until 20.12. | #2608ARTatBerlin | Galerie Born Berlin shows from 1st November 2019 the exhibition Procession with paintings by the artist Reinoud van Vught.  Works from Reinoud van Vught, born 1960, have featured in numerous group exhibitions with his Dutch painter colleagues Henri Jacobs, Han Klinkhamer, and Marc Mulders in the Galerie Born. His first solo exhibition in the Galerie Born, Berlin is titled “Procession”. This can be understood as a reference to the repeated forms in his often large-format works on paper and his paintings. However the title also resonates with references to the ritual of painting. Although we primarily encounter the term in religious contexts – the procession in honour of God – the artist understands it in its application to art. Vernissage: Thursday, 31st October 2019, 6 – 9 pm Ausstellungsdaten: Friday, 1st November – Friday, 20th December 2019   Image caption: Courtesy Galerie Born Berlin -Reinoud van Vught Exhibition Reinoud van Vught – Galerie Born Berlin | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin      

until 21.12. | #2605ARTatBerlin | Robert Morat Galerie shows from 26. October 2019 the exhibition Tempora Morte by the photographer Lia Darjes. Asked about the most important influence on her work, Lia Darjes answers: “Visits in the Berlin Gemäldegalerie.” This influence is clearly visible in her new book “Tempora Morte”. The photographic series was created in 2016 in Kaliningrad, Russia, and documents the modest roadside market stands where old women sell the modest harvest from their garden or the nearby forest to supplement their meagre pensions. “In autumn you may find three apples, some raisins and two bulbs of garlic. At other times of the year maybe two jars of homemade strawberry jam and two cabbages or dried fish.” Stillleben mit Drosselbeeren, Kaliningrad, 2014, 59 x 46 cm, Archival Pigment Print, Ed. of 7 + 2 AP’s Stillleben mit Quitten und Kürbis, Kaliningrad, 2016, 57 x 44 cm, Archival Pigment Print, Ed. of 7 + 2 AP’s Theoretically, these images are therefore documentary images, they could also be understood as a reportage on topics such as old-age poverty or micro-economics – but in fact, the subject matter is iconically exaggerated. Through the use of a small flash and the underexposure […]

until 07.12. | #2602ARTatBerlin| Galerie Inga Kondeyne – Raum für Zeichnung shows from 25th October 2019 an exhibition by the artist Alexander Klenz in the backstage of the gallery with a small selection of new works on paper.  The artist regularly meets himself in daily work at the desk in the uncertainty of the day. He seems to fathom his scope on the sheet in the self-set, rectangular boundaries; framework conditions that he has created for his concentrated settings. What is conspicuous in the exhibited works is the return of rectangular surfaces applied with lacquer. Klenz conquers the adjacent areas with free lines. Coloured pencil lines playfully connect the individual elements and levels, often rearing up. o.T., (2387), 46,6 x 36,6 cm, Mischtechnik/Papier, 2019               In terms of forms, the lower part of each work contains a narrow field for one of his three address stamps, stamped work designations and for the signature. o.T., (2380), 46,6 x 36,6 cm, Mischtechnik /Papier, 2018 Alexander Klenz (born 1974 in Bützow), 1995-2001 Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Berlin with Dieter Goltzsche and Hanns Schimansky; 2002-2003 master student with Hanns Schimansky; solo exhibitions: 2018, “Sub Divo”, Pavillon […]

until 13.12. | #2599ARTatBerlin | Galerie Gilla Lörcher shows from 31st October 2019 the group exhibition XXX with the artists Valentin Carron (CH), Nicolas Chardon (F) and John Cornu (F). XXX brings together three contemporary artists, without a theme. Valentin Carron, Nicolas Chardon, and John Cornu all know each other and have either exhibited or collaborated together. Their works–whether figurative or abstract, serial, dark or even authoritarian, pictorial or sculptural–revisit forms, codes, and motifs from twentieth-century art history. Valentin Carron One of the most important Swiss artists of his generation, Valentin Carron has developed an oeuvre which combines central traditions of contemporary art making, while questioning them in terms of their current meaning. In this way, he includes approaches to appropriation in his work as well as Pop Art traditions, the sociological search for clues and post-studio production. Born in 1977 in Martigny (Switzerland). Valentin carron lives and works in Martigny. His work has been exhibited in numerous solo shows: at the Kunsthalle, Bern, the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, the Conservera Centro de Arte Contemporáneo in Ceutí/Murcia, the Kunsthalle Zürich, the Swiss Institute of New York, the Chisenhale Gallery in London (with Mai-Thu Perret), the Centre d’Art Contemporain in Geneva (with Mai-Thu […]

until 07.12. | #2596ARTatBerlin | Kristin Hjellegjerde Berlin shows from 8th of November 2019 the exhibition “Strangers in Town” with works by the international artists Amina Agueznay, Hiva Alizadeh, Ranti Bam, Liz Collins, Kyle Meyer, Outi Pieski, Erin M. Riley, Robin Kang and Sinta Tantra. As our world becomes increasingly digitised, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery Berlin presents a group exhibition celebrating traditional craftsmanship and tangibility. Strangers in Town brings together the works of nine international artists whose practises examine different forms of materiality through dynamic methods of stitching, weaving, carving and painting. Cultural dialogue and collaboration is at the heart of Amina Agueznay’s practise. The Moroccan artist works with local artisans to create jewellery and installation artworks, often utilising raw materials found in natural landscapes. In this way, Agueznay explores how tradition can be both preserved and progressed in the modern world. Similarly influenced by cultural traditions, Hiva Alizadeh modifies the methods of the nomadic carpet weavers of Kurdistan to create kaleidoscopic artworks. Viewed from a distance, these works appear to be shimmering and fluid, whilst closer inspection reveals layers of vibrant synthetic hair. This deception of materiality plays with the viewer’s expectations, offering a new perspective on both craft processes […]

until 26.10.| #2569ARTatBerlin | Galerie mehdi chouakri currently shows the exhibition 9102hoist / plasmatic breeze round-up by the artist Gerwald Rockenschaub in the gallery rooms at Fasanenplatz. The tenth solo exhibition of works by Gerwald Rockenschaub shows new and previously unknown works. The exhibition entitled 9102hoist / plasmatic breeze round-up is presented at our Fasanenplatz gallery and includes wall works and an object that—given their quasi-minimalistic nature—confront notions of space, colour, form, materiality, and the phenomenon of their own optical viewing experience. Rockenschaub works with a variety of synthetic and industrial materials: acrylic glass, colour vinyls, aluminium, MDF boards, etc. His art may have originated in painting from the 1980’s Neo-Geo movement; it has, however, subsequently developed increasingly towards video, sculpture, and installation. The technical production processes of his works have emerged as a theme—today the works are designed entirely on the computer. By additionally using the technical specifications as titles, Rockenschaub embraces the manufacturing processes. The practical realisation of the designs is delegated by the artist to professional specialist companies and experienced craftsmen. In the exhibition 9102hoist / plasmatic breeze round-up, Gerwald Rockenschaub primarily shows pictorial wall objects. These are composed of acrylic glass and lacquered MDF boards, which […]

until 21.09. | #2593ARTatBerlin | Galerie Z22 presents from 28th September 2019 the exhibition LUXUS FÜR ALLE with works by the photographer Daniel Biskup. DANIEL BISKUP is regarded as “the eye of the revolution in Eastern Europe” (Der Spiegel) – he is the photographer of the process of reunification in Germany. He also photographed the upheaval in the Soviet Union. Biskup succeeded with his camera to be there again and again, where history happened. He visualizes system breaks and shows the people behind political and social processes. Helmut Kohl, the supermarket saleswoman or Trump – Biskup presents actors of current events without a hierarchy. Biskup photographs both spontaneously and on commission. “Random encounters” lead to surprising shots. How did he get Karl Lagerfeld to pose in the Berlin subway? And then the great tableau of political ceremony: Angela Merkel on the stairs to the White House. How she turns herself over on the red carpet of her man who got out of the limousine in evening dress: a mild, almost seductive smile in the evening light. Mr. and Ms. Obama also await the couple with a smile. In the background, the setting is tightly set up with the usual press […]

until 28.09. | #2590ARTatBerlin | Galerie Michael Haas shows from 21st September 2019 in the series “Wochenschau / Weekly Show” the exhibition of the artist Gustav Kluge for exactly one week. Gustav Kluge Vernissage: Saturday, 21st September 2019, 11:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. Exhibition period: Saturday, 21st September – Saturday, 28 September 2019   Exhibition Gustav Kluge – Galerie Michael Haas | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin  

until 19.10. | #2578ARTatBerlin | Loock Galerie currently shows the exhibition The Return of the National by the artist Ivan Grubanov. An artist talk will take place on 14 September (4:00 pm). Loock Galerie is pleased to announce “The Return of the National”, Ivan Grubanov’s sixth solo exhibition in the gallery. In his recent series of paintings, Grubanov explores the concept of nation and its contemporary references. A native of the former Yugoslavia who grew up in the midst of a civil war inspired by nationalism, Grubanov relentlessly investigates the link between nationals and their methods of identification. Using various national slogans as a starting point, he has them embroidered on a piece of canvas and then paints over them, at once changing their meaning and prompting alternative readings. Covered and highlighted, the national slogans are simultaneously derogated and celebrated through the painting process. For the artist, the national slogan is both the semantic and poetic core of mobilizing and articulating the subjects of the nation; the very framing of a nation, therefore, has an “artistic” element to it. New paintings exploring these themes will be exhibited alongside “The Return of the National”, a large-scale triptych that occupies an entire […]

until 21.12. | #2567ARTatBerlin | Sprüth Magers Berlin currently presents the exhibition Erdkunde und (Süd)Koreanischer Kalender by the artist Hanne Darboven. Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers are pleased to announce the first solo exhibition of Darboven’s work at the Berlin gallery, presenting Erdkunde I, II, III (Geography I, II, III) (1986) and (Süd-) Koreanischer Kalender / (South) Korean Calendar (1991). The Hamburg-born Conceptual artist is known for her serial writing pieces and date-based cross sum calculations hung as wall-spanning blocks of identically framed paper works. In the 1980s, Darboven began combining various forms of representation and presentation by collaging image and text panels together. Shown for the first time in its entirety, the encyclopedic work Erdkunde I, II, III (Geography I, II, III) will fill the gallery’s main space while the prior room features the calendar-based work (Süd) Koreanischer Kalender / (South) Korean Calendar. Erdkunde I, II, III (Geography I, II, III) consists of over 700 panels, each containing four vertical-format, annotated and collaged DIN A4 sheets. The artist constructs each collaged page with components characteristic of her work: wavy-line drawings resembling cursive script, handwritten encyclopedia quotes from entries about the “Earth” or “Geography,” copies from scientific non-fiction books, illustrations from display boards and black-and-white photographs of her […]

until 09.11. | #2565ARTatBerlin | BQ Berlin presents from 14th September 2019 a solo exhibition by the artist Jochen Lempert. Vernissage: Friday, 13 September 2019, 6 – 9 pm Exhibition period: Saturday, 14 September – Saturday, 9 November 2019   Image caption: Courtesy of BQ Berlin – Jochen Lempert Exhibition Jochen Lempert – BQ Berlin | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin

until 30.11. | #2583ARTatBerlin | axmann kunstgalerie shows from 12th September 2019 an exhibition with paintings by the French artist Alain Ponçon. Accompanying the exhibition with Alain Ponçon, the axmann kunstgalerie will show further works from painting and sculpture by artists of the gallery, including the Berlin painter and sculptor Ernst Leonhardt, whose artist studio can be visited in a 360° STUDIO VISIT HERE. Alain Poncon, Dame, Huile sur Toile, 55 x 46 cm The focus of the exhibition in autumn 2019 will be Alain Ponçon. He is a French painter whose artistic power comes from creating his works of art through liveliness and sensitivity in an expressionist style in harmonious, strong colours. La Brasserie, Toile 60 x 60 cm Casse à la Poussette, Toile 50 x 50 cm Portrait Alain Poncon Exhibition period: Thursday, 12 September to Saturday, 30 November 2019   Image caption: Courtesy axmann kunstgalerie – Alain Ponçon, Casse à la Poussette, Toile 50 x 50 cm Exhibition Alain Poncon – axmann kunstgalerie | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin – Exhibitions Berlin Galleries – ART at Berlin        

until 16.11. | #2549ARTatBerlin | Blain|Southern Berlin shows from 15th September 2019 the solo exhibition Watchtowers, Gates and The Sea of Stories by the artist Francesco Clemente. Blain|Southern Berlin is pleased to present Watchtowers, Gates and The Sea of Stories, a solo exhibition of recent works by Francesco Clemente (b. 1952, Naples) and the first presentation of the artist’s sculptures in Europe. The exhibition comprises The Sea of Stories, a monumental mural spanning the length of the gallery that will be created on site, and two bodies of sculpture created in collaboration with local artisans in Rajasthan. Often described as a ‘nomadic artist’, Clemente first travelled to India in the early 1970s and continues to live and work between the subcontinent, Europe and the US. Influenced by India’s traditions, symbolism and the artistic approaches of its artisans, Clemente has created a deeply personal visual vocabulary inspired his experiences. Whilst celebrated as a painter, his lesser-known sculptural practice relates to the pictorial language of his paintings and works on paper. Every work is a confluence of different elements and motifs such as ladders, labyrinths, gates and keys which allude to transition, boundaries and spaces ‘in between’: earth and sky, the internal […]

until 05.10. | #2563ARTatBerlin | Kuckei + Kuckei currently presents the exhibition Museum of the Revolution by the artist Guy Tillim. These photographs were made on long walks through the streets of the African cities of Johannesburg, Durban, Maputo, Beira, Harare, Nairobi, Kampala, Addis Ababa, Luanda, Libreville, Accra, Abidjan, Dakar and Dar Es Salaam between 2014 and 2018. The series takes its title from the Museum of the Revolution on the Avenida 24 Julho, in Maputo, the capital of Mozambique. The avenue was named soon after the establishment of Lourenço Marques as the Portuguese colonial capital. The 24th of July 1875 marked the end of a Luso-British conflict for possession of the territory that was decided in favour of Portugal. One hundred years later the name of the avenue remained the same, but its meaning changed. Mozambique’s independence from Portugal was proclaimed on June 25, 1975; the capital was renamed Maputo, and now the 24th of July is Nationalisation Day, celebrating the transfer of ownership of all Portuguese property and buildings to the state. A 15-year civil war followed, ending in 1992. The People’s Republic of Mozambique became the Republic of Mozambique and a new era began. In the Museum […]

until 02.11. | #2555ARTatBerlin | Galerie Martin Mertens presents from 10th September 2019 the exhibition The Light and the Dark with artworks by the artist Raquel Maulwurf. Raquel Maulwurf, born in Madrid in 1975, studied in Arnheim and is based in Amsterdam. She has made quite a name for herself with large-scale charcoal drawings, her works are a.o. in the collections of Rijkmuseum Amsterdam, Teylers Museum Haarlem and Stedelijk Museum Schiedam and have been exhibited in over 20 European museums. Her drawings are part of many private and museum collections. In 2017 she had a solo exhibition at Gemeentemuseum The Hague. In 2011 she was artist-in-residence at the prestigious International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) in New York. For her first solo exhibition at Gallery Martin Mertens, Raquel Maulwurf developed a concept as a continuance of her recent solo exhibition “The Carbon War Room” at Gemeentemuseum The Hague. At our gallery she is showing large-scale charcoal drawings in contrast to very small drawings in “smartphone size”. While Maulwurf’s previous work dealt with the remnants and destruction of war, her new work captures our world’s chaos when hit by the forces of nature and ecological disasters; exploring the notion of whether […]

until 02.11. | #2584ARTatBerlin | White Square Gallery shows from 7th September 2019 the exhibition The Hairs, The Hats and Aunt Fancie with works by the artist Ashley Scott. Gallerist and Art Historian Dr. Elena Sadykova, Berlin, writes in August 2019: I enter the studio and am immediately sucked in by a round dance of colours. Almost blinded, I first notice countless colourful shadows fluttering around me through light-filled rooms. They seem to be thrown by strange colorful objects that occupy every free space in the studio and transform it into a kind of magical in a tropical house. This vision is very strong, because the sculptures are filled with a lightness, as if they consist only of air and color, which were beaten to the colorful foam. They give the impression of not being firm, light as a feather, buzzing, warm. The virtuoso handling of colours creates and supports this seemingly floating state and at the same time suggests the astonishing radiance of the sculptures. The colours shimmer, shine and glow inside the figures as if on their surface, where they flow into and over each other, transforming themselves into a firework of many new shimmering surfaces and sparkling […]

until 19.10. | #2572ARTatBerlin | Köppe Contemporary presents from 6. September 2019 the exhibition Recogcognitionnition with works by the artists Becker Schmitz and Il-Jin Atem Choi. Recogcognitionnition: Being able to recognize not recognizing Becker Schmitz and Il-Jin Atem Choi attempt to overcome the profane, absolute, moral and didactic in art in order to escape the poetic appearance that arises when the work of art is too certain to be on the right side of history. Not to mention epigonal tendencies within contemporary art. The art-historical genealogy that stretches out within the painting of Becker Schmitz should still be able to be foreseen. In his works, however, the artist explains the overcoming of the motif despite his apparent loyalty to the manifesto of a simultaneity of presence and absence. Il-Jin Atem Choi’s works, on the other hand, attempt to negate any obvious genealogy – in the neo-Dadaist consciousness of the impossibility of such an undertaking. The essence of his works permeates the paradoxical claim to establish and endure the creative act as an active non-activity in order to name the end in itself of art as indefinable. Becker Schmitz, Die Senkung, 2018, 50 x 40 cm Both positions oscillate between states […]

until 18.10. | #2552ARTatBerlin | Migrant Bird Space presents from 4th September 2019 the exhibition Embers by the artist Shi Zheng. “This is real time, it is modern history in the making.” —Sarah Charlesworth on Movie-Television–News-History, 1979 Convincing images. This is how scientists describe the computer-generated results of neural networks like PGGAN. They identify and predict. Input to output. Faces, yes, but also landscapes. In A.I. research labs across the world, computers have been taught to alter summer snapshots to look like snowy winter scenes, to convert horses into zebras, Monets into Van Goghs. Fake media, fake images. Fake, but convincing. I’ve been tricked by images like these. In Frosty Morning, Shi Zheng uses the same complex algorithm, a type of Generative Adversarial Net (GAN), to predict the cover of the New York Times. Using a data set of the newspaper’s front pages over the past six years, Shi’s program launches a “perpetual newspaper generator” that can, or tries to, predict the future. For Shi, the front page is a “narrative view of our world.” In a time of fake news, fake narratives multiply. Frosty Morning reenacts their production. Celestial Fable is based on Fluxus pioneer Alison Knowles’ computer-generated poem—one […]

until 15.09. | #2545ARTatBerlin | aquabitART shows from 23rd August 2019 the solo exhibition AQUABIT II, a light installation by the Dutch artist Peter Vink. After his extremely successful AQUABIT installation in 2017, Dutch artist Peter Vink returns to the gallery with a new site-specific concept. AQUABIT II is inspired by the spatial drawings of the Bauhaus teacher Josef Albers and his ability to create perspective, imaginary spaces. Peter Vink proposes a rotating structure derived from the architectural environment, which builds a three-dimensional drawing in the gallery space. The visitor is invited to discover the surroundings from a different perspective. Einladung zur Lichtinstallation von Peter Vink in der aquabitArt Galerie “Vink composes site-specific installations that suggest a new physical as well as intellectual space within the room in which they occur; by carefully balancing on the borders between art and design, functionality and visual pleasure, the work of Vink is not only to be perceived aesthetically but also conceptually.” An essay by Vanessa Souli The exhibition will be shown as part of Architecture + Art Weekend 2019. Vernissage: Friday, 23rd August 2019, 8:00 – 11:00 p.m.. The artist is present. Exhibition period: Friday, 23rd August – Sunday 15 September 2019 […]

until 26.10. | #2542ARTatBerlin | Galerie Born Berlin presents from 6th September 2019 the exhibition with new paintings by the artist John Adams Griefen.  JOHN ADAMS GRIEFEN is an artist and he was born in the USA in 1942. His work has been exhibited in thirty-five individual exhibitions, fifteen in New York City and the others in Canada, Germany, Holland, France and Australia. The work is also in the collections of thirty-one museums including the Metropolitan Museum and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., and in the J. W. Power Collection at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney, Australia. After living in New York City for fifty years, Griefen moved to France with his wife, Nancy Dawson, where he now lives and works. Vernissage: Thursday, 5 September 2019, 6:00 – 9_00 p.m. Ausstellungsdaten: Friday, 6 September – Saturday, 26 October 2019 From 30 August to 3 November 2019 Klaus Hack + Grégoire Hespel – Sculpture and Painting will be shown at the Born Gallery’s branch in Born on the Darss River. Emil Bienefeld / TRIP – Urban Art can be seen in […]

until 19.10. | #2539ARTatBerlin | Salongalerie Die Möwe presents from 4th September 2019 the exhibition  Stolze Ruhe und magische Kraft (> proud tranquillity and magical power) with wood works by the Berlin artist Dieter Finke. From September 4 to October 19, 2019, the Berlin Salongalerie “Die Möwe” will be showing works in wood from the extensive and fascinating oeuvre of the Berlin sculptor and painter Dieter Finke (1939-2011). Following a solo exhibition last year, which gave an overview of Dieter Finke’s oeuvre, this selection provides a closer look at a particularly diverse area of his art. The large-format animal portraits and sculptures in the current exhibition demonstrate the artist’s excellent handling of wood as a material and oscillate between abstraction and representationalism, between surface and three-dimensionality. Dieter Finke’s interest in depicting animals has accompanied him through five decades of artistic creation. He modelled his first animal sculptures at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Berlin, where he studied sculpture with Paul Dierkes and Renée Sintenis from 1959 to 1965. When Dieter Finke lived in New York for a long time from 1974, he turned increasingly to animal sculpture and experimented with various materials. Animal paintings from the exhibition from 2000 […]

until 13.10. | #2535ARTatBerlin | König Galerie (Nave + Chapel) presents from 19th August 2019 the exhibition WHAT BEAUTY IS, I KNOW NOT, curated by Kasper König. Kasper König is the father of the gallerist Johann König. The exhibition shows art works by : POLLY APFELBAUM, OLLE BAERTLING, ALISA BAREMBOYM, THOMAS BAYRLE, ALIGHIERO E BOETTI, NICOLE EISENMAN, FISCHLI & WEISS, THOMAS HIRSCHHORN, MIKE KELLEY, ANNETTE KELM, MARKO LEHANKA, MORRIS LOUIS, JUSTIN MATHERLY, EMEKA OGBOH, MANFRED PERNICE, SUSI POP, HEIDI SPECKER, NIELE TORONI, ROSEMARIE TROCKEL und ALISA YOFFE Kasper König’s thematic exhibition does not follow any commercial interests. Beyond the dialogue with his son Johann, he was attracted by the extraordinary architecture of the gallery in the former Catholic church of St. Agnes. The high nave, preserved in its original proportions, today presents itself as a fabulous exhibition hall, representing a challenge for every artist and curator. König exhibits works by Polly Apfelbaum, Olle Baertling, Alisa Baremboym, Thomas Bayrle, Alighiero e Boetti, Nicole Eisenman, Fischli/Weiss, Thomas Hirschhorn, Mike Kelley, Annette Kelm, Marko Lehanka, Morris Louis, Justin Matherley, Emeka Ogboh, Manfred Pernice, Heidi Specker, Susi Pop, Rosemarie Trockel and Alisa Yoffe in the staircase of the tower as well as in the […]

until 21.09. | #2533ARTatBerlin | Galerie Z22 shows from 17th August 2019 the exhibition subject-object / object-subject with sculptures and reliefs by nine artists. On show are artworks by DANIT, Mark HUEBNER, JOAX, Volker KIEHN, Christian LÜTTGEN, Eric MASSHOLDER, PELE, Patrick SLEPICA and Kurt WOLDMANN. „Allen […] Anschauungen ist eines gemeinsam: sie erfassen das Sein als etwas, das mir als Gegenstand gegenübersteht, auf das ich als auf ein mir gegenüberstehendes Objekt, es meinend, gerichtet bin. Dieses Urphänomen unseres bewußten Daseins ist uns so selbstverständlich, daß wir sein Rätsel kaum spüren, weil wir es gar nicht befragen. Das, was wir denken, von dem wir sprechen, ist stets ein anderes als wir, ist das, worauf wir, die Subjekte, als auf ein gegenüberstehendes, die Objekte, gerichtet sind. Wenn wir uns selbst zum Gegenstand unseres Denkens machen, werden wir selbst gleichsam zum anderen und sind immer zugleich als ein denkendes Ich wieder da, das dieses Denken seiner selbst vollzieht, aber doch selbst nicht angemessen als Objekt gedacht werden kann, weil es immer wieder die Voraussetzung jedes Objektgewordenseins ist. Wir nennen diesen Grundbefund unseres denkenden Daseins die Subjekt-Objekt-Spaltung. Ständig sind wir in ihr, wenn wir wachen und bewußt sind.“  CARL JASPERS, Einführung in die Philosophie. […]

until 15.09. | #2530ARTatBerlin | Galerie Mönch presents from 10th August 2019 the exhibition ~ ~ ~ INTERFERENZ ~ ~ ~ by the artist Friedrich Gobbesso. Experimental photography and visual-acoustic experimental set-ups will be shown. In parallel, R52L – Atelier und Kunstraum Joscha Blankenburg – opens in the same building. Vernissage: Saturday, 10 August 2019, 3:00 – 6:00 p.m., Introduction: Enno Schramm Exhibition period: Saturday, 10 August – Sunday, 15 September 2019   Image caption: Friedrich Gobbesso, MOIRÉ 301 | 2019, Fotogramm auf Barytpapier | 45 x 30 cm Exhibition Friedrich Gobbesso – Galerie Mönch | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin

until 31.08. | #2527ARTatBerlin | Galerie ART CRU Berlin presents from 2nd August 2019 the exhibition A DREAM – WHAT ELSE with works by 12 artists from the Offenes Atelier St. Hedwig, Berlin and the Project Ability, Glasgow. Gallery ART CRU Berlin shows works of the intercultural exhibition project between the Offenes Atelier (> Open Studio) St. Hedwig, Berlin and the Project Ability, Glasgow. What is dream – what is reality? At what point do the two levels blur into each other? In art, dreams and realities can merge. After an exhibition of works of art from the Open Studio in the gallery rooms of Project Ability in Glasgow in the summer of 2018, the St. Hedwig Hospital is inviting its Scottish colleagues* to the joint exhibition “A DREAM – WHAT ELSE” in Berlin. All participating artists* will face up to this theme. “The dream can sometimes lead us to the truth, but it can also turn out to be a fallacy. It can help us to forget reality, it can also seduce us to ignore it. Is the dream more beautiful or cruel than reality and reality more truthful than a dream? We ask these questions in the exhibition,” […]

until 17.08. | #2524ARTatBerlin | Galerie mutare presents from 25 July 2019 an exhibition with paintings and sculptures by the artist Tamim Sibai and with paintings by the artist Kuisoon Park. The exhibition, which will be shown from 25 July in the Galerie Mutare, presents works by the painter Tamim Sibai and the painter Kuisoon Park. Selected works by the two Berlin-based artists show expressive, imaginative and colourful works. The exhibition runs until 17 August 2019. This second exhibition of the painter Tamim Sibai, born in Damascus in 1991 and living in Berlin, shows portraits on canvas as well as numerous expressive figurative works on paper. For Tamim Sibai, art is above all a means of confronting one’s own thoughts and feelings. What people hide in themselves, he wants to make visible, transforms his thoughts into thick layers of paint with coarse brushstrokes. He currently shows these themes in no less expressive, often light watercolours. Feelings, the interpersonal and the conflict between inner life and outer behaviour are the main concerns of his art. Faces are at the centre of his artistic work: “Sometimes I take the face as a theme, sometimes I show the theme through the face”. His […]

until 07.09. | #2521ArtatBerlin | Starting on 20 July 2019 Kristin Hjellegjerde Berlin exhibits “Recycle” a show by the artist Ephrem Solomon. Kristin Hjellegjerde Berlin presents Recycle, a new body of work produced this past year by Ephrem Solomon. It’s a continuation of his ongoing exploration into nature, the effects of climate change, the human condition and the cycle of long-term transformations that occur as time passes. Solomon conceptualises the cosmos as ‘the origin of the universe and the meaning of human life in the vastness of space,’, at a time when notions of societal freedom, race, multiculturalism and nationhood are continuously being called into question. Regarding his new series, Solomon states; “I’m interested in the idea of cycles that take place within cultures and over extended periods of time. When we try to understand the cosmos, both as a way of system of thinking and our universe, they become a point of departure, both intellectually and physically. Our ability to unite the two provides a space where we can begin afresh with the comfort of the past.”’ Over the past few years Solomon has garnered recognition in Ethiopia as well as internationally for his striking two-dimensional woodcut and mixed-media […]

until 31.08. | #2518ARTatBerlin | Robert Morat Galerie shows from 13 July 2019 the exhibition Still (Noon) by the photographer Shane Lavalette. When Swiss Fotostiftung in Winterthur and the Musée de l’Elysée in Lausanne approached young American photographer Shane Lavalette to contribute work to a group show titled “Unfamiliar Familiarities. Outside Views on Switzerland” in 2016, Lavalette started to research in the Winterthur archives. He came across contact sheets of a reportage by Theo Frey. Swiss photographer Theo Frey (1908-1997) was a photo journalist and a documentarist. For the 1939 Swiss National Exhibition he visited and systematically photographed in twelve Swiss villages, aiming to tell a story of Switzerland at that moment in time. Untitled, 2016, 31 x 41 cm, Archival Pigment Print, Ed. of 6 + 2 AP’s Untitled, 2016, 31 x 23 cm, Archival Pigment Print, Ed. of 6 + 2 AP’s “Following the footsteps of Frey’s journey from nearly eighty years earlier, I now traveled to the same twelve villages in order to find new images that explore the fabric of Switzerland today”, explains Shane Lavalette, “guided by chance encounters and my own meditations on the past, present, and future.” Untitled, 2016, 70 x 61 cm, Archival Pigment Print, Ed. of 5 + […]

until 17.08. | #2515ARTatBerlin  | Galerie Eigenheim shows from 6th July 2019 the exhibition THE SUMMER OF CHINA 中国的夏天 – Forget it Jake it´s Chinatown – from KTV to Malatang – the China connection with the artists Frederik Foert, Konstantin Bayer and guests 忘了杰克是唐人街 – 从KTV到马拉唐 – 中国的联系. For more than 10 years EIGENHEIM Weimar/Berlin has had an intensive connection to China. One reason for the location of the new Berlin gallery rooms in Kantstraße 28 in Charlottenburg, in the middle of the historically grown Chinese Quarter. This street is home to numerous Asian shops and specialty restaurants, which is why Kantstrasse and the surrounding area are popularly known as Chinatown. The first Chinese came to Berlin Charlottenburg at the beginning of the 20th century to study at the nearby universities. Already in 1902 the Association of Chinese Students was located in Kantstraße 118 and the Chinese Embassy was at that time on Kurfürstendamm. This cultural concentration has continued to this day. Banner Webseite Eigenheim CHINA 2019 The exhibition aims to build on this parallel between gallery programming and location and to bring together the artists of the house as well as guest artists with a Chinese background. It would […]

until 14.09. | #2512ARTatBerlin | GALERIE SPRINGER BERLIN presents from 13th July 2019 the exhibition LUMINESZENZEN by the photographers Maria Jauregui Ponte and Kathrin Linkersdorff. With the exhibition LUMINESCENCES, Galerie Springer Berlin is introducing two artists who will be expanding the gallery’s programme from now on. The two photographers complement each other in the exhibition in an impressive way. Both have been working and experimenting with light and shadow, and colour and darkness for many years. The results of this process are to some extent very different, but they come together in a stunning combination in the exhibition. MARIA JAUREGUI PONTE »In the group of works Überstrahlungen (Overexposures), Maria Jauregui Ponte has worked without a camera. The artist has exposed photographic paper in a specially built dark box with colourful light sources, producing unique photographs that are reduced to an interaction of colour tone, brightness and saturation, and in their colourful abstraction are reminiscent of the monochromatic colour surfaces in Mark Rothko’s paintings.« (Barbara Esch Marowski) © Maria Jauregui Ponte –  o.T./ Überstrahlung usk, 2011-2012 »Maria Jauregui Ponte plays with light – and (almost) blindly! This creates images in which colors, lights and lines of light arise a mysterious world. However, […]

until 17.08. | #2509ARTatBerlin | Esther Schipper presents from 27th June 2019 an exhibition by the artists Christoph Keller, Hito Steyerl and Tao Hui. Esther Schipper is pleased to bring together works by Christoph Keller, Hito Steyerl and Tao Hui. Christoph Keller has been with the gallery since 1997; Hito Steyerl and Tao Hui joined the program recently. If the works presented here are characterized by a variety of forms, they all address issues of identity, belongings and migration. While Christoph Keller’s body of work reflects upon the traces left by history and politics on our urban landscape, Hito Steyerl makes visible our society’s political contradictions and hypocrisies through a system of cultural references. Tao Hui’s immersive multimedia installations bend the boundaries of fiction and reality to address cultural and identity related issues. Tao Hui, The Tangible Ones, 2018 Courtesy the artist and Esther Schipper, Berlin / Photo © Gallery Vacancy, Shanghai Vernissage: Thursday 27 June 2019, 6:00 – 9:00 Uhr Exhibition period: Thursday, 27 June – Saturday, 17 August 2019   Image caption Tao Hui, The Tangible Ones, 2018 / Courtesy the artist and Esther Schipper, Berlin / Photo © Gallery Vacancy, Shanghai Exhibition Christoph Keller, Hito Steyerl, Tao Hui – Esther […]

until 03.08. | #2506ARTatBerlin| Galerie Inga Kondeyne – Raum für Zeichnung shows from 28th June 2019 the exhibition by the artist Kazuki Nakahara.  We cordially invite you to the “backstage” exhibition opening, with a small selection of new drawings by Kazuki Nakahara. On stage opens at the same time the Wichtendahl Galerie: MATS BERGQUIST I Vintersaga. Kazuki Nakahara came from Tokyo via Vienna to Berlin in 2005 to study here. In the rapidly changing art world of this city he now asserts himself as an extraordinary draughtsman. Nakahara draws tightly meshed, linear networks with coloured pencil over the papers. At first glance, signs that cannot be unravelled are mostly horizontally flowing, woven into often overlapping worlds of lines. These, in turn, open up into long, excessive structural formations, which atmospherically surround light zones and flows. Motion patterns are fathomed in the interaction with and against each other, in collision or disappearance on levels of the surface newly conquered by him. A remarkable openness to the world spreads out graphically on the white papers. Kazuki Nakahara, o.T., 2019, Buntstift, Kreide auf Papier, 30 x 84 cm Biography: Born 1980 in Kagawa/Japan; 2000-05 studies at Yokohama City University; 2005-10 studies at Kunsthochschule […]

until 22.06. | #2503ARTatBerlin | EIGEN + ART Lab presents from 20th June 2019 for three days the exhibition make a wish (microdose) by the artist Felix Leon Westner with a performance at the opening evening. Language as a mirror, the commentary as shields reflecting possible meanings of signs. Harmony as an old pal and a false friend, triggering fantasies of rhythm and therefore of orientation and belonging. Swift-flowing sketches of conversations of the now, the never, the ever. We yearn to make sense as we love to get lost. Felix Leon Westner works with our desires. He blows them up, he microdoses them down. His practice is combining pop and poetry with rave and analytical reflections. He is a musician performing a set of songs on a stage. Putting layers of sound – that originate from his organ of speech but are mainly noises with snippets of language – on top of each other, looping them to create scapes that could almost be called tracks but is than breaking them off before they become too harmonic, too rhythmic, too much of an earwig. At the same time Westner is a stenographer. The drawings that he produces while performing – […]

until 11.07. | #2500ARTatBerlin | Laura Mars Gallery presents from 15th June 2019 the solo exhibition DOPE ON CANVAS by the Berlin artist DAG. The dose makes the dope. The latest series of paintings by the Berlin artist DAG explores the fine line between ecstasy and crash, pleasure and hangover. From 15 June to 11 July 2019 it will be shown for the first time by the Laura Mars Gallery. DAG’s latest works concentrate on lines that are loosely or condensed into lucid geometric objects. They stagger brightly in color on darkly set canvases, cross, overlap, form alliances and dissonances, entice the viewer to explore their own lights and shadows. Like layers of electronic music, the layers of lines overlap, are dissolved, rewritten, form parallel tracks in a compositional network. Following the ideas of Concrete Painting as formulated by Theo van Doesburg, DAG’s compositions are entirely concentrated on color and composition. They need no content, no art historical reference, when edges and angles, formations and surfaces incessantly change the direction of seeing, thinking and feeling. Because DAG’s pictures could be anything – traces, objects and at the same time their dissolution. “Subversion must create its own chiaroscuro,” writes Roland Barthes […]

until 24.07. | #2497ARTatBerlin | Galerie mutare shows from 22nd June 2019 an exhibition with paintings by the artist Karl Oppermann. Karl Oppermann was born in 1930 in Wernigerode.
 After graduating from high school, he studied at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Berlin. From 1970 to 1985 he worked as a freelance artist in his studio on the island of Elba (Italy). From 1971 to 1996 he was a professor for free painting at the Hochschule der Künste, today Kunst Universität Berlin. In 2008 the “Stiftung Karl Oppermann” was established together with the Hochschule Harz. The painter’s works have already been shown in numerous national (including Schloss Charlottenburg/Berlin, Hamburg) and international exhibitions (including New York, Venezuela, Colombia). His works can be found in public and private collections such as the Jewish Museum, Berlin, Prussian Cultural Heritage – Kupferstichkabinett, Dresden, Landesmuseum Bonn, Biblioteca Nacional de Madrid. Karl Oppermann – Glaube, Liebe, Hoffnung, Öl_Lw, 130 x 150 cm, Jahr 2000 Seit 1989 arbeitet Karl Oppermann in seinen Ateliers in Barcelona (Spanien) und im Harz. Vernissage: Saturday, 22nd June 2019, 7:00 – 9:00 p.m. Exhibition period: Saturday, 22nd June – Wednesday, 24th July 2019 Opening hours during June and July 2019: Wed […]

until 27.07. | #2493ARTatBerlin | Galerie Nordenhake Berlin presents from 8th June 2019 the exhibition Fool’s Gold – Pirate with paintings from the Eighties by the artist Harvey Quaytman. Looking at the paintings of American abstract artist Harvey Quaytman (1937-2002) and his prolific oeuvre spanning four decades, one is struck by the sheer physical presence of the works and the richness of shapes, colours and materials. His distinctive and personal approach towards abstraction resists any facile attempt to grasp or canonize. Curator Apsara DiQuinzio places Quaytman’s approach at the junction of “Abstract Expressionism, Minimalism, Process art, and Constructivism — a place where considerations of line, distilled geometric forms, materiality, atmosphere, and texture all coalesce.” Galerie Nordenhake presents a selection of paintings, conceived between 1980 and 1995, when Quaytman decided to work under a creative restrain, limiting himself to the basic form of a square canvas containing an equilateral cross. The cruciform unites and at the same time divides the picture, establishing four smaller squares within the painting’s overall square frame. Within these confines Quaytman found a structure in which he studied, in seemingly endless variations, the interplay between symmetry and asymmetry. He builds a rhythm through repetitions, shape, texture—and colour. […]

until 31.08. | #2492ARTatBerlin | 68 projects presents from 27th June 2019 in cooperation with Villa Aurora & Thomas Mann House e.V. the exhibition of the artists of the 68projects residence program Michael John Kelly and Rachel Eulena Williams. 68projects is pleased to present a duo presentation featuring Los Angeles artist Michael John Kelly and New York artist Rachel Eulena Williams. Kelly’s large-scale paintings and drawings as well as William’s object-like works were all created during their stay in Berlin as part of our residency program. The exhibition provides an insight into the artists’ practices and a unique reflection on the influences their stay in Berlin had on their work. At the invitation of Villa Aurora & Thomas Mann House e.V., Michael John Kelly spent two months as Berlin fellow in Berlin. For his stay, Kelly brought more than 40 digital paintings on paper with him, which he successively tore apart over the period of the residency. His art, situated between digital drawing, video art and classical abstract painting, references an entire era of artistic practice.His aim is not so much to translate digital painting back to its analogue counterpart, but instead to connect them, making them experienceable. Williams also explores the conditions […]

until 22.06. | #2487ARTatBerlin  | Galerie Eigenheim presents from 31st May 2019 an exhibition with photography and installation by the artist Julia Scorna at the salon of the gallery. In her photographs, objects and installations, Julia Scorna discovers a sensual, poetic way discussing the human being and behavior towards nature. Scorna deals with sustainability issues, as well as beliefs in the digital age; embedded between progress and the eternal search for meaningfulness of existence. Her photographs are taken during many travels on which the analog medium format camera is her constant companion. Due to the choice of a film material with high photosensitivity, the large-format prints as well as the play with the depth of focus and natural or artificial light situation, often creates a picturesque aesthetic, which quite reveals references to the romantic painting of the 19th century. The pictures showing mountain views, which are influenced by humans, or landscapes, in which strange-looking testimonies of human existence, such as cement plants or wind turbines are embedded; In Marocco Scorna photographed palm trees, which are actually transmission towers, or took pictures of underground garden in the Paris Metro in another series. The absence of men – is something that these […]

until 15.06. | #2484ARTatBerlin | Galerie Sievi currently presents the exhibition by the artists Gudrun Sailer and Beate Bitterwolf. Plantares, Floridez, Horizonte – nature as inspiration, this is the great constant of Beate Bitterwolf’s artistic work for the painter born and raised in the Allgäu. The close-up view of the organic world of the plants on the one hand, the wide view into the depths of the landscape, the mountains, the earth on the other hand. Her painting moves between large expanse and small-scale painterly structures. In detail as in the overall view, her paintings are characterized by a great variety of techniques, structures and movements. There are almost always crossings and overlaps. The canon of forms seems to have sprung from the painterly process and to have been guided by a dynamic movement. Beate Bitterwolf, Floridez 19-1-4, 60 x 100 cm, 2019 The concept of the pictures flows together with the particularities of the techniques: flowing, glazing, brushing as Beate Bitterwolf calls it, masking, smoothing, collaging, hatching, pouring – all these achievements of the informal – are used by her in a variety of ways. Leaving this context and contrary to the laws of the informal, the artist drives […]

until 03.08. | #2482ARTatBerlin| Daniel Marzona presents from 21st June 2019 the solo exhibition Berlin Floater 2019 (after Marfa Floater silver/gold, Marfa, 2019) by the artist Mischa Kuball. Mischa Kuball (born 1959) lives and works in Düsseldorf. He has been working as a conceptual artist in the public and institutional sphere since 1977. He uses light as a medium to explore architectural spaces as well as social discourses, public and private space merge into an indistinguishable whole in politically motivated participation projects. The question of a contemporary definition of public space art  has undergone a substantial change since the 1970s up until our time. Since 2009, Mischa Kuball has developed a series of sitespecific installations entitled ’public preposition’ – a group of works, interventions, projects, and performances made over a period of several decades. What they have in common is that they appeal to a public sphere and implicitly question in what locations and under what circumstances what we mean by “public” is constituted and how it should be understood. In that project series Mischa Kuball reposits the topic oft he oublic space within an extended context. “Preposition” here means words, such as “at/auf”, “among/unter” or “beside/neben” and thereby the relationship between […]

until 24.08. | #2479ARTatBerlin | Salongalerie Die Möwe presents from 6th June 2019 the exhibition Berlin Twice. Pictures of a Divided City. Please note that the gallery takes a summer break from 14 July to 29 July 2019. In the 30th year of the fall of the berlin wall our exhibition “Two Times Berlin. Glimpses of a City Divided“ present urban life in East and West Berlin. Through paintings, graphics and drawings renowned Berlin artists from East and West give us impressions of the city’s structures and daily live in the time before the reunification. The artists document the atmosphere of divided Berlin in city views and street scenes portrayed with affectionate or critical and distanced eyes. With the juxtaposition of art works from several decades in both parts of Berlin, this exhibition promises to be a place of exciting encounters. Evelyn Kuwertz, Zur Wannseebahn, 1979, Bleistiftzeichnung auf Karton, 70 x 100 cm Shown are works by Rolf Curt, Wolfgang Frankenstein, Brigitte Fugmann, Dieter Goltzsche, Werner Heldt, Carl-Heinz Kliemann, Matthias Koeppel, Evelyn Kuwertz, Wolfgang Leber, Monika Meiser, Arno Mohr, Otto Möller, Robert Rehfeldt, Wolfgang Reinke, Klaus Roenspieß and Peter Rohn. Wolfgang Leber, Feuerschein über der Stadt, 1988, Acryl auf Leinwand, […]

until 08.09. | #2471ARTatBerlin | Galerie mehdi chouakri reopens the gallery rooms at Fasanenplatz on 25 May 2019 with the group exhibition Kunst über Kunst (Art about Art). Art defines art. In this general sense, art always and inevitably deals with itself. — Johannes Cladders With artworks by: Saâdane Afif / John M Armleder / Hans-Peter Feldmann / Sylvie Fleury / General Idea / Louise Lawler / Michel Majerus / Mathieu Mercier / Jonathan Monk / Giulio Paolini / Bernd Ribbeck / Salvo / Rob Scholte / Sturtevant / Wolfgang Tillmans The exhibition KUNST ÜBER KUNST shows works—some dating back to the 1960s—that each thematically reflect the work of other artists. The references span straightforward quoting, acclaim, over-embellishment, association or outright appropriation. KUNST ÜBER KUNST certainly does not seek an encyclopaedic approach; instead, the exhibition explores the subject by means of select examples of contemporary art. Even though this artistic strategy may be seen as a typical phenomenon of Postmodernism, historically there has always been »internal« artistic referencing—direct copying or plain painterly studies are two such examples. Not in any way diminishing the vividness of the exhibition, the topic and focus of KUNST ÜBER KUNST is of a more conceptual nature. The presented artworks’ origins are […]

until 06.07. | #2441ARTatBerlin | BQ Berlin currently shows a solo exhibition by the artist Raphaela Vogel. Three years after her first appearance at Galerie BQ, Raphaela Vogel creates a close-meshed labyrinth of fear that is both a flashback and a gloomy vision. Across three rooms, she networks sound collage, sculpture, video and painting into a surreal odyssey that explores the dark sides of the career dream. Key elements from previous exhibitions return as accumulated fragments and are rearmed and released onto each other. The most feared of her species, the tarantula, captures us between eight cool tentacles and her arachnid body. Hypnotized by spiral-shaped vortices and lulled by the gentle vibration of a cantilever, we witness how bird drives its own retrospective through the ship’s propeller – until all that remains are snippets and shreds. Creation and regression in the designed living room, accompanied by siren-like sounds. A highly potent womb machinery, consisting of the martial set pieces of an untiring culture of experience and performance, attacks us from all sides with female role attributions. In the claustrophobic arena the mother ship fights to the knockout. The artist confronts not only herself, but also the art world with confirmed […]

until 15.06. | #2452ARTatBerlin | Crone Berlin currently shows the exhibition 100 Cuts of the German-Austrian artist Clemens Krauss. We are very pleased to be able to present the “100 Cuts” exhibition by German-Austrian artist Clemens Krauss for Gallery Weekend Berlin. It comprises a hundred oil paintings in the same format, painted with Krauss’ typical paste-like methods of application and showing “closeups” of male and female sexual organs. With the “100 Cuts” project, Krauss, whose work often connects with political, cultural and social contexts, presents the problems of a topic that is both sensitive and taboo: religious/ritually-motivated infringement of the integrity of the human body. In his images, he shows no more and no less than the surgical removal, usually carried out on minors, of parts of the sexual organs: the circumcision of the penis or the generally more severe procedures, rightly considered mutilation, performed on the female genitalia. The word “cut” here takes on two meanings: the sectioning of the image and the incision into the body. The close detail of the sections gives vivid insight into the intimate parts of the human body. The actual cutting that has taken place remains unclear in many of the works. However, […]

until 18.06. | #2440ARTatBerlin | Galerie Gesellschaft currently presents the exhibition by the Wien-Berlinischen Kunstarmee (Vienna-Berlin Art Army). On April 18, the Vienna-Berlin Art Army marches up in Berlin in a completely peaceful manner. Artists and art enthusiasts from these two cities have joined forces to make a radical contribution to the diverse Berlin and Viennese scenes. On the one hand, this happens out of a certain tedium with the tendencies of the art market, in order to circle oneself, satisfy narcissistic needs, supply demand and squint at complacency. On the other hand, the participants develop a pronounced enthusiasm for a higher status of artistic social reflection in uncertain and crisis-ridden times. However, her work only begins where words, gestures or mathematical equations can no longer grasp the world. In particular, she revolves around the role of identity and irony, the relationships between art and city life, and information and communication. Although (or precisely because) they are solitary existences, the artarmists form a complex adaptive system. Kai Hellbardt, Courtesy the artist and Galerie Gesellschaft This new cultural axis of the two German-speaking metropolises Vienna and Berlin is also attractive. It is up to the viewer to discover K&K or Prussian […]

until 29.06. | #2476ARTatBerlin | Galerie ART CRU Berlin shows from 24th May 2019 the exhibition with works by the artist Melanie Woste. ART CRU Berlin shows objects made of cardboard by Melanie Woste (born 1983, Münster), next to pictures and collages. In her first solo exhibition in Berlin, the Lippstadt-based Aktion-Kunst prizewinner and member of the artists’ group DAS ROTE ZEBRA is devoting herself to technical objects of daily use and interiors from the 1970s. The artist’s cardboard objects are complemented by collages of newspaper, such as a cassette recorder, which she creates by layering the smallest snippets of letters with captivating detail, and drawings/paintings, such as a small series of old cameras, which she has transformed into captivatingly elegant precision in watercolor and ink. o. T., 2019 Watercolour, ink on cardboard, 42,1 x 29,7 cm In her nostalgic works, Melanie Woste reproduces disused sound and communication media such as televisions, radios or record players on a scale of 1:1 and uses nothing other than packaging material that is also disused: old cardboard boxes. A transformation that she carries out with incredible meticulousness and precision. Television with hinged doors, 2017 shipping carton, 67 x 63 x 50 cm Chewing […]

until 27.07. | #2459ARTatBerlin | Klosterfelde Edition currently presents the exhibition Prototypes and Multiples by the artist Jorinde Voigt. In her exhibition at Klosterfelde Edition, Jorinde Voigt, who has mainly drawn in large format up to now, experiments with spatial explorations of her investigations of perception and epistemological questions, which have so far mostly been written in two dimensions. On display are prototypes and multiples that do not present themselves as hermetically sealed works of art distanced from the viewer, but play with questions of functionality and integrability in everyday life in their potential usefulness, yet which superficially represent artistic confrontations with themes such as the spectrum of action, proportion and stability. As such, they mark a transfer of Voigt’s drawing practice into a spatially open formal language, which opens up new possibilities for the development and experience of the concepts behind it. Vernissage: Friday, 26 April 2019 Exhibition period: Saturday, 27 April – Saturday, 27 July 2019   Image caption: Jorinde Voigt, Photo: Roman März, Courtesy and Copyright: Studio Jorinde Voigt Exhibition Jorinde Voigt – Klosterfelde Edition | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin

until 01.06. | #2436ARTatBerlin | Galerie Barbara Thumm currently presents the solo exhibition Unweit von Dir (> not far from you) by the artist Anne-Mie van Kerckhoven. .THE END OF AN INVESTIGATION / LET ME BEGIN / TO FULLY UNDERSTAND THE APPEAL OF SCIENTIFIC REALISM / IN WORKING MY WAY THROUGH […]. Schriftdetail aus dem Werk „Reflections Going Down with the Sun”, 2013. Taking a look at a text fragment chosen by Anne-Mie van Kerckhoven (AMVK) in one of her works, is an attempt – doomed to failure – to come close to an understanding of the fundamentally unsubsumable nature of her artistic modes of expression. „In working my way through [the investigation]“, precisely this fragment of a passage is what arouses my interest today. In the past, AMVK‘s work has been dissected, examined and categorised from numerous angles, mostly from a bird‘s eye view. The explanations of content (technological-digital impetus, mysticism and female intelligence, Leibnizian refraction of nature to mathematical logic, neuroscientific machine knowledge) and methods (Eisenstein-filmic and medieval dissolution of linearities, excessive demand strategies, narratives of literary cut-ups and fold-ins of Burroughs and Gysins) helped us to gain a more comprehensive understanding of this extraordinary work. It encompasses all […]

until 26.05. | #2450ARTatBerlin | König Galerie (Nave) is currently showing an exhibition of new works by the artist Matthias Weischer. At the same time the artist Camille Henrot is shown in the Chapel of the gallery with the exhibition Tuesday. During Gallery Weekend, Matthias Weischer is showing 16 new works in the Nave, the main exhibition space at the former St. Agnes church. Having predominantly focused on landscape painting in recent years, he now returns to his origins. In the early 2000s he became well-known for his striking interiors, a subject matter that he takes up once again. These square, small-format works are defined by four color surfaces that form a kind of viewing box—a format that was already present in the artist’s work fifteen years ago. Observing the differences in the work between then and now, thus becomes even more interesting. Weischer now works in series, in which he portrays the same imagery on three or four canvases but with subtle variations, as in a group of paintings showing a mattress. The visual space of each work is identically constructed, and the images only differ in color and in the position of the depicted objects. In contrast to earlier […]

until 22.06. | #2488ARTatBerlin  | Galerie Eigenheim presents from 4 May 2019 the exhibition EGO vs. ECO – a juxtaposition. Artists: Gökçen Dilek Acay, Christoph Blankenburg, Benedikt Braun, Fanny Josefine Dehnkamp, The Data Driven Objects Project, Francis Kamprath, Kaspar Elias Kimmel, Barbara Nemitz, Nina Röder, Stefan Schiek, Theresa Schubert, Julia Scorna, José Taborda, Moritz Wehrmann. Framework programm: 10.-11.5.2019 Liveübertragung von Programmpunkten des Symposiums der Professur für Sozialwissenschaftliche Stadtforschung Postwachstumstadt – Perspektiven des sozial-ökologischen Wandels der Stadtgesellschaft / 07.06.2019 um 19 Uhr Francis Kamprath – Der Meistergedanke. – eine Lecture Performance zur Rolle der Mazdaznan-Lehre in den ersten Jahren des Bauhauses / 13.06.2019 um 19 Uhr Theresa Schubert – milieu #04, Performance / 22.06.2019 um 19 Uhr Christoph Blankenburg – Lecture Performance Rennsteig Flimmern 2 und Musik zur Finissage der Ausstellung (weitere Informationen zum Rahmenprogramm unter weiterlesen) The ego is subject to a multitude of concepts and ideas – in modern philosophy, analytical psychology or sociology. All these perspectives, however, share the same insight: the ego can only be understood in relation to its environment. Ego is juxtaposed with Eco. A term that describes the relationships between all living beings and their environment. Ego vs. Eco thus examines the interplay between the human […]

until 27.07. | #2448ARTatBerlin | Sprüth Magers Berlin currently shows the exhibition HAUS by the artists Peter Fischli and David Weiss. Sprüth Magers is pleased to present HAUS, a solo exhibition by Fischli Weiss, the Swiss artist duo known since the 1980s for their films including Der geringste Widerstand (The Least Resistance) and ambiguous sculptural everyday objects. At the core of this new exhibition is Haus (House), a work Peter Fischli and David Weiss first developed for Skulptur Projekte Münster in 1987 and subsequently showed in exhibitions at the Guggenheim Museum, New York and Museo Jumex, Mexico City (2016). An aluminum version of the work was permanently installed in Zurich last year. This exhibition focuses on the architectural reference system at the heart of the artists’ work with a selection of sculptures and archival material. © Peter Fischli / David Weiss, Zürich 2019 Haus was preceeded by a model-like sculpture with the same form that took aspects of the sketch and model as its subject matter. The artists continued to develop their interest in everyday architecture and brought the sculpture back to the public sphere for Münster. Nestled in an unpretentious area far from the usual tourist attractions, passersby heading to work identified it as […]

until 05.06. | #2433ARTatBerlin | Michaela Helfrich Galerie presents from 26th April 2019 the exhibition The Figurine as a Measurement – A Retrospective with artworks by the artist David D. Lauer. The materials and techniques used, whether bronze, marble, steel, gypsum, are diverse, always in perfect craftsmanship without room for errors in the pursuit of perfection. At the same time and in contrast to this, his drawings, spontaneously brought onto the sheet with speed, quickly and no less masterfully, are a sculptural work that is essentially oriented towards the human being. David D. Lauer’s late works will be on public view for the first time in Berlin at the Gallery Weekend 2019. Not only his own work, but also his teaching at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Karlsruhe from 1974 to 2004, are essential for Lauer’s career; Lauer lived and worked in Gleisweiler and Karlsruhe. He died in 2014 at the age of 74. David D. Lauer – Installation – Courtesy of Michaela Helfrich Galerie Parallel to this, the exhibition Different will be shown in the second room of Galerie Michaela Helfrich: Paintings by Simon Czapla, Ulrike Pisch, Gerard Waskievitz. A tribute to dreams, chance and spontaneity in a […]

until 20.06. | #2431ARTatBerlin | GALERIE SPRINGER BERLIN shows from 30th April 2019 the exhibition GENIUS LOCI by the photographer Winfried Muthesius. After the first exhibition in 2016, Galerie Springer Berlin is delighted to present two new series by the artist Winfried Muthesius. True to his style, he is again working with a cross-border approach, layering several tiers of painting and photography on top of each other, so that the different image elements become intertwined and create completely new realities in which parts of the photographic element almost completely withdraw or largely recede into the background. Galerie Springer Berlin is presenting two series in the current exhibition. The first, Genius Loci, which gives the exhibition its name, emerged in Berlin at ‘non-places’, such as former industrial sites on the edge of the Moabit district and around Zoo Station. In complete contrast is the Triomphe series, which originated in Paris at monumental and central locations such as the Arc de Triomphe, the Eiffel Tower and the Seine, close to the Place Concorde. In both series’ works, the clichés that we associate with these locations interestingly disappear. The glamour of Paris and the dirt, stench and inhospitality of the ‘Berlin non-places’ merge, […]

until 29.05. | #2470ARTatBerlin | Galerie Martin Mertens presents from 23rd April 2019 the exhibition body dialogue by the artists Robert Bosisio and Gregor Gaida. In 2015, we already confronted the works of the South Tyrolean painter Robert Bosisio (*1963) with the work of another artist. At that time the dialogue between the expressive figure paintings of the Romanian Radu Belcin took place and today they come into contact with the wooden figures of the sculptor Gregor Gaida (*1975), whose work we show for the first time in the gallery. A striking object in the room is the sculpture Apheirophobia (the fear of infinity) – a work that does not reveal its secret at first glance. Only when one circles it does one discover that it is a male muscular back that is exactly mirrored three times. The work stands between the human body and abstraction. The human body is penetrated by geometric elements. Organic and geometry, nature and culture enter into a connection from which an independent object emerges. Gregor Gaida, Apeirophobia 2016 Eiche, MDFschwarz, Acrylglas, 55 x 35 x 35 cm, Fotos Franziska von den Driesch We also show the two-part work Outliners which surely belongs to the […]

until 07.06. | #2434ARTatBerlin | Migrant Bird Space presents from 20th April 2019 the exhibition Wearing the Fog by the artist Yafei Qi. Yafei Qi is the current AArtist-in-Residence at the Federal Foreign Office in Berlin. While she resides in the rooftop-studio of the ministry, a solo-exhibition of her previous work will be on display at Migrant Bird Space from April 20 until June 7. Working with performance and video predominantly, Yafei’s work examines the clashes between cultural norms, traditional values and the mindset of a globalising Chinese society. Themes in her work tackle generational conflicts and modern-day family structures, gender issues, and traditional role-models, as well as the impact of environmental changes on modern Chinese culture. On display in her solo-show will be her videowork but also paintings and drawings that trace the subject matter of her performances and films in a different visual language. The exhibition is the artist’s first solo-show in Germany. Yafei Qi – Still from Life tells lies 2017 © Yafei Qi, Migrant Bird Space Every year, three artists are given the opportunity to work and exhibit in what is perhaps Berlin’s highest studio: The studio and the surrounding terraces at the Federal Foreign Office […]

until 15.06. | #2430ARTatBerlin | White Square Gallery presents from 13th April 2019 the exhibition SONNENDUFT with paintings by the Danish artist Pia Andersen. Pia Andersen, born 1960 in Frederikshavn, Denmark, attended the Kolding College of Arts and Crafts from 1981-83 and 1985-86 and the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, Poland, from 1983 to 85. Her works, which include painting and drawing as well as ceramics, porcelain and glass, have been shown at numerous Danish and international solo and group exhibitions since 1985, as well as in museums and collections around the world. Pia Andersen, VERANO SECO, 2018, Öl auf Leinwand,150 x 180 cm Vernissage:  Friday, 12th April 2019, 7:00 – 9:00 p.m. Exhibition period: Saturday, 13th April – Saturday, 15th June 2019   Exhibition Pia Andersen – Sonnenduft – White Square Gallery | Zeitgenössische Kunst | Contemporary Art |  Kunst in Berlin | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin  

until 11.05. | #2425ARTatBerlin | Galerie Wagner + Partner shows from 5th April 2019 the exhibition NEXUS by the artist Eckart Hahn. WAGNER + PARTNER is pleased to announce the sixth solo exhibition of the painter Eckart Hahn, Nexus. Eckart Hahn has a unique way of translating special—mostly invisible—connections, to create splendid pictorial renditions. The exhibition Nexus presents Hahn’s latest paintings in an installation-like arrangement, transforming the gallery into a single meta-connection – with various rope-ends that seem to appear from or disappear into the walls. Eckart Hahn – Fade away – 50 x 40 cm Acrylic on Canvas 2018 Courtesy WAGNER + PARTNER Rope: connects or binds, disconnects or rescues, and its meaning is dependant on the connection. In Hahn’s works, “rope” is less a symbol than a semantic space. Rather, it is contextual and capable of reconstructing particular and unparalleled creations. Nonetheless, all these works hint at a hidden inner connection. The exhibition titles of recent years elucidate this by way of example: Nexus (2019), Limbus (Limbo, 2017) or Myzel (Mycelium, 2015). Akin to networks, roots or underground channels, they serve to “connect” the iconographic universe of the Reutlinger artist. Eckart Hahn – Roter Faden 140 x 100 cm Acrylic on Canvas2019 Courtesy WAGNER + PARTNER Eckart […]

until 22.06. | #2419ARTatBerlin | 68 projects shows from 25th April 2019 the exhibition I’ve got nothing to lose by the artist of the 68projects residency program Cristina BanBan. 68projects is pleased to present the first solo exhibition of artist Cristina BanBan in Germany, I’ve got nothing to lose. The exhibition includes several large scale dynamic paintings and drawings including works made in Berlin last October during BanBan’s 68projects residency. BanBan’s figurative work depicts voluptuous female bodies and narratives beginning with the artist’s personal experience as a point of departure. Her paintings document her everyday life and emotions with honesty and confidence. She chooses to depict a body performing the extremes of flexibility and motion. Women are the stars in BanBan’s work. Ballooning to envelop the entirety of the canvas, the figures in her paintings unapologetically take up space with their flesh. Their shapely forms reclaim the traditional authority of the male gazeand reorient the significance of the female figure. Her women take on an active role in their presence, controlling the gaze of the viewer and addressing it in various positions of repose, erotic pleasure and dominancIn As I set myself free, Acryl auf Leinwand, 2019, 180 x 150 cm BanBan’s work At the […]

until 28.04. | #2416ARTatBerlin | DISKURS Berlin presents from 28th March 2019 the exhibition GEOMETRY OF OBEDIENCE by the artist Via Lewandowsky. The exhibition is curated by Jungmin Lee. Volker Via Lewandowsky (born 1963 in Dresden) works with installation, sculpture, object art, photography, performance, painting and drawing. A square metal sculpture repetitively moves and collapses on the floor with tremendous sound. The four sides that compose the square embody a limited form while moving in pairs or individually. The square tries to get up, bending all of its joints. One might see human nature in the gesture of the machine: falling and getting up over and over again. Realizing the movement seems to be a metaphor of limited freedom and adaptation in human society might bring up sadness or melancholy as we see the futile actions the square continues to take, with unsuccessful results. This is Via Lewandowsky’s 2013 piece Contenance (Relational Sculpture No. 5). Unlike this earlier work A Square Meter (2019), presented in the exhibition Geometry of Obedience, repeatedly moves and stops slowly and gracefully in the air, rather than struggling on the floor. The square dances as if in slow motion, drawing geometric gestures in the air, […]

until 17.05. | #2413ARTatBerlin | Galerie HELLE COPPI shows from 30th March 2019 the exhibition  HERTA GÜNTHERs FRAUEN with artworks by Herta Günther. On display are paintings, pastels and colour etchings by the artist Herta Günther (1934-2018). The exhibition will be accompanied by a catalogue, 64 pages, 55 colour illustrations, 20 € plus postage on dispatch. HERTA GÜNTHER Café Kehl – 1988 – charcoal – pastel – 53,5 x 39,5 cm In the Cabinet: Constructive Exercise – Wilhelm Müller and Hermann Glöckner – Painting and Drawing. Vernissage: Saturday, 30th March 2019, 4:00 – 6:00 pm. Saxophonr: Hinrich Beermann Exhibition period: Saturday, 30th March – Friday, 17th May 2019 (closed for Easter holidays on 19 and 20 April 2019)   Image caption: HERTA GÜNTHER  Café Kehl · 1988 · charcoal – pastel · 53,5 x 39,5 cm Exhibition Herta Günther – Galerie HELLE COPPI | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Ausstellungen Berlin Galerien | ART at Berlin  

until 20.04. | #2410ARTatBerlin | Contemporary Fine Arts shows from 23rd March 2019 the exhibition BALLAD OF A THIN MAN by the artists Günther Förg and Julian Lethbridge. Günther Förg (1952-2013) and Julian Lethbridge (*1947) come from two worlds – Förg working and teaching at the University in Karlsruhe and later at the Academy in Munich, Lethbridge painting in New York’s Meatpacking District since the heydays of Max’s Kansas City. Their paths never crossed, the connection between the two is not obvious. Upon closer look, however, a story about painting arises, where gesture, tactility, repetition and seriality are paramount. In the meeting of these painters, we are struck with the insistence that constraint and repetition enable expression. As Förg and Lethbridge meet in Ballad of a Thin Man, the second presentation of works by the artists at CFA, the pair appear as the cool and collected conjurers of the poltergeists of the 20th century. The exhibition borrows its title from Bob Dylan, whom Förg and Lethbridge appreciated and valued as a fellow artist, and who, like the painters, carved out a path with humble understanding and quick wit. Detail of the invitation card to the exhibition – Collage of a sculpture by Günther […]

until 24.03. | #2407ARTatBerlin | Schinkel Pavillon is showing until 24 March 2019 the exhibition The Act of Seeing With One’s Own Eyes by the artists Stan Brakhage and David Kamp, curated by Ed Atkins. Taking its title from the notorious 1971 film by Stan Brakhage, The Act of Seeing With One’s Own Eyes is an exhibition about how intellectual and sensory deprivation might conspire to heighten immanence, by empathic and also abjectly corporeal means. There is no reprieve and no redemption, cultural or otherwise –– there is only the seeming differentiation of your senses, and the recognition of death and life. Some time later, this exhibition might productively be thought of as a cadaver. In the basement of the Schinkel Pavillon, Brakhage’s 16mm silent film shows the activities of forensic pathologists at the Allegheny Coroner’s Office in Pittsburgh sometime in 1971. It’s part of a trilogy of films Brakhage made at state institutions in Pittsburgh that year. The other two were the city police force, and the West Pennsylvania Hospital (Eyes and Deus Ex, respectively). The Act of Seeing With One’s Own Eyes depicts the entirety of multiple and overlapping autopsies. The bodies are abstracted and the film is 32 minutes of alabaster and ebony cadavers, latexed […]

bis 06.04. | #2404ARTatBerlin | Michael Reid präsentiert aktuell die Ausstellung “She wrapped a bandage around her eyes and vowed to share the darkness” der Künstlerin Sangeeta Sandrasegar. She wrapped a bandage around her eyes and vowed to share the darkness is an installation of 101 delicate paper cut-outs that draws upon characters in the Indian Sanskrit epic Mahabharata and continues Sangeeta Sandrasegar’s interpretation of various passages within this text. Using light and shadow as a formal motif, Sandrasegar gives voice to identities caught on the margins of society. The 101 characters that don the walls of Michael Reid Berlin reference Wayang Kulit, an Indonesian form of puppet theatre. Taking inspiration from the assimilation of Indian’s and Chinese in Indonesia, and the Wayang Kulit’s common reference of the Mahabharata, Sandrasegar intentionally provides an intercultural symbol for this installation. She wrapped a bandage around her eyes and vowed to share the darkness takes its title from the vow of blindness that the character Ghandari takes upon her arranged marriage to Dhritarashtra, the blind king of Hastinapura in the Mahabharata. Ghandari’s devotion to her husband is rewarded with a boon to have 100 children. After a long gestation of two or more years, Ghandari […]

until 18.08. | #2401ARTatBerlin | me Collectors Room Berlin presents from 10th April 2019 the exhibition BEYOND with seven international artistic positions from the Olbricht Collection, who use their respective art forms to explore the subject of the afterlife. Each artist fills a separate space with art in their chosen media, ranging from painting, sculpture, video, installation to printmaking. Works by Jonas Burgert, Jake & Dinos Chapman, George Condo, Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg, FORT, Kris Martin and Francisco de Goya will be shown. As a kind of vague assumption, sinister threat, or blissful reward, the idea of the ‘afterlife’ has gripped mankind since the beginning of time. Religious promises of salvation, manifested psychosis, and ominous memento mori conjure a nebulous concept of the ‘beyond’. While the depiction of agony and death evokes the transience of earthly life, mythical illusory worlds oscillate between the here and the there, catastrophe and dream-like beauty, the material world and the hereafter. The ‘other side’ is also invariably always much farther removed than that casual phrase may make it sound, something illusively much greater than ourselves that is there to be attained, understood, and discovered. Francisco de Goya, Los Desastres de la Guerra, 1810 […]

until 30.03. | #2398ARTatBerlin | Galerie mehdi chouakri shows from 16th March 2019 the solo exhibition PIÈCE UNIQUE II by the artist Saâdane Afif at the gallery in Mommsenstraße.   Vernissage: Saturday, 16th March 2019, noon – 4:00 p.m. Ausstellungsdaten: Saturday, 16th March – Saturday, 30th March 2018   Image caption: Performance View Her Ghost Friend: 3 Tokyo Sessions at MOT Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, 2017 Exhibition Saâdane Afif – Pièce Unique II | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin  

until 04.05. | #2394ARTatBerlin| Galerie Inga Kondeyne – Raum für Zeichnung shows from 22. March 2019 an exhibition by the artists Johannes Regin and Aja von Loeper. Johannes Regin provokes our vision with drawings that are often not perceptible at first glance. His works invite us to take a close look and to look through overlapping fragments of traces. Even the smallest deviations, tension shifts in the rhythm of his dot grids, leaking old traces of colour and the remains of signs can move into our consciousness. Regin gets involved with the material he chooses. He immediately knows how large his innumerable dots have to be, recognizes whether they have to be drawn or painted on or whether they have to be engraved, punched or chiseled into the material. Found objects are a counterpart for him, he looks into their stories. Lineal cracks, gaping fractures – he brings all these levels together in their complexity with his exaggerations. Gently touching or set hard, it will evoke a state of suspension. In contrast, the grid dots can rhythmically become flooded waves. The memory traces of our own network resonate, they are not fixed. Regin increasingly undermines his own meticulous set of […]