extended through summer | #2719ARTatBerlin | Galerie Barbara Wien currently shows the exhibition “L’Abécédaire de Georges Adéagbo: la civilisation parlant et faisant voir la culture”..! by the artist Georges Adéagbo, curated by Stephan Köhler. “L’Abécédaire de Georges Adéagbo: la civilisation parlant et faisant voir la culture”..! is the second solo exhibition by Georges Adéagbo at Galerie Barbara Wien. In this project, comprising of several assemblages and installations, Adéagbo develops a personal encyclopaedia of things and impressions he has collected throughout his research in Berlin and Benin, and sets them centre stage with his written comments. Adéagbo’s installations are both a cross-section of our time with its diverging geopolitical interests, as well as an evidence of the mediating function of cultures, which Adéagbo makes visible through his cultural transfer. In Benin, he has translated what he found in Berlin into images and reliefs; from there, he brings sculptures and masks which enter into conversation with Western artefacts. At the same time, as the title suggests, the new assemblage is a reflection on the artist’s own practice of collecting and questioning. Georges Adéagbo, L’Abécédaire 2020, Collage Dans Le Pays, Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Barbara Wien, Berlin, Photo: Nick Ash Adéagbo […]

until 25.04. | #2718ARTatBerlin | Galerie Minimal shows from 4th April 2020 the photo exhibition Graphic Encounters with minimalistic photography from the series of the same name by the French artist François Aubret. François’ work is a collection of geometries and patterns he comes across in urban environments. Like a graphic designer, he composes architecture, urban elements and nature into vibrant photographic designs. Despite the sameness of our modern cityscapes, François reveals the hidden beauty and humour found in them. François Aubret is a French photographer based in Paris. After working as a museum and exhibition designer in Shanghai and Los Angeles, he decided to use his creativity towards his own artistic practice and become the artist of his own shows. His background as an environmental designer influences the way he looks at his surroundings. To him this is where his sensibility for architectural details and dynamic compositions comes from. Francois Aubret, Graphic Encounters 11 Francois Aubret, Graphic Encounters 02 Francois Aubret, Graphic Encounters 03 Events ATTENTION: These dates were given to us before the Corona crisis. Please contact the Galerie Minimal. Artist talk with François Aubret Date: Saturday 04. April 2020 Time: 5:00 – 6:00 pm Vernissage with François […]

until 23.02. | #2713ARTatBerlin | Galerie Kremers presents from 14th March 2020 the exhibition “In a Color Frenzy – Narrative Painting behind Glass” with works by the artist Natascha Mann. In parallel, surreal works by Paul Schwietzke will be shown. Natascha Mann The artist Natascha Mann, who was born in Bayreuth in 1946, is a master of painting and playfully challenging the viewer´s beliefs, which are effective in role models of male painters and female models e.g. Natascha Mann, Paintress and Model, 1986, Acrylic behind Glass Her paintings sparkle with power and imagination. Her numerous trips to exotic locations such as Polynesia and Micronesia, had a strong influence on her characters and pictorial stories. Numerous exhibitions and participations in international art fairs document her work. Natascha Mann studied painting in Stuttgart and Munich and received a fullbright scholarship at the university in Corvallis (USA). After that, she completed a full dance degree at the Folkwang School in Essen. She taught at the University of Applied Sciences for Design in Würzburg and headed the etching workshop at the Academy in Nuremberg. Natascha Mann lives and works in Marktbreit near Würzburg. ‘ Natascha Mann, Amor und Psyche, 1986, Acrylic behind Glas, 80 […]

until 04.04. | #2711ARTatBerlin | Sprüth Magers Berlin shows from 11th March 2020 the installation THE SOVEREIGN CITIZENS SESQUICENTENNIAL CIVIL WAR CELEBRATION by the artist Kara Walker. Following on from the acclaimed Kara Walker exhibition at their London gallery, and concurrent with the artist’s ongoing Tate Modern Turbine Hall commission in London, Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers are proud to present a new exhibition of work by Kara Walker at their Berlin gallery. The exhibition in Berlin will present Walker’s film work National Archives Microfilm M999 Roll 34: Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands: Six Miles from Springfield on the Franklin Road, 2009, alongside a monumental 2013 installation piece that is a brilliant example of Walker’s silhouetted wall works – entitled THE SOVEREIGN CITIZENS SESQUICENTENNIAL CIVIL WAR CELEBRATION. This film, from 2009, was developed from Walker’s research into the U.S. National Archives on the War Department’s Bureau of Refugee’s, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, established in 1865 to aid former slaves in the transition to freedom following the American Civil War. The Bureau kept precise records of the brutal and senseless violence inflicted on former slaves during the Reconstruction period, and Walker’s film depicts one such incident, detailed in the archives through interviews […]

until 18.04. | #2708ARTatBerlin | CAMERA WORK presents from 7th March 2020 the exhibition »Fake vs. Reality« by the British artist Alison Jackson. The solo exhibition includes more than 40 works from her world-famous celebrity series, in which she explores the power of images, fake news, yellow press and voyeurism. It is Alison Jackson’s first exhibition at the CAMERA WORK gallery. The exhibition takes place in cooperation with Crossover. © ALISON JACKSON, TRUMP FUCKS MISS MEXICO NAKED (THIS IS NOT DONALD TRUMP), 2016 Alison Jackson’s impressive and often provocative photographs around the themes of fake news, “alternative truths” and news debates hit the nerve of the time. For her work, she uses celebrity doubles to stage convincingly realistic scenes in which seemingly famous personalities from politics, society, music and acting play the leading roles. She shows images of thoughts that the viewer has already imagined but never seen. She indirectly criticizes social and political circumstances and behavior. In addition to re-enacted celebrities, the exhibition also includes portraits of “real” personalities. This “fake vs. reality” game stimulates the viewer to question the truth content of images in their daily reception. © ALISON JACKSON, HARRY MEGHAN CROWN JEWELS, 2017 Jackson’s artistic concept […]

until 09.04. | #2705ARTatBerlin | Esther Schipper presents from 7th March 2020 the exhibition Fog Dog by the artist Daniel Steegmann Mangrané. Esther Schipper is pleased to announce Daniel Steegmann Mangrané’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. Entitled Fog Dog, the exhibition includes architectural light interventions, a sound installation and a new film. A two-part light intervention greets the visitor upon entering the exhibition. Lit entirely by natural light, angled dividing walls transform the space into a series of connecting rooms. A large triangular opening in the ceiling and a head-high funnel-shaped construction narrowing toward an aperture fundamentally alter the experience of the space, controlling and shaping the entering light. A second rectangular construction in the back of the gallery opens into an adjoining room, funnelling the light to create a diffuse brightness, apparition-like. While the rectangular openings recall the windows found in ecclesiastic architecture and its tradition of controlling light (e.g. as marker of the divine), yet also obliquely refer to the work of 20th century light & space artists constructing environments to shape light. The floor of the exhibition space is covered with fine gravel, giving an unexpected feeling and sound to the visitor’s gait, as a series […]

until 17.05. | #2702ARTatBerlin | ifa-Galerie shows from 28th February 2020 the exhibition In the Presence/Absence of Mazen Kerbaj, curated by Hatem Kerbaj. Mazen Kerbaj’s art deploys two tropes that are not uncommon in underground comics: autobiography and politics. An amalgamation of the personal and the historical. Yet his work extends beyond the panels of comics. It settles in space and is performed through the political body of the artist. Mazen is not only a witness; he is an actor. © Mazen Kerbaj, courtesy of the artist This show combining old and new works, and put together in this formation for the first time, draws parallels in time, medium and space. The pieces are placed in dialogue—an idea hastily scribbled on a restaurant’s placemat can be seen continued or developed in a live drawing video. It is like entering a room with a legion of Mazen Kerbajs talking, drawing, arguing and drinking with each other. Each one of them is the record of a specific moment and a particular place; on a spectrum of sobriety; in a varying tongue; rendered in a different medium. Kerbaj is always on the move, and movement is both a condition of his work and […]

until 18.04. | #2699ARTatBerlin | Galerie Born Berlin presents from 6th March 2020 the exhibition To The Ground with artworks by the artist Felipe Cusicanqui.  “In 2010 I saw works by Felipe Cusicanqui in a gallery in Santiago de Chile for the first time. Abedules, Barro y Manuela, 2020, mud and acrylic on raw cotton fabric, 165 x 193 cm To The Ground is the third solo exhibition of the Chilean artist at Galerie Born who by now moved to Berlin with his family. Looking at his paintings from within the last ten years, the seemingly endless diversity of the materials used is remarkable. Colgados. Cielo Blanco, 2020, mud and acrylic on canvas, 150 x 190 cm Bosque, Recortes y Mapas, 2019, mixed media on paper, 71 x 100 cm But they all have one thing in common: In the paintings of Felipe Cusicanqui, we always encounter his immediate environments, be it landscape or family. In Chile it was the Andes and the rural work situation, the urban spaces there. You can now discover his Berlin surroundings, the Grunewald, streets, houses, and always his family. Troncos Negros. Brotes Verdes II, 2020, mixed media on jute, 86 x 162 cm In […]

until 28.03. | #2696ARTatBerlin  | Galerie Eigenheim shows from 22nd February 2020 the group exhibition SEE YOU THERE on invitation of the Leipzig artist Adam Noack, with artworks by Tom Ackermann, Anna Bittersohl, Sabine Graf, Olga Grigorjewa, Sebastian Hosu, Anna M. Kempe, Philipp Kummer, Henrike Pilz, Barbara Proschak, Sabine Rak, Yuko Takatsudo und Christiane Wachter. Parallel dazu im Salon der Galerie: Neue Malerei von Adam Noack als Einzelausstellung. Adam Noack has been living and working in Leipzig for 3 years – many new acquaintances have been made, new artist contacts made and studio visits undertaken. EIGENHEIM Weimar/Berlin would like to give this circumstance a forum and shows with this exhibition a selection of different artists made by Adam Noack. Following on from the exhibition I remember you well – Adam Noack invites from the year 2017, the gallery Eigenheim is developing a small tradition. For the gallery, too, it is exciting to work together with new discoveries such as Olga Grigorjewa, Henrike Pilz, Sabine Rak, Sabine Graf, Yuko Takatsudo or Christiane Wachter and to discuss these in dialogue with artists well known to them, such as Tom Ackermann, Phillip Kummer or Anna Bittersohl. This is how the fine watercolors with […]

until 21.03. | #2693ARTatBerlin | Galerie Z22 presents from 22nd February 2020 the exhibition Up Till Now with painting and photography by the artist  Pietro Finelli. We could define all of Pietro Finelli’s works of art as a cognitive process, that is, as something created through iteration between the exponent (the artist), the exposed (the work of art) and the recipient (the one who knows). In this dynamic triad, the emphasis goes from the iteration between exponent and environment (through the artwork) to that between exponent and its process leading to the realization of such an artwork. This leads to a shift in the concepts of understanding. We move from what we consider to be our inclination to a certainty in which our beliefs constantly lead us to believe that things are pure as we see them, without any alternative. This new perspective urges us to see knowledge not as a representation of the “world outside”, but as a permanent production of a world through the process of life itself. Through the works of art presented in this exhibition (such as paintings, drawings, photographs, videos) with their cinematographic references, Finelli expands the process of understanding, from the supposed representability that […]

until 11.04. | #2690ARTatBerlin | Galerie Judin shows from 15th February 2020 the exhibition Death is Not a Piece of Cake by the artist Hortensia Mi Kafchin. 2015 was an important water­shed in the life and work of Hort­ensia Mi Kafchin (*1986 in Galați, Roma­nia). It was the year the artist, who grew up in a male body with the name Mihuț Boșcu Kafchin, declared her trans­sexu­al­ity and began the lengthy pro­cess of tran­si­tion­ing. First, she short­ened her name to the gen­der-neu­tral Mi Kafchin. Then in 2019 she chose her new female forename, borrowed from the Roma­nian poet Hort­ensia Papa­dat-Bengescu (1876—1955). The chal­leng­ing steps in this tran­si­tion came along­side a change in her artis­tic practice. Kafchin, who had been exper­i­ment­ing with differ­ent mate­r­i­als for some years and exe­cuted most of her paint­ings on unusual sup­ports, grad­u­ally turned to the tra­di­tional canvas, while her palette became markedly brighter. In 2016 and 2017 a flurry of small formats reflected the emo­tional rollercoaster that the artist was expe­r­i­enc­ing at the time. Since then, the paint­ings have grown in size and intensi­fied in color, and in them Kafchin has addressed the many-faceted ques­tions and hopes that have accompa­nied her self-real­iza­tion. She impres­sively builds bridges […]

until 28.03. | #2687ARTatBerlin| Daniel Marzona presents from 14 February 2020 the exhibition Death Chase by the artist Vajiko Chachkhiani. One week later, on February 21, Daniel Marzona opens the exhibition A Silent Conversation with Vajiko Chachkhiani and Raijiro Wada at Rolando Anselmi’s. Daniel Marzona is pleased to announce Death Chase, the third solo exhibition of works by Vajiko Chachkhiani. Vajiko Chachkhiani’s work operates somewhere between the outside world and the human psyche, bringing the shadowy aspects of our Conditio humanato awareness through subtle and intriguing visual poetry. Frequently based on performances or transformative actions, many of his sculptures share an affinity to minimalism while at the same time being charged with narrative meaning. Through his sculptures and installations, he addresses psychological conditions such as loneliness, violence and angst, interweaving them with topics from religion, politics, literature, and poetry. Recurring themes in his work are conflict, culture/nature and the oscillation between the outer reality and the inner life of the individual being. For his first exhibition at our new gallery space, Chachkhiani creates one large-scale installation based on a series of previous works titled Endless Ends. During the conflict with Russia in 2008, vast areas of the Georgian forest burned down and were ultimately […]

for now until 20.03. | #2684ARTatBerlin | Sexauer Gallery presents from 8. February 2020 the livestreamed long-term performance www.arturbating.com of the artist Alexander Iskin. In May 2020, the Mönchehaus Museum will honor the artistic work of Alexander Iskin for the first time on the occasion of his 30th birthday in the solo exhibition “Die Ursache liegt in der Zukunft”. Prior to this exhibition, the artist will do the performance www.arturbating.com in the SEXAUER gallery. It will last several weeks, during which Iskin will prepare his first museum exhibition. For about two months, 7 days a week, Iskin will expose himself to a live broadcast in the exhibition hall of the gallery, which will become his studio. Access to the gallery after the opening will only be granted to people who help Iskin to live (survive) in the exhibition space. Further information will be available at the Opening. Alexander Iskin, Foto: Johanna Laleh von Holst In this artistic experiment of an “exhibition preparation performance” the idea of a finished exhibition gives way to the production process. In this, a reference to the work of Joseph Beuys can be seen such as in the involvement of the audience and visitors Vernissage: Friday, 7th […]

until 10.03. | #2682ARTatBerlin | Galerie Dittmar presents since 24th January 2020 the exhibition Berlin London New York – retrospektiv I with photographies by the artist Katja Liebmann as the first part of an exhibition series. Katja Liebmann, born in Halle an der Saale in 1965, studied at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Nuremberg from 1989-91, at the Kunsthochschule Berlin in 1995 and at the Royal College of Art London (Master of Fine Arts) from 1997-98. She first attracted attention in the mid-nineties with the series Gotham City, which was purchased by the Saatchi Collection in 1998. In the same year she was nominated for the “Citibank Photography Prize” (now the “Deutsche Börse Photography Prize”). During her studies at the Royal College of Art she taught at the State University New York from 1997-98. Subsequently, she taught at the London College of Printing and Camberwell College of Art. 2000 scholarship from the Hasselblad Foundation Göteborg with exhibition. The following year exhibition at the Goethe-Institut in London. Since 2003 lecturer for artistic printmaking at the University of Oldenburg. Katja Liebmann – Gang über eine Brücke, Berlin, 2000, 51 x 51 cm One of Katja Liebmann’s approaches is to explore early […]

until 07.03. | #2679ARTatBerlin | Kristin Hjellegjerde Berlin shows from 8th February 2020 the exhibition “Mystery of Things” with paintings by the artist Vibeke Slyngstad. Vulnerable and cussed. Indifferent and in need of protection. A scrap of overlooked scrubland near a refugee camp in east Jerusalem. A trail once used by the Comanche, where Donald Trump now wants his wall. A place of retreat in India. A coastal nature reserve in Norway. Vibeke Slyngstad, one of Norway’s leading contemporary artists, has produced an extraordinary series of paintings for her first solo exhibition in Berlin. In different ways, for different reasons, each of the five locations featured in the collection has found itself pushed to the margins of human attention. On their behalf, Slyngstad pushes back, producing landscapes of such psychological complexity it makes more sense to think of them as ‘portraits of place’. “I grew up by the sea. From the age of 5 I would walk down to the shoreline and play on my own. I made pools with crabs, arranged stones, and created small maritime environments. I had a sandbox that contained a whole world and a universe made of plasticine under my desk.” Vibeke Slyngstad Recalling that […]

until 07.03. | #2675ARTatBerlin | Persons Projects /Helsinki School presents from 25th January 2020 the solo exhibition “Going the Distance” by the artist Arno Rafael Minkkinen. The opening reception will also host the presentation of his last publication Minkkinen, 2019. Arno Rafael Minkkinen is one of the most historical artist’s within the Helsinki School, as an artist, teacher, writer, and mentor as well as being a recipient of the Lucie Award. For over forty years he has been photographing his naked body. His self-portraits are a mixture of performance art, staged especially for the camera, combined with an intimate relationship with nature. His method of working has always been about testing his own personal limits and how far he can push the human body with all the physical risks he encounters in capturing himself within the photograph. What you see in his photographs is what they are, a solitary figure at one with the natural landscape that surrounds him. Sculpturally poetic, his body is captured in the process of becoming. Sometimes a leg becomes a branch in a tree or a hand finding its touch on the horizon. His art reveals a process that blends his philosophy of life with a calmness that grows from the confidence of being one with […]

until 29.02. | #2672ARTatBerlin | Galerie Born Berlin presents from 17th January 2020 the exhibition Breathless with drawings by the artist Gilgian Gelzer.  Gilgian Gelzer, born 1951 in Bern, has lived and worked in Paris for over 30 years. There he held a professorship for drawing and painting at the “Ecole nationale supérieure des Beaux-arts de Paris” until his retirement last year. o.T., 2017, Buntstift auf Papier, 30 x 21 cm The exhibition title “Breathless” stands for the seemingly endless lines on Gelzer’s works, which literally take your breath away. o.T., 2017, Buntstift auf Papier, 30 x 21 cm In the cabinet of the gallery, 5 drawings by the French artist Daniel Schlier will be on display. Schlier, born 1960 in Dannemarie, France, lives and works in Strasbourg and Paris. In Paris he follows after Gilgian Gelzer at the “Ecole nationale supérieure des Beaux-arts de Paris”. Vernissage: Thursday, 16th January 2020, 6 – 9 pm Exhibition period: Friday, 17th January – Saturday, 29th February 2020   Image caption cover: Gilgian Gelzer, untitled, 2019, Buntstift auf Papier, 110 x 150 cm (2-teilig), Foto: Eric Tschernow Exhibition Gilgian Gelzer – Galerie Born Berlin | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin […]

until 22.02. | #2669ARTatBerlin | Esther Schipper shows from 17th January 2020 the exhibition Ku Lak by the artist Matti Braun. Esther Schipper is pleased to announce Ku Lak, Matti Braun’s sixth solo exhibition with the gallery. The exhibition will include 16 works from a new series of silk paintings and approximately 25 new glass works, the latter presented on three circular plinths designed by the artist. Exhibition view: Matti Braun, Ku Lak, Esther Schipper, Berlin, 2020 Courtesy the artist and Esther Schipper, Berlin Photo © Andrea Rossetti Matti Braun’s practice is characterized by a constant negotiation between concrete references and general allusions, between poetic ephemerality and an uncanny sense of visceral immediacy. His work investigates the unexpected, often little known, effects of cross-cultural dynamics, making visible patterns of artistic migrations and cultural misrecognitions. Since 2014 Matti Braun has developed silk works of seamless color gradations in brilliant pastels and subsequently in deeply saturated bright color combinations. The new silks-with their progressions of light and dark greys-constitute a culmination of this series. Braun returns to the limitations of a black and white color scheme explored in his early batiks but with the luxuriance of his recent series on smooth, finely woven silk. […]

until 15.02. | #2666ARTatBerlin | Galerie Eigenheim presents from 10th January 2020 the exhibition PRISMA with the artists of the gallery Konstantin Bayer, Anna Bittersohl, Benedikt Braun, Frederik Foert, Enrico Freitag, Rao Fu, Marc Jung, Caucasso Lee Jun, Martin Mohr, Adam Noack, Stefan Schiek, Michal Schmidt, Julia Scorna, Moritz Wehrmann, Lars Wild and Wang Yuhong. The gallery becomes a cabinet of the arts, the space is prismatically broken up, pictures hang freely in space – structuring and redefining the depth of it. Meanwhile, the artistic works overlap, interlock and move closer together, so that, depending on the observers point of view, there are different dialogues between the works of art. The picture becomes an object, the back of a painting becomes visible, the installation or sculpture has to compete with the linear relationships of different perspectives. A prism breaks and reflects and is furthermore a fitting synonym for the turn of the year and new beginnings as well as for artistic production in general. With this presentation we would like to compare on the one hand the individual formal approaches and content-related discussions of the artists with the gallery and on the other hand to show the intensive and close […]

until 21.02. | #2663ARTatBerlin | Galerie aKonzept and Raphael Lévy show from 10th January 2020 the exhibition VON EINER IMAGINÄREN SAMMLERIN with twelf arists. The exhibition shows artworks from: Alberto Burri, Julije Knifer, Stanislav Kolibal, Frantisek Kyncl, Piero Manzoni, Franz Mon, Natalia Ll, Arnulf Rainer, Kajetan Sosnowski, Jiri Valoch, Wolf Vostell and Ryszard Wakso. Ausstellungsflyer “Von einer imaginären Sammlerin” In order to be fully experienced, every work of art needs the thought and thus the philosophy, which is nothing other than the thought that cannot be slowed down. — Theodore W. Adorno In German or English, gender in the first person singular is not defined. Hence, I prefer to say “she” when I write about myself. She keeps her works in numbered boxes, inventoried in an electronic file. She doesn’t hang things on the wall. Imagining a work of art is more like the work itself. In her memory, it becomes more important. That is the intention of this exhibition — to see beyond the image. ALBERTO BURRI | Combustione | 1960 | Papier, Karton, Acryl, Vinavil, Verbrennung auf Leinwand | 40 x 49,5 cm From the exhibition catalogue: In einem Gespräch, das 1994, nicht lange vor seinem Tod, stattfand, […]

until 25.04. | #2660ARTatBerlin | 68 projects shows from 24th January 2020 the exhibition DIE LANDSCHAFT FÄNGT AN, WO DER DER MENSCH AUFHÖRT (> THE LANDSCAPE BEGINS WHERE MAN ENDS) with works by the artist Oliver Westerbarkey. Artists are the spokespeople of our times and can play a crucial role in provoking conversations and challenging the status quo. Throughout history we have seen time and time again an attempt by humankind to control nature, much as depicted in the Baroque gardens of the late-16th century who’s geometric treatment of gardens depicted the power of man over nature. So in 2020 we start our first exhibition at 68projects with Oliver Westerbarkey who instead communicates within his work that nature can exist without humankind, and it is in fact humans who cannot exist without a relation to their surroundings. What Westerbarkey has created, dioramas made of natural materials such as dirt and plants, is an analogue representation much like augmented reality – existing in the physical world wherein what is most alive in the work is actually the most artificial. The experience of real-world environments here is seen through the perceptual distortion of real objects instead of computer-generated perceptual information. Westerbarkey’s works […]

until 19.03. | #2657ARTatBerlin | Migrant Bird Space shows from 17th January 2020 the exhibition CHINA FEVER with artworks by the photographers Luo Yang, Lin Zhipeng (No. 223) and Ren Hang. Chinese photographers Luo Yang, Lin Zhipeng (aka. No. 223) and Ren Hang portray a Chinese subculture that defies imposed expectations and stereotypes. Their depictions of a conflicted,hedonistic youth are an autobiographical portrayal of their own generation in urban China: playful, provocative and daring, often imbued with a dark, repressed mysticism. Although each of them has a distinct style and individual artistic language, their works commonly revolve around questions of adolescence and adulthood, individuality and self-expression. Raw, intimate and direct, their portraits are intense accounts of the private lives of their friends and peers. Luo Yang, No. 223 and Ren Hang, whose suicide shook the art-world in early 2017, are known as the ‘80’s artists’, exploring the life and mindset of China’s urban youth. Their photographic styles alternate between spontaneous snapshot aesthetics and stylised images with often surreal compositions, involving bodies and limbs entangled in play, lots of nude skin, contrasted with brightly coloured props, hairs, red lips and nails. Their work reflects a deep fascination with life’s oscillation between […]

extended until 07.03. | #2654ARTatBerlin | Galerie Martin Mertens presents from 11th January 2020 the exhibition Linientreu by the artist Felix Baxmann. Galerie Martin Mertens is starting the New Year with the first solo exhibition of the Berlin-based draftsman Felix Baxmann. The artist completed his studies in 2017 as a master student at the Berlin Universität der Künste and in the same year won the Rostock Art Prize for hand drawing. The largest group of works consists of ink drawings on paper, which are constructed from countless tiny woven patterns. Some of them are condensed in several layers in such a way that structures are created that are reminiscent of textiles. His working process is almost meditative and requires extreme discipline and endurance. Felix Baxmann, FB04 (Flecken), 36 x 26 cm, Micropigment ink on paper, 2019 (Detail) “Wenn ich zeichne, dann liegt dem Prozess stets eine Aufgabenstellung zu Grunde. Ich stelle mir eine Aufgabe, bevor ich beginne. Ein Beispiel:Ich verwende nur einen Bleistift und fertige mit diesem einhundert Zeichnungen an. Irgendwann komme ich im Laufe dieses Prozesses an einen Punkt körperlicher und/oder psychischer Erschöpfung- ein Punkt, an dem ich mir die Arbeit durch den Wechsel der Farbe oder des Mediums […]

until 04.01. | #2651ARTatBerlin| Galerie Inga Kondeyne – Raum für Zeichnung presents from December 13, 2019 together with the Wichtendahl Galerie the joint exhibition 4 : 4 with works by two times two juxtaposed artists of the respective gallery. On show are works by: ALEXANDER KLENZ I MATS BERGQUIST BETTINA MUNK I ALEXANDRA DEUTSCH CHRISTIANE SCHLOSSER I EVA WALKER H. FRANK TAFFELT I REINHARD WÖLLMER   Vernissage:  Friday, 13th December 2019, 7:00 – 9:00 pm Ausstellungsdaten: Friday, 13th December – Saturday, 4th January 2019     Image caption: H.Frank Taffelt, o.T. 2017, 2-teilig, 12,5 x 62,2 cm, ballpoint pen, pencil, scraps of adhesive tape on found object Exhibition 4 : 4 – Galerie Inga Kondeyne | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Ausstellungen Berlin Galerien | ART at Berlin    

until 31.01. | #2648ARTatBerlin | me Collectors Room Berlin is currently showing an exhibition by Gerhard Richter with portraits from the Olbricht Collection. Gerhard Richter has secured an international reputation as one of the most important and successful German artists of current times. The exhibition’s focus is also on human images – one of the central themes of Richter’s editioned works since the 1960s. Both photographs from his family photo album and press photos of famous personalities (Mao, Elisabeth) serve as models for Richter’s exploration of artistic techniques. At the same time, he draws on some of his painted portraits and portraits (Ema (Akt auf einer Treppe), Onkel Rudi), which he subsequently reproduces as prints or photographs. A prominent example of this approach are Richter’s 48 Portraits, which are shown as an edition in the me Collectors Room. The painterly models were shown in 1972 in the German Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Although most famous for his paintings, over the last few years his editions have also increasingly become the focus of attention. The Olbricht Collection is the only institution worldwide that owns Richter’s editions in their entirety and can thus depict his oeuvre over a period of five […]

until 30.11. | #2645ARTatBerlin | Michaela Helfrich Galerie presents from 30th November 2019 the exhibition Angezettelt … with painings and monotypes by the artist Tina Engel. Tina Engel, Tiergarten The beginning of a canvas is the drawing of the longitudinal threads on the loom, which are called slips of paper. A new piece of fabric begins when it is warped. A play begins when the actor appears and imagines something into the room that is only visible through him and disappears again when he leaves the stage. An image begins when it leaves the painter and finds itself. Many a large text (textile !) begins on a small, empty piece of paper. A few longitudinal threads, an empty stage, the white canvas, the empty piece of paper, nothing more. One does not draw from the fullness, but from nothing. Tina Engel, Ohne Käppchen „When I paint I can see myself walking around the corner I am painting, then the corner takes over the scene.“ Tina Engel Tina Engel, born. 1950, Actress and director, Schauspielhaus Zurich and Düsseldorf, Schaubühne Berlin, Renaissance Theater Berlin Vernissage: Friday, 29th November 2019, 6:00 to 9:00 pm Exhibition period: Saturday, 30th November 2019 to Thursday, 30th […]

until 08.02. | #2642ARTatBerlin | Galerie kajetan Berlin shows from 7. December 2019 the solo exhibition Some Things Last a Long Time by the artist Haleh Redjaian. Ever since Rosalind Krauss’ paradigmatic and eponymous essay of 1979, the Grid was considered as a checkpoint of Modernity to eradicate any residual of narrative, literary, realistic and illusionistic aspects in the field of visual arts.[1] Although Haleh Redjaian often draws precise straight lines on paper, and pulls strained threads on hand-woven rugs, her work focuses on the disruption and thus inadequacy of the grid, of an ordered system. Redjaian’s grid-breaking markers are never expressive and rarely irregular, deviating only minimally from its rigid pattern and thus irritating it even more. They usually consist of carefully drawn lines, simple geometrical shapes, and come in the same formalistically strict sign language as the grid itself, the rigidity of which they generically make disappear. Haleh Redjaian: Untitled_2018, 20,5 x 29 cm, Bleistift und Buntstift auf Papier | Graphite and color pencil on paper Photo: Eberle & Eisfeld, Berlin In this sense, an existential deviation can be experienced in particular in Redjaian’s expansive thread installations, one of which can be seen in kajetan Berlin. With a […]

until 08.02. | #2639ARTatBerlin | Gallery Persons Projects shows from 23rd November 2019 the exhibition “Configured Landscapes”, the first solo exhibition of the artist Ragna Róbertsdóttir. Parallel to this, the artist Sandra Kantanen will be shown with the exhibition Smokeworks. Persons Projects proudly presents Ragna Róbertsdóttir’s first solo exhibition Configured Landscapes. This collection of works, from the 1980’s to the present, reveals the diversity as well as the tactile sensitivity that Róbertsdóttir has continuously exhibited throughout her illustrious career. Her minimalistic roots reach back to the early 1980’s, beginning with her earliest experimentations with textiles and organic materials that were inherently common within her Icelandic environment. Róbertsdóttir’s approaches her work methodically, leaving each element used, enough space to define its own presence of being. To fully appreciate the gravity of Róbertsdóttir’s art, one needs to merely image taking a walk into one of Iceland’s many austere landscapes. It feels less like a trek into somewhere and more like a journey to elsewhere. Her pieces project an overall sensibility that harbors both the power of its materiality combined with the lightness of its becoming, whether it be salt, stone or glass. In the interview for the newspaper Independent she said once “I always have […]

until 21.11. | #2636ARTatBerlin | Galerie Michael Haas shows from 22nd November 2019 an exhibiiton with the artists Hans Uhlmann and Günter Umberg. In an extensive exhibition, Galerie Michael Haas confronts sculptures and drawings by Hans Uhlmann (1900-1975) with paintings by Günter Umberg (*1942). A strict, intensively densifying abstraction, which at the same time testifies to an incredibly sensitive handling of the possibilities of drawing and painting, characterizes the two very distinct artistic positions: the late sculptures and drawings of the time around 1960 by Hans Uhlmann and the monochrome works by Günter Umberg, which seem to float in front of the wall surface and which were created in recent years. Uhlmann, who studied engineering in Berlin, turned to sculpture as a young man. Geometric bodies, partly completely abstract, partly in strongly simplified configurations of iron or wire, were the focus of his artistic life. He left behind an extensive oeuvre of drawings in addition to his many sculptures. Beginning in the late 1950s, Uhlmann developed distinct black-and-white drawings of line, space, and dynamics based on moving bodies and their outlines. These drawings increasingly condense and leave the amorphous behind in favour of clarity and concentrated austerity. Uhlmann’s works on […]

until 20.01. | #2632ARTatBerlin | Kunsthaus Dahlem currently shows an exhibition with artworks by the sculpteur Jussuf Abbo. The sensitively modelled female heads by the sculptor Jussuf Abbo inspired the Berlin art scene of the Golden Twenties. Abbo participated in the progressive movements of his time and was a close friend of Else Lasker-Schüler and Kurt Schwitters. With the Nazi takeover, Abbo was repeatedly branded – he was stateless after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, exposed by his Jewish ancestry to Nazi racial fanaticism and his girlfriend Ruth Schulz was illegitimately pregnant by him. In a dramatic way, the pair fled to England in 1935, where Abbo could not continue his career. On the occasion of the release of the first monograph on the life and work of the artist, Kunsthaus Dahlem dedicates a solo exhibition to Jussuf Abbo with about 40 works on paper and sculptures. The exhibition is supported by the Mehler family and Freundeskreis Kunsthaus Dahlem – Bernhard Heiliger e.V. In cooperation with Centrum Judaicum, Berlin, and Aktives Museum Faschismus und Widerstand e.V., Berlin and Gerhard-Marcks-Haus, Bremen. JUSSUF ABBO, Frauenkopf, 1928, Zinn Nachlass Jussuf Abbo, Brighton/England, Foto: Gunter Lepkowski THE ARTIST: LIFE AND WORK Abbo was […]

until 10.01. | #2629ARTatBerlin | Luisa Catucci Gallery presents from 22nd November 2019 the exhibition Hypnagogic Atlas with artworks by the artists Dario Ghibaudo and David Hochbaum. „The most characteristic slumber, the one most appropriate to the exercise of the art.. Is the slumber which I call “the slumber with a key”… you must resolve the problem of “sleeping without sleeping”, which is the essence of the dialectics of the dream, since is a repose which walks in equilibrium on the taut and invisible wire which separates sleeping from walking“ Salvador Dali The American artist David Hochbaum and the Italian sculptor Dario Ghibaudo are both wild creators of fantastic universes born out their florid imagination and their own personal mythology and peculiar vision of world and society.  The fictive reality they create, each in his own way due drastic differences of media, style, color and composition, offer to the viewer a perspective on realms populated by fantastic creatures and marvellous animals, waltzing around imaginary towns, natural places or just conquering the room space with their presence – inviting the spectator to reflect on his/her own reality and inner journey. Masked as playful scientific catalogue the works by Dario Ghibaudo out […]

until 12.12. | #2627ARTatBerlin | Galerie mutare shows from 19th November 2019 an exhibition with paintings and graphics by the guest artist Rolf-Dieter Grass in the second room of the gallery. Rolf-Dieter Grass, born in 1951, was a member of the artists’ group “Der Karton” in Saarbrücken, whose works have claimed an art space for satire and have contributed critical marginalia to the Saarland cultural scene. He was involved in numerous joint exhibitions and artist symposia in Saarland and was awarded the 1st prize of the artist competition for the renewal of the Ludwigskirche in Saarbrücken. After a solo exhibition in Darmstadt in 1988, he was invited to a joint exhibition of the Artlantis Artists’ Circle in Bad Homburg. In 2016 and 2019 he participated with his works in the Friedenauer Ateliertour Südwestpassage, but also had solo exhibitions in Berlin. Rolf-Dieter Grass lives and works in Berlin. Since 17 November, paintings by the artist Deborah Esses have been shown in room 1 of the mutare gallery at the same time as Rolf-Dieter Grass. Vernissage: Tuesday, 19th November 2019, 7:00 pm Exhibition period: Tuesday, 19th November – Thursday, 12th December 2019 Opening hours November + December 2019: Wed – Fri 14.00 […]

until 07.12. | #2624ARTatBerlin | Galerie Z22 presents from 9th November 2019 the exhibition APOKALYPSE with artworks by the painter Eric Massholder on the occasion of the 5th anniversary of the gallery.  The apocalypse reaches Berlin-Wilmersdorf. Ring free for monetary snakes, skulls and the Antichrist. For the fifth anniversary of the Berlin gallery Z22, the German-French artist Eric Massholder presents his visions of the swan song on a society that has dedicated itself to its own vanities and that largely shifts away responsibility for the planet or an enriching peaceful coexistence. In large, intensive formats, he manifests the market criers of the present who have dedicated themselves solely to growth. Without realizing that too much property restricts personal freedom, status symbols condense life exclusively to the monetary. Lifetime is destroyed in the stupidest way. Charmed with wit! Increase your empathy! Think more! Question things! Get creative! Go ahead!! It will be an evening with unexpected ideas, a provocative implementation, special speeches and performances. Vernissage: Saturday, 9th November 2019, 7:00 pm, Opening speech: Dorothee Baer-Bogenschütz Exhibition period: Saturday, 9th November – Saturday, 7th December 2019   Image caption: Courtesy Galerie Z22 / Eric Massholder Exhibition Eric Massholder – Galerie Z22 | […]

extended until 06.01. | #2621ARTatBerlin | Galerie Martin Mertens presents from 9th November 2019 the exhibition Essential Beings by the artist Flavia Pitis. The gallery Martin Mertens has already presented the work of the Romanian painter Flavia Pitis in two double solo exhibitions 2016 and 2018 together with her husband Radu Belcin. Now follows her first solo exhibition in the gallery. This new group of works, which was created for the exhibition, has already begun in 2018. While at the time Pitis was even more strongly based on the human portrait, which was superimposed by porcelain-like forms, the porcelain figures now seem to develop a life of their own and want to transform themselves into human beings. Isolated and dramatically illuminated like on a theatre stage, a Baroque scenery emerges in which the forms seem to swell out of the picture in an opulent and overloaded manner. Flavia Pitis, Melted Shine, Öl auf Leinwand, 90 x 70 cm, 2019 Flavia says so: “Essential Beings” is an attempt to convey a fleeting impression of a living material that harbors a spiritual self in a constantly changing identity. The material of the seemingly porcelain-like substance is in constant flux in accordance with […]

until 21.12. | #2618ARTatBerlin | Esther Schipper presents from 16th November 2019 the exhibition ALGO-R(H)I(Y)THMS by the artist Tomás Saraceno. Algo-r(h)i(y)thms transforms the exhibition space into a landscape of nets. In Spanish “algo” means “something”. “Rhythm” comes from the Greek rhythmos, can be equated with “movement characterized by the regulated sequence of strong and weak elements, of opposing or different conditions”. Although rhythm is both biological and inherent, theorized as evolutionary instinctive, and linked in human history to the speed of the human heartbeat, gait, and affect, our contemporary moment operates at a tempo that is artificially imposed and not intuitively perceived. Algo-r(h)i(y)thms is thus an urgent invitation to tune into our sym(bio)poetic future, the radical reciprocity of all things, alive or not, through a language of vibrations. Essentially blind, the weaving spider creates an image of the world through the vibrations it sends and receives through the web, which also serves as an organic and specialized instrument for transmitting these seismic signals. The spider/web is therefore seen as a material extension of the spider’s senses and, following some arguments, of its consciousness. By accessing this environment, the work stimulates the participants to see, touch, hear and exist for a moment […]

until 16.11. | #2615ARTatBerlin | Galerie Michael Haas presents the exhibition Gefährdende Spiele by the artist Dennis Scholl. Galerie Michael Haas is showing new paintings by Dennis Scholl (*1980). In Gefährdende Spiele (Endangering Games), Dennis Scholl sets out in search of the lost innocence of childhood. He reveals that an unspoiled youth is an illusion and that tragedy and cruelty hide behind every transfiguring memory. The artist follows this trail and makes memories visible while inviting the viewer to participate in the scenes like a “Peeping Tom”. Since the individual interpretation reveals far more about the viewer than about the artist, the images serve as a mirror for self-reflection and as a reminder for open contemplation of things. Dennis Scholl Through his art, Dennis Scholl attracted attention early on. Already during his studies at the Hochschule für bildende Künste in Hamburg, which he completed in 2007, his works were shown in major institutional exhibitions – for example in the Hamburger Kunsthalle. Since then, numerous solo and group shows have followed in national and international contexts, most recently in New York City and at the Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation in Berlin. His work is represented in public and private collections worldwide. While Scholl worked […]

extended until 21.12. | #2612ARTatBerlin | Galerie Guido W. Baudach presents from 26th October 2019 the solo exhibition Heedrahtrophia by the artist Andy Hope 1930. Monsters, Painters, Mutants The series of new paintings by Andy Hope 1930, exhibiting at Galerie Guido W. Baudach under the title HEEDRAHTROPHIA, stems from the artist’s first visit to Japan in the spring of 2018. In addition to the new impressions gained there, Hope found himself confronted by Japanese pop culture, face to face with the monsters and monster tales he had long been following. A dedicated collector of comics, films and figures from the areas of horror, supervillains and superheroes, dinosaurs and extraterrestrials, Hope attained his status and widespread international reception primarily by the manner in which he ploughed through the field of Americana, outmaneuvering the pitfalls of affirmation and anti-America criticism with an abundance of wit and a wealth of art-/historical allusion. Though a relatively late discovery, Japan must have been experienced as a kind of déjà vu. After his return, Hope took up a monster that had long held his fascination: a kaiju named Hedorah from the monster film Godzilla vs. Hedorah (Japan 1971, distributed in Germany under the title Frankensteins Kampf gegen die Teufelsmonster, […]

until 18.01. | #2609ARTatBerlin | Galerie Kornfeld shows from 22nd November 2019 the solo exhibition Les Nouveaux Constructeurs by the artist Stéphane Couturier. The exhibition “Les Nouveaux Constructeurs” will present, for the first time in Germany, photographer Stéphane Couturier’s work that resulted from his involvement with French painter Fernand Léger’s œuvre. Upon the invitation of Julie Gutierrez, curator of the Fernand Léger Museum in Biot, Stéphane Couturier worked intensely with the oeuvre of Fernand Léger, one of the masters of modern painting in early 20th-century France. Léger was particularly attentive to the radical transitions of his time. The central focus of his work was the changes people and cities went through due to machines and mass production. Drawing from the form experiments of the cubists, his body of work found its particular artistic expression, which merged the cubist avantgarde with communist engagement. Sète, Pont Sadi Carnot n°2, 2018, C-Print, 140 x 100 cm, Ed.: 5 “I became aware of the many elements that brought him closer to me–his fascination with the city, with industrial elements, with architecture, with the geometry of forms…”, comments Stéphane Couturier on his involvement with Léger’s body of work. As images of urban landscapes and industrial […]

until 21.12. | #2607ARTatBerlin | Migrant Bird Space presents from 26th October 2019 an exhibition with artworks by the artists Huang Zejian and Bu Yunyun. Two Chinese artists exploring the sensuality and inherent eroticism of everyday materials and images. Both work in a variety of media, yet base their initial approach to art on the medium of photography. Employing amorphous shapes made out of mixed materials and nylon fabric, Huang Zejian’s sculptures fathom human sexuality and the particular appeal of human limbs. He uses photographs of body parts to print on nylon textiles or satin, which he then fills with EPS Polystyrene, suing his pieces together to create disturbing installations of a surreal beauty. While these sculptures remain entirely abstract, the sexual innuendo is undeniable, making it difcult, in fact, to display parts of Huang’s work in China. To Huang, the human body is central to his work in every aspect as “it cannot hide human desires and inner conflict, it’s the only medium for sex and eroticism.” (2018) IMG_20190627_0009, 2019 © Huang Zeijan, Migrant Bird Space Bu Yunjun has a professional background in painting, yet decided to pursue his interest and talent in photography. He collects everyday scenes and […]

until (tba) | #2604ARTatBerlin | Semjon Contemporary shows from 1st November 2019 the exhibitions edit_WHITE by the artist Thomas Prochnow and Curves by the artist Dirk Rathke. On show are wall objects, collages & assemblages by Thomas Prochnow as well as new works and installations by Dirk Rathke in the form of paintings, wall sculptures and objects. Thomas Prochnow Dirk Rathke Dirk Rathke Vernissage: Friday, 1st November 2019, 7:00 – 9:30 pm Exhibition period: Friday, 1st November to … (to be announced)   Events in the context of the exhibition and further dates of the gallery: Reading from Gustav Peter Wöhler The Alphabet of the Sea by Christoph Klimke in cooperation with Elfenbein Verlag Thursday, 28 November, 8 p.m. Meet the artist! Talk with Thomas Prochnow and Dirk Rathke Saturday, 30 November, 4 p.m. Fotofever Paris with works by Gerda Schütte & Nataly Squat 8. – 10.11.2019 Opening: 7 November marking time Exhibition on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Werkstättengalerie of the German Workshops Hellerau Curated by Colin Ardley Among others with works of the gallery artists Dittmar Krüger, Susanne Knaack, Dirk Rathke, Ursula Sax and Marc von der Hocht, as well as Colin Ardley Until 29.11.2019 […]

until 30.11. | #2601ARTatBerlin | Galerie EIGEN + ART Berlin shows from 24th October 2019 the exhibition A planets revolution by the artist Ryan Mosley. Ryan Mosley’s paintings have always been precarious, knife-edged, intuitive things, characterised by their exuberance, headlong free-wheelingness, sucking in motifs from the drifting, ever shape-shifting worlds of circus and carnival, the brawling anarchy of Dada. Rooted in figurative impulses, they revel in the bizarre, the improbable, the unpredictable and the grotesque. They are self-delighting, self-enclosed worlds of abandonment, staged performances, theatrical presentations which we willingly spectate. And behind them we have always felt the shadowy presence of all those artists who have helped to shape them, from Daumier to Kitaj, Hogarth to Degas, Manet to Picasso, Léger to Darger. Until now. His fourth solo show at Galerie EIGEN + ART marks a shift of tone and feeling. Its title, A planets revolution, nods in the direction of our political uncertainties as never before. A mood of perplexity seems to transform the romp of his heightened colours into exaggeratedly desperate throws of optimism. Ryan Mosley, Under a strange canopy, 2019, Oil on canvas, 183 x 150 cm, Photo: Jules Lister In the painting Songs for the sea […]

From 25 October 2019, the Kunstbibliothek im Kulturforum will be showing the exhibition “Typoems und Künstlerbücher” with works by printer and publisher Hansjörg Mayer. The printer, teacher and publisher Hansjörg Mayer, who lives in London, became one of the most important protagonists of concrete poetry and the art of the 1960s with his experiments in printing techniques and his edition hansjörg mayer. In collaboration with the artist, the Art Library shows the diversity and artistic stubbornness of the publishing house, from his first typographic works, which he called typoems, to the international influence of Concrete Poetry from Stuttgart to São Paolo, to the experimental artist’s books by Dieter Roth. Dieter Roth, Bücher und Grafik Gesammelte Werke 20, 1970, edition hansjörg mayer, Offsetdruck, © edition hansjörg mayer; Dieter Roth Foundation, Hamburg As early as the mid-1960s, Hansjörg Mayer (*1943, Stuttgart) attracted the attention of the art and literature world. As a young man, Mayer had already come into contact with the Stuttgart circle around the philosopher Max Bense, who introduced him to the latest international trends in art, literature and music. Mayer’s fascination with the printing process, which he experienced every day in his family’s print shop, gave rise to the […]

until 16.11. | #2597ARTatBerlin | Galerie mutare shows from 12th October 2019 the exhibition A Lifetime Achievement with paintings and graphics by the artist Alo Altripp. Alo Altripp, born 1906 in Altrip near Speyer, attended the Kunstgewerbeschule Mainz (applied arts, decorative painting) in 1921-24, followed by the Meisterschule für das Malerhandwerk in Munich and the Akademie für Kunst und Gewerbe in Dresden in 1925. In 1928/29 Altripp worked as a theatre painter at the Staatstheater Wiesbaden, then as a freelance artist. In 1932 he met Alexej Jawlensky for the first time and became his friend in 1934. He travelled to Strasbourg and Colmar, in the period 1935-39 he completed annual study stays at the Goetheanum in Dornach. He regularly visited Paul Klee and his family in Bern. 1943-45 he was employed as a draughtsman at the Opel company in Rüsselsheim, 1945-49 also as a draughtsman at the Central Collecting Point in the Wiesbaden Museum. In 1949 he stayed in New York with a scholarship from the Barnes Foundation, Merion. 1951-71 he taught as a lecturer at the Werkkunstschule Wiesbaden, today the Hochschule RheinMain. In 1976 he was awarded the Max Slevogt Medal of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate. The artist died […]

until 26.10. | #2551ARTatBerlin | KLEMM’S currently presents the exhibition Form, Class & Beauty – iniated by Viktoria Binschtok with works by the artists Gabriele Beveridge, Viktoria Binschtok, Ulrich Lamsfuß and Ken Lum. Our image-based reality lays the ground and provides the necessary input for the mixed media works that compose the exhibition Form, Class & Beauty. Through a diverse repertoire of appropriation strategies, public images are shifted into new contexts of meaning, which block themselves against obvious associations. The fusion of photography with text, algorithms, painting, and object leads to various combinations and opens up alternative perspectives on familiar representations. Those are above all stereotypical representations of beauty, status, gender, etc… that dominate our urban and social environments (online and offline). They manifest cultural codes that set the bar of ideal existence in a system. Everything that cannot be seen in the general canon of images is also socially marginalized. The artistic rearrangement of the fragments of our visual culture is staged here in what can be understood as aesthetically seductive assemblages – however, it does not exclude a critical examination of its impact. Viktoria Binschtok, August 2019 Gabriele Beveridge (b. 1985, Hong Kong) lives and works in London, UK. Gabriele’s […]

until 25.10. | #2594ARTatBerlin | Peres Projects shows from 27th September the exhibition (G)hosting by the artist Richard Kennedy. Peres Projects is pleased to present (G)hosting, Richard Kennedy’s first solo exhibition at the gallery. The title of the exhibition plays on the term hosting, which has been taken up in the gay community on online forums and apps for dating, to indicate a space that’s safe for invitation (i.e. can you host), and ghosting – to drop out of a situation without warning or explanation. The overlapping and entangled actions of hosting and then ghosting, that fit together in spite of their oppositional meanings indicates Kennedy’s preoccupation with the epistemological force of language. The spaces opened up in language for seemingly contradictory affects to coexist. For his first exhibition in Europe, Kennedy presents (G)hosting, an opera without an audience, which was developed over the course of his 2019 summer residency at Open Forum in Berlin. Considering opera through a language of African American experience – drawing on the oral histories told through spirituals and chain gang songs, Kennedy disrupts the tradition of Western Theatre, where the primary mode of engagement is through observation, in order to generate new participatory modes of viewership. […]

until 22.09. | #2591ARTatBerlin | Michael Reid shows from 21st September 2019 the exhibition Closer To Life by the artist Xander Haywood. The exhibition can be seen for only two days in the gallery and is continued online until 19 October 2019. Xander Haywood’s new series takes a contemporary and imaginative approach to the traditional oil-painted life-study, combining botanical paintings and portraits of people living in Berlin. Xander Haywood’s artistic practice explores the boundary between the real and the imagined, infusing the outer world as it is conventionally experienced with the artist’s subjective and emotive inner perceptions. Through his use of perspective and attention to detail, Xander aims to create an intimate and immersive experience, with the intention of dissolving the separation between subject and object, the image and the viewer. Alexandra, 2019 Vernissage: Saturday, 21st September 2019, 6:00 – 8:00 pm Exhibition period: Saturday, 21st September to Sunday, 22nd September 2019, 11:00 am to 5:00 pm, continued online until 19 October 2019   Image caption: Xander Haywood Exhibition Xander Haywood – Michael Reid | Contemporary Art – Kunst in Berlin – Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin

extended until 01.02. | #2587ARTatBerlin | GALERIE SPRINGER BERLIN shows from 28th September 2019 the exhibition  Expanded Photography 2002-2019 by the photographer Aitor Ortiz. In the exhibition Expanded Photography 2002–2018, Galerie Springer Berlin is showing three different work cycles by the Basque artist Aitor Ortiz in which traditional photographic boundaries are surpassed in surprising and fascinating ways. © Aitor Ortiz Espacio Latente 012 2018 archival pigment print on Hahnemühle paper 70 x 70 x 4 cm signed 7/7 © Aitor Ortiz Espacio Latente 018 2018 archival pigment print on Hahnemühle paper 70 x 70 x 4 cm signed 7/7 The highlight of the exhibition is the presentation of works from the related series Vicinay and Link (2018). Vicinay is a chain factory in the former industrial area of Zorrotzaurre in Bilbao. The manufacturing plant, which produced a total of 10,000km of ship-mooring chains over a 60-year period, was moved to a new location as a result of urban-development measures and gentrification. Ortiz, who grew up in the vicinity of the industrial site and has been based there via his studio for many years, had parts of the steel floor panels in the former manufacturing plant removed piece-bypiece, involving extensive effort. […]

until 01.11. | #2558ARTatBerlin | Crone Berlin currently shows the exhibition Medusa: Floating Body by the artists Tomas Kleiner and Marco Biermann. The work of Marco Biermann and Tomas Kleiner, who have been working together as a performative collective for the past five years, investigates the interaction of public and individual space in which we may act. Their performances and actions have been exhibited in institutions including Museum Abteiberg in Mönchengladbach, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Museum Morsbroich in Leverkusen, and Belvedere 21 in Vienna. The exhibition Medusa: Floating Body captures and documents their newest performance, which began on the Rhine near Düsseldorf at the end of June and will continue in the rooms of Galerie Crone in Berlin. The romantic notion of breaking out of routine and taking off for new shores inspired the artists to use Medusa: Floating Body to once again playfully engage with the public space.  The project saw them drift down the Rhine on a specially made air mattress over the course of a day, past the town of Uerding and the city of Duisburg to an unknown destination. Extensive communication with the authority for water and shipping (DLRG), the coast guard, the local regulatory agency, […]

until 02.11. | #2559ARTatBerlin | Galerie Max Hetzler presents from 27th September 2019 the solo exhibition a sort of speech by the artist Edmund de Waal in the gallery rooms Bleibtreustraße and Goethestraße. Galerie Max Hetzler is pleased to announce British artist Edmund de Waal’s second solo exhibition on view across both gallery locations in Berlin. Recognised for his delicate porcelain vessels meticulously arranged in carefully composed groups displayed in vitrines or shelves, Edmund de Waal creates his own dialogue between tradition and modernity, blank spaces and opulence, minimalism and architecture. His unique ceramic objects, coloured in subtle nuances and irregularly shaped, form the base of his installations and combine ideas of repetition, rhythm and composition with references to literature and music. In his exhibition, de Waal presents a group of new free-standing glass vitrines, each forming a thoughtful composition of porcelain, steel, gold and marble elements, installed in the large gallery space of Goethestraße. In this new body of work, de Waal continues to explore the boundaries between text and sculpture. At its centre, the exhibition contains a major new text work in which de Waal has covered a vast freestanding wall with porcelain slip and gold leaf into which […]

until 09.11. | #2582ARTatBerlin | Kewenig Berlin presents from 13th September 2019 the exhibition daß die Geschichte zusammenbleibt (> that history remains together) by the artist Imi Knoebel. Vernissage: Friday, 13 September 2019, 6:00 – 9:00 pm Exhibition eriod: Friday, 13 September – Saturday, 9 November 2019   Image caption: daß die Geschichte zusammenbleibt – Schattenraum 6 + 3 Bilder, 1989 Acrylic and fiberboard on wood Cube: 216 x 360 x 120 cm | 85 x 141 1/2 x 47 1/4 in Black painting: 240 x 450 x 9 cm | 94 1/4 x 177 1/2 x 3 1/2 in Two panels: 240 x 90 x 9 cm | 94 5/8 x 35 3/8 x 3 5/8 in each © Imi Knoebel Photographer: Gunter Lepkowski. Courtesy the artist and KEWENIG Exhibition Imi Knoebel – Kewenig Berlin | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin

until 19.10. | #2560ARTatBerlin | Galerie EIGEN + ART Berlin presents from 13 September 2019 the exhibition  HOW TO FANCY THE LIGHT OF A CANDLE AFTER IT IS BLOWN OUT by the artist Olaf Nicolai. Vernissage: Friday, 13 September 2019, 5:00 – 8:00 pm Ausstellungsdaten: Friday, 13 September to Saturday, 19 October 2019   Image caption: Courtesy Galerie EIGEN + ART Berlin, Olaf Nicolai Exhibition Olaf Nicolai – Galerie EIGEN + ART | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin

until 21.12. | #2548ARTatBerlin | Galerie Judin presents from 14 September 2019 the exhibition Das Frühwerk by the artist Eugen Schönebeck. Galerie Judin is pleased to present Das Frühwerk, Eugen Schönebeck’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. Eugen Schönebeck (*1936) is one of the most sig­nif­icant post-war Ger­man artists. All the major social, polit­ical and artis­tic upheavals of the time are reflected in his life and work. He grew up in Saxony at the end of the Sec­ond World War, where he begun his artis­tic edu­ca­tion as an apprentice in dec­o­ra­tional paint­ing. He con­tin­ued his train­ing in East Berlin, before leav­ing the young GDR for West Berlin—then the epi­center of non-rep­re­senta­tional art. Together with fel­low stu­dent Georg Baselitz, he devel­oped a new style of fig­u­ra­tive paint­ing. With the large-format por­traits of social­ist lead­ers he made in the mid-1960s, the artist pre-empted issues raised by the protests of 1968. Only a few years after gra­dua­ting, Schönebeck with­drew him­self from the art mar­ket. He shifted his art to a pri­vate sphere, not least because there was no sociopo­lit­ical utopia to fol­low the move­ment of 1968. He stopped paint­ing in oils, but con­tin­ued to draw—and became the myth­ical pio­neer of new Ger­man fig­u­ra­tion. […]

until 02.11. | #2577ARTatBerlin | Galerie Klaus Gerrit Friese shows since 7th September 2019 an exhibition with drawings by the artist Thomas Müller. “Drawing, alongside painting, is the second core element of our gallery programme. Many of our artists have their very own, intensive approach to this medium, and it is therefore a pleasure to exhibit Thomas Müller, an artist whose work is entirely dedicated to drawing. His complex, multi-layered works on paper are as strict, precise as they are poetic in the same artistic trait: they ignite a pull that grips the viewer. This is how I have always imagined art, and I think of Thomas Müller when I read these sentences by Kafka: “How do you like my drawing? Well, you know, I used to be a great draughtsman. But wait, I’ll send you some old drawings next time so you have something to laugh about. Those drawings satisfied me at that time, it’s been years, more than anything in his time.” Because Thomas Müller knows his way around literature, in his field of drawing and far beyond, and he gives all his artistic energy to every single sheet we present to you in this exhibition.” Klaus Gerrit […]

until 14.09. | #2576ARTatBerlin | Anaid Art Gallery shows from 12th September 2019 the Pop up Solo-Exhibition ONIRIX in the framework of Berlin Art Week with paintings by the artist Mihai Florea alias FM. The solo show, “ONIRIX” by Mihai Florea aka FM, spanning 9 (nine) paintings created by the artist in the last year. ONIRIX is an exhibition about the power of the human unconscious, the images that reside and resist in our memory after the dream. Nine years ago, Mihai Florea dreamt three dreams in three different nights. Scrutinizing the unconscious and remembering his dream images, the artist began to paint. Each dream has three sequences that were realized in painting as three movie shots. This exhibition takes place in cooperation with the Berlin fashion design label Maisonoée and is shown in the rooms of the Luna Studio (Zimmerstraße 91, 10117 Berlin-Mitte). Vernissage:  Friday, 13 September 2019, 6:00 -9:00 pm Exhibition period: Thursday, 12 September to Saturday, 14 September 2019, 10:00 am – 8:00 pm WHERE? Luna Studio, Zimmerstraße 91, 10117 Berlin-Mitte   Image caption: Mihai Florea (FM) – The Dangerous Backyard, Öl auf Leinwand, 120 x 140 cm, 2019 © Anaid Art Gallery Exhibition Mihai Florea aka […]

until 26.10. | #2579ARTatBerlin | Michaela Helfrich Galerie shows from 12th September 2019 the group exhibition Spiel mit der Wirklichkeit (> Playing with reality) with the artists Horst Kistner, Thomas Gatzemeier, Gerard Waskievitz, Simon Czapla and Ulrike Pisch. Light and colour is the constitutive basis of the works, but they also always have art history in mind. Horst Kistner and Thomas Gatzemeier stand in the long tradition of an artistic attitude and develop their own impressive positions, Gerard Waskievitz mixes existential themes from Berlin city life with well-known Renaissance depictions, Simon Czapla creates a new space of meaning in his painting through the interplay of pictorial material, allusions and associations, Ulrike Pisch surprises with her painterly praise of dreams, chance and spontaneity in a constructive world. Vernissage: Wednesday, 11 September 2019, 6:00 to 9:00 pm Exhibition period: Thursday, 12 September 2019 to Saturday, 26 Oktober 2019   Image caption: Gerard Waskievitz, Paris Bar Berlin, 2019, Oil on canvas, 120 cm x 160 cm Exhibition Spiel mit der Wirklichkeit – Galerie Michaela Helfrich | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin

until 02.11. | #2574ARTatBerlin | Kristin Hjellegjerde Berlin shows from 13th September 2019 the exhibition “Mirror, Mirror” with artworks by the artist Vanessa Prager. Through thick impasto strokes, groups of women emerge melting into one another against swirling abstract backgrounds. The figures appear writhing, pink and fleshy, a combining mass that is simultaneously a single entity and an expression of multitude. Los Angeles-based artist Vanessa Prager presents her latest body of work entitled ‘Mirror, Mirror’ at Kristin Hjellegjerde Berlin. Though the human body is a recurring theme in the artist’s work, her figures in this latest series take on a new looseness, breaking down physical boundaries to form abstract visualisations of identity in which the individual is able to slip between multiple personalities. As Prager notes this slippage can provide access to a deeper empathy, which is envisioned through the merging of the artist’s figures. ‘See through you’, for example, depicts an entwined, moving mass of bare skin, which is suggestive of a sexual embrace and yet, we are unable to distinguish between bodies. The title of the work goes further to imply an element of performance in which the painting is somehow revealing the true nature of the being. […]

until 13.10. | #2553ARTatBerlin  | Galerie Eigenheim presents from 30. August 2019 the group exhibtion ALL DAY REVOLUTION | Unsere Liebe Digitalität with the artists Max Albrecht, Fanny Josefine Dehnkamp, Samira Engel, Thomas Hawranke, Johannes Heinke, Stephan Isermann, Tonio Mundry, Adam Noack, Katrin Steiger, Marcus Sternbauer und Sirin Unmanee. At the salon of the gallery, paintings by the artist Anna Bittersohl will be shown. The third exhibition of EIGENHEIM Weimar/Berlin as an official showcase of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Bauhaus deals with various aspects of the digitization of our society. In our everyday life a revolution takes place, which does justice to the fundamentals of a revolution. Tonio Mundry – Original Spam Infinite Influence It is not without reason that the concept of the digital revolution, a change of all areas of life through digital technology, has been intensively discussed for a decade. Like the Industrial Revolution, which formed the basis of the Bauhaus, the digital revolution will also bring new forms of live, art and design. The resulting changes in the business and work, in public and in private life are taking place at a rapid speed. New media are increasingly influencing […]

until 04.10. | #2544ARTatBerlin | Galerie Minimal currently presents the solo exhibition The Deconstructed Self with photographs by the artist Natalie Christensen. The Los Angeles Center for Digital Arts named Natalie Christensen one of the „Ten Photographers to Watch“. After exhibitions in London, New York and Los Angeles, the American photographer and psychotherapist presents her work „The Deconstructed Self“ for the first time in Berlin. Natalie Christensen – Deep Blue Pool Natalie Christensen finds her motifs in the banal scenes of the periphery of the American Southwest. Fascinated by the unmistakable light and crystal clear air, she composes photographs of suburban everyday life whose symbolism penetrates deeply into the subconscious, evoking stories that are often disturbing, sometimes amusing but always present. Speaking on The Deconstructed Self, Christensen states: “In 2014 I moved from the state of Kentucky to Santa Fe, New Mexico leaving my lifelong home and my 25-year career as a psychotherapist behind. While it was an exciting moment it was also a time of questioning and reflection. Like many artists who have come to New Mexico, I was immediately drawn to the distinctive Southwestern light. The beauty of the natural environment is evident to most people; however, my […]

until 05.10. | #2541ARTatBerlin | Semjon Contemporary presents from 31st August 2019 the exhibition “Tanz mit dem Raum – Das Geometrische Ballett und andere (performative) Projekte” (> Dance with Space – Geometric Ballet and other (performative) Projects) with artworks by the artist Ursula Sax. This exhibition is conceived as a supplement to the new performance of the Geometric Ballet and attempts to trace the development towards this piece, which is based on her diverse dance sculptures, and to relate it to her other sculptural works. The advance ticket sale for the premiere in the Radialsystem on 6 September 2019 for the re-appropriation of Geometrisches Ballett (Hommage à Oskar Schlemmer) is sold out. Tickets may still be available at the box office. There are only a few tickets left for the 2nd performance on 7 September. Tickets for the premiere of the Dresden Appia stage version on 20 September 2019 at the Festspielhaus Hellerau can be purchased here Choreography: Katja Erfurth; a production by Tristan Production | Management | Event UG in co-production with HELLERAU – Europäisches Zentrum der Künste. Initiated by Semjon H. N. Semjon, Semjon Contemporary. Supported by the Saxon State Ministry of the Interior and the Kulturstiftung Sachsen, […]

until 02.11. | #2538ARTatBerlin | Bermel von Luxburg Gallery shows from 7th September 2019 the exhibition German Abstractionism by the artists Karl Otto Götz, Bernard Schultze and Fred Thieler. Bermel von Luxburg starts the season with: “German Abstractionism”. Selected works by three important artists in the history of German abstract painting will be shown: Karl Otto GÖTZ, Bernard SCHULTZE and Fred THIELER. Selected works of art from an exclusive collection will be on display. Bermel from Luxburg Gallery looks forward to meeting you. Karl Otto Götz 06 – Gouache 30 x 20 cm #KarlOttoGötz #BerndSchultze #FredThieler #Vernissage #OpeningBerlin #ArtShow #Ausstellung #Ausstellung #BerlinArtWeek #Positionen #ArtfairBerlin #GalleryWeekendBerlin #AbstractPainting #AbstractArt #InformelleKunst #Quadriga #GermanArt #BerlinGallery #ContemporaryArt #Museum #ZeitgenössischeKunst #Fasanenstrasse #Charlottenburg #Kurfürstendamm #KunstBerlin #ArtCollection #ArtCollector #Auction #Sothebys #Christies #ArtBasel #ArtCologne #Tefaf #Lifestyle #Design #EnjoyArt #BermelvonLuxburg The Galerie Bermel von Luxburg will participate in the Berlin Art Week 2019 at the art fair POSITIONS (12.09.-15.09.2019, Tempelhof Airport). Vernissage: Saturday, 7th September from 7 to 9 pm Exhibition period: Saturday, 7th September to Saturday, 2nd November 2019   Image caption: Karl Otto Götz, Courtesy Bermel von Luxburg Gallery Exhibition German Abstractionism – Bermel von Luxburg Gallery | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin […]

until 14.09. | #2534ARTatBerlin | Contemporary Fine Arts presents from 16th August 2019 the exhibition Ferragosto by the artist Edgar Leciejewski. This is the first exhibition by Edgar Leciejewski with the gallery CFA Berlin. Fire is an ambiguous phenomenon. In cultural history it stands for both destruction and renewal. In the Middle Ages, for example, fire was regarded as a medium of punishment and purification. As a kind of intermediate realm, it marked the border between paradise as a place of absolute bliss and hell as a place of eternal damnation. In many cultures it is revered as something divine. In China, grieving relatives still burn bundles of so-called “hell money” to provide for their dead relatives in the afterlife and to make the gods merciful. Some of this magical-transformative power of fire also seems to blaze in Edgar Leciejewski’s new “fabric pictures”. There, forms of still life, assemblage and portrait are pushed over each other like different foils. “Fire takes and gives” says Leciejewski. “In the fire one sees everything.  The artist quotes an abundant dozen culturally or socially significant women of the present through pictures in pictures and brings them together in his studio with various decorative fabrics […]

until 02.10. | #2532ARTatBerlin | Galerie Pugliese Levi shows from 10th August 2019 the exhibition Entanglement by the artist Marc Lambrechts. Reception with Marc Lambrechts: 14th September 2019. New works by Marc Lambrechts will be shown. In these works the artist playfully takes up the phenomenon of entanglement, one of the most fascinating aspects of quantum mechanics. On September 14, 2019, as part of the Berlin Art Week 2019, the gallery will host a reception at 6 p.m. in the presence of the artist, who will personally give an introduction to the exhibition that evening. Start of exhibition: Saturday, 10 August 2019, from 1:00 p.m. Reception: Saturday, 14 September 2019, 18:00, with an introduction to the exhibition by Marc Lambrechts Exhibition dates: Saturday, 10 August – Wednesday, 2 October 2019   Image caption Marc Lambrechts, Entanglement dance 3, 2019, 15 x 30.5 cm Exhibition Marc Lambrechts – Entanglement – Galerie Pugliese Levi | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin  

until 31.08. | #2529ARTatBerlin | Galerie Brockstedt shows from 1st August 2019 a summer accrochage. On display are paintings, sculptures and collages by the artists Tino Geiß, Johannes Grützke, Martin Heinig, Hans Scheib and Annette Schröter. Annette Schröter Martin Heinig The current opening hours of Galerie Brockstedt in Berlin after the summer holidays are Tue – Fr 11 am – 6 pm and Sat 11 am – 2 pm. Hans Scheib, Guter Morgen, 2012 Tino Geiß Johannes Grützke Exhibition period: Thursday, 1st August to Saturday, 31st August 2019   Please make a note: Thursday, September 12, 2019 from 6 p.m. – 9 p.m the Galerie Brockstedt will open the exhibition “Horst Janssen on his 90th birthday” in Berlin. Exhibition Sommer-Accrochage – Galerie Brockstedt | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin    

until 16.11. | #2526ARTatBerlin | 68 projects will present from 6 September 2019 the group exhibition Story as a Woven Carpet of seven artists living and working in Georgian Tbilisi: Andro Eradze, Levan Chelidze, Salome Chigilashvili, Tezi Gabunia, Nino Kvrivishvili, Tamar Nadiradze and Giorgi Qochiashvili. The exhibition is comprised of cultural fragments and addresses new narratives constructed in the young artists’ work. Georgia has always been somewhat exoticised throughout the history starting from Ancient Greeks and up to the 20th century travelers’ accounts. What others have said and opined about the country is collected in Georgian textbooks and was taught to generations. The artists presented in this exhibition are telling stories from their own perspective. They represent the generation that may have started the process of creating and telling their own stories, similar to Demna Gvasalia’s SS19 Paris show. These 21st century Georgian artists choose their cultural and visual references via Internet, via computer screen, accessing the information beyond physical borders and discovering other ways of seeing and doing things. For them, everything is available at once, on the screen, with no time evolution as explained in art history, neither following traditional canons of good and bad. Although, they’re drawing […]

Until mid-September 2019, the Hamburger Bahnhof Museum is showing the exhibition “Emil Nolde. Eine deutsche Legende – Der Künstler im Nationalsozialismus” (> Emil Nolde. A German Legend – The Artist in National Socialism). The Expressionist Emil Nolde is probably the most famous ‘degenerate artist’: no other artist confiscated so many works, no other works hung so prominently on the first stages of the exhibition Degenerate Art of 1937/38. How do Nolde’s ostracism and his professional ban fit in with our knowledge that he was a member of the Nazi party and did not lose faith in the National Socialist regime until the end of the war? The art critic Adolf Behne took Nolde’s special case seriously by trenchantly calling him a “degenerate ‘degenerate’” on his 80th birthday in 1947. Emil Nolde in Munich, January/February 1937. Photo by Helga Fietz, the wife of Nolde’s art dealer in Munich Günther Franke, Nolde Stiftung Seebüll, © Nolde Stiftung Seebüll It has long been known that Emil Nolde was a party member. But what this has to do with his art, and how the historical circumstances of National Socialism have affected his work, has never before been comprehensively examined in an exhibition. The exhibition […]

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