until 02.09. | #3106ARTatBerlin | Luisa Catucci Gallery shows from 9. August 2021 the exhibition GEHEIMKABINETT curated by Isorropia Homegallery with works by five artists. On show are works by Silvia Argiolas, Piero Figura, Andrea Gallo, Nico Mingozzi and Silvia Paci. The title of the exhibition is a tribute to the “Gabinetto Segreto” (Secret Cabinet), a section of the National Archaeological Museum of Naples in which exhibits exclusively erotic and sexual samples of Greek and Roman art. Over the course of time, the Cabinet has been subjected to censorship, prohibiting the public display of the works it contains and even threatening their destruction. The sexual act, represented by the ancient art in an explicit and natural way, was seen by later audiences as a symbol of depravity, obscenity and sin. Piero Figura This fact vividly exemplifies the difficult relationship between the public and erotic art, which has always been controversial and a subject of scandal. The works of the five artists are a part of this tradition and, with different languages and ways they investigate multiple facets of sexuality, inviting us to a reflective and generative confrontation, starting from the idea that inclusive culture is essential for the collective well-being. […]

until 04.09. | #3103ARTatBerlin | Galerie Thomas Schulte currently shows the solo exhibition Listen to me, little pig! by the artist Maria Loboda. Maria Loboda’s exhibition Listen to me, little pig! at Galerie Thomas Schulte is dedicated to the failures, double interpretations and misinterpretations in the communication between humans and nature. With characteristic wit and irony, the artist transforms the space: a series of prints of pastoral landscape paintings bear hand-embossed titles of unexpected ambient soundtracks. The prints form the panoramic backdrop for Loboda’s fragmented garden landscape. Between fruit trees growing out of brutalist sculptures and candle-shaped overgrown metal trellises, the artist plants manipulated quotations from literature, music and art history, among which visitors mingle to be seduced. In the gallery’s Cornerspace, artist Lawrence Weiner’s exhibition Dried Earth & Scattered Ashes Or Dried Earth & Buried Gold Or will be presented at the same time. The gallery is delighted that Lawrence Weiner has accepted the invitation to show a work in the gallery’s Corner Space this summer. Weiner defines his work as sculpture. Sculpture consists of language and the material to which it refers. Here, language is the primary form in which the work exists. When the installation of the […]

until 28.08. | #3100ARTatBerlin | Galerie Inga Kondeyne – Raum für Zeichnung (> Room for Drawing) presents from 24. July 2021 a solo exhibition with works by the artist Sam Szembek.  This year, we can again perceive the tension between 4 or 5 concentrated black lines on the white of Sam Szembek’s papers in an exhibition at the gallery. Over decades, the material for his work has remained unchanged: Paper, charcoal and eraser. The white of the papers in the studio constantly challenges him again and again as a counterpart. Concentrated, the accumulated experience transfers the lines through his hand until he is convinced that these jet-black lines must stand in relation to each other on the white sheet in this way and no other. Between the infinite possibilities offered by the vertical, horizontal and diagonal line progressions, recurring patterns of drawing crystallise, which, as it were, stand in the field of their own tradition. Sam Szembek’s preferred format of 78 x 98 cm allows him to work in an expansive manner. The drawings illustrate anew how the artist tries to mark out areas with signs through lines in the infinity of white. Sam Szembek, o.T., 2020, Charcoal on paper, 78 […]

until 11.09. | #3097ARTatBerlin | ARTES Berlin presents from 17th July 2021 the group exhibition ZERO+ with unique pieces, editions and collectors’ items by the fathers of the ZERO movement juxtaposed with selected works by contemporary conceptual artists.  Zero is the silence. Zero is the beginning. Zero is round. Zero is turning. Zero is the moon – the show brings together more than 30 works, including unique pieces, editions and collectors’ items by the fathers of the ZERO movement Heinz Mack, Otto Piene and Günther Uecker and their circle, including Adolf Luther, Hermann Goepfert, Herbert Zangs, Lucio Fontana and Bernard Aubertin. The exhibition ZERO+ expands the positions with works by contemporary artists, including Wolfgang Flad, Fabian Gatermann and Thomas Röthel, who work in a comparable conceptual and stylistic way and bring the idea into the present with new techniques and media. Adolf Luther, Hänge-Linse, 1980 Fabian Gatermann, Mobile, 2021 The objects shown have in common a clear and reduced visual language. An aesthetic and creative diversity that ranges from lens objects, coloured ceramic fields, nail trees and prints, lithography and serigraphy, mobile, mixed media and installation to assemblage and collage. Taken as a whole, the monochrome and sometimes polychrome objects […]

bis 09.09. | #3094ARTatBerlin | Galerie Kornfeld presents from 7th August 2021 in cooperation with the Frankfurt based gallery Anita Beckers, the exhibition Reverberations by the Spanish-American artist Daniel Canogar. Data drives the world we live in today, from our homes to our offices and slowly creeping its way into every aspect of our sense of self and life, so it is no surprise that the works of Canogar raise a very pertinent question of our times: is this data-driven society for the better or worse? Combining a variety of recent projects, this exhibition explores the many sides of this virtual coin. As one enters into the colour field movements of Canogar’s sculptures and screens, one loses sight of the world one finds oneself in. Is it the world I can touch and feel, or the other, the one which exists in this complex virtual space that has profoundly infiltrated our society? In fact, it is this tactile relationship between the “real” and “virtual” which Canogar is most interested in. Canogar’s work thus captures how we interact with technology, and vice versa, how technology modifies our sense of the world around us and the social fabric of communication and connection. […]

until 06.08. | #3091ARTatBerlin | Kristin Hjellegjerde Berlin shows from 10th July 2021 the solo show Your Gaze Makes Me with works by the artist Wendimagegn Belete. A series of proud figures appear vibrantly dressed in elaborate, traditional costumes, while their faces are veiled by black. For this latest body of work, Eithopian artist Wendimagegn Belete has appropriated black and white ethnographic imagery, which he enlarged, digitally manipulated and then printed, before hand-colouring details to create vibrant, textured portraits that examine not only the tactility of images, but also their relationship to time and history. Your Gaze Makes Me, his solo show at Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery Berlin, offers a compelling exploration of how learnt habits of perception can limit our understanding of both the image and history, and how art can liberate new ways of seeing. Belete’s practice is preoccupied with cultural heritage and identity in relation to historical narratives and the concept of epigenetic inheritance, of memories that transfer over generations and permeate our present. Over time, he has collected a vast array of source materials – photographs, letters, recorded conversations, maps and textiles – which he weaves together to create richly layered visual narratives that move back and […]

until 24.07.| #3088ARTatBerlin | Laura Mars Gallery currently presents the installation BAR by the artist and professor Ina Weber. The Third Place (a term coined by American sociologist Ray Oldenburg) refers to places that, unlike home and the workplace, are public, accessible places of encounter, such as parks, libraries, and cafés. Here, the private person becomes a public one, interacting with others. Ina Weber’s installation BAR shows such a place, where, in the curved time around closing time, after-hours visitors can pick up the echoes of conversations, ideas, and occurrences. The installation is accompanied by music from Joe Baiza and Michael Lembach, made and recorded especially for this occasion. Ina Weber (*1964) lives and works in Berlin. 1989 – 94 Studied at Kassel University with Harry Kramer and Martin Kippenberger, among others; since 2016 professor of sculpture at the UdK University of the Arts, Berlin. Photo: © Florian Raidt Exhibitions in preparation 2021: Caretakers Lounge, solo exhibition at the Deutsche Oper Berlin on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the Bornemann Building, from 18 September; Die Kant, group exhibition at the Museum Charlottenburg / Wilmers-dorf, curated by Annett Gröschner and Ina Weber, from 5 November; In Situ, urban symposium […]

until 22.08. | #3085ARTatBerlin | PSM Gallery shows from 6th July 2021 the exhibition Destined to Protect the Productive with works by the artist Sophie Erlund , as well as the Office of Erbulian Strategies: The 37th Session with Shannon Bool and Sophie Erlund. Within her artistic practice Danish artist Sophie Erlund has been dealing with a continuously enhancing cluster of topics and questions raised by philosophers such as Hannah Arendt, Timothy Morton and Shoshana Zuboff. Erlund’s sculptures, installations, film and sound works are thus informed by her thoughts about the so-called symbiotic real, and a more-than-human perspective in the time of the second modernity individual, and its implications on the psychology of the digital age. Beside new sculptures and assemblages for her fifth exhibition at PSM Sophie Erlund will install the Office of Erbulian Strategies: The 37th Session, a collaborative project with the artist Shannon Bool, staging an installation of furniture objects in a post-Freudian setting. Vernissage: Sunday, 4th July 2021, 12:00 – 6:00 pm Exhibition period: Tuesday, 6th July – Sunday, 22nd August 2021     Image caption: Sophie Erlund, Gentle interdependence 2, 2021, wood, glass, ceramic, concrete, clay, metal, electro-boards, moss, mushrooms, foam, 115 x 115 x […]

until 09.10. | #3082ARTatBerlin | Salongalerie Die Möwe presents from 3rd July 2021 in the exhibition KLASSISCH MODERN both historical and contemporary works by women artists. The new exhibition “CLASSIC MODERN” follows on from the presentation “The Female Statement”, in which Salongalerie Die Möwe gave an insight into the creative potential of women artists of Classical Modernism in 2019/2020. KLASSISCH MODERN now spans a temporal arc from the Weimar Republic through the post-war period to the immediate present. With this exhibition, “The Seagull” once again directs the focus to women in art, who have often been disadvantaged in art historiography and still have to fight for their recognition on the art market today. The exhibition brings together contemporary art by Ines Doleschal, Ute Hausfeld, Christine Jackob-Marks, Holle Vollbrecht and Caroline Wagner with works by representatives of classical modernism such as Else Hertzer, Katja Meirowsky and Erna Schmidt-Caroll. Paintings, watercolours, drawings, prints and sculptures by these artists illustrate an admirable density and continuity of female creativity in the diversity of subjects and styles. Ines Doleschal | bauhaus, weiblich (für Anni Albers #1 u. #2) | 2019 | Acrylic on paper (collage) | 32 x 24 cm each For Ines Doleschal (*1972), […]

until 22.08. | #3079ARTatBerlin | Esther Schipper presents from 3rd July 2021 the solo exhibition Inexistence by the artist Etienne Chambaud. It is the first exhibition of the artist with the gallery. The works included in the exhibition are a scent and a sound installation, a sculptural work generating a pattern of temperatures, three light installations, glass works, bronze sculptures and modified panel paintings. The first work encountered by the visitor is Multiplex, a scent installation invoking familiar spaces but also acting as a subtle disruption. It uses the chemical compounds present both in animal markings and in human environments to create a molecular link between tiger habitat and movie theatre. The work draws on the notion of involuntary memory: the often unconscious association of a place or an experience with a scent. The only light source in the exhibition space is provided by the three works from Chambaud’s series Models for Afar. Between a video screen, a lightbox and a lamp suspended from the ceiling, each work from the series emanates softly modulated light formations as it is programmed to simulate the atmospheric and meteorological light conditions of the sky at a specific time and place. Bathed in a […]

until 20.08. | #3076ARTatBerlin | Crone Berlin presents from 26th June 2021 the solo exhibition The Ecstatic Static by the Austrian artist Robert Muntean. On display are 22 mostly large-format paintings in which the artist undertakes a condensation of his previous works where the body is understood as as an outer shell or cipher of emotion. Muntean was born in 1982 in Leoben, Austria, and has lived in Berlin since 2008. Since his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and Leipzig, he has developed an idiosyncratic painterly style that oscillates between abstraction and figuration. At first glance, both his canvas and paper works give the impression of purely abstract, gestural painting. Only on closer inspection, however, does one discover figurative elements underneath, which are mostly bodies and people, and are often taken from photographs of pop stars or cult figures. In Muntean’s new exhibition The Ecstatic Static, the figures themselves now come to the fore for the first time. They become the defining, immediately recognizable element of the paintings. The abstract, gestural painting style is still visible, but now serves to outline the figures of the bodies and bring them to the fore. Their posture—their being bent, […]

until 23.07. | #3073ARTatBerlin | Luisa Catucci Gallery presents from 23rd June 2021 the exhibition WIDE ANGLE with works by the sculptor Nadia Galbati and the photographer Enrico Pietracci. Elaborations of urban photographs and sculptural extrapolations of architectural spaces are the protagonists of the exhibition WIDE ANGLES by Italian artists Nadia Galbiati and Enrico Pietracci, hosted in the show rooms of Luisa Catucci Gallery, in Berlin Schillerkiez-Neukölln. Nadia Galbiati, sculptress from Milan, bases her research on the study of angles in contemporary architecture, and their fundamental role to define a physical space, placing the as foundation of the relationship between empty space and material.  Her sculptures are the synthetic result of the analytic observation of these angles, in relation to the volumes and lines in urban spaces and architectures – with a predilection for the rational architecture of the 1930s. By reinterpreting the urban landscape and the macro-structures of buildings into sculptures and engraved metal plates of relatively small dimensions, Galbiati creates a new type of space – slightly reminding of El Lissitzky and the Bauhaus and constructivist movements – where the viewer becomes suddenly aware of the Taoist balance between full and empty, solid and aery. Nadia Galbiati “ […]

until 20.06. | #3070ARTatBerlin | Galerie Guido W. Baudach currently shows the exhibition Response to Transient and Steady State Flickering Stimuli with works by the artist Thomas Zipp. This is the ninth solo exhibition of works by the Berlin-based artist with Galerie Guido W. Baudach. The show is conceived as a space-specific overall experience that brings together works of different media such as painting, sculpture and performance in an in-situ installation. Titled Response to Transient and Steady State Flickering Stimuli, Zipp subjects different theories and methods of scientific research into the human perceptual apparatus in relation to mental processes to an artistic experimental test. The gallery becomes a laboratory. Zipp transforms the exhibition space into an organically shaped course through a walk-in room-within-a-room installation, in which the existing walls are overlaid by a continuous, black lacquered boarding. The installative intervention largely dissolves the original spatial structure. The white cube is replaced by an amorphous dark blob. The unfamiliar architecture puts the ability to orient oneself, which is shaped by western design traditions, to the test. The conditioning of self-location in enclosed spaces, fixated on corners and edges, no longer applies. The resulting uncertainty demands a reaction, an adjustment. The audience […]

until 30.06. | #3067ARTatBerlin | KLEINERVONWIESE currently presents the solo exhibition IST HIER EIN NASHORN IM RAUM? (> IS A RHINON IN THE ROOM?) with works by the artist FRANEK. This is the fourth exhibition at the gallery’s new refuge in the so-called “Triangle” at Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin-Mitte. Since the dawn of the Corona Age, which has taken everyone by surprise with its various private and social trials of all kinds, the gallery’s continued activity at Friedrichstrasse 204 has only been possible thanks to the generous offer of this shelter. FRANEK is a painter, draughtswoman and graphic artist. Sculptures, photos, films and recordings complement her work. “She is one of the most imaginative and idiosyncratic visual artists of the present day.” L. Zerull The solo exhibition on the occasion of the Berlin Gallery Weekend 2021 shows, among other things, works from the artist’s Corona Diary. Here and in general, FRANEK nonchalantly puts the old controversy of visibility and perception to the test: when you look at pictures, you see things that are visible and yet exist nowhere else. Every picture carries the paradox of a visible absence. Every picture is a disturbance, an undermining of normality. … Animals, elf creatures, […]

until 10.07. | #3064ARTatBerlin | Galerie Inga Kondeyne – Raum für Zeichnung shows from 5th June 2021 a duo exhibition with works by the artists Christiane Schlosser and Peter Riek.   CHRISTIANE SCHLOSSER A colourful sound dominates the gallery space in Christiane Schlosser’s exhibition. A ‘sea of colour’ in blue-violet covers the longest wall. She has drawn 90 individual sheets (34 x 24 cm, 2020) line by line in meditative serenity. In each line, she makes a decision to pause before concentrating again on the brush. At times, Christiane Schlosser wants to use colour, but always remains located in her idiosyncratic drawing work. This is clearly revealed when looking closely at other drawings in the exhibition. Works in which it is often only apparent from close up that she has touched the paper with her pencil over a large area in a regular, concentrated manner. In the close observation of her abbreviations, which are often variations on basic geometric shapes, tension dissolves into calm. Her drawn planes continue, absorbing time. Christiane Schlosser Christiane Schlosser, 1960 born in Viernheim, grew up in Mannheim; 1980-82 studied at the HfbK Hamburg; 1983-86 studied at the HdK Berlin; 1989 scholarship from the state of Rhineland-Palatinate […]

until 28.08. | #3061ARTatBerlin | Galerie Brockstedt presents 10th June 2021 in the exhibition “Szenario” paintings and drawings by the artist Rocco Hettwer. “Our Life – Dramatic Snapshots of a Film” Anyone who has seen the pictorial creations of the painter Rocco Hettwer, born in 1964 in Wurzen, Saxony, who is now being shown again at the Galerie Brockstedt, knows that he is concerned with the exciting staging of figure in the room. Again and again he lets his figures act on a stage space dramatised with light and shadow, thus increasing their expressive power. Rocco Hettwer, Der Zopf, 2021, 52 x 42 cm, Oil on canvas In this way, he stands in the tradition of a realism that was shaped not least by his years at the Weißensee Art Academy, but which is not – as was once the case in the Renaissance – concerned with a race against reality, but with a personally shaped present-day psychogram of the individual, his sensitivities, his hardships. And we, the viewers, in our encounter with his works, in turn unfold individual thoughts through our respective different stories and imprints. Rocco Hettwer, Lilli im blauen Kleid, 2020, 120 x 80 cm, Oil on […]

until 12.08. | #3058ARTatBerlin | drj art projects presents from 19th May 2021 the group show UPSPACE with works in editions and series by 20 international artists. The exhibition UPSPACE sends a strong signal of the vitality and power of conceptual + minimal art in persistently difficult times. Works by 20 international artists show a broad spectrum of new and established approaches in the programme of edition ROTE INSEL. Accordingly, the artworks assembled in this presentation are all either editions or series of uniques of a specific artistic concept. They range from prints and paintings, to a multitude of works on and with paper, to three-dimensional light objects or sculptural works in ceramics or wire. Ausstellungsansicht UPSPACE drj art projects, Foto: via drj art projects Both as an exhibition composition as well as individual works, they emphatically underline the power of the small format, in which artistic ideas develop a very large presence in condensed form. At the same time, the selected works – corresponding to the approach of an edition exhibition – are attractively priced. All these aspects have been chosen very consciously by drj art projects and formulate important intentions of the exhibition: it invites both the return of the […]

until 26.06. | #3054ARTatBerlin | Galerie mutare shows from 19th May 2021 paintings by the artist Ruthi Helbitz Cohen in the exhibition series Platons Höhle | Plato‘s Cave | La Caverne de Platon | La Caverna de Platón, a gallery project with several artists of the gallery. As part of the exhibition, there will be a portrait event with Ruthi Helbitz Cohen on 29 May 2021 from noon to 5pm, in which the artist will paint female portraits – due to the current situation in Israel via video link to the gallery. If you are interested, please ask for the exposé of the mutare gallery on this event. Half of the sales proceeds from this portrait campaign will be donated by the gallery and artist to the “Lebenskultur-Verein für Teilhabe e.V.”, which enables older people with lower incomes to visit cultural events. Ruthi Helbitz Cohen, Example portrait Ruthi Helbitz Cohen was born in Israel in 1969. From 1989 until 1991 she studied art and psychology at the University of Haifa. From 1992 until 1998 she completed her artistic training at the Hamidrasha School of Art of the Beit Berl College in Kfar Saba and at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design […]

until 19.06. | #3051ARTatBerlin | Kuckei + Kuckei currently presents the solo show Ausstellung ARTIFACTS FROM THE AGE OF ACCELERATION with works by the artist Lilly Lulay. The smartphone has radically changed our daily life in the last years. Always close at hand to connect us to the world, it has redefined our culture of communication and our sense of the here and now. Lilly Lulay’s new works investigate what takes place behind the scenes of our touchscreens, looking far back, both geographically and temporally. Today, sending a photo around the world takes just seconds and a few clicks. At Your Fingertips, Uncovering Histories of Information Transmission is a growing archive, in which Lulay‘s assembles images of people, cultural techniques, and raw materials that are, or were, involved in the transmission of images via the smartphone. In her archive, data centers meet abaci, hieroglyphs meet emojis, and blueprints for the photographic recording of biometric data from 1840 meet today’s AI-controlled facial recognition software. This flood of images is presented on slim aluminum tubes that look like futurist versions of the relay batons and scrolls that were used in ancient cultures to convey information from A to B. Via metallic structures, […]

until 10.07. | #3046ARTatBerlin | Galerie Judin presents from 1st May 2021 the solo exhibition We Had Everything Before Us with new works by the artist Adrian Ghenie. With this exhibition of new paintings, Adrian Ghenie and Juerg Judin look back on 15 years of collaboration. It began in 2006 with the now legendary group exhibition The Cluj Connection, followed by a solo exhibition within a year—Ghenie’s first appearance on the international scene. Since then, he has become one of the most successful painters of his generation—the first generation to grow up in the new age of the internet. Ghenie’s response to this unprecedented flood of information, images and the technical “anything goes” was (and remains), his focus on the traditional, almost reactionary medium of painting. What distinguishes him from other figurative painters of his peer group is his profound understanding of art history, that never exhausted itself in citation, and an increasingly virtuoso play with different stages of recognizability. Much has been written about Ghenie’s examination of the famous and the notorious of history who either led the way to the great evolutions of the 20th century (Charles Darwin, Vincent Van Gogh)—or were responsible for its great catastrophes (Hitler, […]

until 20.06. | #3043ARTatBerlin | Crone Berlin presents from 28th April 2021 on the occasion of the Gallery Weekend, the exhibition Currencies of De*Capital Delirium by the artist Ashley Hans Scheirl, who, together with his/her partner Jakob Lena Knebl, will occupy the Austrian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2022. Paintings, sculptures, and drawings merge in the gallery spaces to form a room-filling installation. They lead the visitor into an exuberant, seemingly insane dream world. Consumption and the search for meaning, restriction and freedom, greed and renunciation, excess and isolation, rebellion and resignation, identity and transformation, gender and hierarchy, individual lifestyles and the global economy of rejection collide here and culminate in a digital-anarchist-neutralized big bang, or at least in a new world currency that gives the exhibition its title: Currencies of De*Capital Delirium. Exhibition view Ashley Hans Scheirl, Currencies of De*Capital Delirium, Crone Berlin, 2021, Courtesy Crone Berlin Exhibition view Ashley Hans Scheirl, Currencies of De*Capital Delirium, Crone Berlin, 2021, Courtesy Crone Berlin Left: Ashley Hans Scheirl, Synapse Trading, 2021, Acrylic on canvas, 125 x 175 cm (AHS/M 21-004) Right: Ashley Hans Scheirl, Fluffy Sucker, 2021, Acrylic on canvas, 125 x 175 cm (AHS/M 21-005) Angela, Angela Scheirl, Angela Hans, […]

until 05.06. | #3040ARTatBerlin | Galerie EIGEN + ART Berlin shows from 28 April 2021 the solo show “Vie imaginaire, chapitre II: Ensemble” with pantings by the artist Tim Eitel. “Art is the opposite of general ideas, it describes individuals, desires only the unique. It does not classify, it unclassifies.”  Marcel Schwob, Imaginary Lives, 1896 There are certain aspects in the work of Tim Eitel that return time and again: the solitude of the characters and their silence, the image framed as a disquieting illusion, or the co-existence of figuration and fields of abstraction that open up the pictorial space and grant it autonomy. The paintings often manifest a fading of the real world, comparable maybe to the films of Michelangelo Antonioni, and the emerging emptiness offers a form of introspection in which psychological tensions unwind and ease in the face of the void. And yet this second chapter in Eitel’s collection of imaginary lives—staged three years after the first at the same gallery—achieves a marked coming-together, more in the style of Éric Rohmer, and a new proximity between protagonists. In these recent paintings, a sense of touch comes to the fore, an attention for others. A beard is being trimmed, […]

until 29.05. | #3037ARTatBerlin | Galerie Eigenheim shows from 30th April 2021 on the occasion of the gallery weekend the solo show “the truth of fragile” by the artist Anna Bittersohl. Parallel to this, the exhibition “Die Konferenz der Tiere” (> The Conference of the Animals) by the artist Gökcen Dilek Acay will be presented in the salon. Anna Bittersohl – the truth of fragile Anna Bittersohl’s painting is permeated by an enigmatic poetry, her expressive gestural brushwork is characterized by overlaps and breakthroughs, fragmentary figurative elements lie close beside abstract hints of landscapes or floral elements. For the artist, this painting style is a metaphor for memories and their persistence. These are often present only fragmentarily in excerpts, are superimposed by new events. The protagonists are accordingly involved in an unclear plot or marked by phlegmatic absence. Anna Bittersohl, Title pending / Oil, acrylic, gouache on paper / ca. 292 x 327 cm / 2021, courtesy by EIGENHEIM Weimar/Berlin The exhibition title “the truce of fragile” is just such a poetic approach to a dialectical state between standstill and the ongoing transformation of given circumstances. Universal questions of our present come up: Why are we here? What are we […]

until 18.06. | #3034ARTatBerlin | Galerie ART CRU Berlin presents from 29th April 2021 a Solo Show with works by the artist Robert Fischer. In 2007 he was awarded the recognition prize at the international art competition Euward. The wealth of knowledge, of narrative and pictorial descriptive art makes his works seem literally charged. Each picture seems to contain truths that Fischer interprets, describes and conveys. In his works, several levels of shaping and reporting overlap. First, the artist puts a proliferating and interconnected system of signs and images on paper. When looking at it, one instinctively tries (in vain) to decipher the long rows of signs, which are reminiscent of (familiar) letters and numbers, and in part appear as if “mirror-inverted”. Fischer combines these sequences with minimalist drawings: Crosses, or combinations of short lines or circles that sometimes make you think of faces. Often these signs and shapes are organised into groups and joined together by framing lines. After the majority of the sheet has thus been coded and pictured with the first layer – this sometimes happens airily with many open spaces, sometimes close together, as if Fischer wanted to spread a veritable net of information over the […]

until 19.06. | #3031ARTatBerlin | Galerie Martin Mertens shows from 28th April 2021 the group show Art Figurativa with works by Robert Bosisio, Peter Demetz, Domenico Grenci and Bruno Walpoth. The exhibition with four artists (two painters and two sculptors) gives an insight into the extremely lively artistic production in the field of figurative art in South Tyrol and Upper Italy. The more than 400-year-old tradition of figurative carving in Val Gardena, which has made a great name for itself in the field of sacred and profane wood art, has produced a group of sculptors in the last 20 years who have brought figurative contemporary sculpture to new heights at the highest technical level and are successful worldwide. Here we present two of them Peter Demetz and Bruno Walpoth. In the field of painting, we are showing new works by Robert Bosisio, who has also been strongly concerned with the image of man in recent years and was voted Artist of the Year in South Tyrol in 2020. In addition, there is Domenico Grenci, a painter and draughtsman from Bologna, who also deals almost exclusively with the human figure and even more specifically with portraits. Robert Bosisio (*1963) works on […]

until 30.07. | #3028ARTatBerlin | Galerie Gilla Lörcher shows from 30th April 2021 on the occasion of the Gallery Weekend the solo exhibition If you lived here, you’d be disappointed with objects by Chilean artist Francisco Rozas.  Galerie Gilla Loercher is very pleased to present the forth solo exhibition by Chilean artist Francisco Rozas. The artist constructs big, fragile, geometric objects, that oscillate between flatness and three-dimensionality. His objects embody exemplary visualisations of mathematical dependencies. Only on second sight the observer may realize, that Rozas’ objects are made of light materials, such as card paper or paper. Installation view Francisco Rozas at Galerie Gilla Loercher. Foto: CHROMA Francisco Rozas, born 1980 in Temuco, Chile. Lives and works in Berlin. The artist studied at the ARCIS University Santiago de Chile, at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf with Prof. Rita McBride and at the Universität der Künste UdK Berlin with Prof. Gregor Schneider and Art in Context (Masters Degree). He received the DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austausch-Dienst) stipend and the CONICYT (National Commission for Scientific and Technological Research) award. Installation view Francisco Rozas at Galerie Gilla Loercher. Foto: CHROMA His work has been shown at many insitutions and galleries: Kunsthalle Bremerhaven; Al Riwaq Art Space […]

until 26.06. | #3026ARTatBerlin | Galerie kajetan Berlin presents from 30 April 2021 on the occasion of the Gallery Weekend the duo exhibition “abhanden” (> mislaid, give away, shed, stolen, lost) by the artists Marta Guisande and Bea Otto. The title of the exhibition exemplifies what we have lost in a very acute and fundamental way in a year of pandemic threat: certainties that we have previously taken for granted as ordinary or entirely self-evident. This theme, which runs through our entire gallery programme so far, at times to a greater or lesser extent, is also apparent in the very different works by Marta Guisande and Bea Otto. Marta Guisande | Bea Otto | abhanden | Exhibition view 2021 | Courtesy the artists & kajetan Berlin | Photo: Marcus Schneider Born in Seville and living in Cologne, Marta Guisande is a painter who applies the colour material she uses – such as egg tempera, casein or acrylic – swiftly and spontaneously onto the unprimed canvas. Marta Guisande | Untitled | 2020 | Mixed media on cotton | 60 x 40 cm Courtesy Marta Guisande & kajetan Berlin | Photo: Marcus Schneider However, Marta Guisande’s working process also includes moments of observation, reflection […]

until 29.05.| #3023ARTatBerlin | Laura Mars Gallery shows from 17th April 2021 a duo show with the presentations “Museum Müm” by the artist Matias Bechtold and “European Park” by the artist Louise Bristow. The joint exhibition by Louise Bristow and Matias Bechtold offers a synopsis of the respective miniature worlds that both artists have been working on for a long time. Louise Bristow composes landscape-format oil paintings on the basis of self-made models and various pictorial models. In trompe-l’œil-like table or stage situations, heterogeneous pictorial ‘personnel’ meet: photographs and reproductions that function quasi as stage sets in the background, patterned prints as well as architectural models and imaginatively designed stereometric bodies. Scenic details of children’s playgrounds are often recognisable, whereby the evocation of the sphere of carefree play is often motifically juxtaposed with the working world of adults. In addition, there are cultural artefacts from the past: the spectrum ranges from prehistoric hand wedges to folkloristic-looking objects to post-war design, Soviet monumental sculpture and modernist architecture. Louise Bristow, European Park, 2020, oil on wood panel, 40 x 80 cm Heirlooms from past epochs, soberly recorded in painting, are also to be found in the picture European Park, painted in 2020 […]

until June | #3021ARTatBerlin | Galerie Max Hetzler presents as of April 2021 at the gallery in Bleibtreustraße 45 and in the Window Gallery at Goethestraße 2/3 a solo show with works by the artist Raymond Hains. The exhibition is visible through the window front or can be visited by appointment. A central figure in post-war French art, Raymond Hains developed a complex artistic universe that playfully takes up elements of the real world and explores the visual and metaphorical possibilities of linguistic systems. Known in the late 1940s primarily for his works with torn posters, the “Affiches lacérées” and later the “Palissades”, Hains plays in his work with verbal and visual associations, the reference to historical moments and reflects central elements of the emerging consumer society of his time. Along with artists such as Yves Klein, Jean Tinguely and Jean Villeglé, Hains was one of the founding members of Nouveau Réalisme, the French counterpart to Pop Art that emerged in 1960 and sought to reshape the relationship between art and life. Despite the short-lived nature of this group, which emerged in an earlier phase of Hains’ artistic career, the dualism between artistic tradition and popular culture accompanied him throughout […]

until 20.08. | #3017ARTatBerlin | Galerie Z22 shows from 24th April 2021 the duo show ALL THE BEAUTIFUL BEINGS with works by the artists Carolina Amaya and Danielle Benvenuto. In “All the Beautiful Beings” Carolina Amaya and Danielle Benvenuto join forces to celebrate life. Using various mediums such as painting, photography, sculpture and installations, they explore the nature of being and how we make contact with our life force through the felt experience: the sensual, the erotic and the mundane. It is a tribute to all the beautiful beings on this planet and to our bodies which allow us to navigate and move deeper into our lives. Danielle Benvenuto Carolina Amaya Carolina Amaya Opening: Saturday, 24 April 2021, 12:00 – 21:00 (Soft Opening, time slot booking at info@galerie-z22.com) Exhibition dates: Saturday, 24 April – Saturday, 20 August 2021 (visits from 29 June to 16 August by appointment only). NOTE: For incidence over 100, a negative Covid 19 test from the same day is mandatory in addition to the Luca App.     Image caption cover: via Galerie Z22, Carolina Amaya + Danielle Benvenuto Exhibition Carolina Amaya + Danielle Benvenuto – Galerie Z22 | Contemporary Art – Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin […]

until 15.05. | #3014ARTatBerlin | EIGEN + ART Lab presents from 15th April 2021 the solo show Investment by the artist Malte Bartsch. In the past there was not necessarily more tinsel, but more noise and more fire. Cars were buzzing, cigarettes were glowing, fireworks exploded. This was probably not particularly wise, healthy or sustainable, and not everything was better in the past. This much is certain. Nevertheless, this noise-making is also a way of expressing one’s joy at the mere fact that one is inexplicably alive. What happens when nothing glows any more because the e-cigarette (recently: tobacco heater) with blueberry flavor no longer burns anything crackling but only heats it moderately, when the Tesla glides silently through a frigid world and when the fireworks are consumed digitally via a screen instead of blowing up a proper bang and sulphur smell? That these things will be reduced in the future is pleasing. Because it is reasonable and because it will ensure a cleaner and healthier future. One that leaves a better world for generations to come. Yet the silence in which the present slowly begins to mantle itself also disguises its functionalities, the present is lost in empty speculations […]

until 08.06. | #3011ARTatBerlin | Haus am Waldsee shows from 7th April 2021 a digital solo exhibition by the artist duo Fischer & el Sani. In continuation of our successful Lockdown video art programme in cooperation with Videoart at Midnight from the beginning of February to the end of March 2021, we are pleased to announce Haus am Waldsee’s first online digital solo exhibition for April to June 2021. In weekly rotation, new videos by the artist duo Fischer & el Sani will be shown on our website every Wednesday. Program: 7.4.    Appropriation takes you on a weird ride, 2020 14.4.    Freedom of Movement, 2019 21.4.    Der Dreisatz der Identität, 2015 28.4.    Contaminated Home, 2021 5.5.    Spelling Dystopia, 2008 12.5.    The Rise, 2007 19.5.    Toute la mémoire du monde – Alles Wissen der Welt, 2006 26.5.    Klub 2000, Rom – Paris – Marzahn, 1998 2.6.    Be supernatural, 1995 Nine projects provide an exciting overview of 25 years of joint work. Fellowships have taken Fischer & el Sani to Amsterdam, Rome, Tokyo and Sapporo for extended periods. Thus, not only the transformation of the metropolis of Berlin since reunification has been a continuous theme of their work, but above all other historical spaces where they track down changing […]

until 23.04. | #3008ARTatBerlin | Galerie aKonzept and Raphael Lévy currently show the exhibition “An Inventory”, a group show with works by several artists of the gallery. With works by Alighiero Boetti, Alberto Burri, Henri Chopin, Carlfriedrich Claus, František Kyncl, Natalia LL, Franz Mon, Jiří Valoch, Wolf Vostell and Ryszard Wasko. Wolf Vostell Frantisek Kyncl Alberto Burri Exhibition period: Tuesday, 30th March to Friday, 23rd April 2021     Exhibition An Inventory – Galerie aKonzept + Raphael Lévy | Zeitgenössische Kunst | Contemporary Art | Exhibition Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin  

until 24.04. | #3005ARTatBerlin | Kristin Hjellegjerde Berlin currently presents the solo show Myths by the artist Kelechi Nwaneri. Black figures with striking motifs painted white onto their skin appear against burning blue skies and stylised settings. These people are the deities and characters from Igbo mythology, vividly reimagined by Nigerian artist Kelechi Nwaneri. The history of the Igbo people of South Eastern Nigeria dates back to the 9th century, but their indigenous way of life is rapidly fading in the face of dominating Western cultural narratives. The artist’s first solo exhibition entitled Myths at Kristin Hjellegjerde gallery’s Berlin space presents a new body of mixed-media artworks which are not only visually arresting, but also serve as important artistic documentation of a culture at risk of being erased from public conscious- ness. Nwaneri uses motifs drawn mainly from three indigenous languages – Adinkra from Ghana, Uli and Ns- bidi from Southern Nigeria – to decorate the skin of his figures, often selecting precise symbols to ex- press the individual’s personality or else to contribute to the work’s wider narrative. Whilst these motifs are derived from specific, ancient writing systems, much of the imagery is recognisable, and can be interpreted on […]

until 07.08. | #3002ARTatBerlin | hilleckes probst galerie shows from 24th April 2021 the exhibition “Marina meets Robert – an artist liaison” with works by the artist Marina Herrmann, accompanied with works by pop art artist Robert Indiana.  “Marina meets Robert – an art liaison”: loosely based on the classic ‘boy meets girl’ genre of Hollywood films, “We proudly present. As there is a spectacular transparent cube sculpture, with which Marina Herrmann (re)finds the famous sculptures of Robert Indiana “ONE through ZERO” in an enchanting way. Counterpart and further prominent piece of the exhibition is a small Love by Robert Indiana, and other exhibits that have found their way to Berlin in cooperation with Galerie Klaus Benden in Cologne and Galerie Hafenrichter from Nuremberg. Otherwise, Herrmann’s exhibition is all about transparency, like the fascinating ceiling installation “Zeitbrücke” with its coloured acrylic glass islands. Marina Herrmann impresses with an enormous sense of subtlety and the invisible, while the works of the old master of Pop Art form the basis of Herrmann’s inspiration. What a successful tête-à-tête! Marina Herrmann, Würfel 5 + 8, 3852-Ziffer 3 + 8, 2021, Glass and stainless steel, total 110 x 50 x 50 cm “Marina and Robert […]

until 24.04. | #3000ARTatBerlin | Crone shows since 19th March 2021 die exhibition SAME SAME BUT DIFFERENT with art from Germany and Austria simultaneously in all four gallery and exhibition spaces: Crone Berlin, Crone Vienna, Crone Side Berlin and Crone Side Vienna. In addition, the exhibitions can be viewed online. Same Same but Different – Art from Germany and Austria explores the question of what differences and similarities exist in the art scenes of the two neighboring countries. There will be around 80 works on display by well-known artists from Germany and Austria who have had a lasting influence on the art scene in these countries. The exhibition will cover the period from 1945 to the present day, divided into four sections. The exhibition is curated by the art historian and author Sebastian C. Strenger. Through the selection of works he shows the connecting and border lines in the art production of the two countries, which are attributed to a common cultural circle and are connected by the same language, but are nevertheless each shaped by their own particularities. Thus, for example, Viennese Actionism is juxtaposed with the German Fluxus scene, the interlacing in the painting of the early 1980s is […]

until 12.06. | #2997ARTatBerlin | Salongalerie Die Möwe presents from 17th April 2021 the group show “Mit leiser Kraft” with works by the artists Vera Schwelgin, Wolfgang Reinke and Emerita Pansowová. The new exhibition at the Berlin Salongalerie “Die Möwe” presents works by the Berlin artist couple Vera Schwelgin and Wolfgang Reinke and the sculptor Emerita Pansowová from Prenden in Brandenburg under the title “Mit leiser Kraft” (> With Quiet Power) from 17 April to 12 June 2021. The three artists, who studied at art colleges in the GDR in the 1960s and 1970s, have known each other for many decades, but in this exhibition they are showing their work together for the first time. Vera Schwelgin is represented with woodcuts, woodcut collages and tempera works, Wolfgang Reinke’s drawings with chalk and charcoal as well as collages are on display, and Emerita Pansowová presents stone sculptures and bronze sculptures. All the works have a quiet, yet insistent power. As an expression of the different artists’ personalities, it shows itself in each work in an individual way. The Baltic Sea landscape plays a special role in the work of Vera Schwelgin (*1943) and Wolfgang Reinke (*1942). During their summer stays on […]

until 10.04. | #2994ARTatBerlin | Semjon Contemporary presents from 19th March 2021 the group show gold fever. Works by Dittmar Danner aka Krüger, Renate Hampke, Ute Essig, Nataly Hocke, Henrik U. Müller, Dirk Rathke, Ursula Sax, Karina Spechter and Bettina Weiß are being presented. Special guest: Uli Aigner, ONE MILLION. For a year now, we have been living in an exceptional situation that we could not even have imagined as a nightmare just a short time before. Corona determines our everyday life! The warnings of coming worldwide epidemics and their effects on our lives, on the other hand, have actually been known for decades. Only a few took them seriously. Now we are in the midst of it and hope to have escaped the painful misery soon thanks to the vaccine that was tailor-made in no time at all. We are again in good spirits in the frustration of the new daily routine. Our socio-cultural life has been completely turned upside down: physical lack of contact with family, friends and acquaintances dominates everyday life, and we have been deprived of the natural way of being part of a group (no matter how big it was) and participating in concerts, plays […]

until 03.07. | #2991ARTatBerlin | janinebeangallery presents from 28th April 2021 in the exhibition “Moonlight at Noon” paintings and paper works of the Albanian artist Orion Shima and the German artist Martin Stommel, living and working in Bonn. Both have been producing their artworks for several decades and are exhibiting internationally. The basis for the exhibition “Moonlight at Noon” featuring artworks by Orion Shima and Martin Stommel was established in 2019, when we came into contact via the internet with the Albanian gallerist Lauresha Basha of Gallery 70 in Tirana, Albania. We liked each other from the outset and furthermore discovered common grounds regarding the alignment of our galleries, spawning the idea for a more extensive exchange. In June of that year we relayed an invitation from Lauresha Basha to Martin Stommel for a solo exhibition at Gallery 70 in Tirana. For this exhibition Martin Stommel travelled in October 2019 to Tirana and was not only delighted by the candour and cordiality of his hostess but also by the kindness of the general public. Among other artists he was introduced to Orion Shima, who is also engaged as a professor at the University of Arts in the Albanian capital and […]

until 10.04. | #2987ARTatBerlin | galerie weisser elefant currently presents the exhibition RESCATE / ERLÖSUNG with works by the artist Paula Carralero Bierzyñska, which are shown both in the gallery and in the nearby Monbijoupark. About 20 works can be seen on the trees around the hill in the park.  At the moment of eternity Nathanaël R. Bartholomäus „For when God said, Let there be light, there arose the light of reason.“ Hildegard von Bingen The artist Paula Carralero Bierzyñska, as her full name reveals, comes from different cultures. She lives in Berlin and also speaks several other languages. She studied at the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee from 2013 to 2019 and immediately received the Mart Stam Prize in her final year. The term ‘Rescate’ as the title of the exhibition has the Spanish meaning of rescue, but also ransom. We translate it as RESCUE because her work is actually about our ‘detachment’, which she confronts with new connections to primal nature, thus also a wider perception of our existence. Paula Carralero is looking for the connection to original nature, thus a wider perception of our existence. Like an actual revelation, she receives the knowledge of nature, enraptured and yet true. She […]

until 17.04. | #2984ARTatBerlin | Jarmuschek + Partner shows from 9th March 2021 an exhibition with the French title Dans Mon Lit, in which works by the artists Inga Kerber and Corinne von Lebusa are presented. Visitors of the current exhibition at Jarmuschek + Partner gallery are lured “Dans mon lit – Into my bed” by the Leipzig-based artists Inga Kerber and Corinne von Lebusa. In a world of a perceived permanent social public sphere, the bed may at first seem like the last bastion of privacy. Inga Kerber and Corinne von Lebusa bring this place into focus as a setting for encounters, directing their attention to a common theme: their central figure is the woman. Provocative or sensual-seductive, strong or vulnerable-the female figures in Corinne von Lebusa’s narrative paintings appear in a variety of possible roles. The artist playfully and tongue-in-cheek picks up on existing clichés, places her female protagonists in situations that puzzle us and fire our own imagination. With energetic strokes, Inga Kerber draws the woman in expansive poses that almost completely fill the image. Again and again she varies postures and forms, letting her figures perform wild contortions and turns. Expressive gestures combined with contrasting, strong colors […]

until 11.04. | #2981ARTatBerlin | The Verein zur Förderung von Kunst und Kultur am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz currently shows the freely accessible installation “The Museum of Broadcast and Loneliness”. It is illuminated every day from 4pm. A series of short films will be released throughout the duration of the exhibition on the webpage of the art association, each new ‘broadcast’ arriving every Friday. The films will relate to the content and convey the thematics of The Museum of Broadcasting and Loneliness. The currently closed Museum for Broadcast and Loneliness introduces the history of electronic communication with its program. The project returns to the beginnings of electronic mass communication and tells a multi-layered, complex story of transition and transmission, of surprising connections and certain historical parallels between a divided Ireland and an equally separated Germany. The project sees itself as a prequel to the exhibition planned for next year. Stay tuned! Declan Clarke *1974 Dublin, lives and works in Berlin Exhibition period: Wednesday, 17 February – Sunday, 11 April 2021     Image caption: Courtesy by Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz Declan Clarke – Museum für Rundfunk und Einsamkeit – Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz | Zeitgenössische Kunst | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries – ART at […]

until 15.04. | #2978ARTatBerlin | Galerie ART CRU Berlin shows from 4th March 2021 a Solo Show with works by the artist Horst Schiele. It is the first solo exhibition of the artist. The artist bases his paintings on a combination of circles, rectangles and triangles. The associatively placed forms are coloured with a broad palette of colours in oil pastels, a medium that allows the artist the greatest possible sovereignty in his work. Schiele’s forms are then frequently overlaid with one or more additional layers. O.T., 2015, Ölpastellkreide, 70 x 50 cm If one wanders along these upper lines when looking at the pictures, one senses a concentrated force that lends the pictures a special tension and extraordinary compositional dynamism. At times Schiele places the lines, which are usually in black or white in contrast to the luminous shapes of the background, close together so that a structure seems to overgrow the picture. O.T., 2015, Ölpastellkreide, 70 x 50 cm Sometimes he chooses airy, bubble-like circles to overlay his colour field foundation or sets selective accents with shorter strokes. The particular contrast of these two levels, combined with a richness of variation in the volume of paint application, which […]

until 25.07. | #2975ARTatBerlin | Schinkel Pavillon is showing the group exhibition Sun Rise | Sun Set with works by 18 artists and an artist collective until this summer. The cross-generational group show Sun Rise | Sun Set brings together contemporary, as well as 19th and 20th century artists to form a multi-layered response to the fast unfolding eco-catastrophe. The exhibition aims to reconfigure our relationship to the Earth and all its inhabitants by nourishing the ever-changing relationship between humans, animals, plants, inanimate objects, technologies and non-beings. The exhibited works guide us through surreal landscapes, biotechnical hybrids, futuristic scenarios and speculative concepts, creating a multi-sensory experience that counters the current dark season of restriction, uncertainty, and loss. At a moment in which the planet’s habitability is becoming increasingly compromised due to human activity, the exhibition addresses the collective necessity to redefine our role as part of a whole and to find new ways of living in the world by rethinking the boundaries of our species and welcoming hybridity in all forms. Following the notion of circular systems and entangled, multispecies perspectives, Sun Rise I Sun Set highlights the inextricable links between humans and their nonhuman environment and encourages alternative attitudes that aim for the procreation and regeneration of the […]

until 10.04. | #2972ARTatBerlin | Sprüth Magers Berlin shows since 25th February 2021 the exhibition with new works by the artist Analia Saban. The exhibition of new works by Analia Saban at the Berlin gallery delves into the increasingly porous line between our physical and virtual worlds—made ever more palpable by the further expansion of digital life in response to the coronavirus pandemic. The title Save As refers to the menu command “Save” or “Save As” to save files to a computer. Analia Saban, Motherboard #3, 2020 (detail), Courtesy Sprüth Magers Saban’s work continually expands the definition of how paintings, sculptures and even everyday objects are made. Through tactile manipulations of material and composition, she transforms straightforward things—copper, linen thread, acrylic paint, paper, printing ink—into complex layered networks of information that consider the entwined relationship between art, culture and daily experience. Analia Saban, Still from Analia Saban: Save As – Studio Visit, 2021, Courtesy Sprüth Magers A studio visit to Analia Saban in South Los Angeles in advance of this exhibition can be viewed HERE. Exhibition dates: Thursday, January 25 – Saturday, April 10, 2021 Artist Talk: Friday, March 5, 2021, 6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m., Analia Saban in conversation […]

until 17.04. | #2969ARTatBerlin | Galerie Michael Haas shows from 6. March 2021 a solo exhibition with works by the artist Peter Böhnisch. In March 2021, Galerie Michael Haas will dedicate a comprehensive solo exhibition to the painter Peter Böhnisch for the first time, which will occupy both the premises in Niebuhrstraße and the Kunst Lager Haas. In his new, monumental sand paintings, Peter Böhnisch explores the possibilities of painting beyond oil paint and canvas. The artist sets enigmatic scenes in dialogue with portraits, including those of fictitious space travellers, and thus combines traditional pictorial themes and contemporary elements. The focus is always on the use of sand, which Böhnisch sometimes uses as a sculptural, relief-like background and at other times as a direct painting medium. Explorer Daniel, aus der Serie “Space”, 2021 Edelkorund und Pigment auf MDF 52 x 40 cm About Peter Böhnisch After studying at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe with Anselm Reyle and Andreas Slominski, Böhnisch initially devoted himself to large-format drawings, which were increasingly replaced by tempera, wax crayon, pastels or acrylics on canvas. Exhibition period: Saturday, 6th March to Saturday, 17th April 2021     Image caption cover: Auf dem Weg zu unseren […]

until 07.03. | #2966ARTatBerlin | Crone Berlin shows since 18 February 2021 the exhibition Endless Edition, a project by the artist  Milen Till. Milen Till is a master’s student of Gregor Hildebrandt at the University of the Arts in Munich. For his artistic practice, he draws on set pieces from art history, pop culture, and everyday life. He always uses them with the aim of giving them a new meaning, but one that grows out of their original function or is related to it in a deeper, not immediately clear way. For his Endless Edition, Till works his way through the elementary motif of the column, which literally plays a leading role in art history and has been reinterpreted time and again. In a mixture of seriousness and irony, he attempts to create the ultimate, perfect column, knowing full well that failure is preordained and can at best be averted or at least delayed in the endless, permanent updating of the project. For this continuation, which is systematically inherent in the project, Till enlists the support of collectors, curators, and art lovers. He invites them to participate in the production of the works and thus makes them accomplices in his […]

until 25.04. | #2963ARTatBerlin | Galerie kajetan Berlin shows from 26th February 2021 the group show kajetan presents with selected works by seven artists of the gallery and two guest artists. Due to the ongoing pandemic situation and the associated restrictions, Galerie kajetan Berlin has decided to postpone the exhibition “Erich has just the building. In memory of Erich Reusch”, scheduled for February 2021, will be postponed until next autumn. It will then be on view from September to November 2021. In order to nevertheless be able to make a visual offer that does justice to this period, Galerie kajetan Berlin has decided instead to organise a group exhibition with works by artists represented by the gallery and to invite the artists Shila Khatami and Ingrid Lønningdal, whose positioning gallery owner Tobias Posselt considers very stimulating in this context, to take part as well. On show will be: Bettina Blohm, Carla Guagliardi, Shila Khatami, Ingrid Lønningdal, Marc Nagtzaam, Erich Reusch, Elisabeth Vary, Claude Viallat and Jan Wawrzyniak. The exhibition brings together very different contributions close to the border to the nonrepresentational, by means of which forms of dealing with artistic processes of abstraction can be excellently worked out. Based on the […]

until 17.04. | #2959ARTatBerlin | Galerie Kornfeld shows from 6th March 2021 the duo exhibition Make It Your Own Story with new artworks by Susanne Roewer and Hubertus Hamm. “Make it your own story” – the title of the exhibition is a call for participation. A work of art can only unfold its power and affect the viewer as long as it is perceived, thus becoming part of one’s own story. Susanne Roewer and Hubertus Hamm are highly interested in materials and their distinctive properties. Deliberate yet playful, they consciously shape the different materials, putting the latter’s specific traits at the service of their art. Susanne Roewer combines the fragile material of glass – magically formed in fire – with stone, one of the earliest artistic materials. Using hammer and chisel, the artist shapes the hard stone, created by the earth over many thousands of years. The deliberate physical force applied by the artist elicits form from matter. Through the combination with glass, which is created by mixing, heating, melting, shaping and then carefully cooling different substances, two conflicting materials collide, forming a fragile new entity. According to the artist, her works owe as much to the history of mankind […]

until 31.03. | #2958ARTatBerlin | Luisa Catucci Gallery shows from 1st February 2021 the exhibition THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS, a “sensational Shop Window exhibition” in four stages with works by artists Per Christian Brown, Boris Eldagsen, Eleonora Roaro and Mathilde Nardone. To bring colour and positive energy to its neighbours and the city – and at the same time show that art doesn’t stand still – Luisa Catucci Gallery has decided to open THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS // in Mirrorland. In the shop windows, the gallery presents a selection of videos & art by Per Christian Brown, Boris Eldagsen, Eleonora Roaro and Mathilde Nardone every two weeks. 1 – 14 February 2021: Per Christian Brown | “Lumen Naturae” The colorful and vibrant pieces by Norwegian artist Per Christian Brown (b. 1976) on display are inspired by both ancient medieval alchemical ideas of transformation and the mysteries of material substances we find in nature. The artist’s analogue photo series has been meticulously produced in his studio, composed as tableaux in glass tanks where liquid colors, varied rocks and minerals have been staged. These compositions express the artist’s own abstract impressions and ideas about volcanism, as the ultimate of all the natural […]

until 24.04. | #2956ARTatBerlin | Galerie Martin Mertens presents since 23rd January 2021 the first solo show by the Düsseldorf painter Simone Lucas. Due to the current situation, the gallery will remain closed for the time being and there will be no vernissage, but the exhibition is expected to be on view until mid-April. Martin Mertens and his team can still be reached by phone and email. Works can be purchased and collected by appointment. Simone Lucas studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy, where she was a master student of the painter Dieter Krieg, a representative of New Figuration. In her dream-like pictorial worlds, she combines expressionist and surrealist elements to create a cosmos all of her own. Simone Lucas, The slow Eye, Oil and mixed media on canvas, 150 x 170 cm, 2020 The exhibition deals above all (like many of her paintings) with the field of tension between interior and exterior space. It is like a slow inner eye journey through an entire cosmos/planetary system, with infinite possibilities and paths. Lucas says: “These inner spaces (or the journeys through inner spaces) were certainly also created under the impression of this pandemic that blocks our outer space. The painting […]

until 10.04. | #2953ARTatBerlin | janinebeangallery shows from 4th February 2021 the exhibition High on Paper with works by Inna Artemova, Anna Borowy, Florian Fausch, Kathrin Günter, Juan Miguel Pozo and Arny Schmit. The opening will take place virtually. During the lockdown, the exhibition is visible through the large windows and digitally, after the lockdown regular (12-18 hrs) according to the then permissible guidelines of the federal government. In the exhibition „High on Paper“ (February 4th – April 10th 2021) janinebeangallery focuses on artworks on paper. Featured are works by the artists Inna Artemova, Anna Borowy, Florian Fausch, Kathrin Günter, Juan Miguel Pozo and Arny Schmit. The structure of the drawings of the Russian artist Inna Artemova resemble sequences of storyboards or film stills, in which phantastic sceneries unfold. The depicted people, objects and architectures poise in an oddly unsettling limbo, as if the order of space, time and gravity were suspended. Inna Artemova Paper-Utopia # 4374, 75 x 105 cm, Tinte, Marker, Bleistift auf Papier, 2020 The drawings of Swiss artist Florian Fausch are utopian architectural landscapes with a formal language which follows its own laws. These are places as well as „nonplaces“ at once, circling the concept of […]

until 11.04. | #2950ARTatBerlin | Galerie Pugliese Levi presents from 20th January 2021 the exhibition one by one, in which one work by each artist of the gallery is shown for a few days in the gallery window. This form of presentation will take place until mid-April. The artist Juliana Borinski will be the first. #1 Juliana Borinski 20.– 24. Januar 2021 #2 Claudia Doderer 25.– 29. Januar 2021 #3 Thibaut Duchenne 30. Januar–3. Februar 2021 #4 Jörg Gessner 4.–8. Februar 2021 #5 Gwen Hardie 9.–13. Februar 2021 #6 Tiina Heiska 21.–25. Februar 2021 #7  Marc Lambrechts 28. Februar–4. März 2021 #8 Birgitte Lund 5.– 9. März 2021 #9 Norma Márquez Orozco 10. –14. März 2021 #10 Rebecca Salter Pra 15.-19. März 2021 #11 Shawn Stipling 21.–25. März 2021 #12 Tünde Újszászi 26.–30. März 2021 #13 Maibritt Ulvedal Bjelke 31. März – 4. April 2021 #14 Mary Ellen Bartley 7. April – 11. April 2021 The artist Juliana Borinski will be the first. When she works on photography or cinema, Juliana Borinski never uses a camera or video camera. She creates images that are generally abstract, using photosensitive paper or film directly, in order to explore their inherent aesthetic and […]

until 30.01. | #2947ARTatBerlin | Köppe Contemporary shows since 1st December 2020 the solo show “Tegel Moments” des Fotografenby the photographer Bernd Rathjen, a tribute to the cult airport. The exhibition can be visited online via the gallery website. It should have been closed long ago, but for years its fans celebrated every single day of Tegel Airport’s involuntary extension. On 8 November the time has come and we will say goodbye. Bernd Rathjen has captured special views in his series Tegel Moments, showing us once again what we liked so much about the architectural gem, also taking us to places we carelessly overlooked in our haste. In a mix of moments “picked” in passing and carefully composed tableaus, a very personal homage to this exceptional airport is created. Bernd Rathjen | Geometrie, 2020 As early as 1948, a runway was built to relieve the airlift to Tempelhof. After the first civilian flight in 1960, an intensive planning and construction phase took place from 1965 onwards, which ended with the ceremonial opening on 23 October 1974. One week later, on 1 November 1974, the legendary Terminal A with its passenger bridges A0 to A14 went into operation. The hexagonal ground […]

until 28.01. | #2944ARTatBerlin | Galerie feinart berlin currently shows the exhibition AufBruch with paintings, drawings and photography by the artist Aurore Millet. The exhibition is also visible online as 3D Tour. The exhibition with the title “AufBruch” (English “BreakOut”) is inspired by the question to what extent Aurore Millet’s in content and style complex works produced between 1996 and 2020 can be looked at and understood in the continuum of an artistic development. The drawings, photo prints and paintings have in common that, at the origin of every creative process, the artist is concerned with the act of looking closely and seriously: looking between and behind the things in our everyday world of perception and their abstraction or, in some cases, radicalization of the essentials such as colors, contours, negative- and positive forms. To look closely in this way means to be attentive, alert and critical, as for example in the series Reminiscence, that was created from 2001 to 2004 out of personal experiences with the war in Palestine and Israel. Between everything and nothing stands life – and artistic freedom. Aurore Millet’s works challenge us to face the world again and again with alert eyes and senses. Exhibition period: Thursday, […]

until 27.02. | #2941ARTatBerlin | Galerie Kornfeld presents from 16. January 2021 the solo show All Saints with photographs by the Georgian artist David Meskhi. It is the artist’s first solo exhibition at Galerie Kornfeld. Within this newest body of works, Meskhi aims to capture the idealised moment of human gesture and sublime beauty. Religious ecstasy, homoerotic connotations and the gender fluidity of the male body in its transformative years brings us to a combination of heavenly and earthly states of being. The bodies, not yet ingrained with social definitions of gender, fall into a more natural setting of finer tones of masculine and feminine energies. Universal bodies who in turn reach out to the cosmos to assert their presence. The subject matter becomes the most important – not narrowly gender related, but rather humanistic as the work delivers a strong juxtaposition of defiance verses compliance. The bodies are cropped off at different angels flying free or kneeling in conformity to the confines of society – be it religious, political or social. As Meskhi captures the young athletes in training, the viewer witnesses the instant between leaping and falling – a brief moment of weightlessness when the body reaches the […]

until March 2021 | #2938ARTatBerlin | drj art projects will be showing from December 2020 “insights unheard of …”, a space-oriented exhibition of installation, drawing and painting by the artist Anna Kubelík [CH] and the artist Matthew Hawtin [CA]. With sound performances by Oliver Schmid [CH]. The exhibition can only be visited by appointment. Dear audience of drj art projects, once again in this pandemic year 2020, an exhibition cannot be opened as planned – although a postponement has already been made. More than that, this time it remains completely unclear when and to what extent visitors will be able to see the works of Anna Kubelík and Matthew Hawtin that are installed inside our rooms. And thus also when and at what times the sound performances by Oliver Schmid will be able to be experienced there. It merely remains for us to announce  insights unheard of …  as such in the first place. It will be assembled from the beginning of December. As soon as there are reliable conditions under which we can offer dates for visits, we will announce them. Until then we will keep the website drj-art-projects.com/insights-unheard-of/ up to date. Best regards from Christiane Bail + Matthias Seidel Exhibition […]

until 06.01. | #2935ARTatBerlin | Michaela Helfrich Galerie shows from 12th December 2020 the group show EVERY JACK HAS HIS JILL / JEDER TOPF FINDET SEINEN DECKEL with paintings, installation and sculpture. On show are works by: ROLAND BEHRMANN / GILBERT BROHL / SIMON CZAPLA / OLIVER DEHN / TINA ENGEL / FABIAN FREESE / THOMAS GATZEMEIER / CHRISTINA GAY / ANNA GENGER / SUSANNE HUSEMANN / THOMAS JÜPTNER / HORST KISTNER / JENS KLOPPMANN / CLAUDIA KOCK / DAVID D. LAUER / HEIKE MARDO / ULRIKE PISCH / ALAN RANKLE / PINA RATH / STEPHAN PAUL SCHNEIDER / ALEX SCHILOW / NANAKO SHIKATA / MARCIA R. SZÉKELY / ELENA TAMBURINI / GERARD WASKIEVITZ Opening: Saturday, 12. December 2020, 2:00 – 8:00 pm Exhibition period: Saturday, 12. December 2020 – Wednesday, 6. January 2021 Opening hours: Tuesday to Saturday, 2 – 6 pm and by arrangement     Image caption: © Alex Schilow Exhibition Every Jack has his Jill – Michaela Helfrich Galerie | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin  

until 16.01. | #2932ARTatBerlin | Esther Schipper shows from 6th December 2020 the exhibition false ruins and lost innocence with works by the artist Isa Melsheimer. It is the third solo show of the artist with the gallery. The exhibition entitled false ruins and lost innocence comprises three large-format ceramics, textile works and a series of gouaches. Isa Melsheimer is well known for her exploration of the history of architectural styles, her works reflect both her intensive research and form-based investigations. The artist, whose work is concerned with modernist, post-modern and brutalist aesthetics, has increasingly introduced organic elements into buildings in recent years – influenced by her reading of post-human theoretical debates as well as by her examination of metabolic architecture, a movement that has its origins in 1960s Japan. Isa Melsheimer’s works carry her far-reaching associations with ease: personal, literary, historical, philosophical, architectural references are dissolved in an intense materiality. Three large-format ceramics draw on existing buildings: the artist gives these groundbreaking structures an “inner” life that refers to theoretical debates in architectural discourse. For example, one of Le Corbusier’s works, “Villa Shobhan” (Ahmedabad, 1951-56), juxtaposes a horse’s head from the gable of the Greek Parthenon, ca. 438 BC, […]

until 09.01. | #2929ARTatBerlin | Esther Schipper presents from 27th November 2020 the Online Exhibition Virtual Leonardo’s Submarine with new works by the artist Hito Steyerl on the website of the gallery. Virtual Leonardo’s Submarine is Hito Steyerl’s first solo project with Esther Schipper and the first virtual exhibition organized by the gallery. This project is organized in collaboration with Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York. Originally conceived in 2019 as a video environment for the 58th Venice Biennale, Leonardo’s Submarine has been completely reworked as a Virtual Reality (VR) experience. Upon entering the virtual space—via the means of a VR headset or by web browser version—viewers will find themselves floating under water, surrounded by fish, seaweed, and coral. The artist’s avatar, outfitted in full PEOPLE gear, swims alongside. The VR experience offered by Virtual Leonardo’s Submarine echoes Steyerl’s concept of a Bubble Vision which she developed during her 2018 lecture at the Yale School of Art. VR experiences place the viewer at the center of an environment while also disembodying them: “The viewer is absolutely central, but at the same time, he or she is missing from the scene. (…) Is this ‘bubble vision’—this 360-degree vision—a training scheme to adapt […]

until 13.02. | #2926ARTatBerlin | Galerie kajetan Berlin shows from 5th December 2020 the Solo Show Various, Elsewhere, Ongoing with works by the Dutch artist Marc Nagtzaam. Marc Nagtzaam has been producing a body of work that is based on one main subject: the idea of pattern, the repetition. He draws lines, grids, circles, words or sentences as in an endless search for collecting pieces of information. The repetition and the graphic structure of his works seem reminiscent of minimal and conceptual aesthetics. Most of Marc Nagtzaam´s drawings consist of colourless, darkly filled in graphite surfaces. Abstracted elements from architecture, graphic design, details from found photographs, or parts from previous drawings are starting points for every series of works. Marc Nagtzaam’s series ‚Borrowed Space | An Index of Forms’ (drawings behind glass in the exhibition) is also about drawn compositions that are borrowed from shapes and elements from existing book covers, posters and paintings. Points, lines and surfaces form a kind of structure. Marc Nagtzaam | Various, Elsewhere, Ongoing | Exhibition view 2020 / 2021 | Courtesy Marc Nagtzaam & kajetan Berlin | Foto: Marcus Schneider Gentle, subtle and powerful, Marc Nagtzaam also maximizes perspective energies in the condensed surfaces […]

until 23.01. | #2922ARTatBerlin | Galerie Kremers shows from 20. November 2020 the group exhibition “Talking Stones and Mysterious Plates” with etchings, woodcuts and lithographs by the artists Natascha Mann, Uwe Bremer, Johannes Grützke, Gregor Hiltner, Friedrich Meckseper, Michael Runschke, Ernst Weil and Gerhard Wendland. “Lustful and colorful, obsessed with detail, mysterious and following an order that is unique to the artist, not always easy to decipher, romantic, poetic or drastically expressive, full of wit and depth or serious and thought-provoking, but artistically and technically always on the same highest level and with a variety of different formats, we present masterpieces of printmaking. Uwe Bremer, Zwitter, 1970, Farbradierung e.a., 44,4 x 49 cm There are only a handpicked number of artists who handle printmaking techniques in this mastery and only a few viewers know how much work and skill there is behind these graphic sheets. Such complicated techniques are hardly taught at the academies any more and most of the artistic gravure printing and lithography workshops have already closed. Johannes Grützke, Die Knochenbrecher, 2007, Lithographie 38/40, 100 x 130 cm We show a great selection of colour etchings and colour lithographs. During the Corona pre-Christmas period, sheets are available at […]

until 15.01. | #2920ARTatBerlin | Migrant Bird Space currently presents the group show A Future Without a Past with works by the artists Seulki Ki, Tomoko Mori, You Gu and Zhé Wang. The group show presents four young female Asian artists that explore concepts of identity through their artistic work. Taking a step back from the ordinary, the show invites its viewers to nurture a critical view of what brings us together and what keeps us apart. In an attempt to further the examination, the exhibition aids the viewer in positioning an awareness on questions about identity and on what terms it is of compelling importance in today’s world. Once the practical and daily roles we assume are laid aside, the unmistakable common ground is left to be here and now. Time and space are our lifelong companions, whether we have it minute capacities and share only a small portion of it with others, or whether we reside comfortably and inattentively enveloped in it. Yet the nexus of time and space also comprises an intersectionality of nation, community, faith and social status generating a universal condition of what it is to be human. We discover the unique circumstances of our […]

until 13.02. | #2917ARTatBerlin | Sprüth Magers Berlin presents from 20. November 2020 an exhibiton by the artist Cindy Sherman. Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers are pleased to announce an exhibition of new works by Cindy Sherman, one of the most influential artists internationally who has been associated with the gallery since the 1980s. It is the first time this 2019 series will be on view outside the United States. In her latest body of work – in which Sherman impersonates a cast of androgynous characters – the artist continues her long-standing investigation into identity as a social construction, addressing topics such as gender and social roles. Sherman’s new works bring these conversations squarely into the twenty-first century, when gender expression and fluidity have become mainstream subjects, casting further doubt upon the rigid constructs of twentieth-century masculinity and femininity. Visits can be scheduled under this Link Exhibition period: Friday, 20th November – Saturday, 13th February 2021     Image caption: Cindy Sherman, Untitled #611, 2019 © Cindy Sherman, Courtesy Sprüth Magers and Metro Pictures, New York Exhibition Cindy Sherman – Sprüth Magers Berlin | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin

until 05.02. | #2914ARTatBerlin | Galerie Barbara Wien presents from 14th November 2020 the exhibition Endnote, yellow by the artist Ian Kiaer. Ian Kiaer’s Endnote projects began in 2010. Like marginal notes, he developed and adjusted these works as configurations of fragmented models. He has conceived an approach to painting as a ‘minor’ form with each of his installations linking to a thinker, writer or architect. Through two essays, an extended interview and numerous illustrations, this book offers the opportunity to revisit some of his main works and exhibitions over the last 10 years. Ian Kiaer’s new monograph “Endnote, Tooth” is available and can be signed at the opening. Vernissage: Saturday, 14 November 2020, noon – 6 pm, Ian Kiaer is in town, so there will be a talk with the artist after a tour of the exhibition. Exhibition dates: Saturday, 14 November 2020 – Saturday, 6 February 2021     Image caption: Ian Kiaer, Toothhouse Ceiling 2014 – 2020, detail, Photo Guenzel Rademacher, Exhibition Ian Kiaer – Galerie Barbara Wien | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin

bis 02.01. | #2911ARTatBerlin| Galerie Inga Kondeyne – Raum für Zeichnung shows from 14th November 2020 at the backstage of the gallery works by the artist Astrid Köppe as a follow-up to the August exhibition “Spontaneous Paradise”. Gallery owner Inga Kondeyne invites you on a voyage of discovery into the almost endless encyclopaedia of enchanting fantasy organisms of Astrid Köppe. The wondrous Din A 4 drawings by Astrid Köppe look like pages from expedition diaries, flipped open, taken apart and soon spread out on the walls of the gallery in a game of puzzle. And they are, as we know, the product of the artist’s imagination. Naturally grown forms, reduced to their origins, are rhythmically reoccupied with narrow and broad strokes, with large and small dots, which are chosen to be slightly flowing or strong. With the keyboard of drawing – together with striking, mostly strong colour settings – she brings forth surprising new existences, one follows the other; over the years endless in their individual appearances on the said sheets. One becomes an observer of an artistic amoeba world of almost inexhaustible shapes, whose irritating, sometimes bizarre otherness often enough seems to be underlaid with a wink of the […]

until 21.01. | #2909ARTatBerlin | Galerie ART CRU Berlin presents from 24th November 2020 a solo show with works by the artist Sonja Halbfass, who grew up between the USA and Germany. It is the first exhibition of the artist in Berlin. These extraordinary paintings reach us like messages from another world. We experience pulsating, teeming, abstract color compositions and challenging perspectives, somewhere between Pop, Op and Psychedelic Art; combined with blurred figurative scenes full of symbolism and enigmatic messages, oscillating between impression and expression. There is a lot of power in these 20+ works created over the last 25 years by the artist. Sonja Halbfass, Leben einer Frau, 1998, Acryl, 42 x 60 cm Sonja Halbfass, Kraftwerk, 1998, Acryl, 50 x 70 cm The paintings convey a spherical atmosphere with compositions that seem to float in the universe. In some of her works on paper, Halbfass forms almost surreal, delicately detailed motifs with a sweeping brushstroke and uncanny precision. She impresses with her broad artistic spectrum, perceptible as an exciting struggle between style and content. In the painting “Kraftwerk” (1998), for example, she groups a hospital bed and a winged woman supplemented by other ghostly figures around a central […]