until 14.10. | #4044ARTatBerlin | Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery Berlin shows from 20th September 2023 (Opening: 19.09.) the exhibition “Postcards from Paradise” with works by the artist Nazir Tanbouli. The title “Postcards from Paradise” is significant: the images are a window into a tender, radiant world of timeless tranquillity, but as “postcards” they imply that we too can visit it. These writings depict a heavenly paradise – but it is not a theocratic heaven of condemnation or reward. It is a place of tranquillity, free from strife, battle and fear. It is a garden where humans and animals come together to enjoy each other. Tanbouli exposes the folly of human supremacy and exposes it as a fabrication that rejects the concept of the “wild” and the hierarchy of species. Tanbouli’s work includes traditionally therianthropic figures – mixed creatures of man and beast – such as the centaur and the minotaur, but also creatures of his own invention. These forms reject the ancient Greek concept of human superiority in favour of the Egyptian method of combining man and animal to create gods. The animal (or material) nature of the god is seen as equal to his human (or intellectual) nature. The work […]

until 28.10. | #4040ARTatBerlin | Galerie Thomas Schulte shows from 14 September 2023 the installation “Root” by the artist Willem De Rooij. Root is a new installation by Willem de Rooij, developed especially for Galerie Thomas Schulte. Touching on notions of identity and nationalism, it juxtaposes a seventeenth-century painting on loan from the Stadtmuseum Berlin with thirtyfour unique photographic responses made by De Rooij. In the seventeenth century, the Dutch Republic housed many prolific painters who developed numerous specialized painting genres. Individual artists crossappropriated each other’s formal and iconographical techniques, which led to a rich and complex visual culture. Because of their innovations, Dutch artists became sought after by wealthy patrons across Europe. One of them, Willem Frederiksz van Royen (ca. 1645, Haarlem, NL–1723, Berlin), arrived in Berlin from the Dutch Republic in 1669 to become a court painter to Friederich Wilhelm, Elector of Brandenburg, and his successor, Friederich I. Van Royen later became one of the founders of the Akademie der Künste, and after, a director and a professor there. Inspired by artists such as Melchior d’Hondecoeter, he specialized in flower still lifes and menageries. These were decorative genres that were popular with the elites of the time, and […]

until 04.11. | #4034ARTatBerlin | Contemporary Fine Arts presents from 16. September 2023 (Opening: 15.09.) a double exhibition by the artist Maki Na Kamura. The double exhibition will take place at Galerie Michael Werner Berlin and Contemporary Fine Arts. Modernism confronted painting with the finding of social insignificance. Since then, no theory has been able to justify why painting is still being done and why it should concern even the last person. Painting’s struggle for survival in the 20th century, which was nevertheless so successful, can be traced back to a special strategy of the artists, namely to transform the traditional means of painting into a contemporary form. The legitimacy of this discipline is based on the inexhaustible possibilities of using colour, surface, form, lines, light and mass to produce new, unprecedented images. And as assertive as this strategy was in the metropolis of Paris, it found a new home in West Berlin after 1960 in the gallery of Michael Werner and in the late nineties in the Contemporary Fine Arts Galerie of Nicole Hackert and Bruno Brunnet. Maki Na Kamura now places her new paintings in the tradition of these galleries. In an act of concentration, she has perceived […]

until 25.10. | #3965ARTatBerlin | Galerie Dittmar presents from 13 September 2023 the solo exhibition „Fragile Beauty – The Age of Uncertainty“ with works of the artist Hana Usui. The Japanese artist Hana Usui, born in Tokyo in 1974, moved to Vienna in 2000. With this move, she opened up new areas of expression based on her earlier cultural imprint. This concerns the relationship between oil drawing and ink painting and, related to this, the way in which the drawn and the painted are combined. In addition, in recent years there have been an increasing number of diverse photographic processes and installation works. The artist’s work has increasingly focused on political issues and the dangers of our time, also triggered by the reactor catastrophe in Fukushima. Based on her artistic language, which she has developed over the years, she approaches these difficult issues in a more mediated, indirect way, giving them a new visual expression. Hana Usui’s delicate works do not offer simple solutions, are not apodictic, rather they point to a fragility, provoke reflection and open up a principled, existential level. Participation in important survey exhibitions, for example in the Metropolitan Art Museum in Tokyo, in the Museum Residenzgalerie […]

until 21.10. | #4032ARTatBerlin | Galerie Esther Schipper shows from 15 September 2023 the solo exhibition “i don’t live here anymore” with photographs by the artist Ugo Rondinone.  Which place did you leave? Why don’t you live there anymore? And where did you move? The statement as title i don’t live here anymore immediately raises questions that will most likely remain unanswered, but it doesn’t matter. It looks like a good place, with room to express oneself; to deepen understanding of the self; to experiment with fetishist interests; to play with gender; to show fierceness as much as vulnerability; to probe the sculptural potential of the body by morphing it into abstraction. Nevertheless, it is not only a space of joy and happiness, as the photos’ references to Pierrot indicate—a quietly observing archetype known to symbolize a sense of melancholy. What is the melancholy about? Is it about what one leaves behind when moving away, moving on or up? Goodbyes are indeed always part of change, markers of transition to move into a new mode, state, or phase. A certain ease with change is, however, also discernable in these five photos, as much as in the larger body of Rondinone’s photographic […]

until 13.10. | #4030ARTatBerlin | Sexauer Gallery presents from 8. September 2023 the group exhibition Wenn die Sirenen heulen (it´s on us) by the artists Martin Assig, Aram Bartholl, Hannah Hallermann, Verena Issel, Anne Mundo , Nik Nowak, Raul Walch, curated by Anne Mundo & Dirk Teschner. When the Sirens howl (it’s on us) deals with the threats of climate change and war. The focus is on the question of the influence of man-made threats to our existence. Since the outbreak of the 2020 pandemic many things have been put to the test. It became apparent who acted in solidarity and who used the crisis for their own interests. The Russian attack on Ukraine brought war back to Europe. Gas deliveries were stopped, the climate crisis became more prominent. Art can help close the communicative gaps regarding these crises. Since facts alone are often not enough to move a society to change, it can help to address senses and feelings as well. Opening: Friday, 08 September, 6 pm – 9 pm Exhibition dates: Friday, 08 September – Friday, 13 October 2023     Image caption: Courtesy Sexauer Gallery Exhibition Wenn die Sirenen heulen (it´s on us) – Sexauer Gallery | Zeitgenössische Kunst in […]

until 21.10. | #4025ARTatBerlin | Meyer Riegger shows from 16 September 2023 the exhibition “VIBR ANX 80” by the artist Jana Schröder. When it comes to painting, Jana Schröder has always imposed rules on herself. The works in her PERLASYNTHIC , NEUSEC , and HAWO series , however, which are now on view for the first time at Meyer Riegger , are di ff erent: Schröder works more freely , there are n o longer any fixed rules. As the artist herself says, “I tried to do everything possible with colour here. The one rule here was probably that I was allowed to do any thing.” These are some of the rules that are normally in force: only two colours, r ound shapes only , and no corners. Or: n o interrupted lines, only continuous ones. If she breaks a rule , but the visual result makes sense, then adapted rules will follow. In this way, Schröder systematically re – evaluates the fundamental mechanisms of paint ing. These restrictions enable her to find the freedom of her own pictorial language time and time again . Before Schröder began the PERLASYNTHIC series in 2021, she tended to work with oil paints. […]

until 11.11. | #4022ARTatBerlin | Sprüth Magers Berlin presents from 16 September 2023 the solo exhibition “Alien Blue” by the artist Pamela Rosenkranz. An alluring and extramundane blue light emanates from the Window, Sprüth Magers’ Berlin storefront exhibition space that is sunken and high-ceilinged, allowing visitors to view displayed works from the street around the clock. The spectacular color or, to be precise, the wavelengths emitted by Pamela Rosenkranz’s Alien Blue Windows permeate the entire room and pour out of the building. Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers are pleased to announce a solo exhibition by the artist, showcasing five unique pieces from her enticing series alongside a selection of intricate kirigami works on paper. Four large and one smaller luminous work line the wood-paneled wall. From a distance, they seem to sink into the gallery’s architecture, while at close range, it becomes apparent they protrude into the space. Reminiscent of upside-down lancet windows found in Gothic churches, the shapes always correspond to an actual window in a building – modern or historical – somewhere in the world. The light works possess an unusual density of luminance, infusing the room and its exterior with an alien atmosphere Evoking many narratives, the […]

until 04.11. | #4019ARTatBerlin | Taubert Contemporary present from 13. September 2023 (Vernissage: 15.09.) the exhibition missing pink by the artist Markus Weggenmann. It was the commitment to “flatness”, to the fundamental flatness of the medium of the image, which the American critic Clement Greenberg demanded of all advanced painting in the post-war decades and which still finds its distant echo in the paintings of Markus Weggenmann. For his paintings, too, stage a sovereign surface art in spatiality that can at best still be found in the fading stage of form superimpositions. LW 421, 2022, high pigmented distemper on cotton, 120 x 100 cm, 47.2 x 39.4 inches This decided two-dimensionality manifests itself in two ways in the new works currently on show at Galerie Taubert Contemporary. On the one hand, the highly abstracted paintings refuse to open up any perspective space – all the colour forms seem to lie on one plane like silhouettes – and on the other hand, they confront the viewer with an absolutely flat (almost “photographic”) surface, in whose design the artist dispenses with both the relief of the paint application and any form of “handwriting”. Accordingly, these works also lack anything confessional or ostensibly […]

until 04.11. | #4016ARTatBerlin | ZWINGER Galerie shows from 9. September 2023 (Opening: 08.09.) the exhibition of the artist Gunter Reski.   Opening: Friday, 8. September 2023, 6pm to 9pm Exhibition dates: Saturday, 9. September– Saturday, 04. November 2023 Special opening hours Berlin ART Week:  Friday, 15. September 12 – 21 Uhr     Image title: Gunter Reski, o.T., 2023, Acryl auf Baumwolle, 170×40 cm Exhibition Gunter Reski– ZWINGER Galerie | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Ausstellungen Berlin Galerien | ART at Berlin  

until 21.10. | #4013ARTatBerlin | ARTCO Galerie Berlin presents from 13. September 2023 the exhibition ECCE NATURA by the artist Bruce Clarke. ECCE NATURA is the preamble to the museum production ECCE HOMO, which was presented for the first time at the Musée national de la Résistance et des Droits humains in Luxembourg. The exhibition looks at the themes it deals with – economic growth, power and the understanding of nature – from a different perspective and presents new works that delve into the latter theme in particular. In this elaboration, Clarke asks about the existential relationship of human beings to nature and uncovers the subtleties and conflicts of this field of tension. On 15.9, the exhibition will be activated with a performance by the renowned choreographer Tebby W.T. Ramasike. The South African choreographer, performer, dance teacher, dance researcher, Butoh practitioner and cultural activist was born in Johannesburg in 1965. Bruce Clarke will be present. Exhibition dates: Wednesday, 13. September to Saturday, 21. October 2023 Performance by Tebby W.T. Ramasike: Friday, 15 September 2023, 8:00 pm     Image caption title: Performance von Tebby W.T. Ramasike, courtesy of ARTCO Berlin Exhibition Bruce Clarke – ARTCO Galerie Berlin | Zeitgenössische Kunst in […]

until 04.11. | #4010ARTatBerlin | RASCHE RIPKEN presents from 8. September 2023 the exhibition TELEVISION by the artist Franz Schmidt. Work, living, leisure, consumption – from these and other spheres of life, the Berlin-based artist selects exemplary everyday objects that he translates into sculptures made of lacquered MDF. In the process, he transforms the objects to a subtle abstraction of minimalist appearance, changing proportions, details and colouring. Franz Schmidt, Automat, 2018, 140 x 70 x 60 cm, MDF, paint, 140 x 70 x 60 cm For example, he builds technical appliances, washing machines, radios, televisions, a beverage dispender, a cash register or a sewing machine, which are partly presented on pedestals and, in their iconic character, evoke images of memories and arouse individual desires. But there are also celestial phenomena such as a yellow star or half a rainbow, taking on an unexpectedly material shape. Franz Schmidt, Nähmaschine, 2018, MDF, paint, 168,5 x 89 x 40 cm In addition, the artist expands the arsenal of his objects with large-format black-and-white photographs – and thus creates a stage-setting that repeatedly evokes surprising perspectives and mental cross-connections. Opening: Friday, 8. September 2023, 8:00 – 9:00 pm, in the presence of the artist. […]

until 21.10. | #4007ARTatBerlin | WENTRUP presents from 15. September 2023 the exhibition ” Liminal Beach ” of the artist Phoebe Boswell. Wentrup presents “Liminal Beach”, the first solo exhibition of London-based artist Phoebe Boswell in Germany. She was born in Nairobi in 1982 and studied at the Slade School of Fine Art and Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London. In 2022, she participated in the Lyon Biennale with a large two-channel video installation entitled dwelling. Her solo exhibition “A Tree Says (In These Boughs The World Rustles)” is currently on view at Orleans House in Twickenham near London. A woman flings herself into the air on a secluded beach, her red dress lifting from the force of that leap, its color a vibrant splash against the blue sky and endless horizon. She is so exuberant that she seems to defy gravity. Any moment now, those graceful arms might carry her away beyond where we can see. Phoebe Boswell’s Liminal Deity could be a portrait of joy and exhilarating freedom. But that dress: it is both elegant and harrowing, made of either feathers or flesh. Its shade of red hovers on the edge of darkness. Those could be […]

until 14.10. | #4006ARTatBerlin | Galerie Schindler in Potsdam presents from 31. August 2023 the exhibition Verflechtung with works by the artists Simone Westphal and Karen Simon. The material approach that one senses in KAREN SIMONS’ works comes from a love of the spatial, the living, sinking into another world. With often delicate, transparent, but also strong colours, she paints with ink, gouache and acrylic on canvas, sometimes tulle. Karen Simon, still there, thread and ink on canvas, 95 x 75 cm, 2022 She often finds her inspiration in the moods of nature, places and feelings, whereby the representational is only hinted at, remains fragmentary or blurred. The sewn-on, embroidered or hanging threads suggest directions, connections, but also entanglements. The viewer is thus given impulses without being restricted in his or her way of seeing. Karen Simon, connection, 150 x 100 cm, thread and ink on canvas, 2023 With this opening up of new mental creative spaces, Simon succeeds in addressing people, evoking emotions, dreams or an examination of oneself. After viewing the works with their loose, floating, dancing threads, one is released with a feeling of having reconnected with oneself. Simone Westphal, Niki de St. Phalle, 35 x 20 […]

until 29.09. | #4002ARTatBerlin | Luisa Catucci Gallery presents from 1. September 2023 (Opening: 31.08.) the exhibition EXNatura of artist Filippo Gregoretti. Filippo Gregoretti is a visual and conceptual artist, musician (pianist and composer), performer, university professor of transmedia design and digital experiences, pioneer of the integration of art, music and technology, developer of advanced algorithms and author of video games and immersive experiences. He is the first person to publish artworks as applications in the official stores. The AI does not create artworks, but the AI itself is the artwork. Gregoretti named his AI “Amrita” and developed it into an artificial intelligence artist – or an artificial emotional artist personality – capable of creating visual and audio artworks and communicating with the outside world and other artworks. The visual flow always begins in the pictorial, material and photographic world and is generated by the decisions of the AI personality during its artistic and emotional growth process. The music is elaborated based on complex harmonic guidelines and decision-making instructions that give the AI the ability to compose and improvise. Of course, Amrita needs to be guided on what decisions to make and what might inspire her in her artistic development. […]

until 30.09. | #3999ARTatBerlin | EIGENHEIM Berlin as a guest at HAUNT presents two exhibitions from 1 September 2023: the first exhibition “Fenster auf Kipp – Heizung auf Fünf” by the artists Enrico Freitag, Benedikt Braun and Konstantin Bayer and in November the second exhibition by the artists Anna Bittersohl, Gökçen Dilek Acay and Nina Röder. The first exhibition shows works by Konstantin Bayer, Benedikt Braun and Enrico Freitag. The title “Fenster auf Kipp // Heizung auf Fünf” is understood as a metaphor for human hubris and symbolises the idea of a never-ending wastefulness as well as the apparent impossibility of growing out of the comfort zone. Contemporary events are a mixture of fear of great upheavals and defiant insistence on the status quo. The three artists deal with these upheavals on the most diverse levels – be it economic, technological, social or ecological. EIGENHEIM Berlin is a guest for two exhibitions in 2023 at HAUNT, a remise at Kluckstraße 23 in the immediate vicinity of the Potsdamer Straße gallery district. The former training centre for Berlin gardeners is characterised by its modern straight-lined architecture, a multitude of rooms on two floors and a spacious, wildly urban outdoor area. The […]

until 28.10. | #3996ARTatBerlin | Galerie EIGEN + ART Berlin shows from 31. August 2023 the exhibition Flyer by the artist David Schnell. The perspectives in David Schnell’s pictures have changed: What the gaze once saw before it, the strict pull from all edges of the space into the middle of the radiant world, a view from the central eye of the observer, is now replaced by an overview down from above. From the tower, from the apex of the pyramid, from an inexorable camera circling in the sky? An observation absolved from the human point of view, as taken by machines. It is the view of the angel of history. And before this eye, the deserted places are transformed – here, we ourselves adopt this non-human view – into states of things that no longer obey the basic truths of space and time. The structure bares itself. Components join it, lose their solidity, transform themselves. And the more our eyes approach the surfaces of the painted canvas, the more what we had just perceived as geometrically organized eludes us. We find ourselves in lucid abysses and floating shafts from which even the earth’s gravity has departed. What is architectonically […]

until 04.11. | #3993ARTatBerlin | Galerie Mehdi Chouakri shows from 9. September 2023 the exhibition “Venus und Sonne im zehnten Haus” (Venus and Sun in the Tenth House) by the artists Julia Dubsky, Hannah Sophie Dunkelberg, Simone Fattal, Rochelle Feinstein, Estefanía Landesmann, Nancy Lupo, Liz Magor, Małgorzata Mirga-Tas, Margaret Raspé and Martha Riniker Radich. Exhibition dates: Saturday, 9 September to Saturday, 4 November 2023 Opening hours: Saturday, 9 and Sunday, 10 September, from 11:00 am to 8:00 pm / Tuesday, 12 September to Saturday, 4 November, each Saturday from 11:00 am to 6:00 pm and by appointment. Location: Wilhem Hallen, Kopenhagener Str. 60-72, 13407 Berlin-Reinickendorf     Image caption: Courtesy of Mehdi Chouakri Exhibition Venus und Sonne im zehnten Haus – Mehdi Chouakri | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin

until 28.10. | #3986ARTatBerlin | Galerie Thomas Fischer presents from 9. September 2023 (Opening: 08.09.) the exhibition Moderne in Europa by the artist Irmel Kamp. Irmel Kamp, Antwerpen Opening: Friday, 8. September 2023, 6:00 – 9:00 pm Exhibition dates: Saturday, 9. September – Saturday, 28. October 2023     Exhibition Irmel Kamp – Galerie Thomas Fischer | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibibitons Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin

until 09.09.| #3988ARTatBerlin | Laura Mars Gallery shows from 19. August 2023 (Opening: 18.08.) the group exhibition FANTÔME SHOWS 2023 of the artists Astrid Busch, DAG, Tina Haber and Teresa Mayr. Fantôme Show 2023, showcasing the latest publications from the Fantôme Verlag. Four artists – Astrid Busch, DAG, Teresa Mayr and Tina Haber – will be exhibiting their works, including drawings, installations, and editions that explore the concept of a changing space. Through the versatile use of analogue and digital forms, they create new connections that show historical and personal contexts. Astrid Busch “world in minds”, 2022 (Installationsansicht) publiziert in Astrid Busch – World in Minds, Fantôme Vol. 76 Astrid Buschs works include installations, photographs, works on paper, objects, and moving images. The starting point of her works are usually architectural designs or places that she examines for their sensory perceptibility and their impact on people. Her motifs reference pre-existing and self-generated images, which are transformed, modified in dimensions and then translated onto various image carriers in the room under complex lighting conditions. This is how she makes the different spaces she looks at experienceable on different atmospheric levels. Based on her research on four international harbours she summarizingly created the book world of minds. […]

until 17.09. | #3984ARTatBerlin | Galerie Sievi shows from 18. August 2023 the Duo exhibition of artists Kristina Weiss and Darko Lesjaks. Kristina Weiss has been working as a freelance artist in Munich and her native city of Berlin for around twenty years; intellectual thematisation forms at best the framework of her work, the viewer should perceive images and objects primarily on a sensual level and find a subjective approach. Kristina Weiss, ©Galerie Sievi Darko Lesjak’s painting is inspired by the power and aesthetics of nature, which are reflected in his dynamic and colourful pictorial compositions. The spiritual and the physical seem to strive for a close connection. In the process, he creates works of art that radiate vitality and joy, but sometimes also appear monumental and mysterious. Opening: Friday, 18. August 2023, 7 pm Exhibition dates: Friday, 18. August until Sunday, 17. September 2023     Image caption: Darko Lesjaks, courtesy Galerie Sievi Exhibition Kristina Weiss + Darko Lesjaks – Galerie Sievi | Contemporary Art Berlin – Ausstellungen Berlin Galerien | ART at Berlin

until 28.10. | #3981ARTatBerlin | neugerriemschneider presents from 28. August 2023 the exhibition “Movement Notations” of the artist Noa Eshkol. The fifth exhibition dedicated to Noa Eshkol at neugerriemschneider, on view at the Linienstrasse location during Berlin Art Week and the autumn edition of Gallery Weekend Berlin. movement notations forms a preview of the anniversary year 2024, in which the choreographer and artist would have turned one hundred. Following our earlier presentations of tapestries by Eshkol, we are showing rare sculptural, graphic and filmic works from her archive for the first time. These exhibits, some of which have not been seen for decades, document the development of the influential Eshkol-Wachman Movement Notation, illuminating a central foundation of Eshkol’s creative practice. Following a five-year stay in England, where she studied expressionist dance, Eshkol developed the Eshkol-Wachman Movement Notation together with the architect Avraham Wachman in Israel from 1951 to 1956. Published in 1958 in the book Movement Notation, this innovative movement notation is based on an interdisciplinary, universally applicable structure that goes beyond dance and the human figure in favour of an objective analysis of individual body parts. Eshkol and Wachman defined a scheme for different body shapes, standardised the mobility […]

until 04.11.| #3978ARTatBerlin | Galerie Brockstedt presents from 9. September 2023 the exhibition SPATIUM with paintings and collages by the artist Tino Geiss. The title and images of this exhibition of recent works by Leipzig painter Tino Geiß invite us to reflect…. Seen abstractly, “space” means a possibility, an opportunity for development or encounter. It invites us to enter it, to fill it with content, to shape it. On the one hand, it signals openness, but on the other hand it also protects what is inside. Tino Geiss, Blumenstrauss, 2023, 68 x 45, Acrylic, paper tape, lacquer on forex The rooms into which Tino Geiss leads us breathe silence: no living people – only their likenesses on busts or paintings – no animals, only plants adorn the lushly furnished interiors. Our eyes linger at first on the varied and painterly realistically executed details, but are lured deeper and deeper into new suggested perspectives: Other rooms, windows, door frames, staircases, galleries or pictures suggest levels behind them, which the artist staggers into one another like a collage with brisk brushstrokes, as if these realistic-looking rooms wanted to guide us into deeper layers of our consciousness. Tino Geiss, Große Sammlung, 2023, 240 […]

until 02.09. | #3975ARTatBerlin | ARTCO Galerie Berlin shows from 4. August 2023 the group exhibition Studio Talks with works by the artists Christian August, Bea Bonafini, Susanne Bonowicz, Jenny Brosinski, Julien Deiss, Johanna Dumet, Janes Haid- Schmallenberg, Atusa Jatari, Aneta Kajzer, Benni Kakert, Moritz Lindur, Timur Lukas, Rebekka Macht, Anna Nero, Laura Sachs, Selassie, Gemma Solà Sotos, Tom Solty, Fabian Treiber, Theresa Volpp, Marta Vovk and Fabian Warnsing. “It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.” In summer 2018, the curator Malte Bülskämper and his STUDIO TALKS project began with the first talks and studio visits in Berlin. The following five years were not only an exciting journey through many studios, but also through the different developments of contemporary painting. The group exhibition at ARTCO Galerie Berlin juxtaposes the different positions of the participating artists in their diversity and lets them enter into an exciting discourse. The exhibition invites us all to discover painting anew and to engage together in an encounter with the unknown – just like a good visit to the studio. As part of the exhibition, all the interviews in the Studio Talks series will be published as a book together […]

until 26.08. | #3972ARTatBerlin | Michaela Helfrich Galerie presents from 28. July 2023 the Group exhibition “Hungry for love” with Tanja Selzer and many other artists from the gallery’s network. Playing Venus 3, 2022, 220 x 170cm, Oil on Linen Tanja Selzer, ©Michaela Helfrich Galerie with artists : Ralf Rose, Ulrike Pisch, Tania Selzer, Carolin Hegerath, Klaas-Bosch, Roland Behrmann , Anja Margold, Heike Mardo, Alan Rankle, Tina Engel, Mariella Ridda, Ruo Zhang, August Schnee, Oliver Dehn, Bettina Semmer, Noëlo’Cunningham, Elena Tamburini, David D. Lauer, Christina Gaysz, Ärmin Paul, Fabian Freese, Laura Rosenow and Nanako Shikata. Opening: Friday, 28. July 2023, 6pm until 10pm Exhibition dates: Friday, 28. April – Saturday, 26. August 2023     Image caption: Bettina Semmer “Lonely Dancer”, 2021, 120 x 110 cm, acrylics and oil on canvas Group exhibition Hungry for love – Michaela Helfrich Galerie | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Ausstellungen Berlin Galerien | ART at Berlin

until 31.08. | #3966ARTatBerlin | Galerie feinart berlin presents from 27. July 2023 the exhibition “World traveler, grande dame, painter (1901-1980)” mit drawings by the Africa and South America traveler and artist Lore Kegel from the 1960s to 1970s. Lore Kegel was one of the first women to study at the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1919 to 1922. Living in Hamburg from the mid-1920s, the emancipated, adventurous woman made a lasting name for herself primarily as an art dealer and collector of non-European, especially African art — a passion that also deeply inspired her work as a painter and poet. Lore Kegel, Unity of faith, pastel crayon, 1963 © feinartberlin Lore Kegel’s life was marked by an inexhaustible curiosity for travels to foreign cultures, for their nature, people and crafts. As early as the early 1930s, she traveled to India, Tibet and Lapland, and after 1945 to Central Africa, South America, Southeast Asia and Egypt. Under the National Socialist government, she was excluded from the Reich Chamber of Culture because of her Jewish ancestors. During the war, she organized so-called „Kegel-Abende” in her house on the Eilenau until it was bombed in 1943, where artists, writers and humanities scholars regularly […]

until 29.07. | #3963ARTatBerlin | Migrant Bird Space presents from 15. July 2023 the exhibition “Boys, Boys, Boys” by the artist Melissa Steckbauer. Melissa Steckbauer will be presented as the first additional artist of the summer project “Boys Boys Boys” from 15.07. to 29.07. at MBS with her fascinating works. Melissa Steckbauer currently resides and works in Berlin. In recent years, she has shifted her focus from comprehensive research in painting to creating a series of works on paper, exploring the possibilities and complexities of this medium within spatial contexts. Steckbauer’s artistic practice is characterized by her exploration of the unique qualities and expressive potential of paper. Through techniques such as repetition, intricate cuts, and layering, she creates captivating geometric shapes and layered compositions on paper. In Steckbauer’s artwork, paper serves as an “image-bearer,” conveying profound emotions and interpersonal relationships. She likens her artistic process to writing love letters, where each artwork becomes a visual expression of something deeply human and transcendent. Through her meticulous craftsmanship and experimentation with photographic forms, Steckbauer aims to make the intangible aspects of the human experience tangible. The artistic exploration goes beyond individual experiences and encompasses the concept of sharing, which is essential for […]

until 25.08. | #3961ARTatBerlin | Luisa Catucci Gallery presents from 14. July 2023 (Opening: 13.07.) the exhibition Visions in Thread by the artist Livia Sciorilli Borrelli. In the realm of contemporary art, the fusion of traditional crafts and modern expression often gives birth to captivating creations, while bringing back to the fore ancient art forms. Italian artist Livia Sciorilli Borrelli selected textile art as her form of expression, and precisely the technique of crocheting as her creative tool, combining meticulous craftsmanship with boundless inventiveness. Her big tapestry, as much as her small pieces, have a taste of minimalism and post-painterly abstraction, where essential elements and colours emphasize simplicity, purity, and objectivity. But instead of aiming for objectivity, Sciorilli Borrelli’s works want to take the viewer on an intimate journey. At the heart of her creations lies exactly this profound exploration of personal memory and subconsciousness, and their transformation into a collective narrative, as shown by her choice to use threads created out of recycled blankets and clothes – that at some point played some significant roles in her life – and by being the fruits of many hours of work – where the repetition of the movement inevitably triggers transcendent journeys […]

until 13.08. | #3959ARTatBerlin | Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery Berlin shows from 08. July 2023 the group exhibition “Where The Wild Roses Grow” with works by over 35 artists from 20 different nations at Schloss Görne. Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery presents “Where The Wild Roses Grow”, their third summer exhibition at Schloss Görne, Germany. Each year, the gallery invites established and emerging artists from within and beyond their roster to exhibit their works within the dramatic setting of an 18th-century castle and amid the sprawling gardens. This year’s edition borrows its title from a song by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and Kylie Minogue in homage to the wild surroundings and the transformative power of art. Untouched for 50 years, Schloss Görne had previously fallen into a state of disrepair – its imposing Neo-Baroque facade rises up between the trees while many of its cavernous rooms remain crumbling and overgrown. The ongoing partnership between the gallery and the castle has breathed new life into the building, supporting its gradual restoration into a vibrant cultural destination where the beauty of art and nature combine. In celebration of creative solidarity, the artists participating this year have each been asked to make new work […]

until 05.08. | #3958ARTatBerlin | Galerie Inga Kondeyne – Raum für Zeichnung in cooperation with Wichtendahl Galerie presents from 7 July 2023 the group exhibition SIXPACK by the artists Marlies Appel, Kazuki Nakahara, Christiane Schlosser, Simone Distler, Aja Von Loeper and Winni Schaak. Marlies Appel, o.T. 2019, 29 x 42 cm, coloured pencils on transparent paper Kazuki Nakahara, o.T., 2019, 115 x 98 cm, Coloured pencil on paper Opening: Friday, 7. July 2023, 5 to 8 pm Exhibition dates: Friday, 7. July – Saturday, 5. August 2023     Image caption title: Christiane Schlosser, o.T., 2013, 43 x 56 cm, Ink on paper Exhibition SIXPACK – Galerie Inga Kondeyne | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin

until 02.07. | #3955ARTatBerlin | Semjon Contemporary presents from1. July 2023 (Opening 30.06.2023) The exhibition UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA BAUHAUS TOUR by the UniSA study tour group. The UniSA study tour group of architecture and art students from the University of South Australia explores the Bauhaus in Weimar and its impacts until today. In Berlin a joint work-shop follows within the acommodations of CityLAB:Berlin, which guides into an exhibition on view at Semjon Contem-porary, the Berlin gallery representing Michael Kutschbach. with Lisa Crowder, Taylor Cunningham, Penny Fisher, Charlotte Folland, Charlotte Gross, Karla Hitchcock, Eloise Labaz, Ella Leak, Daisy Madigan, Lily Pertl, Isabel Pratt, Claire Puddy, James Rochow, Samuel Shute, Wee Shiang Tay, Phuc Linh Nhi Trinh, Lola Williams and Zoe Wood Vernissage: Friday, June 30, 7 – 9.30 pm Ausstellungsdaten: Saturday + Sunday, July 1st + 2nd, 1 – 7 pm     Image caption: courtesy Semjon Comtemporary Exhibition UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA BAUHAUS TOUR – Semjon Contemporary | Zeitgenössische Kunst – Contemporary Art – Exhibitions Berlin Galleries – ART at Berlin

until 29.07. | #3953ARTatBerlin | Crone Berlin shows from 24. June 2023 the exhibition „Till Now“ of the artist Milen Till. Presentation of the book TILL NOW by Milen Till and opening of the exhibition of the same name at the Berlin gallery. The book and the exhibition provide an overview of Till’s work to date, which combines conceptual art with ready-made art and invites diverse interpretations. For example, curator and art historian Anja Heitzer writes in her text contribution to the book: “With his playful approach, Till takes aim at the art scene of the last century, which was characterised by the cult of genius and exuberant masculinity. With wit and charm, he questions the powerful gesture of large formats, the unbroken significance of big names and the special recognisability of great works.” Author and Head of Media at the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Holger Liebs, emphasises that Till’s interactive art actions “often reflect the logic of the internet, in its dialectic and suspension of authorship and virally generated fame of the individual”. The publicist and art critic Robert Prinz elaborates on the fact that Till repeatedly deals with iconographic works by famous artists in his works: “He peels out […]

until 01.07. | #4047ARTatBerlin | HazeGallery presents from 22. June 2023 the group exhibition WILD SOULS by the artists Elena Muller, MA+KE lab, Maria Gigova-Wasserfaller, Ronald Anzenberger, Sandra Ruyssinck, Yan Jun White, Tina Mona Cohen, Marina Lioubaskina, Leonor von Salisch, Eunwan Han-Oehl, Anna Kolacka, Angela Chin, Alexandra Gorchakova and Katarzyna Najmrocka. Haze.Gallery is proud to announce a collective exhibition featuring art that showcases the beauty of animals and nature. The exhibition will open on June 22nd with a vernissage and close on July 1st with a finissage. This collective exhibition will highlight the relationship between art and nature, featuring original artwork from some of the most talented international artists.  The exhibition will showcase a diverse range of artistic mediums including paintings, sculptures,  photographs and a video all with a focus on animals and the natural world. The art in this exhibition conveys various themes of the natural world, such as conservation, preservation, and coexistence with wildlife. The message behind each piece has been thoughtfully curated to inspire awareness and appreciation for the beauty of nature and the importance of protecting the environment. Visitors will experience the beauty of animals and nature in a unique way through the artists’ perspective, from […]

until 19.08. | #3949ARTatBerlin | Galerie EIGEN + ART Berlin shows from 08. June 2023 the exhibition “Maze” of the artist Natalie Paneng. About Natalie Paneng The practice of multidisciplinary artist and world builder Natalie Paneng is to reinvent herself in digital worlds. In these worlds, the artist’s body is released from its constraints and driven to ecstasy; for her, play is an ever-present friend, the internet her limitless playground. I enjoy a kind of boundlessness that the internet as a platform makes possible. The internet is a place where I don’t have to follow the same rules and codes as in real life. It gives me the opportunity to be completely free in my explorations and contributions. I can take up more space in this place and choose how I want to be present. Natalie Paneng has taught herself photography and the technique of videography, focusing mainly on self-portraits. Self-portraits that she is constantly developing, portraying herself as different personalities and characters. He[She] has released her/his body from these constraints. He[She] plays with time and space. [Her] body is a needle. Now he[she] mixes history with her body and makes it a game that [her] body likes. (Binyavanga Wainaina, […]

until 12.08. | #3947ARTatBerlin | Galerie Thomas Schulte presents from 24. June 2023 the exhibition “The Temptation to Exist” of the artist Alfredo Jaar with selected artworks by 50 artists. For over four decades, Alfredo Jaar has used photography, film, installation, and new media to create compelling works that examine complex socio-political issues and the ethics and limits of representation. His exhibition The Temptation to Exist at Galerie Thomas Schulte, whose title makes reference to a book by Emil Cioran, showcases some of Jaar’s own works alongside artworks from around 50 other artists who have sought to resist and change the world since the 1950s. The show is an examination of memory and political participation, revealing the intersection between culture and democratic life, invoking a shared history and reclaiming agency. In the Corner Space, Hans Haacke’s work Grass Grows will be on display.In the first gallery room, an immersive experience is created with a large, red neon work by Jaar himself. Eschewing the presence of other objects, the room is entirely illuminated with a dense red light, building an atmosphere of poetic uncertainty, mirroring the unease of contemporary times. In the second gallery space, Jaar has tried to create what […]

until 02.09. | #3945ARTatBerlin | Galerie mehdi chouakri presents from 30. June 2023 the exhibition “TOMORROW‘S SHADOW IT‘S A WIN-WIN” of the artist Claude Closky. Opening: Thursday, 29. June 2023 from 6 pm until 9 pm Exhibition dates: Friday, 30. June until Saturday, 02. September 2023     Image caption: Courtesy of Mehdi Chouakri Exhibition Claude Closky – mehdi chouakri | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Ausstellungen Berlin Galerien | ART at Berlin

until 17.06.| #4046ARTatBerlin | HazeGallery shows from 08. June 2023 the exhibition MENOS by the artist Kleber Cianni. We are thrilled to present the solo exhibition of Brazilian artist Kleber Cianni, whose work reflects his journey of self-discovery. Through his works, this Brazilian artist has channeled the pain of his personal journey of self-discovery into powerful pieces of art. Each painting is a reflection of the artist’s psyche and the process of transformation that he has experienced. Despite the difficult emotional terrain he has traversed, his art is a testament to his courage and resilience. With the means of his work, the artist has created a visual language that speaks to all who have experienced the turmoil of self-discovery, and the transformative power of art. With each piece, he invites us to join him on this deeply personal journey, exploring the many hues of life’s emotional landscape. Curated by Irina Rusinovich Opening: Thursday, 8 June 2023 Exhibition dates: Thursday, 8 June 2023 until Saturday, 17 June 2023     Bildunterschrift Titel: Kleber Cianni, courtesy of HazeGallery Exhibition Kleber Cianni – Hazegallery | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galerien | ART at Berlin

until 06.07. | #3942ARTatBerlin | Galerie Esther Schipper presents from 8. June 2023 the exhibition If nobody wants you you’re free of the artist Sojourner Truth Parsons.  The vividness of everyday experiences, but also the strangeness of existence, form the basis of Sojourner Truth Parsons’ work. Her paintings have an astonishing atmospheric intensity. They combine bright colours, silhouettes of bodies and black surfaces that simultaneously function as architectural elements and framing. The compositions move on the threshold between abstraction and representation, oscillating back and forth, whereby recognisable forms such as bodies, but also flowers, streetscapes or landscapes can never be definitively fixed in one register or the other. The iconography composed of overlapping elements – layers of colour alternating with thin washes, matt surfaces with slightly shiny and iridescent passages – constructs an inner world that is more psychic landscape than forest or city block, embodying an emotional truth. Exhibition view: Sojourner Truth Parsons, If nobody wants you youʼre free, Esther Schipper, Berlin, 2023, Courtesy the artist and Esther Schipper, Berlin/ Paris/Seoul, Photo © Andrea Rossetti Urban landscapes with skyscrapers, hints of river views and window frames found their way into Parsons’ work after she moved to New York from […]

until 09.07. / 27.08. | #3939ARTatBerlin | Galerie Z22 presents from 10. June 2023 the Duo exhibition Crashed Heaven of the artists Kristina Podobed and Olena Klochko. KRISTINA PODOBED She started her photographic journey in 2011, mainly documenting herself and her female friends. Even if your stance on bodies, nakedness and sexuality in photography is free-spirited enough, Kristina’s Podobed photography are there to catch you off-guard, to push you to the boundaries where intimacy and vulgarity suddenly merge to create a rough and honest image. It is the photographers walking that fine line who end up challenging society’s moral status quo – and it’s those photographers that we need the most today. In 2015 and 2016 Kristina studied at International Summer School of Photography in Latvia (Jim Goldberg and Anouk Kruithof workshops ) Currently Kristina lives and works in Brest, France A disturbing strangeness of being. Kristina Podobed, © Galerie Z22 OLENA KLOCHKO Olena Klochko (Oleklo) was born in Bakhmut, Donetsk region . She took a degree in languages and worked as a translator for some time. She was doing drawing and painting, based on her own self-taught methods. Her first official solo show took place in Kursk in 1994 […]

until 08.07 | #3936ARTatBerlin | Galerie Tammen presents from 03. June 2023 the group exhibition “Portrait I” with 7 various Artists. Galerie Tammen is planning the exhibition series PORTRAIT I. – III. The first part of the exhibition “Portrait I” shows works by the following artists*: Jon Thor Gislason, Volker Leyendecker, Ellen Mäder-Gutz, Bettina Sellmann, Martin Stommel, Rubica von Streng, Lars Theuerkauff. Nowhere is the human being so visibly present as in his face. For thousands of years, people have therefore tried to decipher the face and capture it in pictures. Abb. Volker Leyendecker, „Litith VI“, 2023, Öl auf Leinwand 120 x 80 cm What is the significance of the artistic portrait today in the age of the media flood of faces? In a time of digital omnipresence of portraits on Facebook pages, of selfies as a new form of self-portrait, in times of plastic surgery and computer-generated special effects, of digital facial recognition and simulation of facial expressions. Can it still be seen at all? The face, like the body, has always been subject to different cultural techniques, codes of expression and aesthetic criteria, the reciprocal relationship of gaze and sight. This is also reflected in the history of the […]

until 01.07. | #3933ARTatBerlin | Galerie EIGEN + ART Berlin shows from 01. June 2023 the exhibition “Elysium” of the artist Martin Eder. It’s as if someone switched on the light in Martin Eder’s pictures. Rather than darkened by an ominous storm, the pictures in the exhibition Elysium at Galerie EIGEN + ART glow from within. Usually unclothed human figures or animals with fur or feathers (in this case, mostly the cute, cuddly sort) look at us from Eder’s paintings, but this time they do so always in fifty pastel shades. At first glance, they seem to lack every kind of darkness. But apart from the colors, something here is fundamentally different from before. Instead of exploring frightening corporeal-psychological states of emergency, Eder now enters Elysium – the Island of the Blessed, as described in Greek mythology. It is Paradise. Once one reaches it, healing, happiness, and idyll are in sight. Finally salvation. (…) Text extract Anne Waak. Martin Eder, Elysium, ©EIGEN + ART berlin Bodies are sold, they are abused, they are twisted, they are reinvented, they are drained, they are dragged around, thrown into cavities and left alone, locked in wrong perceptions, full of attitudes and fears. The spiritual […]

until 22.07. | #3930ARTatBerlin | FeldbuschWiesnerRudolph (FWR) presents from 09. June 2023 „ENTER:lapidarium“ the first representative solo exhibition of the artist Daniel M.E. Schaal. “It (is) always about my contemporaneity. To observe and classify what it means to be a body in Western society. A body that causes systems to be questioned, but still exists as a body (…)” (Daniel M.E. Schaal, 2023) In accordance with the exhibition title (*”Lapidarium” = the accumulation of sculptures, objects or fragments historically relevant or even consecrated to a place), the visitor is taken on a journey of process-oriented as well as conceptual works that express their narrative in the snapshots of Schaal’s impressively large media diversity. This occurs, for example, as painting on canvas, as singular as well as serial prints on handmade paper and cardboard, or it transforms itself as a monumental hand-woven textile floating freely in front of the wall.  Daniel M.E. Schaal, exhibition view at Galerie FeldbuschWiesnerRudolph Already in his student days at the UdK Berlin, the artist gained first public attention due to his collaboration in the performance duo SANDER/SCHAAL as well as through his fascinating prints. In the gallery, a paper web measuring more than 20m is installed […]

until 07.06. | #3927ARTatBerlin | BARK BERLIN GALLERY shows from 18. May 2023 in the exhibition “fever dream” photographs by Victoria Jung about the queer community in New Orleans. A project about the enchanted everyday life of the queer community in New Orleans in the permanent spiral between catastrophe and empowered celebration. New Orleans has always been a city full of extremes. At least since the destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, people here have lived in an environment that is often crumbling, always threatened, and defective in many ways. Maybe that‘s why those who can’t fit into the American system anywhere else find a home there. Queer travelers who have been through a lot in their young lives. Katrina created gaps that provided easily accessible shelter. Fueled by the tolerant and warm-hearted spirit of the local urban population, a collective of unique people was able to flourish. A rebellious and unruly subculture for which artistic expression is vital to survival. The work shows the clinking and flickering of this magical world on a constant tipping point. It seeks closeness to the wayward protagonists, who have long since become friends, and takes part in their everyday life. An everyday […]

until 16.06. | #3924ARTatBerlin | Migrant Bird Space shows from 12. May 2023 the Duo Exhibition “Authentic” of the artists Xia Peng and Teresa Murta. Mystery does not come into the world via expression, but through activity and concealment in it. The power of magic is grounded in a special esoteric or mystical knowledge that most people lack, a special ability or gift. While both this exhibition’s artists are realistic in their creative approach, their themes and subject-matters are imbued with a deeper understanding of reality and what lies beyond; they give free rein to fantasy without compromising on reality. This exhibition introduces Xia Peng and Teresa Murta by means of a dialogue between their technically proficient paintings. Their drawings and images transcend reality and stir our sensitivities. A selection of 20 of their outstanding recent works is brought together. Xia Peng’s New series Street view of the event, the question and introspection of painting as a traditional media is explored under the continuous acquisition of new ways of observation. Looking for personal orientation in the intersection of ancient image resources and modern technology. When we get unlimited image resources all at the same time, it will make us explore the essence […]

until 02.06. | #3921ARTatBerlin | Galerie Z22 presents ab 13. Mai 2023 the Group exhibition LET THE MUSIC PLAY of the artists Kati Von Schwerin, Leah Rudolph and Stephanie Guse. This series was inspired by the record shop “POP, Berlin”, which is known for its exquisite range of vinyl records. The shop hosts a cultural programme and exhibited my photographs in 2018. The photographic works are exactly the same size as the long-playing records (LP) used to be. They model golden record trophies through intricate collages of found material from consumer goods such as chocolate box inlays, lush shopping bags or glamorous packaging. Each artwork relates to a specific album such as BOB DYLAN: Nashville Skyline, DAVID BOWIE: Changes, DER PLAN: Es Ist Eine Fremde Und Seltsame Welt, EURYTHMICS: Savage, FELA: Fela & Africa 70, LCD: lcd soundsytem, MADONNA: Like a Virgin, NEIL YOUNG: Zuma, PATTI SMITH: Horses and QUEEN: Live Killers. Kati von Schwerin’s artistic work is characterised above all by the fact that she seems to be torn between the clear structures of pop art and an intellectually charged level of content, and basically cannot and will not decide on anything. It is cerebral and a little schizophrenic, […]

until 10.06. | #3918ARTatBerlin | ARTCO Galerie Berlin presents from 27. April 2023 the Group exhibition When the silent song rises of the artsists Beverly D. Renekouzou, Exocé Kassongo, Melody Howse, Thomias Radin, Selassie and Elihu Ashong. WHEN THE SILENT SONG RISES is a group exhibition with works and performances by Beverly D. Renekouzou, Exocé Kassongo, Melody Howse, Thomias Radin, Selassie and Elihu Ashong. The opening will take place on 27 April at ARTCO Galerie Berlin. As all participating artists also have a background in music and/or dance, a joint performance will be staged alongside paintings and video works. Contemporary expression that encourages a spiritual experience is planned. The Right Of Soil 1, 75×0,96m, 2022, T®Beverly Renekouzou The exhibition builds on the curatorial concept of Beverly Renekouzou and her latest series of works “Honorer le sacrifice”. The Berlin-based painter began the large-format paintings in 2022. They are a tribute to generations of people who lived on – or left – the African continent to contribute to Europe’s economic growth through hard work, frustrating integration experiences and other sacrifices. “They deserve more visibility and attention than any other European citizens,” the artist explains. The series also revolves around the personal experiences […]

until 02.06. | #3915ARTatBerlin | DIEHL presents from 27. August 2023 the exhibition ANIMA ANIMALIS of the artist Oleg Kulik. An exhibition by the artist, who was born in Ukraine and currently lives under house arrest in Russia. Hardly any other artist has challenged the viewer as provocatively as Oleg Kulik with his performances in the 90s and 2000s. No easy task, then. But Carsten, as has always been his way, very quickly and through his open curiosity and enthusiasm got to grips with Kulik’s world. A complex challenge in times of war. Working with Carsten was a great pleasure and an eye-opener for the artist and for me, as in all other joint projects in the past. Some exhibitions that will remain unforgettable for me. The titles speak for themselves. Dieter Hacker “Der Künstler als Amokläufer”, Christiane Möbus “Rette sich wer kann”, Hommage to Christos Joachimides “Kunst im politischen Kampf”, Sergey Bratkov “Heartbreak” and now Oleg Kulik “Anima Animalis”. Here the titles were programme. Art and provocative political attitudes were not a contradiction for Carsten, but a challenge. There he was in his element. Carsten Ahrens was a companion and a friend. But I especially admired his uncompromising approach when […]

until 10.06. | #39011ARTatBerlin | Galerie Soy Capitán shows from 28. April 2023 the exhibition “The Three Living and The Three Dead ” of the artist Paloma Proudfoot. “There is a sense of softness, of vulnerability, despite the hardness of the glazed clay.” Philomena Epps on Proudfoot’s work The evolution of Paloma Proudfoot’s new exhibition, The Three Living and The Three Dead at Soy Capitán, was informed by her research into Medieval cultural traditions surrounding death. In this period, death was often configured as a personified force, able to interact with the living. In the fresco The Triumph of Death (1440-5) at Palazzo Abatellis in Palermo, death is shown as an animated skeleton, depicted riding a skeletal horse through a rabble of people, with the characters in the crowd displaying a broad spectrum of reactions, from utter terror, bewilderment, and oblivious apathy. The legend of ‘The Three Living and The Three Dead’—from which Proudfoot’s exhibition and central piece takes its title—first appeared in the thirteenth century, with the moral tale functioning as an extension of the popular memento mori motif. In the story, three noblemen encounter three ecclesiastic decaying corpses in a forest. The corpses reproach the noblemen for their […]

until 01.06. | #3908ARTatBerlin | Galerie Nordenhake Berlin shows on 28. April 2023 the exhibition “Traüm Weiter” by the artist Sophie Reinhold. Sophie Reinhold thematises the dichotomy between simulation and real life in her first solo exhibition with Galerie Nordenhake in Berlin. A series of new paintings made specifically for the show and executed on surfaces prepared with bitumen, ground marble and graphite powder, juxtaposes a site-specific installation for the gallery space. Comprised of four sculptures the installation disrupts the line of sight upon entering the gallery and constrains as well as widens the perspective of the paintings. Their imagery speaks to mythology, which is underlined by the sculptural quality that breaks with a satirical use of ubiquitous images. This allows to get a curious hold of the technical process in which the artist stretches jute over a panel, to then apply layers of marble or graphite powder at times dyed with pigments. The result is sanded down to a fetishist smoothness, of which parts are carved to create figurative reliefs. Bare textile revealed in the process irritates the seductive illusion of perfection. These works come together heterogeneously, which speaks to their very nature facilitating a humorous rethinking of representative […]

until 01.06. | #3905ARTatBerlin | KOW presents from 28. April 2023 the exhibition Like a Good, Good, Good Boy of the artist Hiwa K.   In his exhibition at KOW for the 2023 Gallery Weekend, the Kurdish-Iraqi artist presents a new video installation in which he returns to his native Sulaymaniyah. The three-part work Like a Good, Good, Good Boy interconnects three places that loomed large in Hiwa K’s childhood and youth: his family’s modest home, now a ruin; the old school; and the notorious Amna Suraka prison, where, between 1979 and 1991, Saddam Hussein’s henchmen tortured, raped, and murdered countless men, women, and children. In the central video projection, a camera drone pans along a thick rope that, stretched across rooftops and streets, literally ties the three buildings and institutions together. With a total length of some 1,600 yards, the rope also intertwines the stories and histories of the sites. A second video shadows Hiwa K as he walks through his school. He recalls the hellish routines of studying under the teachers, some of whom moonlighted as torturers at the prison, as well as the dangers posed by friends and even one’s own family and early gestures of futile resistance. […]

until 03.06. | #3902ARTatBerlin |Contemporary Fine Arts presents from 28. April 2023 the exhibition of the artist Henning Strassburger. Contemporary Fine Arts is excited to present Henning Strassburger’s third solo exhibition at the gallery. In his new paintings, Strassburger seems to abandon abstraction in favor of the human body, one of the main interests of figurative art. And yet, the paintings depict bodies underwater, bodies in the shower, and at the pool. Always looking away, the protagonists hide their intimate parts, caught in vulnerable moments one would rather not be caught in. They are as fluid as the water itself. In bright pink, blue and yellow, Strassburger creates staged settings where uneventful and everyday activities excite as if taken from a film. Grids become bathroom tiles, splashes become bathtubs and hot tubs. As the bodies within dissolve or are just about to, they consist only of individual parts at its most extreme. “I wanted to paint situations that can resolve in any direction. Just as “The Hedonist” stands rather awkwardly under the jet of water that starts somewhere above the painting. The scenes are then captured in the “unphotogenic” moment, if you will. Like in photos that you would sort […]

until 03.06. | #3900ARTatBerlin | WENTRUP presents on 28. April 2023 the exhibition ” Scene ” of the artist Britta Thie. From 28 April to 3 June 2023, Wentrup will present Scene, an exhibition of a new series of works by Britta Thie. Visitors find themselves surrounded with film lights, rigs, and gear, transported to a film set and cast as crew, even as protagonists, in a production of their own experience. The environment is informed by Thie’s time on set as an actor. When filming a television series she began to consider the objects that surrounded her while awaiting her scenes—objects that provide the crucial and crucially invisible infrastructure behind moving image production and popular entertainment. Over the course of the shoot, Thie came to find companionship in the machinery, which offered a familiar kind of kinship. These objects were not human, but each one had its own personality and mannerisms. The paradoxical “present absence” notable in these tools and their surroundings invites larger questions about the creation of narrative, about world-building and self-deception, and about the interaction of matter and mind. Thie depicts these instruments using the ostensibly old or “slow” medium of painting, in contrast to the rapid […]

until 29.06. | #3896ARTatBerlin | ARTES Berlin presents ab 28. April 2023 the Group exhibition HOPE. LOVE. POP of the artists Andy Warhol, Robert Indiana, Alex Katz and Tom Wesselmann as well as contemporary positions with Marion Eichmann, Mr. Brainwash, CREN and many more. The reduction of motifs to two-dimensionality and the power of clear colour and strict contour lines are the stylistic devices of Pop Art. However, these formalities are just as much part of the canon of street and urban artists and are thus part of a collective memory and deeply rooted in advertising aesthetics. Opening: Friday, 28. April 2023, 5pm – 9pm Exhibition dates: Friday, 28. April until Saturday, 29. June 2023 Special opening hours for Gallery Weekend Berlin: Saturday,  29. and Sunday 30. April 2023, 12 noon – 7pm     Image caption: Andy Warhol, Ingrid Bergman – With Hat, ( FS. II 315), 1983, Siebdruck, 96.5 x 96.5 cm Exhibition HOPE. LOVE. POP – ARTES Berlin | Zeitgenössische Kunst Berlin – Contemporary Art | Ausstellungen Galerien Berlin | ART at Berlin

until 19.08. | #3893ARTatBerlin | Sprüth Magers Berlin presents from 28. April 2023 (Opening: 27.04.) the exhibition Duotopia of the artist Cao Fei. For over two decades, the work of Cao Fei has stood at the forefront of thinking around art, media, technology and futurity. Diverse in medium and approach, her projects explore facets of everyday existence mingled with the surreal and spectacular to tap into deep-seeded questions around what it means to be human in this ever-shifting twenty-first century. Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers are pleased to present Duotopia, a major exhibition by Cao Fei at Sprüth Magers, Berlin, which will transform all of the gallery’s spaces and premiere several new works outside of China that delve into the metaverse, virtual reality and the interactions between human and machine consciousness. Anchoring the exhibition in the downstairs galleries are a group of new videos that each look to the connective and creative possibilities of the metaverse. Viewers first encounter Meta-mentary (2022), in which everyday people are interviewed about their thoughts on the metaverse and the distant future. Adjacent vitrines and screens look back to the artist’s first virtual-reality construction, RMB City (2007–11), which housed her first avatar, China Tracy. Together, these projects illustrate Cao […]

until 06.06. | #3890ARTatBerlin | Galerie feinart berlin shows from 27. April 2023 the exhibition SOIL of the artist Christine Jackob-Marks. Under the title SOIL, the exhibition is dedicated to a multi-layered guiding genre of the painter Christine Jackob-Marks: the landscape in transition from the 1980s to today. Christine Jackob-Marks: O.T., Mixed media on canvas,, 130 x 120cm, 2000 © CJM The English word soil summarizes themes that characterize the entire creative path of Christine Jackob-Marks: the soil, the earth (world, planet), the ground (cause); to soil: to pollute, contaminate, sully. The exhibition focuses on one of the painter’s guiding genres, the landscape in transition from the 1980s to the current series of works. In particular, the assaulted, threatened landscape, where something is at stake, is representative of her exploration of the threats to the natural world that is our home and condition of life. In doing so, the artist demonstrates sensitivity to a special, contradictory beauty of nature, which unfolds incomparably fascinating, bizarre and imaginative color games not despite but precisely in processes of withering, withering and decay. After all, isn’t it in the abysmal and the ugly that the real igniting power for change and innovation lies, while […]

until 20.05.| #3887ARTatBerlin | HazeGallery shows from 11. May 2023 the exhibition I’LL GET THERE ON TIME of the artist Victoria Rosenman. The title “I will arrive there on time” suggests, not without irony, many possible (significant) destinations – Time plays an essential role for the artist. One of the works (Requiem-box I) reveals the fact that the artist herself does not know exactly where her arrival destination is / what it is, and yet dares to make a very self-righteous statement about her punctuality. To be punctual means to have time under control, which can be very valuable, but also carries an uncompromising character. The artist rejects one of the other longings of hers “to go along with time” by manifesting a contradictory statement (CA No. 3) “Time is not for saving”. Time is thereby devalued and VR sees it as an act of liberation from any determinant aspects in the creative process. At the same time, the artist allows the viewer to share in her memories, for the sake of her own dismantling, which opens up a better understanding of her personality. To be in the “now” is one of the artist’s longings. In order to be more […]

until 10.06. | #3913ARTatBerlin | Sexauer Gallery shows from 21. April 2023 the Solo exhibition Kind of Blue of the artist Caroline Kryzecki. Caroline Kryzecki has become known in recent years for her ballpoint pen drawings consisting of thousands of lines drawn with a ruler. These drawings often have a textile feel because of the grids the lines create. Later on Kryzecki became intensively involved with weaving, which is based on a similar grid pattern. The interweaving of threads create dots of colour, which in turn produces an image. They remind us of pixels. And indeed, already at the beginning of the previous century, looms were controlled by punched cards, that means by digital data carriers. A few years ago, Kryzecki discovered old grid paper in a weaving mill. This so-called point paper was used by textile designers to design fabrics. For her works, in the exhibition Kind of Blue, Kryzecki screen-printed black grids on paper by hand. The fields of the grid are subdivided into smaller fields, some in 8 x 8 squares, others in 4 x 9 rectangles, which in turn form a square. In the grid, Kryzecki painted thousands of semicircular shapes on each sheet with gouache or […]

bis 10.06. | #3882ARTatBerlin | KLEMM’S Galerie präsentiert ab 9th September 2016 the exhibition The Virtue of Balance by the artist Jan Groover. What Power Art Thou? is Renaud Regnery’s fifth solo exhibition at Klemm’s and is presented as part of Gallery Weekend Berlin 2023. For the first time in Regnery’s oeuvre, the large-scale and at times oversized paintings assembled in the exhibition dovetail almost classically oil-painted, pictorial elements with a painting ground that the artist himself commissioned and was then industrially produced. Regnery has sketch-like motifs, oversized details, pop references, and ‘image-material’ from tech-industry and advertising showing a beading effect collide with elements of a vernacular imagery: Witches, pigs and vampires populate the picture plane, rubbing shoulders, commenting and contrasting with their surroundings. Regnery shows us an amalgamated visual world—multifaceted, gestural and resolutely direct, bold, catchy and resistant all at once—that questions our understanding of the contemporary world, its pictorial representation and painting itself. Text by Laetitia Chauvin Opening: Friday, 28. April  Exhibition period: Friday, 28. April – Saturday, 10. June 2023     Image caption: Renaud Regnery, Rock Basil, 2022. Courtesy of the artist and Klemm’s, Berlin Exhibition Renaud Regnery – KLEMM’S Galerie – Kunst in Berlin ART at Berlin

until 17.06. | #3879ARTatBerlin | Galerie Friese shows on 29. April 2023 (Opening: 28.04.) the exhibition drawings by the artist Thomas Müller. As part of Gallery Weekend 2023, we are launching our second solo exhibition dedicated to the artist Thomas Müller (b. 1959). In his exhibition Zeichnungen (Drawings), Thomas Müller is presenting both large-format and A4-sized works. Drawing on paper, the artist uses not only pencil, chalk, ballpoint pen, and ink, but also acrylic, oil, and shellac. Lines and surfaces converge in complex non-objective compositions and color fields. All the exhibited works have been created in recent years. Müller has exhibited internationally. His works are held in prestigious collections, including at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, Städel Museum in Frankfurt, and Kunstpalast in Düsseldorf. The artist lives in Stuttgart. Müller’s pictorial worlds are complex, abstract aesthetic arrangements. Viewers experience the unfolding of a sensuous gaze in a very contemporary way; it’s a form of perception that stirs the senses. His compositions comprise crystalline, woven, wave-like, two-dimensional, taut and floating structures, and occasionally tender, ephemeral drawings. We often find underlying architectural references in form and color. He consistently elaborates on the tension between line and surface on the one hand, and structure and […]

until 27.05. | #3876ARTatBerlin | neugerriemschneider presents on 29. April 2023 (Opening on 28.04) the exhibition Year in, Year out of the artist Andreas Eriksson. Year in, Year out, Andreas Eriksson’s third solo exhibition with the gallery. This presentation stems from a year of reflective, focused near isolation and continued exploration of the artist’s own approaches—a unique initiative within his otherwise prolific practice. Retreating to his studio in rural Sweden, Eriksson freed himself from any self-imposed expectations, concrete endpoints or boundaries, allowing himself to further develop conceptual and practical approaches to artmaking in fluid, natural, unconstrained strides. The results of this 12-month process are on view here, including new paintings, silkscreen works and hand-woven textiles.  Contrasting the thematic nature of his previous exhibitions at the gallery – the first of which featured works woven from a diverse archive of linens, followed by a suite of aerial, nighttime impressions in paint—the grouping currently on view takes process as its locus. In direct reference to the presentation’s title, itself an evocation of progress as a function of time’s continuous passage, Eriksson centers the value of time itself, which manifests here in varying in scales and media as acute, impassioned attention to detail, […]

until 30.04. | #3873ARTatBerlin | Galerie Max Hetzler shows from 17. March 2023 the exhibition Spectrum without Traces of the artist Katharina Grosse. Galerie Max Hetzler is pleased to present Spectrum without Traces, a solo exhibition by Katharina Grosse showing a completely new body of work on canvas from the past year. In conjunction with the exhibition at Potsdamer Straße, the Window Gallery at Goethestraße 2/3 will display Grosse’s Untitled, 2023. This is the artist’s first presentation at the gallery.  One of the most important painters of today, Katharina Grosse is internationally recognised for her bold, haptic paintings and saturated use of colour. Since the late 1990s, Grosse has employed a spraying technique to attack, redefine and subvert traditional notions of painting. Her kaleidoscopic vision spills into the physical world, sweeping across walls, floors, ceilings, everyday objects and sculptural structures. Through this radical inclusion of space as a field of action, the artist achieves a paradoxical clash of the expansion of colour with our material existence. Tracing the artist’s thought process or gaze, colour takes on a lifeforce of its own. Parallel to her in-situ works, the artist continues to pursue her studio paintings, of which the new body of work is […]

bis 24.06. | #3869ARTatBerlin | Buchmann Galerie shows on 28. April 2023 the exhibition of the artist Jason Martin. Buchmann Galerie is pleased to announce an exhibition of new paintings by British painter Jason Martin on the occasion of the Gallery Weekend Berlin 2023. The new oil paintings are characterised by a heavy impasto that gives some of the works an almost sculptural expression. From a monochrome chromaticity of anthracite and black to a multicoloured palette of strong colours of yellow, blue and red, the paintings vibrate the whole space of the gallery with their emotional presence. Jason Martin’s work can be situated between minimalism and abstract expressionism. In various groups of works, Jason Martin uses every conceivable method to apply paint to address the fundamental question of painterly spatiality and the rhetoric of paint application.  Painting for Jason Martin is also a performative act that leaves room for chance to create works that are lush, attractive, and full of power. Many of his works straddle the fine line between painting and sculpture, which the artist has repeatedly explored and differentiated in recent years in various groups of works. Jason Martin’s works constitute a consciously controlled aesthetic and a conceptual […]

until 01.07. | #3867ARTatBerlin | BQ Berlin shows on 29. April 2023 (Opening: 28.04.) the exhibition Musterung by the artist Alexandra Bircken. Alexandra Bircken’s Musterung returns to the artist’s recurrent fixations, with insides and outsides, surfaces and volumes, bodies and machines. Her works enact transformations that are less clear-cut dichotomy than moments of transition or smudging overlap. Her imagination creates a mobius loop that links humans to their supportive machinery as entities that can never be neatly separated. Anthropomorphic and mechanical associations bear equal weight in these human-object cross pollinations. Each of Bircken’s works begins as an enquiry and aims to enact the smallest possible gesture to make an object’s flipside apparent. Surgical procedures such as amputations, transplants, biopsies and dermabrasions are applied to inanimate things. Motorcycle gas tanks, sanded down and flipped on their axes, are repurposed as armored torsos, both container and protective shield. Each work is, in a sense, a prototype, or Muster: a one-off proposal designed for an ambiguous purpose. A Muster or Musterung can also be a pattern, however, such as those appearing in the knitted wall-hangings displayed here. Their relentless chains of tanks, guns and missiles are signs of omnipresent preoccupations, as war fills […]

bis 26.08. | #3864ARTatBerlin | ChertLüdde presents from 28. April 2023 the exhibition Handmade Militancy by artist Clemen Parrocchetti. Handmade Militancy presents largely unknown works by Clemen Parrocchetti (1923-2016, Milan), created during the hottest years of Italian feminism in the 1970s. Parrocchetti found her visual grammar in the materials of domestic labour – needles, bobbins, lace, cooking utensils, medicines, textiles – which were transformed into subversive tools of denunciation and protest. Parrocchetti’s work speaks to women’s struggles for equal pay, divorce laws and the right to abortion, issues that remain at the heart of political debate after almost half a century. Handmade Militancy, the first exhibition of Parrocchetti’s work outside Italy since her death, includes tapestries, assemblages, sewn drawings, a video and archival material collected by the artist during her militant years. Parrocchetti was educated at Milan’s Brera Academy of Art while she was already the mother of five children. From the early 1970s, Parrocchetti expressed her burgeoning feminist voice in works she called “objects of feminine culture”, which she exhibited in alternative art spaces in Milan. In 1978, she joined the feminist Gruppo Immagine in Varese, which pioneered the combination of art and feminist militancy, and participated with them […]

until 10.06. | #3861ARTatBerlin |  Showroom of the galerie georg nothelfer shows from 22. April 2022 the exhibition Der Moment by the artist Britta Lumer. Galerie Georg Nothelfer is pleased to present the first solo exhibition of artist Britta Lumer in the showroom at Grolmanstraße 28. Over the past decades, Britta Lumer has developed a consistent body of work, most of which takes place on paper and yet cannot easily be understood as a drawing. For here nothing representational is grasped or met and captured or preserved in artistic representation. Instead, her works on paper – not infrequently monumental views of bodies, portraits, architecture and cityscapes – which play with the figurative, seem to drive their subjects to the edge of dissolution, of liquefaction. (Text extract: Daniel Marzona) In the exhibition “This Moment”, Britta Lumer shows current works on paper and turns to a new theme: the sculptural portrait. A booklet entitled “This Moment” with a text by Kristian Vistrup Madsen is published on the occasion of the exhibition. Opening: Saturday, 22 April, 4:00 pm – 8:00 pm Exhibition dates: Saturday, 22. April – Saturday, 10. June 2022 Special opening hours during Gallery Weekend: Friday, 28 April – Sunday, 30 […]

until 08.06. | #3858ARTatBerlin | Galerie Judin presents on 29. April 2023 the exhibition “In Your Anger, I See Fear” of the artist Lydia Pettit.   Opening: Friday, 28. April 2023 – 6 pm until 9 pm Exhibition dates: Saturday, 29. April 2023 – Thursday, 08. June 2023     Image caption: Lydia Pettit, courtesy of Galerie Judin Exhibition Lydia Pettit – Galerie Judin | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Ausstellungen Berlin Galerien | ART at Berlin

until 03.06. | #3855ARTatBerlin | EIGEN + ART Lab presents on 20. April 2023 the duo exhibition of the artist Elsa Rouy and Emil Urbanek.     Elsa Rouy, courtesy of Brynley Odu Davies and Guts Gallery  With Elsa Rouy and Emil Urbanek, EIGEN + ART Lab brings together two young and already strong positions for a joint exhibition. Both Rouy’s and Urbanek’s paintings deliberately evoke contradictory, curious and palpable emotions, albeit in different ways. There is no doubt that the new era of figurative painting is upon us—it is alive and open as never before. Elsa Rouy’s paintings suck the viewer in, plunging them into places dark and sensual, where bold figures bare their and our burden with bravery on the threshold of the ugly and the beautiful, exposing political and art-historical prejudices. Emil Urbanek’s subtle but undeniable boldness has an ephemerality and weight to it: The figures and forms fill the canvases, even the surrounding space is alive with shapes and shadows, and they demand time and attention in a way that only painting can do in the right hands. Extract from the exhibition text by Seda Mimaroğlu Opening: Thursday, 20. April 2023, 5 pm – 9 pm […]