until 24.08. | #2499ARTatBerlin | EFREMIDIS GALLERY shows from 29th June 2019 at [ERP Projekt] the exhibition Walkers by the artist Nuria Fuster. Born in Alcoi, Spain in 1978, lives and works in Berlin, Germany. She completed an MA in Fine Arts at the Polytechnic University of Valencia and has been awarded a degree in Sculpture from the Academia di Belle Arti in Rome, Italy. Working within the mediums of photography, installation and sculpture, Nuria Fuster’s work explores notions of inherent tension and controlled chaos through material reorganization. She investigates the material part of reality, not only as a device of self-reflection but also as a way of establishing points of focus in behaviours and processes that evidence the natural hegemony of things. Primitive agents such as air, fire, temperature changes or gravity actively participate and determine the work, either on its surface, through actions or as a representation of themselves and their context. Nuria Fuster, Presionador, 300 x 90 x 52 cm, 2013 Fuster has taken part in numerous international group exhibitions, most notably at Musée des Arts décoratifs in Paris, Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid and Centro Botín in Santander, Spain. Her work has been shown at ARCO […]

until 27.07. | #2495ARTatBerlin | Galerie Born Berlin presents from 14th June 2019 the summer exhibition Goldstaub (gold dust) by the artist Strawalde.  The exhibition Goldstaub will feature paintings, collages and sculptures by the artist. Vernissage: Thursday, 13 June 2019, 6:00 – 9:00 Uhr. The artist is present. Exhibition period: Friday, 14 June – Saturday, 27 July 2019 The exhibition “Drawing now” by the artists Martin Assig, Gilgian Gelzer, Mark Lammert and Daniel Schlier will be shown until 3 July 2019 in the dependance of the Galerie Born in Born on the Darss. Until 21 July 2019 the exhibition La Place D’Italie by the artist Jens Jensen can be seen in the project space Heiddorf.   Image caption: Courtesy Galerie Born Berlin – Strawalde Exhibition STRAWALDE | Goldstaub – Galerie Born Berlin | Galerieführer | Gallery Guide Berlin Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin      

until 31.08. | #2496ARTatBerlin | Galerie Kornfeld presents from 27th June 2019 the summer exhibition “Pack den Badeanzug ein” with artworks of young and established positions in contemporary art. Few songs have managed to capture the lightheartedness and exuberance of summer in the way that the German hit song “Pack die Badehose ein” (“Pack Your Swimsuit”) did in the early 1950s. The teen star Conny sings about the small burdens of everyday life, which can be removed simply by jumping into the cold water of the Wannsee lake. We are pleased to present the exhibition “Pack den Badeanzug ein” , a refreshing look at both emerging and established positions in contemporary painting. Featuring a broad selection of artistic methods, we push the boundaries of what painting can be in the 21st century. What is the state of arts oldest medium in today’s hyper-digitized world? What can the analogue image do that the digital cannot, and how do the two media influence each other? Elvira Bach, Unter Palmen, 1982, Acryl auf Papier, 50 x 35 cm Participating artists:  Alicia Adamerovich, Tom Anholt, Elvira Bach, Carlo D’Anselmi, Monica Kim Garza, Stefanie Gutheil, Erik Hanson, Kimia Ferdowsi Kline, Ella Kruglyanskaya, Tamara Kvesitadze, Clemencia […]

until 13.07. | #2490ARTatBerlin | Galerie Martin Mertens shows from 1st June 2019 the exhibition Rhythm of the Staple Gun by the artist Julius Bobke. This second exhibition by Julius Bobke in the gallery is strongly focused on a new group of works that Bobke has created since 2018. For these pictures he uses excerpts from historical carpets from different epochs and cultures, which he inserts into the picture in a complex printing process, paints over them, bleaches them, cuts them together and reassembles them. He repeatedly stretches the pictures from the stretcher frame in order to print them or sew them together again. The stapler is often used for this. The term rhythm or pattern thus refers to stapling, the rhythm of the sewing machine but also the patterns of the carpet fragments. Basically, a painted picture is more closely related to a carpet than one might think at first glance, because both are ultimately dyed textiles. Julius says: “From the 13th to the 17th century, the Oriental carpet increasingly appeared as a decorative element in European painting. Today, more carpets are depicted in Renaissance paintings than have actually survived. Thus the research of Islamic art also focuses on […]

until 27.07. | #2486ARTatBerlin | Galerie EIGEN + ART Berlin shows from 6 June 2019 the solo exhibition WEIMAR, NORIS, ERNEMANN by the artist Ricarda Roggan. Heavy machines through whose gaps light penetrates into the darkness of the screening room: the special aura of the projectors has enthused Ricarda Roggan since she spent long, tranquil cinema evenings with them on a student job. The weight of the heavy apparatus, the subdued clattering of the motors, the airy flickering of the images in the movie theater. All these impressions waited a long time and tenaciously exerted their effect, to be condensed now in a new photo series that is more closely tied than usual to the biography of the pictorial artist. Like everything that Ricarda Roggan arranges in front of the lens of her large-format analog camera, the projectors now persist in a kind of time capsule. They don’t shout, “Look at me!” or “Get me out of here!” They are self-sufficient, modestly pleased that a stage is prepared for them once again. They persist, resting in themselves, and precisely because of that develop their own sober, completely unsentimental magic. They express a mute invitation to view them concentratedly and without […]

until 04.08. | #2484ARTatBerlin | König Galerie (Nave) shows from 8th June 2019 the exhibition Circus Empire by the artist Kathryn Andrews. At the same time the artist Anselm Reyle will be shown in the Chapel of the gallery with the exhibition Reflections. KÖNIG GALERIE is pleased to present “Circus Empire,” its first exhibition of large-scale sculptures and wall objects by Kathryn Andrews from June 7 to August 4, 2019. The Los Angeles-based artist transforms the gallery’s historic building into a massive circus tent support. Inside, interactive artworks mash up references to empire, past and present, alongside symbols of decline, excess, failure and rot. With biting wit in the form of materially rich, absurd objects, Andrews questions the current state of civilization and its representations, while exposing the failures of its never-ending fascination with dominance.  Exhibition period: Saturday, 8th June to Sunday, 4th August 2019   Image caption: Kathryn Andrews, Tutti Frutti Ancients and Moderns, 2019, stainless steel, aluminum, glass, ink, paper and paint, 112 x 112 x 5 cm Exhibition Kathryn Andrews – König Galerie (Nave) | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibition Berlin Galleries – ART at Berlin

until 06.07. | #2481ARTatBerlin | Bermel von Luxburg Gallery is showing from 23rd May 2019 the exhibition Los paisajes de subconsciente by the artist Jesus Mullor and at the cabinet the artist Leone Minassian. Bermel von Luxburg Gallery invites you for the upcoming exhibition: „Jesus MULLOR – Los paisajes de subconsciente“. The Spanish title means: The unconscious landscapes. Come and discover the first exhibition of the Spanish artist Jesus Mullor in Berlin. Jesus Mullor, Mapa Turquesa, 140 x 110 cm, Mixed media, 2018/2019 Bermel von Luxburg Gallery will also present Italian Modern Art in the Kunstkabinett: „Leone Minassian (1905-1978): An Italian Surrealist“. Vernissage: Thursday, 23rd May 2019, 7:00 – 10:00 p.m. Exhibiiton period: Thursday, 23rd May – Saturday, 6th July 2019   Image caption: Jesus Mullor, Mapa Turquesa, 140 x 110 cm, Mixed media, 2018/2019 Exhibition Jesus Mullor – Bermel von Luxburg Gallery | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin    

until 11.08. | Kunsthaus Dahlem is currently presenting the exhibition “Flucht in die Bilder? Die Künstler der Brücke im Nationalsozialismus (> Escape into the Pictures?) The Artists of the Brücke in National Socialism” in cooperation with the Brücke Museum. The exhibition “Flucht in die Bilder?” is the first to critically and extensively examine the artistic practice, scope of action and everyday life of the former Brücke artists under National Socialism. The situation of Erich Heckel, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Max Pechstein, and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner in the years 1933 to 1945 has so far mostly been reduced to ‘ostracism’ of their art by the National Socialists. This one-dimensional view does neither do justice to the multi-layered situation of the artists nor to the contradictions within National Socialist cultural policy. At the beginning, most of the former Brücke artists had cherished the hope that their art would find recognition among the National Socialists – a hope that the latter had partially nurtured. Despite the caesura caused by the Nazi art policy, the former Brücke artists – with the exception of Kirchner, who took his own life in 1938 – were artistically active until the last years of the war. Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, »Entwurzelte Bäume«, […]

until 27.07. | #2461ARTatBerlin | BORCH Gallery currently presents the exhibition Duets by the artist Matt Saunders. BORCH Gallery & Editions is pleased to present Duets, an exhibition of new works by Matt Saunders. Centered around a series of monotypes, the exhibition extends Saunders’ ongoing collaboration with BORCH to encompass new ways of working with print and situates the artist’s print work into the larger context of his practice in painting and video. Duets (Torsos), 2018, is a suite of monotypes created by transferring both sides of watercolors made on linen simultaneously to paper. The prints carry the weave of the fabric as well as the subtle symmetries and asymmetries of front and back. Saunders’ monotypes sit in a lineage of reversals and doublings explored in his previous print works, yet allowing him to work quickly and experimentally, drawing aspects of color and especially transparency into the work. Torsos—the bilateral cores around which we arrange our postures and identities—turn and shift and move through the series, and although few faces are to be seen, the images are charged with a mixture of psychology, homage, process, and materiality. Saunders describes his sources as figures “that seemed suspended in their media or […]

until 15.06. | #2462ARTatBerlin | EIGEN + ART Lab currently presents the exhibition Reflexxxions with artworks by the artist Signe Pierce. American artist Signe Pierce (* 1988, USA) describes herself as a reality artist: “I am pop and I am art. I am digital and I am physical. I am virtual and I am real”. “What is real?” is the central question that hovers throughout Pierce’s installations, photographs, performances and writings. Throughout her work, Pierce has utilized her own life and body as a surface to be projected onto, both figuratively and literally. As a performer and self-described “reality artist”, Pierce presents a provocative, hyperreal version of herself, confronting expectations surrounding femininity, sexuality, and perception. Signe Pierce, Uploading My Consciousness Into Unreality, 2018. Courtesy die Künstlerin und das EIGEN + ART Lab Pierce is at the forefront of a young generation of artists that reflects the current digital age. Her artistic material is the social and political reality as well as the rapid development of digital media and technology. The short film American Reflexxx (dir. Alli Coates, 2015) documenting a social experiment that took place in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, is a heart wrenching technicolor spectacle that raises questions about gender stereotypes, […]

until 18.08. | #2478ARTatBerlin | me Collectors Room Berlin and the Schloss Caputh currently show the exhibition B.A.R.O.C.K.. With “B.A.R.O.C.K.” the Wunderkammer of me Collectors Room Berlin (27.04. – 18.08.2019) and Schloss Caputh of the Stiftung Preußische Schlösser und Gärten Berlin – Brandenburg (04.05. – 31.10.2019) present artistic interventions by Margret Eicher, Luzia Simons, Rebecca Stevenson and Myriam Thyes. The two exhibitions conceived by Margret Eicher and Mark Gisbourne are based on the perception of cultural symptoms that characterise our current psychopolitical situation in a globalised world and were at the same time particularly effective in the Baroque era. Similar to the 17th century, today we also experience complex social, religious and political upheavals that correlate with each other and in recent years have condensed into an apocalyptic sense of the world. Margret Eicher, Boundery 1, 2019,  Print auf halbtransparenter Folie, aplliziert auf Vitrinenglas,  © VG Bild Kunst Bonn 2019 In the Baroque era, art provided a visualisation of this feeling of world and life in a way that is still haunting and captivating today. Baroque and contemporary art draw their power from overcoming the normative in content and aesthetics and in playing with the limits of the representable. The […]

until 29.06. | #2449ARTatBerlin | Galerie Max Hetzler currently shows the solo exhibition Who We Are by the artist Adam Pendleton at the gallery rooms Bleibtreustraße. Galerie Max Hetzler is pleased to announce Who We Are, with new work by Adam Pendleton in both its Berlin locations: Bleibtreustraße 45 and Goethestraße 2/3. This will be Pendleton’s first exhibition with the gallery. Between 1979 and 1980, Julius Eastman composed Evil Nigger, Crazy Nigger, and Gay Guerrilla. In each work, four parallel pianos hammer pulsed, repetitive lines. Each piano comes in and out of synchronization. 1, 2, 3, 4! In Adam Pendleton’s newest video portrait, Ishmael in the Garden: A Portrait of Ishmael Houston-Jones (2018), dancer and choreographer Ishmael Houston-Jones relates a series of memories: “I remember picking out the dress my mother wore at her funeral. I remember not liking the taste of milk that came right from the cows. I remember falling in and out of love. I remember…I remember censoring myself.” “Who we are” posits a subject of enunciation in the first person plural. The refrain echoes Just Back from Los Angeles: A Portrait of Yvonne Rainer (2016–17), in which Pendleton had asked dancer, choreographer, and filmmaker Yvonne Rainer to recite a list of recollections from a letter written […]

until 22.06. | #2475ARTatBerlin | Galerie Z22 shows from 18th May 2019 the exhibition Foreign Interferenz with artworks by Mathias Hornung and Lars Fischedick.  Foreign Interferenz is a multimedia exhibition that is the result of international cooperation. Lars J. Fischedick (Cape Town) invited his German colleague – Mathias Hornung (Berlin) – to work together in the industrial area of the Corbeau building in Cape Town. They have dealt with the dynamics of foreignness – with the space, the place and the practice of the other. The term “interference” has both negative and positive connotations: In music it describes the layered collision of sound waves, but in a political context it means a corrupting influence. How can interference manifest itself in a non-objective artistic language, and what happens when two different voices work on a project? The linguistic interplay of English and German terms in the title refers to a tension between acoustic patterns and cultural values, between science and the existential. The project will be shown after a stopover at Galerie Z22 in Johannisburg in late autumn. Mathias Hornung + Lars Fischedick Vernissage: Saturday, 18 May 2019, 7:00 p.m. Ausstellungsdaten: Saturday, 18 May – Saturday, 22nd June 2019 Musique en […]

until 28.07. | #2477ARTatBerlin | Schinkel Pavillon currently presents the group exhibition Straying from the Line. Straying from the Line is dedicated to a fundamentally expanded perspective on the multiplicity of feminist tendencies in the art of the last 100 years. Instead of presenting a straight narrative of feminist art as a generation- and/or identity-specific style, the exhibition charts a network of multiple references, drawing connections between aesthetically and politically, geographically and historically heterogeneous perspectives. Different narratives and movements thus give shape to feminist tendencies that are not unified by any style or label. Their connection resides rather in a shared attitude towards art as a field of antagonistic relationships and hierarchical structures that traverse society as a whole. In 1969 this relationship between artistic and social hierarchies drew Lee Lorenzo to the conclusion that ‘there can be no art revolution that is separate from a science revolution, a political revolution, an education revolution, a drug revolution, a sex revolution or a personal revolution’. Understanding the personal as political as two sides of same coin was one of the most central feminist demands of the time: it articulated a common denominator of different, activist, theoretical and artistic feminisms across political […]

until 15.06. | #2445ARTatBerlin | Galerie Michael Haas currently shows the solo exhibition by the artist Abraham David Christian. „… it sounds paradoxical, but I would like it if one were to forget the exterior of my sculptures, disregard it in order to reach the core that cannot be seen.“ – Abraham David Christian Exploring the relationship between fragility and stability is one of Abraham David Christian’s (*1952 in Ulm) main artistic concerns. From drawings to plaster and paper sculptures to massive bronze and iron sculptures, he has created works that are defined by equilibrium and balance. The sculptures cannot be interpreted; instead they must be experienced and sensed, reflecting a spirit that unites something deeply human everywhere around the world. Christian has been a traveler since his youth, has absorbed the landscapes and cultures in India, the Middle East, Japan, Europe and North America, and for years he has incorporated these decades of impressions and influences in his art in his studios in Düsseldorf, New York and Hayama in Japan. Christian exhibited as the youngest participant at the documenta 5 (1972) and at the documenta 7 (1982). His first solo exhibition was in 1973 at the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf followed […]

until 29.06. | #2472ARTatBerlin | Robert Morat Galerie presents from 11th May 2019 the exhibition Material by the photographer Tobias Kruse. “Material” was published at Kerber Verlag  November 2018. The series includes narratives, notes and observations from the past ten years, in which Tobias Kruse has produced images that translate a mood, a sense of life into an authentic visual language. “In recent years, Tobias Kruse has captured the unspeakable moments of life: the shape of an object, the certainty of impending injuries, the birth of children and happiness on their skin,” wrote Laura Benz on the occasion of the book’s publication. “Many call the work a diary, but of course that’s not what it is”, says Tobias Kruse. “It’s miniatures, a condensate.” Material #082, Archival Pigment Print Material #004, Archival Pigment Print Tobias Kruse was born in 1979 in Mecklenburg. He studied photography with Prof. Ute Mahler at the Ostkreuzschule für Fotografie and attended the masterclass of Prof. Arno Fischer. Since 2011 he is a member of the agency OSTKREUZ. Since 2017 he teaches at the Ostkreuz School of Photography. His works are exhibited and published internationally. Tobias Kruse lives and works in Berlin. Material #008, Archival Pigment Print […]

until 25.05. | #2453ARTatBerlin | The Association for the Promotion of Art and Culture at Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz (Verein zur Förderung von Kunst und Kultur am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz) is currently showing the exhibition Traces of Truth by the artist Jana Müller. There always has been a considerable interest in real crime scenes and evidence objects of all kinds. In Traces of Truth Berlin based photographer Jana Müller follows this curiosity in pictures, collages and installations. She searches for clues and sets imaginative tracks. In the evidence rooms of the republic – often trivial places such as garages and empty shops – the artist has documented countless pieces of evidence. As banal as the individual objects often are, the shine of evil is not yet off. In a quite manipulative game with the associations of the viewer, new unpredictable stories develop. Looking at the province, the hype of media exploitation of scientific police work that has been observed for years – in particular forensic investigations in the form of fictional and pseudo-documentary police series – has been taken up and driven on. Ostensibly, Traces of Truth deals with the truth, more precisely with the relation of reality to fiction and the role of the […]

until 25.05. | #2473ARTatBerlin  | Galerie Eigenheim shows from 24 April 2019 an exhibition with painting and drawing by the artist Enrico Freitag. ENRICO FREITAG In his paintings, drawings and graphics Enrico Freitag reflects fundamental and contemporary aspects of human civilization. In anthological series, he devotes himself to various phenomena of socially relevant themes, until a complex connection arises between the artist‘s various groups of works. An intellectual starting point and at the same time a recurring motif, which also proves to be an inspiration for the artist‘s other subjects, can be seen in the series entitled „LabOra“. With this title, a phrase derived from the Benedictine order „Ora et Labora“ (pray and work), the artist leads us into a world of work that is also shaped by an almost contemplative aura and yet deep immerse into an active Fordist dystopia of mass production. Work is neither heroized nor criticized by the artist, but considered neutral and as a logical component of civilization and society. HE FLIGHT / Acryl und Öl auf Papier 60 x 50 cm (Motiv 49 x 41 cm) / 2019 In a kind of autopoiesic development of this basic idea, series such as „The Poisoning“, which […]

until 14.07. | #2443ARTatBerlin | Galerie Kremers presents from 3rd May 2019 the exhibition The New Abstract – An Atlantic Bridge – USA – BERLIN with artworks by Jonni Cheatwood, Taylor A. White, Robert Szot, Alan Neider, Taher Jaoui, Jenny Brosinski, Gregor Hiltner and Christian Achenbach. Who would have guessed that social media built portable bridges? Thanks to Instagram the artist and curator Gregor Hiltner discovered a variety of new American abstract painters who, with refreshing creative freedom in technique and composition, continue the great tradition of abstract American painting by giving them – each in their own way – an individual twist. This group of American painters corresponds to a number of Berlin-based painters who follow similar paths. It is not surprising that these artists all feel at home with social media and that, therefore, they know and appreciate one another. Their common ground, to be found both in tradition and in the shared experience of a globalized world with international markets, serves as base from which these artists have set off in different directions. Robert Szot, to gather flowers constantly, 2019, 71 x 46 cm monotype collage crayon and gouache on paper Their artistic navigation instruments are complex and […]

until 22.06. | #2442ARTatBerlin | Galerie Pugliese Levi presents from 26th April 2019 the exhibition almost nothing with white works from painting and sculpture. To celebrate its second anniversary and on the occasion of the open weekend for galleries in Berlin, Galerie Pugliese Levi is pleased to present the exhibition almost nothing with white works by: Mats Bergquist, Achim Bertenburg, Julian Birbrajer, Claudia Doderer, Jeffrey James, Marc Lambrechts, Birgitte Lund, Jakob Roepke, Rebecca Salter RA, Shawn Stipling, Tünde Újszászi, Maibritt Ulvedal Bjelke and Xiaohua. The almost exclusive use of the colour white and the extreme reduction of the superfluous characterize all the works and are the golden thread of this minimalistic exhibition. The smallest details are given the highest importance, while being in fact almost nothing. “Almost nothing. When I first was given the white invitation I was far from imagining how daring this single colour challenge was going to be. The essence of my painting is nothing but colour – colours and light. Being limited to white, this reduction or even denial of colour, at first, appears to resist meaning and interpretation. Using only white seemed to take my work to extremes. And no matter how hard I tried, […]

until 01.06. | #2437ARTatBerlin | Kristin Hjellegjerde Berlin presents from 26th April 2019 the exhibition Woven and Illuminated with the artists Sinta Tantra and André Hemer. How can light transform our perspectives and even objects themselves? This question unites the complex and multi-layered artistic processes of Sinta Tantra and André Hemer. For their first ever joint exhibition at Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery Berlin, the artists present distinct works that explore the fluctuating relationships between space, time and materiality. Aptly titled ‘Woven and Illuminated’, the exhibition brings together a collection of artworks that weave through dimensions, taking the viewer on an intimate voyage into the artistic process. Sinta Tantra’s multifaceted artistic practice encompasses everything from public art and installation to sculpture and painting. Known primarily for her practice of ‘colour collage’ whereby separate elements are united through architectural lines and vibrant colour, Tantra has recently developed an interest in weaving with regards to both the ancient physical practice and the concept of interconnecting space, object and time. Whilst this fascination is perhaps most apparent in Tantra’s installations in which the viewer is often invited to walk around the three-dimensional artwork, there is also a sense of depth in her paintings. Once the […]

until 24.05. | #2396ARTatBerlin | Galerie aKonzept shows from 26th April 2019 the “Howling Exhibition” by the artist Guillaume Sebag (*1975). This suite of 9 works shown in the aKonzept gallery is a demonstration of the coherence of the artist and the complexity of the composition of his images, which are far removed from failure. Guillaume Sebag extends to the extreme the risk of losing this spectacular and unique homogeneity of his works to the whole. We feel this physical, sensual quality of painting. Guillaume Sebag paints without a brush by mixing the colours of the tubes with his fingers directly on the canvas, which is firmly clamped to the wall and prepared with Caparol. The charcoal sometimes draws a contour or an isolated line or draws something almost figurative that blends in with the architecture. Sometimes the remains of charcoal are glued to the canvas, which is later mounted on a frame.   Guillaume Sebag, 220 x 140 cm Guillaume Sebag, 160 x 105 cm These moving, unstable works do not allow a close look, as they consist of several hearts that beat together, causing excitement in the audience. The eyes wander on the canvas or quickly stop at […]

until 09.06. | #2427ARTatBerlin | Galerie mutare presents from 26th April 2019 an exhibition with the artists Johannes Gervé and Hans Hoge. On display are paintings by Johannes Gervé and objects by Hans Hoge. Hans Hoge | Urbanes Wochenende Johannes Gervé | Good times coming ATTENTION: Special opening hours Gallery Weekend 2019: Friday, 26 April 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., Saturday, 27 April and Sunday, 28 April 2019 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Vernissage: Saturday, 26 April 2019, 7 p.m. – 9 p.m., Introduction: Michaela Schubert Exhibition period: Saturday, 26. April – Saturday, 9. June 2019 Opening hours in April and May 2019: Wed – Fri 2 pm – 7 pm, Sat 12 am – 4 pm, in June 2019: Wed – Fri 2 pm – 8 pm, Sat 12 am – 6 pm   Exhibiiton Johannes Gervé + Hans Hoge – Galerie Mutare | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibiitons Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin    

until 15.06. | #2423ARTatBerlin| Daniel Marzona shows from 26th April 2019 the exhibition KOSMOS TROPICAL by the artist Axel Hütte. On the occasion of the 250th birthday of Alexander von Humboldt, Daniel Marzona is presenting the exhibition „Kosmos Tropical (Tropical Cosmos)“ by Axel Hütte. Since the mid-1990s, Hütte has traveled the world, primarily photographing landscapes and architecture. His works exhibit less of an interest in the exact representation of reality, but seek to compress the appearence thereof into something that can be read as almost painterly. Moving beyond the documentary and narrative, Hütte attempts to capture his own subjective impressions of natural spaces and cityscapes, irritating the viewers‘ gaze and denying a clear legibility of pictorial space. With plate camera in hand, Hütte has, over the past 30 years, created photographic representations of landscapes on every continent. Axel Hütte, Peru In this sense, Hütte’s view of the world seems kindred to that of Alexander von Humboldt. It is the sober, curious, and repeatedly astonished gaze of a friend whose observations take the tiniest details into consideration without ever losing sight of the larger structure within which they are found. Only this type of gaze can envision the world as an […]

until 22.06. | #2417ARTatBerlin | Galerie Kornfeld shows from 25th April 2019 the exhibition with new paintings by the British artist Nick Dawes in dialogue with bronze and glass sculptures by the artist Susanne Roewer. Nick Dawes creates complex colour arrangements with fluid forms and thus pursues a new quality of painterly abstraction. The ostensibly impulsive painterly gestures of his paintings are, however, achieved by an exact plan that leaves almost nothing to chance. The artist distils abstract forms from the formal particularities of road signs or other sign-like quotidian objects, which he then captures as pencil drawings and transfers to the canvas with thinned poured oil paint. In a controlled way, the paint is poured onto and soaked by unprimed canvases laying on the floor or propped against the wall. The artist succeeds in steering the liquid paint into the previously sketched forms by moving the canvas. In this long, almost meditational process, the next colour will only be applied after the already painted layers are dry. Amorphous, seemingly organic fields of colour, overlayed and overlapping, emerge in this manner, and yet they are always clearly separated. Nick Dawes, Line, 2018, Oil on Canvas, 210 x 285 cm From a […]

until 06.04. | #2415ARTatBerlin | Blain|Southern Berlin is showing until 6th April 2019 the group exhibition A Walking Shadow with works by Owen Kydd, Mark Lewis, Amie Siegel, Bill Viola and Wim Wenders. A Walking Shadow brings together five artists who approach the moving image in distinct ways, yet they all share an interest in how technology and environment alter our perception of individual figures. Wim Wenders, known as both an influential filmmaker and for his work in photography, exhibits moving-image installations for the first time. Same Player Shoots Again (2019) is based on one of his first 16mm short films, shot as a student in 1967 in Munich. A soldier played by his friend, the young actor Hanns Zischler, trudges along the pavement, seemingly exhausted or even hurt, his gun dangling below his waist. As an observer you are unable to identify the figure as the camera does not reveal the face. The film was shot in black and then repeated five times, a reference (along with the title) to the five-ball structure of a pinball game, each repetition dyed in different colours: ‘It did not really turn out a colour film’, writes Wenders. ‘Just a bit of blue, […]

until 27.04. | #2412ARTatBerlin | Westphal Berlin shows from 28th March 2019 the exhibition “Seltsam, aber so steht’s geschrieben” (> Strange, but that’s how it’s written) by the artist C.D. Aschaffenburg. New pictures of C.D. Aschaffenburg (*1953 in Aschaffenburg) are shown. The artist lives and works in Berlin. Vernissage: Thursday, 28th March 2019, 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. Exhibition period: Thursday, 28th March to Saturday. 27th April 2019   Image caption: C.D. Aschaffenburg, Der Mann ohne, Öl auf Leinwand, 2019, 120 x 142 cm Exhibition period C.D. Aschaffenburg – Seltsam, aber so steht’s geschrieben – Westphal Berlin | Contemporary Art – Kunst in Berlin – ART at Berlin

until 06.05. | #2409ARTatBerlin | Künstlerhaus Bethanien shows from 11th April 2019 the joint exhibition COME CLOSE & STEP BACK of the 2018/19 Winsor & Newton fellows Pia Krajewski and Irina Ojovan. The exhibition is curated by Jurriaan Benschop. Ondulating hair styles, meandering endless arms, vases and jugs as protagonists of a pleasurable puzzle game and monochrome surfaces that hermetically cover underlying layers of paint or provide information about the past like a palimpsest – from the 10th century to the present. With “COME CLOSE & STEP BACK”, this year’s Winsor & Newton fellows Pia Krajewski and Irina Ojovan will provide an insight into their artistic practice and show new works in a joint exhibition curated by Jurriaan Benschop from April 10 to May 5, 2019. Following the successful establishment of the Winsor & Newton Fellowship in 2017/2018, selected professors of painting in Germany were again invited to recommend artistic positions from their classes for two places at Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin. Starting October 1, 2018 and April 1, 2019, the scholarship holders* will receive a studio, a monthly grant for living expenses, curatorial and technical support, and a joint exhibition at Künstlerhaus Bethanien for six months each. Vernissage: Thursday, […]

until 18.04. | #2406ARTatBerlin | Kuckei + Kuckei currently shows an exhibition by the artist Barbara Probst. A half-visible cup of coffee is nearly full. A few drips of coffee on the lip of the cup give the impression of someone having already taken a sip. It is positioned on a dark wooden table in the center of a pool of liquid. The liquid is clear, allowing the patina of the wooden table to show through and reflecting the light therein. Is it water? Was there a glass or a bottlespilled? Accidentally or intentionally? These two components in Barbara Probst’s Exposure # 140 would be perplexing enough by themselves. But our eye continues to wander, toward something that looks like part of a person’s arm resting heavily on the edge of the table. And once again, a cascade of questions is unleashed in the viewer: Who does the arm belong to? Where is the person? What are they doing here? What role do they play in this photograph and how are they connected to the coffee cup and the spilled liquid? Barbara Probst, “Exposure #140: Munich, Nederlingerstrasse 68, 09.07.18, 5:13 p.m.”, 2018 Ultrachrome ink on cotton paper, 3 parts: 112 x 75cm / 44 x 29 inches  The scene described could pass as a classic still life if it were not the subject of a triptych whose three images all revolve around a specific moment in the scene, featuring it from various angles. Barbara Probst uses a radio-controlled mechanism to create her Exposures, which allows the artist to simultaneously release the camera shutters from a distance. By this means a series of images is generated which breaks up the supposed reality of the moment into several views. Individual elements are therefore repeated in the […]

until 04.05. | #2403ARTatBerlin | Robert Morat Galerie shows from 23rd March 2019 the exhibition Hinterland by the photographer Hans-Christian Schink. “Hinterland means the sparsely populated areas off the big cities, in this series especially the remote regions of Brandenburg and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern,” explains Hans-Christian Schink. “On the other hand, the title Hinterland also refers to the imaginary landscapes that emerge from my memory. Landscapes that I know from my childhood.” And he goes on: “So this series is not about portraying concrete places. My pictures are more the result of a search without a destination.” In his project, Hans-Christian Schink tries to keep a balance of showing the brittle beauty of this form of landscape whilst transporting an atmosphere of melancholy, which stems from the endangerment of this landscape caused by the permanent exploitation of its resources. Bei Groß Briesen (2012), 35 x 40 cm, C-Print, Ed. of 8 + 2 AP Am Breiten Luzin (2012), 35 x 40 cm, C-Print, Ed. of 8 + 2 AP Hans-Christian Schink, born in Erfurt in 1961, studied at the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig. He is considered one of the most important representatives of contemporary photography in Germany. His works, mostly […]

until 05.05. | #2400ARTatBerlin | Haus am Waldsee shows since 9th March 2019 the exhibition ONE TO FREE by the artist Ammar Al-Beik. Born in Damascus in 1972, Ammar al-Beik, filmmaker and photographer who has received many awards, stands like hardly any other Syrian artist of his generation for the experimental film of his country. Since the early 2000s his works have been shown at international film festivals in Venice and Berlin, among others, but they have also been shown in museums in New York, Paris, Seoul and Tokyo. Al-Beik came to Berlin in 2014 via Beirut and Dubai, where he now lives and works. ONE TO FREE provides a first overview of his work in a German art institution. In terms of content, the works on display range from the search for a new Syrian identity, to the uprisings of the opposition in Damascus, to the immediate present in which the filmmaker reflects on his life in exile in Berlin. Ammar al-Beik portrays his surroundings poetically and highly politically, personally and with a wide awake gaze. Events during the exhibition period SUN 10.03.2019 CHILDREN’S VERNISSAGE 11.00 – 13.00 Uhr WED 20.03.2019 BOOK PRESENTATION with Björn Vedder “Reicher Pöbel” Start: 7.30 […]

until 28.04. | #2397ARTatBerlin | Galerie Eigenheim presents from 16th March 2019 the group exhibition “From the Lab to the Studio – New Technologies and Materials in Art” with works by 14 artists. In 2019, EIGENHEIM Weimar/Berlin is the official showcase of the Bauhaus University Weimar for the 100th anniversary of the BAUHAUS. Various exhibitions on current themes will take place at both locations. This exhibition in Berlin marks the start of this exhibition series.  “From the Lab to the Studio – New Technologies and Materials in Art” – this is the title of the first exhibition of the Berlin gallery EIGENHEIM in cooperation with the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar and other institutions to open on 16 March 2019 at 7 pm. As “Schaufenster Bauhaus 100” the gallery presents works by students, teachers and alumni from all four faculties of the Bauhaus University Weimar in its rooms in Berlin-Charlottenburg. The series presents the artistic and scientific work of the Bauhaus’s founding site in Weimar today and shows which contemporary issues currently play a role in the disciplines and demonstrates the scientific and artistic examination of them. “From the Lab to the Studio – New Technologies and Materials in Art” marks the start […]

until 18.04. | #2393ARTatBerlin | Crone Berlin shows from 16th March 2019 the exhibition Es ist eh schon alles da (> Everything’s already there anyway) by the artist Carola Dertnig. We are very pleased to be able to invite you to the opening of the first solo exhibition in our gallery in Berlin-Charlottenburg of the Austrian artist Carola Dertnig. Under the title “Es ist eh schon alles da” (“Everything’s already there anyway”), we will be exhibiting photographic, video and text-based works in which Dertnig reveals to us “the deliberate randomness of things” – the things that surround us, or rather the things that we surround ourselves with. The theme is already set in the video piece that gives the exhibition its name: Three girls are sitting in a perfectly arranged living room. The gleaming white of the furniture and the bright sunlight make the room look like a digitally reworked advertising shot. We find ourselves in the former studio of the legendary Viennese artist Otto Wagner (1841 – 1918). The present owner has filled the round, dome-shaped room with a huge range of different furniture and design classics, and she lives in the midst of these as if it were […]

until 04.05. | #2390ARTatBerlin | Semjon Contemporary presents from 30th March 2019 the exhibitions “Eins” with photographs by the artist and actress Katja Flint. The Moment of Being (One) – Internal and External Reality These times of great uncertainty – when suddenly entire patterns of behavior and thinking and social, political and economical agreements, forged over decades of long struggle, are crushed and collapse – these are also the times of introspection and the beginning of a new creative turn. All catastrophes carry – as terrible as it might sound and also be – the birth of the new. One must only be able to sense it and develop the tools to see it. A critical mind is the prime prerequisite of creation. The according susceptibility for measuring these moods and vibes and turning them into new energy is common to all creative individuals, no matter in which discipline they are active in. In such times hatred, anger and brutish, animalistic tendencies in us humans break free bluntly, encouraged and feeling comfortable in the great wave of like-minded people, forcing those who are undecided and insecure to leave their comfort zones, letting themselves be swept away into the new, big, […]

until 20.04. | #2387ARTatBerlin | Kristin Hjellegjerde Berlin exhibits from 13th March 2019 the exhibition NONSEQUITUR by the artists Juliette Mahieux Bartoli (painting) and Athar Jaber (Sculpture). Louise Thomas is presented in the Discovery Room of the gallery. Fragmented, warped and isolated body parts unite the artistic practises of Juliette Mahieux Bartoli and Athar Jaber for their first ever duo exhibition at Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery Berlin. The show’s title ‘NONSEQUITUR’, a Latin phrase meaning it does not follow logically, functions as a discussion point around which the distinct artworks simultaneously juxtapose and converse, thus interrogating the ways in which we interact with art, and also providing the potential for new perspectives. Juliette Mahieux Bartoli’s vibrant, abstract paintings break apart the human body to create new space. The artist uses elements of classical motifs to a unique visual language. The colour palette is distinctly Roman, recalling ochre buildings, pink skies, cobbles and marble. ‘If visual composition is treated like language, images can be fragmented to a point where meaning is retained in a concentrated form — such as a hand or a head,’ commented the artist. ‘The fragments, like words, can be reassembled in infinite variations to produce legible meaning, playing […]

until 13.04. | #2384ARTatBerlin | Galerie Deschler shows from 7th March 2019 the group exhibition WOMEN ON WOMEN. on International Women’s Day in Berlin. The exhibition presents artworks by Elvira Bach, Xenia Hausner, Seet van Hout, Lies Maculan, Deborah Sengl, Yukiko Terada und Patricia Waller. Starting with this year’s 8 March Berlin, as the only German state, is honoring the International Women’s Day as a public holiday. On this occasion the Galerie Deschler is presenting an exhibition of works by its female artists on the topic of women: Women About Women. Elvira Bach, 24 Hours, 2007, Acryl auf Leinwand, 230 x 190 cm Vernissage: Thursday, 7th March 2019,  7:00 – 9:00 p.m. Opening remarks by Christiane Stuetzle Scharf, Lawyer, Certified Specialist for Copyright and Media Law With video-recorded opening remarks by Claudia Roth, Member and Vice President of the German Bundestag Exhibition period: Thursday, 7th March – Saturday, 13th April 2019   Image caption: Elvira Bach, 24 Hours, 2007, Acryl auf Leinwand, 230 x 190 cm Exhibition FRAUEN ÜBER-FRAUEN. – Galerie Deschler | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin    

until 20.04. | #2381ARTatBerlin | DIEHL currently presents the exhibition NeroRossi by the artist Turi Simeti. New works by the Italian artist Turi Simeti (*1929) will be shown. Turi Simeti, 3 ovali neri, 2018, acrylic on canvas, 150 x 180 cm Vernissage: Friday, 22nd February 2019, 7:00 – 9:00 p.m. Exhibition period: Saturday, 23rf February – Saturday, 20th April 2019   Image caption: Turi Simeti, 3 ovali neri, 2018, acrylic on canvas, 150 x 180 cm Exhibition Turi Simeti – DIEHL | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin  

extended until 24.05. | #2379ARTatBerlin | Kewenig Berlin currently shows the exhibition The Palace of Perfect with artworks by the artist James Lee Byars. KEWENIG is pleased to present the exhibition “The Palace of Perfect” with works by James Lee Byars (1932 – 1997). James Lee Byars is considered one of the most distinguished personalities of 20th century art. In particular with his performances, he opened up new terrain for his time and ahead of present-day contemporary art, crossing artistic boundaries that had thitherto prevailed. Comparable only to Andy Warhol or Joseph Beuys, his work was inextricably linked to the appearance of his person. Byars, the man in the gold suit, with black gloves and a black top hat, his eyes – sometimes his whole face – cloaked behind the veil of a black silk scarf; the artist as a magician, as a magician of things in a world of everyday life, a strange solitaire who, in the dazzling exposition of himself, not only attracted attention but at the same time was able to ignite the attention for the present moment in others, creating presence and presence of mind. James Lee Byars stands in the mask of his artistic concealment anonymized […]

until 06.04. | #2376ARTatBerlin | CAMERA WORK shows from 2nd March 2019 the exhibition Mauerspiel by the artist Jens Lorenzen. The gallery CAMERA WORK is pleased to present the exhibition “Mauerspiel” by the painter Jens Lorenzen from 2 March 2019. With more than 40 works from the cycle “Mauer I-IV”, the solo exhibition shows the main work of the Berlin artist, who in his oeuvre, with influences of Pop Art and fresco painting of the Italian Renaissance, thematizes the loss of the authority of signs over meaning. After the successful exhibition in the CWC GALLERY in 2015, “Mauerspiel” is the artist’s second exhibition at CAMERA WORK. JENS LORENZEN Mauer I Element Plus 18 »Wort zum Sonntag« The Concept of »Mauer I–IV« What do the Queen, the chocolate bar “Kit Kat”, the watch brand “Rolex”, a novel by Émile Zola and a poster with the inscription “Klassenkampf” have in common? The invitation to open up a connection imposes itself on the viewer of Jens Lorenzen’s work “Queen” (Mauer I Element Minus 30), in which all these contents are visually condensed. An associative context opens up for the artist here. “Nothing is as it seems,” says Jens Lorenzen, meaning the loss of […]

until 20.04. | #2372ARTatBerlin | Galerie Michael Haas shows from 1st March 2019 the group exhibition Wundersame Welten (Wondrous Worlds) with paintings from different art eras. “The absurd, presented with taste, evokes aversion and admiration.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe It is the break with the purportedly beautiful that unites the Old Masters all the way to contemporary artists shown in this exhibition in their work. Their works evoke contrary associations, thoughts, and feelings – one can hardly escape them and becomes automatically emotionally involved. It seems as if every viewer has a different opinion about what they seek to grasp when they see the pictures, objects, and sculptures. This art polarizes. Lifelike meets absurd and fantastic, beauty unites with savagery, reality becomes an illusion, the fabulous charms us and sends a shiver down our backs. The motifs seem familiar and alien at the same time. It is a delightful and yet a fractured beauty, which threatens to plunge into the morbid and nightmarish at any moment, without evil becoming directly tangible. While one may feel a slight unease, one has long given in to the seduction of something never seen before. Artists: Nicole Bianchet, GL Brierley, Martin Denker, Max […]

until 30.03. | #2369ARTatBerlin | galerie weisser elefant shows from 23rd February 2019 the group exhibition “Weltenwechsel. Oder: wesentlich gewesen”, a contribution to the realism of speculation with works by six artists, curated by Ralf Bartholomäus. Participating artists: Codemanipulator, Kinga Dunikowska, Else (Twin) Gabriel, Astrid Köppe, Anne Rinn, Carsten Schneider Within the sphere of influence of the philosophy of speculative realism, the problem of who is actually speaking for all of us, for the world, for the earth on which we stand, plays a major role. The more we become aware of our origins, the clearer it becomes that things look back at us and their questions: Where do you want to go and how could you forget us? – Is it an it that asks so, a logic without utilization? There are always enough opinions. And a speculatively intended art would be like the compensatorily calibrated fine balance of reason. Josef Vogl already comments on the meaning of realism understood in this way: “One could say that in philosophical terms this is an attempt to return to something like an intellectual gold standard. I would call these attempts alchemical experiments in the field of philosophy a little more pointed”. […]

until 31.03. | #2366ARTatBerlin | Galerie Z22 shows from 23rd February 2019 the exhibition Of Stones and Concrete (> Von Steinen und Beton) with artworks by Anna Fiegen, Sandra Ratkovic and Pjotr Filin.  The exhibition shows painting and photography on the subject of aesthetics in architecture in the broadest sense. Invitation card to the exhibition “Of Stones and Concrete” Vernissage: Saturday, 23rd February 2019, 7:00 p.m. Exhibition period: Saturday, 23rd February – Sunday, 31st March 2019   Image caption: Courtesy of Galerie Z22 – Anna Fiegen, Sandra Ratkovic und Pjotr Filin Exhibition Anna Fiegen, Sandra Ratkovic + Pjotr Filin – Galerie Z22 | Contemporary Art – Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin – ART at Berlin        

until 13.04. | #2363ARTatBerlin | EFREMIDIS GALLERY shows from 26th February 2019 the solo exhibition APPLESAUCE by the artist Feiko Beckers. Efremidis Gallery is proud to present the first solo exhibition of Dutch artist Feiko Beckers in Germany. Feiko Beckers has been described as a philosopher who specializes in the concept of banality. His work concerns itself with the basic questions he asks himself. Why don’t I own a sofa? How long does it take to eat a donut? Shall I take my friend to my favorite Italian restaurant in Paris? The exploration of these banal inquiries morph into a discussion, between the artist and a chosen counterpart, be it the unseen voice in Maintenant or the unknown viewer or the friend from ‘A conversation is a risk to lose your own opinion’, much grander than the original question. Is this action worth my time? How do I structure my day and what do I need to tell myself to justify my actions? Feiko Beckers, Maintenant, 2017, HD Video, 9´56“, Ed 2/3 + 2 AP Albert Camus stated that individuals should embrace the absurd condition of human existence while also defiantly continuing to explore and search for meaning. In his work […]

until 23.02. | #2360ARTatBerlin | EIGEN + ART Lab currently shows the exhibition The Sceptical Chemist with artworks by the artist Raul Walch. The Sceptical Chymist wanders through life undocumented. The figure is both one of a reactionary nature and ghost of life. It observes from a vantage point that others never decide to tread. The Sceptical Chymist is not an agent in the network but the Gardner of the Rhizome. *** Raul Walch is both the Sceptical Chymist, the Artist, the Viewer and the Ethnographer. His installations mark a world of his own viewing and that of his own making. This can be seen both as the Imaginarium and the Archive. In his new works, he guides the viewer into infinite drifting angles of clandestine territories, criss-cross woven textile sheets make up the body of this new border. These monotone Spanish plastic architectures discreetly hide the mass-manufactured winter vegetable urban fuel line from Spain to Germany. An epic bed of white plastic crusts the southern tip of Spain. Covert yet visible via Google Earth, not a human in sight. Only the words Death King “Earth Warriors” are found by Walch as he conducts his pilgrimage into another world, a […]

until 09.03. | #2357ARTatBerlin | Galerie Buchholz presents from 8th February 2019 the exhibition From “THE HOUSE THAT went to TOWN” by the artist Andy Warhol. Vernissage: Friday, 8th February 2019, 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. Exhibition period: Friday, 8th January – Saturday, 9th March 2019   Image caption: Courtesy of Galerie Buchholz – And Warhol Exhibition Andy Warhol – Galerie Buchholz | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin

until 09.03. | #2354ARTatBerlin | Galerie Thomas Schulte currently shows the exhibition Sound Fields with drawings by the artist Dieter Appelt. Galerie Thomas Schulte under the title A Walking Artist presents in the gallery’s Corner Space two site-specific wall paintings by Hamish Fulton, based on two walks in the mountains of Montana in 1997 and on Sardinia in 2014. Dieter Appelt / Partitur No. 27B, 2018 / ink drawing / 70 × 50 cm / 27 1/2 × 19 2/3 in At the same time Galerie Thomas Schulte shows the artist Hamish Fulton in the Corner Space of the gallery. Vernissage: Friday, 25th January 2019, 7:00 – 9:00 p.m. Exhibition period: Saturday, 26th January – Saturday, 9th March 2019   Exhibition Dieter Appelt – Galerie Thomas Schulte | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin

until 08.04. | Kunsthaus Dahlem currently shows the exhibition INSIDE OUT with sculptures, wall objects and reliefs by the artist Tatjana Schülke. Spatial compositions and sculptural works characterize the artistic work of Tatjana Schülke. The focus is on the material as a means of expression and its haptic and visual experience for the viewer. Removed from an original usage assignment Schülke dedicates work materials such as nails, tubes or building materials and allows new interpretations of their meanings. Associatively, the observer can approach the sculptural object and indulge in sensually tactile stimuli. The result of Schülke’s engagement with material, form and surface are finely composed sculptural objects. TATJANA SCHÜLKE, limited, 2015, Styrodur, Metall, Holz, Pigmente, 57 x 57 x 57 cm The exhibition “Inside Out” shows 15 recent works, including hang out, limited and start up. The works illustrate the artist’s joy in experimenting in different ways. In addition to the relationship between material, form and surface, the tension between internal and external effects is elementary. Due to the alienated materials, the sculptural structures have an effect of their own into the space. Deepenings such as the Urkugel II or Undercover provide insights into an inner life, which, however, keep the […]

until 16.03. | #2350ARTatBerlin | Semjon Contemporary shows from 8th February 2019 the exhibitions “Spatial Strategies” by the artist Colin Ardley and “Tafelbild – Bildtafel” by the artist Klaus Steinmann. Colin Ardley will present wall objects and a model for a floor sculpture in Spatial Strategies. In Tafelbild – Bildtafel Klaus Steinmann shows works from the field of painting. The photo offers an insight into both studios of the shown artists. On the left a studio situation with Colin Ardley (photo: Ariane Flick), on the right a studio situation with Klaus Steinmann (photo: Semjon H.N. Semjon): Vernissage: Friday, 8th February 2019, 7.00 – 9.30 p.m. Exhibition period: Friday, 8th February to Saturday, 16th March 2019   Image caption: Atelier Colin Ardley – Photo left: Ariane Flick | Atelier Klaus Steinmann – Photo right: Semjon H.N. Semjon Exhibition Colin Ardley + Klaus Steinmann – Semjon Contemporary | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin – Contemporary Art – Exhibitions Berlin Galleries – ART at Berlin  

extended until 28.04. | #2347ARTatBerlin | KOW presents from 2nd February 2019, as the last exhibition in the gallery at Brunnenstraße, the solo exhibition OSTALGIE by the artist Henrike Naumann.   Henrike Naumann’s first solo exhibition at KOW—it is also the gallery’s farewell show after ten years in the rooms at Brunnenstraße 9—explores the historical dimensions of a particular flavor of nostalgia: Ostalgie, the wistful yearning for life in socialist East Germany. As it happens, a nostalgic gesture is built into the exhibition venue itself: preserving the gap in the row of houses lining the street—it can still be seen on Google Street View—and transforming it into KOW’s showrooms, the 2009 structure by Arno Brandlhuber is a nod to a Berlin-Mitte that is no longer. Next door, a multimillionaire celebrated the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall by having the words “Dieses Haus stand früher in einem anderen Land” (“This building once stood in a different country”) written on its façade in large letters, a cynical and almost hostile appropriation of historical memory. Like any other sentiment in capitalism, Ostalgie has been merchandised. Henrike Naumann’s new video Die Monotonie des Yeah Yeah Yeah (the title quotes Walter […]

until 06.04. | #2345ARTatBerlin | Sprüth Magers Berlin shows from 1st February 2019 the solo exhibition CUTS by the artist Astrid Klein.  At the heart of Astrid Klein’s work is a reflection on mechanisms of representation, (visual) stereotypes and power structures that guide and determine both our perception and our thinking. She combines existing visual material with equally important text fragments drawn from an in-depth examination of philosophical, aesthetic and scientific theories. Klein’s continuous re-arrangement, transformation and filtering of image and text elements gives rise to complex compositions that cannot be tied to any one, unequivocal statement. On the contrary, it is the viewer’s responsibility to find meanings and create semantic links within the works. They are provocative at the content level but not only; formally the works also testify to the artist’s enormous mastery of materials. Time and again, she questions the possibilities and limits of various artistic formats, whereby the potential of painting plays a particularly important role in her considerations. Astrid Klein, CUT II, 1986/1996 © Astrid Klein  The artist’s current exhibition at Sprüth Magers centres on a presentation of the CUTs (1986/1996) group of works. These collage pieces were first shown in 2018 as part of […]

until 08.02. | #2341ARTatBerlin | Michaela Helfrich Galerie shows from 26th January 2019 the group exhibition Charlottenburger Hängung with artworks by 27 artist. “A Petersburg hanging does not only mean a collective hanging, but is also considered qualitatively and quantitatively in this country. If I translate this for our new exhibition, one could speak at eye level with art, because art is usually distributed on walls. This procedure then also determines one of its curatorial placement features by itself: young and established art mixes value-free on any accessible wall surface and thus becomes a “Charlottenburger Hanging” here in the district. Nothing is expected at first in Berlin, but a lot has always been expected in Petersburg. The eye must hurt, nothing fits and the “Charlottenburger Hängung” becomes an authentic art experience.” – Michaela Helfrich Exhibition view Gerard Waskievitz Participating artists: Gerard Waskievitz, Pina Rath, Simon Rosenthal, Jutta Kritsch, Jens Kloppmann, Simon Czapla, Nanako Shikata, Ulrike Pisch, Thomas Gatzemeier, Oliver Dehn, Gilbert Brohl, Pola Polanski, Horst Kistner, David D. Lauer, Stephan Seitz, Fabian Freese, Thomas Jüptner, Christina Gay, Stephan Paul Schneider, Bernhard Ailinger, Roland Behrmann, Andreas Koch, Oliver Estavillo, Lucas Oertel, Eva Maria Horstick, Heike Mardo, Jan Ziegler. Vernissage: Saturday, 26th January […]

until 09.03. | #2338ARTatBerlin | Galerie Barbara Weiss shows from 26th January 2019 the exhibition A Fatal Attraction with artworks by seven artists. Participating artists: Eva Barto Maria Eichhorn Richard Frater Jonathan Horowitz Samuel Jeffery Yuki Kimura Karin Schneider Vernissage: Friday, 26th January 2019, 6:00 – 9:00 p.m. Exhibition period: Saturday, 27th January – Saturday, 9th March 2019   Image caption: Courtesy of Galerie Barbara Weiss Exhibition A Fatal Attraction – Galerie Barbara Weiss | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin  

until 09.03. | #2335ArtatBerlin | Kristin Hjellegjerde Berlin shows from 19th January 2019 the exhibition “An Island of Truths” with the artist Maha Ahmed. Drawing on feelings of isolation and wonder, Maha Ahmed depicts the experience of identity as it is constructed and re-constructed through the narratives of others. Presenting a new body of work for her first solo show at Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery Berlin titled An Island of Truths, the Pakistani artist examines the impact of ‘othering’ on the construction of self and the concept of truth when it is contained within specific cultural boundaries. Her intricate, otherworldly visions of fantastical creatures and distant worlds, offer a poignant refection on her personal feelings of isolation, during a period of working and living in Tokyo, and the way in which we can view cultures different from our own. Ahmed dreams up imaginary worlds in which her characters — often mythical or hybrid creatures — are in some way at odds from their surrounding and other inhabitants, thus emphasising the seemingly minor differences that nonetheless create a haunting detachment between individuals sharing the same environment. “This whole imagery comes from my own experiences of feeling different,” admits Ahmed. “In Japan, the […]

until 02.03. | #2332ARTatBerlin | Galerie Born Berlin presents from 18th January 2019 the exhibition “Ogham” by the artist John Noel Smith.  The paintings deal with paint and pattern, but they are also deeply nourished by the world itself, by shapes in nature, by knots, by the shapes that appear when the structure of the world is closely, or microscopically, examined, by waves and particles. But the canvases are also nourished by the idea of connection and disruption, by the clash or the intersection between the straight line and the line that curls, by colour that is easily named and shades within shades that are much harder to be sure about, that hit the nervous system uneasily. John Noel Smith Some of the marks also suggest human marks, such as the swirls and elaborate designs in early Irish illuminated manuscripts, such as early writing, such as patterns in stonework, such as signs that have been left in the landscape by culture as much as by nature. They also embody or dramatize human struggles or the conflict between tension and ease, between what is coiled and highly charged and what has been assented to. Colm Tóibín Vernissage: Thursday, 17th January, 6:00 – 9:00 […]

until 16.02. | #2329ARTatBerlin | Galerie EIGEN + ART Berlin presents from 17th January 2019 the exhibition Odes To Relics by the artist Melora Kuhn. Melora Kuhn presents her first show of sculpture, mostly ceramic female heads, broken from their bodies, propped up and lying down; delicately and precariously balanced. The eyes are closed, allowing the viewer to gaze upon the wreckage without confrontation. At first glance, the sculptures appear as ancient relics, displayed as one would find at a museum. Pieces broken, puzzled together with dates of relevance as in MCMLXXI. The viewer is witness to a history turned to stone, to stories frozen in memory like the smudged lips of head MCMLXXXIV, as if a hand had just wiped the scarlet paint off a harlots mouth, in a state of permanently fallen disarray. Head MMVIII is missing its skull. It stands empty with the aid of an iron scaffolding, referencing structures of thought that support a facade. Melora Kuhn, MCMLXXXIV, 2018, glazed ceramic, 22,9 x 30,5 x 22,9 cm, photo: Chris Kendall By definition, an ode infers praise or gives poetic attention towards something. A relic is a piece of the body of a deceased holy person or an object of sentimental or historical […]

until 16.03. | #2326ARTatBerlin | Robert Morat Galerie presents from 19th January 2019 the exhibition Kleinstadt (Small Town) by the photographers couple Ute and Werner Mahler. “We have been interested in this topic for a long time, we worked on suburbs and non-exciting places before. We wanted to visit cities that are not in any travel guide and that are too far from the highway for people to pass through. These places are biotopes in which life seems manageable. Where there is great community, but also strong social control. Where there are no attractions, the little things become exciting.” Ute Mahler in an interview with ZEIT Magazin. Kleinstadt #01, 2016 Ute and Werner Mahler (born 1949 and 1950), were key figures in photography in the former GDR and co-founded the renowned photography agency Ostkreuz after the fall of the Wall. After having pursued successful careers for decades independently, the couple presented their first joint project in 2011, a series of black-and-white portraits titled “Monalisas of the Suburbs”. In 2014, a second joint project followed, “The Strange Days”, a series of large format landscape studies. Kleinstadt #23, 2016 Now the couple presents a new joint project and its third joint publication, […]

until 10.03. | #2322ARTatBerlin | Haus am Lützowplatz presents from 17th January 2019 the exhibition “Burning Man – Electric Sky” by the artist couple Römer + Römer. With “Burning Man – Electric Sky“, the Berlin-based artist couple Römer + Römer presents a new series of works at the Haus am Lützowplatz that is concerned with the Burning Man festival. The exhibition mainly consists of nocturnal images, in which the Black Rock Desert in the State of Nevada is turned into a make-believe world lit by thousands of artificial light sources. The in some cases very large pictures painted on canvas were created on the basis of a research trip made in 2017. Römer + Römer, Black Rock Bandits Raccoon, 2018, Öl und Acryl auf Leinwand, 230 x 300 cm Living and working together since 1998, the artists Nina and Torsten Römer (*1978 in Moscow and *1968 in Aachen) met at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf where they became master students of A.R. Penck. Their artistic work is based on the transmission of their photographs to large-format panels, offering viewers a juxtaposition that is both essentially sensual and media-reflexive. In the works by Römer + Römer, the indexical principle of photography – the testimony […]

until 08.03. | #2319ARTatBerlin | Köppe Contemporary presents from 25th January 2019 the exhibition Christian Rickert – Master of Light Dramatics with drawing and photography by the artist. For the first time we present the photographic work of Christian Rickert in addition to drawings. Until his withdrawal from the public art scene in 1986, Rickert was not only one of Berlin’s most outstanding illustrators, but was also internationally known, exhibiting with Baselitz, Beckmann, Beuys, Chagall, Chillida, Hockney, Hrdlicka, Janssen, Mirò, Picasso, Pollock, Richter, Tàpies, Vasarely, and Wols. Christian Rickert continued to develop his art in his Grunewald studio even after his retirement. With works never before shown in public, the exhibition rediscovers the artist’s work and focuses on works from the 1980s to the present day. Dr. Wolfgang Köppe Christian Rickert – Studie für ein Portrait Max Beckmann, 4.III-9.V.1983, 59,4 x 42 cm, Bleistift auf Papier Christian Rickert made headlines in the 1960s to 1980s. The Berliner received several awards for his virtuosic-furiose drawings with their socio-critical themes. In 1970 he received the renowned Ruhr Prize. Soon he was considered one of the metropolis’s greatest talents in the context of the critical Berlin realists in the group of such excellent […]

until 22.04. | #2316ARTatBerlin | me Collectors Room Berlin presents from 15th February 2019 the exhibition ZOO MOCKBA – Toy Animals from the Soviet Union – 1950 to 1980 – The Collection Köpcke & Weinhold. ‘ZOO MOCKBA – Toy Animals from the Soviet Union’ presents an exemplary selection of original toys produced between 1950 and 1980. Approximately 100 figures by eleven artists – all sourced from the Köpcke & Weinhold Collection, which comprises more than 400 objects in total – will be on view in the lounge of me Collectors Room Berlin from 15 February to 22 April 2019. Anonym, Lew Smorgon, Valeri Kotow, Evolution, 1960er Jahre, Plastik © Köpcke und Weinhold During the tsarist era, Russia had no toy industry of its own. Those who could afford it spoiled their children with dolls and toys from Germany and France; everyone else made do with handmade pieces carved from wood or sculpted from clay. Such objects reflected a traditional folk art aesthetic that in many ways still characterises the broader perception of Russian toys and Russian culture in general. But in the 1930s, when the Soviet Union’s first industrially manufactured toys first rolled off the assembly line, designs began mirroring aspects […]

until 09.03. | #2313ARTatBerlin | Galerie Thomas Schulte shows from 25th January 2019 at the Corner Space of the gallery the exhibition A Walking Artist by the artist Hamish Fulton. UPCOMING Dieter Appelt 26 January to 9 March Hamish Fulton (Corner Space) 26 January to 9 March “I describe myself as ‘a walking artist’. Walking art is the bringing together of two entirely separate activities, walking and art. I transform ideas into experienced realities. If I do not make a walk I cannot make any art. I am an artist who walks, not a walker who makes art. Not every artist enjoys walking and not every walker is tolerant of contemporary art. An artwork may be purchased, but my walks cannot be sold, stolen or re-produced by artificial intelligence. An artwork cannot re-present the experience of a walk. My walks range from multi-week solo camping treks to short communal urban walks involving up to several hundred participants. Every piece of art I materialise contains a walk text. I make art exclusively from walks that I have personally experienced. When the walk has been completed, the text can be written. The facts of the walk cannot be altered, but as time […]

until 21.12. | #2310ARtatBerlin | Galerie Gilla Lörcher shows from 15th December 2018 the solo exhibition One-single-artwork-show #8 with one artwork by the artist Joanna Jones. We cordially invite you to the One-single-artwork-show # 8 (Do-Sa 15-18 hrs open), where an abstract painting of the British painter Joanna Jones is in the centre. With this exhibition we say goodbye to the winter break. Joanna Jones Untitled, 210  x 160 cm, acrylic on canvas, Foto Gilla Loercher Joanna Jones’s practice over several decades has included painting and performance. Interested in the inter-connectedness of things, thoughts and encounters she has developed a performative process in painting that positions her body as an agency of a particular kind of knowing and takes painting into the territory of an event. The British artist Joanna Jones lives and works in Dover (UK). Following a foundation year at Northwich College of Art, she continued her studies in London at the Byam Shaw School. Jones received her National Diploma of Design in painting from Goldsmith`s College, and graduated from the Royal Academy Schools in 1970. Joanna Jones is a recipient of several art awards including the first prize in the Greater London Councils painting competition (1969), a […]

until 12.04. | #2307ARTatBerlin | Galerie Kornfeld presents for the Bauhaus year the solo exhibition Thin Lines by the artist Jan Tichy starting 17 January 2019. For the occasion of the Bauhaus Centennial, Chicago based artist and educator Jan Tichy has developed a solo exhibition for Galerie Kornfeld and organized a group exhibition for the project space 68projects across the street. Both exhibitions function as one project and are a continuation of previous engagements with the history of Bauhaus. In his text “Social Formalism” (2017) Tichy describes his works to exist at intersections where forms collide with their circumstances. Social formalism could be described as a socially conscious artistic practice which uses visually formalistic language. The artist often uses archive-based content to link historical layers and values to contemporary issues. With these practices he created in 2016 the exhibitionWeight of Glass at Galerie Kornfeld, mirroring the escape of Lucia Moholy from Berlin in 1933 and the subsequent loss of her work to the fate of today’s migrants.Installation no. 30 (Lucia) is on display at Akademie der Künste as a part of the Bauhaus Centennial opening festival. The exhibitionThin Lines is a contemplation on a contemporary social space resonating with local […]

until 20.12. | #2305ARTatBerlin | EIGEN + ART Lab currently shows the group exhibition CHEERS with artworks by artists of the last 12 month. Does it always get worse? The feeling that the year has just rushed by? At the Lab, we are still reminiscing about mild summer evenings that promised to never end. And suddenly it is November. Most of the people just continue with their year and slide into the new one – often not knowing what is happening today and what has happened yesterday. But not with us! We want to review the last year: CHEERS is a group exhibition, with works by artists the Lab has realised projects with during the last 12 months. The corporeality between the digital and the analog, the beginnings of media art, the artist as an influencer – we want to bring together all these topics another time. The Lab represents a new generation of artists that reflects upon the here and now. If you look at the here and now of one year, there is a lot to look at. We want to celebrate the chaos with you – maybe just to lift the dust a bit (maybe to get a clearer view): […]

until 31.01. | #2301ARTatBerlin | From December 2018 until the end of January 2019, Galerie1214 shows positions and developments of painterly motifs by artists of the gallery and from the collection. Britta Lumer‘s “Dyade” (2017) is a multi-perspective portrait with indian ink on paper and canvas, which brings the portrait of a head from a Rembrandt’s dark background. Britta Lumer, Dyade, 2017 Jessica Buhlmann‘s complex image “Folded Space” (2016) reveals the musical impregnation of the painter, supplemented by the object “Octett”. Jessica Buhlmann, Folded Space, 2016 By Marie Irmgard we show acrylic works on paper, which translate da Vinci’s stain-form experiments into the fluid. Marie Irmgard Isabel Borges is represented by constructivist picture collages and a small, enigmatic composition in acrylic. Isabelle Borges Isabelle Borges Isabelle Borges From the collection we show three plates by Wolfgang Betke a (virtual) triptych of haunting energy, which combines the symbolism of painting with a intricate design of the surfaces. Wolfgang Betke Wolfgang Betke Wolfgang Betke From Christina Michalis‘ oeuvre, we take up material-specific works with acrylic and sand from 2012, combined with the sophisticated foil print Avoid / Nobody (2017), homage and ironic refraction at the same time. Christina Michalis Exhibition period: Saturday, 1st […]

until 15.01. | #2298ARTatBerlin | axmann kunstgalerie presents from 1st December 2018 paintings by the French artist Daniel Therasse and the Italian artist Michela Crisotomi. Gallery owner Otto Axmann briefly introduces both artists: “Daniel Therasse was born in France in 1955. He has received various international exhibitions and awards, including the Prix de l’Assemblee. The art critic Luis Porquet (Une Vision Bouillonnante du Monde, 2013) compares Daniel Therasse with a social director who stages the daily life of people as a big, sometimes absurd carnival. He finds inspiration where life is concentrated. Be curious, look at his works of art. We cordially invite you.” Daniel Therasse “From our international art scene we present the artist Michela Crisostomi, born 1976 in Italy. Michela Crisotomi studied at the Accademia Belle Arti in Florence. She graduated from the Orneore Metelli School of Art. In 2011 she received the Gold Award of the International Festival of Contemporary Art of the city of Sulmona. Various publications including Stemperando. Curated by Giovanna Bar-Bero in cooperation with Nationale d’Arte Contemperanea. Michela Crisotomi’s art can be seen in exhibitions worldwide. Discovery is her keyword. To interpret icon painting in a contemporary way. We look forward to your visit.” Michela […]

until 26.01. | #2296ARTatBerlin | Blain|Southern Berlin presents from 1st December 2018 the solo exhibition Kenny by the artist Henning Strassburger. For his first exhibition with the gallery, Blain|Southern presents new paintings and works on paper by Henning Strassburger (b.1983 Meissen, Germany). Strassburger’s latest series of works entitled Kenny, can be seen as the continuation of two earlier series Pool and Jane. In all three, he draws references from pop-cultural semantics, where the deliberate adoption of an English word, over the native tongue, loads it with associative meaning. Strassburger’s seemingly spontaneous aesthetic belies a meticulous and pre-planned practice where themes and motifs unfurl across series and over time. First appearing in the Pool works (2014), elements such as the splashes, the grid and the subtle accentuation of the painting’s edges now reappear in his latest series. For Strassburger the grid plays an important role, firstly as the structure for most of his paintings, and also as a reoccurring visual motif. The splashes are, at once, gesture and signifier. The concrete grey gloss floor paint employed in several works here references Jane, Strassburger’s 2017 series of mixed media works that includes concrete sculptures in the form of the floor-plans to Jane […]

until 22.12. | #2251ARTatBerlin | Galerie Kunst am Gendarmenmarkt currently shows the exhibition New pictures from Paris – metropolises and people – Moscow, Paris and the rest of the world by Ekaterina Zacharova, curated by Peter Michael Dinter. Dear Madam or Sir, Dear friends and guests of the Galerie Kunst am Gendarmenmarkt, We would like to invite you to the second exhibition of Mrs. Ekaterina ZACHAROVA at the gkag. In her very typical painting style, full of energy, movement, verve and magic, Ms. Ekaterina Zacharova shows us her latest paintings from Paris. And there are not so many ideas and myths about such a dazzling city as Paris. Paris, the city of longings, city of love and fashion. Paris, the queen with a great past. City of constant change, with dark sides seething and nightly enchanted – yellow, golden shining. Center of power and Accrochage of cultures. Hedonistic and romantic, mystical and enervating at the same time. Walküre, Dublin, 2011, 100 x 120 cm, Öl auf Leinwand  For this we present you selected works from the previous s eries of pictures. New York, Havana, Moscow and Shanghai. We are looking forward to your visit of the Vernissage as well as the exhibition! […]