifs to open up new perspectives on the subject of landscape painting. Their works are imbued with personal stories that reflect the artistic development of each artist as well as their immediate life situation. Uwe Hand, 1000 und eine Nacht, 2023, Mixed media on canvas, 130x130cm, courtesy Schmalfuss Berlin As one artist emphasizes: “I don’t paint my pictures, I build them. For me, a painting is a window into the world.” Another artist paints with warp and weft threads on a loom. The next one lets non-colors flow on and over the canvas. And the pair of art activists record the fate of a large old black poplar tree on Merseburger Straße, out of Leipzig, in the form of 30 paintings. As viewers, we are right in the middle of the exhibition with works by ROLAND DELEAU, JÜRGEN DURNER, UWE HAND, HELGE HOMMES, SIHAM ISSAMI, JÜRGEN JANSEN, SUSANNE KNAACK, NIKOLAI MAKAROV, FLORIAN PELKA, YVES RASCH, SAXANA, […]
Sylvie Fleury | Sprüth Magers Berlin | 10.02.-23.03.2024
until 23.03. | #4156ARTatBerlin | Sprüth Magers Berlin shows from 10th February 2024 (Opening: 09.02.) the exhibition from the artist Sylvie Fleury. On view in the Window space and visible from the street is an installation of thirteen neon works by Sylvie Fleury. Opening: Friday, 9. February 2024, 6 – 8 pm Exhibition period: Saturday, 10. February – Saturday, 23. March 2024 Image caption: Sylvie Fleury, Égoïste, 2023, © Sylvie Fleury Exhibition Sylvie Fleury – Sprüth Magers Berlin | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin
Richard Artschwager | Sprüth Magers Berlin | 10.02.-23.03.2024
until 23.03. | #4156ARTatBerlin | Sprüth Magers Berlin shows from 10. February 2024 (Opening: 09.02. from 6 to 8 pm) the exhibition by the artist Richard Artschwager. In honor of Richard Artschwager’s centennial, the solo exhibition displays works from his “Crates” (1995) and Splatter (2000–08) series, Formica sculptures (1964–2008) and a large-scale painting (1997) alongside an exuberant Exclamation Point (2008), offering a synoptic overview of a practice concerned with the habits and mechanics of looking. Opening: Friday, 9. February 2024, 6 – 8 pm Exhibition period: Saturday, 10. February – Saturday, 23. March 2024 Image caption: Richard Artschwager, Splatter Office, 2000, © Estate of Richard Artschwager/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024, Photo: Hrvoje Franjić Exhibition Richard Artschwager – Sprüth Magers Berlin | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin
Luca Frei | Guiding Fabric | Galerie Barbara Wien | 24.02.-13.04.2024
until 13.04. | #4154ARTatBerlin | Galerie Barbara Wien shows from 24. February 2024 (Opening: 23.02.) the exhibition Guiding Fabric by the artist Luca Frei. Luca Frei’s artistic practice includes a wide range of media such as drawing, painting, photography, and installation, often arranged in settings that invite participation. In his fourth exhibition at Galerie Barbara Wien, Luca Frei will present textile works depicting landscapes, living systems, and hybrid architectures. These motifs are born from carefully redrawn sketches, allowing Frei to attain the compositional tension he seeks. Notably, he alters the conventional relationship between medium and tool. Rather than guiding a pencil across paper to draw, Frei guides the fabric through a sewing machine to create his stitched lines, providing a distinctive approach to his artistic process. The exhibition also includes a new sculpture by Luca Frei: a steel mobile composed of polygonal rings that serve as lenses, encouraging visitors to explore and observe the installation from a playful angle. Luca Frei, Untitled, photo: Karl Isakson Courtesy Barbara Wien Vernissage: Friday, 23. February 2024, 6-9 pm Exhibition period: Saturday, 24. February – Saturday, 13. April 2024 Image caption title: Luca Frei, Untitled (On Rust Ground), 2024, Photo: Karl […]
Vincent van Gaalen | Schatten der Nacht | BBA Gallery | 23.03.-18.05.2024
until 18.05. | #4155ARTatBerlin | BBA Gallery shows from 23. March 2024 the exhibition Schatten der Nacht of the artist Vincent van Gaalen. It is the Dutch photo artist’s first solo exhibition. At the same time, BBA Gallery is expanding its premises and, after several months of renovation work, is opening new doors at the same location and with even more spacious rooms as part of the exhibition. Starting on Saturday March 23, on the occasion of Earth Hour, BBA Gallery presents the solo exhibition “Shades of the Night” by Dutch photographer Vincent van Gaalen. His photographs on natural landscapes in remote regions of Europe, especially on nights with a full moon are spectacular. In “Shades of the Night”, nature has an original quality since landscapes are portrayed in total darkness. In the moonlight, just the contours of mountains, forests, waterfalls or lakes are recognisable. Van Gaalen concentrates solely on landscapes: neither animals nor people appear in his works. In these dark sceneries, familiar worlds to us appear strangely removed, paving a way for new perspectives. The depictions of nature in art are timeless. They might have been taken around 100 years ago as well as in the future. “Absence” […]
Me, Myself and I | Perspectives on the Self | Galerie kajetan Berlin | 03.02.-13.04.2024
until 13.04 | #4152ARTatBerlin | Galerie kajetan Berlin shows from 3. February 2024 (Opening: 02.02.) the exhibition Me, Myself and I – Perspectives on the Self, organized by Daniel Marzona. With works by the following artists: Olaf Holzapfel, Sofia Hultén, Jürgen Klauke, Bruce Nauman, Wolfgang Plöger, Katharina Sieverding, Trine Søndergaard, Johannes Wald. A photograph of a kitchen drawer flanked by four pages of text that forensically dissect the contents of the drawer – this is what a self-portrait looks like when Sofia Hultén tackles the subject. Two large-format panels, which Katharina Sieverding has arranged as a diptych, each depict an identical face. The shape and contour lines of the faces permeate a background reminiscent of a lava flow and refer metaphorically to an underlying dynamic and signify the constant flux of the sitter’s personal identity. Me, myself and I, Organized by Daniel Marzona, Courtesy the artists and Galerie kajetan, Exhibition view Galerie kajetan 2024, Photo: Marcus Schneider Two frontal portraits of Jürgen Klauke wearing a white shirt and black tie, in which he is either smiling or scowling inscrutably, are repeated six times to make up a block. Each photograph is succinctly captioned with a word that purportedly defines its […]
Thomas Prochnow | de_konstruktion | Semjon Contemporary | 03.02.–02.03.2024
until 02.03. | #4151ARTatBerlin | Semjon Contemporary shows from 3rd February 2024 (Opening: 02.02.) the exhibition de_konstruktion by the artist Thomas Prochnow. Prochnow would not be Prochnow if he did not once again present a concert of diverse materials, shapes and colours. And in various artistic genres. From the large wall sculpture (actually an object, as it is composed additively, but nevertheless comes across as an effective sculpture in its grandeur and force), to a small series of wall objects, the wooden pictures, to the photographs (as pigment prints) and the accompanying screen print. In this day and age, in which a sustainable economy would allow mankind to stay on this planet a little longer, in which a generation is growing up that has realised this and demands action accordingly, Thomas Prochnow already has a good 20 years behind him in which he has implemented the sustainable economy, here meaning the production of art. We know: Necessity is the mother of invention, and almost all young artists have a shortage of money in common (except for those born with a silver spoon in their mouth). So you need a strategy to get hold of artistic material with the little you […]
Lindinger + Schmid | Außer Konkurrenz | Galerie Tammen | 09.02.-06.04.2024
until 06.04 | #4150ARTatBerlin | Galerie Tammen shows from 9. February 2024 the extraordinary exhibition project Außer Konkurrenz (Out of Competition) with the artist duo LINDINGER + SCHMID. The works of the artist duo are being presented for the first time. Gabriele Lindinger and Karlheinz Schmid, widely known as Lindinger + Schmid, have been travelling the art world together for over three decades. The duo has not only published books and the KUNSTZEITUNG, but has also realised countless exhibitions and projects. Art mediation in close co-operation with painters, sculptors and photographers such as Jochen Gerz, Jürgen Klauke and Franz Erhard Walther as well as with interdisciplinary artists including Hermann Nitsch and Christoph Schlingensief. Lindinger + Schmid have also been an artist couple since 2007. Gabriele Lindinger and Karlheinz Schmid have focussed on topics related to their journalistic and publishing work. It is therefore always a question of critically analysing the practices and developments in the context of an industry that has grown in quantity in recent decades, but has in part declined in quality. The gallery presents the artist duo for the first time with paintings from three decades. The painter duo, who have been working in secret until now, […]
Andréas Lang | BROKEN MEMORIES | Luisa Catucci Gallery | 26.01.-10.02.2024
until 10.02. | #4148ARTatBerlin | Luisa Catucci Gallery together with the Kerber Verlag show from 26th January 2024 (Vernissage: 25.01.) the exhibition BROKEN MEMORIES by the artist Andréas Lang at the Luisa Catucci Gallery. In Broken Memories, Andréas Lang explores the theme of memory and history in Turkey. In photographs and videos, he reflects on the disappearance, the discontinuity and the many layers of historical inscriptions and overwritings that leave visible evidence of a collective memory that has been made invisible. He focusses on the current treatment of history, but above all on places associated with the late Ottoman Empire, the Armenian legacy and the genocide of 1915. Lang describes his work as visual archaeology, which makes the different layers of history, mythology and the present visible. Aylin Vartanyan Dilaver is an expressive arts practitioner working in the field of social change with communities in Turkey and elsewhere. She is a member of Parrhesia Collective, an Armenian women’s group that has opened an intellectual and creative platform through social media posts, webinars and written works. Her PhD research focuses on exploring the transgenerational trauma of Armenian women through photography and storytelling in Istanbul. Nilüfer Ovalıoğlu Gros is a contemporary theatre […]
NOW. HERE. CONTEMPORARY. | Group Exhibition | ARTES Berlin | 03.02.-16.03.2024
until 16.03. | #4146ARTatBerlin | ARTES Berlin shows from 3rd February 2024 the exhibition NOW. HERE. CONTEMPORARY. with works by the female artists Ruri Matsumoto and Nari Jo and the male artists Thomas Röthel and Hannes Uhlenhaut. Figurative, abstract, gestural, calm, wild or organised – the group exhibition shows a wide range of current positions and reflects the changes in the 21st century: Genres and material are no longer on opposing sides, instead they merge into a creative dialogue. What characterises their artistic processes and living environments are the heterogeneous influences. The variety of materials and tools used leads to new structures, new textures and new colours. With their paintings, Ruri Matsumoto and Nari Jo transport the audience into colourful worlds of hybrid styles, abstract landscapes and their fascinating inhabitants. Their works open up narrative spaces in which each visitor can discover their own stories. Sculptors Thomas Röthel and Hannes Uhlenhaut, known for their impressive works in solid steel and traditional porcelain, surprise us with an innovative series of wall pieces. Vernissage: Saturday, 3rd February 2024, 6 — 8 pm Exhibition period: Saturday, 3rd February to Saturday 16th March 2024 Image caption title: courtesy of ARTES Berlin, f.l.t.r.: […]
Rocco Hettwer | Die schönen Tage | Galerie Brockstedt | 17.02.-27.04.2024
until 27.04.| #4147ARTatBerlin | Galerie Brockstedt shows from 17. February 2024 the exhibition ” Die schönen Tage ” (The beautiful days) with paintings and drawings of the artist Rocco Hettwer. As in previous exhibitions of his paintings at the Brockstedt Gallery, the figures acting in almost empty rooms cast a spell over us with their sometimes dramatic poses, luring us onto their very personal stage of life to decipher the riddle of their expressive gestures and facial expressions. Painterly, finely graduated colour gradations and dramatic contrasts between light and shadow counteract the tense silence, even speechlessness, between his main characters: girls, women and men of a youthful age. What they all have in common is a deep seriousness, a helpless, sometimes desperate inward gaze that seems to contradict the title of this exhibition “The Beautiful Days”. Or were they all melancholically caught up in the memory of a paradise they had “lost”? What were they searching for? Despite the scenes charged with erotic pathos, there seems to be more at stake here than the loss of sexual innocence. Had they lost the courage to communicate with each other about it and to search together for a new path that they […]
Seong Joon Hong | [Study layers] | 68 projects | 01.03.-12.04.2024
until 12.04. | #4145ARTatBerlin | 68 projects shows from 1. March 2024 the exhibition “[Study layers]” of artist Seong Joon Hong. Under the title “[Study layers],” 68projects by KORNFELD presents works by the Korean artist Seong Joon Hong, created during his summer 2023 residency in Berlin. In his pieces, the artist updates the legacy of Hanji, traditional Korean paper. Tradition and innovation merge in his images, forming a narrative about the intricate aspects of life. Seong Joon Hong’s art serves as an intense reflection of our own complex layers and vibrant colors. Hanji, the traditional Korean paper, is more than just a medium; it is a Korean cultural treasure with a long tradition and incredible versatility. The elaborate manufacturing process involves at least 100 steps, imparting durability and breathable and waterproof properties to Hanji. With a unique structure characterized by fibers and inclusions, each sheet becomes a one-of-a-kind creation. The diversity of Hanji can be seen as a metaphor for life. The challenges of production and differences in colors and structures symbolize the complexity of human existence. In our exhibition, Hanji is presented as an artistic medium and a unique reflection of our complexity and vibrant colors. It challenges us […]
Raquel Maulwurf | Ravages of Time | Galerie Martin Mertens | 26.01.-13.04.2024
until 13.04. | #4144ARTatBerlin | Galerie Martin Mertens presents from 26th January 2024 (Opening: 25.01.) the solo exhibition Ravages of Time by the Dutch artist Raquel Maulwurf. It is the second exhibition of the artist in the gallery. While Maulwurf’s earlier works dealt with the effects and devastation of war, her latest works describe the chaos that ensues when the earth is hit by the forces of nature and ecological disasters. She explores the notion of whether nature strikes back when we pollute its oceans, poison its air, burn down forests and turn the ground we walk on into a radioactive wasteland. In order to turn terrible events into something moving and beautiful, these images – destructive and monumental at the same time – are edited in such a way that only the essence of the event remains. The drawings no longer show what we see, but what we know. They make current events tangible and raise the question of why humanity is so eager to destroy. Drawing on museum cardboard enables the artist to tear open the surface with sharp tools and depict violence through violence. The artist materialises the destruction that is evident both in the motif and […]
Rudolf Englert + Chloé Bensahel | Duo Exhibition | Galerie Dittmar | 25.01.-04.03.2024 – extended until 16.03.2024
until 16.03. | #4165ARTatBerlin | Galerie Dittmar presents from 25. January 2024 the Duo-exhibition of artists Rudolf Englert and Chloé Bensahel. The exhibition on Rudolf Englert (1921-1989) and Chloe Bensahel (*1991) unites two positions that can be related to each other across time and independent of the different media. In addition to the visual proximity, based on the principle of sequencing, the reference to writing and music are fundamental elements in the work of both artists. The juxtaposition emphasises both the reflective and poetic approach and enables a visual approach that opens up new possibilities of perception while preserving the different conditions. Rudolf Englert created his innovative series of drawings in black ink from the beginning of the 1960s. Despite all the discipline, the series have a free, individual expression and point the way for his future work. In their tendency to be related to the works of the ZERO artists, the drawings are highly independent. In the seventies, the compositions became more complex and pictorial in their design. The written character as well as the echoes of musical notation, which emerged early on, become clearer. Even then, leading art historians recognised Englert’s special position within the international avant-garde movements. […]
Jan Tichy & Jay Gard | Ornament als Versprechen | Galerie Kornfeld | 01.03.–12.04.2024
until 12.04. | #4142ARTatBerlin | Galerie Kornfeld shows from 1. March 2024 the exhibition Ornament als Versprechen of artists Jan Tichy and Jay Gard . KORNFELD Galerie Berlin presents the artists Jan Tichy and Jay Gard together in an exhibition for the first time. Under the title “Ornament as Promise”, the exhibition brings together a series of small-format cyanotypes by Jan Tichy and sculptures with paintings by Jay Gard, both united by their shared enthusiasm for ornament. The exhibition title “Ornament als Versprechen” (“Ornament as Promise”) derives from Adolf Loos’ seminal essay “Ornament and Crime.” Loos’ premise disregards ornament as decadent and unnecessary, emphasizing instead the importance of the pure object. The works of Jay Gard and Jan Tichy reinterpret ornament by striving to fulfill Loos’ philosophy by making ornament itself the pure object. There are no unnecessary embellishments or decorations in their representation of the ornament. Instead, the ornament is abstracted, from its original context and transformed into a substantial and meaningful motif. In a contemporary creative twist, Gard and Tichy transform ornament from simple decoration to a didactic tool, one which gives insight into 21st-century art. In doing so, Tichy and Gard engage with the formal language of […]
Claudia Busching + Alexander Klenz | Galerie Inga Kondeyne – Raum für Zeichnung | 26.01.-09.03.2024
until 09.03. | #4141ARTatBerlin | Galerie Inga Kondeyne – Raum für Zeichnung presents from 26th January 2024 the exhibition with works by the artists Claudia Busching and Alexander Klenz. The immediacy with which something abruptly breaks off, reappears elsewhere or finally disappears completely could be a first approach to Claudia Busching’s works. In her paper collages, a multitude of strong lines in black ink, charcoal, graphite or acrylic sweep across delicate layers of various paper fragments, whose arrangement evokes the impression of a multi-layered “visual fabric”. The lines are an expression of gestural movement, in which the hand often seems to have preceded the eyes. A line often ends abruptly at the end of “its” sheet and then appears to be taken up again elsewhere in the collage – sometimes, on the other hand, it remains a singular, absolute event. This artistic reflection on motif and repetition, which is as sensitive as it is resolute, sometimes almost echoes the related interplay of rhythm and composition in music. The placing, positioning and laying of lines and surfaces between chance and conscious action challenges us viewers to allow the immediacy with which something abruptly breaks off and (does not/reappears) as an experience […]
One. two. three. four | Group exhibition | Galerie Schindler | 18.01.-02.03.2024
until 02.03. | #4140ARTatBerlin | Galerie Schindler presents from 18th January 2024 the exhibition One. two. three. four by the artist Frauke Bohge, Isabelle Dutoit, Anna-Lisa Unkuri and Sabine Wewer. Many songs begin by counting in time … it’s 4/4 time when we count: one. two. three. four. before the music starts. Galerie Schindler is starting the new year 2024 just as lively with four fantastic artists from Berlin, Leipzig and Bremen. The connection between art and title is intended to be humorous rather than intellectual. These are four extraordinary artists who dedicate themselves to figurative art with great craftsmanship. Frauke Bohge The artist explores the depths of time and memory, both in terms of content and form. Cityscapes and landscapes reflect the entanglement of space and time, while in works on childhood she explores the significance of experiences and dreams for our later personality. Materiality on the canvas or working with textiles sometimes pushes the boundaries of painting. Bohge works in Berlin Charlottenburg. Frauke Bohge, Sammeln, 2022, oil on canvas, 50 x 70 cm Isabelle Dutoit A piece of forest, animals that can only be recognised at second glance. Flowing colours, the movement of wings in the wind. Isabelle […]
Kai Teichert | Hille + Hömmel – Animal Farm | Galerie Z22 | 20.01.-16.03.2024
until 16.03. | #4159ARTatBerlin | Galerie Z22 shows from 20. January 2024 the exhibition Hille & Hömmel – Animal Farm (> Hellen & Heav – Animal Farm) with painting and sculpture by the artist Kai Teichert. This exhibition will be presented as an open studio. In his second solo exhibition at Galerie Z22, Kai Teichert turns his attention to the animal world, the animal within us. He combines new, unpainted portrait busts made of unfired clay with life-size images of animals from the Chinese horoscope. The zodiac signs rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, goat, monkey, rooster, dog and pig are deeply rooted in the rural coexistence of humans and animals. By transferring animal character traits to humans, we maintain contact with the animalistic in us and with the forces of fate that guide us through life, playfully and profoundly at the same time, ingeniously simple and fabulously cheerful. Kai Teichert, courtesy of Galerie Z22 “Hille and Hömmel!” exclaims the painter and explains: “I spent a whole day stirring colours together to get a bucket of colourful grey, a primordial muddy tone, like clay slurry, so that the silhouettes of the animals have a creaturely presence and don’t look […]
Endre Tót | Ich bin sehr glücklich und du? | Galerie aKonzept | 19.01.-28.04.2024
until 28.04. | #4157ARTatBerlin | Galerie aKonzept shows from 19th January 2024 the exhibition Ich bin sehr glücklich und du? by the artist Endre Tót. Opening: Friday, 19. January 2024 Exhibition period: Friday, 19. January until Sunday, 28. April 2024 Image caption: Endre Tót, Courtesy of Galerie aKonzept Exhibition Endre Tót – Galerie aKonzept | Zeitgenössische Kunst | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin
Mannheim Miami. The Left-Over-Collection. Part One. | Crone Berlin | 16.01.-09.03.2024 – extended until 19.04.2024
until 19.04. | #4149ARTatBerlin | Crone Berlin shows from 16. January 2024 the exhibition Mannheim Miami. The Left-Over-Collection. Part One., curated by Andreas Osarek. On show are works by Justin Almquist, Norbert Bisky, Marc Brandenburg, Guilherme Dietrich, Jiří Georg Dokoupil, Jürgen Drescher, Christian Flamm, Alonso Gil Lavado, Gilbert & George, F.C. Gundlach, Federico Guzman, Harald Hermann, Antonius Höckelmann, Karl Horst Hödicke, Jörg Immendorf, Daniel Kannenberg, Anette Kelm, Astrid Klein, Bernd Koberling, Peter Kogler, Anne Loch, Markus Lüpertz, Daniel Megerle, Bjarne Melgaard, Meuser, Adrien Missika, Mark Prince, David Row, David Salle, Bettina Semmer, Jerszy Seymour, Peter Stauss, Philip Taaffe, Antony Valerian, Not Vital, Cosima von Bonin, Amelie von Wulffen and Hans Weigand. Exhibition view Mannheim Miami. The Left-Over-Collection. Part One. Galerie Crone Berlin, 2024. Courtesy Galerie Crone, Berlin Wien. Photo: Uwe Walter, Berlin Exhibition view Mannheim Miami. The Left-Over-Collection. Part One. Galerie Crone Berlin, 2024. Courtesy Galerie Crone, Berlin Wien. Photo: Uwe Walter, Berlin Exhibition view Mannheim Miami. The Left-Over-Collection. Part One. Galerie Crone Berlin, 2024. Courtesy Galerie Crone, Berlin Wien. Photo: Uwe Walter, Berlin Exhibition view Mannheim Miami. The Left-Over-Collection. Part One. Galerie Crone Berlin, 2024. Courtesy Galerie Crone, Berlin Wien. Photo: Uwe Walter, Berlin Exhibition period: Tuesday, 16. January […]
W.O.P. | Gruppenausstellung | KLEMM’S | 19.01.-17.02.2024
until 17.02.2024 | #4138ARTatBerlin | KLEMM’S presents from 19. January 2024 the group exhibition “W.O.P” with the artists Thomas Arnolds, Gwenneth Boelens, Keltie Ferris, Falk Haberkorn, Fiona Mackay, Alexej Meschtschanow, Renaud Regnery and Marijn Van Kreij. W.O.P., a group exhibition that brings together a selection of works on paper from various positions in our programme, will open next Friday, 19 January 2024. The exhibited artists approach drawing not as rough outline of painting, but as ‘oeuvre per se’, engaging in different narratives on paper that deepen and expand their visual and conceptual investigation of the painterly medium and the discussion connected to it. The simplicity of these works is often deceptive, as they exist as careful outcome of a critical looking, thinking and feeling process — achieving strong, emotional impact with limited means. Opening: Friday, 19. January 2024, 6pm – 9pm Exhibition dates: Friday, 19. January until Saturday, 17. February 2024 Image caption: Fiona Mackay, next, 2020, fabric dye and spray pastel on 300g cold pressed cotton paper, 120 x 80 cm Group exhibition W.O.P. – KLEMMS | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Ausstellungen Berlin Galerien | ART at Berlin
Antje Majewski | The man who disappeared (amerika) | neugerriemschneider | 27.01.-24.02.2024
until 24.02. | #4136ARTatBerlin | neugerriemschneider presents from 27. January 2023 the exhibition “The man who disappeared (amerika)” by the artist Antje Majewski. This is the artist’s ninth solo exhibition at the gallery. Antje Majewski’s ninth solo exhibition at neugerriemschneider, the man who disappeared (america), comprises a complex of paintings, videos and documents that the artist developed during her residency at the Villa Aurora in Los Angeles in 2022. In it, she explores the life of her great-great-great-great-uncle, the artist Georg Pflugradt (later anglicised as George Pflugradt), who travelled from Leipzig to New York in the mid-19th century and crossed the Midwest of the USA via the California Trail before finally settling in Los Angeles. Majewski uses this endeavour as an artistic exploration of migration and colonial land-grabbing in order to shed light on their enduring impact in today’s North American and European subconscious. The man who disappeared (amerika) is based on letters that Pflugradt wrote to his parents, siblings and friends between 1848 and 1851. In the four detailed reports, each spanning several months, of which typewritten copies are on display, he describes the impressions, joys and hardships of his journey by sea and land. In a group of […]
Madeleine Roger-Lacan | Lay down with me | Galerie EIGEN + ART Berlin | 11.01.-24.02.2024
until 24.02. | #4139ARTatBerlin | Galerie EIGEN + ART Berlin shows from 11. January 2024 the exhibition “Lay down with me” of artist Madeleine Roger-Lacan. Galerie EIGEN + ART presents Lay down with me, the first solo exhibition by Madeleine Roger-Lacan in our gallery. The French artist, who has been a member of the EIGEN + ART gallery programme since 2021, lives and works in Paris, where she graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts in 2018. […] Something here is cheesy, yet seductive, stimulating blood veins, arousing the body, twisting it, dehumanizing it. Is it a horror movie or a rom-com? It’s as if a drunk film editor enjoyed the freedom to follow her childish urges. She was cutting and pasting brutally, sometimes in a whimsical manner, often with great anger. Like a butcher with an Andalusian dog barking around the slaughterhouse, slashing the flesh and sewing it with meat. The painting became an event, and the event is tonight. Do not miss it. Do not miss them — longing is a very long process. Like a shoelace knot, impossible to undo. […] Text excerpt by Naom Alon, translation by Frank Süßdorf Opening: Thursday, 11. January 2024, […]
Dieter Jung | The Light Behind | Galerie Kornfeld | 13.01.–24.02.2024
until 24.02. | #4143ARTatBerlin | Galerie Kornfeld shows from 13th January 2024 the exhibition The Light Behind by the artist Dieter Jung. KORNFELD Galerie Berlin is pleased to present works by the artist Dieter Jung in the exhibition “The Light Behind”. It is the first exhibition in Berlin for a long time to show a concentrated selection of groundbreaking works of holographic art. The exhibition centres on the work “Pendulum and its Shadow” and the holograms, complemented by paintings, drawings and graphics from the last few decades. The brightly coloured eye-catcher of the exhibition is a minimalist forest of holographs, which are in dialogue with the different light conditions of the interior and exterior space on the window front facing the gallery’s garden. This part of the exhibition will look different every hour of the day. The holographic image realises itself as a visual attraction not only through the individual viewing perspective. As translucent screens, holograms are artistic events in the now, aesthetics of the moment in the direct sense of the word: kairos poetry.With the concept of the exhibition in Fasanenstraße, the gallery is playing with a basic characteristic of the medium with which Dieter Jung works most intensively […]
Kyungmi Shin | Fly to India for Gold … | 68projects | 13.01.-24.02.2024
until 24.02. | #4153ARTatBerlin | 68 projects shows from 13. January 2024 the exhibition Fly to India for Gold, Ransack the Ocean for Orient Pearl by the artist Kyungmi Shin. In the works presented in Berlin, Kyungmi Shin explores excitingly interconnected narratives that organically merge the histories of Germany and Asia. At the centre of her artistic work is the careful layering of different elements that she draws from the rich tapestry of cultural exchange. At a time when cultural appropriation is being debated, Shin’s work is an example of cultural appreciation. By juxtaposing elements from different cultures – some of which are foreign to her – she manages to sensitively and creatively create a meaningful dialogue about cross-cultural exchange, reflecting much older global culture-connecting interactions. At the centre of Shin’s work is the extensive porcelain collection of Augustus the Strong in Dresden, which comprises around 29,000 objects. She is inspired by the history of this collection, which can be seen today in the Staatliche Kunstsammlung Dresden. During her stay in Germany in 2022, she photographed these porcelain objects and has now integrated them into her artworks for the upcoming exhibition. Shin’s artistic process involves working with photo editing software. […]
Dale Grant | Fading Beauty | nüüd.berlin | 12.01.-23.02.2024
until 23.02. | #4135ARTatBerlin | nüüd.berlin Galerie shows from 12th January 2024 (Opening: 11.01.) the exhibition FADING BEAUTY by the artist Dale Grant. The exhibition presents flower photographs by the fashion and portrait photographer, who comes from the Bahamas and lives in Berlin and Rotterdam. Dale Grant has embarked on a unique artistic journey to capture the beauty in decay. For him, flowers represent a profound allegory of life. The artist sees flowers not only as colourful creatures, but also as a symbol of the cycle of life – from youth to wilting, from radiance to transience. Dale Grant, Tulipa FLAMING PARROT I, 2016, 120 x 160 cm In the exhibition “FADING BEAUTY”, Dale Grant reveals the true and unique beauty of flowers as they begin to wither. The petals unfold completely and their vibrant colours become more muted until they finally become transparent and fragile. The incoming light penetrates the petals, giving the photographs a mesmerising texture and form. Dale Grant, Gerbera Pepper Springs, 2017, 120 x 120 cm The artist began photographing flowers a few years ago in New York, simply out of a desire to explore something new. He not only photographed fresh cut flowers, but also […]
Tao Hui | We, Entertainment | Esther Schipper | 15.12.2023.-27.01.2024
until 27.01. | #4137ARTatBerlin | Galerie Esther Schipper presents from 15. December 2023 the solo exhibition “We, Entertainmen” with artworks of artist Tao Hui. Esther Schipper announces We, Entertainment, Tao Hui’s first solo exhibition at the gallery. On show are two video installations, a sculpture and paintings. Tao Hui is best known for his immersive video and film works that play with the narrative forms of cinema and television as well as the narrative formats of social media. We, Entertainment encompasses a variety of media and is divided into four distinct sections, which together represent both a personal psychological journey and an exploration of the wider societal implications of identity in terms of gender, class, ethnicity and cultural bias (e.g. through urban/rural, North/South dichotomies). As Tao’s work makes clear, the media proves to be a powerful force in this dynamic of tested identities, both as a destabilising and normative influence, but also with liberating and even restorative potential. Exhibition view: Tao Hui, We, Entertainment, Esther Schipper, Berlin, 2023, Courtesy of the artist and Esther Schipper, Berlin/ Paris/Seoul, photo © Andrea Rossetti We, Entertainment begins with The Fall (Green), which finds a powerful poetic image for a world in crisis: The tail […]
With a spicy glimpse of yellow | Group Exhibition | AOA;87 contemporary | 12.01.-24.02.2024
until 24.02. | #4133ARTatBerlin | AOA;87 contemporary shows from 12th January 2023 (Vernissage: 11.01.) the group exhibition „With a spicy glimpse of yellow“, curated by Helga Schmidhuber. AOA;87 presents „With a spicy glimpse of yellow“, a group exhibition curated by Helga Schmidhuber. In the work of selected contemporaries, she searches for the auratic in the floral, essential & expressive and finds precious jewels. The cross-genre show presents works by the artists Dana Greiner, Ann-Kristin Hamm, Simone Lucas, Manfred Peckl & Helga Schmidhuber. Dana Greiner, known for her work at the interface of painting, music, film and theater, uses digital media or 3D drawings to create several works simultaneously, with the human being as the main protagonist and viewer at the center. Dana Greiner, Preplex (Cleo reaches stars), 2020, Spray paint on acrylic glass in lacquered wooden frame, 120 x 85 cm Ann-Kristin Hamm creates a powerful dynamic with her visual language by merging seemingly random patterns with her unique visual language. Ann-Kristin Hamm, o.T., 2023, Acrylic, ink and watercolour on canvas, 200 x 180 cm Simone Lucas captures the mystery and fascination of visual worlds in her works; her paintings embody both color as a tangible medium and the figurative. […]
Celina Teague | It’s Not Me, It’s You | Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery Berlin | 12.01.-10.02.2024
until 10.02. | #4132ARTatBerlin | Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery Berlin presents from 12th January 2024 the exhibition “It’s Not Me, It’s You” with works by the artist Celina Teague. Exotic species of plants, flowers and fungi sprout out of luscious lips, from beneath a drooping eyelid, out of an ear canal. A fetus nestled within a multi-coloured mushroom tree that’s balancing on two interconnected feet. These trippy visions are what artist Celina Teague describes as an attempt at escapism: to shut out the noise and disappear into the weird and wonderful world of nature. It’s Not Me, It’s You, Teague’s solo exhibition at Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery presents a powerful new body of work that breaks away from her news-driven narrative paintings of the past. And yet, the realities and anxieties of the human world continue to creep in. While Teague’s work is typically born from a place of empathy and rage in response to crisis events, this latest series of paintings took its departure point from a desire to lose herself in a mystical realm where nature holds the power and can bend the mind. It is in the earlier paintings produced for this show that she best evades the grip […]
ALL TOGETHER NOW | Galerie Tammen | 15.12.2023-03.02.2024
until 03.02 | #4131ARTatBerlin | Galerie Tammen presents from 15th December 2023 the end-of-year exhibition ALL TOGETHER NOW. Works by the following artists will be on display: Ariane Boss – Sculpture Dietmar Brixy – Painting Marion Eichmann – Paper cuts Persis Eisenbeis – Painting Persis Eisenbeis, Gegen den Strom, 2023, oil on canvas, 50 x 40 cm Matthias Garff – Sculpture objects Harald Gnade – Painting Sue Hayward – Painting Sue Hayward, DREAMING, 2023, Oil, wax, dammar, acrylic on canvas, gauze and wood, 95 x 70 cm, framed, Photo: Lea Gryze Johannes Hepp – Sculpture Heike Jeschonnek – Paraffin drawings Michael Lauterjung – Painting Volker März – Sculpture Ellen Mäder-Gutz – Sculpture Sabine Ostermann – Linocuts Bettina Sellmann – Painting, Drawings Bettina Sellmann, Julie, 2023, Acrylic on canvas 45 x 40 cm Rubica von Streng – Painting Armin Völckers – Painting Sador Weinscluker – Painting Uwe Wohlmacher – Photography Vernissage: Friday, 15th December 2023, 7:00 – 10:00 pm Exhibiton period: Friday, 15. December 2023 until Saturday, 3rd February 2024 Special opening hours: Saturday & Sunday, 16. and 17. December 2023 each day from 14 – 18 Uhr with punch and Christmas biscuits Please note: The gallery will be closed for the […]
Jan Plewka | Eine Art 4Room Show | QGallery Berlin | 16.12.2023-15.02.2024
bis 15.02. | #4130ARTatBerlin | Q Gallery shows from 19th December 2023 (Opening: 16.12.) the solo exhibition “Eine Art 4Room Show” by the artist Jan Plewka. Jan Plewka has made a name for himself not only on stage with his band Selig, but also as an interpreter of Rio Reiser. He is also an impressive multifaceted actor. But what many people don’t know is that Jan Plewka is also an artist, with a degree in graphics and design, and has been drawing and painting for as long as he’s been making music. Jan Plewka, Mir nach!, 2022, Acryl auf Leinwand, 50 x 40 cm The turbulent times of the pandemic served as a creative turning point that led him back to painting. QGallery presents the result of this creative period in this particular exhibition. Jan Plewka, Anna and Child, 2017, Acryl auf Leinwand, 160 x 100 cm Jan Plewka’s works move between raw and abstract art, are intensely colourful and carry personal references. His poetry not only permeates the titles of his works, but also manifests itself in his typographic works. Vernissage: Saturday, 16.12.2023, 6:30 – 9:30 pm Exhibition dates: Tuesday, 19 December 2023 – Thursday, 15 February 2024 […]
Bettina Weiß | Gamma | Semjon Contemporary | 16.12.2023–27.01.2024
until 27.01. | #4129ARTatBerlin | Semjon Contemporary shows from 16. December 2023 (Opening: 15.12.) the exhibition Gamma by the artist Bettina Weiß. Bettina Weiß, Bianki #2, 2023, Oil and acrylic on wood, 30 x 24 x 3 cm Vernissage: Friday, 15 December 2023, 7:00 – 9:30 pm Exhibition dates: Saturday, 16 December 2023 – Saturday, 27 January 2024 Special opening hours: 3rd Advent, 2:00 – 4:00 pm Winter break: Saturday, 23 December 2023 – Monday, 8 January 2024 Artist Talk: Saturday, 13 January 2024, 3:00 pm Image caption title: Bettina Weiß, Portrait of a Secret landscape #27, 2023, Oil and acrylic on wood, 40 x 30 x 3 cm Exhibition Bettina Weiß – Gamma – Semjon Contemporary | Zeitgenössische Kunst – Contemporary Art – Exhibitions Berlin Galleries – ART at Berlin
Petit Format | Group Exhibition | Bermel von Luxburg Gallery | 09.12.2023-03.02.2024
until 03.02. | #4127ARTatBerlin | Bermel von Luxburg Gallery shows from 09. December 2023 the exhibition “Petit Format”. Galerie Bermel von Luxburg is pleased to announce the upcoming group exhibition entitled Petit Format. As the French word “petit” suggests, it is about presenting works of art in a small format, but with a strong presence nonetheless. From figurative to abstract painting, from screen printing to photography… For the first time, the Bermel von Luxburg Gallery is opening on a Saturday and Sunday afternoon. Artists who want to be discovered: Fabien DETTORI DJERIC-HUNOLD Sebastian HEINER Benjamin HERNDON Peter HERRMANN Lev KHESIN Hyon Soo KIM Renata KUDLACEK Erik MAI Vishal SHAH Hans SCHEIB Lothar QUINTE Vincent van GAALEN Sibylle WAGNER-QUINTE Opening: Saturday, 09. December 2023, 12 – 5 pm Exhibition dates: Saturday, 09. December 2023 until Saturday , 03. February 2024 Image caption: Petit Format, Galerie Bermel von Luxburg Exhibition Petit Format – Bermel von Luxburg Gallery | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin
H.Frank Taffelt | S/W | Galerie Inga Kondeyne – Raum für Zeichnung | 09.12.2023-20.01.2024
until 20.01. | #4126ARTatBerlin | Galerie Inga Kondeyne – Raum für Zeichnung shows from 09. December 2023 the exhibition “S/W” by the artist H.Frank Taffelt in the backstage of the gallery. Backstage, new specimens from the Taffelt KB.S. series await a visit; the abbreviation refers to the production of artificial flowers in Sebnitz at the time, a craft tradition in Saxony in which the artist’s ancestors were involved. But that’s not all. Taffelt’s picture supports are also impregnated with the past: File covers, invoice pads, office papers from his grandmother’s laundry and flattening business are given a strengthening primer before the artist actually gets to work; he cuts, folds, creases, folds, glues narrow strips of paper, which, set as elevations row after row, create idiosyncratic paper objects. This paper strip structure, which never denies its craftsmanship, is lined up in rows, as it were, up and down hills and is filled with gaps, empty spaces and grooves, has one thing in particular in store for those who look closely and patiently: a rich, wondrous play of light in the shadows, both between the smallest elements and in the structure as a whole. Echoes of artistic precursors (the Zero movement, for […]
Selected works by the gallery’s artists | Group Exhibition | Galerie Mutare | 06.12.2023-31.03.2024
until 31.03. | #4125ARTatBerlin | Galerie mutare shows from 06. December 2023 the exhibition “Selected works by the gallery’s artists”. In memory of the late painter Karl Oppermann is at the centre of each exhibition variation. Karl Oppermann, courtesy of Galerie Mutare Opening: Wednesday, 06 December 2023 Exhibition dates: Wednesday, 06 December 2023 until Sunday, 31. March 2024 Imagine caption: Karl Oppermann, courtesy of Galerie Mutare Exhibition Selected works by the gallery’s artists – Galerie Mutare | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin
Faszination Landschaft | Group Exhibition | Galerie SCHMALFUSS BERLIN | 02.12.2023-13.01.2024
until 13.01. | #4134ARTatBerlin | Galerie SCHMALFUSS BERLIN shows from 2nd December 2023 the group exhibition Faszination Landschaft (Fascination of Landscape). Leonardo da Vinci created the first pure landscape depiction on the River Arno in 1473. Since then, what we perceive as an aesthetic whole in our world has changed dramatically. In the last exhibition of the year, traditionally a group exhibition, 14 artists from the SCHMALFUSS BERLIN gallery present their view of a timelessly interesting, always topical subject with their paintings and sculptures. Participating artists: Carola Schapals Helge Hommes und Saxana Jürgen Durner Roland Deleau Uwe Hand Siham Issami Susanne Auslender Johannes Schramm Malte von Schuckmann Conrad Sevens Bernd Schwarting Susanne Knaack Roland Stratmann Vernissage: Saturday, 2nd December 2023, 4 – 8 pm Exhibition dates: Saturday, 2. December 2023 – Saturday, 13th January 2024 Image caption title image: Roland Stratmann, Blühende Landschaften, 2021 / 2023, Drawing ink on 81 used postcards from the GDR (detail) Exhibition Faszination Landschaft – Galerie SCHMALFUSS BERLIN – Zeitgenössische Kunst – Ausstellungen Berlin Galerien – ART at Berlin
Leda Bourgogne | Prefrontal Vortex | BQ Berlin | 12.12.2023-10.02.2024
until 10.02. | #4124ARTatBerlin | BQ Berlin shows from 12. December 2023 (Opening: 09.12.) the exhibition “Prefrontal Vortex” by the artist Leda Bourgogne. Opening: Saturday, 09. December 2023 , 6 – 9 pm Exhibition dates: Tuesday, 12. December 2023 – Saturday, 10. February 2024 Image caption: Leda Bourgogne “Prefrontal Vortex” , Courtesy BQ Berlin. Exhibition Leda Bourgogne – BQ Berlin | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin
Maria Wirth | Puppet Garden | Galerie feinart Berlin | 07.12.-22.12.2023
until 22.12. | #4122ARTatBerlin | Galerie feinart berlin presents from 7. December 2023 the exhibition Puppet Garden with paintings in oil, collages on paper and the first works from the new series “Segelhäuser” in oil, ash and shellac by the artist Maria Wirth. “Flowered night, colourful embroidered darkness, flourishing garden with fantasy fruits. Bathing naked on the first day and praying on the last. Leaving when the glass is full, to places where you can only drink from wells. Doll dreams and evening grey Kiss lips as a butterfly. To be born anew every morning.” MW, April 2023 Maria Wirth, Adam and Eve/Fall from paradise, 2023, Oil, shellac on canvas, 150 x 110cm, © MW Maria Wirth, Chasse à trois, 2023, Oil on canvas, 150 x 120 cm, © MW Maria Wirth, Segelhaus no. 3, 2023, Oil, leaves, shellac and ash on canvas, 80 x 80 cm, © MW Maria Wirth, Segelhaus no. 4, 2023, Oil, leaves, shellac and ash on canvas, 80 x 80 cm, © MW Vernissage: Thursday, 07 December 2023, 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm | 7:00 pm Official welcome Exhibition dates: Thursday, 07 December 2023 to Friday, 22 December 2023, Tue, Thu, Fri + Sat 2:00 […]
Tina Braegger | Ich bin hier raus, holt mich ein Star | Galerie Société | 01.12.2023-20.01.2024
until 20.01. | #4121ARTatBerlin | Galerie Société shows from 01. Dezember 2023 (Opening: 30.11.) the exhibition “Ich bin hier raus, holt mich ein Star” by the artist Tina Braegger. Since 2016, Braegger’s eclectic body of painting has revolved around a single motif: the iconic “dancing bear.” Initially designed by artist Bob Thomas to appear on the back cover of the 1973 release The History of the Grateful Dead (Bear’s Choice), these playful mascots quickly became a staple of the American rock band’s visual identity. In her paintings, as in the concert parking lots that spawned countless variations of this figure, the bear operates according to the logic of the bootleg and has developed into a reference system that suffuses every aspect of Braegger’s practice. By taking the bear out of its context of 70s psychedelia and its association with the Grateful Dead’s music, the artist 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 painting itself. Ich bin hier raus, holt mich ein Star presents new works that reflect on the process of painting. The bear appears in various formations and constellations, often […]
Jeanette Niebelschütz I Textura I Galerie Schindler I 07.12.2023-13.01.2024
until 13.01. | #4120ARTatBerlin | Galerie Schindler shows from 07. December 2023 the exhibition “Textura” by the artist Jeanette Niebelschütz. In the TEXTURA exhibition, Potsdam artist Jeanette Niebelschütz is showing her latest works on a very special painting surface. These are carpets in various sizes, which she has collected over a long period of time for her prints. The artist is now embarking on an experimental work in which she uses stencils and printing techniques to apply modern typography to the carpets. The mixture of screen printing and the carpets, which also originate from the oriental world, creates a strong contrast between modernity and tradition. A very special texture is created, not only by the applied color, but also by the woolen and fabric-like material of the carpets, which are transformed here from everyday objects into artistic tapestries. Jeanette Niebelschütz_ El susurro de una mujer hermosa se oye mas lejos que la mas ruidosa IIamade del deber_Siebdruck / Schablon / Acryl_117X78_2023 The characters on the carpets are always of literary origin. Dazzling sentences such as: In the depths of winter I finally learned that within me lies an invincible summer ( Albert Camus), are deconstructed by their uncoordinated printed letters […]
SIRANI | Group Exhibition | Galerie Judin | 11.11.2023-13.01.2024
until 13.01. | #4119ARTatBerlin | Galerie Judin shows from currently the exhibition “SIRANI”. Thirteen Contemporary Painters and an Arresting Baroque Masterpiece: Ellen Akimoto, Alexander Basil, Norbert Bisky, Kyle Dunn, Adrian Ghenie, Christoph Hänsli, Hortensia Mi Kafchin, Brandon Lipchik, Lydia Pettit, Cornelia Schleime, Kiriakos Tompolidis, Hugo Wilson, Uwe Wittwer. Norbert Bisky Alex Goliath, 2023 Oil on canvas 200 × 150 cm A “triumph of the female sex, jewel of Italy and sun of Europe” – that is how Carlo Malvesi described Elisabetta Sirani, who died in 1665 at the age of only 27, in his biography published in 1678. He was not the only admirer of this extraordinary young woman, who left behind not only 200 paintings, but also an art academy for women that she had founded, the first of its kind in Europe. At that time, the world of art – just like the world of politics and religion – was a male bastion. The great masters – Michelangelo, Raphael, Caravaggio – had no female counterparts. The few exceptions – besides Sirani, Artemisia Gentileschi, for example – had to fight to receive education, which was usually only available in their father’s studio. This was also the case with the […]
Hal Busse | Rot geht mit allen Farben | DIEHL | 25.11.2023-19.01.2024
until 19.01. | #4118ARTatBerlin | DIEHL shows from 25. November 2023 (Opening: 24.11.) the exhibition “Rot geht mit allen Farben” by the artist Hal Busse. “Beginning of new experiments, coloured reliefs, spatial additions. And, at the end of a hot summer’s day (Leuze, crowds of people) new paintings. Added elements. Colour, colour, colour rhythms.” [1] When Hal Busse wrote these lines in her diary in 1957, the creative activity of the artist, born in Jagstfeld, southern Germany in 1926, was entirely determined by colour. The frenzy of colour, as she alludes to it in writing, finds its counterpart in brilliant colour spaces that transport colour beyond the pictorial space into the real space. The artistic work of Hal Busse, who until 1954 was a student of protagonists such as Manfred Henninger and Willi Baumeister at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart, was always inspired by her sensual experience of the world around her. At the end of the 1950s, abstraction defined the artist’s genre-rich oeuvre, which, in addition to painting, also included works on paper, prints, wall reliefs, freestanding objects, architectural designs and, finally, “Kunst am Bau” (art in construction). Structure, reduction and dynamism are decisive aspects of Hal […]
Ben | Group Exhibition | Kuckei + Kuckei | 01.12.-21.12.2023
until 21.12. | #4117ARTatBerlin | Kuckei + Kuckei shows from 01. December 2022 the exhibition “Ben”. Artists on show: Ingmar Alge, Oliver van den Berg, Anne Berning, Joe Biel, Jenny Brillhart, Hlynur Hallsson, Peter K. Koch, Michael Laube, Lilly Lulay, Anja Nitz, Barbara Probst, Nikola Röthemeyer, Miguel Rothschild, Fiene Scharp, Guillermo Srodek-Hart, Guy Tillim, Jörn Vanhöfen, Matten Vogel, Gerhard Winkler, Vlad Yurashko. “…In Ben’s case, his bequest is a treasure that cannot be measured in money. It consists of the bonds that he leaves behind. An informal network of people he knew who are bound to Ben’s memory in the knowledge that they made each other possible. Ben made sure that they could immerse themselves for months in projects that made sense only to them. And they enabled him to pursue his favourite pastime on the evenings before an opening: simply being there. Surrounded by works of art that ask to be understood [..].“ (Kai Müller; from the introductory text to the edition box published for the exhibition) courtesy Kuckei + Kuckei, Ben Kuckei Ben Kuckei’s entire social environment was deeply affected by his sudden death. In addition to his immediate family, this also affected the part of the family that could […]
27 Herbstblätter | Galerie aKonzept | 01.12.2023-06.01.2024
until 06.01. | #4114ARTatBerlin | Galerie aKonzept shows from 01. December 2023 the exhibition “27 Herbstblätter”. The selection of works was guided by the desire to bring together artists from different eras, countries and cultural contexts in order to assess the formal or intellectual links that unite them, as well as the differences that divide them. Anonym Harry Buser James Lee Byars Piero Pizzi Cannella Walter Ehrismann. Esther Ferrer Alfred Hofkunst Jürgen Klauke Wolf von Kries Sebastien Leclerc Brigitte Matschinsky – Denninghoff Otto Meyer Amden Hanna Nagel Edmond Quinche Gerard de Palézieux Ewa Partum Emmanuelle Rapin Ruth Wolf Rehfeldt Takako Saito Klaudia Schifferle Kajetan Sosnowski André Thomkins Jiří Valoch Josip Vanista Sandra Vasquez de la Horra Oscar Wiggli Opening: Friday, 01. December 2023 Exhibition dates: Friday, 01. December 2023 until Saturday, 06. January 2024 Image caption: courtesy Galerie aKonzept – 27 Herbstblättter Exhibition 27 Herbstblättter – Galerie aKonzept | Zeitgenössische Kunst | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin
Claude Eigan + Jake Kent | Psychotic Property, Neurotic Garden | KLEMM’S | 08.12.2023-27.01.2024
until 27.01. | #4116ARTatBerlin | KLEMM’S shows from 08. December 2023 the exhibition “Psychotic Property, Neurotic Garden” by the artists Claude Eigan and Jake Kent. “What is a space? A space is everything. A room full of dirty clothes left on the floor by anonymous guests. A site for community. A sense of belonging. A place most deeply formed by love — though with no need for romanticism. Seeking that rough tenderness behind the ravages of existence. And what of claiming spaces? How psychotic is private property? Like a place, time too can become palpable, specific places that existed, moments of resistance, a time that lasts the duration of a struggle. ‘Psychotic Property, Neurotic garden’ is a double exhibition by Claude Eigan and Jake Kent, curated by Marta Santi at Klemm’s Showroom. The show exists as a sequel to ‘CJ’s Place’ — a show produced at Gr_und in Berlin in 2021, representing a first meeting point or potential site of community. In embracing the transient, communities find strength and adaptability. Redefining their concept of spaces and leaving indelible marks on the collective memoir of our cultural landscapes. ‘Psychotic Property, Neurotic Garden’ is both an homage to pre-existing and existing subcultural […]
And I draw a line | Group Exhibition | Galerie kajetan Berlin | 09.12.2023-27.01.2024
until 27.01 | #4115ARTatBerlin | Galerie kajetan Berlin shows from 9. December 2023 (Opening: 08.12.) the exhibition “And I draw a line”. And I draw a line | Exhibition view 2023 / 2024 Courtesy the artists & estates of the artists & Galerie kajetan | Photo: Marcus Schneider And I draw a line | Exhibition view 2023 / 2024 Courtesy the artists & estates of the artists & Galerie kajetan | Photo: Marcus Schneider And I draw a line | Exhibition view 2023 / 2024 Courtesy the artists & estates of the artists & Galerie kajetan | Photo: Marcus Schneider Artists shown: Izabel Angerer, Bettina Blohm, Gisela von Bruchhausen, Hermann Glöckner, Marc Goroncy, Marta Guisande, Fritz Klemm, Paco Knöller, Ulrike Kregel, Norbert Kricke, Ingrid Lønningdal, Marc Nagtzaam, Haleh Redjaian, Erich Reusch, Sara Sizer, Elisabeth Vary, Claude Viallat and Jan Wawrzyniak And I draw a line | Exhibition view 2023 / 2024 Courtesy the artists & estates of the artists & Galerie kajetan | Photo: Marcus Schneider Opening: Friday, 08. December 2023, 6 – 9 pm Exhibition dates: Saturday, 09. December 2023 – Saturday, 27. January 2024 Image caption: And I draw a line | Exhibition view 2023 / […]
Stephen Kent | On Borrowed Eye | Haverkampf Leistenschneider | 24.11.2023-13.01.2024
until 13.01. | #4113ARTatBerlin | Haverkampf Leistenschneider shows from 24. November 2023 the exhibition “On Borrowed Eyes” by the artist Stephen Kent. Stephen Kent (b. 1985, Pennsylvania, USA, lives and works in Berlin) works around ideas of resolution and image production through the decorative gesture and the exploration of cultural codes embedded in everyday objects. In his ceramics, paintings and mosaics the artist demonstrates his engagement with psychedelic culture and comparative mythology. With a medium-reflexive approach, he uses a process-oriented language to humorously investigate the stuff our world is made of. It remains a staged clash of ancient and digital pixels, an ironic montage of high and mass culture with an inquisitive wink. In the exhibition “On Borrowed Eyes”, Stephen Kent presents a new series of mosaic wall reliefs which record everyday moments within our surroundings. Cardboard boxes, clothing racks, building facades and other daily motifs are printed onto aluminum panels and inlaid with mosaic tiles, re-enchanting, overlooked corners of our visual world. In his second solo exhibition at the gallery, Kent continues to explore the notion of “overlooking”, of staring at the familiar until it turns into something unfamiliar. “When I was a child, I would often sit for hours […]
William Tillyer | Kewenig Berlin | 11.11.-21.12.2023
until 21.12. | #4112ARTatBerlin | Galerie Kewenig Berlin currently presents the exhibition of the artist William Tillyer. Painterly depictions of reality and illusion are presented by William Tillyer (*1938) in a challenging contrast with materials and spatial references. In the Englishman’s first solo exhibition in Germany, paintings, watercolours and objects from the 1970s onwards can be seen. Strong colours in acrylic and complex structures that determine the surfaces and grid constructions give his works textures that juxtapose nature and technology, with quotations from still lifes or landscape references. Tillyer ascribes an energy to colour that comes from nature. After early paintings of a reduced sign-like quality, such as the large-format work ‘The Blue Vase with Mixed Arrangement’ (1975), Tillyer’s painting subsequently gains material substance. The application of colour becomes increasingly impasto, the bold tones applied to the picture support in rich contrast. However, the focus on the material does not exclusively demand abstraction. William Tillyer’s work repeatedly references art history, such as the Cubist work of Braque or Picasso, De Stijl or Russian Constructivism. There are reminiscences of representational genres, still lifes (‘Florist II’, 1977), architectural or landscape depictions (‘Ebb and Flow 2’, 1993). The grids allow not only the […]
Elger Esser | Aestus II | Kewenig Berlin | 11.11.-21.12.2023
until 21.12 | #4111ARTatBerlin | Galerie Kewenig Berlin currently presents the exhibition “Aestus II” by the artist Elger Esser. The recent photographs by Elger Esser in this exhibition provide views of a silent infinity, bathed in pale colours, in shades of blue or yellow, pierced by the bright shine of the sun and its reflections. They take us to Normandy and Brittany and to Haute-de-France, showing the Wadden Sea around the island of Mont-Saint-Michel with its imposing silhouette and fortifications. On view is architecture, the landscape, the water, the cloudy sky and, above all, light and space. Aestus, the Latin title of the exhibition, serves to designate the tides. Esser thus shows more than idealised landscapes: he depicts the silent natural forces of ebb and flow, which, determined by the effects of the moon, the coasts and the winds, expose and conceal the Normandy mudflats in a perpetual cycle. The height of the wide horizon in the picture places the focus on the water and its forces, the surf, the current, the whirlpools, or on the clouds. All this is pierced and accompanied by the light of dawn or day, sometimes glaring, sometimes diffuse. These new works fit into Esser’s […]
Marina Naprushkina | Birds with the people | PSM Gallery | 25.11.2023-20.01.2024
until 20.01. | #4110ARTatBerlin | PSM Gallery shows from 25. November 2023 (Opening: 24.11) the exhibition “Birds with the people” by the artist Marina Naprushkina. Can a bird song be an act of solidarity within the resistance movement? Despite the poetic form of this question, it has an intrinsically political background. On February 9, 2022, in the wake of ongoing repression and a few weeks before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Belarusian regime liquidated the NGO “Ahova Ptushak Batkaushchyny” (Eng. Protection of Homeland Birds), which had been carrying out ecological and nature conservation activities for almost a quarter of a century. “Birds with the people” is a slogan launched and shared on social media by the NGO during the uprising in Belarus to support the protesters and show solidarity with them. The slogan became a symbol of resistance against the violence in the patriarchal state. Moreover, it highlights the widespread use of repressive tactics by authoritarian regimes, which extend from the political to the private sphere, and affect humans and non-humans, silencing the voices and destroying ecosystems. For her first gallery show in Berlin, Naprushkina brings together her recent works (installation, video, paintings and text) to create a complex, […]
Wilfred Schwerin von Krosigk | Lounge – waiting for the bus | Galerie Z22 | 02.12.2023-13.01.2024
until 13.01. | #4109ARTatBerlin | Galerie Z22 shows from 02. December 2023 the exhibition “Lounge – waiting for the bus” by the artist Wilfred Schwerin von Krosigk. The lounge is never the destination. It is a stopover for travellers, a frozen moment in time. The visitor is anonymous, fleeting and blurred. The function of the space determines and characterises it. The space signifies expectation and promise. But it also harbours a subliminal threat. Light, shadows and perspectives hint at mysterious scenarios. Things rebel against their purpose, machines take on a life of their own, misty wisps of figures waft past like movements in the corner of the eye, setting the subconscious on alert. Is the traveller the hunted? Is he a victim or a perpetrator? The viewer projects his own fears into the scenery. The lounge is the totality of the lounge images. The individual image is a snapshot, a random piece of information that catches the viewer’s eye, only to be immediately replaced by new impressions. The lounge is chaos, a space of media overload. Which impressions become engraved in the consciousness, what falls victim to oblivion, is subject to chance, the feelings and experiences of the viewer. The […]
Last and further | Group Exhibition | Michaela Helfrich Galerie | 22.11.-20.12.2023
until 20.12. | #4108ARTatBerlin | Michaela Helfrich Galerie shows from 22. November 2023 the exhibition Last and further with works by different artists of the gallery. Last and further – it seems like a turning point. Art stands still. Neither forwards nor backwards. A pause in positions Gerard Waskievitz, 2023, Fee Morgana, Oil on Canvas, 40 x 30 cm What once was, summarised in what still exists, the newly emerging still unfinished. Painterly insights into episodes of the gallery artists’ materials and colours. Alan Rankle On display are works by Klaas Bosch, Alan Rankle, Ulrike Pisch, Gerard Waskievitz and Nanako Shikata, among others. Nanako Shikata, Sumo Orange, 2023 Ulrike Pisch, Loveletter, 2015/16, Oil on Canvas, 130 x 100 cm Vernissage: Wednesday, 22. November 2023, 2 – 8 pm Exhibiton dates: Wednesday, 22. November – Wednesday, 20. December 2023, Wed – Sat, 2 – 8 pm Image caption title: Klaas Bosch, Half, 2017, Oil on Canvas, 103 x 68,3 cm Exhibition Last and further – Michaela Helfrich Galerie | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin
Marta Djourina I Midnight Sun | FeldbuschWiesnerRudolph | 18.11.2023-13.01.2024
until 13.01. | #4107ARTatBerlin | FeldbuschWiesnerRudolph (FWR) shows from 18. November 2023 the exhibition „Midnight Sun“ by the artist Marta Djourina. The title “Midnight Sun” not only describes a natural phenomenon that occurs at both poles of the Earth when the rotation of the Earth’s axis reaches a certain alignment with the Sun, but also represents the disappearance of the duality between day and night, between distance and movement, between darkness and light. Marta Djourina Marta Djourina‘s “Midnight Sun” project at the FeldbuschWiesnerRudolph Galerie brings together the synthesis and creation of mul;-layered dialogues between different media, techniques, spaces, object reality, light, statics and dynamics. It is no coincidence that the current exhibition comes as a result of several other notable realizations in year 2023. It follows “Outer Glow” (Junge Kunst in Wolfsburg in June), combining video, photography and light installation, Ashes of Ice (European Capital of Culture Tartu, in August) with its impressive scale and comes also after Per EE TETRIS (Scope BLN in June) with the experiment on sculptural objects placed in an installation context. Now all these very different approaches have been brought together to form the monolithic and homogeneous fabric of “Midnight Sun”. Such a refined understanding […]
Trak Wendisch | Trak Wendisch – Part II | Galerie Tammen | 17.11.-09.12.2023
until 09.12 | #4106ARTatBerlin | Galerie Tammen shows from 17. November 2023 the exhibition “Trak Wendisch: Part II” with paintings and assemblages by the artist Trak Wendisch. This exhibition follows Part I with objekt art and sculptures, that has been shown in the Galerie Tammen previously. Trak Wendisch is an authentic personality – searching, enthusiastic, critical. Various breaks in the development of his work emphasise his desire to research, experiment and analyse. “An unchanged personal style is a subtle form of deprivation of freedom,” he says. “In order to formulate certain new ideas, I inevitably need new material,” the artist emphasises. This requires his collectors to go along with him to a certain extent, one might think. Trak Wendisch, Durchblick I, 2022, assemblage on canvas, 200 x 150 cm, framed His latest works are at the intersection of painting, relief, object painting, assemblage and sculpture. The series “Statt” (since 2020, with around 20 pictures so far) deals with alienated aspects of digitalisation and the problems that AI poses for humanity. “Statt” is a sprawling collage system of cut-up circuit boards, motherboards from personal computers, stabilised on honeycomb core boards and mounted on blockboards, some of which are framed with acrylic. Trak […]
Evelyn Richter | The Miracle of Human Development | Loock Galerie | 18.11.–16.12.2023
until 16.12. | #4105ARTatBerlin | Loock Galerie shows from 18. November 2023 (Opening: 17.11.) the exhibition „The Mircale of Human Development“ by the artist and photographer Evelyn Richter, the first solo exhibition of Evelyn Richter’s work in Berlin. In 1978, Richter and psychologist Hans-Dieter Schmidt worked closely together on “Entwicklungswunder Mensch” (German title), which explores early child development from birth to the start of elementary school. By assigning equal importance to both text and photography, this book represented a new style of non-fiction in the GDR. With five editions and circulation of 100,000 copies, it achieved remarkable success for Urania Verlag. The formal approach of the photo book enabled Richter to create a compelling narrative through the sequencing of her images. She also invited fellow photographers to contribute to the publication, including Sibylle Bergemann, Christian Borchert, Margit Emmrich, Bernd Heyden, Ute Mahler, Helga Paris, and Brigitte Voigt, whose work will also be shown at LOOCK Galerie. This exhibition will be accompanied by a panel discussion—participants include Annekathrin Müller and Michael Junge—on Saturday December 9, 2023 at 4 PM. Opening: Friday, 17. November 2023, 6 – 9 pm Exhibition dates: Saturday, 18. November– Saturday, 16. December 2023 Panel discussion: Saturday, 9. […]
Sharka Hyland | BILDER | Galerie Dittmar | 18.11.2023-10.01.2024
until 10.01. | #4104ARTatBerlin | Galerie Dittmar shows from 18. November 2023 the exhibition BILDER by the artist Sharka Hyland. Sharka Hyland, born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, lives and works in Philadelphia. Since 1998 teaching position at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, School of Design. 2007 and 2010 research stay as Artist in Residence at the Banff Centre, Canada. 2009 Winner of the 32nd Annual Wind Challenge, Philadelphia. Numerous exhibitions since 2012, including at Gallery Joe in Philadelphia and in Paris. For the exhibition there in March 2015 at the Salon du Dessin, report on her in the New York Times. 2015 research project of the Franz and Virginia Bader Fund, 2016 research residency at the Civitella Ranieri Visual Arts Fellowships in Umbria. Since 2014 Lecturer in Visual Studies at the University of Pennslvania, Philadelphia. “Sharka Hyland confronts us not only with a reinterpretation of what a drawing is, but also with a reinterpretation of the narrative. Most of us use some kind of narrative when we create or view a work of art. What if the narrative, as it is and unchanged, even the text itself, is the artwork? Sharka Hyland shows graphite drawings of text passages taken from important […]
David Hartt | Naturphilosophie | Galerie Thomas Schulte | 04.11.-23.12.2023
until 23.12. | #40103ARTatBerlin | Galerie Thomas Schulte shows from currently the exhibition „Naturphilosophie“ by the artist David Hartt. Galerie Thomas Schulte presents Naturphilosophie, an exhibition of new works by David Hartt. For his second solo exhibition at the gallery, Hartt expands on an ongoing body of work, continuing his engagement with themes related to dominant systems of knowledge and representation, and corresponding processes of marginalization and displacement. Photogravure works and large tapestries, all sharing the title The Garden, comprise images of plants taken at various sites in northern Europe – in the Netherlands, Sweden and Germany. Bringing these peripheral, non-human agents into focus, the images reflect on how our environment, and the life present in it, has been shaped by human activity and ideals of the past – as well as their resonances today. David Hartt, born in 1967 in Montréal, Canada, creates work that unpacks the social, cultural, and economic complexities of his varioussubjects. For Hartt, “place” is a way to investigate community, narrative, ideologies, and the intersection of private and public life. His photographs, videos, sculptures, and installations offer a sensitive and concise portrait of contemporary post-industrial, post-communist, and late-capitalist societies. The artist studied at The University […]
Portraiture as Social Commentary | Group Exhibition | Persons Projects | 18.11.2023-27.01.2024
until 27.01. | #4102ARTatBerlin | Persons Projects shows from 18. November 2023 (Opening: 17.11.) the exhibition Portraiture as Social Commentary by the artists Joakim Eskildsen, Katarzyna Kozyra, Paweł Książek, Zofia Kulik, Milja Laurila, Dominik Lejman and Jorma Puranen. Persons Projects is delighted to present the latest group exhibition titled “Portraiture as Social Commentary”; this exhibition not only highlights the different aspects of the genre but also links together a variety of artistic perspectives. A portrait is a painting, a photograph, a sculpture, or any other representation of a person in which the face and its expressions are predominant. They reveal the presence of the subject viewed from the perspective of the artist – a merger of contrasts between what’s projected by one and perceived by another. These images become mirrors of many faces that reflect both the political and cultural undercurrents relevant to the time period in which they were conceived. The photographs of Zofia Kulik are produced as photomontages, using multiple exposures placed on photo paper through precisely cut masks. In this way, one work can consist of even a hundred single images. Within the realm of the self-portrait, Zofia Kulik presents herself as a queen. Her kingdom lies in the empire of a photographic archive, a collection […]
Karen Kilimnik | Sprüth Magers Berlin | 18.11.-22.12.2023
until 22.12. | #4101ARTatBerlin | Sprüth Magers Berlin shows from 18. November 2023 (Opening: 17.11.) the exhibition by the artist Karen Kilimnik. Sprüth Magers is pleased to present beach paintings by Karen Kilimnik for a winter escape. Opening: Friday, 17. November 2023, 6 – 8 pm Exhibition dates: Saturday, 18. November 2023 – Friday, 22. December 2023 Image caption: Karen Kilimnik, the beach. cotton candy beach, 2023, © Karen Kilimnik, Courtesy the artist, Eva Presenhuber and Sprüth Magers, Photo: Lance Brewer Exhibition Karen Kilimnik – Sprüth Magers Berlin | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibition Galleries Berlin | ART at Berlin
John Bock | Ex-Ego-Gynt | Sprüth Magers Berlin | 18.11.-22.12.2023
until 22.12. | #4100ARTatBerlin | Sprüth Magers Berlin shows from 18. November 2023 (Opening: 17.11.) the exhibition „Ex-Ego-Gynt“ by the artist John Bock. The works of sculptor, action artist, filmmaker and author John Bock are experiments in material and language that challenge the traditional boundaries within the art world. Bock composes spectacular and absurd structures wherein he stages his lectures and films. Sprüth Magers is pleased to present a solo exhibition by the artist, which will transform the gallery space into Bock’s characteristically unique artistic cosmos and premiere his latest film alongside several new objects and an installation. Opening: Friday, 17. November 2023, 6 – 8 pm Exhibition dates: Saturday, 18. November 2023 – Friday, 22. December 2023 Image caption: John Bock, The Ex-Ego Assembles a Lump of Fume in the Everyman, installation view, Gallery Kula, Split, Photo: Darko Škrobonja. Exhibition John Bock – Sprüth Magers Berlin | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Galleries Berlin | ART at Berlin
The waters you touched, now turned to concrete | Group Exhibition | EIGENHEIM Berlin @Haunt Berlin | 24.11.–16.12.2023
until 16.12. | #4099ARTatBerlin | EIGENHEIM Berlin as a guest at HAUNT shows from 24. November 2023 the exhibition “The waters you touched, now turned to concrete” by the artists Gökçen Dilek Acay, Anna Bittersohl and Nina Röder. „the waters you touched, now turned to concrete“ is the second exhibition by EIGENHEIM Weimar/Berlin at HAUNT Berlin. The poetic title of the exhibition, which can be interpreted in many different ways, takes us on a journey through the three different artistic positions of Gökçen Dilek Acay, Nina Röder and Anna Bittersohl. Water, the epitome of life, movement and malleability, is brought to a standstill or transformed into concrete by touch. Whether this can be read as a metaphor for the artistic production process or as a warning against man’s destruction of the enviroment remains an open question – and that is a good thing, as the three artists’ approaches differ both in terms of content and form. When we look at Nina Röder’s underwater landscapes and portraits, for example, a fundamental characteristic of the medium of photography comes to mind. Photography captures movement, brings a living moment to a standstill, preserves it like a memory. The familial transmission of memories and […]
Philip Grözinger + Stefan Rinck | Die Handtasche muss lebendig sein | 68projects | 18.11.2023-06.01.2024
until 06.01. | #4098ARTatBerlin | 68projects shows from 18. November 2023 the exhibition Die Handtasche muss lebendig sein by the artists Philip Grözinger + Stefan Rinck. Curated by Peter Ungeheuer, the exhibition brings together for the first time Philip Grözinger’s pictorial depictions of colourful, imaginary worlds populated by extraordinary figures and creatures in dialogue with Rinck’s humorous sculptures made of stone, which become mythical creatures, monsters and animals with grimaces. The first double exhibition by Stefan Rinck and Philip Grözinger is a collaboration in the literal sense of the word, as the majority of the works on display were created for this purpose, including the joint work “Lonely tunes” pictured above. The curator, Peter Ungeheuer, writes about the exhibition: “Bruce Darnell, former judge of the TV show Germany’s Next Topmodel, is known for witty sayings that have been absorbed into mime culture and have become part of the cultural memory of a generation. The quote, also the title of this exhibition by Stefan Rinck and Philip Grözinger, is a reminder to take the supposedly unimportant seriously, because it has a considerable influence on the overall impression. For the first prominent presentation of their works in Berlin for some time, this […]
Matteo Montani | DIE TAGE DES HIMMELS – days of heaven | Luisa Catucci Gallery | 02.12.2023-11.01.2024
until 11.01. | #4097ARTatBerlin | Luisa Catucci Gallery shows from 02. December 2023 (Opening: 01.12.) the exhibition DIE TAGE DES HIMMELS – days of heaven by the artist Matteo Montani. Viens-tu du ciel profond ou sors-tu de l’abîme, O Beauté? Charles Baudelaire “I consider my painting strictly connected with the history of the eye and the vision. Where the eye becomes a sensitive membrane, a filter. I associate the pictorial space with a threshold, with a subtle screen suspended between two dimensions as a frontier, a passage. What I paint is something possibly situated between the eye and the soul, an unknown place that we could define the rift between the physical world and the spiritual, in its dissolving.” Matteo Montani Altri appunti sulla melodia delle cose, Oil and bronze powder emulsified on sandpaper mounted on canvas, 100×250 cm, 2019, Matteo Montani, courtesy Luisa Catucci The sky has long held a cherished place in the world of art, serving as a limitless source of inspiration for countless generations of artists. Whether capturing the brilliance of a clear blue day, the drama of a stormy night, or the ethereal glow of a sunset, the sky, with its everchanging hues, moods, and […]
Ueli Etter | mother cloud | ZWINGER Galerie | 18.11.2023-27.01.2024
until 27.01. | #4096ARTatBerlin | ZWINGER Galerie shows from 18. November 2023 (Opening: 17.11.) the exhibition mother cloud by the artist Ueli Etter in collaboration with BOYS DO CERAMICS. Clouds and vases. They already appear in the adventure park designed by Ueli Etter in the 1990s, which promises “final entertainment”. They adorn the various pavilions, monuments and hotels as drawings, prints or fictional objects. Here now is the task, the attempt to capture clouds and their peculiar materiality in sculpture – the phenomenon of their growth, their parts and in their entirety – in bronze, glass, plaster, porcelain and concrete. Light, but not weightless, they sometimes become luminaires. In contrast, the vases: The inverted, the hidden, the secret that has taken shape, their barely visible inner life. The “Mother of Pearls”, for example, is a spherical vase with an inconspicuous exterior but a glamorous interior that can only be seen through a round opening with a small diameter. The vase as camera obscura and parable of the cave. Its ambiguous, split nature between function and representation: a symbol of the fragile and a predicted destiny, the fulfilment of which is the shard. Opening: Friday, 17 November 2023, 7 – 9 […]
Ruscha Voormann | Polar | Crone Berlin | 14.11.-23.12.2023
until 23.12. | #4095ARTatBerlin | Crone Berlin shows from 14. November 2023 (Opening: 11.11.) the exhibition Polar by the artist Ruscha Voormann. In her exhibition Polar, the artist is showing three groups of works: Reflection, Routine, and Formation. The title of the exhibition itself not only refers to the polarity in painting, which the artist explores in her work, but is also a reference to the main color that has appeared in Voormann’s pictorial worlds since January 2023: polar white, a bluish white that seems cold at first glance and that dominates the new series on display here. Ruscha Voormann, exhibition view, CRONE Gallery Berlin, 2023 Left: Ruscha Voormann, Reflexion II (Pol A), 2023, acrylic and acrylic glass on canvas, 90 x 70 cm Right: Ruscha Voormann, Routine V, 2023, acrylic on canvas, 185 x 170 cm The Reflection series contains works in which Voormann perhaps gives chance the most leeway. By pushing two sheets of Plexiglas against each other with acrylic paint in between, a contrasting pair is created when the two sheets are separated, each of which is connected independently of the other with a canvas. In the titles, the pairs belonging to each other are called “poles.” […]
Éric Baudelaire | What It Is Of | Galerie Barbara Wien | 17.11.2023-03.02.2024
until 03.02. | #4094ARTatBerlin | Galerie Barbara Wien shows from 17. November 2023 the exhibition What It Is Of by the artist Éric Baudelaire. Opening: Friday, 17 November 2023, 2 – 9 pm, Saturday, 18 November 2023, 11 am – 6 pm Exhibition dates: Friday, 17 November 2013 – Saturday, 3 February 2024 Image caption: Éric Baudelaire, courtesy Galerie Barbara Wien Exhibition Éric Baudelaire – Galerie Barbara Wien | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin
Joachim Grommek | friends & others | Taubert Contemporary | 10.11.2023-20.01.2024
until 20.01. | #4092ARTatBerlin | Taubert Contemporary shows from 10. November 2023 the exhibition friends & others by the artist Joachim Grommek. Why does someone take the trouble and imitate pressboard? Painting, and on a chipboard that itself has a fine grain. Even though Joachim Grommek has long been able to create the illusion of wooden surfaces with both virtuosity and efficiency, his consistent will to visually recreate them is astonishing. It does not remain with the one illusion. Both, the color surfaces and the precise horizontals and verticals of his paintings seem industrially produced. One searches in vain for an individual gesture in his new series “friends & others”; on the contrary, smoothness and perfection characterize Grommek’s artistic practice. And he reinforces this impression of the use of prefabricated foils and adhesive strips through the plastic qualities of his painting: even the transparent strips that imitate adhesive tape and appear to fix the pictorial elements arranged on the chipboard seem to be glued on. The fact that there are always visitors in his exhibitions who want to pull off a piece of it underscores the illusionary qualities of these contemporary trompe l’œils. #255 (Blaupause von Mondrian, composition with double […]
Richard Prince | Body | Galerie Max Hetzler | 03.11.2023-10.02.2024
until 10.02. | #4091ARTatBerlin | Galerie Max Hetzler (Potsdamer Str.) shows from 03. November 2023 the exhibition Body by the artist Richard Prince. ‘In my mind the “conventions” of the figure is what’s cool. Trying to make something different out of something that’s already been done to death makes me bend over backward, hold my breath and count to ten. I take a pulse. It’s faint. But I feel it. It’s barely there. Flat line? Almost. But I hold on. Lay it on me. Give me some skin. Give me some bones. It’s just like that The Mamas & the Papas song… “I’m in the mood for love.”’ – Richard Prince, 2015 Galerie Max Hetzler is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Richard Prince at Potsdamer Straße 77-87, in Berlin. This is the artist’s second solo presentation with the gallery. Cropped, pasted, painted and scanned, the exhibited works testify to Prince’s longstanding preoccupation with collecting and repurposing images while placing a renewed emphasis on the importance of the corporeal in his oeuvre. In these compositions, Prince splinters and reassembles photographic fragments of the female figure with varying degrees of legibility. The resulting collages assemble a new ‘body’, complicating notions of authorship and […]
Zemba Luzamba | Folk Ritual | Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery Berlin | 24.11.2023-05.01.2024
until 05.01. | #4090ARTatBerlin | Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery Berlin shows from 24. November 2023 (Opening: 23.11.) the exhibition Folk Ritual by the artist Zemba Luzamba. Men in sharply tailored suits gather against brightly coloured backgrounds – holding a pint, sitting in a leather arm chair, embracing one another, their fists raised into the air. This latest series of paintings by the Congolese artist Zemba Luzamba is inspired by the concept of brotherhood and the communal practices, specifically those that take place around weddings. Bringing together all new work, Folk Ritual, the artist’s solo exhibition at Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Berlin examines the ways in which we make sense of and transition through different stages of life. As with all of Luzamba’s work, the contextual background detail is stripped away and replaced with bold colour fields that focus the viewer’s attention on body language, clothing and facial expressions, while also creating space for interpretation. In this latest series, the occasion is hinted at through the groom’s white suit in Boys will be Boys II and the bride’s wedding dress in the painting Two Black Roses, but the scenes could otherwise depict a variety of ceremonial events – a birthday, christening, graduation or even a protest. Take, for instance, the painting Amandla in […]
Christoph Bouet + Stephan Balkenhol | ON SURFACE | ARTES Berlin | 18.11.2023-27.01.2024
until 27.01. | #4089ARTatBerlin | ARTES Berlin shows from 18. November 2023 (Opening: 17.11.) the exhibition ON SURFACE by the artists Christoph Bouet + Stephan Balkenhol. The extraordinary works of the painter Christoph Bouet (*1974) and the sculptor Stephan Balkenhol (*1957) are multi-layered and – at first glance – could not be more different, but the selection of the artists for this exhibition suggests a comparison of their works because direct references are the order of the day: the use of “open” materials and materials – be it the rough, unadulterated beauty of the wooden Balkenhol figures or the expressive layering of colour in oil in Bouet’s work. Stephan Balkenhol: “Mann mit geschlossenen Augen“, Wawa wood and colour, 2023, unique piece, 171 x 30 x 30 cm The result is a tactile stimulus whose deep resonance invites you to turn the two artists’ unmistakable works into a haptic experience. Opening: Friday, 17 November 2023, 6 – 8 pm Exhibition dates: Saturday, 18 November 2023 – Saturday, 27 January 2024, Saturday, 02. december 2023, 7 pm, Christoph Bouet in conversation with Dr Wolfgang Ullrich Dr Wolfgang Ullrich (*1967) is an art and cultural scientist. He works as a freelance cultural scientist, […]
Janine Mackenroth | POOL POSITIONS | WINDOW WATCHING | aquabitArt Galerie | 03.11.-12.11.2023
until 12.11. | #4088ARTatBerlin | aquabitArt Galerie shows from 03. November 2023 the exhibition POOL POSITIONS with paintings and objects by the artist Janine Mackenroth. Janine Mackenroth works on themes of equality and sustainability. With plant-based (nail) polish she creates paintings, questions traditional gender roles, but also the materiality of art itself. POOL EDITION #2, Janine Mackenroth, 2023 On the occasion of her exhibition “POOL POSITIONS” at aquabitArt Gallery, she releases the plant-based nail polish color “TWENTY EURO BLUE” – the blue of the 20-euro bill.It runs as a “blue thread” through her pool installation in the gallery spaces – in her painting, as threads of the bacterium Escherichia coli, is found in a scent work, as well as in the pool itself, filled with a million shredded euro bills. DAX Aktienkurs Stickerei aus e.Coli Bakterium Seidenfaden von AM Silk 2022, Janine Mackenroth The artist also refers to her new studio in a former swimming pool from the 70s in Munich. https://art.aquabit.com/product-category/janine-mackenroth/ Janine Mackenroth, Swimming Pool, photo Astrid Schmidhuber, 2023 WINDOW WATCHING is a project that shows works by artists from the gallery as well as guest artists that are visible through the gallery window. In the online shop › BUY ART, all exhibited artworks […]
Valérie Favre | Intérieurs | Galerie Barbara Thumm | 04.11.-22.12.2023
until 22.12. | #4093ARTatBerlin | Galerie Barbara Thumm shows from 4. November 2023 (Opening: 03.11.) the exhibition Intérieurs by the artist Valérie Favre. Valérie Favres paintings open up fresh narratives and conceptual perspectives, moving between figuration and abstraction. Her works are dominated by a fictional world made up of contrasts, contradictions, resistance and restlessness. She works in an openly experimental manner, using a repertory informed by art history. Her demands of the medium are extensive; she is always engaged in a radical interrogation both painting and artistic work processes. Favre paints scenes developed over the course of several years in large series and work cycles. The exhibition Intérieurs traces some of these series back to their beginnings and shows an early group of works, painted when Favre first moved to Berlin, between 2000 and 2001. Many of her later motifs and compositions can be already found in the large scale paintings. Favre explains: “Intérieurs is a series of paintings that I made when I came to Berlin in 1999. A large part of these works are key paintings. Exemplary paintings. It is a source that I promised myself I would return to one day. Possibly now is the right time to do so? […]
Tammam Azzam | Temporary Title | Galerie Kornfeld | 18.11.2023–06.01.2024
until 06.01. | #4087ARTatBerlin | Galerie Kornfeld shows from 18. November 2023 the exhibition Temporary Title by the artist Tammam Azzam. The gallery is pleased to present new works by the Syrian artist Tammam Azzam, who lives in Berlin, in the exhibition “Temporary Title”. Guided by a general humanity, his pictorial collages find an artistic expression for the incessant suffering that people experience through unexpected attacks or wars by tyrannical rulers in the past, present and future. Creativity in the midst of fragmentation. The English expression “temporary title”, with which the artist titles his exhibition, can be translated in Arabic not only as “temporary title” but also as “temporary address” and refers to the homelessness of people who have had to leave their homes due to terror, war or hunger. The artists from Syria have a unique cultural heritage and experience nature in all its facets. They know the uncertainties of life in a constantly changing environment. The ongoing state of war has left its mark on the country and makes it difficult to remember the past. But not all Syrian artists in the diaspora are war refugees. Tammam Azzam, who has lived in Germany since 2016 and in Berlin […]
Capucine Vandebrouck | Regarder est un pouvoir (Looking is Power) | Galerie Gilla Lörcher | 11.11.-26.01.2024
until 26.01. | #4086ARTatBerlin | Galerie Gilla Lörcher presents from 11. November 2023 (Opening: 10.11.) the solo exhibition „Regarder est un pouvoir“ (Looking is power) of artist Capucine Vandebrouck. Galerie Gilla Lörcher | Contemporary Art presents the fifth solo exhibition by artist Capucine Vandebrouck. Regarder est un pouvoir / Looking is Power is an exhibition project based on a three-month research trip in spring 2022 to the federal territory of Yukon in northwestern Canada. During this trip, French artist Capucine Vandebrouck witnessed the changing seasons and the landscapes shifting from white to green and undergoing drastic changes. She observed the melting of the ice, the sprouting of the first spring crocuses, but also the devastating effects of global warming on the environment such as forest fires and parched forests. The various works on display in the exhibition are objects that bear witness to the decay and impermanence of the landscapes of northern Canada. They bear witness so that we no longer succumb to blindness. They force our gaze to what we normally block out. The gaze will change the perception of what is alive. Every work by Capucine Vandebrouck is an attempt to learn to see anew, because the gaze […]
Viktoria Binschtok | 43% happy | KLEMM’S | 03.11.-22.12.2023
until 22.12. | #4085ARTatBerlin | KLEMM’S shows from 03. November 2023 the exhibition 43% happy by the artist Viktoria Binschtok. Viktoria Binschtoks “Typewriter Photographs” At first, we feel like we’ve been transported back into the early 20th century: Photos of an old mechanical typewriter, zoomed in to show the type hammers, with a white sheet of paper, covered in type, clamped to the carriage. The lower-case ‘a’ is a bit out of line, and the type has often punched through the ribbon, making the letters look messy. The pages contain only individual words or numbers, sometimes arranged in rows, sometimes printed half on top of each other, sometimes with large spaces between them. The overall appearance is reminiscent of ‘concrete poetry,’ harking back to a genre from the 20th century, when poets and artists experimented with setting words in constellations and creating meaning in ways that went beyond syntactic relationships. The title of Viktoria Binschtok’s exhibition–“43% happy”– brings us back to the present. Quantifying emotions by percentage is a typical feature of AI-assisted facial recognition programs, which are trained to detect ‘action units,’ that is, individual states or processes in a person’s facial expressions, and to relate them to each […]
Sally Kindberg | Saga | WENTRUP | 27.10.-02.12.2023
until 02.12. | #4083ARTatBerlin | WENTRUP shows from 27. October 2023 the exhibition Saga by the artist Sally Kindberg. Step into the mesmerizing world, where the canvas becomes an enigmatic tapestry of interconnected tales and unexpected discoveries. Kindberg seamlessly blends intuition and meticulous exploration to breathe life into fragments of found images, sketches, and snapshots. In “Saga,” the artist invites you to embark on a journey where the mundane transforms into the extraordinary, where hidden stories come to life, and where the canvas becomes a portal to a world of endless possibilities. The exhibition transcends the boundaries of traditional art, inviting the viewers to engage with the paintings, interpret their meanings, and contribute their unique perspective to the unfolding narrative. Kindberg’s fascination with texture, surface, and tones is palpable in every stroke. The paintings, almost sculpted into their final forms, reveal the artist’s dedication to her craft. Layers of meaning, akin to the layers of paint, ask the viewers to decipher the similarities between their world and the one presented in the exhibition. Exhibition view: Sally Kindberg, Saga, 2023. Photo: Matthias Kolb Sally Kindberg, born in Sweden (1970) studied at Goldsmiths, University of London. She lives and works in London. Interested in […]
Mike Nelson | A forgotten kingdom, remembered | neugerriemschneider | 18.11.-20.01.2024
until 20.10. | #4084ARTatBerlin | neugerriemschneider presents from 18. November 2023 the exhibition “A forgotten kingdom, remembered” of artist Mike Nelson. It is the third solo exhibition by the artist at the gallery. Nelson, known for his intricately layered constructions, here returns his installations to their narrative foundations. a forgotten kingdom, remembered follows his far-reaching survey Extinction Beckons at the Hayward Gallery earlier this year, developing upon and beyond its explanatory work descriptions with a collection of new texts by the artist that echo the bodily impacts of his large-scale work. The writings on view become expansive by means of the realms they create within a viewer, with each piece tracing the lineage of a particular sculpture by the artist, implanting itself in memory much like its antecedent. Together they map his practice and the approaches that crucially shape it, communicating the deeply engrained, albeit unseen of significant projects, lending voice with devices previously unexplored. Throughout his oeuvre Nelson has composed work that, by way of amalgamated objects that have long been cast off and regarded as detritus, uncovers hidden pasts, legacies of trade and industry, and literary genres. Taking on scales both monumental and intimate, his sculpture derives its […]
Daniela Finke | A Present from the Past | nüüd.berlin | 10.11.- 22.12.2023
until 22.12. | #4082ARTatBerlin | nüüd.berlin Galerie shows from 10. November 2023 (Opening: 09.11.) the exhibition “A Present from the Past” by the artist Daniela Finke. The exhibition focuses on her latest series of works, “A Present from the Past”, in which the artist explores the memorable appearance of horseshoe crabs (Limulidae), an endangered species whose age is estimated at over 400 million years and whose bluish blood is of great medical use to mankind. Daniela Finke, Dance No.1, 2018_2 … Print, AluDibond, 19 x 19 cm In her works, Daniela Finke explores the invisible relationships of the visible world. In bright colours, she marks bodies, architectures, everyday things or natural phenomena, putting them out of focus. In this way, her pictures bring elementary forms and relationships to light and turn the inside of perception inside out. Like magical illuminations of the unconscious, abstract and concrete at the same time, her series play through the temporary patterns of perception and reveal their fragile, rationally hardly graspable shape. Daniela Finke, Carmen Electra, 2007, Pigment Print …, 90 x 120 cm, Serie Life Saver`s Cabin The exhibition focuses on the latest series of works “A Present from the Past”, in which the […]
Allen Jones | Jour de fête | alexander levy | 04.11.-21.12.2023
until 21.12. | #4081ARTatBerlin | alexander levy shows from 04. November 2023 the exhibition Jour de fête by the artist Allen Jones. For the first time in over 50 years, the works of the famous pop artist Allen Jones are being presented again in Berlin. Allen Jones, born 1937 in Southhampton, is one of the most important Pop-Art Artists of our time. On display are works from the last forty years, paintings, sculptures and works on paper. The highlight of the exhibition is the reissued version of the work Secretary from 1972. For the opening of the exhibition on November 4 Allen Jones will be in attendance. Opening: Saturday, 4 November 2023, 6 – 9 pm Exhibition dates: Saturday, 04. November – Thursday, 21. December 2023 Image caption: Allen Jones,Tirez, 2005 & 2022-23, oil and montage on canvas, tryptych, 274.5 x 366 cm, courtesy alexander levy Exhibition Allen Jones – Galerie alexander levy | Contemporary Art – Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin – Exhibitions Berlin Galleries – ART at Berlin
Bodo Korsig | ZEITSTURZ | AOA;87 | 03.11.-22.12.2023
until 22.12. | #4080ARTatBerlin | AOA;87 shows from 03. November 2023 (Opening: 02.11.) the exhibition ZEITSTURZ by the German multimedia artist Bodo Korsig. In the exhibition, the artist presents various media from his extensive oeuvre, such as cutouts made of felt and wood from the series “window of the mind”, LED illuminated signs with slogans such as “Balance”, “enough” and “Intensity of the moment”, woodcuts, wall objects made of metal, and the interactive video installation “Shattering dreams, 2023”. Bodo Korsig, Break the Limit, 2023, wood and paper, 27 x 21 cm, courtesy AOA;87 His works from the series “window of the mind”, which he creates in different materials, sometimes felt, sometimes wood or aluminium, are hung at a distance from the presenting wall. The resulting shadows create a three-dimensional effect that initalises a scan of the memory content and can arouse enormous emotions. Korsig’s intense preoccupation with the human brain awakens associations with neuronal networks, cell structures or viral proliferations. It is the play with ambivalent emotions and the irritation of one’s own visual experience that appeals to the artist. Bodo Korsig, Webes of life, 2021, filz, 145 x 130 cm, courtesy AOA;87 Shattering dreams, 2023 The interactive video installation […]
Rodrigo Hernández + Franco Mazzucchelli | ChertLüdde | 27.10.2023-27.01.2024
until 27.01. | #4078ARTatBerlin | ChertLüdde shows from 27 Oktober 2023 the exhibition “stars around this beautiful moon hide back their luminous form” by the artist Rodrigo Hernández and the exhibition “A. on A.” by the artist Franco Mazzucchelli. ChertLüdde and Klosterfelde Edition are pleased to present an exhibition by Franco Mazzucchelli (b. 1939, Milan) in two chapters, A. on A. and A. to A., across both gallery locations in Berlin. Stimulating continuous spatial research and including the observers through physical participation, the exhibition offers an engaging overview of the Italian maestro’s extensive works. Over the course of his decades-long practice, several generations have been involved in his artistic interventions, one example among the most recent being the Art on Art (A. on A.) series on view at ChertLüdde. This selection of works, produced from 2010 onwards, includes sections of inflatable sculptures that were part of several public interventions. Made of PVC, the works temporally became part of the urban fabric by allowing the public to take on unexpected social roles: the public did not passively admire the artworks, but was encouraged and rather eager to touch them, scribble on them, decorate them, and leave traces of their personal lives, thus transforming them into testimonies of a […]
paperfile #19 | Group Exhibition | oqbo – raum für bild wort ton | 28.10.-25.11.2023
until 25.11. | #4079ARTatBerlin | oqbo – raum für bild wort ton shows from 28. Oktober 2023 (Opening: 27.10.) die Group Exhibition paperfile #19 by the artists Anke Becker, Anna v. Gwinner, Veronike Hinsberg, Manfred Holtfrerich, Jens Komossa, Anke Paola Neumann, Julia Pietschmann, Olaf Probst and Christine Reifenberger. 15 years of oqbo also means 15 years of paperfile. In this anniversary year, there will be another round in our space on Brunnenstraße. In 2023, paperfile will enter its 19th round. paperfile #19 complements the gallery’s drawing archive with works on paper by 9 artists. Another carefully selected mix of drawings, watercolours, digital prints, collages, cynotypes and many other forms of expression on paper. Right from the first exhibition, oqbo began to build up a rapidly growing collection of works on paper with paperfile. To date, it has grown to over 200 portfolios of works on paper by international and national artists. paperfile stands for a fundamental orientation of the work with the project space: to promote communication among visitors, to bring together those who are unfamiliar with art and those who have an affinity for it, and to seek and make possible a dialogue between art and art viewers. Through […]
bewegt | Group Exhibition | AOA;87 | 08.09.-28.10.2023
until 28.10. | #4076ARTatBerlin | AOA;87 presents from 8. September 2023 the group exhibition “bewegt” (> moved) with works by the artists Bodo Korsig, MARCK, Margarete Adler and Adolf Luther. With this exhibition, the gallery founded in Bamberg in 2020 opens its Berlin location. With the carefully curated exhibition “bewegt”, AOA;87 presents some highlights from its programme for the opening of the Berlin location. The artists Bodo Korsig, MARCK and Margarete Adler, who are directly represented by AOA;87, have created new works especially for the opening exhibition: the interactive video installation “shattering dreams, 2023” by Bodo Korsig and the collaborative work by the artists Margarete Adler and MARCK – Videosculptures “Wer bin ich?, 2023”. For the first time, the entire cycle “MUTTERLIEBE” by Berlin sculptor Margarete Adler will be presented, in which the artist portrays Berliners and their very own stories of development. Gallery owner Angela Kohlrusch contrasts the contemporary positions with the work Sphärisches Hohlespiegelobjekt, 1970, by the German conceptual artist Adolf Luther, thereby clarifying the understanding of the title„bewegt“ noch einmal erweitert. Adolf Luther, Spherical concave mirror object, 1970 Concave mirror, semi-transparent, plane mirror, wood, Plexiglas 118 x 118 x 7,8 cm, price on request, courtesy of AOA;87 […]
Inka + Niclas | Extensions | Dorothée Nilsson Gallery | 04.11.2023-06.01.2024
until 06.01. | #4077ARTatBerlin | Dorothée Nilsson Gallery shows from 4. November 2023 (Opening: 03.11.) the exhibition “Extensions” by the artists Inka & Niclas. The Swedish artist duo Inka & Niclas manipulate the visual mechanisms of nature photographs and playfully explore the everyday use of landscape images. The artists explore the desire to consume nature through travel and photography and to portray themselves as being in harmony with nature. “Extensions” consists of a combination of different works that revolve around this central theme. Inka and Niclas Lindergård’s work has been shown in numerous exhibitions since they began working together 16 years ago. Their recent exhibitions include “Rethinking Landscape vs Rethinking Identity”, Museo Fortuny, Venice, Italy (2023), “Return to Nature”, Pearl Art Museum, Shanghai (2023), “In Bloom”, Fotografiska, Stockholm (2023), “Family Portraits”, Museum Quartier, Vienna (2022), “Destination: From Seaside Resort to Cosmos – International Biennial of Contemporary Art from South America”, MAR Museum, Mar del Plata (2021), “Suniverse”, Xintiandi, Shanghai (2021), “Rethinking Nature – Rethinking Landscape”, MNHA – Musée National d’histoire et d’art Luxembourg, Luxembourg (2021), “Unbound – Breaking the Boundaries & Multidisciplinary”, Westergas, Amsterdam (2021) and “Family Portraits”, Les Nuits Secrètes, Aulnoye-Aymeries (2021). For Circulations(s), Le Centsquartre-Paris (2021), her works […]
en face – portrait + portrait | Group Exhibition | Semjon Contemporary | 04.11.-02.12.2023
until 02.12. | #4075ARTatBerlin | Semjon Contemporary shows from 04. November 2023 (Opening: 03.11.) the exhibition “en face – portrait + portrait” by the artists Jürgen Baumann, Mathias Bothor, Katja Flint, Andreas Fux, Norbert Heuler, Nataly Hocke, Henrik U. Müller, Angelika Platen, Susanne Pomrehn, Gerda Schütte, Jan Sobottka, Ingo Taubhorn, Stefan Thiel and Barbara Vallribera. Andreas Fux, WMF, 1988, 80 x 80 cm (image size), C-Print (hand print 2014) Opening: Friday, 03. November 2023, 19:00 – 21:30 hrs Exhibtion dates: Saturday, 04. November – Saturday, 02. December 2023 Caption title: Angelika Platen (photographed by Blinky Palermo), Hamburg 1972, 40 x 30 cm ( paper size), gelatin silver on baryta paper (artist’s hand print); © Angelika Platen, courtesy by Galerie Michael Haas Exhibtion en face – portrait + portrait – Semjon Contemporary | Zeitgenössische Kunst – Contemporary Art – Ausstellungen Berlin Galerien – ART at Berlin
Michael Behn | Tender Blossoms | Stella A. | 29.10.2023-16.03.2024
until 16.03. | #4074ARTatBerlin | Galerie Stella A shows from 29th October 2023 the exhibition “Tender Blossoms” with Collages by the artist Michael Behn. In this exhibition I operate multifunctional as artist, curator and gallerist. II present collages, produced mainly in the last two years. In these collages depicted artworks have been complemented by petals and leaves from various trees. The selected artworks refer to artists who have inspired me and the gallery’s program for many years. I felt, it was time to name and present some of these „ghosts”. The petals are mostly from roses, which have accompanied the various gallery shows more or less decoratively during the past years. In test tubes instead of vases they also served as a reminder of Joseph Beuys and his „Rose for Direct Democracy“. I was reluctant to simply depose the withered petals in the garbage, so I started to collect the leaves and press them inside various books. They had to wait for a long time for their recycling. The idea of associating them with works of art wasn’t new to me; ever since the seventies I had occasionally inserted them in my own watercolors. One of the first collages in […]
Fran Forman | The Color of Absence | BBA Gallery | 04.11.-16.12.2023
until 16.12. | #4073ARTatBerlin | BBA Gallery shows from 04. November 2023 (Opening: 03.11.) the exhibition The Color of Absence by the artist Fran Forman. Born in the 1940s, US artist and cinematic storyteller Fran Forman constructs visual narratives by combining various photographs of places, people and objects. The staged compositions reflect the paradox of the digital age: despite increasing global connectivity, we are painfully separated from each other. This deep loneliness is once again characteristic of today’s society and forms the basis for the series “The Color of Absence”. The BBA Gallery discovered Fran Forman as part of the BBA Artist Award 2022. One year later, the BBA Gallery presents “The Color of Absence”, Fran Forman’s first solo exhibition in Berlin and Germany. Cinematic storyteller and American artist Fran Forman constructs visual narratives that express the profound loneliness that characterises contemporary society. The staged compositions – from various photographs of objects, places and people – reveal the paradox of the digital age: Separation despite global interconnectedness. Following Hopper’s social realism, the familiar settings in the photographs isolate their protagonists, who are themselves surrounded by an air of fragility. Trapped in their own fantasies, the community and kinship they long […]
Ál Varo Tavares D’Guilherme | no church wild | Dittrich & Schlechtriem | 27.10.–09.12.2023
until 09.12.| #4072ARTatBerlin | DITTRICH & SCHLECHTRIEM shows from 27. Oktober 2023 the exhibition “no church wild” by the artist Ál Varo Tavares D’Guilherme. For the first time, Galerie DITTRICH & SCHLECHTRIEM is showing Berlin-based painter ÁL VARO TAVARES D’GUILHERME (*1992, Angola) in a solo exhibition. The show includes a new series of large-format works in acrylic and oil on canvas and a mirrored installation and drawing that double the hanging in the gallery’s main space. Ál Varo Tavares D’Guilherme – Night Rider Early Workout, 2023, Acrylic and mixed media on canvas, 160 x 160 cm, Photo Jens Ziehe. D’Guilherme, who sees himself as part of a neo-brut movement – a mixture of New Brutalism and art brut – creates visual landscapes, tablescapes and nightscapes that capture urban life in Berlin and at the same time are inspired by his time in Lisbon, where he developed his practice and lived and worked. Combining rawness and precision, the artist’s paintings are about creative expression in its purest form. As the title No church wild suggests, echoing the rejection of all meaning, value or purpose in the world, D’Guilherme’s work unfolds without fixed attributions, including art historical references and iconographic layers that […]
Astrid Lowack | PARADISE IN MIND | ARTCO Galerie Berlin | 26.10.-25.11.2023
until 25.11. | #4071ARTatBerlin | ARTCO Galerie Berlin shows from 26. October 2023 the exhibition PARADISE IN MIND by the artist Astrid Lowack. “To have paradise in front of one’s eyes is something beautiful, to look forward to it as well…. it can of course also be seen as something final – depending on how you look at it – just as my pictures always combine something positive and something negative…”, explains artist Astrid Lowack cryptically with regard to the exhibition title. The exhibition PARADISE IN MIND will be on view at ARTCO Gallery Berlin from 26.10.23. Viewers are invited to fully engage with the large-format works of the photo artist. They provide access to a strange world into which one balances with uncertain footsteps. The further one progresses, the more one loses touch with learned colour contexts, familiar forms and their proportions; one inevitably thinks of supernatural experiences, natural phenomena that no longer seem to fit into this world. Lowack lives and works near Amsterdam and has been represented in numerous solo and group museum exhibitions. A publication has been published by Hirmer-Verlag. Exhibition dates: Thursday, 26 October to Saturday, 25 November 2023 Image caption title: Astrid […]
Elvira Bach | Galerie SCHMALFUSS BERLIN | 28.10.-25.11.2023
until 25.11. | #4070ARTatBerlin | Galerie SCHMALFUSS BERLIN presents from 28. October 2023 the exhibition with work of the artist Elvira Bach. Great, strong, erotic women are the theme of ELVIRA BACH’s life. They are women who – like herself – go their way self-confidently, sometimes provocatively. ELVIRA BACH’s casual, sweeping brushstrokes and gestural figuration as an expression of sensuality and beauty have become her trademark. ELVIRA BACH had her artistic breakthrough as early as 1982 at documenta 7. In the 1980s, she was celebrated as a female Junge Wilde. Today, her works are represented in renowned museums and prestigious private and public collections worldwide. And with each work, you – dear art lover – take the esprit of this artistic personality home with you. Opening: Saturday 28. October 2023 Exhibition dates: Saturday, 28. October – Saturday, 25. November 2023 Image Title: ELVIRA BACH, Glaube, Liebe und Was…, 2023, Acryl on canvas, 140 x 100 cm Exhibition Elvira Bach – Galerie SCHMALFUSS BERLIN – Zeitgenössische Kunst – Ausstellungen Berlin Galerien – ART at Berlin
Daniela Polz & Anja Kracht | Homozygot | Galerie Z22 | 03.11.-12.11.2023
until 12.11. | #4069ARTatBerlin | Galerie Z22 shows from 3. November 2023 the Exhibition Homozygot of artists Daniela Polz and Anja Kracht. DANIELA POLZ’S expressive language is strongly concept- and symbol-based. The themes have always revolved around the essence of being human and its enigma. For some years now, she has been concentrating on the identity and individuality of the human being, focusing on the material hair. Hair is not only an external expression of individuality, but as a carrier of DNA it is unmistakable, individual-related, comparable to a fingerprint. Hair is extremely symbolic, which is repeatedly addressed in fairy tales and myths and is evident across time and space in various cultures. Her works tie in with this meaningfulness of hair. ANJA KRACHT is a multidisciplinary artist. Her works include ceramics, graphics, painting and object installation. In terms of content, she explores in her works the question of the standpoint, the relationship of beings to each other and their environment. What lies hidden, what lies behind the wall and under the skin. What does she want to make visible, what does she encode, what connects them and what remains? She works in her own pictorial language, mostly reduced in […]
Jimmy DeSana | Solo Exhibition | Meyer Riegger | 04.11.-22.12.2023 – extended until 06.01.2024
until 06.01. | #4068ARTatBerlin | Meyer Riegger shows from 04. November 2023 (Opening: 03.11) an exhibition by the artist Jimmy DeSana. Meyer Riegger shows 53 works from all phases of Jimmy DeSana’s short but productive career. With a series of 56 black-and-white lithographs called 101 Nudes, DeSana completed his art studies at Georgia State University in 1972, where he had initially begun with painting and turned to photography from the second semester onwards. His final project already revealed the themes that had preoccupied DeSana ever since and which, until his AIDS diagnosis in 1985, he was to view mostly with humour: the body, sex, objectification and submission-almost always in a domestic setting. “I don’t really understand these works as erotic. I look at the body almost as an object.” – Jimmy DeSana on his series Suburban (1979-84) Jimmy DeSana. Debbie Harry, 1977. vintage C-print. image: 42,2 x 30,8 cm. framed: 60 x 48,9 x 3,5 cm. © Jimmy DeSana Trust. Courtesy of the Jimmy DeSana Trust, P·P·O·W, New York and Meyer. Riegger, Berlin The queer photographer Jimmy DeSana worked in New York from 1973 until his early death from an AIDS-related illness in 1990: no-wave music, club culture, performance art, […]
Joseph Mader | Ein Künstler wird wiederentdeckt | Salongalerie Die Möwe | 24.11.-02.12.2023
until 02.12. | #4067ARTatBerlin | Salongalerie Die Möwe presents from 24. November 2023 the exhibition Ein Künstler wird wiederentdeckt (An artist is rediscovered) with works of the artist Joseph Mader. Joseph Mader (1905 – 1982), who was strongly influenced by the art of Max Beckmann in the early 1930s, is one of the most recent rediscoveries of classical modernism. Since this year, the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus in Munich has been contributing to making the artist’s life’s work visible and accessible to art history with a photo documentation of pictures by the painter. Adler, 1932, Mischtechnik auf Papier, 70,3 x 55 cm The gallery would like to share with you the rediscovery of Joseph Mader’s work. It is the first gallery in Berlin to present paintings from his entire creative period. At the vernissage on Friday, 24 November 2023, the artist’s grandson and head of the Joseph Mader Archive, Mr Maximilian Mader, will talk about his grandfather’s life and work. Opening: Friday, 24. November 2023, 6pm Exhibition dates: Friday, 24. November until Saturday, 02. December 2023 Location: Kurfürstendamm 71, 1. floor (Elevator available), 10711 Berlin Image title: Landstreicher und Mädchen, 1931, pencil on paper, 55 x 71 cm […]
Natascha Ungeheuer | A look into her picture worlds from 1964 to 2023 | Galerie Brockstedt | 09.11.2023-30.01.2024
until 30.01.| #4066ARTatBerlin | Galerie Brockstedt shows from 9th November 2023 the exhibition “A look into her picture worlds from 1964 to 2023” with paintings and drawings by the artist Natascha Ungeheuer. “Natascha Ungeheuer is a painting utopian of the German language.” Johannes Schenk “Natascha Ungeheuer was born Ursula Rosa Ungeheuer in Blumenfeld. She spent her childhood in Biederbach (Black Forest). She went to school in Freiburg (Breisgau). High school diploma in Stuttgart. Teacher’s examination at the Pedagogical University of Lüneburg in 1959, followed by dance academy Harald Kreuzberg in Bern. From 1961 she traveled through England, Ireland, Finland, France and Italy. In 1962 she came to Berlin. She drew more and more frequently. Oil painting soon followed. She took no art lessons and was consciously self-taught. She sought no models in art and gave her painting style no name. Her old master style of painting with the finest brushes depicts people. ‘Phantasmagorical realism’ would be an obvious term that best describes her painting. From 1966 (Kunsthalle Netzel in Worpswede) she had exhibitions at home and abroad. From 1964 to 2006 she lived in Berlin and Worpswede with her partner Johannes Schenk, who died suddenly on December 4, 2006. From […]
Sinanovska + Yuehui Liu | A JOURNEY BEYOND CLARITY | QGallery Berlin | 21.10.-11.11.2023
until 11.11. | #4064ARTatBerlin | Q Gallery presents from 21st October 2023 the double exhibition A JOURNEY BEYOND CLARITY by the artists Sinanovska and Yuehui Liu. With “A JOURNEY BEYOND CLARITY”, Q Gallery presents a double exhibition of two artists of Albanian and Chinese descent from Berlin, each of whom plays with shades, hints, colours and brightness in a completely different way, creating unique atmospheric images. Sinanovska, Materia III, 2023, oil on canvas, 100 x 120 cm Sinanovska, Der Abend naht, 2023, oil on canvas, 50 x 50 cm Sinanovska with her oil paintings and Yuehui Liu with her large-format drawings dispense with figuration. Yuehui Liu, Light, 2021, ball point pen on acrylic paper, 100 x 140 cm Yuehui Liu, Orange Associations, 2021, ball point pen on acrylic paper, 150 x 200 cm They hint at form and space, each creating a fleeting, almost tangible reality – A JOURNEY BEYOND CLARITY. Vernissage: Friday, 20 October 2023, 7:00 p.m. Exhibition dates: Friday, 20 October – Saturday, 11 November 2023 Bildunterschrift Titelbild: Sinanovska, Abend, 2023, oil on canvas, 60 x 80cm Exhibition Sinanovska + Yuehui Liu – Q Gallery Berlin | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions […]
Trak Wendisch | Trak Wendisch – Part I | Galerie Tammen | 20.10.-11.11.2023
until 11.11 | #4065ARTatBerlin | Galerie Tammen shows from 20th October 2023 the exhibition “Trak Wendisch: Part I” with object paintings and sculptures by the artist Trak Wendisch. Trak Wendisch is an authentic personality – searching, enthusiastic, critical. Various breaks in the development of his work underline his desire for research, for trying things out, for analysis. “An unchanged personal style is a subtle form of deprivation of freedom,” he lets slip. “In order to formulate certain new ideas, I inevitably need new kinds of material,” the artist emphasises. One would think that this requires his collectors to go along with him to a certain extent. His latest works stand at the intersection of painting, relief, object-picture, assemblage and sculpture. The series “Statt” (since 2020, with about 20 paintings so far) deals with alienated aspects of digitalisation and the problems that AI poses for humanity. “Statt” is a sprawling collage system of cut-up circuit boards, motherboards of personal computers, stabilised on honeycomb core boards and mounted on carpenter’s boards, partly set with acrylic. Trak Wendisch, Industrial III, 2022, Mischtechnik auf Wabenplatte, 100 x 90 cm Art thrives in a jungle of quotations. There is hardly a new work of art […]
Alvar Beyer | sérénité | Galerie Schindler | 19.10.-02.12.2023
until 02.12. | #4063ARTatBerlin | Galerie Schindler in Potsdam shows from 19th October 2023 the exhibition “sérénité” with new works by the artist Alvar Beyer. sérénite: serenity – balance – in all tranquility In Alvar Beyer’s most recent paintings, the pictorial has dissolved. By means of many layers, forms and structures worked over and into each other, the new works are created. They are more reminiscent of the interior of a landscape, the interior of a mountain or a situation under the surface of the water. In partially dark and garish colors, this previously unseen “world” shines. The view is led into space in the pictures. Alvar Beyer, Atopos, 85 x 60 cm, acrylic on canvas, 2023 Associations what color the mind or a thought have, or even what size they could have, arise when looking at them. Alvar Beyer, 2023, Antias, Leaf metal on linen, 55 x 42 cm The running down of the color in some works is a metaphor of dissolution – of confusion. This seemingly destructive process is offset by the harmony and mood that the paintings nonetheless create. Alvar Beyer, Riff, 85 x 60 cm, acrylic on canvas, 2023 Fragments of daily encounters in public […]
Hanns Schimansky | Solo Exhibition | Galerie Inga Kondeyne – Raum für Zeichnung | 20.10.-02.12.2023
until 02.12. | #4062ARTatBerlin | Galerie Inga Kondeyne – Raum für Zeichnung shows from 20. October 2023 a solo exhibition with works by the artist Hanns Schimansky. And again Hanns Schimansky surprises the viewers with another chapter of his incredibly imaginative world of drawings. “The lineatures, figurations and surfaces in Hanns Schimansky’s drawings have so far been distinguished by the black of the inks and pencils. The black not only promotes the plastic, which the artist has increased into the spatial through his folds, but leads into something tonal. One could even understand some drawings as scores that could be translated into sounds. In recent times, there has been another transformation: into colour, if you want to call it more precisely, into drawing watercolours. In their language, these new sheets remain familiar to the viewer, but surprisingly new inventions are at the draughtsman’s side. Neither the familiar pen nor pencils are his means, but coloured inks run along folded lines. Some things are controlled, others left to chance. The coloured drawings are of a serene cheerfulness, which at the same time announces a great inner freedom.” Text: Eugen Blume Hanns Schimansky, o.T., 2023, Ink, 39 x 58,5 cm Hans Schimansky 1949 […]
Gregor Hiltner | Riding on a Boat of Fools | Galerie Kremers | 20.10.-15.12.2023
until 15.12. | #4062ARTatBerlin | Galerie Kremers presents from 20. October 2023 the exhibition “Riding on a Boat of Fools” of the artist Gregor Hiltner. Ships, especially ships of fools, are among the leitmotifs of the artist Gregor Hiltner. This is not surprising, as he can use them to depict the themes that have preoccupied him throughout his life: Travelling and setting out for other worlds and man’s being at the mercy of hostile elements. “Unser Narrenschiff mit Heiliger Kleinfamilie”, 2005, Acrylic and oil on canvas, 2005, 260 x 300 cm This existential being thrown into the world and the resulting insecurity are Hiltner’s central themes, as well as the short-sighted and often absurd handling of this situation, which he observes in himself and his fellow travellers. We look forward to a variety of often very large-scale works from different creative periods and techniques, including brand new works. Opening: Friday, 20. October 2023, 7:00 – 9:00 pm Exhibition dates: Friday 20. October until Friday, 15. December 2023 Image title: “Tango Rudo”, 2003, Acrylic and oil on canvas, 195 x 285 cm Exhibition Gregor Hiltner – Galerie Kremers | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Ausstellungen Berlin […]
Amy Beager | Paradise | Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery Berlin | 20.10.-18.11.2023
until 18.11. | #4061ARTatBerlin | Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery Berlin shows from 20. October 2023 (Opening: 19.10.) the exhibition “Paradise” of the artist Amy Beager. In a series of dreamscapes – caves, forests, islands and oceans – ethereal figures embrace, collapse and merge with their surroundings. Amy Beager’s latest series of works continues her fascination with Greek mythology and fairy tales to explore the idea of paradise and the longing for it. Her solo exhibition at Galerie Kristin Hjellegjerde in Berlin takes us on a journey into a world where scenes of romance and tragedy play out as hallucinatory visions and fever dreams. Beager’s work probes the boundaries between body and nature, reality, the spiritual and the supernatural. While her compositions often refer to motifs from art history or certain mythological narratives, the colours, lines and textures only develop in the course of the painting process, resulting in fluid, structured forms that seem to merge into one another. This most recent series in particular deals with our relationship with nature and our dependence on it, not only the plant world but also animals. One series of works on paper shows the artist’s cat Ashitaka in bright colours, in otherworldly spaces that […]
Ragen Moss | Conspire | Capitain Petzel | 15.09.-21.10.2023
until 21.10. | #4060ARTatBerlin | Capitain Petzel shows since 15. September 2023 the exhibition Conspire the artist Ragen Moss. “When people encounter my sculptures,” says Ragen Moss, “the first question I am often asked is: ‘How did you make that?’” More than almost any other artistic medium, sculpture is believed to be reducible to a list of the technical details of its making or the possibilities and symbolism of its source materials. This is a learned behaviour. At least since the heyday of Minimalism, Western artists and critics have tried to disabuse their audiences of the notion that abstract sculpture could have any meaning beyond its own form and manufacture. Although the work may be formally in the Minimalist tradition, Moss remains committed to the non-Minimalist vision of abstract sculpture as a form of ‘meaning-making’. It is driven by intense analytical and often political investment, though none of her sculptures tell flat, cautionary tales or flaunt catchy political slogans. Like a deceptively calm lake that hides raging undercurrents, navigating these works and grasping their depth requires the audience to be willing to observe keenly. C O N S P I R E is the first solo exhibition by Los Angeles-based […]
Zak van Biljon | Modernising Nature | Luisa Catucci Gallery | 13.10.-24.11.2023
until 24.11. | #4059ARTatBerlin | Luisa Catucci Gallery shows from 13. October 2023 the exhibition Modernising Nature by the artist Zak van Biljon. Zak van Biljon, a South African nature photographer living in Switzerland, enjoys worldwide recognition for his infrared photographs. When viewing his works, one embarks on a journey that leads to the discovery of an ethereal world, thanks to the technique he has chosen to depict nature and landscapes. Infrared photography, often referred to as IR photography, is a fascinating and distinct genre within the world of photography. Unlike traditional photography, which captures visible light, infrared photography focuses on recording invisible infrared radiation. Ordinary landscapes are transformed into translucent visions, revealing their innermost beauty in a way that challenges conventional perceptions and transcends the limits of human vision. Zak van Biljon, photography In an era marked by rapid urbanisation and the ubiquity of technology, Zak van Biljon’s work stands as a poignant testament to the evolving relationship between humanity and nature. It challenges the notion that the garish colours of neon lights and the bright lights of modern cities are far removed from the colour palette of nature. Using the infrared lens, Zak succeeds in what he calls […]
Drei Nationen | Group Exhibition | Galerie Sievi | 13.10.-16.12.2023
until 16.12. | #4058ARTatBerlin | Galerie Sievi shows from 13. Oktober 2023 the exhibition Drei Nationen by the artists Chiara Colombo, Nurcan Giz and Natarajaa. Chiara Colombo Her artistic research, which began with her dissertation “Gastone Novelli in dialogue with Klee”; evolved from the sign as an element that marks the fine line between painting and sculpture. From initially almost abstract themes such as architectures, clouds and angels, over time she has turned to a socially and ecologically engaged dimension without losing herself. Nurcan Giz The metamorphosis goes beyond the movement, it works in me as the large, black-purple tongue designs its choreography. The volume emerges and I nestle against her buttocks, her accents, her claw and caress, her spiritual architecture, attracted by the restless power, by the elegance, like the accent of a birthmark on a cheek. Natarajaa “Drawing is truth. There is no room in it for error, pretence, dissimulation or excuses. It is brutal. It is art in its most naked and essential form. Working with fire on paper demands a swift and spontaneous execution from me, without any possibility of correction, because paper is very fragile. This allows a play between energies, where the creative process […]
David Eager Maher | Children & Flowers | Jarmuschek + Partner | 14.10.-25.11.2023 – extended until 16.12.2023
until 16.12. | #4057ARTatBerlin | Jarmuschek + Partner shows from 14. October 2023 the exhibition Children & Flowers by the Irish artist David Eager Maher. In his latest works, David Eager Maher once again masterfully combines sensitive figure drawings and high-contrast, abstracting paintings of a characteristic colour palette on collaged papers paintings in his characteristic colour palette. For the first time, the artist has placed specially created text passages under his surreal spaces and dreamlike scenes, which always balance between nature and man. These text passages develop a mysterious but narratively ambiguous relationship to the picture and open up a new field of tension full of secrets and associations for the viewer. The end of the world and renewal, reality and fantasy, dystopia and utopia seem to merge in this demanding and impressive series of works. Art historian and former director of the Douglas Hyde Gallery in Dublin, John Hutchinson, has related the new works to their contemporary context: […] It is against this background of unease and disturbance that contemporary art is shaped and defined, and David Eager Maher’s complex paintings reflect the collapse of cultural certainties and conventional social narratives. Nevertheless, there is tenuous but stubborn coherence in […]
Kathrin Rank + Frank Massholder | Mehr Meer | Galerie Z22 | 28.09.-28.10.2023
until 28.10. | #4056ARTatBerlin | Galerie Z22 shows from 28. September 2023 the exhibition Mehr Meer by the artists Kathrin Rank and Frank Massholder. This is a very personal exhibition, closely linked to personal memories, experiences and imprints. Katrin Rank paints, Frank Massholder photographs… The ancestors of the Berlin painter Kathrin Rank come from the island of Sylt on her mother’s side and from Upper Franconia on her father’s side. Thus her mental cinema, conditioned by long stays at the North Sea and by the knowledge of ancestors as whalers and seafarers, has found pictorial expression in her work. Since 2015, Rank has been expanding her visual worlds of city views and has since allowed the elements to surge. Having been in an energetic state of tension since her childhood, the artist thematises the changing aggregate states of water – sea, snow, ice, fog, clouds … in her paintings. Symbols of dissolution and transitions from one state to another. The solid becomes fluid and solid again, a fundamental element of nature. Becoming and passing away. The sea demands a physical and psychological confrontation with an elemental force that is sometimes perceived as exhilarating, sometimes as threatening. The North Sea, seldom […]
Hans Hoge + Manfred Fuchs + Achim Mogge | Emergent Landscapes | Galerie Mutare | 13.10.-25.11.2023
until 25.11. | #4055ARTatBerlin | Galerie mutare shows from 13 October 2023 the exhibition Emergent Landscapes with painting and sculpture by the artists Hans Hoge and Manfred Fuchs and an exhibition in the Undercover Showroom with painting by the artist Achim Mogge, accompanied by further light objects by Hans Hoge. Sculptures made of concrete, iron and glass, shadowy representations of environments and the beauty of industrial landscapes, presented through different surprising variations of representation. Emergent landscapes – made visible by Hans Hoge, Manfred Fuchs and Achim Mogge. The mutare gallery dedicates its upcoming exhibition to the works of three different artists. Hans Hoge Hans Hoge, former master student of Tony Cragg, creates sculptures for indoor and outdoor spaces in small and large formats. He uses different materials such as glass, polystyrene, bronze, concrete or aluminium. For him, sculpture as a three-dimensional medium means creating several perspectives, extended by a fourth reference level: time, made visible by light and electromechanics. In doing so, Hoge seeks to combine the figurative East German tradition with the experiments and abstractions of Western art, the German “ideal” cultural landscape with industrial plants, intuitive observation with rational understanding, the individual with the communal. An artist […]
abstract | Group Exhibition | Semjon Contemporary | 30.09.-28.10.2023
until 28.10. | #4053ARTatBerlin | Semjon Contemporary shows from 30. September 2023 (Opening: 29.09.) the exhibition abstract by the artists Colin Ardley, Takayuki Daikoku, Dittmar Danner aka Krüger, Ute Essig, Dave Grossmann, Renate Hampke, Nataly Hocke, Michael Kutschbach, Stefan Ludes, Thomas Prochnow, Dirk Rathke, Ursula Sax, Gerda Schütte, Gil Shachar, Li Silberberg, Klaus Steinmann, Hitomi Uchikura, Amélie von Heydebreck, Marc von der Hocht, Bettina Weiß and Nicole Wendel. Much has already been thought and written about abstract art, about abstraction. We know that at the beginning of the 20th century, abstraction was making its way in art – until now, Wassily Kandinsky has always been defined as the pioneer, the beacon, so to speak. In research, however, the reception has been changing for some years: Hilma af Klimt, since the rediscovery of her works after decades of self-banishment, is suddenly helping art history to think anew… The exhibition abstract is neither a curatorial assertion nor an epoch-making show. Rather, it is a pleasurable summary of the programme that defines the Semjon Contemporary gallery, whereby the fields of the representational and photography are also part of the gallery’s self- Ute Essig, Bubble (detail), 2014, 140 x 90 cm, 156 x 105 […]
Alexander Basil | Tidings from the Orbit | Galerie Judin | 12.09.-28.10.2023
until 28.10.| #4054ARTatBerlin | Galerie Judin shows since 12. September 2023 the exhibition Tidings from the Orbit by the artist Alexander Basil. This fall, Galerie Judin will present its first solo exhibition of Alexander Basil, who was born in Russia in 1997 and subsequently raised in Germany. The 25 paintings in this group of works depict scenes and still lifes that are consistently set in an interior – that of the artist’s Berlin apartment. This interior world is dominated by a kind of clone or prototype – perhaps even an alter ego? It is a bald man with rosy skin, curvy limbs, and an ornate beard. The man is often unclothed, revealing delicate scars on his nipples that testify to a gender reassignment having taken place. We accompany this prototype during seemingly everyday activities: making phone calls, working on a laptop, lying in bed, drinking coffee, and ironing. The objects found in these tableaux are appropriately commonplace. But Basil’s narrational arrangements are by no means mundane or banal – they exaggerate the everyday into the surreal. Irons and sockets are set on fire, one of the prototypes melts, another sheds his skin. In attempting to peer through this compositional complexity, […]
Paul McCarthy | Them as Was Is | Galerie Max Hetzler | 13.09.-21.10.2023
until 21.10. | #4052ARTatBerlin | Galerie Max Hetzler (Potsdamer Str.) shows since 13. September 2023 the exhibition Them as Was Is by the artist Paul McCarthy organised by Cornelius Tittel. Galerie Max Hetzler is pleased to present Them as Was Is, the first solo exhibition of Paul McCarthy with the gallery, at Potsdamer Straße 77-87, in Berlin. Bringing together past and present, then and now, Them as Was Is presents two fundamental aspects of McCarthy’s practice. On the ground floor, eighteen sculptures constitute an early endeavour by the artist to combine different periods of sculpture into one, allowing visitors to draw out the similarities that weave together his most iconic sculptural projects. On the gallery’s upper floor, a series of drawings and video works from the artist’s more recent ‘A&E’ (2019–) project show film and performance to be at the heart of McCarthy’s practice. At once playful and uncanny, the Colored Carbon Fiber Group (CCFG), 2004–2012, revisits many of the motifs for which McCarthy is most known. Two sculptures depict Michael Jackson with enlarged head and feet, distorting the King of Pop while simultaneously paying homage to Jeff Koons’ Michael Jackson and Bubbles of 1988. Eight ‘Pirate Heads’ complicate the historical bust, and point to the pirate’s dual symbolism […]
Albert Oehlen + Richard Prince + Rudolf Stingel | Group Exhibition | Galerie Max Hetzler | 15.09.-28.10.2023
until 28.10. | #4051ARTatBerlin | Galerie Max Hetzler shows since 15. September 2023 a group exhibition by the artists Albert Oehlen, Richard Prince and Rudolf Stingel. Galerie Max Hetzler is pleased to present an exhibition of work by Albert Oehlen, Richard Prince and Rudolf Stingel at Bleibtreustraße 45 in Berlin. The dictionary definition of a remix in music is as follows: ‘A remix is a new version of a piece of music which has been created by putting together the individual instrumental and vocal parts in a different way.’ 1 The works in this exhibition all refer recognisably and decidedly to art from the 20th century but differ widely in their intellectual attitudes, variety of techniques, and diverse perspectives which the artists take in riffing off their inspirations. Albert Oehlen’s admiration for the Kyiv-born American artist John Graham reaches back to the 1990s. Executed nearly four decades later, in 2019, the two large-scale works on view in this exhibition are rendered in charcoal on canvas in different tonalities of grey. Presenting a cartoon-like figure juxtaposed against a vast white ground, the compositions interpret and transform Graham’s painting Tramonto Spaventoso (Terrifying Sunset), 1940–1949. Throughout his career, Richard Prince has included elements of American popular culture, as well as the icons of modern art history. The […]
Beatriz Milhazes | Paisagem em Desfile | Galerie Max Hetzler | 15.09.-28.10.2023
until 28.10. | #4050ARTatBerlin | Galerie Max Hetzler shows since 15. September 2023 the exhibition Paisagem em Desfile by the artist Beatriz Milhazes. Galerie Max Hetzler is pleased to present Paisagem em Desfile (Landscape on Parade), a solo exhibition of new paintings by Beatriz Milhazes at Goethestraße 2/3, in Berlin. This is the artist’s fifth solo presentation in Berlin and marks 20 years of cooperation with the gallery since her first exhibition in Zimmerstraße. Internationally renowned for her large-scale, vibrant and highly colourful paintings, Milhazes presents a new body of work in her own form of abstraction, self-termed ‘chromatic free geometry’. These were made over the last two years, using her meticulous and complex process of ‘monotransfer’, first developed in 1989. This very controlled method of image-transfer is based on experiments with acrylic paint and monotype printing. By painting motifs onto plastic sheets before carefully transferring them onto canvas, Milhazes imbues her work with a sense of vitality. The artist has referenced Henri Matisse’s collages as related to her own technique of layering, creating the appearance of a glossy, highly finished surface, disrupted by small chips and fissures. Additionally to the works on canvas, the exhibition presents a new wall painting executed entirely in grey […]
RED ROMANCE | Group exhibition | Köppe Contemporary | 23.09.-04.11.2023 – extended until 25.11.2023
until 25.11. | #4048ARTatBerlin | Köppe Contemporary shows from 23. September 2023 (Opening: 22.09.) the group exhibition Red Romance with works by the artists Jojo Caramelle, Becker Schmitz, Willi Tomes and Robert Rudiger. The color red is a striking color. One that catches the eye and triggers a strong appeal. Provocative and dynamic, the color red screams for attention. In countless variations, the color red is used in art – from delicate rose red to vermilion, crimson and ruby red to fire red and blood red. The color red is a joyful and passionate color. It is a color of life and energy. It represents joy, passion and eroticism as well as aggression. Politically, red is a color of revolution. For communism and socialism, for example, it is the central symbolic color. Everywhere in the streetscape, in the media and in advertising we encounter it as the central signal color. Willi Tomes, Krater, 2020, Vinyl on alu dibond, 117 x 117 cm Red has always played a special role in the history of art, whether in the luminous robes of the saints in religious paintings, the stirring emotions in expressionist works, or the abstract interpretations of modern artists. In the […]
Nazir Tanbouli | Postcards from Paradise | Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery Berlin | 20.09.-14.10.2023
until 14.10. | #4044ARTatBerlin | Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery Berlin shows from 20th September 2023 (Opening: 19.09.) the exhibition “Postcards from Paradise” with works by the artist Nazir Tanbouli. The title “Postcards from Paradise” is significant: the images are a window into a tender, radiant world of timeless tranquillity, but as “postcards” they imply that we too can visit it. These writings depict a heavenly paradise – but it is not a theocratic heaven of condemnation or reward. It is a place of tranquillity, free from strife, battle and fear. It is a garden where humans and animals come together to enjoy each other. Tanbouli exposes the folly of human supremacy and exposes it as a fabrication that rejects the concept of the “wild” and the hierarchy of species. Tanbouli’s work includes traditionally therianthropic figures – mixed creatures of man and beast – such as the centaur and the minotaur, but also creatures of his own invention. These forms reject the ancient Greek concept of human superiority in favour of the Egyptian method of combining man and animal to create gods. The animal (or material) nature of the god is seen as equal to his human (or intellectual) nature. The work […]
Thomas Etzold | MOVE – ALL – WAYS | Michaela Helfrich Galerie | 19.09.-19.10.2023
until 19.10. | #4041ARTatBerlin | Michaela Helfrich Galerie shows from 19 September 2023 the exhibition MOVE – ALL – WAYS by the artist Thomas Etzold. Thomas Etzold was born in Frankfurt am Main and has lived and worked in Berlin for a long time. He is a cameraman and photographer. In his photographic works, he shows us magical moments from his experience and tries to convey the special atmosphere of the moment and trigger emotional associations. Terrazza Beach – Grosseto Mare, ColorPrint on Alu-Dibond, 95 x 70cm, Aufl.1/3, Alu shadow gap frame Q206 Night, FineArt-Print b/w, glossy, 60×40 cm framed, edition of 2/3 Chicago City Summer, ColorPrint from PolaScan Original, 65 x 78 cm edition 1/3, Artbox frame Whitney Museum of Modern Art – running woman, ColorPrint on Alu-Dibond, 50 x 87 cm, edition 2/3, ArtBox frame Opening: Tuesday, 19 September from 7 pm Exhibition dates: Tuesday, 19 September – Thursday, 19 October 2023 Artist talk: Thursday, 28 September at 7 pm / Moderated by Günter Jeschonnek Finissage: Thursday, 19 October 2023 from 7 pm Caption titel: Ital al Mare ll, fine art print on canvas, 195 x 70 cm, edition 2/3, shadow gap frame Exhibition Thomas Etzold […]
Asta Gröting + Ming Wong | Fortune | carlier gebauer | 16.09.-18.11.2023
until 18.11. | #4043ARTatBerlin | carlier gebauer shows from 16. September 2023 (Opening: 15.09.) the exhibition Fortune by the artists Asta Gröting and Ming Wong. “(…) the relation between our bodies, our physical being and the space around us, our working space. In our case it’s the studio, because this is something which is fragile, which is being threatened to become miniaturized through external forces – the cost and the commercialization of our physical space (…) The ever-decreasing comfort zones.” Ming Wong in conversation with Asta Gröting (June 2023) Fortune marks a decade of friendship between Asta Gröting and Ming Wong, who both had their first exhibitions with carlier | gebauer over ten years ago. Fortune presents a reflection and mirroring of the two’s perspectives on work, space, media and materials in a changing Berlin, an increasingly precarious city for artists. The gallery space is transformed into a scenography of shifting spaces, colours, lights, sounds, objects and ideas that emerge from conversations about their evolving artistic practices in response to the ever-changing conditions of the city. Central to her collaborative approach to the occasion are two new films that emerged from experiments in re-experiencing the physicality of the artist’s studio […]
Willem De Rooij | Root | Galerie Thomas Schulte | 14.09.-28.10.2023
until 28.10. | #4040ARTatBerlin | Galerie Thomas Schulte shows from 14 September 2023 the installation “Root” by the artist Willem De Rooij. Root is a new installation by Willem de Rooij, developed especially for Galerie Thomas Schulte. Touching on notions of identity and nationalism, it juxtaposes a seventeenth-century painting on loan from the Stadtmuseum Berlin with thirtyfour unique photographic responses made by De Rooij. In the seventeenth century, the Dutch Republic housed many prolific painters who developed numerous specialized painting genres. Individual artists crossappropriated each other’s formal and iconographical techniques, which led to a rich and complex visual culture. Because of their innovations, Dutch artists became sought after by wealthy patrons across Europe. One of them, Willem Frederiksz van Royen (ca. 1645, Haarlem, NL–1723, Berlin), arrived in Berlin from the Dutch Republic in 1669 to become a court painter to Friederich Wilhelm, Elector of Brandenburg, and his successor, Friederich I. Van Royen later became one of the founders of the Akademie der Künste, and after, a director and a professor there. Inspired by artists such as Melchior d’Hondecoeter, he specialized in flower still lifes and menageries. These were decorative genres that were popular with the elites of the time, and […]
Alan Rankle + Gerard Waskievitz | Landscapes, so far… | Michaela Helfrich Galerie | 13.09.-19.10.2023
until 19.10. | #4038ARTatBerlin | Michaela Helfrich Galerie shows from 13 September 2023 the group exhibition Landscapes, so far… by the artists Alan Rankle and Gerard Waskievitz. Alan Rankle in an interview with Anna McNay about his Pastoral Collateral series the artist stated: ‘I wanted to relate ideas about historical, idealised, pastoral landscape in art to the grim reality of the environmental crisis that we are in, which isn’t just an environmental crisis anymore, it’s a totally impregnated social and political crisis heading towards disaster. Considering the historical origins of the genre in relation to my own paintings, I wanted to convey the irony implicit in how the 19th century Romantic movement, with its emphasis on the idyllic natural world of an imaginary past, was sponsored by people who, having made gigantic fortunes out of the Industrial Revolution by building their empires on the slave trade and the criminal use of the Enclosures Acts forcing the poor from their traditional peasant homes to work in their factories and mills, also laid the foundations of environmental pollution on a catastrophic scale’. Turner and other artists were commissioned by the barons of the Industrial Revolution to take the Grand Tour and pick up ideas from […]
Juan Uslé | Norte Abierto | Galerie Thomas Schulte | 14.09.-28.10.2023
until 28.10. | #4039ARTatBerlin | Galerie Thomas Schulte shows from 14 September 2023 the solo exhibition “Norte Abierto” with paintings by the artist Juan Uslé. Repetitions and variations radiate across a series of new medium-scale paintings by Juan Uslé in Norte Abierto at Galerie Thomas Schulte. Opening on the occasion of Berlin Art Week, the exhibition marks the artist’s ninth solo exhibition at the gallery. In elongated, vertical canvases comprising horizontal rows of stacked brushstrokes, Uslé’s paintings are full of oscillations: gradients in a state of flux. As well as contradictions: they are paced and structured though meandering, marked by lyrical turns. The environments they open up are woven from continuous, processual paths that are nonetheless susceptible to sudden shits, interruptions and moments of pause. This openness and continuity filters through the works in the exhibition. In accumulations of time, color, gestures and signs, the repetitional continuity of the works gives way to a richly layered fabric, a constellation of experiences and sensations. We can peer through the cracks and slippages, soak up the reflections that bounce off the surface, follow the threads that construct the whole—line by line, row by row. Like screens, they offer glimpses into another layer […]
Maki Na Kamura | Contemporary Fine Arts (CFA Berlin) | 16.09.-04.11.2023
until 04.11. | #4034ARTatBerlin | Contemporary Fine Arts presents from 16. September 2023 (Opening: 15.09.) a double exhibition by the artist Maki Na Kamura. The double exhibition will take place at Galerie Michael Werner Berlin and Contemporary Fine Arts. Modernism confronted painting with the finding of social insignificance. Since then, no theory has been able to justify why painting is still being done and why it should concern even the last person. Painting’s struggle for survival in the 20th century, which was nevertheless so successful, can be traced back to a special strategy of the artists, namely to transform the traditional means of painting into a contemporary form. The legitimacy of this discipline is based on the inexhaustible possibilities of using colour, surface, form, lines, light and mass to produce new, unprecedented images. And as assertive as this strategy was in the metropolis of Paris, it found a new home in West Berlin after 1960 in the gallery of Michael Werner and in the late nineties in the Contemporary Fine Arts Galerie of Nicole Hackert and Bruno Brunnet. Maki Na Kamura now places her new paintings in the tradition of these galleries. In an act of concentration, she has perceived […]
Andy Hope 1930 | COURBETTE INDUSTRIA | Galerie Guido W. Baudach | 16.09.-28.10.2023 – extended until 03.12.2023
until 03.12. | #4037ARTatBerlin | Galerie Guido W. Baudach presents from 16. September 2023 (Opening: 15.09.) the exhibition COURBETTE INDUSTRIA by the artist Andy Hope 1930. Andy Hope 1930’s new cycle of paintings Courbette Industria, which is at the center of his exhibition at Guido W. Baudach, originates – even if it reaches far beyond this first source of inspiration – from an impressionable experience with a Bolting Horse. This is the title of Gustave Courbet’s strange and monumental painting in Munich’s Neue Pinakothek. A saddled horse dashes riderless at full gallop through a dark, otherwise empty forest scene. Painted in 1861, Courbet had conceived the canvas as the left-hand piece of a group of hunting scenes, sometimes called the “Hunting Trilogy”, for the Paris Salon of that year. The centerpiece of this triptych was Fight of the Deer (now in the Louvre), and the painting on the right was Deer by the Water (Marseille, Musée des Beaux Arts). Courbet himself was a passionate hunter; during a one-year stay in Frankfurt am Main in 1858, he had killed a capital stag during a New Year’s Eve hunt in the Taunus, as he proudly wrote to his sister. During his Frankfurt period, he had participated in several par […]
45 Years Kunsthaus ARTES | Special Exhibition | ARTES Berlin | 15.09.-11.11.2023
until 11.11. | #4036ARTatBerlin | ARTES Berlin shows from 13 September 2023 the special exhibition „45 Years Kunsthaus ARTES“ with more than 120 artworks by over 50 artists. In the most exciting week of the Berlin art year, Berlin Art Week, Kunsthaus ARTES Berlin cordially invites you to celebrate 45 years of ARTES together for one weekend. ARTES Berlin is also expanding its gallery space and doubling the exhibition area in the beautiful Gründerzeit building. Visitors to the exhibition can look forward to an extensive exhibition with more than 120 works of art by over 50 artists and a charming bar in the courtyard, where it is wonderful to immerse oneself in conversations about art. In the special exhibition “45 years of Kunsthaus ARTES”, ARTES Berlin shows paintings, installations, sculptures and editions. Among them are collectors’ items from Classical Modernism by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Erich Heckel, Max Liebermann and Emil Nolde, among others, as well as contemporary, renowned positions such as Stephan Balkenhol, Cornelia Schleime, Georg Baselitz, Gerhard Richter, Günther Uecker, Neo Rauch and Tony Cragg. The exhibition is rounded off by works by younger artists from the ARTES programme, including Christian Awe, Marion Eichmann, Willi Siber, Karoline Kroiß, Winnie […]
Hana Usui | Fragile Beauty – The Age of Uncertainty | Galerie Dittmar | 13.09.-25.10.2023 – extended until 08.11.2023
until 08.11. | #3965ARTatBerlin | Galerie Dittmar presents from 13 September 2023 the solo exhibition „Fragile Beauty – The Age of Uncertainty“ with works of the artist Hana Usui. The Japanese artist Hana Usui, born in Tokyo in 1974, moved to Vienna in 2000. With this move, she opened up new areas of expression based on her earlier cultural imprint. This concerns the relationship between oil drawing and ink painting and, related to this, the way in which the drawn and the painted are combined. In addition, in recent years there have been an increasing number of diverse photographic processes and installation works. The artist’s work has increasingly focused on political issues and the dangers of our time, also triggered by the reactor catastrophe in Fukushima. Based on her artistic language, which she has developed over the years, she approaches these difficult issues in a more mediated, indirect way, giving them a new visual expression. Hana Usui’s delicate works do not offer simple solutions, are not apodictic, rather they point to a fragility, provoke reflection and open up a principled, existential level. Participation in important survey exhibitions, for example in the Metropolitan Art Museum in Tokyo, in the Museum Residenzgalerie […]
Begegnung an der Spree | QGallery Berlin | 15.09.-05.10.2023
until 05.10. | #4035ARTatBerlin | Q Gallery shows from 15. September 2023 the grou exhibition Begegnungen an der Spree (Encounters at the river Spree) with works by Russian artists in exile: Anastasia Astakhova, Innokenti Baranov, Mika Plutizkaya, Anna Rumyanseva and Vladimir Sorokin. Bridges of Freedom: Berlin has once again hosted Russian artists, as it did a hundred years ago. Russian artists who disagree with Putin’s regime and the war in Ukraine have found refuge in Berlin to start a new chapter of their lives in a country where truth, humanism and freedom are an absolute value. The exhibition “Begegnung an der Spree” not only presents art, but also builds parallels between the immigration of Russian artists* in the 1920s. Anastasia Astachova, Sie träumen nur vom Frieden (They dream of peace only), 2023, oil on canvas, 120 x 90 cm Today, as a hundred years ago, many Russian artists choose Berlin as a symbol of freedom and diversity, hoping that their art and voice can be expressed freely, without fear of censorship and repression. The exhibition “Begegnung an der Spree” not only presents a variety of artistic works, but also delves into the historical context. It recalls the times a century […]
Wolf von Kries | The Economy of Plenty | Galerie aKonzept | 13.09.-18.11.2023
until 18.11. | #4049ARTatBerlin | Galerie aKonzept shows from 13. September 2023 the exhibition The Economy of Plenty by the artist Wolf von Kries. The Economy of Plenty refers to a group of works that, despite all their differences in content and concept, all have in common that their production does not require any special technical skills and that they can be produced as often as desired with ever new results by whomever. Many of the works shown in this exhibition are excerpts from long-term projects that have neither a fixed beginning nor a fixed end point, but rather are potentially always evolving. Opening: Friday, 15 September 2023 Exhibition dates: Wednesday, 13 September to Saturday, 18 November 2023 Artist tours: Saturday, 30 September 2023 from 4 to 7 pm Saturday, 14 October 2023 from 4 to 7 p.m. Saturday, 28 October 2023 from 4 to 7 p.m. Saturday, 11 November 2023 from 4 to 7 p.m. Artist’s tour through the exhibition The Economy of Plenty by the artist Wolf von Kries. The artist will guide the guests through his exhibition. The duration of the tour is about 20 minutes. In German, English or French. Image caption: Wolf von […]
Ivana Kličković | RECENT WORKS | Galerie Gilla Lörcher | 16.09.-27.10.2023
until 27.10. | #4033ARTatBerlin | Galerie Gilla Lörcher shows from 16 September 2023 (Vernissage: 15.09.) the solo exhibition „RECENT WORKS“ with paintings by the artist Ivana Kličković. Galerie Gilla Loercher | Contemporary Art is very pleased to present the second solo exhibition of Ivana Kličković. The focus of Ivana Kličković’s practice rests on the process of selection and “sampling” of culturally and chronologically distant visual patterns – such as Japanese woodblock prints, drawings of old theatrical scenery or digital images pulled from the Internet – which she recreates on canvas as simultaneously overlapping layers of reduced image fragments that form large-scale compositions, spatially flat and open to interpretation, both abstract and/or quasi-representational. Confirming atemporality as one of the main features of her painterly gesture, Kličković indirectly but accurately comments on the multidirectional, constant and often chaotic circulation of images in our everyday lives, in which everything has already been seen and exists intertwined, independently from isolated cultural patterns and social phenomena. By reacting to and participating in a global economy of images, in which dissemination of visual information is organised in such a way, Kličković takes over and examines the logic of overlapping, mixing, flexibility, conflict, and simultaneity of visual motifs […]
Ugo Rondinone | i don’t live here anymore | Esther Schipper | 15.09.-21.10.2023
until 21.10. | #4032ARTatBerlin | Galerie Esther Schipper shows from 15 September 2023 the solo exhibition “i don’t live here anymore” with photographs by the artist Ugo Rondinone. Which place did you leave? Why don’t you live there anymore? And where did you move? The statement as title i don’t live here anymore immediately raises questions that will most likely remain unanswered, but it doesn’t matter. It looks like a good place, with room to express oneself; to deepen understanding of the self; to experiment with fetishist interests; to play with gender; to show fierceness as much as vulnerability; to probe the sculptural potential of the body by morphing it into abstraction. Nevertheless, it is not only a space of joy and happiness, as the photos’ references to Pierrot indicate—a quietly observing archetype known to symbolize a sense of melancholy. What is the melancholy about? Is it about what one leaves behind when moving away, moving on or up? Goodbyes are indeed always part of change, markers of transition to move into a new mode, state, or phase. A certain ease with change is, however, also discernable in these five photos, as much as in the larger body of Rondinone’s photographic […]
Katarina Kudelova | Burning Bright in the Forest of the Night | BBA Gallery | 12.09.-27.10.2023
until 27.10. | #4026ARTatBerlin | BBA Gallery presents from 12. September 2023 the exhibition Burning Bright in the Forest of the Night by the slovak artist Katarina Kudelova. During Berlin Art Week 2023, BBA Gallery will present the exhibition “Burning Bright in the Forest of the Night” from Slovakian artist Katarina Kudelova. The exhibition of the 1st Prize winner of the BBA Artist Prize 2022 exhibition will feature a site-specific installation composed of firecrackers, and fuse; a video recording of her winning Artist Prize installation; as well as ceramic sculptures and landscape tapestries made of feathers from the past 10 years. A childhood spent in the Slovakian countryside among a family of forest engineers provides the idyllic backdrops of her works and acute awareness of the natural world. Dichotomic, the topical works are a critique of the contemporary dialogue between man and nature and the role of man in its unsalvageable destruction. Kudelova’s explosive practice makes use of firecrackers, wick and fuse to address themes of transience, mortality, predetermined cycles of life, climate and forest fires. Opening: Tuesday, 12 September 2023, 6 pm to 9 pm Exhibition dates: Tuesday, 12 September – Friday, 27 October 2023 Artist Talk & Finissage: […]
Anicka Yi | A Shimmer Through The Quantum Foam | Esther Schipper | 15.09.-21.10.2023
until 21.10. | #4031ARTatBerlin | Galerie Esther Schipper shows from 15 September 2023 the solo exhibition “A Shimmer Through The Quantum Foam” by the artist Anicka Yi. Esther Schipper is pleased to announce Anicka Yi’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. Entitled A Shimmer Through The Quantum Foam, the exhibition features a series of unique animated pod sculptures that pulse and undulate, casting their flickering light across the surfaces of luminous algorithmically-generated paintings. Below this suspended constellation of bio-techno lifeforms, the soft glow of an aqueous ooze—indicative of life’s marine origins—sprawls in a shallow crater in a built-up section across the gallery floor. Anicka Yi has produced a unique body of work over the past decade, that operates at the intersection of politics and macrobiotics. Her practice questions traditional distinctions between what is human, animal, plant, and machine, and is the result of an alchemical process of experimentation that explores often incompatible materials. Yi collaborates with researchers to create materials and media that are often inherently political, delving into the cultural conditioning of sensation and perception in a way she describes as a “biopolitics of the senses.” Yi’s diverse installations draw on scientific concepts and techniques to activate vivid fictional scenarios, asking […]
Wenn die Sirenen heulen (it´s on us) | Sexauer Gallery | 08.09.-13.10.2023
until 13.10. | #4030ARTatBerlin | Sexauer Gallery presents from 8. September 2023 the group exhibition Wenn die Sirenen heulen (it´s on us) by the artists Martin Assig, Aram Bartholl, Hannah Hallermann, Verena Issel, Anne Mundo , Nik Nowak, Raul Walch, curated by Anne Mundo & Dirk Teschner. When the Sirens howl (it’s on us) deals with the threats of climate change and war. The focus is on the question of the influence of man-made threats to our existence. Since the outbreak of the 2020 pandemic many things have been put to the test. It became apparent who acted in solidarity and who used the crisis for their own interests. The Russian attack on Ukraine brought war back to Europe. Gas deliveries were stopped, the climate crisis became more prominent. Art can help close the communicative gaps regarding these crises. Since facts alone are often not enough to move a society to change, it can help to address senses and feelings as well. Opening: Friday, 08 September, 6 pm – 9 pm Exhibition dates: Friday, 08 September – Friday, 13 October 2023 Image caption: Courtesy Sexauer Gallery Exhibition Wenn die Sirenen heulen (it´s on us) – Sexauer Gallery | Zeitgenössische Kunst in […]
Anna Leonhardt | MALEREI | Galerie Friese | 16.09.-28.10.2023
until 28.10. | #4029ARTatBerlin | Galerie Friese shows from 16. September 2023 (Opening: 15.09.) the exhibition MALEREI by the artist Anna Leonhardt. For Art Week 2023, the gallery presents works by the painter Anna Leonhardt for the first time. Based in New York and Berlin, she was born in Pforzheim in 1981 and began studying painting under Ralf Kerbach at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Dresden in 2002, where she graduated with a master’s degree in 2010. Displayed in the first two rooms of the gallery, Anna Leonhardt’s paintings explore color, materiality, and space. By sculpting and layering the paint with a palette knife, the artist creates polychromatic, vividly rendered color fields with strong textures and spatial depth that form the background to floating abstract blocks of color. The gradual transformation of color, shape, space, and light creates a charged relationship between figure and ground. Leonhardt’s earlier representational and figurative compositions have steadily dissolved into clashing fields of color over time, culminating in a consistently abstract style of painting that emphasizes the working process. In her current works, Anna Leonhardt stretches out infinitely expansive spaces containing abstract blocks of color that interact with each other. The backgrounds of the […]
Richard Rezac | HARLEQUIN | Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi | 09.09.-14.10.2023
until 14.10. | #4026ARTatBerlin | Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi present from 09. September 2023 the exhibition HARLEQUIN by the artist Richard Rezac. Opening: Saturday, 9 September 2023, 6:00 – 9:00 pm Exhibition dates: Saturday, 9 September – Saturday, 14 October 2023 Caption title: Richard Rezac, courtesy of Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi Exhibition Richard Rezac – Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galerien | ART at Berlin
Jana Schröder | VIBR ANX 80 | Meyer Riegger | 16.09.-21.10.2023
until 21.10. | #4025ARTatBerlin | Meyer Riegger shows from 16 September 2023 the exhibition “VIBR ANX 80” by the artist Jana Schröder. When it comes to painting, Jana Schröder has always imposed rules on herself. The works in her PERLASYNTHIC , NEUSEC , and HAWO series , however, which are now on view for the first time at Meyer Riegger , are di ff erent: Schröder works more freely , there are n o longer any fixed rules. As the artist herself says, “I tried to do everything possible with colour here. The one rule here was probably that I was allowed to do any thing.” These are some of the rules that are normally in force: only two colours, r ound shapes only , and no corners. Or: n o interrupted lines, only continuous ones. If she breaks a rule , but the visual result makes sense, then adapted rules will follow. In this way, Schröder systematically re – evaluates the fundamental mechanisms of paint ing. These restrictions enable her to find the freedom of her own pictorial language time and time again . Before Schröder began the PERLASYNTHIC series in 2021, she tended to work with oil paints. […]
Jeanette Mundt | God Told Him to Wait | Galerie Société | 08.09.-21.10.2023
until 21.10. | #4024ARTatBerlin | Galerie Société present from 08. September 2023 (Vernissage: 07.09.) the exhibition God Told Him to Wait by the artist Jeanette Mundt. This is Jeanette Mundt’s fifth solo exhibition at the gallery. Mundt’s dynamic, formally omnivorous practice freely taps a variety of input, ranging from art historical references to personal photographs. Reworking and repurposing motifs from sources as diverse as Odilon Redon, illuminated manuscripts, medieval tapestries, Wade Guyton, and Matthias Grünewald, Mundt’s recent paintings eschew adhering to an individual style in favor of a poly-aesthetic approach. Two ongoing currents in Mundt’s practice come to the fore in this exhibition: an interest in painting elements in motion, such as fire and light, and bringing art historical imagery into new configurations that explore the ambiguous space between how we consume images in everyday life and art. Her richly seductive works, which construct images from multiple sources, speak to questions of painting, depiction, correction, and construction. The mood of these works—which are in turns contemplative, sensual, foreboding, and celestial—respond to the rage and rapture that pervade a cultural moment marked by climate change, the rise of religious extremism, and the curtailment of women’s rights. Art historian Bettina Funcke describes […]
Nora Turato | NOT YOUR USUAL SELF? | Sprüth Magers Berlin | 16.09.-11.11.2023
until 11.11. | #4023ARTatBerlin | Sprüth Magers Berlin shows from 16 September 2023 the solo exhibition “NOT YOUR USUAL SELF?” by the artist Nora Turato. In recent years, Nora Turato has emerged as one of the most exciting new voices on the contemporary art scene. Throughout her practice – which spans performance, video and graphic design – she examines the ephemeral nature of language, using text as her artistic source material. Drawing from film, advertising, literature, conversations, social media captions and theater, she deploys a collection of appropriated words, sentences, fragments and quotes with sharp wit and studied precision. Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers are pleased to announce a solo exhibition by Nora Turato at Sprüth Magers, Berlin, which will debut a series of new enamel panels featuring a custom typeface as well as a site-specific wall painting that cut through the cacophony of everyday life and reflect on the vernacular of present-day visual culture and zeitgeist. Collating the information streams of the world in text pools, Turato publishes “scrapbooks of our culture” once a year. For her performances, murals and enamel panels alike, she culls from these collections that reflect not only her personal influences and surroundings but also […]
Pamela Rosenkranz | Alien Blue | Sprüth Magers Berlin | 16.09.-11.11.2023
until 11.11. | #4022ARTatBerlin | Sprüth Magers Berlin presents from 16 September 2023 the solo exhibition “Alien Blue” by the artist Pamela Rosenkranz. An alluring and extramundane blue light emanates from the Window, Sprüth Magers’ Berlin storefront exhibition space that is sunken and high-ceilinged, allowing visitors to view displayed works from the street around the clock. The spectacular color or, to be precise, the wavelengths emitted by Pamela Rosenkranz’s Alien Blue Windows permeate the entire room and pour out of the building. Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers are pleased to announce a solo exhibition by the artist, showcasing five unique pieces from her enticing series alongside a selection of intricate kirigami works on paper. Four large and one smaller luminous work line the wood-paneled wall. From a distance, they seem to sink into the gallery’s architecture, while at close range, it becomes apparent they protrude into the space. Reminiscent of upside-down lancet windows found in Gothic churches, the shapes always correspond to an actual window in a building – modern or historical – somewhere in the world. The light works possess an unusual density of luminance, infusing the room and its exterior with an alien atmosphere Evoking many narratives, the […]
Bryan Adams | »In Colour« | CAMERA WORK | (date postponed)
Addendum: The exhibition will be postponed to a later date. Information will follow here. until 18.11. | #4021ARTatBerlin | CAMERA WORK present from 14. October 2023 the exhibition »In Colour« by the artist Bryan Adams. The CAMERA WORK gallery presents an exhibition of over 20 large-format photographs by Bryan Adams from 14 October 2023. All the works are from the impressive “In Colour” series by the photo artist, which is being shown in a gallery in Germany for the first time. The exhibition is a comprehensive manifestation of the artistic development of the renowned photographer Bryan Adams. Inspired by the phrase “seeing the world through rose-[nted glasses”, Adams began experimenting with coloured Plexiglas, which adds an artistic component to his works and gives them another aesthetic and atmospheric level. In the elaborately conceived process, the high-quality fine art prints are combined with clear Plexiglas, which has previously been printed with various individual colour tones, to finally be laminated onto Alu Dibond before the final framing. In this way, the autodidact reinterprets selected portraits from his oeuvre. His “In Colour” works are produced in five colour variations: red, orange, blue, pink and nude. All spectrums will be represented in the exhibition. […]
Bernd + Hilla Becher | Sprüth Magers Berlin | 16.09.-11.11.2023
until 11.11. | #4020ARTatBerlin | Sprüth Magers Berlin presents from 16 September 2023 the solo exhibition of the artist couple Bernd and Hilla Becher. For over five decades, Bernd and Hilla Becher produced a remarkable oeuvre in the pursuit of a straightforward theme: variation within limits. Precision, fine detail and methodology mark the Bechers’ work, which straddles several artistic categories. By systematically photographing commonplace industrial buildings across Europe and North America, they captured an architectural landscape in the process of disappearing. Approaching the structures with scientific interest, the artists classified, compared and contrasted their subjects in varying groups and “typologies,” as they named their celebrated grids. Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers are pleased to announce Bernd and Hilla Becher’s first solo exhibition at Sprüth Magers, Berlin. Showcasing the Bechers’ iconic style and formal rigor will be several rarely seen works along with two typologies that allude to the cultural and social significance of the constructions the artists referred to as “anonymous sculptures.” The show outlines the career of the German artist couple who, from the 1960s onwards, began challenging the perceived gap between documentary and fine-art photography. Developing a precise visual lexicon, they chronicled the architecture of heavy industry in […]
Markus Weggenmann | missing pink | Taubert Contemporary | 13.09.-04.11.2023
until 04.11. | #4019ARTatBerlin | Taubert Contemporary present from 13. September 2023 (Vernissage: 15.09.) the exhibition missing pink by the artist Markus Weggenmann. It was the commitment to “flatness”, to the fundamental flatness of the medium of the image, which the American critic Clement Greenberg demanded of all advanced painting in the post-war decades and which still finds its distant echo in the paintings of Markus Weggenmann. For his paintings, too, stage a sovereign surface art in spatiality that can at best still be found in the fading stage of form superimpositions. LW 421, 2022, high pigmented distemper on cotton, 120 x 100 cm, 47.2 x 39.4 inches This decided two-dimensionality manifests itself in two ways in the new works currently on show at Galerie Taubert Contemporary. On the one hand, the highly abstracted paintings refuse to open up any perspective space – all the colour forms seem to lie on one plane like silhouettes – and on the other hand, they confront the viewer with an absolutely flat (almost “photographic”) surface, in whose design the artist dispenses with both the relief of the paint application and any form of “handwriting”. Accordingly, these works also lack anything confessional or ostensibly […]
Michael Streun | IN RAGE | Galerie Tammen | 08.09.-15.10.2023
until 15.10 | #4017ARTatBerlin | Galerie Tammen shows from 8th September 2023 the exhibition “IN RAGE” with paintings by the artist Michael Streun. In his first exhibition at TAMMEN GALERIE, Swiss artist Michael Streun is showing a selection of works from the last six years. “Dystopias that take shape, visualised utopias and surreal pictorial worlds with ambivalent validity – these are the central elements in Streun’s paintings,” writes art historian Mario Schlachter. The works address social upheavals and radical changes and at the same time contain hopeful components. In 2017, shortly after the attack on Breitscheidplatz, Michael Streun spent an intensive six months in this lively metropolis, which was in a kind of state of shock, thanks to a scholarship from the city of Thun. The mood in Berlin at that time and the developments of recent years with the pandemic, the increasing social tensions and the momentous war occupy the artist’s mind. And the increasingly “frenzied” world. Michael Streun, Warner, 2022, oil on canvas, 200 x 180 cm, courtesy of Galerie Tammen Michael Streun is constantly developing his figurative painting and increasingly works on larger formats. The compositions do not reflect the actuality of the day, but make the […]
archiv SANDER | SCHAAL | INVENTORY | Galerie Georg Nothelfer | 14.09.-11.11.2023
until 11.11. | #4018ARTatBerlin | Galerie georg nothelfer shows from 14th September 2023 the exhibition INVENTORY with the archiv SANDER | SCHAAL in community with Eduardo Chillida, Christo & Jeanne-Claude, Galli, Gerhard Hoehme, Walter Menne, Robert Motherwell, Max Neumann, Georges Noël, Arnulf Rainer, Richard Serra and Fred Thieler. The two Berlin-based artists Finja Sander (*1996) and Daniel Schaal (*1990) take the exhibition title INVENTORY literally and embark on an open-ended exploration of selected positions from the collection of Galerie Georg Nothelfer. Both artists work independently and under the collaborative name archiv SANDER I SCHAAL. The focus of their collaboration is on long-term, multimedia narratives that evolve continuously over several years and are explored and expanded through ongoing repetition. Richard Serra, Min, 1990, Litography, Ed. 22. 133 x 205 cm. Courtesy Galerie Georg Nothelfer For INVENTORY, Sander and Schaal selected eleven different artists from Galerie Georg Nothelfer, who are initially juxtaposed during a happening with the two artists’ mere pool of material. Then Sander and Schaal radically expose themselves to the curated works: For several days a week, they will work through the selection, visible to the public at all times, developing confrontational strategies in a multimedia manner. The initial rational […]
Gunter Reski | ZWINGER Galerie | 09.09.-04.11.2023
until 04.11. | #4016ARTatBerlin | ZWINGER Galerie shows from 9. September 2023 (Opening: 08.09.) the exhibition of the artist Gunter Reski. Some images, or better components of them, just barely miss current events. That results from solidified helplessness, which is fed by constant overstrain. It doesn’t really have to be, but it’s lying around everywhere to jump down your and my necks as if automated. It’s a question of who or what gets damaged and scratched in the process. The subjects certainly don’t. The content often doesn’t even know it’s a topic. All it takes is for a word like weather to appear in the picture, a hand stuck in the street, or a press photo of one of the first artificially created stem cells. These are pictorial moments that scroll away on their own, but are captured here with an analog make. Some images are reminiscent of pages in a photo album. Panini or photo albums are defined by a multitude of images or the exclusion of the one weighty single image. Now just sticking the photo of that semi-sympathetic uncle exclusively on a single page? Better not. Show up next to other relatives he can already. Here the […]
Antonio Paucar | Weaving and Uniting Silenced Voices | Galerie Barbara Thumm | 01.09.–13.10.2023
until 13.10. | #4015ARTatBerlin | Galerie Barbara Thumm presents from 1. September 2023 the exhibition Weaving and Uniting Silenced Voices of the artist Antonio Paucar. Antonio Paucar’s recent body of work, created during his residencies in different continents, builds bridges between diverse geographies and cultural traditions: those of the West, the Andes and the Peruvian Amazon, both times past and future. His work addresses contemporary conflicts, such as the murder of indigenous leaders and environmentalists, climate change and surveillance technology, current wars and totalitarian regimes. Some of his pieces evince his research into ancestral Andean textile art and its materiality, in relation to the body and textile-making. In the gallery, Antonio’s hands weave a spiral with white and black Alpaca fibers, an allusion to the principle of dual reciprocity in Andean worldview. The spiral symbolizes Andean thinking—inclusive, collective, linking reflection and action, and the past and the present as a cycle—in contrast to the linear Western conceptualisation, with its unidirectional notion of time. All action is offered as a meditative practice, creating energy, being in communion with the All, with nature, with Pacha Mama (Mother Earth). In fact, all of his exhibition constitutes a healing ritual for a world increasingly […]
A Retrospective – A Century of LOTHAR QUINTE | Bermel von Luxburg Gallery | 13.09.-05.11.2023
until 05.11. | #4014ARTatBerlin | Bermel von Luxburg Gallery presents from 13. September 2023 the exhibition A Retrospective – A Century of LOTHAR QUINTE by the artist Lothar Quinte. Like no other painter of his generation LOTHAR QUINTE combined in his life’s work several approaches of abstract painting from the 1960s to 2000. Bermel von Luxburg Gallery pays tribute to his work on the occasion of his 100th anniversary (Lothar Quinte would certainly have celebrated his birthday in Wintzenbach, France, where the internationally recognized painter died in the year 2000). Bermel von Luxburg Gallery will showcase artworks from different periods and creative phases: From the purely painterly-gestural artworks of the early 60s up to OpArt and then again, the very calm paintings of the 80s and 90s. Lothar Quinte surprises with paintings that could also have been created today as he convinces in colour, composition and monochrome. In addition to painting, his focus was on art in public spaces. Thus, Quinte developed in the course of the years several stained-glass windows (for example the Lübeck Cathedral) and wall works (textiles, carpets). However, Lothar Quinte was not only broadly positioned in terms of mediums, but he also opened up viewers to look at his artworks with a new visual language. […]
Bruce Clarke | ECCE NATURA | ARTCO Galerie Berlin | 13.09.-21.10.2023
until 21.10. | #4013ARTatBerlin | ARTCO Galerie Berlin presents from 13. September 2023 the exhibition ECCE NATURA by the artist Bruce Clarke. ECCE NATURA is the preamble to the museum production ECCE HOMO, which was presented for the first time at the Musée national de la Résistance et des Droits humains in Luxembourg. The exhibition looks at the themes it deals with – economic growth, power and the understanding of nature – from a different perspective and presents new works that delve into the latter theme in particular. In this elaboration, Clarke asks about the existential relationship of human beings to nature and uncovers the subtleties and conflicts of this field of tension. On 15.9, the exhibition will be activated with a performance by the renowned choreographer Tebby W.T. Ramasike. The South African choreographer, performer, dance teacher, dance researcher, Butoh practitioner and cultural activist was born in Johannesburg in 1965. Bruce Clarke will be present. Exhibition dates: Wednesday, 13. September to Saturday, 21. October 2023 Performance by Tebby W.T. Ramasike: Friday, 15 September 2023, 8:00 pm Image caption title: Performance von Tebby W.T. Ramasike, courtesy of ARTCO Berlin Exhibition Bruce Clarke – ARTCO Galerie Berlin | Zeitgenössische Kunst in […]
Marta Guisande | Neue Arbeiten | Galerie kajetan | 16.09.-25.11.2023
until 25.11. | #4012ARTatBerlin | Galerie kajetan Berlin shows from 16. September 2023 (Opening: 15.09.) the exhibition Neue Arbeiten by the artist Marta Guisande, *1965, Seville, Spain) at BERLIN ART WEEK 2023. Marta Guisande is a painter who applies the colour material she uses – such as egg tempera, casein, acrylic and sometimes oil – swiftly and spontaneously onto unprimed cotton fabric. Some of Marta Guisande’s artworks are also created by soaking the fabric in the respective colour substances. Marta Guisande | Neue Arbeiten | Exhibition view 2023 Courtesy Marta Guisande & Galerie kajetan | Photo: Marcus Schneider In her works, the artist follows the painterly means and the material in all consistency, also insofar as Marta Guisande’s working process up to the valid creation of the picture includes moments of observation, reflection and doubt about what is being created or what has been created before. Guisande’s works, which often oscillate between the monochrome and its many shades, are formed in the course, layering, overlaying and removal of the paint. Marta Guisande | Neue Arbeiten | Exhibition view 2023 Courtesy Marta Guisande & Galerie kajetan | Photo: Marcus Schneider In some cases, graphic lines are drawn or scratched into the […]
INTERESTS | Group exhibition | Schiefe Zähne | 02.09.-14.10.2023
until 14.10. | #4011ARTatBerlin | Schiefe Zähne presents from 2. September 2023 (Opening: 01.09.) the group exhibition INTERESTS by the artists Matthias Groebel, Ariane Müller, Phung-Tien Phan, Lukas Quietzsch, Richard Sides, Philipp Simon and Angharad Williams in its new location at Potsdamer Straße 103, 10785 Berlin-Mitte. Opening: Friday, 1. September – 6:00 to 9:00 pm Exhibition dates: Saturday, 2. September – Saturday, 14. October 2023 Image caption: Matthias Groebel, Untitled, 2003 Exhibition INTERESTS – Schiefe Zähne | Zeitgenössische Kunst – Contemporary Art Guide | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin
Franz Schmidt | TELEVISION | Rasche Ripken | 08.09.-04.11.2023 – extended until 22.12.2023
until 04.11. | #4010ARTatBerlin | RASCHE RIPKEN presents from 8. September 2023 the exhibition TELEVISION by the artist Franz Schmidt. Work, living, leisure, consumption – from these and other spheres of life, the Berlin-based artist selects exemplary everyday objects that he translates into sculptures made of lacquered MDF. In the process, he transforms the objects to a subtle abstraction of minimalist appearance, changing proportions, details and colouring. Franz Schmidt, Automat, 2018, 140 x 70 x 60 cm, MDF, paint, 140 x 70 x 60 cm For example, he builds technical appliances, washing machines, radios, televisions, a beverage dispender, a cash register or a sewing machine, which are partly presented on pedestals and, in their iconic character, evoke images of memories and arouse individual desires. But there are also celestial phenomena such as a yellow star or half a rainbow, taking on an unexpectedly material shape. Franz Schmidt, Nähmaschine, 2018, MDF, paint, 168,5 x 89 x 40 cm In addition, the artist expands the arsenal of his objects with large-format black-and-white photographs – and thus creates a stage-setting that repeatedly evokes surprising perspectives and mental cross-connections. Opening: Friday, 8. September 2023, 8:00 – 9:00 pm, in the presence of the artist. […]
Jānis Šneiders | 1 : x ≤ ∞ Internal Topographies | Jarmuschek + Partner | 02.09.-30.09.2023
until 30.09. | #4009ARTatBerlin | Jarmuschek + Partner shows from 2. September 2023 the exhibition 1 : x ≤ ∞ Internal Topographies by the artist Jānis Šneiders. Worlds open up in the paintings of Jānis Šneiders. The fine lines of his single-point perspective grids get lost in the impenetrable depth of shadows and darkness. The high-contrast pictorial spaces created with few means seem at once clear and mysterious, highly objective and extremely dramatic. Without any scale or context, they leave us reeling between inner and outer infinities. In spite of a perceived representational nature, they are abstract structures that can be located both externally-topographically and internally. Not fixed on a meaning, they are open projection surfaces for the viewer’s imagination, for insights, memories, fears and longings. Jānis Šneiders (*1995) lives and works in Riga. He studied painting at the Art Academy of Latvia from 2015 to 2019 and at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp during an Erasmus residency in 2018. He continued his studies at the Art Academy of Latvia until 2022, where he graduated with a Master’s degree in Visual Communication. His works have been shown in numerous solo exhibitions in Latvia and Sweden and are included in prestigious […]
Astrid Köppe | look deep into nature | Galerie Inga Kondeyne – Raum für Zeichnung | 02.09.-14.10.2023
until 14.10. | #4008ARTatBerlin | Galerie Inga Kondeyne – Raum für Zeichnung presents from 2. September 2023 the exhibition look deep into nature by the artist Astrid Köppe in backstage of the Galerie. As a viewer of Astrid Köppe’s drawings, one becomes an observer of an artistic amoeba world of sheer inexhaustible gestalt development, whose irritating, sometimes bizarre otherness seems at the same time often enough to be underlaid with a wink and thus invites one to a voyage of discovery of its own kind. Naturally grown forms, reduced to their origins, are imaginatively reshaped by her. With the keyboard of drawing, combined with striking colour settings – brilliant radiance sometimes appears in passing – she produces surprising existences in drawing again and again. Endless in the individual expressions, one follows the other charged by observations of nature on journeys. Astrid Köppe, o.T. (Z23_058), 2023, Watercolour, ink, pencil, 29,7 x 21 cm Astrid Köppe, lives in Berlin since 2001; 1992-99 Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig, diploma + master student; born 1974 in Köthen / Anhalt; solo exhibitions (selection): 2023 Pretty Shiny Stuff, Seizan Gallery, New York; Look Deep into Nature, Galerie Inga Kondeyne; Concrete Matters (with Susanne Piotter), Galerie Carolyn Heinz, […]
Phoebe Boswell | Liminal Beach | WENTRUP | 15.09.-21.10.2023
until 21.10. | #4007ARTatBerlin | WENTRUP presents from 15. September 2023 the exhibition ” Liminal Beach ” of the artist Phoebe Boswell. Wentrup presents “Liminal Beach”, the first solo exhibition of London-based artist Phoebe Boswell in Germany. She was born in Nairobi in 1982 and studied at the Slade School of Fine Art and Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London. In 2022, she participated in the Lyon Biennale with a large two-channel video installation entitled dwelling. Her solo exhibition “A Tree Says (In These Boughs The World Rustles)” is currently on view at Orleans House in Twickenham near London. A woman flings herself into the air on a secluded beach, her red dress lifting from the force of that leap, its color a vibrant splash against the blue sky and endless horizon. She is so exuberant that she seems to defy gravity. Any moment now, those graceful arms might carry her away beyond where we can see. Phoebe Boswell’s Liminal Deity could be a portrait of joy and exhilarating freedom. But that dress: it is both elegant and harrowing, made of either feathers or flesh. Its shade of red hovers on the edge of darkness. Those could be […]
Eckart Hahn | Hart wie Schein | Crone Berlin | 15.09.-04.11.2023
until 04.11. | #4007ARTatBerlin | Crone Berlin presents from 15th September 2023 the exhibition „Hart wie Schein“ by the artist Eckart Hahn. It takes place within the framework of the Berlin Art Week and shows in an impressive way that Hahn has devoted himself to three things in his entire oeuvre: Painting, hyperrealism and the ad absurdum leading of an ever more absurd world. Eckart Hahn’s paintings amaze the viewer from the first moment with their meticulous, highly precise painting. His brushstrokes seem to effortlessly take on old master artistry and painterly virtue, but the motifs immediately reveal that we are in the here and now. Dreamlike, unreal human-animal figures are up to mischief, colourful plumage forms itself into soldiers’ helmets, black holes open up in desolate landscapes, cheeky birds peep out from under lifted women’s skirts and mighty creatures turn out to be wooden backdrops. The motifs of Hahn’s paintings leave it open whether they conceal symbolism or not. They can always be interpreted in this way or in another way. One can see one thing in them, but also the exact opposite. The only thing that is certain is that Hahn shows us a world in which nothing […]
Ej Hauser | Song Of Summer | Haverkampf Leistenschneider | 01.09.-14.10.2023
until 14.10. | #4005ARTatBerlin | Haverkampf Leistenschneider presents from 1. September 2023 the exhibition “Song Of Summer” of the artist EJ Hauser. Most of us are so used to reading that we forget that each letter is a shape, and each word is a composition. The type we read every day – in emails and books, on packaging and signs – has a significant aesthetic dimension. U.S. artist EJ Hauser has adopted graphic and typographic strategies for their philosophical purposes and works, revealing a new view of what we no longer see in everyday life among all the texts. EJ Hauser’s quasi-abstract, fabric-like paintings are composed of layers of pixels, text fragments, and chimerical figures that refer to networks both in nature and the plant world, as well as to digital systems and interconnections in our human communication world. For them, letters form a sculptural framework, a compositional structure that sometimes dissolves into pure text images, sometimes leads to text in combination with images, or sometimes is buried under successive layers of paint. Some are very explicit, others require a closer look to find the spine and curves of different letters jumbled together to dissolve the boundary between word and image, mixed […]
Simone Westphal + Karen Simon | Galerie Schindler | 31.08.-14.10.2023
until 14.10. | #4006ARTatBerlin | Galerie Schindler in Potsdam presents from 31. August 2023 the exhibition Verflechtung with works by the artists Simone Westphal and Karen Simon. The material approach that one senses in KAREN SIMONS’ works comes from a love of the spatial, the living, sinking into another world. With often delicate, transparent, but also strong colours, she paints with ink, gouache and acrylic on canvas, sometimes tulle. Karen Simon, still there, thread and ink on canvas, 95 x 75 cm, 2022 She often finds her inspiration in the moods of nature, places and feelings, whereby the representational is only hinted at, remains fragmentary or blurred. The sewn-on, embroidered or hanging threads suggest directions, connections, but also entanglements. The viewer is thus given impulses without being restricted in his or her way of seeing. Karen Simon, connection, 150 x 100 cm, thread and ink on canvas, 2023 With this opening up of new mental creative spaces, Simon succeeds in addressing people, evoking emotions, dreams or an examination of oneself. After viewing the works with their loose, floating, dancing threads, one is released with a feeling of having reconnected with oneself. Simone Westphal, Niki de St. Phalle, 35 x 20 […]