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Showcase exhibition | Galerie Inga Kondeyne – Raum für Zeichnung | 15.02. – end of March 2021


until end of March | #2973ARTatBerlin| Galerie Inga Kondeyne – Raum für Zeichnung shows since 15th February 2021 a showcase exhibition in the gallery window with works by artists of the gallery. The gallery is temporarily closed due to the current situation. Therefore, gallery owner Inga Kondeyne has decided to hold a showcase exhibition, in which works by artists of the gallery will be presented in rotation. Kazuki Nakahara and Hanna Hennenkemper will start the show. Kazuki Nakahara, o.T., 2020, Colored pencil, 47 x 37 cm Hanna Hennenkemper, o.T., 2016, Photogravure, 30 x 40 cm Followed by: The scaffolding in front of the gallery has now been removed, so that nothing stands in the way of barrier-free art enjoyment. Inga Kondeyne remains available for you by email and by phone at 0176 50257727. Wichtendahl Gallery currently has an exhibition with Dorthe Goeden ‘cuts and correlations’. Exhibition dates: Monday, February 15, 2021 until the end of March 2021 Showcase Exhibition – Galerie Inga Kondeyne | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Ausstellungen Berlin Galerien | ART at Berlin
Analia Saban | Save As | Sprüth Magers Berlin | 25.02.-10.04.2021


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) 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 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 with The Courtauld Institute of Art’s […]
Liliane Tomasko | We Sleep Where We Fall | Kewenig Berlin | 27.02.-17.04.2021


until 17.04. | #2971ARTatBerlin | Kewenig Berlin shows from 27th January 2021 the exhibition We Sleep Where We Fall with works by the artist Liliane Tomasko. It is the first solo presentation of the artist at the gallery’s spaces in Berlin. ‘We Sleep Where We Fall‘ focuses on the artist’s most recent work on canvas and paper in which interlacing lines and layers of paint are woven into visual structures. The exhibition is punctuated by a video work elucidating the origins of Tomasko’s abstraction: stacks of piled up clothes and beds in disarray were the artist’s first motifs and the themes of dreams, sleep and the unconscious have been at the core of her artistic practice for over twenty years. Exhibition period: Saturday, 27th February to Saturday, 17th April 2021 Image caption: Liliane Tomasko, Hold on to Yourself: 5/31/2020 (Detail) © Liliane Tomasko, courtesy Kewenig Exhibition Liliane Tomasko – Kewenig Berlin | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin
Miriam Böhm | e e e B n n N n | WENTRUP | 05.03.–17.04.2021


until 17.04. | #2970ARTatBerlin | WENTRUP presents from 5th March 2021 the Solo Show e e e B n n N n with works by the artist Miriam Böhm (*1972). It is the third solo show of the Berlin photographer. e e B n n N n – a string of individual letters that tempts one to create words. But even without forming a word, these letters have their own reality. The photographic work of Miriam Böhm is similar. Just as a word is made up of individual letters and a sentence of individual words, the artist builds her pictures from individual picture elements. These picture elements are in turn equivalent picture components within the picture, which are positioned and put together or superimposed in such a way that they are equally motif, carrier of meaning and picture content. From folded paper, cut cardboard surfaces, drawn-in lines or shadows, landscapes, textiles, glass, structures, folds and creases, Böhm creates minimalist, formally emphasised pictorial arrangements that reflect visually on space in different ways and in the broadest sense. Böhm’s photographs are created – partly analogue, partly digital – somewhere in the field of tension between surface, fragment and space; between the poles […]
Peter Böhnisch | Solo Show | Galerie Michael Haas + Kunst Lager Haas | 06.03.-17.04.2021


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 […]
Aqua Aura + Lidó Rico | TRA COLOR CHE SONO SOSPESI | Luisa Catucci Gallery | 03.04.-28.05.2021


until 28.05. | #2968ARTatBerlin | Luisa Catucci Gallery presents the exhibition TRA COLOR CHE SONO SOSPESI (not taken up into hell and heaven) from 3 April 2021, titled after a quotation from Canto II of the Divine Comedy by Dante Alleghieri, whose death anniversary in 2021 is the 700th. The exhibition presents works by the Italian artist Aqua Aura and the Spanish artist Lidó Rico. Io era tra color che son sospesi, e donna mi chiamo` beata e bella, tal che di comandare io la richiesi. Dante Alighieri Divina Commedia, Inferno, Canto II Among those was I who are in suspense, And a fair, saintly Lady called to me In such wise, I besought her to command me. Dante Alighieri Divina Commedia, Inferno, Canto II Gran duol mi prese al cor quando lo ‘ntesi, pero` che gente di molto valore conobbi che ‘n quel limbo eran sospesi. Dante Alighieri Divina Commedia, Inferno, Canto IV Great grief seized on my heart when this I heard, Because some people of much worthiness I knew, who in that Limbo were suspended. Dante Alighieri Divina Commedia, Inferno, Canto IV Lidó Rico, Oraculo, 2020 The unusual situation the whole world faced over this past year, […]
Celina Teague | Money and Fairy Tales | Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery Berlin | 19.02.-20.03.2021


until 20.03. | #2967ArtatBerlin | Kristin Hjellegjerde Berlin shows from 19th February 2021 the exhibition Money and Fairy Tales by the artist Celina Teague. Characterful, vibrant animals and bold slogan text combine on the canvas to create arresting imagery that simultaneously seduces and confronts the viewer. For her forthcoming solo show Money & Fairytales at Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery Berlin, Portugal-based artist Celina Teague continues her exploration of climate change and environmental issues in relation to the information and imagery that we consume through media sources. The exhibition borrows its title from Greta Thunberg’s speech at the U.N. Climate Action Summit in 2019, whilst several of the paintings repurpose the slogans of other young activists in both a celebration of their efforts, and a critique of the adoption of language as an image without deeper consideration for the message that it conveys. By reframing these familiar phrases of text within a painted image, Teague rebels against rapid digital consumption and invites us to engage in a deeper kind of contemplation. Whilst the artist admits that many of these most recent works appear confrontational, she does not subscribe to the idea of didacticism. Her artistic practice is, in part, an expression of […]
Milen Till | Endless Edition | Crone Berlin | 18.02.-07.03.2021


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 […]
Jeff Elrod | Solo Show | Galerie Max Hetzler | 20.02.- April 2021


until April | #2965ARTatBerlin | Galerie Max Hetzler presents since 20 February 2021 a solo show with paintings by Jeff Elrod at Galerie Bleibtreustraße 15/16. This is the artist’s fourth solo presentation with Galerie Max Hetzler. The exhibition can be viewed through the large window front or by appointment. Since the late 1990s, Elrod has been creating abstract paintings that combine analogue and digital technologies and are based on the artist’s original drawings, photographs and scanned studio material by the artist. Elrod uses various techniques to reproduce graphic and painterly grid images on canvas. This is usually done by hand and using mechanical and electronic printing technologies. Industrially influenced methods such as screen printing, inkjet printing, the use of airbrush, spray paint and of stencils are central to the artist’s work. In this new group of works, Elrod uses an inkjet printer to create manipulated images on canvas. This creates complex layers of distorted abstract forms that reflect their own digital origins. In places, the pictorial elements seem to fade, giving the richly inked works ghostly features. Based on digital drawings, the artist creates a place where the individual planes and lines seem to float diffusely on the surface of […]
GENESIS | Group Show | Bermel von Luxburg Gallery | 18.03.-08.05.2021


until 08.05. | #2964ARTatBerlin | Bermel von Luxburg Gallery presents from 18th March 2021 the group show with the title GENESIS as an encounter of five artists – a dialogue between three painters and two sculptures. GENISIS will feature new artworks by Roberto Cordone, Djeric-Hunold, Nadège Mouyssinat and Robert Pan. The etymology of the title GENESIS comes from the Greek word “gignesthai” carrying the meaning: “to be born, a beginning or the origin of anything”. The first book of the Old Testament recounts with the Genesis the events from the Creation of the World. Relating the meaning of Genesis to the current state of the world we live in, Bermel von Luxburg Gallery wants to set a sign to reflect the rebirth of cultural and social life. We are all experiencing world-wide social distancing, seclusion, some might even say, a deprivation of joy of life, arts and culture. GENESIS is for BvL the restart of social life, the encounter of people, live experience of arts and culture. You are invited to join the gallery in celebrating the beauty of life. Vernissage: Donnerstag, 18. März, 2021, 18 bis 21 Uhr Ausstellungsdaten: Donnerstag, 18. März bis Samstag, 8. Mai 2021 Image […]
kajetan presents … | Group Show | Galerie kajetan Berlin | 26.02.-17.04.2021


until 17.04. | #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 borderline of non-representationality, on the basis of which forms of dealing with artistic processes of abstraction can be excellently worked out. Starting from the […]
Carina Linge | New Age of Dissent | Jarmuschek + Partner | 01.10.2020–27.02.2021


until 27.02. | #2962ARTatBerlin | Jarmuschek + Partner currently presents the solo show New Age of Dissent with photography by the artist Carina Linge. The exhibition was part of EMOP – European Month of Photography in October 2020 and can be visited online due to the current situation. In naming her latest series ‘New Age of Dissent’, the artist Carina Linge cleverly forges a link with ‘Notes from the New Age of Dissent’, the compilation of blog texts by the British journalist, author, and feminist, Laurie Penny, published in 2011. Penny, a self-declared feminist futurist, writes angry, passionate, and at the same time thoroughly humorous texts about the fears and frustrations that most of the younger generation know only too well. She thus gives a voice to those who can express their silent fears only as a persistent sense of dissatisfaction. The same can be said also of the female artists presented, along with their work, in Linge’s psychogram-like portraits in the form of tableaux. In rendering visible the subjects’ inner emotional worlds, the photographs subtly reveal insights into the phenomena of our time that trouble and drive these artists – sexual identity, exclusion, discrimination, critiques of capitalism, et al. […]
Böhler & Orendt | THE WILD, THE FURLESS AND … | 68 projects | 06.03.-17.04.2021


until 17.04. | #2961ARTatBerlin | 68 projects shows from 6th March 2021 the exhibition THE WILD, THE FURLESS AND THE SPIRIT OF THE B.U.D. with paintings and plastic installations by the artist duos Böhler & Orendt. In the course of their artistic collaboration, Matthias Böhler and Christian Orendt are increasingly concerned with the tragic, comic or absurd political and ecological consequences of mankind’s influence on the fate of its environment. As their distinctive artistic approach to this issue Böhler & Orendt adopted a method that could be dubbed as hybrid media storytelling: Freely using various mixed forms of graphic, digital, sculptural and performative techniques as well as scenographic or model making practices they are creating a more and more complex cosmos of installative narratives that are often intertwined or based on each other. Böhler & Orendt, Imminence (The Sweet Certainty of Deliverance from the Darkness that Surrounds Us), 2021, 133,5 x 92 cm, painted over photo collage on paper The exhibition “The Wild, the Furless and the Spirit of the B.U.D.” circles around a narration about a fictitious supernatural vessel, the “Benevolent Utopization Device” (B.U.D.). The story was originally invented for a large eponymous installation commissioned by the Neues Museum […]
Susanne Roewer + Hubertus Hamm | Make It Your Own Story | Galerie Kornfeld | 06.03.-17.04.2021


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 […]
Plato‘s Cave: Filip Kalkowski | Galerie mutare | 13.02.-05.03.2021


until 05.03. | #2960ARTatBerlin | Galerie mutare shows from 13th February 2021 the exhibition Platons Höhle | Plato‘s Cave | La Caverne de Platon | La Caverna de Platón, a gallery project with several artists of the gallery. The exhibition is subtitled “What we see, what we understand …” and will be shown until July 2021 with changing gallery artists. Currently, “Plato’s Cave” features new paintings by artist Filip Kalkowski and current projections with the artist through the gallery’s shop windows. You choose your ART WORK through the shop windows, you can pick it up at the gallery by appointment or the gallery owner Michaela Schubert will bring the work to your home. If you wish, the gallery team will film or photograph you with your personal WORK in front of PLATONS HÖHLE – at a distance. Ms Schubert will be happy to send you an exposé by e-mail for your perusal if you do not have the opportunity to come to the gallery. Gallery Project January until July 2021 13. 02. – 05. 03. Filip Kalkowski 06.03. – 24.03. Tamim Sibai 09.04. – 27.04. Caro Stark Exhibition projects, video projections, artists live in the gallery, work in progress, performances […]
THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS | Luisa Catucci Gallery | 01.02.-31.03.2021


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 […]
Joachim Lambrechts | Allegro | Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery Berlin | 13.01.-17.02.2021


until 17.02. | #2957ArtatBerlin | Kristin Hjellegjerde Berlin currently presents the solo show Allegro with works by the artist Joachim Lambrechts. A sheriff playing the flute, a DJ lighting a turntable on fire and a cowboy strumming his guitar against a verdant green sky. These playful, eccentric scenes are the painted visions of Belgian artist Joachim Lambrechts whose vibrant, dynamic practice celebrates joy, humour and free creative expression. For his upcoming solo exhibition entitled Allegro at Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Berlin, Lambrechts takes his inspiration from the rhythms and colours of music to create a collection of exuberant and atmospheric artworks that immerse audiences in unbridled imagination. Lambrechts began his career as a street artist, painting murals in cities across Europe. Whilst his practice is now confined to the canvas, his paintings continue to possess a raw, captivating kind of energy that is the result of a free and spontaneous creative process. Lambrechts never makes preliminary sketches or studies, preferring to approach each new canvas without judgement or expectation, in an attempt to capture the urgency of the imagination. As such, the works are often heavily layered with different types of paints, and bear marks of erasure where the artist has […]
Michael Kirch | PERSPECTIVES | aquabitArt Galerie | 01.02.-28.02.2021


until 28.02. | #2956ARTatBerlin | aquabitArt Galerie shows from 1st February 2021 (Opening 4th February) the solo show PERSPECTIVES with sculptures and kinetic installations of the artist Michael Kirch. The exhibition can be seen online and offline. The opening will take place online (see below). aquabitArt gallery is proud to debut the works of Michael Kirch, a mathematician and former Wall Street strategist turned Berlin based artist and entrepreneur. For the past three years, Michael has focussed his energy on creating a series of gem-like sculptures and kinetic installations out of bronze, marble and alabaster in his studio in Berlin-Neukölln. The exhibition combines online and offline elements. aquabitArt gallery, PERSPECTIVES, Michael Kirch, exhibition view “Balancing Act”, the centrepiece of the exhibition, streams live from the gallery, 24×7, for the entire month. Here, a black sphere of 16 cm diameter glides over a 3m long slab of white marble which floats freely in space, suspended by steel wires. The continuously alternating movement, created by an invisible balancing mechanism, invites a meditation on beginnings, transformations and endings. Especially in the pandemic, it is a challenge to maintain or find balance. Viewers can play Balancing Act: Live much like a virtual fireplace on […]
Simone Lucas | The Slow Eye | Galerie Martin Mertens | 23.01.-24.04.2021


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 […]
Eilike Schlenkhoff | ALLES AUF ROT | Rasche Ripken | 05.02.–27.03.2021


until 27.03. | #2955ARTatBerlin | RASCHE RIPKEN shows from 5th February 2021 – first online – the solo show ALLES AUF ROT with works by the artist Eilike Schlenkhoff. A brushstroke, a splash of paint, a drawn gesture – these and other visual elements of abstract painting have induced many artists to undertake intensive explorations. Eilike Schlenkhoff also devotes herself to these kinds of fundamental forms of painting, but she pursues a sort of artistic camouflage that goes hand-in-hand with a surprising reevaluation of the means of creating pictures: taking a palpable pleasure in experimentation, she works on overcoming supposed opposites, as the abstract suddenly becomes a material object, takes on dimension, and alters its state, its meaning. Eilike Schlenkhoff, Wäscheleine, 2020, oil on canvas, 50 x 40 cm In recent years this has led to the development of a complex pictorial cosmos full of ambiguous, surprising sensations. A pdf catalogue is available. Vernissage: Due to the occasion, the opening will take place at a later date. Exhibition dates: Friday, 5 February to Saturday, 27 March 2021, visible on the website of the gallery Exhibition Eilike Schlenkhoff – RASCHE RIPKEN | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art […]
Elisabeth Sonneck + Dittmar Danner aka Krüger | un / framed space | Semjon Contemporary | 30.01.-06.03.2021


until 06.03. | #2954ARTatBerlin | Semjon Contemporary shows from 30th January 2021 the exhibition un / framed space | with works by Elisabeth Sonneck and Dittmar Danner aka Krüger. The exhibition can be seen through the gallery’s large showcase windows and online on the gallery’s website, from 2 February 2021 also as a 3D tour. The gallery spaces are lit daily from 11:00 am to 11:00 pm. Thanks to funding from the federal programme NEUSTART KULTUR, a small catalogue brochure (DIN A5, 32 pages) can be realised. Left: Elisabeth Sonneck, Small scroll painting echo/lux 20–5.2, 2020, 110 x approx. 40 x 20 cm, oil on glassine and paper, photo: Jochen Wehrmann. Right: Dittmar Danner aka Krüger, O.T. (w.i.p.) (detail), 2021, 160 x 120 cm, acrylic on canvas, photo: Astrid Zimmermann Vernissage: Due to the current lockdown, the opening on Friday, 29 January 2021 must unfortunately be cancelled. Exhibition dates: Saturday, 30 January to Saturday, 6 March 2021 Exhibition un / framed space – Semjon Contemporary | Zeitgenössische Kunst – Contemporary Art – Exhibitions Berlin Galleries – ART at Berlin
High on Paper | janinebeangallery | 04.02.-10.04.2021


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 […]
The Female Side of the Moon | Group Show | Galerie Z22 | 23.01.-27.03.2021


until 27.03. | #2952ARTatBerlin | Galerie Z22 presents from 23rd January 2021 the group show THE FEMALE SIDE OF THE MOON. The exhibition features the photographs of forty photographers from twenty-eight countries where the framer and the framed are women. THE FEMALE SIDE OF THE MOON pursues the female gaze. But rather than examining what it is and if such a thing ever exists, it wants to render and foster the multiplicity of the looks of women* towards women*. The bodies photographed turn into the cracks of the earth, they witness the restless geographies they arise from. IRA ROKKA | ENDROPY OF DUALITY #3 | 2013 The work is a part of “Entropy of Duality Series.“ Every contemporary force is interconnected. It causes us to make ambivalent conclusions in every reason. Being an acting person and a judging one at the same time our mind is doomed to be involved into this unstoppable game. Duality of mind in the context of reliance on any objective point of view, a person is yearning and feeling acute loneliness. The faces change, the atmospheres alter, and the exhibition becomes a tiny archive of emotions of different geographies and generations portrayed in different genres. […]
Fritz + Barbara Klemm | Galerie Michael Haas | ab 16.01.2021


until (tba) | #2951ARTatBerlin | Galerie Michael Haas currently presents a double exhibition of works on paper by the artist Fritz Klemm (1902-1990), best known for his collages and pioneering Caparol paintings, together with numerous photographic portraits of Klemm’s companions, captured by his daughter Barbara (*1939). Fritz Klemm, who only became intensely artistically active in his mid-forties, created a distinctiv eoeuvre, which in its increasing reduction, especially with the theme ‘wall’ (the representation of his studio wall), led him to almost abstract ‘painting’.He was already 68 years old when he found his way to those works which made him known to the public. He used paper and paint as a subtle and almost poetic source material for collaged, graphic works. Barbara Klemm, Fritz Klemm, Studio Akademie Karlsruhe, 1966 From the very beginning, drawing was his most important means of artistic expression, with which he portrayed the objects of his immediate surroundings: tables, chairs, bowls, brushes or easels.Barbara Klemm has worked as a photo reporter for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung all her professional life. She has accompanied historical political events in Germany and around the world, taking numerous iconic pictures thanks to her fantastic sense of the right moment and interpersonal […]
#1 Juliana Borinski | one by one | Galerie Pugliese Levi | 20.01.-11.04.2021


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 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 technical abilities. What should only be a receptacle for images, its medium, thus becomes the very material of her work. Juliana Borinski from the series Between Humiliation and Happiness 2013, photograms / ilford perl paper, 65.5 x 55 cm For the series Between Humiliation and Happiness, the artist reworks a sheet of photosensitive paper that has been previously overexposed, then subjects it to various rubbings and folds before exposing it again on a new sheet. Photographic skeleton-like forms against a black background result from this: a typology of image-less photographs. Juliana Borinski looks for errors, lacks and chance. She positions herself deliberately at the […]
Kollektion Kollektiv or … | Group Show | Galerie Eigenheim | 22.01.–27.02.2021


until 27.02. | #2949ARTatBerlin | Galerie Eigenheim shows from 22nd January 2021 the group show Kollektion Kollektiv or: on a night visit to friends with painting, drawing, photography, video, object and installation. For many years, the house artists of EIGENHEIM Weimar/Berlin have formed a close community. Similar to a collective, they develop ideas, discuss new individual artistic tendencies, plan exhibitions, organise excursions and fairs – they think, work, celebrate and laugh together. Especially in times of social distancing or lookdown, such an ideal and institutional community is indispensable. Rao Fu, Nachtbesuch, 195 x 135 cm, Oil on canvas , 2020 (Detail), Banner der Ausstellung Participating artists Gökçen Dilek Acay, Konstantin Bayer, Christoph Blankenburg, Anna Bittersohl, Benedikt Braun, Frederik Foert, Enrico Freitag, Rao Fu, Timo Herbst, Marc Jung, Caucasso Lee Jun, Martin Mohr, Adam Noack, Stefan Schiek, Michal Schmidt, Julia Scorna, Lars Wild, Wang Yuhong. Acay, Eisbär sagte ‚Time Over‘ Stickerei auf selbstgenähter Fahne, 66 x 50,5 cm, 2020 In this exhibition, new works are presented – sketchy one project – far advanced the other. In this exhibition, we are giving rise to a momentary analysis and the opportunity to discuss the situation. In the course of the exhibition, we will […]
Christoph Blankenburg | Slag Hook | Galerie Eigenheim | 22.01.–27.02.2021


until 27.02. | #2948ARTatBerlin | Galerie Eigenheim shows from 22nd January 2021 the exhibition Slag Hook by the artist Christoph Blankenburg as solo show in the Salon of the gallery. Slag is a by-product of steelmaking, naturally similar in texture to volcanic rock. The slag hook, in turn, is the tool with which the metal smelter pulls this by-product out of the blast furnace. In this sense, the title of the exhibition can be understood as a connecting element between nature and man or industry and craft – because this is precisely where Christoph Blankenburg‘s work is to be situated. Christoph Blankenburg, Snipet, Architekturmodel, 2018 Christoph Blankenburg fires enamel panels to color intensive abstract landscape paintings or enamel objects whose forms are borrowed from nature or everyday industrial life, he explores the rural idyll and reclaims it as a stage in his video works, he draws uninhibitedly and powerfully, courageously without any hint of mannerism, he performs physically revealing often in direct dialogue with people or local occurrences, his photographs are experiments with physical laws of light or attentive observations of nature. Christoph Blankenburg, Er war da, Videostandbild, 2020 Blankenburg sees himself as a scientist who takes his legitimation for […]
Bernd Rathjen | Tegel Moments | Köppe Contemporary | 01.12.2020-09.01.2021 – extended until 30.01.2021


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 […]
Chiharu Shiota | I HOPE | König Galerie (Nave) | 12.01.–28.02.2021


until 28.02. | #2946ARTatBerlin | König Galerie (Nave) presents from 12th January 2021 the Solo Show I HOPE with new works by the artist Chiharu Shiota. It is the first solo show of the artist at the gallery. On display is a large-scale installation in the gallery’s Nave. Her spectacular installation in the Giardini at the 56th Venice Biennale has left an indelible mark in our memories as one of the most impressive works at the event. Filling the entire Japan Pavilion, The Key In The Hand was instrumental in the international breakthrough of the Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota, who has been based in Berlin for the last 20 years. On entering the space, there was immediately a strong sense that this was about something quintessential – all too quintessential, in fact – that concerned all of humanity, without exception. Overhead was a handwoven sky of bright red yarn from which hung 180,000 metal keys from all corners of the Earth, floating like stars of life almost close enough to touch. Beneath them, resting on beams like bodies, were two old wooden boats, which, proclaiming the absence of people, had forever fallen out of time. Rising out of the boats, […]
Marking Territory | Group Show | re|space gallery | 02.02.-18.03.2021


until 18.03. | #2945ARTatBerlin | re|space gallery presents from 2nd February 2021 the exhibition Marking Territory, a group show featuring young and established illustrators. The exhibition provides an insight into the breadth of contemporary illustration. With works by the artists: Juliana Toro, Daniel Stolle, Leo Kaplan, Sebastian Kelemer, Aline Schwibbe, Malou Großklaus, Ofra Amit, Yves Haltner, Dayeon Auh, Leonie Behrens, Jiang Ailun, Paula Krause, Olga Bankova, Emily Brockmann, Georgi Senchenko, Karen Exner, Rojo & Kreß, Anna Dokuchaeva, Sina Metzkow, Maxim Kriukov, Leonardo Alessandro Alliata, Alexander Daniloff, Maria Chepisheva, Sophie Lazari. Marking Territory illustration, whether in the form of book illustrations, as a design medium or as a doodle in one’s own notebook. This ubiquity of illustration, however, does not serve to reduce its value, it rather proves the strength of the format as a mode of expression. However, illustration goes beyond its everyday use; in the context of fine art, illustration can outgrow its function as accompanying visual material and assert itself as a stand-alone work. This growth is a significant characteristic of contemporary illustration as it is no longer timid to approach and even cross the boundaries of its genre. Thus, in the introduction to Illusive 4: Contemporary Illustration […]
Aurore Millet | AufBruch | Galerie feinart berlin | 03.12.2020-28.01.2021


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, […]
Ilja Heinig | In Process | Galerie Born Berlin | 12.01.-27.02.2021 extended until 06.03.2021


until 06.03. | #2943ARTatBerlin | Galerie Born Berlin presents from 12 January 2021 on site and virtually the exhibition In Process with new works by artist Ilja Heinig . It took longer than I thought, in any case a whole year, until I agreed with Ilja Heinig on a date for a visit to his country studio in Wehnigen on the Elbe. We had both only loosely agreed on an exhibition date for the beginning of 2021, what we would exhibit was to be decided on site in Wehningen. The last of the 4 – 5 joint exhibitions was a more than three years ago, and I have known his work for more than 30 years. In contemporary art, Ilja Heinig is considered a representative of the “Neue Wilden”. When I first encountered his work, I was a little irritated by this at first. Because the so-called “Neue Wilden” such as Salome, Elvira Bach or Rainer Fetting all painted figuratively. Ilja Heinig – Papagena, Acryl auf Leinen, 2008, 30 x 40 cm Heinig, on the other hand, painted and paints abstractly. Always with a grand gesture, sometimes the canvases seem reminiscent of action painting. The impression is given that someone is […]
Paris Giachoustidis | Urlaub in Deutschland | 68 projects | 16.01.-27.02.2021


until 27.02. | #2942ARTatBerlin | 68 projects presents from 16th January 2021 the solo show Urlaub in Deutschland (> Holidays in Germany) with paintings by the Greek artist Paris Giachoustidis. The pictures of digital mass media form the basis of Paris Giachoustidis’ paintings. Who authored them, who has the prerogative of interpretation and how does this influence the image of a person, an entity, a (sub)culture?¹ The artist’s work revolves around such questions of image production, reception and their effects. Depending on the thematic orientation of the found material, he discovers new, adequate forms of painterly appropriation and alienation. For this solo exhibition he has created a series entitled Urlaub in Deutschland (Vacation in Germany). Using photographic images from postcards, he realistically renders holiday scenes in bright acrylic colours on paper. In addition to small groups of happy-seeming people, recurring motifs are camper vans, bathing water, lush green meadows, carefully trimmed hedges and bright blue skies. Idyllic moments are captured: a couple flirting in the pool, drinks with a view of the water, (sun)bathing in a lake surrounded by mountains. But unlike on the postcards, these scenes are interrupted: suddenly a fire, which seems to have gone unnoticed, appears in […]
David Meskhi | All Saints | Galerie Kornfeld | 16.01.-27.02.2021


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 […]
Online: ARE YOU FOR REAL | ifa-Galerie Berlin | since 08.12.2020


until (to be announced) | #2940ARTatBerlin | ifa-Galerie currently shows the Online Exhibition ARE YOU FOR REAL, a web-based project for interactive artistic practices to promote international cultural exchange. Imagine you are standing in the micro-studio of a street artist in Luanda, and the next moment you find yourself behind a guy picking up money from a Western Union Counter in Nairobi. Suddenly you are on a stage with a young spoken word poet in Berlin and see people in the audience sharing images of this moment on Instagram. You step out of that Berlin bar into a gallery space in Lagos and from there move into the abstract digital universe created by an art collective in Jakarta. ARE YOU FOR REAL is a new, participatory web-based project, testing unique and interactive artistic practices. It brings together artists, researchers, filmmakers, writers and coders to create exclusive works, each offering an understanding of and approach towards the concept of “reality”. Initiated by ifa and curated by Julia Grosse, Paula Nascimento and Yvette Mutumba, ARE YOU FOR REAL launches in December with newly commissioned participative and interactive digital works by artists Nushin Yazdani & Can Karaalioglu and Nolan Oswald Dennis via an […]
SMALL WONDERS | Group Show | Galerie Gilla Lörcher | 12.12.2020–22.01.2021 – extended until 14.02.2021


until 14.02. | #2939ARTatBerlin | Galerie Gilla Lörcher shows from 12th December 2020 the group show SMALL WONDERS with works by artists of the gallery. With this exhibition, the gallery says goodbye to the pandemic year 2020 and directs the focus to everything that art has to offer: inspiration, joy, stimulation, pausing, expanding awareness, a fresh look at what is supposedly known, sharpening the ability to reflect, comfort, encounter with oneself yourself, encouragement, concentration, calm, being able to draw strength, desire to dream, moments of happiness, inner peace, amusement, irony, joke, oh … and so many little miracles. Installation view SMALL WONDERS at Galerie Gilla Loercher, Photo: CHROMA. 2021 With works by: John Cornu, Simone Strasser, Claudia Desgranges, Ivana Klickovic, Jürgen Jaehnert, Ivan Liovik Ebel, Claudia Zweifel, Michel Castaignet, Ab van Hanegem, Rosemary Lee, Iris Musolf, Gonzalo Reyes Araos, Francisco Rozas, Ute Schendel, Vincent Rischer, Tom Früchtl, Nikolaus Schneider and Manuel Salvat. Upcoming exhibitions 2021: February – April Ab van Hanegem April – July Francisco Rozas September – October Claudia Zweifel Vernissage: Saturday, 12 December 2020, noon – 8 p.m. Exhibition dates: Saturday, 12 December 2020 – Friday, 22 January 2021, Thu – Sat 3:00 – 6:00 p.m. – ATTENTION: extended […]
Anna Kubelík + Matthew Hawtin | insights unheard of … | drj art projects | December 2020 – March 2021


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 […]
Dave Grossmann | SEMI COLLAPSE | Semjon Contemporary | 12.12.2020-23.01.2021


until 23.01. | #2937ARTatBerlin | Semjon Contemporary presents from 12th December 2020 the exhibition SEMI COLLAPSE with works by the artist Dave Grossmann and an accrochage. Dance of the shavings – The order of things Thoughts on the exhibition SEMI COLLAPSE by Dave Grossmann Chaos is a fertile breeding ground for the emergence of new things. Most people, however, are suspicious of it because it threatens their own habits, a self-created set of rules. But chaos is not just chaos: it always requires the point of view of the observer, but above all openness and curiosity. Because chaos carries within itself the forces for new orders and is also – freely described – a universe of undeciphered order(s). Applied mathematics and mathematical physics approach exactly this fact – and have not yet reached an all-encompassing formula for understanding. When Dave Grossmann, born in 1989, deals intensively with the material of the OSB board, which has so far not been particularly conspicuous in art, one of the reasons for this is that chaos and order are apparently very close together here, a fact that fascinates him as a curious artist. Apart from the beauty of wood as a material with its […]
Olaf Metzel | Berlin Childhood | WENTRUP | 12.12.2020–23.01.2021


until 23.01. | #2936ARTatBerlin | WENTRUP shows from 12th December 2020 the Solo Show “Berlin Childhood” with works by the artist Olaf Metzel. At the end of 2019, I bought the two-volume scholarly edition of Walter Benjamin’s Berliner Chronik/Berliner Kindheit um 1900 [Berlin Chronicle/Berlin Childhood around 1900]. I had remembered it as a small volume and was surprised by the background to its genesis. Originally written in 1930, Benjamin kept revising the various Pieces, as he himself called them, during the years of exile. Therefore, different versions exist, partly because—despite intensive efforts by friends like Theodor W. Adorno—Benjamin never found a publisher. Of course, while reading I was reminded of my own Berlin childhood. This was around the 1960s, but in Walter Benjamin there are certain descriptions that were quite familiar to me. The pantry, the special small of baked apples, the noisy atmosphere of the beer halls. These things had not changed all that much. A different thing, however, were the ruins of destroyed houses in between the new buildings, which seemed like alien objects. They had a different, inexplicable presence and attraction. Nonetheless, “kaputt” was the suitable term, even though a lot of construction went on. Maybe that’s […]
Every Jack has his Jill | Group Show | Michaela Helfrich Galerie | 12.12.2020–06.01.2021


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
Zora Mann + Vivien Cahusac de Caux | Stringfigures and Watercolours | ChertLüdde | 06.12.2020-16.01.2021


until 16.01. | #2934ARTatBerlin | ChertLüdde currently shows at the showroom the exhibition Stringfigures and Watercolours by the artists Zora Mann and Vivien Cahusac de Caux. The exhibition String Figures and Watercolours places Zora Mann’s watercolours next to two paintings by her mother Vivien Cahusac de Caux. Vivien Cahusac de Caux, born in 1955 in Kampala, Uganda, has painted for most of her life. After a nomadic life, during which she lived for 25 years between Uganda and Kenya, she moved to Germany in 1988. Her rich pictorial expression moves through different styles and themes in a fertile oeuvre and shows a great sensitivity for her surroundings and resources as an autodidact. In the series Dreamscapes Scenarios, to which the four works in the exhibition belong, fantastic scenes depict life and natural forces. Bright, intense colours contribute to her oneiric constructions. Unlike many of her other works, which look at different geographical locations, each with its own cultural characteristics, Dreamscapes Scenarios is abstract and introspective. Zora Star Cahusac Mann was born in 1979 in Amersham, Great Britain. She spent her childhood between Europe, Africa and America. She completed her art studies at the Villa Arson in Nice. Zora Mann, Untitled, 2016, Watercolor […]
H2O | Gruppenausstellung | GALERIE SCHMALFUSS BERLIN | 05.12.2020-09.01.2021


until 09.01. | #2933ARTatBerlin | GALERIE SCHMALFUSS BERLIN shows from 5th December 2020 the group show H2O with 15 individual positions on the topic water and its different appearances. The selection shows realistic, romantic and naturalistic works, up to impressionistic, abstract and experimental positions. In the wide historical rooms of the gallery, these positions are particularly well represented. Water consists of oxygen and hydrogen, it is a chemical compound. Two thirds of the earth’s surface are covered by water. Water occurs in three forms: as water vapour, as liquid water and as solid water (ice). We experience liquid water as rain, in rivers and streams, in lakes and seas. JAN PETER TRIPP, Der Tag an dem W.G. Sebald mit Iwan Konstantinowitsch den Ärmelkanal überquerte, 2020, Acrylic on wood, 60 x 80 cm The solid water in the Arctic and in changing seasons on the continents. The exhibition H2O – alles im Fluss, the SCHMALFUSS Berlin – contemporary fine arts, tells of these water phenomena and movements. Fifteen artists share their views, experiences and sensations with this chemical compound. In their various representations we experience the visible water; the subterranean water remains hidden. Water is life, is movement. But water can […]
Isa Melsheimer | false ruins and lost innocence | Esther Schipper | 06.12.2020-16.01.2021


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, […]
And guess what? 2020! | An artistic ceremony | Luisa Catucci Gallery | 05.12.-23.12.2020 – extended until 26.02.2021


extended until 26.02. | #2931ARTatBerlin | Luisa Catucci Gallery presents from 5th December 2020 the exhibition “And guess what? 2020!”, an artistic ceremony with works by artists of the gallery. Participating artists: Aqua Aura / Andrea Mariconti / Antti Pussinen / David Hochbaum / Edoardo Romagnoli / Enrico Pietracci / Florian Rexroth / Francesca Belgiojoso / Ilona Kowalschek / Irene Cruz / Kenneth Blom / Maike Freess / Nini Peony / Rowan Corkill / William Grob “To celebrate the end of a very peculiar, challenging year we, at Luisa Catucci Gallery, decided to put together a group show with our artists, focusing on gorgeous and meaningful small-sized artworks, lithographs, limited editions, wearable art, as a sort of artistic ceremony to dispel the harsh vibes of this 2020. Since the start of the pandemic we all experienced some degrees of setbacks – spiritual and/or economic – even art lovers! And now we are all feeling the urge to end this year with an auspicious, enjoyable, affordable, and artistic action, in the hope that 2021 will vibrate on favorable energies for everybody. In particular for our precious artists. Therefore, join us! We need YOU to be a co-player in this “exorcising” 2020 […]
Christian Tagliavini | CIRCESQUE | CAMERA WORK | 05.12.2020-20.02.2021


until 20.02. | #2930ARTatBerlin | CAMERA WORK presents from 5th December 2020 the exhibition “CIRCESQUE” with new photographs by the photo artist Christian Tagliavini. As a world premiere, the exhibition shows Christian Tagliavini’s latest art series, on which he worked for over three years. The cycle “Circesque”, which comprises more than 20 portraits, is the artist’s most elaborate series to date. The exhibition will also feature original objects and clothes, making the show a unique visual experience. Christian Tagliavini, Colpo di rullante, 2019, CW113172 Christian Tagliavini was inspired for the series “Circesque” by the famous Circus Sideshows in the USA in the 1920s. As part of American entertainment culture, special characters – often called “human freaks” – showed their special skills and unique personality in sideshows. For his own narrative “Circesque” Christian Tagliavini created fictional characters in several years of work, who are protagonists of his interpretation of a fantastic sideshow. The more than 20 sublime and mysterious portraits show charming characters beyond imagination from Tagliavini’s world of thought and fantasy. Each person in his photo-artistic cabinet – from the tightrope walker to the tamer to the burlesque dancer – is introduced with a scenic presentation as well as classical […]
ONLINE: Hito Steyerl | Virtual Leonardo’s Submarine | Esther Schipper | 27.11.2020-09.01.2021


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 […]
Barbara Burck | Spiegelungen | Galerie mutare | 05.12.2020-09.01.2021 – extended until 21.01.2021


until 21.01. | #2928ARTatBerlin | Galerie mutare presents from 5th December 2020 the exhibition SPIEGELUNGEN (> Reflections) with paintings by the artist Barbara Burck. Barbara Burck, born in Berlin in 1960, grew up near Rostock and studied painting and graphic arts at the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig. From 1985-86 she was a master student of Prof. Bernhard Heisig. Since 1987 she has worked as a freelance artist in Leipzig. Her work has been shown in numerous national and international solo and group exhibitions. Vernissage: not applicable due to the current situation Exhibition dates: Saturday, 5 December – Saturday, 9 December 2020 – extended until Thursday, 21st January 2021 Opening hours December to January: Wed – Fri 1:00 – 6:00 pm, Sat 11:00 am – 3:00 pm Image caption: Barbara Burck, In der Glashalle, 2020, Öl_Leinwand, 150 x 230 cm Exhibition Barbara Burck – Galerie Mutare | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin
Paradise | Works by and around Michael Buthe | KLEINERVONWIESE | 27.11.-31.12.2020 – extended until 28.02.2021


extended until 28.02. | #2927ARTatBerlin | KLEINERVONWIESE shows from 27th November 2020 at enter art airshop opas Nr 1 the group show Paradise with works by and around Michael Buthe. Participating artists: Michael Buthe, Nasser Almulhim, Andreas Blank, Klaus vom Bruch, David Krippendorff, Stefan Kürten, Marcel Odenbach, Manfred Peckl, Angelika Platen, Stephan Rinck, Ulrike Rosenbach, Maik Schierloh, Pola Sieverding, Kerstin Serz, Barthélémy Toguo, Ricardo Peredo Wende, Abbas Yousif Co-gallery owner Stephan von Wiese, former museum curator in Düsseldorf, designed the 1977 solo exhibition “Homage to a Prince from Samarkant” in the Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf with works by Michael Buthe. In 1999 he organised a retrospective of his work there. In 1983 his book: Michael Buthe. Skulptura in Deo Fabulosa” was published by Silke Schreiber. In Buthe’s work, conventions are consistently broken, the spontaneous attitude to life flows directly into the works. The very near and the very different are reflected, happiness and sorrow are captured unbroken and authentically. Through the many cords and cloths in Butte’s work, these magical moments seem to be tied up. The art becomes a great voyage of discovery, the work is a mythical space. Michael Buthe, sometimes ennobled to “Michel de la Sainte Beauté”, was one […]
Marc Nagtzaam | Various, Elsewhere, Ongoing | Galerie kajetan Berlin | 05.12.2020-13.02.2021


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 […]
František Kyncl | 13 | Galerie aKonzept | 25.11.-12.12.2020


until 12.12. | #2925ARTatBerlin | Galerie aKonzept and Raphael Lévy show from 25th November 2020 the solo exhibition “13” with the artist František Kyncl. 13 corresponds to the number of works by František Kyncl that will be shown in the gallery aKonzept. The oldest of these works dates from 1965, when František Kyncl, born in the Czech Republic in 1934, was still in Prague. 1966 the artist had the opportunity to spend a short time in Austria and Italy, where he had an important encounter with the work of Lucio Fontana. In 1969 a Czechoslovakian court found him guilty of having fled the republic and sentenced him to prison in absentia. Kyncl left Austria and fled to West Germany, living first in Essen and later in Düsseldorf, where he lived until his death on 14 July 2011. To the exhibition catalogue Exhibition period: Wednesday, 25. November – Saturday, 12th December 2020 Image caption: František Kyncl, Ohne Titel, 1969, Tusche auf Papier, rückseitig signiert und datiert, 30,5 x 30, 5 cm Exhibition Frantisek Kyncl – Galerie aKonzept + Raphael Lévy | Zeitgenössische Kunst | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin
Marte Eknæs | ! | EFREMIDIS GALLERY | 28.11.2020-30.01.2021


until 30.01. | #2924ARTatBerlin | EFREMIDIS GALLERY presents from 28th November 2020 the exhibition ! with works by the artist Marte Eknæs. At [erp], the project space of the gallery, works by Gerry Bibby, Marte Eknæs and Emanuel Rossetti will be on show. The exhibition ! centers around a series of bollards alongside maintenance tools, insulation materials and inflatables. Erected throughout the city, the uniform short posts act as a stoppage: to limit traffic or obstruct passage. Marte Eknæs’ motley ensemble of bollards draws attention to their individual make-ups. Marte Eknæs manipulates her materials to different degrees. Over time, she assembles different elements as much as she takes them apart. In the process, the material picks up information, the works become adaptable and take on many roles: activator, connector, occupant, vessel, communicator, body and material. The installation is in itself a system; the system is more than a collection of objects. Like a pulled tooth, a displaced element refers to its place of origin and utility; there is a strong whiff of its intended purpose. The object’s past life is evident in marks and traces. But while it retains its original meaning, it lacks the context to realize its function. Marte Eknæs […]
Talking Stones and Mysterious Plates | Group Show | Galerie Kremers | 20.11.2020–23.01.2021


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 […]
Ornella Fieres | I consider it a tragedy that … | Sexauer Gallery | 02.12.2020-20.01.2021


until 20.01. | #2921ARTatBerlin | Sexauer Gallery shows from 2nd December 2020 the exhibition “I consider it a tragedy that we have not found each other!”, an artistic reanimation from the spirit of AI by the artist Ornella Fieres. In her third exhibition at SEXAUER, Ornella Fieres transforms a bundle of letters, postcards and photographs into works of art with the help of artificial intelligence (AI): text-based video works, ready-made text objects, and AI-generated images of plants. In 2016, Fieres acquired a box containing about seven hundred letters from the 1960s and 70s from the former GDR that had been left behind. The letters, including postcards and photographs, were addressed to a woman in East Berlin who lived only a few hundred meters away from the SEXAUER gallery. Among the letters were also a few that she had written herself. The exhibition is divided into three groups of works. For the first, Fieres had the handwritten texts transcribed in print by an artificial intelligence based on a neural network. In this way, she made the texts accessible in terms of content with handwriting that was sometimes difficult to read. Some of the letters, more than half a century old, were […]
Damien Daufresne | Galerie Georg Nothelfer – Showroom | 07.11.-12.12.2020


until 12.12. | #2923ARTatBerlin | The Showroom of the galerie georg nothelfer is currently showing an exhibition with paintings and works on paper by the artist Damien Daufresne, a selection of the artist’s works in drawing. Damien Daufresne (*1979 in Paris) studied photography, drawing and free graphic arts at the École Boulle in Paris, at the School of Visual Arts in News York and at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts-Décorat in Paris. He participated in numerous exhibitions at home and abroad. His last solo exhibition took place in 2020 at the Contemporary Art Center Chapelle Saint Jacques – Saint Gaudens / France under the title “Lunar Eclipse”. Damien Daufresne lives and works in Berlin. Exhibition dates: Saturday, 7 November to Saturday, 12 December 2020 Image caption: OT, 2020, Kohle/Kreide/Pigment/Papier kaschiert auf Leinwand, 100 x 150 cm Exhibition Damien Daufresne – galerie georg nothelfer | Zeitgenössische Kunst Berlin Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin
A Future Without a Past | Gruppenausstellung | Migrant Bird Space | 10.11.2020-15.01.2021


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 […]
Ghada Amer | The women I know | Kewenig Berlin | 21.11.2020-23.01.2021


until 23.01. | #2919ARTatBerlin | Kewenig Berlin presents from 21st November 2020 the exhibition The women I know with works by the artist Ghada Amer, her second exhibition at the gallery. Titled ‘The women I know’, the show focuses on a new body of works consisting of four moving portraits of female friends in Amer’s signature embroidered painting style, along with a dramatic self-portrait in black and white. The exhibition also gathers a constellation of ceramics in an attempt to survey the artist’s most recent sculptural works. Painting is at the core of Amer’s creative process. When studying for her MFA she could not attend painting classes because the teacher only accepted male students. Hence painting became an act of rebellion against cultural output that was dominated by men – it was a sign of revolt. She had to find another way to paint, to create a pictorial language of her own in order to address and resist the systemic obliteration of females from art history. A craft traditionally associated with women, needlework is Amer’s starting point in developing an oeuvre that questions gender power structures whilst embodying the slow and laborious process of building one’s identity – through the […]
Frank Massholder + Danielle Benvenuto | Galerie Z22 @Project Space Kimgo | 21.11.-12.12.2020


until 12.12. | #2918ARTatBerlin | Galerie Z22 presents from 21st November 2020 at Project Space Kimgo the exhibition “From Chaos to Order | Floorways to Art … touched by Danielle Benvenuto ” with works by the artists Frank Massholder and Danielle Benvenuto. Frank Massholder and Danielle Benvenuto join forces bringing their first duo exhibition to Berlin titled “From Chaos to Order”. Massholder presents his “Floorways to Art” project, one he conceived many years ago after following an impulse to photograph a spilled glass of wine lying on the floor. Afterwards he began photographing the random designs created by splashes of paint he saw on the floors of artists from all over the world. Benvenuto presents her circle paintings, a unique art form she developed in conjunction with her hallmark soul portrait paintings. In these works influenced by her prior career as a psychologist & energy healer, she uses colors, the geometry of circles & movement to express the unseen world of energy. Massholder & Benvenuto recently merged their signature art forms to create a third world where circles meet the random designs of paint splashes. One can see in this joint creation both chaos and form as they move in […]
Cindy Sherman | Sprüth Magers Berlin | 20.11.2020-13.02.2021


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
Albrecht Schnider | Recent Paintings | Galerie Thomas Schulte | 14.11.-23.12.2020


until 23.12.| #2916ARTatBerlin | Galerie Thomas Schulte shows from 14th November 2020 an exhibition with recent paintings by the artist Albrecht Schnider. Albrecht Schnider’s sixth solo exhibition with Galerie Thomas Schulte presents large-scale sprayed acrylic lacquer paintings alongside a selection of new works on raw canvas—contrasting textured and smooth surfaces and materializing shifts in the figure-ground relationship. In the interplay between images, what comes to the fore is the scope of constructive possibilities in Schnider’s work, emerging in parallel to the constancy of his distinctive visual language. Through processes of both intuition and analysis, Schnider constructs constellations of color fields that materialize images in a state of continual becoming. Forms and planes hover before our eyes, before the surface of the canvas, occupying a space entirely their own. Albrecht Schnider, Untitled 2020 Despite the clearly articulated edges of planes and the purposefulness of lines, to say Schnider produces his paintings with precision may be a strong understatement—if not entirely reductive. As the artist himself explains: “It’s not about realizing a thought or realizing a precise form you carry within yourself… It’s really just about being open-minded, being willing to say ‘yes’ when a form emerges.”[1] Schnider’s creative process typically begins with […]
Elina Liepina | NEW BAUHAUS WOMAN | Bermel von Luxburg Gallery | 03.12.2020-13.02.2021


until 13.02. | #2915ARTatBerlin | Bermel von Luxburg Gallery shows from 3rd December 2020 the solo show NEW BAUHAUS WOMAN with photographs by the artist Elina Liepina in dialogue with the world’ first presentation of Barcelona Pavilion objects by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, curated by PC Neumann. The exhibition NEW BAUHAUS WOMAN will present the first solo show of the artist ELINA LIEPINA. Her photographs will be in dialogue with unique design objects from the Barcelona Pavilion of 1929 by Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe. This exhibition is curated by the film producer and art collector PC NEUMANN. It is the dedication to the cool minimalism of Bauhaus furniture and an homage to the anonymous women of the Bauhaus. NEW BAUHAUS WOMAN There is hardly any other photograph that captures the spirit of the Bauhaus better than this mysterious photograph by Erich Consemüller from 1926. There is no doubt that the depiction has something magical, almost a subtle erotic effect. The depiction of the Marcel Breuer armchair that forms the basis of the photograph as if carried on air, the mysterious stranger wearing a mask of Oscar Schlemmer in a surrealistic manner, the skirt hem that ends freely above […]
Ian Kiaer | Endnote, yellow | Galerie Barbara Wien | 14.11.2020-06.02.2021


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
Freedom & Independence | Group Show | EBENSPERGER BERLIN | from 14.11.2020


until (to be announced) | #2913ARTatBerlin | EBENSPERGER BERLIN presents from 14th November 2020 in two locations the 24/7-exhibition Freedom & Independence. The exhibitions can be visited by arrangement. The exhibition “Freedom & Independence” borrows its name from Bjørn Melhus’ eponymous film Freedom & Independence from 2014. It will use its title as both, a motto and a theme, while understanding ‘freedom’ and ‘independence’ as value and virtue. Being an ever evolving show works will be added to the exhibition over the course of its yet indefinite duration. It is conceived with Mehlus’ film at its core: This experimental short questions the current global ideological paradigm shifts towards new forms of religious capitalism by confronting ideas and quotes of the self-proclaimed objectivist philosopher and novelist Ayn Rand with evangelical contents of US-American mainstream movies. Artists: John Bock, Jörg Buttgereit, Bonnie Camplin, Christeene, Lea Draeger, Tim Etchells, Heiner Franzen, Assaf Gruber, Yuki Jungesblut, Sandro Kopp, Bjørn Melhus, Otto Muehl, Hajnal Németh, Bruno Schleinstein et al. © Bjørn Melhus, Randi I, 2013 (detail of a protagonist from the artist’s film Freedom & Independence) The exhibition will examine themes implied by the film and draw variations from other artists’ contributions. They will be juxtaposed with Freedom & Independence in and at its centre. The works will […]
TEGEL: FLIGHTS OF FANCY | Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz | from 31.10.2020


online | #2912ARTatBerlin | The Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz has been showing the online exhibition TEGEL: FLIGHTS OF FANCY since 31 October 2020, a video programme as feedback on the closure of Berlin’s Tegel Airport. The project was organised in 2011 by Jaspar Joseph-Lester, Susanne Prinz and Julie Westerman and builds on a series of events, exhibitions and publications that have been realised through crosscultural collaboration between artists based in the UK and Germany. It was screened on the eve of Tegel’s originally planned closure on 02.06.2012 at Kino Babylon. Despite the current suspension of practically all privat air travel the closure of Tegel airport marks an important change in the way air travel is organised and experienced. The design of this airport is of a time when flight was associated with glamour, fantasy, technological progress, romantic chance encounters and fictional disasters. The building consists of a large concrete hexagonal structure circumnavigated by a corridor, punctuated with brightly coloured check-in desks. Viewing platforms and executive lounges populate the circumference of the building, inviting the traveller to enjoy a navigable thoroughfare instead of the shed-like enclosure with limited seating. There are commissioned art works, restaurants and bars, cafés and shops. The décor […]
Astrid Köppe | Galerie Inga Kondeyne – Raum für Zeichnung | 14.11.2020-02.01.2021


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 […]
Thomas Jessen | TAGUNDNACHTGLEICHE | GALERIE SCHMALFUSS BERLIN | 03.10.-28.11.2020


until 28.11. | #2910ARTatBerlin | GALERIE SCHMALFUSS BERLIN presents since 3rd October 2020 the exhibition TAGUNDNACHTGLEICHE with new works of the German portrait and landscape painter Thomas Jessen. Born in Lübbecke, Germany, in 1958, Thomas Jessen has long been one of the most renowned German painters. From 1980 to 1986 he studied at the art academy in Düsseldorf. There he was a student of Gerhard Richter and then a master student of Alfonso Hüppi. A scholarship from the state of NRW brought him to the Cité des Arts in Paris in 1986. Thomas Jessen, Morgen, 2017, Öl auf Leinwand, 125 x 90 cm Thomas Jessen, Susan, 2020, Öl auf Leinwand, 160 x 120 cm Thomas Jessen is a gifted portraitist and a sensitive flower and landscape painter. The stained glass paintings in various sacred spaces connect him once again with Gerhard Richter. Photography holds him under its spell and he links this with painting, bringing both together in one work, and the viewer has the task of recognizing the respective origin. His painting in the most magnificent colors embodies pure life for him and therefore usually triumphs over photography. Thomas Jessen, Waldlicht, 2020, Oil on Canvas, 200 x 130 cm […]
Sonja Halbfass | Galerie ART CRU Berlin | 24.11.2020–21.01.2021


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 […]
Gary Kuehn | Leave No Stone Unturned | Galerie Michael Haas | 07.11.-19.12.2020


until 19.12. | #2908ARTatBerlin | Galerie Michael Haas presents from 7th November 2020 the solo show Leave No Stone Unturned by the artist Gary Kuehn with works from the 60s until today. In Gary Kuehn: Leave No Stone Unturned, Galerie Michael Haas shows paintings, sculptures and drawings by the American artist Gary Kuehn (*1939). The exhibition comprises works from six decades. Gary Kuehn is one of the most famous artists in the USA, but he has also been exhibited continuously in Germany since the late 1960s. His extensive oeuvre includes sculptures, paintings, collages and drawings. Kuehn is not interested in illustrating purely structured and methodical work in his art. Rather, he constantly reacts anew to social contexts in relation to his own state of mind. This combination of emotional subjectivity and the perception of facts of an objective reality is the basis for his works. With an enormous sense for materiality and a craftsmanlike knowledge of its properties, Kuehn works with wood, metal, plaster, polyester, plexiglass, aluminium and steel. Kuehn is best known for his sculptures from the 1960s, which at first glance seem like classics of Minimal Art. At second glance, however, their playful, personal and often contradictory nature […]
Frederik Foert | AND WHAT IF I DON`T? | Galerie Eigenheim | 07.11.–19.12.2020 – extended until 17.01.2021


extended until 17.01. | #2907ARTatBerlin | Galerie Eigenheim presents from 7th November 2020 the Solo Show AND WHAT IF I DON`T? by the artist Frederik Foert. In the exhibition and what if I don’t Frederik Foert shows new photographs, installations, collages, films and objects. Building on quotes from the history of art and culture, he develops his own profound and humorous references, which inspire reflection and contemplation. The title and what if I don’t is similar to an open narrative and deals with Foert’s mysterious and hidden messages. For often he does not make it easy for us, often he denies us a clear and one-dimensional access and thus stimulates our fantasy. In his kinetic constructions he detaches the objects he uses from their everyday order and functional contexts and puts them into new relationships, in his objects composed of ready-mades he brings to light both individual and collective memories, his photographs show curious everyday states and the collages refer to high and pop culture – the ingenuity and inventiveness of Frederik Foert develops a great narrative potential in the viewer as he leaves room for his own readability. In this way Foert’s art becomes a playful walk through one’s […]
Kristina Schuldt | Sans Souci | Galerie EIGEN + ART Berlin | 05.11.-12.12.2020


until 12.12. | #2906ARTatBerlin | Galerie EIGEN + ART Berlin shows from 5th November 2020 the exhibition Sans Souci with paintings by the artist Kristina Schuldt. Kristina Schuldt’s artworks are large-format, colorful, dynamic, and powerful. As in a picture puzzle, seeming contradictions are brought together: figures find themselves equally fighting and playing, dominating or being dominated, and having male as well as female traits. Models from art history collide with the motifs and aesthetics of the digital world. In Schuldt’s paintings, human experiences and feeling are given a form in which conflicts are waged that metaphorically go far beyond them. Introductory words to an interview with Kristina Schuldt, conducted by Annekathrin Kohout, translated by Mitch Cohen Please keep in mind the minimum distance of 1,5 meters and don’t forget your face mask. Opening: Thursday, 5 November 2020, 11:00 to 20:00 hrs, please keep a minimum distance of 1.5 metres and wear your mouth-nose cover. Exhibition dates: Thursday, 5 November – Saturday, 12 December 2020, Tue – Fri 11 am – 2 pm, Sat 11 am – 6 pm Image caption: Kristina Schuldt, Foto Thomas Krüger Exhibition Kristina Schuldt – Galerie EIGEN + ART | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary […]
From Brass to Ziegler | Artists of the Forgotten Generation | Salongalerie Die Möwe | 14.11.2020-13.02.2021


until 13.02. | #2905ARTatBerlin | Salongalerie Die Möwe shows from 14th November 2020 the exhibition “From Brass to Ziegler” with works by artists from the Forgotten Generation. The new exhibition “From Brass to Ziegler” in the Salongalerie Die Möwe (The Seagull) broadens the view to an entire generation, which has been at the centre of the gallery’s work since the founding of the “Möwe”: artists whose work has long been unjustly forgotten. The paintings, watercolours, drawings and sculptures from the first half of the 20th century not only captivate through their individual mastery, but also demonstrate in their diversity the creative contribution with which these artists enriched the various art movements in Germany. Hans Thiemann | Der Gabentisch | 1944 | Öl Many of them belonged to groups that had been searching for a new form of artistic expression since 1900; they were members of the Novembergruppe, founded in 1919, studied at the avant-garde Bauhaus or exhibited in Herwarth Walden’s legendary Sturm-Galerie. The National Socialists defamed their art as “degenerate” and removed it from museums and galleries. Some artists left Germany, others went into internal emigration, the war destroyed studios and livelihoods. Lotte Laserstein | Frau mit spitzem Hut | […]
Iris Musolf | Bockspringen | Galerie Gilla Lörcher | 07.11.–11.12.2020


until 11.12. | #2904ARTatBerlin | Galerie Gilla Lörcher presents from 7th November 2020 the solo show Bockspringen (> leapfrog) with sculptures and collages by the artist Iris Musolf. In the exhibition the artist shows her recently created sculptures which appear quite harmless as well as some Pop inspired collages. Iris Musolf, already well known for questioning the structures of our supposedly free and transparent society, also puts her finger in the wound in “leapfrog”: “Which human developments and symptoms can be read on the surface of things : the shape, material, quality and quantity of available consumer goods? What abysses, for example, are hidden behind an air-filled cover of a toy? ”Iris Musolf lets us freeze to death on closer inspection. Iris Musolf about her work: “Sex sells. That is the justification for everything. Every industry is a sex industry, ”as Laurie Penny put it. My obsession is with banal advertising and disposable items that tell of a world in which optimized surfaces, superficial fun, non-binding sex and colorful pictures set the tone. I am looking for material that can be a form for a gloomy premonition, the symptom of which is the physicality of man. I watch it become […]
Tino Geiß | Paintings and Collages | Galerie Brockstedt | 13.11.2020-31.01.2021 – extended until 27.02.2021


until 27.02. | #2903ARTatBerlin | Galerie Brockstedt presents from 13th November 2020 an exhibition with paintings and collages by the artist Tino Geiß. “Tino Geiß, born in Jena in 1978, is one of the youngest to have completed his thorough study of painting at the Leipzig Academy of Visual Arts under the well-known teachers Arno Rink and Neo Rauch and to have carried on an academic ethos. As a student, Geiss spent time at Casa Baldi in Olevano, in Rome at the Bibliotheca Hertziana and Villa Medici, at Sir Soane’s House in London, Cairo and Bangkok, but never stopped working in a limited iconographic field. Tino Geiß, Laube, 2018, 68 x 45 cm, Adhesive tape collage Tino Geiß, Großes Studio, 2019, 260 x 170 cm, Acrylic on Canvas The oeuvre consists largely of interiors and floral still lifes, following the typology of 17th century Dutch painting. By concentrating on historically sanctioned themes, Tino Geiß increases his focus on painting; as a painter of the 21st century, he sets himself the task of finding a new visual language within the set of rules of historical compositions”. Wolfgang Becker, 2017 Tino Geiß, Blauer Salon, 2020, 120 x 85 cm, Acrylic on Canvas Tino […]
Angela Dwyer | Solid Shapes | Galerie Born Berlin | 05.11.2020-09.01.2021


until 09.01. | #2902ARTatBerlin | Galerie Born Berlin shows from 5th November 2020 the exhibition Solid Shapes with new works by the artist Angela Dwyer. The five different platonic bodies (solid shapes) must each fulfil three laws: 1. the body must fit into a sphere This means that all corners or edges touch the inside of a sphere. 2. all surfaces or polygons of the body must be the same (e.g. triangles or squares or pentagons or hexagons etc.). 3. all edge lengths of the body must be equal. In my new works I examine forms which we think we already know and which we take for granted. I started with triangles with different angles, then diamond shapes, up to hexagrams and tilted cubes, manifest three-dimensional forms. Angela Dwyer – As It Was, 2020, Öl auf Leinwand, 80 x 100 cm While in my previous work I was looking for an abstract way to make visible the conflicts between man and nature, settlement and desert, – like earthquakes or floods, which also includes the reconstruction of a city on its ruins or the permanent digging up of a harbour, the new series I call “Solid Shapes” is looking for a more […]
Andrew Grassie | Still Frame | Esther Schipper | 01.11.-27.11.2020


until 27.11. | #2901ARTatBerlin | Esther Schipper shows from 1st November 2020 the exhibition Still Frame with new paintings by the artist Andrew Grassie. It is the first solo show of the artist with the gallery. Entitled Still Frame the exhibition includes 24 new paintings. Both title and number of paintings obliquely acknowledge the conceptual affinity to cinematic story-telling that informs the new body of work. (24 frames per second is the standard ratio in film to create the illusion of seamless movement in human vision.) Known for small, precisely painted works—their ostensibly unassuming matter-of-factness sometimes masking the often elaborately staged preparation of past projects and their conceptual ambition—with Still Frame Andrew Grassie continues longstanding interests into the status of the image, the nature of memory and contemporary painting. Beginning as an experiment, Grassie chose motifs that had held his attention for reasons he could not always explain: snapshots associated with personal memories, tied to a specific place, a moment in time. Photos from his image archive, many decades old and exuding a vague awkwardness, became sources for these works. Thus, for instance, one painting depicts a bright meadow, but from the ground up: the head of an enormous daffodil […]
Enter at your own risk Vol 2 | aquabitArt gallery | 07.11.-30.11.2020


until 30.11. | #2900ARTatBerlin | aquabitArt gallery presents from 7th November 2020 the site-specific artistic intervention “Enter at your own risk Vol 2” by the French artist and architect Pascal Brateau as a suggestion to change the perspective. Curated by Irina Ilieva. Please note: Due to COVID restrictions, opening hours may be subject to change. Please check: Instagram @aquabitart_gallery, website https://art.aquabit.com In the current time of world change, it is important for each of us to form appropriate opinions and choose certain points of view. Entering at your own risk Vol 2 refers to the possibility of exploring the construction at your own risk, but it also appears to be an indication of our own responsibility to make decisions. Context The installation takes place under the title “Architecture + Art” – a series initiated by Irina Ilieva. The curator regularly invites artists and architects whose work focuses on the interaction between architecture and art in order to explore the similarities and differences of this interplay. This context offers opportunities for a cooperative dialogue between city residents and Berlin visitors, artists and architects, urban planners, landscape architects and municipalities. Enter at your own risk Vol 2, Pascal Brateau Project After his […]
ONLINE-SHOW: Andreas Schulze | Sprüth Magers Berlin | 22.10.-20.11.2020


until 20.11. | #2899ARTatBerlin | Sprüth Magers Berlin currently shows an Online Exhibition by the artist Andreas Schulze. Andreas Schulze and Sprüth Magers share a history. In February 1983 Monika Sprüth opened her Cologne gallery with an Andreas Schulze exhibition, and since that fateful day he has had fifteen solo exhibitions with the gallery and has exhibited widely in major museums. Celebrating Schulze’s unique achievement, Jörg Heiser, writer and professor at Universität der Künste Berlin, explores the artist’s life and work in an in-depth essay, from his early days in Cologne’s heady 1980s art scene to his important room installations and his recent paintings based on his travels in Sicily. Heiser coined the term “intranscendence” to characterize the inward, fearless nature of the artist’s vision. We invite you to join the esteemed critic on a guided tour through Schulze’s playful oeuvre. Exhibition period: Thursday, 22nd October – Friday, 20th. November 2020 To the Online Exhibition: spruethmagers.com/exhibitions/andreas-schulze-online-2020 Image caption: Andreas Schulze, Untitled (Morris Nolde/Rügen), 2009 © Andreas Schulze / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, 2020 Exhibition Andreas Schulze– Sprüth Magers Berlin | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Ausstellungen Berlin Galerien Berlin | ART at Berlin
Glenn Brown | And thus we existed | Galerie Max Hetzler | 31.10.2020-23.01.2021


until 23.01. | #2898ARTatBerlin | Galerie Max Hetzler presents from October 31st, 2020 in both galleries Bleibtreustraße 15/16 and 45 the exhibition And thus we existed with paintings, drawings and sculptures by the artist Glenn Brown. One of Britain’s most revered contemporary artists, Brown works across painting, drawing and sculpture, taking as his source material reproduced imagery from art history and popular culture. At the core of his practice is the blending of artistic periods and stylistic genres. Transcending time and pictorial conventions, Brown’s work disarms common distinctions between beauty and abjection, heightening the emotive tension present within. The sources for Brown’s practice are found in the works of Old Masters, Surrealists or artists such as Karel Appel, Frank Auerbach or Georg Baselitz, as well as sci-fi painters like Chris Foss. Starting with published or downloaded versions of his sources, he manipulates the imagery digitally before beginning to paint on panel, further transforming them into works of an unparalleled uncanniness, where colours and forms undergo further re-assessment. Conceptually distinct from Appropriation Art, Brown’s artistic process demonstrates where his focus essentially lies; not in the base image per se, but rather in the possibilities which derive from it. For his fifth […]
Hannah Quinlan + Rosie Hastings | PUBLIC AFFAIRS | Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi | 31.10.2020-09.01.2021


until 09.01. | #2897ARTatBerlin | Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi shows from 31st October 2020 the exhibition PUBLIC AFFAIRS by the artists Hannah Quinlan and Rosie Hastings. Vernissage: Saturday, 31st October 2020, noon to 8:00 pm Exhibiiton period: Saturday, 31st October 2020 – Saturday, 9th January 2021, by appointment for two persons at the same time, the gallery asks for an arrangement. Image caption: Still, The Paradine Case, Alfred Hitchcock, 1947 Exhibition Hannah Quinlan + Rosie Hastings – Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin
Helmut Newton 100 | Meyer Riegger, Klaus Gerrit Friese, Kicken Berlin | 31.10.2020–16.01.2021


until 16.01. | #2896ARTatBerlin | The Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf galleries Meyer Riegger, Klaus Gerrit Friese and Kicken Berlin will show from 31 October 2020 in cooperation the exhibitions “Helmut Newton 100” in different approaches. On the occasion of Helmut Newton’s centenary birthday on October 31, 2020, Kicken Berlin takes this opportunity to show and reposition Newton’s work in a dialogue with contemporary artists, together with the Berlin galleries Klaus Gerrit Friese and Meyer Riegger. At Galerie Friese on Fasanenplatz, Newton’s works build a new connection with the erotically charged Pop Art of the American William N. Copley (1919-1996). Meyer Riegger has invited the British artist Jonathan Monk (*1969) to react directly to Newton’s photographs with specially created works. Exhibition period: Saturday, 31st October 2020 to Saturday, 16th January 2021 Image caption: Image: Helmut Newton, ‘Heute ein König’, 1996, beer coaster, ballpoint pen, 10,7 x 10,7 cm. “For Rudi. Der grösste Kunsthändler der Welt – I AM AN ARTIST and this is the Proof! Dein Helmut, 31.10.1996” Courtesy Kicken Berlin. Exhibition Helmut Newton 100 | Jonathan Monk 51- Meyer Riegger | Contemporary Art – Kunst in Berlin – ART at Berlin
Pius Fox | INEINANDERSITZEN AUSEINANDERSETZEN | Galerie Martin Mertens | 31.10.-19.12.2020


until 19.12. | #2895ARTatBerlin | Galerie Martin Mertens shows from 31st October 2020 the exhibition INEINANDERSITZEN AUSEINANDERSETZEN with works by the arist Pius Fox. After the participation in the painting exhibition “Jetzt – junge Malerei in Deutschland”, which was shown in the Bundeskunsthalle Bonn, Museum Chemnitz, Museum Wiesbaden and the Deichtorhallen Hamburg, we are looking forward to an exhibition with new works by Pius Fox. Figurative and figure-related motifs will reappear at Fox – as they have since his studies. They are based on photographs which he took himself and which have fascinated and inspired him for many years. To bring these motifs onto the canvas or paper, he sometimes uses a projector in his new works. Throughout his work, Fox always makes it clear that his abstract work is largely based on objects and photographs, and that it takes up forms and structures that are actually present. These representational forms are the reason for Fox to deal anew with the question of how to construct pictures, how drawing, underpainting, oil paint, intermediate varnish, glaze and paste-like application of paint work together and create colour depth. The basic question he pursues is how the path from the idea to the […]
Jinran Kim | Painstaking | Galerie Z22 | 07.11.2020-16.01.2021


until 16.01. | #2894ARTatBerlin | Galerie Z22 shows from 7th November 2020 the solo show “Painstaking” by the artist Jinran Kim on the subject of material and spirituality – transmutations. Art is a practice which reanimates the dead. Ashes and soot, mixed with water have been used since ancient times for painting and writing inks, in Asian cultures often the same thing. Brush strokes of burnt black evoking a tree in the wind, a waterfall, or a line of poetry. Indications of landscapes are evoked out of fine gauze. The delicate mesh is familiar to everyone: gauze bandages and the association with injury, wounding and healing is immediately apparent. Jinran Kim has long been drawn to household materials, using soap as a primary art material over many years: a room with soap floor, soap coffin, soap futon with light etc. Since childhood we have been experimenting with different materials and associate them with certain memories and traumas that are reflected in our spiritual experience. It activates a certain chemical reaction, a tingling or shivering about the mutability of matter and form and the transience of life. All events take place in accordance with the applicable hygiene regulations. Vernissage: Saturday 7 November 2020, open […]
Martin Spengler | Auto-Splash | Galerie Kornfeld | 07.11.2020-09.01.2021


until 09.01. | #2893ARTatBerlin | Galerie Kornfeld shows from 7th November 2020 the solo show Auto-Splash with sculptures and picture reliefs from corrugated board by the artist Martin Spengler. The title of the exhibition derives from the British physicist Arthur Mason Worthington, who for more than two decades sought the ideal form of a splashing drop, attaching great importance to the afterimages of his observations, which were, so to speak, burned onto his retina. This notion that the image an object leaves behind in the viewer’s mind is much stronger than the actual moment of seeing also holds true, according to Martin Spengler, for any kind of art experience. The work is not the object, but that which develops between object and viewer. The more intense this image, the stronger its effect, which, however, cannot arise without the triggering object. Martin Spengler finds the motifs for his works – contemporary cityscapes, skyscrapers, facades, towers and Gothic cathedrals – in image files and sketches that serve as models for detailed preliminary drawings. According to the artist, as soon as this “preliminary sketch” is completed, “the work is finished in the mind”. For him, the work of art is the “proof that […]
Der Goldene Reiter … | Tribute to Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Contemporary Fine Arts (CFA Berlin) | 05.10.-28.11.2020


until 28.11. | #2892ARTatBerlin | Contemporary Fine Arts is currently showing the group exhibition “Der Goldene Reiter in Faustrecht der Freiheit aka Fox and His Friends” as a tribute to Rainer Werner Fassbinder on the occasion of the 75th birthday of the filmmaker who died in 1982. Der Goldene Reiter in Faustrecht der Freiheit aka Fox and His Friends Die beste Entfernung für zwei Personen ist, ein Meter zwanzig zu suchen, überdrüssig der Bäume, überdrüssig der Stadt, Musik: Oh, sweet nothing Washington ist nichts anderes, beim Drüberfliegen, nachts, als eine Menge Funzeln in der Dunkelheit, und wie fällt man in die Liebe? und hier bin ich wieder, abgeschnallt. Ich bin nicht bereit zu glauben, daß die Augen der Spiegel dessen sind, was man sieht. Rolf Dieter Brinkmann: Westwärts (1975) With works by: Cosima von Bonin, Cecily Brown, Genieve Figgis, Sarah Lucas, Sophie Reinhold, Dana Schutz, Elaine Sturtevant, Raphaela Vogel,Georg Baselitz, Werner Büttner, Peter Doig, Angus Fairhurst, Günther Förg, Nick Goss, Eberhard Havekost, Gregor Hildebrandt, Martin Kippenberger, Jonathan Meese, Raymond Pettibon, Norbert Schwontkowski, Dash Snow, Tobias Spichtig, Spencer Sweeney, Tal R, Wolfgang Tillmans, Herbert Volkmann, Christopher Wool Nobody has revolutionized German post-war cinema quite like Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1945–1982). The radical artistic aspirations he pursued […]
Armin Völckers + Maxwell Dunlop | Landschaften | janinebeangallery | 05.11.2020-16.01.2021


until 16.01. | #2891ARTatBerlin | janinebeangallery presents from 5th November 2020 the exhibition Landschaften (> Landscapes) with works by the artists Armin Völckers snd Maxwell Dunlop. In the upcoming two-person exhibition janinebeangallery will show landscapes by Armin Völckers and Maxwell Dunlop. Both artists have mastered the genre in their respective ways by creating ambiences of peculiar gravity, spaces which narrate with suspense on the one hand and reveal a wide, calm timelessness on the other hand. Maxwell Dunlop, „Distant Storm“, 2020, Oil on Canvas, 40 x 50 cm Maxwell Dunlop, „Ascent“, 2020, Oil on Canvas, 80 x 100 cm Maxwell Dunlop, born in 1983, grew up on the coast of southern New England. He studied painting at the Art Institute of Boston and received a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts from 2001-2005. He lives and works in the USA and Berlin. His works are shown notably in America and Germany. Armin Völckers, „Wehr“ (Prophet), 2020, Oil on Canvas, 140 x 200 cm Armin Völckers, „King“, 2020, Oil on Canvas, 120 x 160 cm Armin Völckers was born in 1963 in Berlin and grew up in Rio de Janeiro before he returned to Germany. From 1983 to 1988 he studied Visual […]
Dalton Gata | Diálogos Remotos | Peres Projects | 30.10.-27.11.2020


until 27.11. | #2890ARTatBerlin | Peres Projects presents from 30th October 2020 the exhibition Diálogos Remotos by the artist Dalton Gata. Peres Projects is pleased to present Diálogos Remotos, Dalton Gata’s (b. 1977, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba) first solo exhibition in Berlin. Born in Cuba and based in Puerto Rico, Gata’s work operates across multiple registers; the symbolic, political, as well as the personal to address themes of migration, desire, and consciousness. In Diálogos Remotos Gata, invites us into an imagined home and the six paintings on view are set in various rooms, looking out at the world beyond their walls. Their compositions hover between the intimacy of private interiors and distant vistas and are populated with details from the Gata’s real life and home – a photograph of the artist as a baby, the terrazzo flooring in his studio. These instances of the real are haunted by their own instability, as with the bloodied floor under the tiger’s lunch, and the sleek equine figure with a human face, uncanniness populates each canvas. Gata’s domestic spaces draw on an association of familiarity and safety while simultaneously offering unsettling revelations into the unconscious mind – that which is dreamed, the ego […]
Basim Magdy | Renegade Dreams Hanging From The Clouds | König Galerie (Chapel) | 30.10.–18.12.2020


until 18.12. | #2889ARTatBerlin | König Galerie (Chapel) shows from 30. October 2020 the solo show Renegade Dreams Hanging From The Clouds with new works by the artist Basim Magdy. It is the first solo exhibition of the artist in the gallery. At CHAPEL, eight works on canvas and a video work will be shown. In Basim Magdy’s film New Acid, the animals communicate with each other via text message, just like people. The lemurs plan their exit from the animal kingdom; a pensive sea lion contemplates the immateriality of Bitcoins; and close by, a hippopotamus monologises about weight complexes. At first sight, New Acid seems to be about humour and banality, but clearly the film soon enters the realms of more pressing issues: nationalism, racism, social hierarchies. Basim Magdy, New Acid, 2019, Super 16 mm film, computer generated text messages transferred to Full HD video, 1/6 + 2 AP, 14:18 min (still), courtesy of the artist and KÖNIG GALERIE Berlin, London, Tokyo Basim Magdy sets out to visualise our usual communication structures and show that all forms of society, no matter how open they may seem, are guided by similar structures and power relations. While New Acid centres on […]
Katharina Grosse | At 30 Paces She Could Split A Playing Card | König Galerie (Nave) | 30.10.–18.12.2020


until 18.12. | #2888ARTatBerlin | König Galerie (Nave) is showing the solo show At 30 Paces She Could Split A Playing Card with new works by the artist Katharina Grosse from 30 October 2020. It is the third solo show of the artist in the gallery. On show are large-format works on canvas and plywood, which were created in Berlin and New Zealand. Katharina Grosse’s painting maintains a position outside the categories of representation and abstraction: it operates in reality and on reality. To this end, it employs a directed haze of tiny droplets of paint so as to leave traces of paint and colour even over a distance and to move with ease across the borders of things. Grosse has stated that painting can precipitate everywhere and anywhere (in the real world) – on any surface and any object that sprayed paint can reach. Thus, places on which painting can be seen function as surfaces for deposits of colour that can also show up elsewhere: every work realized is a fragment. As fragments, the individual paintings establish a connection with yet more expansive painting that would potentially dissolve all the conventional subdivisions of the real world. This painting cannot […]
John McAllister | Adrift gleaming serenest rustling air | WENTRUP | 23.10.–05.12.2020


until 05.12. | #2887ARTatBerlin | WENTRUP presents from 23rd October 2020 the exhibition “Adrift gleaming serenest rustling air” with works by the artist John McAllister. “These new paintings allow you to become absorbed, they are a place where your thoughts can wander,“ says John McAllister, ”you can drift in and out without being told what to think.“ Don’t just look at nature. Smell it, feel it, get absorbed by it. “It’s a release to be absorbed,“ he states. As you can safely do, without even going outside, through the sheer force of his art. “Like sitting in the shade looking out into the comforting heat allowing the color to mesmerize and soothe. The sound of a fan gently blowing while looking through a window into the afternoon sunshine, your eyes wandering through the landscape outside and occasionally catching some of the reflection from the glass and letting you back in.” John McAllister, adrift duskdazed some divine glamour, 2020, oil on canvas 183 cm 72 cm “Having the landscape at a glance, holding it in your mind” is something we could easily do for hours in a painting as in the immersive environment of much adrift seemed serenest sea. As his […]
Caroline Jane Harris | A Stopped World | Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery Berlin | 31.10.-19.12.2020


until 19.12. | #2886ArtatBerlin | Kristin Hjellegjerde Berlin shows from 31st October 2020 the solo show A Stopped World with works by the artist Caroline Jane Harris. A vast textured sky, bruised blue, purple and pink, with billowing clouds of smoke simultaneously evokes a sense of stillness and motion, fragility and power. Turning her eye once again to reproductions of nature’s expanse, British artist Caroline Jane Harris’ new body of work explores the making and manifestation of imagery in the digital age. Combining subjects captured from books and internet videos with her signature process of cutting-out digital prints by hand, Harris creates visually complex and arresting works that re-examine the tactility and dimensionality of images. A Stopped World, her solo exhibition at Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery Berlin, offers a meticulous examination of our engagement with technology, habits of perception, and experience of time and space. In Harris’ work subject-matters aren’t preconceived. Instead, the artist collects images that she’s drawn to from various sources, which are detached from their original contexts and later, imbued with new meaning through her layered creative process. For this body of work, the artist photographed aerial photographs in found books, bestowing a lack of definition and veracity […]
Paolo Treni + Anne Cécile Surga | SIGNS | Luisa Catucci Gallery | 29.10.-04.12.2020


until 04.12. | #2885ARTatBerlin | Luisa Catucci Gallery shows from 29. October 2020 the exhibition SIGNS with works by the artists Anne Cécile Surga and Paolo Treni. The works of French sculptress Anne Cecile Surga and the ones of the Italian artist Paolo Treni do not seem to have much in common at first sight. Anne Cecile uses one of the most classical materials and techniques in art history: marble and sculpting. Paolo Treni instead uses ultra-modern technology – plexiglass, enamels, varnishes, and laser – combined with handcraft for his creations, and we could say he’s making here and now the art history of its technique. Anne Cecile’s pieces are monochromatic, except for the nuances of the marble’s veining, while Paolo’s are an explosion of multiple colors. Surga’s sculptures are static, solid, and matte. Treni’s pieces are glossy, and their medium gives them illusionary organic fluidity, as their perception changes during the day, following the reflection and refraction of the natural light. The reasons behind the exhibition-dialog between these two artists are not only their fascinating opposites but their shared ability to create a powerful sign, a sort of hypnotic melody, to give voice to illusions. As the magical chant […]
Thomas Prochnow | edit-2.0/The Second Public Space | Semjon Contemporary | 24.10.-28.11.2020


until 28.11. | #2884ARTatBerlin | Semjon Contemporary shows from 24th October 2020 the exhibition edit-2.0/Der Zweite Öffentliche Raum (> The Second Public Space) with wall objects, installation and photography by the artist Thomas Prochnow. The two-part title of the exhibition already reveals that two artistic and thematic focuses are set here, which Thomas Prochnow will show. edit-2.0 summarises the two previous exhibitions edit_black (2017) and edit_white (2019), or presents an excerpt from both. In both exhibitions the artist presented his edit works, which deal with principles of order and question the concept of standardisation. On the one hand there is the order – one could also say the edit feature – colour, on the other hand there is the order of the standard size, the DIN size. Following both parameters as basic principles, the artist creates a field of activity that is diverse and surprising in its output: If in edit_black the colour black is the main feature, the artist composes from all imaginable materials, be it found objects (wood and building board remains, coated or raw) or materials from the DIY market such as grids, rubber mats and the like, which he assembles into a picture as in an […]
Vincent Trasov | My Fifty Years In A Nutshell | ChertLüdde | 10.10.-14.11.2020


until 14.11. | #2883ARTatBerlin | ChertLüdde currently shows the exhibition My Fifty Years In A Nutshell by the artist Vincent Trasov. The exhibition My Fifty Years In A Nutshell is constructed around the artist’s alter ego, Mr. Peanut, with drawings, videos, photographs, paintings, and archival materials narrating this long and ongoing love story. Together with recently produced ink and wash on paper drawings, the exhibition focuses on the 20 day performance Mayoralty Campaign of 1974, which featured John Mitchell as ideator of the peanut campaign, campaign manager and spokesperson. It was an event that brought many diverse artists and groups together in a collaborative context. The campaign fulfilled a real alternative to the political status quo. Art had become life. Mr. Peanut Mayoral Campaign: Mr. Peanut descends steps of Vancouver Court House, 1974; gelatin silver print, Collection of the Morris/Trasov Archive, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, University of British Columbia. Photo by Bob Strazicich. Vincent Trasov is a painter, video and performance artist. His work is often media based and collaborative in spirit, involved with developing networks. He is a Canadian born in 1947 in Edmonton. In 1970 he founded Image Bank with Michael Morris, a method for personal […]
Berta Fischer, Björn Dahlem, Naum Gabo | Into Space | Haus am Waldsee | 18.10.2020-10.01.2021


until 10.01. | #2882ARTatBerlin | Haus am Waldsee presents from 18th October 2020 the exhibition INTO SPACE by the sculptors Berta Fischer, Björn Dahlem and Naum Gabo. “Into Space” deals with man’s longing for space, for weightlessness, distant galaxies and the belief in hitherto incomprehensible energies beyond our perception. Three sculptors reflect the interfaces between art and science over a century and from Berlin. Following the exhibition “Lynn Chadwick, Hans Uhlmann, Katja Strunz”, which explored the subject of “Fold” at Haus am Waldsee in 2019, Björn Dahlem (*1974), Berta Fischer (*1973) and Naum Gabo (1890-1977) are now taking up an artistic conversation about space and time between 1920 and 2020 with installations and sculptures. For Naum Gabo, art in the 1920s meant a means of gaining knowledge about the physics of our planet. The Jewish-Russian artist, who had emigrated to Berlin and who, together with his brother Antoine Pevsner, had shortly before written the “Realistic Manifesto”, which was groundbreaking for sculpture, was constantly searching for new materials and means of expression, “not for the sake of the new, but to find expression for the new view of the world around me and for new insights into the forces of life […]
Rusudan Khizanishvili | Rooms + Beings | 68 projects | 07.11.2020-09.01.2021


until 09.01. | #2881ARTatBerlin | 68 projects shows from 7th November 2020 the exhibition Rooms & Beings with works by Georgian artist Rusudan Khizanishvili, curated by Nina Mdivani. Rooms & Beings is the first solo presentation of Georgian artist, Rusudan Khizanishvili in Berlin. Khizanishvili balances between Georgian culture, which is so rich in traditions, and the conceptually driven contemporary discourse on representation and its functions. The fourteen works on view were all created in 2020 while the artist was living in Tbilisi, and can be thematically divided into two categories: works centred around sacral transformations, and those featuring theatrically staged interactions within rooms. These two themes are implicitly interconnected for the artist, as the human being and her identity are of central interest. Questions of self, connections to biology, cultural memory and myths, and the female body are all the subjects of an ongoing investigation for Khizanishvili, who shows maturity of purpose and mastery of colour. Khizanishvili’s paintings go against the grain of constructed identity as expected from a post-Soviet artist. By creating a powerful and unique visual vocabulary, she remains only loosely connected to the preoccupations of post-colonialism, addressing them in more abstract terms, rather than aspects of mastery […]
Eliška Bartek | Color Frenzy | hilleckes probst galerie | 07.11.2020-16.01.2021 – extended until 17.04.2021


until 17.04. | #2880ARTatBerlin | hilleckes probst galerie presents from 7th November 2020 the solo show COLOR FRENZY with works by the artist Eliška Bartek. “My life is art. Whether it is the story of my life, whether it is me. Whether it is the food or the cooking. Whether it’s celebrating. Whether it is painting. Everything around me is art and my art.” – Eliška Bartek – Eliška Bartek, 2 Novembre 2016 || Eliška Bartek, 22 Dicembre 2017 Eliška is the Czech version of the first name Elisabeth, and it means My God is fullness. If one takes a look at Eliška Bartek’s extensive oeuvre, which she has created over the years, it seems as if she absolutely wants to match this meaning of her first name. The quote from the artist at the beginning of this article clearly reflects this With a verve that is second to none, she wastes herself on her works. It does not matter in which medium she is working at the moment. With Eliška, everything happens in a frenzy of lust for life. She works in a state of intoxication and obsession. This is reflected in the sensory impressions she inscribes in her […]
Michael Müller | Aesthetic Judgement and Selflessness | Galerie Thomas Schulte | 17.10.-07.11.2020


until 07.11.| #2879ARTatBerlin | Galerie Thomas Schulte presents from 17th October 2020 the second phase of the solo show of the artist Michael Müller, which consists of two parts: The exhibition “Aesthetic Judgement and Selflessness” follows as the second part of the previous exhibition “Anton im Bastrock” (>Anton in a raffia skirt) as well as the installation “Bikini on Mars” in the corner space of the gallery. The second phase, “Aesthetic Judgement and Selflessness”, will begin after a 10-day break on 17 October and will be shown until 7 November 2020. After the first part of his solo presentation at Galerie Thomas Schulte this autumn, which opened as part of Gallery Weekend Berlin 2020, Michael Müller in this second part approaches his own work as curator. Under the title Aesthetic Judgement and Selflessness the artist takes the theme of abstraction one step further. By staging a second version of the exhibition, Michael Müller as curator distances himself from Michael Müller as painter and thus also from his own self-commissioned works. Furthermore, a second version of the exhibition opens up the possibility of self-correction. Different versions and points of view create a situation of comparison. Aesthetic decisions can be found to […]
South.Southwest | Exponents of Contemporary Latin American Photography | re|space gallery | 09.10.-09.12.2020


until 09.12. | #2878ARTatBerlin | re|space gallery shows from 9. October 2020 the exhibition South.Southwest with exponents of contemporary Latin American photography by Sebastián Liste, Christina de Middel, Álvaro Ybarra Zavala, Laura León, Jesús Rocandio, Adriana Zehbrauskas, Stephen Ferry, Tomás Munita and Emilia Brandão. The works from the South.Southwest collection exhibited at re|space gallery in Berlin are a curated visual insight into Latin American identity. The visual palette is as diverse as the Latin American people, portraying culture, nature, folklore and the everyday. This fine art photography collection has been compiled by the artists Sebastián Liste, Christina de Middel, Álvaro Ybarra Zavala, Laura León, Jesús Rocandio, Adriana Zehbrauskas, Stephen Ferry, Tomás Munita and Emilia Brandão to showcase the strength of contemporary Latin American photography. As photographers, the artists are under the patronage of Leica Iberia, have worked extensively with world-renowned photography agencies such as Magnum and Getty Images, are represented in established fine-art collections such as the New York Metropolitan Museum and have been published in major international publications such as Time Magazine. Though partially stemming from documentary photography projects, the works within this collection have been chosen for their distinct artistic value. What distinguishes this collection from documentary photography […]
Mary Ellen Bartley | Volumes | Galerie Pugliese Levi | 02.10.-19.12.2020


until 19.12. | #2877ARTatBerlin | Galerie Pugliese Levi presents from 2nd October 2020 the solo show Volumes with photographs by the artist Mary Ellen Bartley. The exhibition takes place as part of the EMOP – European Month of Fotografie. Read THE INTERVIEW IN|DEEDS with Mary Ellen Bartley on DEEDS.WORLD. Mary Ellen Bartley is known for her photographs exploring the tactile and formal qualities of the printed book and its potential for abstraction. In her poetic minimalist images, the books’ contents are often hidden or only partially revealed, underscoring the tension between narrative and purely formal concerns. Mary Ellen Bartley, Good Night Sweet Prince Bartley has made projects in the private libraries of artists Robert Wilson, Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner, as well as Giorgio Morandi. For this exhibition the multiple meanings of its title Volumes will be explored, in the subject of volumes of books, the quiet volume of color palettes, and the geometric volumes of the compositions. It will also include a photo of Jackson Pollock’s damaged jazz records. Exhibition view Volumes at the gallery Pugliese Levi This exhibition at Galerie Pugliese Levi is the first solo show of the artist in Germany. Exhibition view Volumes at the gallery Pugliese Levi […]
Schulterblick 40! | Galerie Inga Kondeyne – Raum für Zeichnung | 06.10.-06.11.2020


until 06.11. | #2876ARTatBerlin| Galerie Inga Kondeyne – Raum für Zeichnung presents from 6th October 2020 the anniversary exhibition Schulterblick 40! (> shoulder view 40!) on the occasion of the 40th gallery anniversary with works by artists of the gallery. Gallery owner Inga Kondeyne looks back on this journey in the service of drawing: “4 decades of gallery work – a long way with countless exhibitions up to the present drawing gallery in the Carmerstraße in Berlin. Every exhibition was and is a new exciting and at the same time joyful challenge. In the mid-1980s, during the time of the Rotunde Gallery in the Altes Museum, I came under the spell of the medium of drawing through the art of my generation, which – as a reaction to the attitudes of the so-called East Berlin School of Painting – increasingly experimented with abstract forms on paper. With works by Joachim Böttcher, Volker Henze, Hanns Schimansky, Harald Toppl, I became part of the magnificent exhibition in Paris in the Grand Halle de la Vilette: L’autre Allemagne hors les murs, only three months after 9 November 1989, as an art historian. Curt Asker, Atelierfoto, um 1989 Soon afterwards I opened a new […]
Lars Wild | Ill Skys | Galerie Eigenheim | 03.10.–31.10.2020


until 31.10. | #2875ARTatBerlin | Galerie Eigenheim shows from 3rd October 2020 at the salon of the gallery the solo show Ill Skys with paintings by the artist Lars Wild. Ille Himmels – Lars Wild’s “Ill Skys” shows dystopian landscapes and bittersweet portraits created last year. The motifs are not based on a model but, freely sprung from the artist’s spirit, the use of colour, whether oil, acrylic or lacquer, is unconventional. The respective material is mainly applied and every little graphic intervention by scratching, wiping and smearing becomes an element that shapes the picture. The extremely fine brush stroke simulates a water surface, the soft, matt colour gradients worked into the paper create voluminous cloud formations. The monochrome, overall very reduced colour palette is broken up mainly by the colourfulness of the background. At the same time, references to the naturalistic painting of the Romantic period are unmistakable. His portraits, sometimes anatomically perfect, sometimes grimacingly distorted, are familiar in a disturbing way, but they tend to be abysmal due to shadows cleverly placed in the corners of the mouth or eye sockets. Lars Wild was born in Gotha in 1981, studied fine arts at the Bauhaus University Weimar and […]
Gabriele Stötzer + Paula Gehrmann | Werk und Fortsetzung | Galerie Eigenheim | 03.10.–31.10.2020


until 31.10. | #2874ARTatBerlin | Galerie Eigenheim shows from 3rd October 2020 the exhibition Werk und Fortsetzung by the artists Gabriele Stötzer and Paula Wehrmann. The exhibition is curated by Bianka Voigt and Konstantin Bayer, in cooperation with the GfZK (Gallery of Contemporary Art Leipzig) and takes place in the framework of the EMOP – European Month of Photograpy. Gabriele Stötzer is one of the most impressive artists of our German-German present. Her multi-media, interdisciplinary working methods, including painting, photography, film, performance and fashion, photo books and above all writing, defied the oppressive power relations of the GDR dictatorship, rebelled against patriarchy and explored physical as well as collective conditions, thus testifying to an untiring process of questioning one’s own as well as society’s situation. On the occasion of the European Month of Photography (EMOP), EIGENHEIM Weimar/Berlin organised the exhibition Werk und Fortsetzung (Work and Continuation) together with the two artists Paula Gehrmann & Gabriele Stötzer. Paula Gehrmann developed already in 2019, based on her own artistic practice, a room installation for the exhibition, research and mediation project in three parts Conscious Incapacity – The Archive Gabriele Stötzer, in the GfzK Leipzig. Conscious Incapacity – The Gabriele Stötzer Archive was a […]
Hans Scheib | Skulptur + Grafik | Galerie mutare | 26.09.-26.11.2020


until 26.11. | #2873ARTatBerlin | Galerie mutare shows from 26th September 2020 the exhibition EIN KOMPLIZIERTES MÄDCHEN UND EIN ALPHA-TIER with sculpture and graphic by the artist Hans Scheib. Women in provocative yet aesthetic, even profound poses, animals with almost human features, the interplay of figures – an expressive, small, fine show of works by the sculptor and graphic artist Hans Scheib. The human figure is at the centre of his artistic work. Expressive, moving, at times absurd, no contradiction to her poses, which at times seem to be everyday. Hans Scheib takes us along to discover things we know, and at the same time he lets us see everything in a new way. The objects by Hans Scheib, one of the most influential German sculptors of the present day, captivate us with their expression and precise execution. For many decades his unique selling point. He constantly takes up current socio-critical, even political themes, but works that follow a fashionable direction within wood sculpture will be sought in vain. Probably also because they stand for his own search for unconditional truth and timeless beauty. In this way, the artist becomes a storyteller, both within his respective staging of his works […]
Ute Schendel | Vintage Portraits: cultural workers of the 70s / 80s | Galerie Gilla Lörcher | 02.10.–31.10.2020


until 31.10. | #2872ARTatBerlin | Galerie Gilla Lörcher shows from 2nd October 2020 the solo exhibition Vintage Portraits: cultural workers of the 70s / 80s with photographs by the artist Ute Schendel. The exhibition is part of the EMOP – European Month of Photography. For the European Month of Photography EMOP 2020 and the exhibition at Galerie Gilla Lörcher, the photographer Ute Schendel has selected a series of vintage print portraits from the 70s and 80s. They show prominent personalities from the world of theater, film and literature with whom the photographer was / is in close contact. Back then, Schendel experimented with a sulfur toning technique on Agfa P90 paper. This painterly component gave the ‘realistic’ portraits an expressive power. After a series of attempts, she left it at that and turned to documentary photography in the future. The vintage print portraits remained in the photographer’s Basel studio archive and were rediscovered by her in 2019. 13 large-format sulfur tonings (each 45 x 60 cm) by: Fernando Arabal, Mauricio Kagel, Walter Stöhrer, Samuel Beckett, Peter Kurzck, Ezra Gerhard, George Tabori and others will be presented. These pictures are complemented by black and white portraits (silver gelatine prints, also mostly […]
Natascha Ungeheuer | Paintings and watercolours from 50 years | Galerie Brockstedt | 24.09.-10.11.2020


until 10.11. | #2871ARTatBerlin | Galerie Brockstedt will be showing an exhibition of paintings and watercolours from 50 years of the artist Natascha Ungeheuer from 24 September 2020. The Natascha Ungeheuer Archive has been in existence at the Academy of Arts since the beginning of September 2020. „Natascha Ungeheuer ist ein malender Utopist deutscher Sprache. (Natascha Ungeheuer is a painting utopian of German language.)“ Johannes Schenk “Natascha Ungeheuer was born as Ursula Rosa Ungeheuer in Blumenfeld. She spent her childhood in Biederbach (Black Forest). She went to school in Freiburg (Breisgau). A-levels in Stuttgart. Teacher’s examination at the Pädagogische Hochschule Lüneburg in 1959, followed by the Harald Kreuzberg Dance Academy in Bern. From 1961 she travelled alone through England, Ireland, Finland, France and Italy. In 1962 she came to Berlin. She drew more and more often. Soon followed oil painting. She did not take art lessons and was consciously self-taught. She did not look for role models in art and did not give her painting style a name. Her old-masterly painting style with finest brushes depicts people. Phantasmagoric realism’ would be an obvious term that most closely describes her painting. From 1966 (Kunsthalle Netzel in Worpswede) she had exhibitions at […]
Nicole Phungrasamee Fein | Galerie Dittmar | 10.09.-07.11.2020


until 07.11. |#2865ARTatBerlin | Galerie Dittmar presents an exhibition by the artist Nicole Phungrasamee Fein starting September 10, 2020. Nicole Phungrasamee Fein, born in 1974 in Evanston, Illinois and raised in Santa Barbara, California, lives and works in San Francisco. She studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Tufts University, Medford, and Mills College, Oakland. Beginning in 2002, Wynn Kramarsky acquired works by the artist for his prominent collection of drawings. Fein’s works were introduced to Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, that same year. Her works are in the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum, New York, Fogg Museum, Cambridge, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, Menil Drawing Institute, Houston, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, among others. Nicole Phungrasamee Fein, Iron oxide, 25,4 x 25,4 auf 38,1 x 38,1 cm, 2020 The starting point for the works is the line; one line runs into another forming the field. This is the underlying principle and also the basis for further, more extensive exploration. In the watercolours from around 2010, horizontal and transversing stripes of various widths define the image. The areas in between are kept in finely nuanced light or dark […]
EQUILIBRIUM | Group Show | Bermel von Luxburg Gallery | 11.09-14.11.2020


until 14.11. | #2858ARTatBerlin | Bermel von Luxburg Gallery shows from 11th September 2020 the group show EQUILIBRIUM. The title comes from Latin and means “balance”. It is about the balance of three painters and three sculptors who are shown in dialogue: Works by Christo Daskaltsis, Philipp Haager, Masaya Hashimoto, Kosuke Kato, Nadège Mouyssinat and Robert Pan will be presented. Robert Pan, Gold Christo Daskaltsis, 0916-02, 2016, 80 x 120 cm, Oil on Aluminium It is also about a balance in unknown and unequal times. A balance in the post Covid-19 era, when the world was plunged into uncertain and unbalanced times. With this exhibition the gallery wants to set a sign of hope, stability and faith. Masaya Hashimoto, Narcissus tazetta var. chinensis, 33 x 17 x 7 cm, deer antler, 2019, Copyright Haruhi Okuyama, 2020 Kosuke Kato, Legato V Philipp Haager, Z2_Nahfeld Phase #15 4zu3 Asian Nebula, 2016, 170 x 260 cm, Indian ink, linen montiert In the cabinet, under the title SELECTIONS, selected works by Thomas Canto, Uli Fischer, Benjamin Herndon, Lev Khesin and Olaf Schirm are on display. Preview Days: Wednesday 9 September + Thursday 10 September 2020 from noon to 8 pm Vernissage: Friday, 11 September […]
Marta Górnicka | Multitude | EBENSPERGER BERLIN + LUXOOM LAB | 12.09.–08.11.2020


until 08.11. | #2836ARTatBerlin | EBENSPERGER BERLIN & LUXOOM LAB are showing the exhibition “Multitude” by the artist Marta Górnicka from September 12, 2020. “Multitude” at Ebensperger Berlin, in collaboration with Luxoom Lab, is the first monographic exhibition of works by Marta Górnicka, a stage director and the re-discoverer of the choral principle. The exhibition presents film/sound installations of some of the artist’s most important works: HYMN TO LOVE, GRUNDGESETZ, REQUIEMACHINE, MAGNIFICAT, M(OTHER) COURAGE and CONSTITUTION FOR THE CHORUS OF POLES. Marta Górnicka’s works are well known to the German audiences as the artist has collaborated with German theatres for a number of years. Currently, she is in partnership with the Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin, where she has established the POLITICAL VOICE INSTITUTE – a socio-theatrical laboratory. In 2016, Górnicka received a nomination for the prestigious Deutscher Theaterpreis Der Faust for her production M(OTHER) COURAGE at the Staatstheater Braunschweig. Górnicka’s works have been shown at many group exhibitions, including the 7th Moscow International Biennale of Contemporary Art 2017-2018, Late Polishness at the Contemporary Art Centre in Warsaw 2017, the Third Berlin Autumn Salon 2017 and the 1st Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art at the Tallinn Art Hall 2018. […]
Horst Schäfer | New York | Galerie Dittmar | 12.09.-26.09.2020


until 26.09. |#2868ARTatBerlin | Galerie Dittmar shows from September 12, 2020, the exhibition “New York” with works of the artist Horst Schäfer, as well as a book presentation of the revised and expanded new edition with a cabinet exhibition. Horst Schäfer, born in 1932, emigrated to New York in 1961 in view of the importance of the USA for press photography. He became an early employee of the New York office of Agence France-Press (AFP) and gained access to the important press agencies and trade magazines. Works and series appear in Newsweek, Harper’s Bazaar, Life, Fortune, among others. Horst Schäfer, Sheep Meadow, Central Park, 1961 First major contribution in 1962 in US Camera, 1964 exhibition of “Architectural Views” at Rockefeller Center, followed by several photo reportages in the New York Times. In 1968 he was named “Outstanding Press Photographer of the Year 1968”. After returning to Germany in 1980, resumption of agency work. The magazine Nike. Horst Schäfer, Pennsylvania Station, East portal, 1962 European Photograph publishes a large-format special issue on Horst Schäfer in 1994. In 1996 a comprehensive exhibition is held in the art collections of the Veste Coburg and in 1997 in the Neue Sammlung Munich. The publication […]
Jim Avignon + Julia Benz | Tomorrow Never Knows | Köppe Contemporary | 29.09.-21.11.2020


until 21.11. | #2850ARTatBerlin | Köppe Contemporary presents the exhibition “Tomorrow Never Knows” by the artists Jim Avignon and Julia Benz starting September 29, 2020. Under the title “Tomorrow Never Knows”, Galerie Köppe Contemporary with the artist Jim Avignon and the artist Julia Benz opens its doors for the first time since March 2020 on September 26th for a vernissage. With the title “Tomorrow Never Knows” the artists refer to a song of the Beatles from 1966 from the album Revolver. Jim Avignon, painter and draftsman, illustrator, animator, concept artist, action and street art artist, songwriter, musician, performer and organizer of happenings, began his career in the early 1990s in New York and Berlin Jim Avignon, It‘s Complicated, Mixed media on paper, 2020. Meanwhile, Jim Avignon is internationally known as a “chronicler of urban life”, as he was once called, not only for his unmistakable visual language, but also for his actions in public space. The large-format paintings that the artist creates for his exhibitions are mostly created with acrylic paint on paper or cardboard. The coloring is reminiscent of pop culture, especially since the picture design is often determined by the signal-like primary colors red, yellow and blue. In […]
PAPER CARDBOARD WOOD CANVAS: PART 3 | White Square Gallery | 28.08.-17.10.2020


until 17.10. | #2847ARTatBerlin | White Square Gallery is showing now the exhibition “PAPER CARDBOARD WOOD CANVAS: PART 3” with works by Sebastian Heiner, Albrecht Klink, Ashley Scott and Heinrich Maria Davringhausen. Ashley Scott, The hands of a Bubi Woman – El Rakahua, paper and acrylic paint on wood panel, 80 x 72 x 13 cm, 2020 Exhibition dates: Friday, August 28 – Saturday, November 07, 2020 Exhibition PAPER CARDBOARD WOOD CANVAS: PART 3 – White Square Gallery | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin
Fiona Tan | Ideas of Utopia | BORCH Gallery | 12.09.-31.10.2020


until 31.10. | #2868ARTatBerlin | BORCH Gallery presents the exhibition “Ideas of Utopia” with works by the artist Fiona Tan from September 12, 2020. The interview with the artist in the context of Gallery Weekend 2020 and background information on her work can be found on DEEDS.WORLD. The exhibition Ideas of Utopia shows photogravure projects and the video-installation Elsewhere (2018). Urban Utopia Fiona Tan’s Studies for Elsewhere (2018) comprises two diptychs referring to Thomas More’s book Utopia (1518). In his fictional travelogue, More describes an ideal society built on equality, religious tolerance, welfare, and justice. To give this society independency from the outside world, he imagined it to have its own alphabet and developed the coded written script that Tan would use 500 years later in her diptychs to express her own account of contemporary utopia, while spending a year in Los Angeles. Fiona Tan, Elsewhere (still), HD Installation, Color, Stereo, 2018 The transcripts of Tan’s thoughts are juxtaposed to photogravures in which we see skyscrapers fade into the hazy sky above the cityscape of Los Angeles in dreamy shades of purple and blue. A city loaded with connotations and preconceived imaginations from film and visual culture. Almost as a phenomenon […]
Michael Müller | Anton im Bastrock + Bikini on Mars | Galerie Thomas Schulte | 09.09.-09.10.2020


until 09.10.| #2846ARTatBerlin | Galerie Thomas Schulte will present the first version of the solo show by the artist Michael Müller, which consists of two parts: “Anton im Bastrock” and the installation “Bikini on Mars” in the gallery’s Corner Space, starting on 9 September 2020. The second version, “Aesthetic judgement and selflessness: exposing oneself to something with an empty gaze and without support”, begins on 17 October and will be shown until 7 November 2020. This is the first solo presentation of the artist, which takes place in the gallery following his extensive exhibition cycle “18 Exhibitions” (2013 to 2017). For the first time, the two exhibitions will focus on Müller’s painterly oeuvre on a larger scale. Müller is known to date primarily for his conceptual-complex, multi-layered installations, performances and as a curator. Several new groups of works of programmatic painting will be presented, “Vor und hinter dem Glas”, “Handicap”, “Schwierige Bilder”, “Abstrakte Autogamie”, “Verschränkte Werke” and “Urteilskraft”. In it, Müller examines the classical approaches, methods and techniques of painting – its formats, materials, presentation and perception – and questions our learned approaches to and expectations of painting. The large-format picture series are each dedicated to different aspects of the […]
Markus Linnenbrink | IWANNABEWHEREYOUARE | Taubert Contemporary | 12.09.-31.10.2020


until 31.10. | #2876ARTatBerlin | Taubert Contemporary is showing the exhibition “IWANNABEWHEREYOUARE” with works by the artist Markus Linnenbrink from September 12, 2020. Taubert Contemporary is pleased to present “IWANNABEWHEREYOUARE,” an exhibition of Markus Linnenbrink’s new works. In the 59-year-old artist’s 9th exhibition with the gallery, he continues to use a synthetic palette of supersaturated colors to explore the emotional and psychological affects people experience when we interact with two-dimensional surfaces as if they were three dimensional volumes—and vice versa. Markus Linnenbrink, WHATSYOURSOULLOOKINGLIKE, epoxy resin on wood, 91,4 x 121,9 cm, 2020 In the old days, painters talked about the relationship between flat, two-dimensional surfaces and deep, three-dimensional space in almost exclusively formal terms—as if all that mattered was how Painting, particularly Abstract Painting, stuck to the surfaces of things (like canvas, panel, and paper), and Sculpture, particularly Abstract Sculpture, dealt with volume, weight, and gravity. The two media were treated as if they were distinct: each doing its own thing—and only its own thing. That world is long gone. Today, when more people experience more of reality via the screens of their handheld devices, it no longer makes sense to think that art and life—or two-dimensional imagery and three-dimensional […]
Grit Richter | Mixed Feelings | Galerie Tanja Wagner | 11.09.-31.10.2020


until 31.10. | #2870ARTatBerlin | Galerie Tanja Wagner shows from September 11, 2020 the exhibition “Mixed Feelings” with works of the artist Grit Richter. The interview with the artist in the context of Gallery Weekend 2020 and background information on her work can be found on DEEDS.WORLD. Foremost a painter, she uses oils on stretched linen and fabric to create her anthropomorphic abstract forms. Experimentation is an important part of her practice and led Richter to create her unique technique of dying and bleaching black denim fabric onto which she paints and sculpts with. The result is the deeply textured elements that bend, fold and contrast in both foregrounds and backgrounds. Grit Richter explores the representation of a collective human memory: an innately understood set of gestures and feelings that cannot be quantified or measured. Her multi-disciplinary practice of painting, sculpture, murals and textile work unites in a system of intuitive abstract forms and figurations. Grit Richter, The Other Side, 125 x 100 cm, 2020 Mixed Feelings refers to the multitudinous combinations of contradictory emotions that can be felt at any one time. In both their singularity and plurality, those mixed emotions, such as longing, hatred, love, fear, loneliness, frustration, shame […]
Andreas Gursky | Sprüth Magers Berlin | 12.09.-14.11.2020


until 14.11. | #2840ARTatBerlin | Sprüth Magers Berlin presents from 12th September 2020 the exhibition by the artist Andreas Gursky. Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers are pleased to present a substantial exhibition of new photographs by Andreas Gursky at their Berlin gallery, his first new body of work in almost three years, in which he takes up a range of themes that he has investigated for decades. The exhibition will also be accompanied by an online show on their website. Despite the continuity in theme and subject matter—our built environment and humankind’s impact on the natural world—the new pictures embed his analyses in current events, offering altered settings and situations to explore. Rhine III (2018) revisits his important work Rhine II (1999)—the dimensions, setting and composition of both are all almost identical. And yet, just twenty years later, the mood is drastically altered. The drought of summer 2018 reduced the river to a record low, and the new picture offers a dystopian vision of the once flourishing river landscape. Cruise (2020) also brings to mind an important earlier work, Paris, Montparnasse (1993). The same grid-like structure appears, but instead of a large apartment building, here there are hundreds of windows […]
Fiene Scharp | Voids | Kuckei + Kuckei | 10.09.-31.10.2020


until 31.10. | #2866ARTatBerlin | Kuckei + Kuckei shows from September 10, 2020, the exhibition “Voids” with works of the artist Fiene Scharp. Numerous voids, gaps, and cavities run like a common thread throughout the work of artist Fiene Scharp. Her paper cutouts are an expression of the ambiguity between repetition and difference, structure and chaos. Vintage grid paper from around the world, collected by the artist over the years, forms the underlying basis of these works: an old ledger with markings, grid paper, a music notebook, or sewing patterns—each paper type features a unique grid, a rhythm. By excising the interstitial spaces between lines, the artist brings out the fragility of the material; inconsistencies and irregularities are made visible. For voids, her second solo show at Kuckei + Kuckei gallery, the artist presents two new series of color works and a white-monochrome triptych. Hard to discern from the wall itself, it occupies its spot there in a highly subtle and homogeneous manner. The work consists of wafer-thin paper, from which Fiene Scharp removed 1cm squares with a scalpel so that a delicate grid remains. She laid this form onto a white underground, affixing it so that a fold stretches […]
Tamina Amadyar | out of the blue | Guido W. Baudach | 12.09.-31.10.2020


until 31.10. | #2869ARTatBerlin | Galerie Guido W. Baudach presents from September 12, 2020, the exhibition “out of the blue” with works of the artist Tamina Amadyar. The interview with the artist in the context of Gallery Weekend 2020 and background information on her work can be found on DEEDS.WORLD. The exhibition at this year’s Gallery Weekend Berlin marks the third solo show of the Berlin-based artist with the gallery. Tamina Amadyar practices a new, unique kind of color field painting that is decidedly located in the contemporary context. On the basis of situational sketches, she translates biographical narratives and personal visual experiences into abstract image creations of various hues and formats. Her paintings are both reduced and color-intensive at the same time. Each work only has two colors. Amadyar mixes the paints herself, using pure pigment and a gelatin-like glue. The resulting material is not just characterized by an enormous luminosity. It also allows an exceptionally variable density of color – qualities the artist knows to use with virtuosity. Amadyar paints with always the same type of tool: a particular wide, flat brush that, like an extension of the artist’s body, transfers each of her movements to the transparent primed […]
Nicola Samorì | In abisso | Galerie EIGEN + ART Berlin | 03.09.-31.10.2020


until 31.10. | #2844ARTatBerlin | Galerie EIGEN + ART Berlin is currently showing the exhibition “In abisso” with works by the artist Nicola Samorì. The interview with the artist in the context of Gallery Weekend 2020 and background information on his work can be found on DEEDS.WORLD. Nicola Samorì’s relationship to the sources of his pictures is suffused with a continuous grappling with the history of visual art – not didactic, but substantive. His work as a painter and sculptor necessarily implies confrontation with this legacy, which nowadays is all too often regarded as unwieldy ballast. Samorì has no fear of the past or of his predecessors. He takes possession of them as role models and uses them to traverse the necessary path of knowledge and selfknowledge, using them as instruments to deconstruct their language and to found his own poetics. Nicola Samorì, La degenerazione di Daniel, Oil on Bardiglio marble, 40 x 30 cm, 2020 The suggestive power of an art-historical icon can be so great that it is reworked again and again over the centuries; each work becomes a building block that gradually loses every component of recognizability, increasingly becomes one with its respective creator, and moves ever further […]
Sag Was – Say Something | Group Show | Michaela Helfrich Galerie | 10.09.-17.10.2020


until 17.10. | #2841ARTatBerlin + #2843ARTatBerlin | Michaela Helfrich Galerie presents from 10th September 2020 The exhibition Sag Was – Say Something with works by the artists Simon Czapla, Susanne Husemann, Thomas Jüptner, Ulrike Pisch, Pina Rath, Elena Tamburini and Gerard Waskievitz. Simon Czapla “Pop culture meets hyperrealism. Once Simon Czapla sets up a new canvas, the drama starts. With precision and humor, he stages his protagonists and questions our identity and existence in its current state in a subtle yet sharp-tongued way.” Simon Czapla, Hans im Glück, Öl auf Leinwand, 180 x 130 cm, 2019 Susanne Husemann “Perhaps the contemporary heroic journey is a journey in ourself and the hero is somone who is able to transform the battleground between heart, larynx and brain into a departure point for hummingbirds. The power of the hummingbird transcends time and creates an image.“ Susanne Husemann Thomas Jüptner “You have enchanted me, beloved, my bride! “One look out of your eyes and I was spellbound. Tell me, does it have a charm, the jewelry on your neck? How happy you make me with your tenderness!” (Bible, Song of Songs 4: 9-11) Thomas Jüptner Ulrike Pisch “If words are too sharp but colour […]
Natalia LL + Ryszard Wasko | YESTERDAY IS TODAY | Galerie aKonzept | 11.09.-30.10.2020 | extended until 07.11.2020


extended until 30.10. | #2848ARTatBerlin | Galerie aKonzept and Raphael Lévy will present the group exhibition “YESTERDAY IS TODAY” with works by the artists Natalia LL and Ryszard Wasko from September 11, 2020. In September, Gallery aKonzept will show the works of two outstanding neo-avant-garde artists, Natalia LL and Ryszard Wasko. Their work along with their philosophical ideas have been part of the Polish progressive art scene since the 1970s and are now regarded as legendary. They belonged to two different circles important to Polish and European conceptual art in the 1970s. Natalia LL Natalia LL comes from Wrocław, where she and Andrzej Lachowicz, Zbigniew Dłubak and Antoni Dzieduszycki were founding the Permafo-Gallery, which paved the way for a whole new generation of artists. Natalia LL. Flyer of a show at PERMAFO Gallery, 1972 Ryszard Wasko, on the other hand, was active in the Workshop of the Film Form (Warsztat Formy Filmowej) in Łódź where he, alongside Józef Robakowski, Wojciech Bruszewski, and others, had a profound influence on media art in the fields of film, photography, and video. Ryszard Wasko also created the huge international exhibition project “Construction in Process” from 1981, for which such outstanding artists as Richard Nonas, […]
Huda Al Saie | From the Land of Eternity | aquabitArt Galerie | 11.09.-20.09.2020


until 20.09. | #2860ARTatBerlin | aquabitArt Galerie is showing the exhibition “From the Land of Eternity” with works by the artist Huda Al Saie, curated by Frances Stafford, starting September 11, 2020. On September 11 the new exhibition “From the Land of Eternity” by Huda Al Saie opens its doors at aquabitArt gallery during Berlin Art Week 2020. Huda Al Saie is a Bahraini artist, most known as the leading pioneer of porcelain art in Bahrain. Exploring new forms of expression, she started creating multiple series of larger acrylic paintings on canvas in 2018 that, due to the scale and medium, allowed Al Saie more freedom in her process. Thanks to the immediacy of the paint, she was now able to enact larger gestural strokes and work with abstraction in general compared to the extremely detailed and precise work that usually lends itself to traditional porcelain painting. Al Saie is inspired by the unique and ancient architecture of Bahrain and the Kingdom’s flora and fauna. Huda Al Saie, Birds in Paradise (Bahrain), Photo: Matt Wardle, 2020 As a connoisseur of Bahraini art, curator Frances Stafford presents the latest works by Huda Al Saie in the exhibition, “From the Land of […]
Joax + Zam Johnson | The Beautiful Ones | Galerie Z22 | 19.09.-31.10.2020


until 31.10. | #2859ARTatBerlin | Galerie Z22 presents the exhibition “The Beautiful Ones…” with works of painting and steel by the artists Joax and Zam Johnson from September 19, 2020. In his sculptures Joax processes current events. He says: Almost everything that a person thinks, i.e. that which swells out of his head, flows, emerges and is activated, symbolises the desire for constant research and development. The revolution in science has managed to manipulate genes and creatures like the cloned sheep Dolly have long been reality. The human being of today’s reality is in the first generation of a duality between natural and artificially man-made life. Frightening, fascinating hybrid creatures are born. The later consequences are not known. Through unnatural intervention, living conditions are changed, rejuvenation becomes possible, according to the desire as it has existed for thousands of years in the sense of the fountain of youth. By striving for rejuvenation, manipulated material intervenes in the natural processes of aging. Man thinks up processes with his brain, makes use of the technical possibilities and goes beyond ethical and moral concerns. Manipulation becomes an instrument, even normality. This also applies to politics and society. A new state of affairs emerges. […]
Santeri Tuori | Time Is No Longer Round | Persons Projects | 11.09.-14.11.2020


until 14.11. | #2851ARTatBerlin | Persons Projects presents the exhibition “Time Is No Longer Around” by the artist Santeri Tuori from September 11, 2020. Persons Projects is delighted to present Santeri Tuori‘s solo exhibition Time is No Longer Round, opening on Friday, 11 of September 2020, on the occasion of the Berlin Art Week. The show will also be part of the European Month of Photography (EMOP) Berlin. Santeri Tuori uses a camera to engage with the properties of nature and its power of change over the past two decades. Forests, skies, lilies, and wind are only some of the basic elements you might find in any Nordic landscape, and all become items of Tuori’s interest and observation. How should we value these essential features that make up the northern scenery is the fundamental question that lies behind Tuori’s work and his fascination with the passage of time. To fully comprehend his approach is to begin by seeing how he integrates his life into his projects. An avid sailor, Tuori tours the Finnish Archipelago each summer, searching for new locations to begin and follow his measured cyclical observations. The small island of Kökar outside of Åland has been his primary […]
Ute Mahler + Werner Mahler | An den Strömen | GALERIE SPRINGER BERLIN | 06.10.2020–30.01.2021


until 30.01. | #2863ARTatBerlin | GALERIE SPRINGER BERLIN presents the exhibition “An den Strömen” with works of the photographer couple Ute Mahler & Werner Mahler from October 06, 2020. Galerie Springer Berlin is opening the exhibition An den Strömen (At the Streams) by Ute Mahler and Werner Mahler on October 3 to mark the EMOP European Month of Photography Berlin 2020. This new and previously unpublished series emerged from the summer of 2019 onwards for the exhibition Kontinent – Auf der Suche nach Europa (Continent – in search of Europe) by the Ostkreuz photographers’ agency at the Academy of Arts (10/02/2020 – 01/10/2021). For this series, both photographers toured Europe’s major rivers and streams – the Elbe, Rhine/Waal, Danube, Po and Volga – where social, ecological, political, economic and historical themes become apparent and enable both artists to create a superlative portrait of Europe. In images that are both emotionally powerful and photographically impressive, they depict extracts from life, architecture, and portraits along Europe’s biggest streams. The artists started at the Elbe, the Rhine and the Danube in Bulgaria in 2019. The Po followed that autumn and in February 2020 they continued on their journey to the Volga. Visits to […]
Otto Zitko | In Times Like These | Crone Berlin | 12.09.-10.10.2020


until 10.10. | #2853ARTatBerlin | Crone Berlin shows from 12th September 2020 the exhibition “In Times Like These” by the artist Otto Zitko. The interview with the artist in the context of Gallery Weekend 2020 and background information on his work can be found on DEEDS.WORLD. As part of this year’s Gallery Weekend, the gallery invites to the opening of the first solo exhibition by the Austrian artist Otto Zitko. Under the title In Times like These, Zitko will present a series of new, not yet shown works on aluminum. Otto Zitko has achieved renown primarily through his in situ, monumental room drawings. He put his brush aside as early as the 1980s and has since then developed his formal language using the line. With an oil crayon, charcoal, or painter’s roller, he applies lines to aluminum panels, paper, and cardboard or continues them into a room. Otto Zitko The lines, which were still filigree at the beginning, have in recent years developed into ever wider strips of color and impenetrable surfaces. For the exhibition In Times like These, Zitko creates an orchestrated color experience in which the inherent radiance and light effect of the colors come into their own in […]
Anette Haas | Schraffuren | drj art projects | 27.09.-14.11.2020


until 14.11. | #2856ARTatBerlin | drj art projects shows from September 27, 2020, the exhibition “Schraffuren” with works of the artist Anette Haas. The third show of the year 2020 at drj art projects is a solo exhibition of programme artist Anette Haas [b. 1961 in Salzgitter, Germany]. In her work Anette Haas has been concentrating on essential questions of image and space for a long time. Materiality and technique, which constitute a work of art, interest her just as much as time and perception, both of which determine the creation and vision of art. In this respect, she is intensively engaged with their basic phenomena, such as line and space, colour and its nuances, the relationship between figure and ground or geometry and proportion. Anette Haas‘ artistic approach oscillates between elementary poles such as contrast and consistency, densification and openness, boundary and field, and also explicitly their transitions. The investigations and developments derived from this can be seen in her various groups of works such as paintings, drawings and prints. Anette Haas, Linien I, Graphite on plaster, 29 x 25 x 2 cm, 2020 In the current exhibition, in specific juxtapositions, it is displayed how Anette Haas reflects on […]
Hadi Fallahpisheh | Good | EFREMIDIS GALLERY | 11.09.-07.11.2020


until 07.11. | #2857ARTatBerlin | EFREMIDIS GALLERY shows from September 11, 2020, exhibition “Good” with works of the artist Hadi Fallahpisheh. Hadi Fallahpisheh performs alone in the darkroom. The lack of light impairs his vision and, consequently, movements become absurd and cumbersome. To make his work he uses different tools and methods: balls and flashlights, ceramic and photographic techniques. The performance has elements of slapstick comedy. Isolated in a pitch-dark room, the artist throws a ball—again and again—at a sheet of metallic Kodak paper. Sometimes missing its target altogether, when the ball does hit the paper, a bulb lights up. The flash causes a photogram and by exposing different objects, creates faint outlines and grids. In the following step, he uses a flashlight to make line drawings on the light-sensitive paper. Hadi Fallahpisheh shrugs at the rules: he crosses boundaries between media and ideas and misuses his materials. The strength of his photographic surfaces lies in their remarkable painterly appearance. It’s only logical that the artist stretches the thick photographic paper to mimic and also taunt the idea of painting. Hadi Fallahpisheh, Love in the Room, 2020 The resulting artworks are twofold: a document of a lonesome performance and an […]
Adébayo Bolaji | Between Two Worlds | Galerie Kremers | 12.09.–30.10.2020


until 30.10. | #2849ARTatBerlin | Galerie Kremers presents the exhibition “Between Two Worlds” with works by the artist Adébayo Bolaji from September 12, 2020. Adébayo Bolaji (* 1983 in London as son of Nigerian parents) is a multidisciplinary artist who lives and works in London. He is a painter with an amazing background as a writer, theatre and film director. And he is a professional actor. He loves to put his paintings and sculptures on stage, because the visual arts are the field that gives him maximum freedom. Adébayo Bolaji, The Crossover, mixed media on canvas, 205 x 165 cm Photo: Amoroso Films, 2020 After several solo exhibitions in London and Zurich, GALERIE KREMERS opens his first solo exhibition in Germany. The title “Between Two Worlds” can be seen both as an indication of his artistic approach and as an introduction and invitation to this exhibition. Adébayo Bolaji moves between the abstract and the figurative, the rough and the fine. “Between two worlds”, the works enter into a dialogue with each other and open the conversation between artist and viewer. The symbols and graphic codes are carriers of meaning of cultural identities. “The Crossover” is a title that expresses this: […]
The Freestyle Collection | Galerie Kremers | 13.09.–30.10.2020


until 30.10. | #2862ARTatBerlin | Galerie Kremers presents from September 13, 2020 the group exhibition “The Freestyle Collection” by the artists Taylor A. White, Natascha Mann, Rainer Zitta, Ernst Weil, Robert Szot, Adébayo Bolaji, Taher Jaoui, Fiona Ackermann, Gregor Hiltner and Jonni Cheatwood. Taylor A. White, Everyone Dunks on Shawn, Acrylic, spray paint, charcoal, wax crayon, fabric, paper, and sewing on canvas, 165 x 165 cm Reiner Zitta, The Campaign, mixedmedia, 30 cm x 10 cm Fiona Ackerman, Slang, acrylic, oil and spray paint on canvas 180 x 160 cm, 2011 Soft opening: Sunday, September 13, 2020, from 11:00 a.m. Exhibition dates: Sunday, September 13 – Friday, October 30, 2020 Special opening hours during Art Week: Saturday, September 12 and Sunday, September 13, 2020, 11:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m. Exhibition The Freestyle Collection – Galerie Kremers | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin
Martine Poppe | Zima Blue | Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery Berlin | 11.09.-24.10.2020


until 24.10. | #2845ArtatBerlin | Kristin Hjellegjerde Berlin presents from September 11, 2020, the exhibition Zima Blue by the Norwegian artist Martine Poppe. Public and private, demure and violent, ordered and wild – for her second exhibition in Berlin, young Norwegian artist Martine Poppe has produced an extraordinary series of paintings and sculptures. Pastel bands – painted in Poppe’s trademark circular brush strokes on silk or polyester restoration fabric – are reminiscent of the controlled silence of Agnes Martin’s striped works. Between the stripes, however a partial view of draped and paint-splattered fabrics generates a surge of contemporary noise and energy. Suspended between the tactile and the unreachable, Poppe’s works flex and glow through the delicate canvas. “The surface is usually regarded as the ‘real’ painting, so the space behind – still visible between the lines of the cool, ordered surface – is a place I can be violent, intimate, vulnerable and lost.” Martine Poppe, Between the lines, oil on polyester restoration fabric and textiles 160 x 110 cm, 2020 Acutely aware of the role her gender plays in how people view and understand her work, Poppe fixes splatter-painting – widely perceived as a hyper-masculine technique – between soft fabrics […]
CHAOS UND ORDNUNG | Group exhibition | Galerie ART CRU Berlin | 11.09.-22.10.2020


until 22.10. | #2842ARTatBerlin | Galerie ART CRU Berlin shows from September 11, 2020, the group exhibition with works by 13 artists from the Open Studio St. Hedwig. Chaos and order are forces we all have to deal with. 13 artists from the Open Studio St. Hedwig show how chaos can be given space by ordering it and thus not being subject to it. The conceptual dichotomy plays an important role in the world of art and in the creation of artworks. Elements from both sides can play an important role in the artistic process. As principles of “order” one could mention, for example: the “meticulous” observance of color compositional rules, the orientation towards artistic traditions or a strict discipline in the application of certain techniques. Gabriele Graul, Chaos und Ordnung, Acrylic, 70×50 cm, 2020 Examples of elements of “chaos” may be: the anarchic negation of all specifications, the break with everything that was before or the decision to work exclusively with new media and experimental forms of expression. The field of tension between chaos and order, which every artist has to deal with in the development of his or her work, offers an almost inexhaustible space for creativity. Martin […]
BieneFeld | Five Seasons | Galerie Born Berlin | 10.09.-31.10.2020


until 31.10. | #2838ARTatBerlin | Galerie Born Berlin presents an exhibition of works by the artist BieneFeld starting September 10, 2020. “Five Seasons,” the current series of works from the painter BieneFeld, follows on seamlessly from the two previous series, “Gehen” und “Werden.” Whether they have been completed is uncertain, as all transitions are fluid. There are no abrupt breaks. A continual progression and forward motion is unmistakable. BieneFeld, Five Seasons #2, Acrylic, Canvas, 40 x 70 cm, 2019 This does not just relate to the artistic expression, the means also change. While a number of years ago the focus was still on oil on canvas, in recent years the works on paper have gained increasing importance in her œuvre. In the series of works the two mediums stand side by side, on an equal footing, supplementing and completing as opposed to excluding one another. Painterly techniques can be seen in the paper works, and naturally the other way around. BieneFeld, Five Seasons #25, Acrylic, Indian ink, Colored pencil, Paper, 78 x 106 cm, 2020 One has always felt the strong influence of the surroundings, nature, the landscape in the artist’s work. And the current title “Five Seasons” is an […]
Adam Harvey | Face First: Researchers Gone Wild | EIGEN + ART Lab | 27.08.-19.09.2020


until 19.09. | #2852ARTatBerlin | EIGEN + ART Lab currently shows the exhibition “Face First: Researchers Gone Wild” by artist Adam Harvey. The exhibition Face First: Researchers Gone Wild looks at the use of unconstrained and non-consensual data sources in Artificial Intelligence systems. Beginning in 2007 with the “Labeled Faces in the Wild” dataset and continuing throughout 2020, the practice of collecting images “in the wild” has become normalized, but is still largely unregulated and often problematic. Today, dozens of image training datasets with millions of images and identities feed into industrial facial recognition systems with little oversight. The works presented in Face First: Researchers Gone Wild showcase discoveries made during the multiyear research project MegaPixels that investigates image training datasets created “in the wild”. Adam Harvey, Datageist: Duke MTMC Camera 6, 2019, visualisation based on the Duke MTMC Person tracking Image dataset, credit: Adam Harvey, 2019 courtesy the artist and EIGEN + ART Lab Adam Harvey (US, 1981) is a researcher and artist based in Berlin focused on computer vision, privacy, and image politics. He is a graduate of the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University (2010) and previously studied engineering and photojournalism at the Pennsylvania State University. […]
Tobias Spichtig | Pretty Fine | CFA Berlin | 01.09.-26.09.2020


until 26.09. | #2855ARTatBerlin | Contemporary Fine Arts currently presents the exhibition “Pretty Fine” with works of the artist Tobias Spichtig. It is his first exhibition with the gallery. The interview with the artist in the context of Gallery Weekend 2020 and background information on his work can be found on DEEDS.WORLD. So everything started over – the fragility of the night and the fragility of the eggs we entrust our selves to in good faith again and again. And as with every new beginning there was a point when certain structures emerged from the chaos and, beyond that, as the consequences of deliberate acts of will. For us, however, that point is still far away. TOBIAS SPICHTIG, “LANDSCHAFTSFORMAT”, VINYL PRINT AND OIL ON CANVAS 135 X 185.5 CM, 2020 The Milky Way poured gentle and white into space. Although we couldn’t see it yet, we knew the way things are: everything reflects everything, the stars above the stars below, the milk up there the milk down here. All of this was happening all the time while we wandered around in the fragility of the moment like leaves in the wind, the fine veins on their wrinkly brown surfaces still distinct […]
Mari Sunna | Passed | galerie burster | 03.09.-24.09.2020


until 24.09. | #2854ARTatBerlin | galerie burster shows from September 3, 2020, the exhibition “Passed” with works of the artist Mari Sunna. It is her first solo exhibition at the gallery in Berlin. Mari Sunna (*1972 in Espoo, Finland, based in Helsinki) treats in her figurative paintings soul states that are very familiar to us. She makes a range of emotional conditions such as longing, loneliness and emotional vulnerability, but also joy and high spirits, the oscillation between emotional highs and lows and everything in between, perceptible in a sensitive and very ethereal way. Mari Sunna, JUST FINE, Oil on cavas, 65 x 60 cm, Photo: Jussi Tiainen, 2020 Sometimes there are soft, fragile, hovering figures, sometimes only their tender, round faces, satisfied, charming, resting in themselves, melancholically dreamy, or in deep insecurity, sometimes funny, rebellious or just pretty angry, the gaze often turned directly towards the viewer. Sunna’s very own expressive, precise and sensitive handwriting is always recognizable. A handwriting that reveals her instinctive sense for the absolute essentials. Just like us and our various mental states themselves, her figures simply exist, and yet at the same time reveal something that goes beyond the motif itself and tells so […]
Enrico Freitag, Rao Fu + Wang Yuhong | Galerie Eigenheim | 05.09.–26.09.2020


until 26.10. | #2861ARTatBerlin | Galerie Eigenheim presents from September 5, 2020 three exhibitions of paintings, drawings and installations by the artists Enrico Freitag with “Nebelherz”, Rao Fu with “Im Regen” and Wang Yuhong with “Seven Stars”. Galerie EIGENHEIM Berlin hereby cordially invites you to the autumn exhibition. On 04.09. they will open an exhibition in which the three artists Enrico Freitag, Rao Fu and Wang Yuhong will be confronted with each other in a dialogue-like manner. In the front room of the exhibition they show new works, mainly pastels on paper, by Enrico Freitag, which are less concerned with global issues but more with inner states of mind. These are juxtaposed with new large-format paintings by Rao Fu, chanching between dream and reality. In this room they develop a contrasting dialogue with installations by Wang Yuhong, while in the rear salon new paintings and paper works by the artist from Shanghai are on display. For many years EIGENHEIM Weimar/Berlin has maintained contact with artists from China. Wang Yuhong, for example, has been an artist of the house since 2010 and Rao Fu, born in Beijing, since 2018. Works by Enrico Freitag have also been shown frequently in China – […]
Jan-Ole Schiemann | Mantis Mannequins | WENTRUP | 09.09.–18.10.2020


until 17.10. | #2864ARTatBerlin | WENTRUP is showing the exhibition “Mantis Mannequins” with works by the artist Jan-Ole Schiemann from September 9, 2020. The interview with the artist in the context of Gallery Weekend 2020 and background information on his work can be found on DEEDS.WORLD. On the occasion of this year’s Gallery Weekend Berlin, Wentrup is pleased to present the first solo show by Jan-Ole Schiemann at the gallery: Mantis Mannequins. Based on a visual vocabulary of complex forms and surreal body fragments, Jan-Ole Schiemann’s works oscillate between abstract painting and anthropomorphic figuration. His pictorial worlds create a dense, sometimes transparent mesh that abandons the contours of clearly defined, spatial structures in favour of interwoven compositions. The structures of the pictorial space, created on the basis of stencils and shadowy fields of ink, seem to work themselves deeply into the pictorial planes. In the paintings, they are delicately woven to form a superimposing net, which, in the manner of collages, takes up the multiple references to comics, gestural abstraction, and early animation film, and combines them in ever new variations. Jan-Ole Schiemann, Matcha Mantis, ink, acrylic, charcoal and oil pastel on canvas, 230 x 200 cm, 2020 The large-format works […]
Spirit us | Group exhibition | rk-gallery | 01.09.–30.10.2020


until 30.10. | #2832ARTatBerlin | rk-gallery will present the group exhibition “Spirit us” of the artists Christine Baumann, Julia Hürter, Thora Kraft, Ricarda Wallhäuser and the Danish artist group QWERTY. In the new exhibition at the rk-gallery for contemporary art in the town hall of Lichtenberg drawings, paintings, collages and installations by Christine Baumann, Julia Hürter, Thora Kraft and Ricarda Wallhäuser are presented. Julia Hürter, a Lichtenberg artist, had the idea for this exhibition project, to which the Danish artist group QWERTY with 7 artists is also invited. Spirit us – the artists approach the topic of spirituality from different points of view. It is about forms of dealing with the invisible. At the edges of the measurable lurks the incomprehensible – what does this mean for art? The artist group QWERTY dedicates its fabulous group actions to topics like death, redemption, therapy, but also real estate speculation. For Spirit us QWERTY will stage the action redemption. The term spirituality covers the field of religion as well as other forms of dealing with the invisible, spiritual. In our time, in which the suspicion condenses itself that it does not go on with “further so”, many humans place themselves the question […]
Rebecca Horn + Antonio Paucar | TIME GOES BY | ifa-gallery Berlin | 10.09.-11.10.2020


until 11.10. | #2835ARTatBerlin | ifa-gallery is showing the exhibition TIME GOES BY by the artists Rebecca Horn and Antonio Paucar from September 10, 2020. The world is out of kilter. What form might international artistic and cultural exchange take on during a global pandemic? ifa Gallery Berlin takes advantage of this moment of immobility to place works from the ifa (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen) collection in a contemporary context. Artist and Master Student In the current climate, the unsettling yet touching works of Rebecca Horn take on a new significance. Her films, performances and sculptures open up a space between the poles of life and death, past and future, interior and exterior, human and machine. Horn not only influenced a subsequent generation of artists; she actively sought a dialogue with them. The exhibition presents such a dialogue with her master class student Antonio Paucar, an artist who lives between Berlin and Huancayo (Peru). In his performances, Paucar moves through private, public and political spaces and landscapes that are both culturally and symbolically laden. He waits for change, senses transience, the power of the unconscious, sows memories so as not to forget. In poetry, they find a shared language of proximity, […]
Max Pietschmann | Grisebach | 02.09.-03.10.2020


until 03.10. | #2831ARTatBerlin | Grisebach shows from September 02, 2020, the exhibition “King Kong comes from Dresden – The rediscovery of the painter Max Pietschmann” by the artist Max Pietschmann. The leitmotif of the show is the main work of the artist, the monumental oil painting “Fischzug des Polyphem” (380 x 260 cm), which was believed to be lost. In addition, pictures, photographs and letters from his estate will be presented. In Grisebach’s exhibition announcement, the gallery takes us into the moment of discovery: “So there it lay, the huge canvas: in the attic of an old Dresden townhouse, carefully rolled and jacked up. The outrageously modern oil studies and photos of the women lolling in the shallow Mediterranean fanned our curiosity. The small-format compositional sketch gave us an idea. The feast for the eyes as the colorful fabric was rolled out in a Berlin restorer’s studio exceeded all expectations: before we rose – centimeter by centimeter – a one-eyed giant in front of a dazzling blue Riviera sky, white mountains of clouds, as light as the radiant incarnate body of the frightened beauties, whose physical presence is not shown by rapt sea creatures but by women in the […]
Sandra Vásquez de la Horra | EL VIAJE IMAGINARIO | Galerie Michael Haas | 11.09.-17.10.2020


until 17.10. | #2820ARTatBerlin | Galerie Michael Haas is showing an exhibition of the Berlin-based Chilean artist Sandra Vásquez de la Horra from 11 September 2020. The interview with the artist in the context of Gallery Weekend 2020 and background information on her work can be found on DEEDS.WORLD. Delicate and vulnerable, these attributes apply as much to the works of Sandra Vásquez de la Horra as they do to merciless, grotesque and disturbing. They are pictures full of contradictory sensations. The artist does not make easy art. The fact that she was born in Chile in 1967, at a time marked by torture and persecution under the Pinochet regime, has always shaped the content of her art. The artist’s cultural heritage is complemented by the history of the Indians, the colonial history of the Spanish in Central and South America and her own family history. Sandra Vásquez de la Horra, Desde Siempre y hasta Nunca, 2018 Sandra Vásquez de la Horra seeks and finds her liberation from this close-knit society through art and in art. She studied visual communication in Chile from 1989 to 1994 and graduated with honors. 1995/1996 she comes to Germany for one year and studies at […]
David Drebin | 15 YEARS – COLLECTED DREAMS | CAMERA WORK | 05.09.-02.10.2020


until 02.10. | #2828ARTatBerlin | CAMERA WORK presents the exhibition “15 YEARS – COLLECTED DREAMS” with photographs by artist David Drebin from September 5, 2020. The exhibition takes place on the occasion of the artist’s 50th birthday and comprises more than 15 large-format photographs, including rarely exhibited major works such as “Movie Star” and “Dreams of Central Park”, new works and spectacular lightboxes. The photo book “Collectors Edition” (teNeues) will be published on the occasion of the exhibition. David Drebin has been represented by the CAMERA WORK gallery for 15 years. During this time he has developed into an influential and important contemporary photographic artist. In the exhibition, which traces Drebin’s artistic development over the last 15 years by means of selected major works, visitors can gain an insight into the artist’s oeuvre. David Drebin’s leitmotif is the depiction of women in connection with longings, fantasies and their relationship to the big city. In the photographs, the women are surrounded by an exciting and stimulating atmosphere that is unapproachable, unreachable and at the same time irresistible. Becoming a voyeur, the viewer enjoys a view into apartments and city scenes in which glamorous women are mysteriously staged. Drebin lets the viewer […]
Felix Kiessling | Taumel | alexander levy | 11.09.-24.10.2020


until 24.10. | #2821ARTatBerlin | alexander levy shows from September 11, 2020, the exhibition “Taumel” (> Tumble) with new works by the artist Felix Kiessling. The chaos has been a starting point for many of Felix Kiessling’s works over the past few years. In a playful way, he fathoms human perception and the question of how the world is connected. Hereby, physical parameters such as energy, tension and effect are decisive for him. Kiessling tries to explore and expand the limits of the possible. For the upcoming exhibition, he is now going to examine the chaos within the social context of large cities. In the exhibition, individual work complexes are combined to form an overall spatial concept. When entering the gallery space, the observer becomes part of an abstract, chaotic urban playground. The entire floor will be covered with paving slabs, which are commonly known from our cityscape. Nevertheless, some of them are wobbling, which results in a feeling of insecurity. A new series of works deal with the bicycle as a representation for dealing with public space and property: the bicycle stands for mobility and independence, though through the choice of model and color it also stands for individuality […]
Jürgen Wittdorf | FAVOURITES | works from 1952-2003 | KVOST | 29.08.-14.11.2020


until 14.11. | #2827ARTatBerlin | KVOST presents since August 29, 2020, the exhibition “FAVOURITES Works from 1952 – 2003” by the artist Jürgen Wittdorf. Starting August 28, 2020, the Kunstverein Ost – KVOST will for the first time show more than 100 works from the estate of the painter and graphic artist Jürgen Wittdorf (1932-2018). Wittdorf left numerous works of art in his Berlin apartment – his personal “favourites”. Among them are woodcuts and linocuts as well as drawings with red chalk, charcoal and ink and ceramics. The exhibition at KVOST is supplemented by pictures of his probably most famous series: woodcuts from the “Cycle for the Youth”. Wittdorf’s pictures show diverse everyday scenes, still lifes, landscapes and animals. His breakthrough as an artist in the GDR, however, came with the depiction of young people, who were not idealized as workers and farmers, but were portrayed as seekers with their desires and longings. What Wittdorf was accused of “westernization” by the authorities was enthusiastically celebrated by the youth. For Wittdorf, art was also a means of coming to terms with his own homosexuality, which was a punishable offence in the GDR until 1968. Over the decades, this led to a […]
Tom of Finland | Made in Germany | Galerie Judin | 12.09.-19.12.2020


until 19.12. | #2830ARTatBerlin | Galerie Judin shows from September 12, 2020 the exhibition “Made in Germany” by the artist Tom of Finland. It is the second solo exhibition with Tom of Finland in the gallery. Under the pseudonym Tom of Finland, Touko Laaksonen (1920-1991) rose to become one of the most important and influential Finnish artists. His iconic depictions of proud and life-affirming gay life have given a decisive impetus to international gay emancipation since the 1960s. But although we clearly associate his lustful portraits of self-confident cops, cowboys, farmers, and men in black leather with the USA, Tom’s rise to gay icon hood began neither in his native Finland nor in the USA. Of all conceivable places, it was the northern German city of Hamburg and outstanding figures of the local gay scene that led to the very first exhibition of the artist’s work since the 1970s, a bar named after him and decorated with his works, two murals, and the creation of the world’s largest collection of his works in private hands. Regular commissions for advertising material for gay events in the Hanseatic city allowed Tom to hang up his livelihood in an advertising agency – and […]
Caroline Kryzecki | Counting Silence | Sexauer Gallery | 01.09-31.10.2020


until 31.10. | #2823ARTatBerlin | Sexauer Gallery presents from September 1, 2020, the exhibition “Counting Silence” with ballpoint pen drawings by the artist Caroline Kryzecki. The gallery will show a series of completely new works by Caroline Kryzecki. The idea for these works was born in this house of the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation in Bethany / Connecticut, where Caroline Kryzecki worked and lived for some time in 2019. Courtesy of the artist and the gallery Caroline Kryzecki is known for her ballpoint pen drawings with up to thousands of lines that overlap in several layers or grids. For almost a decade she has been playing through all the possibilities, from extremely reduced monochrome works with only a few superimposed grids to drawings that almost seem like paintings. With her partly monumental works in size of up to 270x190cm, the artist explores boundaries, physical, psychological and those of the material. Kryzecki always focuses on the working process. Ideas are born in the process and in a certain sense, the works emerge from within themselves. Kryzecki sets herself rules, enters structures and finds freedom in them. The drawings with horizontal and vertical lines often have a textile appearance. Kryzecki has […]
Anna K.E. | Dolorem Ipsum | Galerie Barbara Thumm | 09.09.–10.10.2020


until 10.10. | #2822ARTatBerlin | Galerie Barbara Thumm shows from 9. September 2020 the exhibition “Dolorem Ipsum” with works by the artist Anna K.E. We are thrilled to present the third gallery solo-show by the NY based Georgian artist Anna K.E. We are premiering a large scale multi-media installation. The exhibition follows her recent representation REARMIRRORVIEW, Simulation is Simulation, is Simulation, is Simulation… at the Georgian Pavillon at the 58th Venice Biennial 2019, curated by Margot Norton. K.E. looms above the low-angled camera like a totemic figure. Were it not for the glossy emissions that form on her lips and splash in slow-motion onto the lens below, she could be cast in stone. But the droplets keep falling, implying humanity, and increasingly obscure the lens, transforming the image into an impressionistic storm. Caught in its hazy centre, K.E.’s resolute figure swims in and out of focus as the maelstrom steadily builds. The gesture is simple, denoting both a rejection of the lens—the myopic ‘selfie ’machine—and a cleansing, regenerative impulse to nurture and make new. As in past works (Countdown Belladonna, 2018), K.E. engages with the lens and the narcissism it inspires as an antagonistic force, creating a fragmented feedback loop […]
Katrin Bremermann | JE NE SUIS PAS SEULE | Galerie Martin Mertens | 05.09.-24.10.2020


until 24.10. | #2839ARTatBerlin | Galerie Martin Mertens presents from 5th September 2020 the exhibition JE NE SUIS PAS SEULE with works by the artist Katrin Bremermann. As the title of her third solo exhibition with us, Katrin Bremermann, who lived in Paris for a long time, has chosen the title of a poem by Paul Éluard “Je ne suis pas seule” (“I am not alone”). When dealing with literature/poetry, she is interested in finding words that interest her, touch her emotionally or tell a story. They should raise questions and create expectations. This forms the basis for her work. Here it becomes clear that Katrin’s work is very emotional despite its formal rigour. She wants the respective work “to end so far that it remains unexplainable, but at the same time it is very present and independent”. Katrin has repeatedly described her work in the studio as a laboratory-like situation. She engages in various reflections and experiments on forms, colours and boundaries. In doing so, she constantly explores new elements and materials and consciously seeks new technical challenges. For the first time in this exhibition, we are showing her works with acrylic glass, which have emerged from this testing […]
She Comes in Colours Everywhere | Group Show | 68 projects | 11.09.-31.10.2020


until 31.10. | #2837ARTatBerlin | 68 projects, the project space of Galerie Kornfeld, presents the exhibition She Comes in Colours Everywhere from 11 September 2020 with works by the artists Gerold Miller, Pierre Descamps, Yorgos Stamkopoulos, Stephanie Stein, Lisa Tiemann, Schirin Kretschmann and Cyrill Lachauer, curated by Alexandra Alexopoulou. The exhibition is a homage to our Berlin. The title, a quote from the Rolling Stones song “She’s Like a Rainbow”, refers to the personified city and its vibrant influence on artistic creativity. The participating artists live and work here, the urban space and city structure of Berlin are their constant source of inspiration, which is evident in the abstract and conceptual works in the show. The Covid-19 crisis has led many artists to turn even more to their immediate surroundings and to explore various aspects of the city and their life here. Although the artists are actively exhibited in other places, they have yet to be granted much visibility in their own city. Gerold Miller (*1961) takes a special position in the show, as he is a long-established and important Berlin artist and has become a role model for many younger colleagues. His contribution is also the key work of […]
Claudius Schulze | Biosphere X | Alfred Ehrhardt Foundation | 12.09.–20.12.2020


until 20.12. | #2816ARTatBerlin | Alfred Ehrhardt Foundation is showing the exhibition Biosphere X by the artist Claudius Schulze from September 12, 2020. For his room-specific installation Biosphere X in the Alfred Ehrhardt Foundation Claudius Schulze brings together two epoch-making developments: the loss of biodiversity on the one hand and the creation of new life forms through Artificial intelligence and bionics on the other hand. Claudius Schulze, WD2350-RP0469.18, Dr. ir. Matej Karásek with autonomous bionomic drone, Pigment print, 2018, © Claudius Schulze, Courtesy the Artist / Gallery Robert Morat Could miniature drones soon be used to pollinate crops while at the same time the basis of life for millions of living beings gets lost? Claudius Schulze, TQ1066-RP5013.18, Contemporary Bumblebee Collection, Entomological Association Krefeld, Pigment print, 2018, 30 x 40 cm, © Claudius Schulze, Courtesy the Artist / Gallery Robert Morat As an artist and researcher, it is Claudius Schulze’s motivation to explore the worlds behind the surface of the everyday. He documents by means of large-format Photographs, 3D scans, animations, animal preparations and microscope images species extinction, shows the development of bionic robots, records animals and their behavior, visualizes urban retreats of wild nature from the perspective of autonomous machines […]
Bridget Riley | Close to home | Galerie Max Hetzler | 05.09.-24.10.2020


until 24.10. | #2815ARTatBerlin | Galerie Max Hetzler shows a comprehensive exhibition of the artist Bridget Riley from September 5, 2020. Gallery Max Hetzler is pleased to draw your attention to their comprehensive solo exhibition with works by the internationally renowned artist Bridget Riley in all three Berlin locations. This is the seventh solo exhibition of the artist with the gallery. Since the beginning of her career, Bridget Riley has constantly expanded the concept of abstraction and its possibilities for the painterly process. Aware of how individual and collective experiences influence the way we view the world, the artist creates works that liberate color and form from their illustrative potential and enable what the artist calls “pure seeing”. Riley conceives her paintings by condensing and combining specific forms. Vertical and horizontal stripes, circles, triangles and rhombuses, curved lines seem to move rhythmically across the canvas. The artist’s profound engagement with movement, light and color results in a complex oeuvre, which is based on a long-standing fascination with the physical process of perception. The exhibition at Galerie Max Hetzler Berlin includes new paintings and wall works from recent series as well as significant works from the past years that trace Riley’s […]
Sascha Weidner | AURORA | Dorothée Nilsson Gallery | 05.09.-31.10.2020 – extended until 23.12.2020


extended until 23.12. | #2813ARTatBerlin | Dorothée Nilsson Gallery is showing the exhibition AURORA by artist Sascha Weidner from September 5, 2020. An orange tent stretches over the heads of visitors to the Dorothée Nilsson Gallery. In one of the exhibition’s photographs, it stands between the trees of a forest. It is illuminated; it stands out from the dark surroundings. Refuge II, the title of the picture, leaves it open whether it is the refuge of a tired traveler or a refuge of conscious departure from society. Refuge II, 110 × 110 cm © 2009 Sascha Weidner Estate Sascha Weidner’s photographs always search for light, and with it all the unknown and neglected scenes and sites upon which it falls. The artist spoke of himself as a romantically moved traveler. His work deals with the creation of a radical subjective pictorial world, permeated by poetic dream images and moments of longing as well as signs of the unknown and melancholy. Weidner himself spoke of the act of photographing as a “refuge where utopia stages reality and reality stages utopia.“ Large parts of Weidner’s estate are now housed in the Sprengel Museum Hannover. Inka Schube, the curator of the museum, awarded […]
DODO DIALOGUES | janinebeangallery | 05.09.-31.10.2020


until 31.10. | #2814ARTatBerlin | janinebeangallery shows the group exhibition DODO DIALOGUES with the artists Anna Borowy, Dominik Butzmann, Kathrin Günter, Arny Schmit and Martin Stommel from September 5, 2020. The exhibition can also be visited online as 3D Tour GALLERY VISIT. In the upcoming group exhibition “Dodo Dialogues” the janinebeangallery will show the works of the five artists Anna Borowy, Dominik Butzmann, Kathrin Günter, Arny Schmit, and Martin Stommel as a thematic juxtaposition of man and nature. The paintings of the three painters Borowy, Schmit, and Stommel have landscapes as well as animal depictions as motifs but do entirely without human figures. In contrast, the photographs of Dominik Butzmann, as well as the collages of Kathrin Günter, show people as main protagonists, but they are nevertheless unmistakably connected with flora and fauna, both through their roles as environmental activists or, in Günter’s case, through their surroundings. Martin Stommel, Dodo Dialogues, coal on paper, 80 x 69 cm, 2020 In Arny Schmit‘s landscapes, even the technique is very materially indicative of disturbances. Schmit uses multi-layered cardboard as a carrier for his oil colors, which he cuts open at certain points and in part provides a fluorescent tube on top. His […]
Bettina Blohm | Gatekeeper | Galerie kajetan Berlin | 12.09.-21.11.2020


until 21.11. | #2826ARTatBerlin | Galerie kajetan Berlin presents from 12th September 2020 the solo show Gatekeeper with works by the artist Bettina Blohm. Bettina Blohm’s work is an amalgamation of the European tradition and American Process painting. In over 30 years, the German-American artist has developed a vocabulary of shapes and gestures, a limited set of tools, with which she works, concentrating on pattern, repetition, rhythm, scale and color. For Bettina Blohm, paintings are material objects, they have a visual identity and they tell a story. In line drawing, analogous to writing, the grids are first created, segment by segment, from top left to bottom right. Repeated over-painting or wiping away condenses the grid, creating a paint surface that shows the process of its making, a history, like a character in a play. Lines slip, and tilt or bend the space, the works have an appearance of being in flux, of unstable geometry. Bettina Blohm | From the series DAYLIGHT MUTATIONS | 65 x 50 cm | 2019 | Acrylic, gouache, charcoal on paper | Courtesy Bettina Blohm & kajetan Berlin | Photo: Marcus Schneider Bettina Blohm started the current series in 2017, using mostly a vertical format of […]
Qi Yafei 齐亚菲 + Georg Óskar Giannakoudakis | PLENTY OF NOTHING | Migrant Bird Space | 03.09.-03.11.2020


until 03.11. | #2825ARTatBerlin | Migrant Bird Space presents from 3rd September 2020 the exhibition PLENTY OF NOTHING with works by the artist duo Qi Yafei 齐亚菲 and Georg Óskar Giannakoudakis. PLENTY OF NOTHING is an exhibition by the Berlin based Chinese-Icelandic artist couple Qi Yafei 齐亚菲 (1987, Hebei Province) and Georg Óskar Giannakoudakis (1985, Akureyri). Living in the German capital the vibe of the surrounding art scene stimulated the couple’s own vibrating creativity. Through mutual inspiration, the couple developed a new dynamic artistic language during their work in their Berlin studio. Exhibition flyer The painter and photographer Qi Yafei is known for her interior views presenting daily family life in Chinese urban settings. In Berlin, she began to focus on her new residential environment and partially includes her partner Georg Óskar. She presents him seated in their Berlin kitchen, but hidden in evaporating, dense smoke. Allowing the beholder an intimate glimpse into her very personal space, the artist keeps her partner’s face hidden. Yafei Qi: Sleep walker 2019 | © Yafei Qi, Migrant Bird Space The expressive figurative paintings by Georg Óskar deal with people in his immediate vicinity and mythical figures of subconscious worlds. The artist is fascinated […]
Tamara Kvesitadze | The Passage | Galerie Kornfeld | 11.09.-31.10.2020


until 31.10. | #2824ARTatBerlin | Galerie Kornfeld presents from 11th September 2020 the solo exhibition The Passage with new works by Georgian artist Tamara Kvesitadze. Born out of the darkness of quarantine and self-isolation, the new installation by the renowned Georgian artist Tamara Kvesitadze leads the viewer on an agonizing journey through change, which is both suffocating and hopeful. Hoards of black birds, eerie and haunting, roam in the seeming chaos yet are controlled by an invisible force, driving them like prey into the trap of the human head that swallows them. What are those birds – nightmares, soul-destroying doubts, erratic thoughts, suffering of love, bitterness of loss or hallucinations? Who is the person – an artist, a lunatic, a poet, a politician or anyone who walks on the planet Earth? This is “The Passage” – a new work by the celebrated Georgian artist Tamara Kvesitadze, which she created as the world went into a lockdown. Tamara is known for her kinetic sculptures combining art and engineering. Yet this time the installation is not moving, but the story unfolds as the viewer navigates through it. Rendering für die Ausstellung “The Passage”, 2020 The immersion is almost immediate – the room, which is […]
BACK TO EARTH! | Group exhibition | Laura Mars Gallery | 24.08.-02.10.2020


until 02.10. | #2812ARTatBerlin |Laura Mars Gallery currently shows the exhibition BACK TO EARTH! with works by the artists Bettina von Arnim, Hanna-Mari Blencke, Habima Fuchs, Thomas Grötz, Uwe Henneken, Franziska Hufnagel, Jan-Holger Mauss, Hans-Jörg Mayer, Vincent Tavenne, Corinne Wasmuht + Marcus Weber. Curated by Thomas Grötz, Gundula Schmitz and Marcus Weber. At the beginning of the 20th century, Russian Cosmists believed they could raise the dead and colonize distant planets with people who would have become immortal. By now, we rather seem to ‘ride the last big wave’, like Lieutenant Doolittle in John Carpenter’s SF dystopia “Dark Star” — only to burn up in a distant atmosphere afterwards. ‘Let there be light!’ cries art, which seems to mediate between a hopeless darkness and the illumination of conditions — or embodies both at the same time. But first there is a black hole. Vincent Tavenne’s sculpture “Black Hole” opens the exhibition course, in which aspects such as retrofuturism, occultism and avant-garde, notions of ‘space is the place’, metaphysical abstractions, and roaming planets are artistically encompassed. A further gravitational field within the exhibition, which attempts to navigate through the infinite parallel universes of outer space and earth by means of painting, […]
Ugo Rondinone | nuns + monks | Esther Schipper | 11.09.-17.10.2020


until 17.10. | #2818ARTatBerlin | Esther Schipper presents from 11th September 2020 the exhibition nuns + monks with new sculptures by the artist Ugo Rondinone. Stones are present in Ugo Rondinone’s work as a recurring material and symbol. They are the subject of his stone figures, which he began in 2013 with the monumental installation Human Nature on Rockefeller Plaza in New York, followed by Seven Magic Mountains in the Nevada desert in 2016. Both groups of works embody the exploration of naturally formed stones as objects of beauty and contemplation. At the same time, personal, meditative states of seeing are created in which the boundaries between the outside world and mental spaces merge. Ugo Rondinone creates sculptures about the meaning and experience of seeing – whether this is interpreted as a physical or mental phenomenon. Ugo Rondinone, black and green nun, 2020 / Courtesy the artist and Esther Schipper, Berlin / Photo by Stefan Altenburger The exhibition nuns + monks is dedicated to the reflection of the inner self with the outside world. Just as our view of the world is inevitably shaped by the nature of an individual perspective, the exhibition enables us to switch between different levels of meaning. […]
Erich Franke | Raumkaskaden | Salongalerie Die Möwe | 10.09.-07.11.2020


until 07.11. | #2817ARTatBerlin | Salongalerie Die Möwe presents from 10th September 2020 the exhibition Raumkaskaden with works by the artist Erich Franke – for the first time in Berlin. In its new exhibition “Raumkaskaden” (Space Cascades) from September 10 to November 7, 2020, the Berlin salon gallery “Die Möwe” (The Seagull) is presenting works by the painter and stage designer Erich Franke (1911-2008) for the first time in Berlin. Gouaches, watercolours, drawings, collages, paracollages and froissages convey an encounter with an artist whose work was influenced by avant-garde art movements of the 1920s and 30s such as Cubism and abstraction. His affinity for music and theatre – Franke worked successfully as a stage designer from 1939 to 1958 – also had an impact on his free artistic work. Inspiration from the stage gave his works additional spatial depth and dance-like dynamics. After the end of the Nazi dictatorship, Franke was one of those artists who creatively took up international artistic trends. Thus, immediately after 1945, he incorporated everyday materials into his paintings and achieved a surprising aesthetic effect through the multi-layered, often three-dimensional and relief-like surface. His works contributed to establishing abstract-experimental modernism in Germany. After moving from Wiesbaden […]
Gil Shachar | Lunapark Transylvania | Semjon Contemporary | 22.08.-10.10.2020


until 10.10. | #2811ARTatBerlin | Semjon Contemporary presents from 22nd August 2020 the exhibition Lunapark Transylvania by the artist Gil Shachar. The title already points in a possible associative direction, which is not undesirable to think here: The term Lunapark probably stands for an amusement and theme park for everyone, as it is represented today by Disneyland, for example. In combination with the addition Transylvania, thoughts immediately come up about Count Dracula from Transylvania, the former Transylvania, now located in Romania. In 1897, the Irish poet Bram Stoker had created an imaginative monument to the historical person Count Dracul (dracul in Romanian for devil) of the 15th century as a vampire, which made him the most famous representative of that very region, also called Wallachia. It is interesting that the Lunapark – the artist was not aware of this until now – had its origin in Berlin of all places. Back to the roots! From 1904-1919 the Lunapark was a popular destination for the divertissement of Berliners and visitors to Berlin, with up to 16,000 restaurant seats. The number of visitors had already reached the first million in 1910. In 1934 the Lunapark was closed by order of the Nazi […]
Astrid Köppe + Katrin Günter | Spontaneous Paradise | Galerie Inga Kondeyne – Raum für Zeichnung | 21.08.-26.09.2020


until 26.09. | #2810ARTatBerlin| Galerie Inga Kondeyne – Raum für Zeichnung (> Room for Drawing) presents from 21st August 2020 the exhibition Spontaneous Paradise with works by the artists Astrid Köppe and Katrin Günter. 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 eye, thus inviting one to a voyage of discovery of its own kind. Astrid Köppe, untitled, (Z19_142), 2019, watercolour on paper, 29.7 x 21 cm The […]
Darrel Ellis | Matter | Crone Berlin | 27.06.-29.08.2020


until 29.08. | #2809ARTatBerlin | Crone Berlin currently shows the exhibition Matter with works by the US-American artist Darrel Ellis. Darrel Ellis was a black American artist. He died of AIDS in New York in 1992 at the age of 33. His promising work was largely forgotten after his death. Today it seems more topical than ever. His father, Thomas Ellis, died a month before Darryl was born. He died during a traffic stop in the Bronx, brutally killed by police officers, like George Floyd, whose murder has now sparked the Black Lives Matter movement. Darryl’s father had run a small portrait photography studio in the New York borough of Harlem. But his secret passion was documentary photography. He captured the life of the 1950s black community in Harlem in quiet, sensitive photographs: friends and family members dancing, neighbors and relatives on the street, children in the park, and lovers in fleeting hugs. These are very private, very personal photographs, most of them from the immediate family environment. When Darrel Ellis began studying art in the late 1970s, his mother gave him a box of his father’s photographs. After some initial hesitation, he immersed himself in the fund of countless, […]
Cars: from Beauties to Scrap | Galerie Z22 | 15.08.-17.09.2020


until 17.09. | #2808ARTatBerlin | Galerie Z22 presents from 15th August 2020 the group show Cars: from Beauties to Scrap. with photographies by the artists Tina Winkhaus, Dirk Krüll and Hardy Brackmann. Cars: from Beauties to Scrap. Icons, myths, marvels of technology, cars have made their long journey throughout history. Cars have their own stories to tell indeed and yet we, as creators and consumers of these timeless travel machines, have been telling stories about them since their birth in the late 1800’s. From being man’s best friend to landing on the floors of some of our greatest museums to their death as pieces of scrap in a junkyard, Galerie Z22 shows with a wink the automobile industry as it likes to see itself and at the same time is a farewell to an epoch. In this exhibition cars in their functional and timeless beauty will be explored, the true technical and artistic marvel they are, alongside of a car industry caught up in the games of greed and glamour which is well aware of the reality of our time: that with mass transit and other innovation cars are indeed becoming a relic of the past. Tina Winkhaus Winkhaus offers […]
Sarah Morris + Alexander Kluge | CATS AND GHOSTS | König Galerie (Chapel) | 15.08.–20.09.2020


until 20.09. | #2808ARTatBerlin | König Galerie (Chapel) presents from 15th August 2020 the exhibition CATS AND GHOSTS with works by the artist and filmmaker Sarah Morris and by the filmmaker and writer Alexander Kluge When artist Sarah Morris met the legendary film director Alexander Kluge a few years ago, the circumstances were unusual. She was looking for a striking, Wizard-of-Oz-type male voice to record her screenplay. Curator Hans Ulrich Obrist introduced her to Alexander Kluge, and over the years that followed, their first project developed into a productive collaboration bridging New York, Munich and Berlin. For their latest collaboration at KÖNIG GALERIE, Kluge penned a series of short stories for Morris — The Mermaid, Cats in Space and Grief Work for Kittens — which she took to her studio in New York and recorded. She then produced three films based on them, which are now showing in Berlin. They are projected onto her work The Conversation, which Morris created specially for the joint show. A further work takes the two back to the beginning of their first encounter: the famous Sound Graphs series, which is now on show in Berlin. Here, Morris used the recordings she had originally invited […]
Friedrich Kunath | Sensitive Euro Man | König Galerie (Nave) | 15.08.–18.10.2020


until 18.10. | #2807ARTatBerlin | König Galerie (Nave) presents from 15th August 2020 the solo show SENSITIVE EURO MAN with previously unseen works and an oversized sculpture by the artist Friedrich Kunath. It is his first solo exhibition in Germany since 2016. German Romanticism is the most German of all German art ideas. It is the expression of, and opposition to, emergent modernism, and probably the last rearguard action against the relentless advance of progress, enlightenment and industrialisation. It addressed the Dialectic of Enlightenment 150 years before Horkheimer and Adorno did. The deep connection between the art of painting and seemingly harmonious cultural landscapes at imminent risk of destruction from the ‘blessing’ of progress first came to light when their beauty seemed. And it is this pain of parting that has sustained German culture for over 200 years. It is the soul of the German soul and, in its perversity, brokenness and radicalness, it connects with any political persuasion. In his work, Friedrich Kunath cites German Romanticism as he sees it in his Californian rear–view mirror: having left his homeland for the far, far west, he views it from a place where only a surrogate Romanticism exists. In Westerns, the wilderness is threatening, a place of doom; in John Ford’s The Searchers, it provides the backdrop for a radical void, for an adventure trail in the search for meaning; and its radical isolation is the sole element unifying Ethan Edwards and the lonely […]
Claudia Desgranges | Galerie Gilla Lörcher | 28.08.–25.09.2020


until 25.09. | #2806ARTatBerlin | Galerie Gilla Lörcher presents from 28th August 2020 the solo show with paintings by the artist Claudia Desgranges. Galerie Gilla Lörcher | Contemporary Art is very pleased to present the solo exhibition of Claudia Desgranges during the Berlin Art Week and the Gallery Weekend Berlin 2020. Both art events will take place this year in the week of 09.09.-13.09.2020. The exhibition by Cologne-based painter Claudia Desgranges is the third part of the “Female Contemporary Abstract Painters” series at Galerie Gilla Lörcher. The series started with Ivana Klickovic from Berlin (17.01. – 28.02.2020) and followed by Simone Strasser from Munich (14.03. – 13.06.2020). Claudia Desgranges says about her artistic work, which refers to an examination of abstract modernism, minimalism, abstract expressionism and color field painting: “It is my goal to achieve freedom in painting, to go beyond conventions, to initiate new viewing habits … We are exposed to so many media, everything is going faster and faster, a lot at the same time. I respond to this with the slow medium of painting … The goal is not to sink into a picture, the eye should wander around.” Claudia Desgranges, Composite Painting. 200 x 200 cm. […]
Jan Ros | AVUS | Rasche Ripken | 04.09.-31.10.2020 – extended until 19.12.2020


extended until 19.12. | #2805ARTatBerlin | RASCHE RIPKEN presents from 4th September 2020 the solo exhibition “AVUS” with new paintings by the Dutch artist Jan Ros. City, architecture, mobility – these are themes Jan Ros has explored for a long time. Using photographs as source material, he transforms them into multifarious paintings mainly oriented toward space and object, but which also engender abstract passages defined entirely by color. He switches the degree of acuity and path of movement depending on the subject, modeling sculptural volumes out of broad brushstrokes, and working with stencil-like inserts and sharp contours that stand out from their painted surroundings like cut-outs. Ros’s repertoire includes urban landscapes and famous modernist, International-style buildings, as well as images of cars and airplanes, or of transitory sites like gas stations and transit terminals, which often recollect filmed images, like scenes from a road movie. Furthermore, his paintings of interiors – which feature views of urban panoramas or guide the gaze through a suite of windowless rooms, thus expanding the viewer’s real space through the imagination – also demonstrate that the interaction of inside and outside, light and shade, plays an important role. Jan Ros: Tower Restaurant (Steglitz) | oil […]
Bettina Moras | Painting | Galerie mutare | 15.08.-20.09.2020


until 20.09. | #2804ARTatBerlin | Galerie mutare presents from 15th August 2020 a solo show with paintings by the artist Bettina Moras. Bettina Moras was born in Freiberg (Saxony) in 1975 and studied painting at the “Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma” in Rome with Professor Andrea Volo from 2000 – 2006. She also completed several study stays at the “Hochschule für Bildende Künste” in Dresden with Professor Ralf Kerbach. Since 2007 she has been working as a freelance artist. Igniting, 130 x 90 cm | young woman with grasshoppers, 55 x 45 cm | woman in front of debris, 95 x 50 cm Bettina Mora’s work has been shown in numerous solo exhibitions, e.g. in Berlin, Munich, Dresden, Essen, Mainz, but also internationally, e.g. in Italy (Rome). Her works are in public ownership as well as in private collections. Bettina Moras In the second room of the gallery, Tamim Sibai and Filip Kalkowksi are shown simultaneously with paintings and Caro Stark with sculptures. Soft Opening: Saturday, 15th August 2020, 3:00 – 6:00 p.m., the artist is present Exhibition period: Saturday, 15th August – Sunday, 20th September 2020 June – August 2020: Wed – Fri 2.00 – 8.00 p.m. […]
Interim . Summer Freshness . Longing for Art | Semjon Contemporary | 01.08.-15.08.2020


until 15.08. | #2803ARTatBerlin | Semjon Contemporary currently shows the exhibition Interim . Summer Freshness . Longing for Art with works by artists of the gallery. The exhibition forms a short interlude before continuing with the construction of Gil Shachar’s Lunapark Transylvania. Exhibition view, Interim . Summer Freshness . Longing for Art, Photo: Galerie Exhibition view, Interim . Summer Freshness . Longing for Art, Photo: Galerie Exhibition view, Interim . Summer Freshness . Longing for Art, Photo: Galerie Exhibition period: Saturday, 1st August to Saturday, 15th August 2020 Exhibition Interim . Summer Freshness . Longing for Art – Semjon Contemporary | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin – Contemporary Art – Exhibitions Berlin Galleries – ART at Berlin
Martin Assig | Exercising Astonishment | DIEHL | 07.08.-28.08.2020


until 28.08. | #2802ARTatBerlin | DIEHL present from 7th August 2020 the exhibition Exercising Astonishment with works by the artist Martin Assig. The exhibition will take place as a prologue to the upcoming September exhibition. With a contribution by Carsten Ahrens. Martin Assig, St. Paul (wird es immer so sein?), 2019, tempera on paper, 181 x 141 cm Exhibition dates: Friday, 7th August – Friday, 28th August 2020 Exhibition Martin Assig – DIEHL | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin
4:1 – 4 artists, 1 location | Group Show | aquabitArt Galerie | 06.08.-29.08.2020


until 29.08. | #2801ARTatBerlin | aquabitArt Galerie presents from August 6th, 2020 the group show 4:1 – 4 artists, 1 location with works by the artists Yasmin Sharabi, Ali Dowlatshahi, Mohamed Alaabar alias Leon D. and Patrick Molony Harris. The exhibition is curated by Frances Stafford. Four extraordinary artists with varying backgrounds are connected by one commonality: they either currently live and practice their art in Bahrain, or have worked on projects on the island and created art during that time. Curator Frances Stafford, who also built her career in the country, shows introspective drawings, visionary paintings, collaged photographs as well as paper collages and studies – within the intimate gallery setting in Auguststraße 35, 10119 Berlin. The small but beautiful gallery space in the heart of Berlin will be separated into two main rooms, where the artworks will be presented to the audience until the end of the month. The artists: Ali Dowlatshahi was born in Tehran, Iran in 1976, and moved to Heidelberg, Germany in 1986 following the Iranian revolution. He studied Industrial Design at the University of the Arts (UdK), Berlin until 2005. Since 2003, Dowlatshahi has been working as a freelance designer in Berlin. He specializes […]
LIGHT AS A MATERIAL | Group show | hilleckes probst galerie | 20.08.-29.09.2020


until 29.09. | #2799ARTatBerlin | hilleckes probst galerie shows from 20th August 2020 the group show LIGHT AS A MATERIAL with works by the artists Udo Nöger and FuXiaotong. The painting of Udo Nöger is assigned to the gestural-abstract Neo-Expressionism. Nöger lives and works in Los Angeles, USA. Udo Nöger 2013, be water 19, mixed media, 200 x 250 cm Udo Nöger, Arena 2010, mixed media, 150 x 250 cm Udo Nöger, 2013, Gewicht des Lichtes 45, mixed media, 150 x 500 cm FuXiaotong works with pinpricks on paper. She lives and works in Beijing, China. FuXiaotong 2020, 58,275 Pinpricks, handpaper, 45.7 x 26 in (116 x 66 cm ) | FuXiaotong 2020, 103,500 Pinpricks, handpaper, 45.7 x 26 in (116 x 66 cm ) | FuXiaotong 2020, 176,279 Pinpricks, handpaper, 45.7×26 in (116 x 66 cm ), 2018 Exhibition period: Thursday, 20th August – Tuesday, 29th September 2020 Exhibition LIGHT AS A MATERIAL – hilleckes probst galerie | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin
Maike Freess | Theater of Soliloquy | Luisa Catucci Gallery | 05.09.-23.10.2020


until 23.10. | #2800ARTatBerlin | Luisa Catucci Gallery presents from 5th September 2020 the solo show “Theater of Soliloquy” with drawings, video and installation by the artist Maike Freess. “There’s always a hole where something isn’t.” – Kurt Tucholsky On the phylogenetic level, humans function by drawing their motivation from elements that are positive for them. Negative, bad memories are pushed away, while positive events, memories and stories are added. This helps above all to live and survive better. This mechanism of our human existence, to push away the negative for the benefit of the positive is a well established fact. Valuations of things and experiences of the past, are historically adjusted, repaired and manipulated. Eliminating or manipulating history proves to be a more obvious way to evaluate things and experiences in an advantageous way for the here and now. However, this results in a proportionally wrong picture. DIE ERBEN 47, 2020, graphite, coloured pencil, 30 x 25 cm The conditions we experience at the moment of an event have an impact on our selves, unfolding in completely different lights in retrospective. So it seems that the chance of objective reflection is hardly possible. To consciously correct, change or modify […]
Common Ground | Group Show | 68 projects | 13.08.-05.09.2020


until 05.09. | #2798ARTatBerlin | Galerie Kornfeld presents from 13th August 2020 the group show Common Ground with works by the artists Hiba Alansari, Tewa Barnosa and Wael Toubaji. Hiba Alansari, Tewa Barnosa and Wael Toubaji – Laureates of the exhibition and mentor-programme “A Journey of Belonging Part II” which took place at Bikini Haus Berlin in the spring of 2019, organised by the Contemporary Arts Alliance Berlin (CAA Berlin). Following their participation, each artist has permanently moved to Berlin, having at the time found themselves inbetween cities, countries and identities. Berlin now becomes their “Common Ground“ and their explorations of identity and individual and collective narratives a shared discourse and investigation within their works. Hiba Alansari’s performance piece “Balance” explores the human body and its relationship to protest in the pursuit of balance. Her body moves around on a curved iron base, stabilising against the speed of physical and psychological variables. After 10 years of various forms of protests in Syria, she finds herself fluctuating between two worlds, the physically dwindling past and the volatile present. Tewa Barnosa explores the theme of silent protest through material communication. She considers how objects become parts of our history and serve as […]
Lucy Dyson | As surprising as life | Michael Reid | 24.07.-22.08.2020


until 22.08. | #2797ARTatBerlin | Michael Reid currently shows the solo exhibition As surprising as life with collages by the artist Lucy Dyson. Lucy Dyson’s intricate handcrafted collages are recognised for their compelling and unique narratives, often underpinned with a light-hearted and colourful sense of humour. Also a talented animator, Lucy says: “Ever since I was a child I have always made collages, cutting up old encyclopaedias – and family photographs! I never consciously decided on animation or collage; they have always gone hand-in-hand for me. The subversive nature of collage has always appealed to my sense of humour: making new worlds, escapism, being left alone to work out ideas that fail when I try to put them down in words.” Lucy Dyson, Sleeping Snail/ Schlafende Schnecke, 2020, found images, paper collage, 24 x 22 cm, mounted on 30 x 30 cm acid free archival paper This new body of work is selling fast, with half of the exhibition acquired before opening. Lucy Dyson is a Berlin-based Australian artist, animator and award-winning music-video director who had her debut solo exhibition at Michael Reid Berlin in January 2019. To date, she has directed and produced over fifty music videos for clients […]
… AUSSER VIELLEICHT EINE KONSTELLATION | oqbo | raum für bild wort ton | 08.08.-12.09.2020


until 12.09. | #2796ARTatBerlin | oqbo | raum für bild wort ton shows from 8th August 2020 the group show … AUSSER VIELLEICHT EINE KONSTELLATION (EXCEPT MAYBE A CONSTELLATION ), an homage á Giandomenico Tiepolo, curated by Michael Glasmeier and Christian Schiebe. To mark the 250th anniversary of the death of the Venetian Baroque painter Giambattista Tiepolo (1696-1770), we are showing the graphic series “Flight to Egypt” by his son Giandomenico Tiepolo (1727-1804), to which the father will refer just as directly in silent pictures at the end of his life as some of the artists in this exhibition. In addition, we have selected works that have a new effect in connection with this 27-part cycle. Three categories are of interest: the substantive theme of flight, of course, the labyrinthine in the global; then the formal of the narrative, the sequence, and finally the reflection on the graphic, the drawing, the line, the form, the poetry. Giandomenico Tiepolo, Idée Pittoresche Sopra La Fugga in Egitto di Giesu, Maria e Gioseppe, 1753, Blatt 14, Detail Tiepolo’s fine, humane and sometimes humorous depiction of the “Flight to Egypt” in particular, which rekindles our curiosity from page to page, could open up the […]
Transparency | Group Show | Galerie Pugliese Levi | 15.08.-26.09.2020


until 26.09. | #2795ARTatBerlin | Galerie Pugliese Levi shows from 15th August 2020 the exhibition Transparency with works by four artists of the gallery. Following the Almost Nothing exhibition in 2019, and pursuing the gallery’s preference for reduced, tranquil and minimalistic works, this exhibition brings together four artists in search of transparency as emerging from highly individual, elaborate and intriguing artistic strategies: Juliana Borinski Jörg Gessner Norma Márquez Orozco Tünde Újszászi Transparency, as an idea and in this exhibition, deals neither with figurative objects nor defined spaces, but reveals a “broader spatial order … a perception of different spatial locations … in a continuous activity” (György Kepes). Transparency becomes manifest in interaction, the interaction of layers and dimensions that are both separate and inseparable from each other. The apparition of transparency as an idea immediately invokes the question of the medium and the materiality in which it takes shape. Juliana Borinski In Juliana Borinski’s camera-less photographic work, layers of photosensitive paper become transparent to each other in the traces left by their superimposition on photographic paper. The light that acted as catalyst of the chemical process materializes in the work of art. The layers of time captured in the making […]
Werner Büttner | Leaky Keyholes | CFA Berlin | 30.07.-29.08.2020


bis 29.08. | #2794ARTatBerlin | Contemporary Fine Arts presents from 30th July 2020 the exhibition Leaky Keyholes with works by the artist Werner Büttner. When Werner Büttner became a professor at the University of Fine Arts Hamburg, after a long night of drinking and reciting poetry with Franz Erhard Walther he had business cards printed with the enigmatic job title “Professor für Unterhaltung der Art” (Professor for the Entertainment of the Species). During an afternoon spent together at the artist’s studio in Geeshacht, a small town on the Elbe distinguished only by Alfred Nobel’s invention of dynamite and the densest population of nightingales in Northern Germany, I learned first-hand that Büttner is indeed a consummate entertainer. Neither bombastic nor particularly light-hearted, qualities typical of showmanship, he instead exudes a performative mildness—a genteel deadpan manner that is echoed in the unsettling, often bleak world that his recent canvases depict. Each painting in his exhibition Undichte Schlüssellöcher (Leaky Keyholes) at Contemporary Fine Arts proposes a self-contained universe and on first glance it can be challenging to chart any real connection between the assembled works. Those looking for clear, straightforward messages will not find them here: a painting of a plague doctor hangs alongside canvases that portray a bottle […]
Christo Daskaltsis + Lorenz Friedrich | All is Flux | re|space gallery | 03.08.-02.10.2020


until 02.10. | #2793ARTatBerlin | re|space gallery presents the exhibition All is Flux with sculptures by the artist Lorenz Friedrich and paintings by the artist Christo Daskaltsis from 3rd August 2020. In their juxtaposition, the works explore the relationship between perception and reality. The title All is Flux is taken from the early Greek philosopher Heraclitus’ meditations on knowledge and flux. Though the interpretation of Heraclitus’ doctrines has been much disputed, the idea of there being no stably existing objects with stably enduring qualities is a provocative standpoint from which this exhibition approaches the resonance between Daskaltsis’ and Friedrichs’ works. Though different in medium and style, the works by the two artists are paralleled in their exploration of perception and the influence or absence of the artist’s hand. In their co-habitation of the exhibition space in the re|space gallery, the paintings by Daskaltsis and the sculptures by Friedrich ignite a discussion on perception and reality. The true nature of the works are in flux as they are dependent on the perspective and associations of the viewer. In addition, the element of time influences the works in that the interplay of light and shadow has a transformative effect on both Daskaltsis’ […]
Jonas Weichsel + Fred Sandback | Galerie Thomas Schulte | 24.07.-29.08.2020


until 29.08.| #2792ARTatBerlin | Galerie Thomas Schulte presents from 24th July 2020 the solo show “Unit” by the artist Jonas Weichsel and one artwork by the artist Fred Sandback in the corner space of the gallery. This summer, Galerie Thomas Schulte is very pleased to present German painter Jonas Weichsel’s first solo exhibition at the gallery, alongside a minimalist yarn sculpture by US-American artist Fred Sandback in the Corner Space. Jonas Weichsel, study, 2020 Jonas Weichsel presents in his exhibition Unit new works elaborating on his distinctive painting technique; including meticulously composed gradient paintings. Through the interplay of mechanical precision and the emotive ability of color, the works oscillate between definitude and haziness, material presence and dissolution. Here, Weichsel continues his ongoing pursuit—extending the possibilities of an autonomous painterly language, in dialogue with the media and aesthetics of the digital age. Fred Sandback, Untitled, (Sculptural Study, Broken Triangle, Lannan Foundation, Santa Fe), 1999/2014, black and orange acrylic yarn, dimensions variable From the late 1960s, Fred Sandback created an expansive oeuvre of linear sculptures, employing minimal means to achieve spatial effects that combine artwork, space, and the viewer’s perception. This work, using the form of a “broken” triangle and configured for […]
RICHARD SCHUR | Everything | Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery Berlin | 30.07.-29.08.2020 – extended until 05.09.2020


extended until 05.09. | #2791ArtatBerlin | Kristin Hjellegjerde Berlin shows from Thursday, 30th July 2020 the solo show “Everything” with the artist Richard Schur. Imagine a watch, each component crafted, polished and positioned by hand, using tools refined and perfected by a true master. A watch so exquisite it becomes time’s keeper rather than its teller. Everything is connected; if just one component is altered or removed, the hands of time will cease to turn. Now imagine that power to escape time conjured with pure colours and simple forms. The Kristin Hjellegjerde gallery in Berlin is delighted to present a selection of paintings by Richard Schur, one of the finest colour painters at work today. As much a mediator as an architect of colour, Schur composes initial studies on a section of Masonite board, numerous layers of paint applied over a period of months, connections organically unearthed between as many as sixty rectangular colour fields. A rhythm builds, with the deep strength of an infinite number of relationships and the fragility of a piece of music dependent on every note for its success. Richard Schur: Everything, 2020, Acryl auf Leinwand, 160 x 120 cm, 63 x 47 1/4 in. Success […]
Timo Herbst | EXCEPTIONS FROM ALL DIRECTIONS | Galerie Eigenheim | 25.07.–22.08.2020


until 22.08. | #2790ARTatBerlin | Galerie Eigenheim presents from Friday, 24th July 2020 at the salon drawing, video and installation by the artist Timo Herbst. Timo Herbst examines patterns in the flows of movement that inform the contexts in which we live. In his research he focuses on various cultural, social and political situations, from which he isolates existing configurations of movements in order to sequence them and ultimately to transform them. The series „Make yourself an organ“ contains 32 drawings whose arrangement refers to the form of a horizontal tree diagram used by Carl von Linné to determine the animal and plant species in his binomial nomenclature. The draw-ings integrate text – either quotes from the artist’s research or from his own writings – so that the depiction of motions in the image series approaches the formal techniques of scientific drawings, which typically include textual annotation. But in this case, the movements depicted in the drawing seem to question their assigned position. In a perceptive way the texts echoe this challenge by dealing with personal self-assessment and actualisation in a constantly changing environment and society. The video installations „Rhythmanalysis“ mixes film sequences, in which Timo Herbst deals with the […]
Stefan Schiek | LOOKING UP | Galerie Eigenheim | 25.07.–22.08.2020


until 22.08. | #2789ARTatBerlin | Galerie Eigenheim presents from Friday, 24th July 2020 the solo show LOOKING UP with paintings, drawings, reliefs and sculptures by the artist Stefan Schiek. Stefan Schiek was a 2019 scholarship holder of the Free State of Thuringia. After his final presentation on this scholarship, the Eigenheim Gallery is now showing the second part of the exhibition in Berlin over the summer months to provide a further insight into the artist’s extensive oeuvre. You can now read an excerpt from the catalogue published in conjunction with the grant from Susanne Knorr, curator of Kunstmuseen Erfurt. „(…) In his current paintings, drawings, reliefs and sculptures, which move between figuration (Looking up! series) and abstraction (Warscapes complex, Unfold series) and possess great visual appeal, the artist, born in 1976 Ulm, leads us into seemingly extraterrestrial realms, at least into a future narrative era. This is suggested by the subjects, which are presented in a concise pictorial language, only in excerpts: unidentifiable spaces for action, indeterminable surfaces as well as indefinable flying objects, round or angular, which float through space or penetrate it at high speed (the effective use of extreme diagonals suggests high speed). Situations with or without […]
Macks Querfeldt | STAPELLAUF – WAS SONST | Galerie ART CRU Berlin | 28.07.–27.08.2020


until 27.08. | #2788ARTatBerlin | Galerie ART CRU Berlin shows from 28th July 2020 the solo exhibition STAPELLAUF – WAS SONST with collages by the artist Macks Querfeldt. When Macks Querfeldt gets his stacks going, he does not want this event to be understood exclusively as an account of private feelings. The artist’s work is just as much a protocol, created by selection, of the social upheavals that produce these very stacks. With his assemblages, Macks Querfeldt transforms the gallery into his press office, his kiosk, his world receiver. O.T., 2019, Acryl u. Collage auf Leinwand, 40 x 60 cm Kant, Leibniz or Freud, coffee-making monkeys or lace curtains. There is nothing that does not exist in the artist’s densely populated combination compositions. Macks Querfeldt arranges his view of the world from a great wealth of materials, newspaper and magazine cuttings, found objects, strings, upholstery, even wigs. In a constant process of collecting and selecting, a protocol of social upheavals is thus created. Among the 25 works shown are numerous “classical” collages, which in their combination with colored canvases on which the artist places his cutouts, are sometimes reminiscent in their effect of pioneers of collage and Pop Art, such […]
Matteo Lucca + Maurizio L’Altrella | SEMITA LUMINIS | Luisa Catucci Gallery | 25.07.-01.09.2020


until 01.09. | #2787ARTatBerlin | Luisa Catucci Gallery presents from 25 July 2020 the exhibition SEMITA LUMINIS with works by Matteo Lucca and Maurizio L’Altrella, curated by ISORROPIA HOMEGALLERY. When half way through the journey of our life I found that I was in a gloomy wood, because the path which led aright was lost. And ah, how hard it is to say just what this wild and rough and stubborn woodland was, the very thought of which renews my fear! So bitter ’t is, that death is little worse; but of the good to treat which there I found, I ’ll speak of what I else discovered there – Dante Alighieri Divina Commedia, Inferno, Canto I The exhibition SEMITA LUMINIS curated by ISORROPIA HOMEGALLERY at Luisa Catucci Gallery in Berlin, presents the work of the Italian painter Maurizio L’Altrella and the Italian sculptor Matteo Lucca. In Latin “Semita Luminis” means Path of Light, intended both physical and metaphysical. Being both L’Altrella and Lucca strongly fascinated by archaic spiritual philosophies, the death-life cycle and its bond with sensuality, sexuality, and fertility – not as mere human necessities, but as philosophical concepts ruling the whole existence – the exhibition displays a […]
PAPER REALITY | Anniversary exhibition in the gallery + Online exhibition | aquabitArt Gallery | 16.07.-31.07.2020


until 31.07. | #2786ARTatBerlin | aquabitArt presents from 16 July 2020 on the occasion of the gallery’s 11th anniversary the group exhibition PAPER REALITY with eight artists from the gallery. At the same time, aquabitArt is also showing the already running online exhibition “1 week – 1 artist – 1 work of art!. With PAPER REALITY aquabitArt presents mainly works of art on paper, with one small exception – the work of the Taiwanese sculptor Poren Huang. Fine and thought-provoking works by Wilfried Habrich, Margaret Hunter, Paula Klien, Peter Lindenberg, Janine Mackenroth, Annette Selle, Hugo Stuber, the gallery promises to attune the senses to lightness. A special feature of the exhibition is the book project “I love women in art” on the topic of 100 years of women at the German art academies. The last three copies of the first edition of this special book and project by Janine Mackenroth and Bianca Kennedy will be available in the gallery. The exhibition is curated by the gallery owner and architect Irina Ilieva. Wilfried Habrich, Hoffen auf den großen Fang, 42 x 26 cm, 2020 Peter Lindenberg, Betongold, 50 x 40 cm, 2020 Paula Klien, Cloud 11-2, 24 x 18 cm, 2020 […]
Summer Breeze | Galerie Barbara Thumm | 17.07.–31.08.2020


until 31.08. | #2785ARTatBerlin | Galerie Barbara Thumm shows from 17th July 2020 the summer exhibition “Summer Breeze” with highlights from the gallery programme. During August it is open by appointment only. In main room of Galerie Barbara Thumm works by the gallery artists will be shown: Maria José Arjona, Fiona Banner aka The Vanity Press, Valérie Favre, Simon Cantemir Hausí, Diango Hernández, Anna K.E., Anne-Mie van Kerckhoven, Johnny Miller, Chloe Piene and Carrie Mae Weems. In the Showroom the gallery present works by artists from the New Viewings project. Martin Dammann, “Jeder im Jeweils”, 2020, Watercolor and pencil on paper, 195 x 298 cm courtesy the artist and Galerie Barbara Thumm The gallery is open in July Thursday and Friday from noon to 6 pm and Saturday from 1 to 7 pm. Once a month the gallery is also open for you on Sundays from noon to 6 pm. The next Sunday is 26 July 2020. Please note that the gallery is only open by appointment in August. Soft Opening: Friday, 17 July 2020, 1 – 7 pm Exhibition dates: Friday, 17 July – Monday, 31 August 2020 Exhibition Summer Breeze – Galerie Barbara Thumm | Berlin Contemporary […]
Ulrike Hahn + Michael Jastram | Sandau + Leo Galerie | 23.07.-26.09.2020


until 26.09. | #2784ARTatBerlin | Sandau & Leo Galerie presents from 23 July 2020 the summer exhibition “IMMER UNTERWEGS” with paintings of the artist Ulrike Hahn and sculptures of the artist Michael Jastram Ulrike Hahn likes to be inspired on extended trips to the south. Street scenes and landscapes in special light are always inspiring. The pictures from the last months also give an idea of a longing for sociability. Ulrike Hahn, Hinter den Dünen, 2020, Öl auf Leinwand, 120 x 100 cm Variations of rider and horse as well as ferryman and boat by Michael Jastram emphasize an original form of being on the road. Numerous bronzes stand on wheels, stairs lead far up – a metaphor of constant change and movement in society, in nature. Michael Jastram, Boot und Reiter, 2018, 15 x 38 x 5 cm Nowhere is there any standstill. Nothing remains as it never has been – Ulrike Hahn and Michael Jastram are always on the road … Two catalogues will be published for the exhibition. Soft Opening: Thursday, July 23, 2020, 4:00-20:00 pm, the artists are present: Michael Jastram from 4 – 6 pm and Ulrike Hahn from 6 – 8 pm. Exhibition dates: […]
Finja Sander | Daniel M.E. Schaal | Isabella Bram | PRÄPOSITION | galerie burster | 16.07-18.07.2020


until 18.07. | #2783ARTatBerlin | galerie burster shows from 16th July 2020 the three-day performative event PRÄPOSITION, initiated by the artists* Finja Sander and Daniel M.E. Schaal. The intervention is meant to be understood as an announcement of the exhibition series ODEM. Two live performances assembled around each other and various objects that span the artistic narrative will be shown as a referral to the future collaboration between the two artists. In his work, Daniel M.E. Schaal deals to a large extent with the properties and various attributions of packaging materials in terms of content. For example, he uses cardboard that has accumulated over time in his private environment as a pressure stick for his experimental gravure prints. On this basis, the idea for a collaboration with the performance artist Finja Sander was born. An oversized folding cardboard box acts as a connecting object-subject-entity between the two artistic positions of Daniel M.E. Schaal and Finja Sander. The jointly conceived work PRÄPOSITION is at the same time a beginning and an independent, lively part, which combines the two strands of different working methods for the first time. In addition to PRÄPOSITION, Isabella Bram shows excerpts from her installative spatial structures. The […]
Barkow Leibinger | Revolutions of Choice | Haus am Waldsee | 18.07.-04.10.2020


until 04.10. | #2782ARTatBerlin | Haus am Waldsee shows from 18th July 2020 the exhibition Revolutions of Choice of the architect duo Frank Barkow and Regine Leibinger. In a loose sequence, the Haus am Waldsee as a place of contemporary visual art also presents international architects who maintain their offices in Berlin. With GRAFT (2012), Haus-Rucker-Co (2015) and J.MAYER.H (2016), leading architectural artists were presented who also have their roots in the USA through study and teaching. In the summer of 2020, Haus am Waldsee will be dedicated to the American-German architect duo Frank Barkow (*1957) and Regine Leibinger (*1963), whose work has been able to develop globally from Berlin since the 1990s. After studying at Harvard University, Barkow Leibinger founded an office in Berlin in 1993. Frank Barkow has taught as a visiting professor at leading American universities as well as in London and Lausanne. Regine Leibinger also taught internationally, in addition to her joint construction activities, and held a professorship at the Technical University of Berlin from 2006 to 2018. Today both partners share a professorship at Princeton University. Barkow Leibinger is one of the pioneers of a generation of architects who are constantly trying to expand the […]
Uwe Bremer | Viruses and their Manners or Coronary Comments | Galerie Kremers | 24.07.–31.08.2020


until 31.08. | #2781ARTatBerlin | Galerie Kremers presents from 24th July 2020 the exhibition “Viruses and their Manners or Coronary Comments” by the artist Uwe Bremer. Nobody who knows Uwe Bremer will be surprised that he happily took up the challenge to stage the machinations of the corona virus as works of art. Painted in a masterly manner and refined with gold leaf, the virus is up to its mischief on the wooden background. In addition to this protagonist, Uwe Bremer of course depicts the victims and also the mathematical objects for which he has always had a weakness – as we have already learned from his cosmological still lives. Uwe Bremer, orona australis doppel teckling, 2020, Oil on Wood, 64 x 46 cm Uwe Bremer, coronaentladungsimpulse, 2020, Oil on Wood, 46 x 64 cm “The artworks are true gems, and with their splendid colors and baroque forms they are a feast for the eyes. I cannot judge whether they make the viewer lose his fear of the virus, but fortunately the paintings are not contagious and they unite the uncanny and the beautiful in a very close symbiosis. Price per gem: € 6000.-” Marie Christine Kremers Vernissage: Friday, 24th […]
local talent | curated by Thomas Demand | Sprüth Magers Berlin | 04.07.-22.08.2020


until 22.08. | #2780ARTatBerlin | Sprüth Magers Berlin currently presents the exhibition local talent with contributions by artists living and working in Berlin from different generations and backgrounds, curated by Thomas Demand. Amid the uncertainty of the past six months of the coronavirus pandemic, one thing is clear: Everything has changed, including for artists. Plans have been canceled, exhibitions indefinitely postponed, some will never reopen. Daily life, largely limited to home or studio, has become compressed, and no one can escape the consequences of this withdrawal. Despite the anxieties and disruptions, artists have reacted to their altered circumstances and continue to move forward—albeit with a shift in attitude regarding their work. Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers are pleased to present local talent, an exhibition curated by artist Thomas Demand that features over twenty Berlin-based artists and presents varied responses to the repercussions of our current situation. Installation view, local talent, curated by Thomas Demand, Sprüth Magers, Berlin, July 4–August 22, 2020, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2020, Photography: Timo Ohler, Courtesy Sprüth Magers The selected works, by artists from several generations and diverse nationalities and backgrounds, have either been created in the last few months, or they constitute past works or concepts […]
Mona Ardeleanu | Soft Crush | König Galerie (Chapel) | 04.07.–02.08.2020


until 02.08. | #2779ARTatBerlin | König Galerie currently shows at the Chapel the exhibition SOFT CRUSH with works by the artist Mona Ardeleanu. Patterned fabrics, lace, tassels or furs form the elements from which Mona Ar- deleanu creates mysterious objects. Her works attract the visitor’s eye, the soft fabric evoke warmth, traditional patterns recall memories of the familiar. “Soft Crush” is, on the one hand, the description of a spontaneous attraction and at the same time an expression of the soft materiality of the depicted objects. For the artist, fabrics carry emotions, they create identity as well as uniformity. At the same time, they form the boundary between the inside and the outside, offering protection from the cold or from glances. The patterns and shapes shown create associations with canopies, lanterns and lace doilies. Ardeleanau draws non-hierarchically from European and Asian tradition. Design and handicrafts are important sources of inspiration for her. This is evident in the artful draping, interweaving and intertwining and in the references to handicraft aids such as embroidery or weaving frames. The works oscillate between figurative and abstract; they are indefinable hybrids that only emerge on the canvas as surreal fantasy objects. The spontaneity of the creation contrasts with the fine painting. The works are precisely composed and executed with an almost old masterly precision. Ardeleanu works on the flat surface of a canvas, but the drapes of her fabrics create the illusion of a three-dimensional space. The suggestion of silhouettes, hair and braids gives the impression of physicality, Ardeleanu herself calls her objects “bodies”. They usually hover in monochrome picture spaces, which further emphasizes their fantastic character and sculptural quality. However, Ardeleanu is increasingly softening this strict pattern. In Fade 2020 / V, she surrounds the tunic-like object with a ring of light, […]
Tony Just | Our inchoate love | Alexandru Chira @[erp] | EFREMIDIS GALLERY | 11.07.-28.08.2020
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until 28.08. | #2778ARTatBerlin | EFREMIDIS GALLERY shows from 11th July 2020 the exhibition Our inchoate love by the artist Tony Just and the artist Alexandru Chira at [erp]. All creative activity stems from a violent impulse – the willed impulse to interfere, to interrupt, to mar, to stop. I suppose it is sad, but this kind of violent activity makes me happy. Mary Ruefle Every sound we make is a bit of autobiography. It has a totally private interior yet its trajectory is public. Anne Carson Tony Just paints in books, on paper, canvas and walls. Over the past seven years, he has worked with shapes and drips, a project inspired by Hans Fallada’s novel The Drinker (1950). In one of the writer’s more personal works, the protagonist undergoes an existential crisis, becomes an addict and ends his life by deliberately contracting tuberculosis. He does, however, find solace in his pain and describes his tears as “endless, bitter, and eventually comforting.” In reaction to the reading, Tony Just spilled red wine over a notebook and painted the surrounding spaces. The drips reminded him of the act weeping. In the following year, his practice consisted entirely of painting in books and pouring […]
Li Qing | EAST OF EDEN | Galerie EIGEN + ART Berlin | 09.07.-22.08.2020


until 22.08. | #2777ARTatBerlin | Galerie EIGEN + ART Berlin presents from 9th July 2020 the exhibition EAST OF EDEN with works by the Chinese artist Li Qing, the first exhibition by the artist in Germany. Li Qing was born in Huzhou, Zhejiang Province in 1981. Li Qing is professor at the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou. He lives and works in Hangzhou and Shanghai. His paintings, installations and video works seek rational rifts in similarity and contradiction, acting on the perception and acknowledgment of a viewer through circuitous and overlapped structures. In recent years, his works track the historical fragmentation and ideological conflicts that have occurred widely in the dissemination of information, collective memory, and knowledge experience. Simultaneously, his works are testing the tension and contradiction between image, language, symbol and social space, connecting the multi-level elements of experience in series to construct a conflict structure. The capture of micro-politics in everyday spaces and images, the questioning of political identity in aesthetic tradition, and the observation on the identity of Chinese Art in the context of Global Art, all reflect his historical consciousness among the younger generation of Chinese artists. Li Qing, Hangzhou House No. 1-8, 2017-2019, Serie […]
SOUND.NODES | Bärenzwinger | 09.07.–25.10.2020


until 25.10. | #2776ARTatBerlin | From 9 July 2020 the Bärenzwinger shows the group exhibition SOUND.NODES. Several events will take place during the exhibition period. The »sound.nodes« exhibition is a first step toward exploring the subject of opening, the theme of our new annual program »Openings, not Openings.« The idea here is that the various artistic approaches and perspectives shown allow the Bärenzwinger’s spaces to expand in self-reflection. New insights and changes in circumstances due to the current situation are forcing the Bärenzwinger into a self-critical, fusilli-shaped process of opening at a time when opening is either prohibited or only possible under strict conditions. The space offers different themes, dynamics, and perspectives to connect and create »nodes«, which in turn further evolve in a self-reflective manner, continuously interlinking in new ways over time. The act of listening among the participating artists and their contributions raises a wealth of questions that will determine the next steps we take: to what extent is opening an act of opening the self? How do we ourselves approach opening, and how open are we to perspectives that question our own standpoint? How do we cope with the fact that the memories of others don’t always […]
Hanna Stiegeler | Die Wand. #10 | EIGEN + ART Lab @Rheingau Founders | 08.07.2020 until further notice


until further notice | #2775ARTatBerlin | EIGEN + ART Lab shows from 8th July 2020 in cooperation with Rheingau Founders artworks by the artist Hanna Stiegeler at one wall of the company. „Die Wand.“ is a joint, ongoing project of Rheingau Founders and EIGEN + ART Lab, with the underlying idea, to bring the young art and start-up scene together in order to introduce contemporary art to young founders. We want to test this idea as a format with one wall and one artist. Hanna Stiegeler (*1985) lives and works in Berlin. Recent exhibitions include There is no hierarchy in climax (solo exhibition) at the Gewölbekeller, Konstanz, and group shows at the Goethe Institut, Paris; Gallery Anca Poterasu, Bucharest; PiK Deutz, Cologne; Galerie EIGEN + ART Leipzig and at Sweetwater, Berlin. Stiegeler completed her Meisterstudium at HGB Leipzig and also studied at UdK Berlin and Art Academy Warsaw. In 2019, she received a DAAD Travelgrant for Rio de Janeiro. Please keep in mind the minimum distance of 1,5 meters and don’t forget your face mask. Due to current circumstances, only a certain number of people may be in the exhibition room at the same time. Waiting times may therefore occur. […]
Appel, Rocke + Spohr | Galerie Inga Kondeyne – Raum für Zeichnung | 26.06.-01.08.2020


until 01.08. | #2774ARTatBerlin| Galerie Inga Kondeyne – Raum für Zeichnung shows since 26th June 2020 at the backstage of the gallery as a summer exhibition with artworks by the artists Marlies Appel, Dorothee Rocke and Malte Spohr. This exhibition by Galerie Inga Kondeyne accompanies the group show onstage at Galerie Wichtendahl in the front area of the joint gallery, entitled “Dreaming of …. The Mountains” with works by Simone Distler, Esther Glück, Katrin Günther, Ulrike Heydenreich, Aja von Loeper and Katharina Meister. Dorothee Rocke Marlies Appel Malte Spohrl Exhibition period: Friday, 26th June to Saturday, 1st August 2020 Finissage: Saturday, 1st August 2020, 2:00 – 5:00 p.m. Exhibition Appel, Rocke + Spohr – Galerie Inga Kondeyne | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin
Lars Arrhenius + friends | A-Z · a memento | Taubert Contemporary | 04.07.-29.08.2020


bis 29.08. | #2772ARTatBerlin | taubert contemporary is showing from 4th July 2020 the exhibition A-Z – a memento with works by the recently unexpectedly deceased Swedish artist Lars Arrhenius in juxtaposition with works by other gallery artists. Galerie Taubert Contemporary writes about the exhibition: “It was with great regret that we heard of the loss of Lars Arrhenius (1966–2020) who passed away just a few weeks ago after an operation. He had been battling a stubborn autoimmune disorder for years. Lars leaves behind his wife and two children, who remain in our thoughts. From the beginning of his artistic career, Lars Arrhenius was committed to exploring new things, in particular new media and digitalisation. Over the last 10 years his focus was on environmental protection, which became his central concern. I first came into contact with Lars’s work through an exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart in 2007, ‘Pictogram – The Loneliness of Signs’. This exhibition was widely discussed and an image of a section of ‘The Man without one Way’ fascinated me to such an extent that my wife and I set off immediately. The exhibition itself was outstanding and Lars’s contribution even more impressive than expected. Lars Arrhenius, […]
Positionen der Moderne – Von Max Klinger bis Willi Baumeister | Galerie Brockstedt | extended until 16.09.2020


until 16.09. | #2771ARTatBerlin | Galerie Brockstedt is presenting the summer exhibition “Positions of Modernism – From Max Klinger to Willi Baumeister” until the midth of September 2020. “Art is always contemporary and realistic, it has never existed otherwise and, above all, it cannot exist otherwise.” Fyodor Dostoyevsky Artists record what they have met or touched in order to share it with us, the viewer. Paul Klee once put this aptly: “They do not reproduce what is visible, but make it visible! Thus, in the recently opened exhibition at Galerie Brockstedt, we can take an exciting journey through time in an almost museum-like way, on the traces of modernism, from the turn of the century to the 1960s. Vilmos Huszár, Stilleven met Vruchten, without year, 50 x 59,5 cm, oil on hard fibre On display are works by Willi Baumeister – Carl Buchheister – Peter Foerster – Otto Freundlich – Conrad Felixmüller – George Grosz – Vilmos Huzár – Edmund Kesting – Max Klinger – Kosnick-Kloss – Jeanne Mammen – Georg Meistermann – Johannes Molzahn – Richard Müller – Jozef Peeters – Christian Schad – Rudolf Schlichter – Lothar Schreyer – Kurt Schwitters – Bruno Voigt – Erich Wegener. Carl […]