With the start of the application phase for the winter semester 2019/20, the weißensee kunsthochschule berlin will again be offering an information evening for prospective students on 1st November 2018. The information event is a good opportunity to familiarise oneself with the admission requirements and the admission procedure at the Kunsthochschule and to gain an insight into the individual study programmes. Teachers and students will give short presentations on the Bachelor’s programmes, the Free Art programme and the artistic and creative basic year. The presentation of the subject areas starts at 5 p.m. with the design study courses: Fashion, product, textile and surface design as well as visual communication. At 6:20 p.m. the conception of the courses of studies of the free art follows: Painting, sculpture as well as stage and costume design. In addition to the opportunity to obtain information about the studies in the subject areas, there will also be the opportunity for personal discussions with professors, students and staff members of the Department for Academic Affairs. WHEN? Thursday, 1st November 2018, 5 p.m. WHERE? Auditorium (Aula) of the weißensee kunsthochschule berlin, Bühringstraße 20, 13086 Berlin   Image caption: Aula art academy weissensee, photo Wuestenrot foundation Philipp Lohoefene Info […]

until 28.11. | #2253ARTatBerlin | galerie gerken shows from 19. October 2018 an exhibition with artworks by the artist Helga Gerken-Grieshaber. Parallel to this, galerie gerken has extended the exhibition A Remix of Aesthetic Forms and their Opposites by the artists Jan Bernstein and Peter Wackernagel at Cella Artis until 28 November 2018. Helga Gerken-Grieshaber`s series ‘runter mit den Klamotten’ deals with daily political debates. The covering of women to adhere to the religious doctrine of maintaining purity and reducing temptation, raises complex questions surrounding female emancipation. Helga Gerken-Grieshaber experienced the daily absurdity of this first hand during her travels. Sitting at the breakfast table for example, concealed from head to toe, lifting fabric away from her face to allow food to reach her mouth; and through her veil witnessing men in white vests, sitting next to their shrouded wives by the fireplace. In contrast to her own life, these manufactured and nonsensical restrictions, caused an inner outcry within Helga Gerken-Grieshaber which she responds to through this work. Helga Gerken-Grieshaber, Kniebiss (Detail), 2014, Stoff, Acryl und Kreide auf Leinwand, 120 x 160 cm The underlying complex hierarchy of values, imposed by how much or how little fabric a women wears, […]

until 17.11. | #2249ARTatBerlin | Galerie EIGEN + ART Berlin shows from 18th October 2018 the solo exhibition Malafonte by the artist Nicola Samorì. Nicola Samorì’s human figures are frozen in fear. Their faces are darkened by a large abstract segment, a sinister source, a “poisoned well” coming from within the centre of the works: the “mala fonte”. Framing the cavity, the figures are stricken with dismay, their translucent bodies are festered. A tempest appears to have dissolved them. The “mala fonte” is an unknown disaster, an erosion, a tragedy that can’t be explained, something intangible. It is a mental composition, Samorì’s works rely on: The feeling that fear is dominating our lives. Malafonte, Nicola Samorì’s first solo exhibition at Galerie EIGEN + ART Berlin, is influenced by an artistic period during which the emotional expression of fear has been ubiquitous. Between 1520 and 1600, the artists of Mannerism directly coped with tragedies such as Sacco di Roma, a violent depredation of the city of Rome. Works like Il serpente di bronzo by the Fiorentine artist Agnolo Bronzino were influenced by the pain the artist experienced. Fear was a condition of Mannerism. To Samorì, we are living in Manneristic times again. It […]

until (tba) | #2246ARTatBerlin | Semjon Contemporary presents from 12th October 2018 the exhibition It’s not dark yet… by the artist Dittmar Danner aka Krüger. Dittmar Danner aka Krüger is known to us as Dittmar Krüger: The new name irritates. That’s the program! His familiar ‘signature art’ is the color space cube, the wall object that unites both painting and object. The painting takes place primarily within the ‘cut’ cubes. The mostly 12 cm deep boxes are mainly aligned high rectangular. His painting in the box has in the past often evoked the question of whether an artificial light source was integrated into it. Not without reason she was asked. The artist creates a visual experience by the skillful choice of his color (for example Cadmium Yellow in combination with Cadmium Orange or Prussian Blue with Ultramarine). The luminosity of the color is enhanced by the pre-glazed, with thousands of grinding marks provided Plexiglas disk, so a maze of innumerable ‘light ruts’. As with the fiberglass cable, they act as light signal conductors and scatter the color space inwards and outwards. Thus, the impression of an artificial light source can not be completely dismissed, especially if the artist works on the visible […]

until 17.11. | #2243ARTatBerlin | Galerie Kornfeld shows from 24th October 2018 the solo exhibition From Wood and Leather Boots by Samuel Bassett. Galerie Kornfeld is pleased to present the first exhibition of new and recent work by British artist Samuel Bassett in Germany. Developing a distinctive voice by diving head first into auto-biography, Bassett’s works catalogue his day to day life with honesty, humour and pathos. This auto-biographic approach to painting leads Bassett to work in a figurative manner, making the figures in his painting an allegory to his life. Further themes in Bassett’s art are of boats and fisherman as a reference to the traditions of his home town, St. Ives, as well as to his family background, and to contemporary leisure life. Questions about how our world is changing and how we place ourselves in-between the past and the future are raised. Often in Bassett’s paintings, a central figure is depicted as interacting with another sort of matter, this may be: paint, another figure or an abstract shape. This “matter” is a connection to the “abstraction” in the works and introduces another subject into these paintings, namely paint. Flat painted shapes edit and lay down spatial relationships in Bassett’s […]

until 30.09. | #2241ARTatBerlin | The Jewish Museum Berlin is exhibiting res·o·nant – a walk-through light and sound installation by the Düsseldorf conceptual artist Mischa Kuball. Kuball created the installation specially for the new exhibition space on the lower ground floor of the Libeskind building. Covering a total floor space of more than 350 square meters, res·o·nant incorporates two of the five vertical voids that perforate the Museum building. These symbolically laden empty spaces form the starting point for the artist’s work, which refers to the materiality, effect and signification of the voids. Museum visitors will thus have the opportunity to re-discover these two voids, which have become something of a Museum trademark since the opening of the Museum in 2001. Light- and Sound Installation “res.o.nant” by Mischa Kuball at Jewish Museum Berlin 2017 to 2019 Photo: Alexander Basile, Cologne In these rooms with 24-meter-high ceilings, rotating projectors cast light fields in the form of the outline of the voids onto walls and ceiling. By means of rotating mirror elements and stroboscopic light impulses, there arises, in the words of the artist, a “resonance between architecture and skin.” As an important element of the installation, several loudspeakers, distributed throughout the room, […]

until 03.11. | #2231ARTatBerlin | Contemporary Fine Arts shows from 29th September 2018 the Solo Exhibition New Novel Paintings by the Norwegian artist Bjarne Melgaard. Contemporary Fine Arts is pleased to present New Novel Paintings, Bjarne Melgaard’s second exhibition with the gallery. Bjarne Melgaard’s prolific and diverse practice can be regarded as single work that is being worked on all the time – a Gesamtkunstwerke. As part of this continuous project, Melgaard has also written 15 novels. While some of these novels have been written and published with an ISBN, other novels are constellations of objects, staging of furniture, floor-to-ceiling written installations. This group of new paintings, rendered in bright reds and blues, a recurring pale purple, take his latest novel as a starting point. Bjarne Melgaard image: Untitled/Ohne Titel, 2018 Oil on Canvas, 180 x 180 cm / 70 3/4 x 70 3/4 in – Credit: Christian Tunge Melgaard is a thoroughly multi-disciplinary artist. In the past year alone, he wrote and designed a puppet show in homage to Kathy Acker, collaborated with the Snøhetta architects to build A House to Die In near Munch’s former home, and curated an Instagram extension to a series of paintings. He emerged in […]

until 10.11. | #2229ARTatBerlin | Galerie Guido W. Baudach shows from 27th September 2018 the solo exhibition that’s it by Erwin Kneihsl. Galerie Guido W. Baudach is pleased to present the eighth solo show of Erwin Kneihsl. The artist originating from Vienna is known for his black and white photographies of selected subjects created with analog cameras. The images are transferred by hand deduction to Barite paper and are presented in an innovative, often spatially based way. For the decidedly titled show that´s it  Kneihsl transformed the exhibition space of the gallery by means of various fittings to an enclosed but at the same time transparent sphere. The photographies are not attached to the walls in a classic way but distributed well-aimed on the floor like autumn leaves in a Japanese garden. Outside and inside converge. Seemingly the garden is transplanted into an interior that brides with withdrawn as well as clear coordinates. To the objectified atmosphere especially contributes the even and dimmed scattered interior light. Entrance and closure of the exhibition space as well as a window placed laterally in the wall are provided with milky white shoji paper, an intervention that transmits the shaded atmosphere of the photographies to the perception of the space. The presentation […]

until 01.12. | #2178ARTatBerlin | Galerie Berinson currently shows the Solo Exhibition Nathan Lerner (1913-1997): Photographs. Galerie Berinson is exhibiting 17 works by photo artist and designer Nathan Lerner. These are the originals from Lerner’s first solo show in 1973 at Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois, USA. At the curator’s suggestion Lerner for that made large prints of motifs, which he made during his studies at the New Bauhaus between 1938 and 1943 and which had never been exhibited before. Nathan Lerner (1913-1997) – Eye and String | 1939, Print 1972 | 37,5 x 50 cm Courtesy of Galerie Berinson, Berlin At the age of 18, Lerner was a student of the Russian-French painter Samuel Ostrovsky at the Art Institute of Chicago and later engaged in photography. In 1935 he made a series on the immigrant neighborhood „Maxwell Street“. On recommendation of Alexander Archipenko Lerner attended the school of the New Bauhaus in Chicago as from 1937 which was founded by László Moholy-Nagy. He studied i.a. with Gyorgy Kepes, became his assistant in 1939, and developed artistic photographic experiments, such as the light box. Lerner’s trademarks are light installations and light drawings. From 1939 to 1942 Lerner taught at the School of Design (former New Bauhaus, since 1944 Institute of Design) and was […]

until 03.11. | #2225ARTatBerlin | Grimmuseum shows from 26th September 2018 the Single Exhibition MOULT by the artist Merete Vyff Slyngborg. It spun its silken cocoon and transformed into a pupa, which had its limbs and wings folded beside its body. Ecdysis had ended, and the precise, circular hole of maturity led the way out in the open. There was no dead wood in the new surroundings besides the circular sphere it had just occupied. Instead it found itself in a moulded, concrete building where walls, floor and ceiling merged into one another in a perfectly, choreographed composition. It was like flying through a desert landscape with the dusty colours of the furniture and objects and the grey shade of the concrete: All placed in a neatly arranged order that abandoned all former historical hierarchies of architecture over content. Merete Vyff Slyngborg’s practice is centred around curating, sampling, installation, interior design, and decorative arts. Drawing from an eclectic array of sources, including art- and design history, contemporary culture, architecture and current trends, the resulting works are rich with references and challenge our notions about the role of the artist by encompassing a wide range of visual forms. Working as an […]

The Atelierhaus-Genossenschaft-Berlin (AHGB eG) opened on September 14, 2018, the first studio house of the city, financed by artists themselves. With their involvement in the cooperative, the artists involved make it clear how important it is for them to preserve the location factor of culture in Berlin. Because the cooperative principle with its sustainable strategy not only secures its own workplace and exhibition space, but also preserves the newly-created studio location in Charlottenburg-Nord for future generations of Berlin artists. Artistic work is a serious trade that requires secure and affordable work spaces in the long term. The rising rents for living and working space in Berlin – also in commercial areas, rental prices are developing dramatically – affect the artists of the city in two ways. The latest survey by the Institute for Strategy Development (IFSE) shows that only 10% of the artists in Berlin can benefit from the output of their artistic work. Due to the precarious life situation, they are usually not able to bear rising rental costs and literally lose their jobs. According to the studio representative of the city of Berlin, Martin Schwegmann, the number of affordable studios in the city is reduced by about 350 […]

until 10.12. | #2227ARTatBerlin | August 35 Exhibition Space + Art Management berlin show from 4th December 2018 a solo exhibition by the artist Heidi Fosli with the participation of the artist Josée van Schuppen. This exhibition is being curated by Gabriela Caranfil and Art Management Berlin. August 35 Exhibition Space is talking place at Auguststraße 35. This exhibition presents Contemporary artist Heidi Fosli from Norway in her solo exhibition with the extraordinary participation of Contemporary artist from Holland, Josée Van Schuppen; artists that has been featured in The First Berliner Art Book© series. HEIDI FOSLI; Amor Fati, 100 x 120 cm, oil on canvas, 2015 JOSÉE VAN SCHUPPEN, Composition in Green and Yellow, detail Vernissage: Tuesday, 4th December 2018, 5:00 – 8:00 p.m. Exhibition period: Tuesday, 4th December to Monday, 10th December 2018 Exhibition location: August 35 Exhibition Space, Auguststraße 35, 10119 Berlin-Mitte (otherwise WHITECONCEPTS)   Image caption cover: Heidi Fosli (links) & Josée van Schuppen (rechts) Exhibition Heidi Fosli – 35 Exhibition Space | Contemporary Art – Kunst in Berlin – ART at Berlin    

until 09.02. | #2169ARTatBerlin | Salongalerie Die Möwe presents from 13th October 2018 the group exhibition Radical. Visionary. Nonconformist. Centenary of the November Group. Since the opening of the ‘Möwe’, artists of the November Group have been a main topic of the gallery’s exhibition and collection activities. Our presentation ‘Radical. Visionary. Nonconformist.’ pays tribute to the foundation of this artists’ association, 100 years ago. From 13 October 2018 to 9 February 2019, the ‘Möwe’ exhibits works of art, not only by the founding members Cesar Klein and Moritz Melzer, but also paintings by Hans Brass, Herbert Behrens-Hangeler, Erwin Hahs, Gert H. Wollheim, and Richard Ziegler. The presentation is completed by the works of many other Novembrists, as Rudolf Ausleger, Gottfried Graf, Paul Grunwaldt and Albert Mueller. The director of the Bröhan Museum Berlin, Dr. Tobias Hoffmann, will give the laudatory speech. Albert Mueller, Erwachen, 1920s, watercolor Moriz Melzer | o.T. | 1910er Jahre | Farbmonotypie The November Group was – until its removal from the register of associations by the National Socialists in 1935 – supported by a democratic and liberal idea: It wanted to unite art and people and was open to all art genres and contemporary forms of expression. […]

until 30.11. | #2206ARTatBerlin | axmann kunstgalerie presents from 15th September 2018 paintings by the French artist Alain Ponçon. Born near Paris, Alain Ponçon lives and works in Saint Maur sur Loir near Chartes. He is internationally known through exhibitions in North America and Europe. His works of art have a strong artistic expression. Alain Ponçon – Dame – Öl auf Leinwand – 55 x 46, 2003 Alain Ponçon – La Brasserie – Leinwand 60 x 60 Alain Ponçon – Le Zinc His artistic roots come from realism and expressionism. He has an artistic power in the sense of Art Brut. However, his works of art are anything but “art singular.” They show a profound social criticism and the cheerfulness of everyday life. Alain Ponçon – Chat au Fauteuil panneau Alain Ponçon – Sourires His clear view also of the abysses and ambivalences make his works of art extraordinary and very lively. With strong colors, mainly in oil and tempera, he shows with a wink a reflection of society. Alain Ponçon – Et Maintenant? Alain Ponçon – Casse à la Poussette- Leinwand 60 x 60 cm Accompanying Alain Ponçon, the axmann kunst galerie houses works by other gallery artists from the fields […]

until 07.11. | #2213ARTatBerlin | Galerie Z22 presents from 1st October 2018 the double exhibition PERSONAL THEATER with photographs by Katerina Belkina, Simon Annand and Hardy Brackmann and UN CERTAIN REGARD with photographs by Andreas A. Koch und Frank Massholder. PERSONAL THEATER explores the boundaries between human identity and role play. Simon Annand photographs actors in their wardrobe, a physical space for concentration and privacy. He is a silent observer in the countdown of the last 30 minutes before the performance. He shows the actors as human beings in their split between themselves and the role in which they have not yet fully hatched. Simon Annand (* 1955) lives and works in London. For more than 30 years, Annand has photographed actors in her dressing room in the intimate 30 minutes before the curtain rises. SIMOND ANNAND, DANIEL CRAIG, 1999, Hahnemühle FINEART, 30 x 20, 10 + 2 Katerina Belkina stages herself in digitally reworked photographs referring to different types of “psycho” types of women in our society. She frees her tableaux of details to filter out the essence of the individual. Her art is her own personal theater, with which she razor-sharply points out the loneliness and isolation of the person […]

until 22.10. | #2212ARTatBerlin | Andreas Reinsch Project shows from 22nd September 2018 the exhibition abendland (occident) by the artist Günther Haußmann. Anyone who says Occident also has Orient in mind, and Christianity and Islam. It is a thinking in opposites. In the case of Judaism, the catastrophe had to happen first in order to be able to say: Judaism belongs to Germany. The question of whether Islam belongs to Germany will not be answered first by a catastrophe, but by reason. Günther Haußmann – Abendmahl 2015 – Fotografie auf Alu-Dibond 200 x 100 cm But we are impatient and calculate everything on the monetary value and do not realize that we think in much too small a coin. The incidents after autumn 2015, when about 50 mostly Muslim refugees arrived in his hometown on the Baltic Sea, have released something that has not been called on for a long time in our rich world: compassion, helpfulness and the good feeling of doing the right thing. Something he hoped was the popular mind and soul. It turned out differently. Vernissage: Saturday, 22nd September 2018, 6:30 to 8:30 Uhr. Speech: Prof. Hans-Dieter Knapp Exhibition period: Saturday, 22nd September – Monday, 22nd October 2018 Finissage: […]

until 09.01. | #2204ARTatBerlin | Galerie im Körnerpark presents from 29th September 2018 the exhibition THE WAY WE ARE. Pictures of neglected Europeans by photographer Nihad Nino Pušija.  For over 20 years, photographer Nihad Nino Pušija has focused on the realities of Roma living throughout Europe. In the exhibition THE WAY WE ARE, he mainly shows new series in which the focus is on creative people who commute between cultures. Whether it is the members of a band in Brno who work in everyday life as police officers, rappers and activists in Essen who are threatened by deportation, an old flamenco dancer who revives a vacant cultural center in Seville – it always works Pušija not to “the refugees”, “the migrants”, but to individuals beyond the usual stereotypes. From the beginning of his work as a photographer, Pušija deals with anti-gypsy prejudices and political challenges such as deportation and integration. However, he never raises the moral finger, but embeds these topics – often quite humorous – in contexts of everyday life. Pušijas portraits of children and adolescents are sensitive to their search for identity. His photographs stimulate critical reflection on the role of images of one’s self and others in the […]

until 27.10. | #2147ARTatBerlin | Kewenig presents from 8th September 2018 the exhibition Window with works of the artist Sean Scully and Henri Matisse. “Window. [What] I’ve always been very interested in is the concept of the window. Windows have something very moving. (…) A window is a promise, like a doorway. A facade is never completely without mercy, because of the window and the door. That gives the wall something human. “1 KEWENIG is particularly pleased to open an exhibition on September 7 with works by Sean Scully (born in Dublin in 1945) and Henri Matisse (1869-1954). Scully is recognized worldwide as one of the most important abstract painters of the present and has dedicated most of his work to the motif of horizontal and vertical color blocks and stripes. He continues this motif spatially in his monumental sculptures, which will receive their biggest presentation so far (29.09.2018 – 06.01.2019) in the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, Europe’s most important sculpture garden. In his extensive oeuvre, however, he goes far beyond this formal vocabulary and deals, inter alia, with the interrogation of interpersonal relationships. The individual works develop a romantic to melancholy aura. Scully’s historical works from the 1980s to […]

until 31.10. | #2194ARTatBerlin | Galerie mehdi chouakri shows from 21st September 2018 at the gallery rooms Fasanenplatz an exhibition by the artists Claudia & Julia Müller. Opening: Friday, 21st September 2018, 7 – 9 pm Exhibition period: Friday, 21st September  – Wednesday, 31st. October 2018 Where? Galerie mehdi chouakri, Fasanenstraße 61 / Ecke Fasanenplatz, Berlin-Wilmersdorf   Image caption: Courtesy of mehdi chouakri – © Claudia & Julia Müller Exhibition Claudia + Julia Müller – Galerie mehdi chouakri (Fasanenstraße) | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin

until 07.10. | #2207ARTatBerlin | Galerie Verein Berliner Künstler (VBK) shows from 15th September 2018 the group exhibition GEBUNDENE ZEIT with 21 artists, in which unique pieces of artist’s books and artist’s diaries are shown. TIED TIME opens an association area of remembering, forgetting, holding on and documenting life expressions. Documentation of an experience, a time course as in the diary, a creative idea or taking up a topic. At the same time, viewing or reading a book is a temporal process: turning pages, paging forwards and backwards. “- a book is a certain sequence of moments. … To make a book is to realize its ideal space-time sequence by creating a synchronous string, be it verbal or other characters. … The new art knows that books exist as objects of an external reality and are subject to concrete conditions such as perception, existence, exchange ect. ” Ulises Carrión, 1988 The exhibition uses a variety of media, ranging from artistic and graphic approaches to photography and digital diaries. Participating artists: Jutta Barth, Nele Probst, Sigi Torinus, Norma Drimmer, Ute Faber, Andrea Streit, ameret, Rosika Janko-Glage, Monika Bartsch, Claudia Kochsmeier, Sandra Becker, Simone Kornfeld, Helga Wagner, Barbara Zirpins, Ulrike Frank, Peter […]

until 01.04. | #2159ARTatBerlin | me Collectors Room Berlin shows from 26th September 2018 the group exhibition The Moment is Eternity by approximately 60 artists with a focus on the photographic works of the Olbricht Collection. From 26.09.2018 to 01.04.2019, with some 300 works by approximately 60 artists on display, ‘The Moment is Eternity’ shines the spotlight on the photographic works in the Olbricht Collection, showing them in dialogue with other artworks from the collection, as well as artefacts from the Wunderkammer. Transience is one of the key themes of the Olbricht Collection. And what artistic medium other than photography could be better suited to addressing the questions of time and history that this theme throws up? Lending duration to the moment is inscribed into the very medium itself. In this property, art and philosophy come together. Ever since Antiquity, eternity has been described as timeless, and it is in this sense that Goethe equates the moment with eternity in his poem ‘Vermächtnis’ (Legacy, 1830). For humanity, the moment is the only perceptible slice of eternity. Goethe’s ‘legacy’ is to shape the world through sensuous and reasoned perception: Jumping ahead through the epochs, this fits together with Henri Cartier-Bresson’s dictum of the ‘decisive moment’ […]

until 13.10. | #2191ARTatBerlin | Galerie Buchholz shows from 14th September 2018 the exhibition Collage Paintings, Gesture Paintings by the artist Richard Hawkins. Accompanying is the exhibition “To the House of Shibusawa”. Opening: Friday, 14th September 2018, 7 – 9 pm Exhibition period: Friday, 14th September – Saturday, 13th October 2018   Image caption: Courtesy of Galerie Buchholz – Richard Hawkins Exhibition Richard Hawkins – Galerie Buchholz | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin  

until 10.11. | #2155ARTatBerlin | Aurel Scheibler presents from 29th September 2018 the Solo Exhibition a  m  o  r  e with works by the artist Vivian Greven. For Vivian Greven, the story of Armor and Psyche is the starting point of her new works. It is the ancient representation of a unity destroyed by Psyche’s desire to recognize the true form of her lover: her mind demands to see the nature of Cupid, for what we see is easier to comprehend. Knowledge and visualization are central themes in the art of Vivian Greven. As an artist of a generation that grew up with the Internet, she transfers the mechanisms of media image production to the construction of her sculptures. The digital distribution of idealized images is now permeating all areas of life. Characteristic is their smooth surface, which usually only presents itself and under which nothing is present. Impeccability and smoothness are attributes that promise success, and the pursuit of it explains the ubiquitous urge for self-optimization and the excess of design. Vivian Greven paints such surfaces. Vivian Greven, Unda, 2018, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 60 x 60 cm Finely crafted incarnation meets monochrome colors, volume on a disembodied surface. […]

until 24.11. | #2156ARTatBerlin | Galerie Deschler presents from 19th September 2018 the solo exhibition PACK by the artist Sven Marquardt. At Galerie Deschler, Sven Marquardt will for the first time present his new project PACK, a series of portraits of musicians from the international Electro scene, captured in black-and-white analogue photography. The project will be accompanied by an audio-visual installation featuring a sound loup mixed specifically for this event by Marcel Dettmann Sven Marquardt, Tale of us Sven Marquardt, who had been trained as a fashion photographer, started portraying the East-Berlin art and gay scene in expressive black-and-white photography as early as the 1980s. After a creative break following the German reunification he resumed this work in 2000. Since then he has established international reputation with exhibitions, publications, and collaborations with fashion labels such as Hugo Boss and Levi’s, as well as with the German Goethe Institut. With his distinctive appearance and as a doorman of the famous Berghain club Marquardt has furthermore become widely known beyond Berlin as a symbol of the city. PACK, a mixture of commissioned and free works, is the second project in this context after the Bouncers (Rudel). Vernissage: Wednesday, 19th September 2018, 7pm – 9 pm, Opening remarks by Jens […]

until 17.11. | #2170ARTatBerlin | Dorothée Nilsson Gallery shows from 27th September 2018 the Solo Exhibition APPARENT MAGNITUDE by the artist Johan Österholm. Johan Österholm, Not yet titled, 2018, © Johan Österholm Vernissage: Wednesday, 26th September 2018, 6 – 9 pm  Exhibition period: Thursday, 27th September – Saturday, 17th November 2018   Image caption: Johan Österholm, Not yet titled, 2018, © Johan Österholm Exhibition Johan Österholm – Dorothée Nilsson Gallery | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin

until 03.11. | #2183ARTatBerlin | Galerie Barbara Weiss presents from 14th September 2018 the Exhibition Una Mujer Fantástica (A Fantastic Woman) by the artist Puppies Puppies (Jade Kuriki Olivo). I cried endlessly in this movie. Just waterfalls sprouting from the the innermost crevice where lid meets the eye meets the highest extent of the nose The water must have come from rain Rain pouring down at the peak of my brain Or maybe it was snow The peak of my brain in a spot unreached I could finally feel the origin of These waterfalls at this specific Waterfall the opening scene of Una Mujér Fantástica is a long pan of a waterfall The thing I loved most about A Fantastic Woman is Daniela Vega. I’ve never felt such strong adoration. It became so clear when I saw her face filling the entirety of a screen at Arclight theater in Hollywood. We can exist Not only can we exist we can thrive Not only can we thrive We can experience incredible traumas and overcome Not only can we overcome but we can be fucking stunning while doing so And I mean beauty in In every possible way Earlier in life I […]

until 17.11. | #2171ARTatBerlin | Kehrer Galerie presents from 15th September 2018 the exhibition The Potemkin Village by the artist Gregor Sailer. After the presentation during the Rencontres de la photographie d’Arles 2018 (solo show) and as part of Ray 2018 with Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation (group show) »The Potemkin Village« is hereby being shown extensively in Germany for the first time. Vernissage: Friday, 14th September 2018, 7 – 9 pm Exhibition period: Saturday, 15th September – Saturday, 17th November 2018   Image caption: © Gregor Sailer: »The Potemkin Village« Exhibition Gregor Sailer – Kehrer Galerie | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin    

until 30.10. | #2187ARTatBerlin | Migrant Bird Space present from 15th September 2018 the exhibition I’M EVERYWHERE by the artist Silin Liu 刘思麟 with her alter ego Céline Liu. Rewriting history in her own image, award-winning concept artist Silin Liu (a.k.a. Céline Liu) ponders the role of photography in the era of cultural globalisation, the irrational worship of icons and our understanding of images as vehicles of historical storytelling. Silin Liu habitually crosses the boundaries of photography and digital art, while also exploring installation and performance. On view at Koppenplatz 5 will be Liu’s infamous series I’M EVERYWHERE, for which she received the Jimei x Arles Discovery Award, as well as works from her most recent project APPME, and an installation of the video-works SIRENS (click here for a sneak peek). The exhibition at Migrant Bird Space will be Liu’s first solo-show in Germany. Silin Liu 刘思麟, Mao Zedong & Celine Liu, MO-Industries Silin Liu assumes the identity of her alter ego Céline Liu to travel through time and space: Partying with Diana Spencer, conversing with Simone de Beauvoir, protesting alongside Martin Luther King — iconic personalities and moments in history are cast in a new light by the ever-present […]

until 13.10. | #2180ARTatBerlin | Galerie Martin Mertens shows from 8th September 2018 the exhibition”Path of Navigation” by the artist Jim Harris. For his new series of works, the British Plein-Air painter Jim Harris left the urban space that has been the source of his motifs for a long time (mostly of his current hometown Amsterdam) and has worked in the beautiful surroundings of Laren, east of Amsterdam for most of the spring and summer of 2018. Paper has also gained significance as an image carrier for Harris in recent years. Paper is an easier and quicker material to work with in nature and the individual sheets combined can also form a larger overall picture. His main aim is to encourage the viewer to have a more thorough look at nature, to switch off their smartphones and to take in the natural phenomena with all of their senses. Nature is Harris’ studio. He lets the brush glide over the paper effortlessly and swiftly in order to capture the constantly changing light conditions, as well as the movements of clouds, trees and fields. The fine weave of the branches and the delicate speckles indicating clouds or fields are rather reminiscent of […]

until 20.10. | #2188ARTatBerlin | lorch + seidel contemporary shows from 7th September 2018 the exhibition MALIA with mit sculptures and drawings by the artist Luca Lanzi. The gallery is taking part in the POSITIONS Berlin Art Fair 2018 (Details below). Gea is the Italian version of Gaía, the primal Earth goddess in Greek mythology. In spite of her infantine character, Luca Lanzi’s fetish doll emanates dignity and serenity, but also willingness and expectancy. Her body is simplified; everything is rounded. Missing are hands and feet. Mouth, nipples and the back of the head bulge outward. The terracotta surface is veiled with a glaze of white gesso, a shimmering tone that bestows distance and purity on the figurine. The powdery effect highlights the pores of the fired clay and the drawings finely etched onto it. Luca Lanzi | Feticcio Gea | sculpture | terracotta and gesso | 2018 33 x 30 x 26 cm | 13 x 11.8 x 10.2 inches | H x L x D Luca Lanzi | Feticcio Gea | sculpture | terracotta and gesso | 2018 (Detail) The lotus mandalas on the arms symbolize life and harmony and are reminiscent of the tradition of henna body painting. […]

until 11.11. | #2163ARTatBerlin | KÖNIG GALERIE (Nave) presents from 8th September 2018 the solo exhibition Entitas by the artist Alicja Kwade. Everything that surrounds us as human beings—all the things and objects we consider to be solid, firm matter—is, strictly speaking, composed of nothing. The surface of Carrara marble, or a diamond, for instance, may appear to have hard and massive structures, but only a series of atoms form them, which in turn contain: nothing. If you imagine a single atom inflated to the size of a football stadium, it is only the size of a grain of rice in the middle of the playing field—the core nucleus—that has a mass. The remaining area is nothingness. As put forward by Goethe’s Faust, the universal question remains: what is it that “binds together the world’s innermost core?” What exactly happens in the midst of infinite emptiness that encompasses everything? If the findings of physics contribute only marginally to the definite understanding of the world, we are left to question a realm only somewhat comprehensible by our limited human senses. We therefore require alternative ways of understanding that reach far beyond the arenas of science. The work of Berlin-based artist Alicja Kwade repeatedly explores […]

bis 03.11. | #2157ARTatBerlin | Galerie Barbara Thumm shows from 14th September 2018 the solo exhibition Insomnia by the artist Teresa Burga.  Teresa Burga, internationally one of the most established Peruvian artists, has largely influenced Peruvian Pop as well as Conceptual Art with her works. Recently Burga was honored in an extensive retrospective show at the Migros Museum in Zurich, which travels to the Kestner Gesellschaft in Hannover. Currently, her works are featured within the historical overview exhibition Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960–1985 which tours from the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles to the Brooklyn Museum in New York and to the Pinacoteca in São Paulo. The gallery exhibition Insomnia concentrates on Burga’s conceptual works of the 1970s in which she clearly positions herself within newly developed radical conceptual strategies of the late 1960s, distancing herself from traditional artistic expressions and striving to a systematical analysis of the condition in which art forms could exist. Burga conveyed her thought processes and aesthetic programme by the means of text, (project proposal) drawings and technical sketches for objects. Since the rediscovery of Teresa Burga’s oeuvre in the early 2000s, it has been the gallery’s goal to research and trace lost and unknown […]

until 02.11. | #2172ARTatBerlin | Galerie Tanja Wagner shows from 14th September 2018 the exhibition THE RADICAL EMPATHIARCHY with a new video work by the artist Anna Witt. Anna Witt followed a group of teenagers in Leipzig while developing a manifest for a potential youth movement. During their conversations, they are discussing social utopias and their own feelings within the prevailing systems. By questioning and deconstructing consisting norms and values of our society, they are following their ideas of these concepts and their meanings to articulate the youth movement’s inherent purpose. Against commonly known written manifests, they are presenting their manifest in performative translations in the public space. The video has been created in collaboration with Maria Bujanov, Phillip Borchert, Anja Engelhardt, Belve Langniss, Blandia Langniss, Chiara Rauhut, Lena Schubel and the support of the GFZK Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig. Vernissage: Friday, 14th September 2018, 6 – 9 pm Exhibition period: Friday, 14th September – Friday, 2nd November 2018   Image caption: Anna Witt, DAS RADIKALE EMPATHIACHAT, 2018 Exhibition Anna Witt – Galerie Tanja Wagner | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin

until (tba) | #2165ARTatBerlin | Semjon Contemporary presents from 7th September 2018 the exhibition artefact affairs by the artist Marc von der Hocht. At the positions berlin art fair 2018, Semjon Contemporary shows works by Ursula Sax and Marc von der Hocht. Dear Sir or Madam, dear friends of the gallery, You are cordially invited to the exhibition opening of artefact affairs by Marc von der Hocht (Painting, collage, lighting object and installation) on Friday, September 7th, from 7pm to 9:30 pm The artist will be present. Best regards, Semjon H.N. Semjon Contura (Detail), 2018, 190 x 150 cm, High gloss lacquer on aluminum on wood Vernissage: Friday, 7th September 2018, 7 pm – 9.30 pm – the artist will be present Exhibition period: Friday, 7th September  – Sunday, 30th September 2018 positions berlin art fair 2018: Thursday, 27th September. – Sunday, 30th September 2018 (Old Airport Tempelhof, Hangar 4). Semjon Contemporary shows works by Ursula Sax and Marc von der Hocht   Image caption: Contura (Detail), 2018, 190 x 150 cm, High gloss lacquer on aluminum on wood Exhibition Marc von der Hocht – Semjon Contemporary | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin

until 10.10. | #2122ARTatBerlin | galerie gerken currently shows the solo exhibition CANDY LAND with works by the artist Anja Fußbach. At the same time, galerie gerken will be showing the exhibition A Remix of Aesthetic Forms and their Opposites by artist Jan Bernstein and Peter Wackernagel at Cella Artis. Dear ladies and gentlemen, dear friends, Please feel cordially invited to our upcoming exhibitions – the solo show CANDY LAND by Anja Fußbach and the double exhibition ‘A Remix of Aesthetic Forms and their Opposites‘ by Jan Bernstein and Peter Wackernagel will both open on August 24th 2018. Once again we participate at this year’s POSITIONS Berlin Art Fair with the artists Jan Bernstein, Helga Gerken-Grieshaber, Peter Tomschiczek und Peter Wackernagel. Anja Fußbach, klean your soul, 2018, Mixed Media, 106 x 137 x 6 Pig hater, 2018, Mixed Media, 31 x 31 x 4 Anja Fußbach commits her Berlin solo debut and presents a comprehensive work show in the form of a room installation. Most diverse media and materials are deployed, held together by the characteristic handling of Fußbach, who operates with a free combination of objects and merges them with her artisanal craft. On the one hand the title Candy Land reports […]

until 13.10. | #2142ARTatBerlin | Galerie Inga Kondeyne – Raum für Zeichnung shows from 31st August 2018 the solo exhibition backstage with objects of the serie Objet Trouvé by the artist H. Frank Taffelt.  Exhibited for H. Frank Taffelt typical, drawn with black pen rectangles. These are works from his “Objet Trouvé” project, which has been continuously used as a secondary track for about 10 years. The artist recreates the rhythmic effects of surfaces in these drawings on found papers, boxes and cardboard well-thought-out. The dark picture light spreads – metallic shiny – over the stories of the traces of use in stoic calm on the found materials. O.T. Nr. 16, 2017, 2- teilig, je 13 x 62 cm, Kugelschreiber, Bleistift auf vorgefundenem Karton H. Frank Taffelt – Biography Born in 1955 in Bautzen; 1974-80 studied clinical psychology at the Humboldt University in Berlin; intensive drawing since 1980; from 1980 worked as a psychotherapist / psychoanalyst; Lives and works in Berlin; Exhibitions: 2017 Berlin, Galerie Inga Kondeyne, “Renotation”; Berlin, Galerie Inga Kondeyne / Wichtendahl Gallery, “Drawing Perfomance, Abstraction from Berlin and the United States”; Seward (Nebraska, USA), Marxhausen Gallery of Art, Concordia University Seward, “Drawing Performance: Abstraction from Berlin and the United […]

until 23.12. | #2137ARTatBerlin | Alfred Ehrhardt Stiftung presents from 15th September 2018 the exhibition MICROCOSM MACROCOSM with photographs by the artist Yamamoto Masao. YAMAMOTO Masao originally studied oil painting before discovering photography as an ideal medium that evokes memories in a special way. Yamamoto is known for his small-format gelatin silver prints, which he tints, overpainting or other manual intervention edited so that they receive object character and reminiscences of the past with them. As diverse as his motives are, his images always express the humble opinion of the Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu that man is only a small part of nature, which in turn represents only a tiny part of an immense cosmos. By observing all the little things around him, Yamamoto finds a key to the all-encompassing nature of the universe he captures on photographic paper. Yamamoto Masao, Bonsai Microcosm Macrocosm, 2018, Gelatin silver print, © Yamamoto Masao YAMAMOTO Masao, b. 1957 in Gamagori in the Japanese prefecture Aichi. His first exhibitions in 1994 and 1996 in San Francisco and New York were followed by countless others in the US, Europe, Japan, Russia and Brazil. January 2018 Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica CA. Collections in prestigious international […]

Ebrahim Ehrari and Galerie Berlin-Baku invite on 25th and 26th August 2018 to the sale of various art supplies in the Galerie Berlin-Baku in Schöneberg. Dear artists, gallerists, co-workers in art institutions, a change is coming up. Most of you already know, I’ve decided to retire from the gallery and focus only on art and life. It also means leaving my beautiful workplace and moving to something smaller to work. I’m still looking for a suitable studio … (if anyone knows something). Accordingly, I have to reduce myself and will therefore offer a lot of artist supplies at very low prices for sale, namely: on 25.08. 2018 (Saturday) and 26.08.2018 (Sunday) from 4 pm to 8 pm in the gallery rooms Großgörschenstr. 7 10827 Berlin I have in particular unrelated stretcher in different sizes up to 2 m Oil paint – 300 gr packs Acrylic paint in different sizes up to 1 kg Different paper types and sizes – especially large format Brush in different sizes Art books much more I’m looking forward to seeing you! Best regards Your Ebrahim Ehrari   Image caption: Courtesy of ART@Berlin – Galerie Berlin Baku Sale of art supplies – Galerie Berlin Baku | […]

bis 27.10. | #2131ARTatBerlin | Galerie Max Hetzler shows from 14th September 2018 the first part of the group exhibition True Stories – A Show Related to an Era – The Eighties, curated by Peter Pakesch taking place in Goethestraße. Albert Oehlen, Die wilden Jahre sind vorbei, mein Platz an der Theke ist jetzt frei, 1981 Group Exhibition with the following artists: MIROSŁAW BAŁKA HERBERT BRANDL WERNER BÜTTNER CLEGG & GUTTMANN MATHIS ESTERHAZY GÜNTHER FÖRG ISA GENZKEN ROBERT GOBER FÉLIX GONZÁLEZ-TORRES GEORG HEROLD AXEL HÜTTE CRISTINA IGLESIAS MIKE KELLEY MARTIN KIPPENBERGER JEFF KOONS LIZ LARNER ZOE LEONARD INGE MAHN MEUSER REINHARD MUCHA CADY NOLAND ALBERT OEHLEN MARKUS OEHLEN RICHARD PRINCE DIDI SATTMANN JULIAN SCHNABEL WILHELM SCHÜRMANN CINDY SHERMAN MARIELLA SIMONI THOMAS STRUTH ROSEMARIE TROCKEL FRANZ WEST TERRY WINTERS CHRISTOPHER WOOL OTTO ZITKO HEIMO ZOBERNIG Preview: Friday, 14th September 2018, 6 p.m. – 9 p.m. Exhibition period: Friday, 14th September – Saturday, 27th October 2018 (Goethestraße 2/3)   Image caption: Albert Oehlen, Die wilden Jahre sind vorbei, mein Platz an der Theke ist jetzt frei, 1981 Exhibition True Stories – Gruppenausstellung PART I – Galerie Max Hetzler | Contemporary Art – Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin – ART at Berlin

until 03.11. | #2128ARTatBerlin | Brutto Gusto Fine Arts shows from 21st September 2018 the Solo Exhibition Trial and Error with works of the artist Johannes Nagel. Ceramic slipcovers, tangible vessels, palpable spaces, battered tanks, inexplicable storage containers—the forms are invariably objects that speak, recogniseable as vases, bottles, tubs, vats, barrels or hosepipes. The only thing missing is their self-evident purpose. These are not simply container-objects made of porcelain. They are receptacles of obvious individuality and moderate mysteriousness. They have left time behind. The vessels associate archaic instruments or nest-building with rough smudges along the walls of natural cavities. They recall natural forms, dissected and firmly preserved organs or the hard shells of big loricated fruits. The porcelain casts and grouts are transformations of living things, of motion, a gestic encompassing of the counter die. Everything is shifted in apparent imbalance. The objects are coated in a chalky skin; the glazes are rutted by craquelure. Surfaces appear chapped, cracked and dull. Drips of paint run across blurred paintings, fragmentary ornaments shimmering through on rare occasions. No accessories, no decorations—the ceramics are imperiously alive. They are procacities, demanding that we observe minimal distances not only spatially but also temporally. Ceramics take […]

until 20.10. | #2126ARTatBerlin | Galerie Kornfeld shows from 14th September 2018 a solo exhibition with collages by Syrian artist Tammam Azzam. Galerie Kornfeld is delighted to present, for the first time, works by Syrian artist Tammam Azzam. On display are new collages made from up to 50.000 pieces of paper shreds and paintings. Tammam Azzam first gained attention in 2013 when he was forced to leave his studio in Syria and began making digital photomontages in his new home in Dubai. These works take an unromantic look at the conflict within art making in the face of war and violence, directly addressing the on-going conflict in his home country. One of these works, titled “A Kiss for the Whole World” shows an image of Gustav Klimt’s “The Kiss” superimposed on a bombed Syrian building . This work went viral on Social Media, and even today is among the most well known works of the artist. Following these experiences, Tammam Azzam found his way back to painting, but in a different register. With “Storeys”, a series of monumental acrylic paintings depicting the magnitude of devastation in his home country through expressionist compositions of destroyed cityscapes, the artist chronicles the current state […]

Laura Mars Gallery invites you to meet and greet with the artists Gosbert Adler and Thomas Hauser of the current exhibition AMALGAMATE on Wednesday, August 15, 2018 from 7 pm. Dear friends of the Laura Mars Gallery. Dear Ladies and Gentlemen. We are very pleased that we can offer a joint meeting with the artists in the context of the exhibition AMALGAMATE with photographs by Gosbert Adler and Thomas Hauser. On Wednesday, the 15.08.2018 we invite you to a Meet and Greet with both in the Laura Mars Gallery from 7pm to 9pm. The exhibition can be visited by prior appointment until August 25th at info@lauramars.de or 0152 – 58120246. More information about the current exhibition can be found HERE.   Caption: Courtesy of Laura Mars Gallery – Exhibition View AMALGAMATE MEET + GREET with ADLER + HAUSER | Laura Mars Gallery | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries – ART at Berlin

until 23.09. | #2124ARTatBerlin | König Galerie (Chapel) shows from 25th August 2018 the exhibition Being the measure of the artist David Zink Yi in collaboration with Angie Keefer.  We are pleased to announce David Zink Yi’s new exhibition ‘Being the measure’ in collaboration with Angie Keefer. The show consists of a single performance, which will take place in the nave on the opening day, and an ongoing video installation in the chapel. ‘Being the measure’ brings together minimalist sculptural and musical forms based on Zink Yi’s intensive research of Afro-Cuban musical contexts with a spoken word score composed by Keefer, regarding opposing physiological and philosophical concepts of being and knowing. For the performance, Zink Yi will be joined by preeminent Cuban musicians Marvin Diz (New York), Adonis Panter Calderon (Cuba), Alain Perez (Cuba/Spain), and Regis Molina (Berlin). Together, they will activate Zink Yi’s constellation of percussive sculptures to generate an improvised polyrhythmic composition permeated by Keefer’s text. A video work created from footage captured in the nave during the initial development of the performance in 2016 will be projected in the chapel. ‘Being the measure’ was commissioned by Williams College Museum of Art (WCMA), where it was first performed for a live audience in late 2016. Vernissage: Friday, 24th August 2018, 6 p.m. – 9 […]

until 09.09. | #2141ARTatBerlin | Galerie Verein Berliner Künstler (VBK) has been showing the Group Exhibition AKTionale III – The Nude Being 2018 with 37 artists since 18th August 2018. From 18 August to 9 September 2018, the Galerie Verein Berliner Künstler presents the third edition of the exhibition format AKTionale, Das Nackte Sein. Every four years, the window opens with the individual artistic positions on topics such as pain, love, hate and hope, death, birth, beauty, war, flight. Themes – which capture our reality today and now and stand in the foreground of the exhibition. This time, 37 artists – 22 VBK – and 15 international guest artists offer insight into their intimate and personal engagement with themselves, the world and the art in their individual artistic expression to make the spoken or unspeakable experience. In addition, the curators attempt to create the exhibition through the conceptual presentation into a total work of art in which they place the positions in a dialogue, without neglecting the autonomy of the individual. The exhibition will be accompanied by a detailed catalog. Participating artists: Ameret | Bernadette Arnaud | Silke Bartsch | Anna von Bassen | Eskild Beck | Nikolaus Becker | […]

until 10.08. | #2116ARTatBerlin | The gallery Benhadj&Djilali shows since 2nd August 2018 the exhibition Handle With Care by the Canadian-Iranian artist Maryam Keyhani. Like an armor, Maryam Keyhani does layers and layers of fabrics and colors and her own signature hats that make her a real apparition and draws attention wherevershe goes. But the extravagant sheath conceals fragility and personal trauma underneath. It’s this confrontation of outward disguise through a striking armor versus the escape into a sensitive inner life that shapes her work and is trajectory to the exhibition “Handle With Care” Pastel drawings, feather paintings and life-size glass and epoxy sculptures, she creates a fantasy world that humorously-playfully explore the depths of Keyhani’s consciousness in a disturbing, yet, beguiling manner. The hybrid creatures, half self-portrait, half fabulous beasts, are allegories of the everyday war between reality’s cruelty the flight into an inner dream world. Maryam Keyhani was born in Teheran and raised in Toronto. After a stint in Paris, the Canadian-Iranian artist now splits her time between Toronto and Berlin. In her multidisciplinary practice, she creates surreal fantasies as a refuge from the anxiety towards the real world and its traumatic experiences. After exhibitions in Toronto and Dubai, her work is at display at BENHADJ&DJILALI Galerie in Berlin from August 2-10th for the first time. Vernissage: Thursday, 2nd August 2018, 7.00 pm Exhibition period: Thursday, 2nd August – […]

until 31.08. | #2113ARTatBerlin | TVD ART currently shows the Group Exhibition Summerspecial ’18 with paintings by the artists Anna Afanasjeva, Agate Apkalne, Anna Baklane, Flera Birmane, Krista Dzudzilo, Svitlana Galdetska, Vineta Priste –  Karkla, Valentyna Protsak, Elena Tarasenko, Vija Zarina, Georgios Kitsos, Paulis Postazs, Kalvis Zalitis und Kaspars Zarins. Contemporary painting in the gallery TVD ART in Berlin-Charlottenburg “Hot town, summer in the city” sang in 1966, a well-known US pop band, owed a hot summer, which then let out the American cities. No less hot at the time of the Italian Renaissance on the latitudes of Rome, Florence and Venice, but Petrarca reported in the 14th century at the end of one of his sonnets to the beloved Laura: “I do not know what I want, I want not what i know. I’m cold in the summer and hot in the winter. ” Petrarch’s land of “dolce vita” is still afflicted by heatwaves, as is the metropolis of Berlin, despite its northern location supposedly one of the warmest cities in Germany and in the 1920s the focal point of a new style: the “New Objectivity”. Artists of the TVD ART gallery in Berlin-Charlottenburg were inspired by this as […]

on 29.07. | As part of the Christopher Street Day Parade, EVA & ADELE will perform on 29th July 2018 from 12 to 6 pm in their retrospective exhibition L’AMOUR DU RISQUE in the me Collectors Room Berlin. Come and meet the artist couple in person. For this special event, we’ll have some signed catalogues in our shop. To our exhibition “EVA & ADELE – L’AMOUR DU RISQUE”,EVA & ADELE created exclusive and limited products for our shop: signed Swatch-watches in an edition of 100, stockings from Falke, PB 0110 handbags from Philipp Bree in an edition of 15, sleeping masks for the beauty sleep, scarves from Auerbach, cuddly keychains, perfume as edition of EVA & ADELE and much more. During our summer book sale selected exhibition catalogues are available in our shop at a special price of 1-5€ or 10 postcards for only 1€. Furthermore exclusive and limited products by EVA & ADELE are available in our shop: signed Swatch-watches in an edition of 100, stockings from Falke, PB 0110 handbags from Philipp Bree in an edition of 15, , scarves from Auerbach, perfume as edition of EVA & ADELE and much more. Our shop is open to the public congruently to the exhibitions from […]

Open Call! The Kunst-Werke Berlin e. V./KW Institute for Contemporary Art and the Volkswagen Group are signing a VW Research Fellowship (m/w). The application period ends on 3rd September 2018. Term of the Fellowship: 1st November 2018 to 31st October 2020. Kunst-Werke Berlin e. V. / KW Institute for Contemporary Art and Volkswagen Group are collaborating on their first joint venture in the form of an open call for applications for a VW Research Fellowship. This VW Research Fellowship aims to support research in the field of archival work in regards to contemporary art, especially here the history of KW. The fellowship is awarded for two years. Kunst-Werke Berlin e. V. / KW Institute for Contemporary Art devotes itself to central topical questions through the production, presentation and promotion of contemporary art. Since its foundation more than 25 years ago, the institution has established itself as a vibrant venue for progressive artistic practices within Berlin and international art scenes. By means of exhibitions and a range of other events, KW always addresses current trends within the national and international field of contemporary art and cultural discourse and develops these themes in cooperation with artists, institutions and through direct commissioned works. […]

until 01.09. | #2110ARTatBerlin | Gallery ART CRU Berlin shows from 3rd August 2018 the exhibition A WILD BEATING HEART with works by Erhard Post and Marion Gamerschlag. Erhard Post, Rotes Tier, 2018, Ölkreide auf Papier, 50 x 70 Erhard Post’s powerful drawings enable the viewer to engage with the artist’s world of life and thought. Human figures, animal representations, other creatures and self-portraits tell of things experienced and thought. His figures worked in bright oil pastels, he sets high-contrast and flat on the, often colored, paper. He composes them with eloquent color choice. The result is strong figures with colored faces, defensive character heads, life-affirming. They populate as impressive (human) beings his pictures and look head-on to the viewer. In portraits or in dynamically composed smaller group formations of 3-5 figures, Erhard Post’s pictures tell how he perceives himself and the world. Born in 1955, the artist has been working since 2013 in the Art Workshop of the Day Center of the Albert Schweitzer Foundation – Living & Caring. Marion Gamerschlag, Abstrakte Komposition (gelb, rot, violett), 2018, Ölkreide auf Papier, gewischt, gekratzt, 100×70 Marion Gamerschlag’s art is an experience of tangible plasticity: you can feel your movement impulses in the […]

until 28.07. | #2111ARTatBerlin | For a few more days Galerie Thomas Fischer shows the solo exhibition Lorem Ipsum by the artist Marcel Frey. In “Lorem Ipsum”, his fourth solo show at Galerie Thomas Fischer, Marcel Frey presents a series of new paintings that he created by folding canvas and treating it with spray paint. The folds result in geometric shapes and surfaces which, interrupted by intermittent lines and curves, appear like fragments of a larger whole. While the eye attempts to reunite the individual visual elements with one another by way of imaginary turning, rotating, and re-sorting, the content of what is represented—similar to the dummy text “Lorem Ipsum”, which is always just a form, but never a support of concrete information—remains temporarily unclear. Katharina Wendler Vernissage: Friday, 15th June 2018, 6.00 pm – 9.00 pm Exhibition period: Saturday, 16th June – Saturday, 28th July 2018   Image caption: Courtesy Galerie Thomas Fischer – Marcel Frey Exhibition Marcel Frey – Lorem Ipsum – Galerie Thomas Fischer | Contemporary Art – Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin – ART at Berlin 

until 18.08. | #2088ARTatBerlin | Stella A. presents since 6th July 2018 the exhibition The Mexico Sun II with artworks by Andreas Seltzer. The title of this series of drawings derives from the name of an inn once situated along Andreas Seltzer´s route to school at Frankfurt am Main. All the way into the eighties it was a place where boozers, tricks from the nearby brothel lane Breite Gasse, as well as river boatmen dreaming of the grand transatlantic passage met. In formal terms, this series employs the same cartographic regard Seltzer tried out first in his works on Jules Verne´s Journey to the Center of the Earth (2006-2012). There he followed the concentric circles leading into the earth´s interior. Here, however, no longer grotesquely distorted geological layers of the underground, but particles of bodies, and fragments of things, are transformed to hybrid beings, or fractured into near-undecipherable detail. What characterizes the formations thereof is their joy of playing. The densely chequered backdrop they act before operates as a catcher of forms, jumbling together manifold graphic elements and lending them depth. Red, black, grey, and white are the leads here. They do not follow any pre-determined plan, but act on impulses that are […]

until 08.09. | #2101ARTatBerlin | Galerie Kornfeld shows from 2nd August 2018 the group exhibition Berlin Calling. Shown are works on paper, curated by Philip Grözinger. Participating artists: Tom Anholt Samuel Bassett Armin Boehm Fritz Bornstück Hannah Dougherty Farshad Farzankia Robert Fry Philip Grözinger Michelle Jezierski Franziska Klotz Clemens Krauss Manfred Peckl Andrew Salgado Sebastiaan Schlicher Tina Schwarz Joachim Stracke Kristian Touborg In the summer month of August, Galerie Kornfeld is pleased to present a selection of works on paper with the exhibition “Berlin Calling: Works on Paper”. In close cooperation with the Berlin-based artist Philip Grözinger, 16 contemporary artists invited by him show works that impressively express the diversity and variety of the use of the medium of paper. It is drawn, watercolored and painted, it is folded, glued and collaged. Figuration stands next to abstraction, expression next to introspection, abundance next to emptiness, image next to text, sketchy transience next to figuratively composed elements. Small formats are contrasted by larger, expanding to installations space works. The recourse to the centuries-old tradition of the medium is complemented by artistic concepts that elicit new facets from the paper. Tom Anholt | Manfred Peckl In addition to the medium of paper, there are […]

until 01.09. | #2097ARTatBerlin | Galerie Deschler presents since 6th July 2018 the exhibition wir sehen by the artist Jörn Grothkopp. In his paintings, Jörn Grothkopp focuses on classical subject matter—landscapes, portraits, nudes—but reinterprets them in a very unique manner. By removing most details and reducing the elements of the images to their most basic structures, he effects a radical simplification of the image. In doing so, he provides a structure of relationships for the complex experience of viewing, whose seeming simplicity is transformed back into a complex visual experience in the act of beholding. Jörn Grothkopp, Mona Lisa 2, 2017. Öl auf Leinwand, 77 x 53 cm. Vernissage: Friday, 6th July 2018, 7.00 pm – 9.00 pm Exhibition period: Friday, 6th July 2018 – Saturday, 1st September 2018   Image caption: Jörn Grothkopp, Mona Lisa 2, 2017. Öl auf Leinwand, 77 x 53 cm. Exhibition Jörn Grothkopp – wir sehen – Galerie Deschler | Contemporary Art – Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin – ART at Berlin 

until 25.08. |#2089ARTatBerlin | Galerie EIGEN + ART Berlin shows from 11th July 2018 the group exhibition “open Vol. 2” with the artists Yang-Tsung Fan, Marion Fink, Zora Janković, Ulrike Theusner, Raul Walch, Justin Mortimer, Andreas Mühe and Alexander Wolff. In the summer months, the gallery is open beyond the boundaries of the gallery program. In the exhibition, we present both younger and already established positions of artists who have impressed and accompanied us over the last few months and who are in dialogue with each other in the gallery space over the summer: Yang-Tsung Fan (* 1982, TW) was shown in 2018 with his work at the AKI Gallery in Taiwan, our guest gallery at the Leipzig Cotton Mill. The works of his “Swimming pool” series transfer conceptual color fields, geometric abstraction and gestural painting into absurd summer swimming pool scenarios. Marion Fink (* 1987, DE) studied with Andreas Slominski in Hamburg and explores the possibility space of an always questionable reality by means of stage-like scenarios with figures and objects, words and text fragments. Zora Janković (* 1978, SL) was already part of the first “Open” exhibition in the gallery in 2016. Her sculptures, geometric bodies made of […]

The Wilmersdorfer Galerie Z22 cordially invites you on July 13, 2018 at 7 pm to an exhibition-accompanying film evening in the gallery. Here you will find the description of the exhibition, during which the film screening takes place: HEIMAT – Von Ver- und Entwurzelten ( > HOMELAND. From rooted and uprooted) “We show 3 30-minute documentaries on the topic: Rooted and uprooted … “In the Foreign Land”: by Güliz Saglam (camera: Frank Massholder) “Paulette”: by Frank Massholder & Güliz Saglam (camera: Frank Massholder) “Rosa von Parry”: by Ginette Carnier + Frank Massholder Between the films, Mr. Massholder is at your disposal for answering questions. Filmstill aus o.g. Filmen For night owls there is then a surprise feature film on the subject.” Film screening: Friday, 13th July 2018 at 7pm   Image caption: Courtesy of Galerie Z22 – Filmstills aus den genannten Filmen Film screening – Verwurzelt + Entwurzelt – Galerie Z22 | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin – Galleries Berlin – Exhibitions – ART at Berlin    

until 27.08. | #2091ARTatBerlin | me Collectors Room Berlin shows from 8th July 2018 the exhibition “THE LONG NOW – Reflections on time and transcience” in the lounge area of the me Collectors Room with 20 contemporary artistic positions, with which a variety of approaches towards time come into effect, either regarding our concept of time or the perception and visualisation of time. Time proves itself as a noticeably open and undefined variable, which for instance is perceived completely different when experienced subjectively or measured with a timepiece instead. Polarities such as steadiness and unsteadiness, acceleration and deceleration as well as immediacy, duration and transience are crucial categories. Time is a concept which concerns us in both a definite and elementary way. Without the concept of time our existence as well as the events occurring in the world around us wouldn´t be conceivable. Yet at the same time, time is perceived as an abstract and elusive phenomenon with which scientists, thinkers and artists have ever since occupied themselves. Against the backdrop of an accelerating modern age and a global simultaneity which is passed on by the media, questions regarding time seem ever more pressing. What signifies time to us? What […]

Anna Daučíková has been selected as the winner of the Schering Stiftung Art Award 2018. The prize, which is awarded by the Schering Stiftung in cooperation with KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin, is endowed with a prize money of 10,000 Euro and a solo exhibition at KW, for which a new artwork is created. Coinciding with the exhibition, a monographic catalogue will be produced. This is the seventh time that the prize has been awarded, and the fifth time in cooperation with KW. The jury consisted of Ute Meta Bauer (Curator and Founding Director, NTU Center for Contemporary Art Singapore, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore), Rossella Biscotti (Artist, Berlin), Nikola Dietrich (Director, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne), Anna Gritz (Curator, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin), and Charlotte Klonk (Professor of Art History and New Media, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Member of the Schering Stiftung Foundation Council, Berlin). To support their choice out of the 15 nominated artists, the jury states: “Anna Daučíková’s video works innovatively combine reflections on the role and meaning of modernism in Eastern European societies with identity issues. By seamlessly moving between fiction and historical facts based on archival research, Daučíková deliberately practices a new form of […]

For the first time in Berlin: Galerie Jordan/Seydoux presents on 7th July 2018 the performance «YESTERDAY / TODAY / TOMORROW» with Bryan Mc Cormack, Dr. Henry Bell and performers of the Sheffield Hallam Universität. In an ongoing project that was first exhibited at the 57th Venice Biennale in 2017, Bryan McCormack has spent the last 2 years visiting hundreds of refugees in centres, camps, squats and shelters across Europe. He asked them to draw three drawings: one of their life before (YESTERDAY), one of their current life (TODAY), and one of their imagined future (TOMORROW). Each of these drawings is a voice, an individuals story, that has been given a platform with which to be shared. « YESTERDAY / TODAY / TOMORROW » started out as a conceptual art project with the intention of giving the refugee population their own singular, common voice by creating a visual language that can be communicated by every man, woman and child, independently of nationality, education, language or dialect spoken. Using these drawings as foundation, the project is experienced both through an installation/performance and through its own a social media voice. The performance piece includes the audience in response to these drawings, and brings […]

until 30.07. | The Berlin gallery Migrant Bird Space shows since 29th June 2018 the exhibition “Tears of Iblis” by artist Michal Martychowiec in its Depandance in Beijing. Introduction to the cycle After all, there is nothing in creation that is not ultimately destined to be lost: not only the part of each and every moment that must be lost and forgotten – the daily squandering of tiny gestures, of minute sensations, of that which passes through the mind in a flash, of trite and wasted words, all of which exceed by great measure the mercy of memory and the archive of redemption – but also the works of art and ingenuity, the fruits of a long and patient labour that, sooner or later, are condemned to disappear. It is over this immemorial mass, over the unformed and immense chaos of what must be lost that, according to the Islamic tradition, Iblis, the angel that has eyes only for the work of creation, cries incessantly. He cries because he does not know that what one loses actually belongs to God, that when all the work of creation has been forgotten, when all signs and words have become illegible, only the work […]

until 02.10. | #2085ARTatBerlin | Galerie Pugliese Levi presents from 25th August 2018 an exhibition with painings by the artist Tiina Heiska. „I have some kind of vision because there has to be something to aim to, but it never turns out like that. I actually pursue a moment when a painting starts to find its own path and offers me something to go on. It’s a long, chaotic and eventful process, while the original motif is turning into different versions or sometimes even changes completely.” Tiina Heiska, May 2018 Galerie Pugliese Levi presents the first solo show of the Finnish artist Tiina Heiska in Germany. In her paintings, Tiina Heiska depicts the human condition, our contact with ourselves and existence. Referencing photographic and filmic situations, Heiska’s female figures are mysterious and sometimes troubling. Systematically and with a firm hand, Heiska constructs a dramatic tension. Wide brushstrokes attest to the moment of the painting’s making. Colours are minimal and monochromatic yet intense, they reveal the light in scenes otherwise often pervaded with darkness. Alice in Wonderland alike – Heiska’s figures, or just the trace of their movements, recall very womanly states. The little girl and the grown-up woman, innocence and sensuality, children’s games and dreams, adults’ fears, desire and fantasies alternate and surprisingly intermingle. Tiina Heiska, From the series The Pond, 2013, 160 […]

until 31.07. | #2081ARTatBerlin | Galerie JeanMichelBerlin shows from 6th July 2018 the exhibition “BELLES DE NUIT” with photographies (portraits and nudes) by Carl Kolb. Photographer Carl Kolb, who lives in Heidelberg, shows portraits and nudes. In the fine arts, poetic, sensual, erotic, a hymn to female beauty. Carl Kolb – Victoria Carl Kolb – Dana Carl Kolb – Chloe Rose Vernissage: Thursday, 5th July 2018, 7:00 to 9 pm Exhibition period: Friday, 6th July to Tuesday, 3st July 2018   Image caption cover image: Carl Kolb, Chloe Rose Exhibition Carl Kolb – Galerie JeanMichelBerlin | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin – ART at Berlin       

until 04.08. | #2080ARTatBerlin | Sandy Brown shows from 30th June 2018 the exhibition ALIEN by the artists Louis Backhouse, Ed Lehan + Matthew Richardson. Vernissage: Friday, 29th June 2018, 6–9 pm Exhibition period: Saturday, 30th June – Saturday, 4th August 2018   Image caption: Courtesy of Louis Backhouse, Ed Lehan, Matthew Richardson and Gallery Sandy Brown Exhibition Louis Backhouse + Ed Lehan + Matthew Richardson – ALIEN – Gallery Sandy Brown | Contemporary Art – Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin – ART at Berlin

until 01.09. | #2078ARTatBerlin | Gallery mehdi chouakri shows since 29th June 2018 the exhibition Painting and Resting of the Galleria Franco Noero from Turin in Mommsenstraße. Shown are the works of the artists Andrew Dadson + Martino Gamper. Vernissage: Friday, June 29th 2018, 6-9 pm Exhibition period: Friday, 29th June – Saturday,1st September 2018   Bildunterschrift: © Andrew Dadson – Martino Gamper Exhibition Andrew Dadson + Martino Gamper – mehdi chouakri | Contemporary Art – Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin – Galleries Berlin – ART at Berlin  

until 15.09. | #2076ARTatBerlin | Blain|Southern Berlin presents from 7th July 2018 the group exhibition “Doodle & Disegno” with more than 100 paper works. A blank sheet of paper is an open space where artists might conceive ground-breaking ideas or where children might doodle with artless abandon. Paper provides our first experience with both the possibility for abstract thought and primitive mark-making, and the versatility of paper makes it important for the practice of countless artists past and present. Doodle & Disegno is a group exhibition that gathers over 100 works on paper to demonstrate that whether an elaborate drawing in pencil or a quick splash of ink, a piece of paper is an invitation to create a vast range of thought and emotion. When Avigdor Arikha took up observational life drawing after years of pursuing modernist abstraction, he turned to paper first, drawing exclusively in pencil and ink before he tried to paint. For Amy Feldman, paper is a laboratory of spontaneous thought and a playground for experimentation, and she often draws with ink, marker or paint before transforming ideas from her works on paper into large-scale paintings. Michael Simpson similarly works out ideas on scraps of paper, including […]

until 31.08. | #2071ARTatBerlin | Galerie Barbara Thumm shows from 30th June 2018  the exhibition Self-Cartography by the artist Simon Cantemir Hausì. We are very happy to announce the fourth solo exhibition, entitled Self-Cartography by Romanian artist Simon Cantemir Hausì (*1976, Baia Mare). Self-Cartography presents recent works, mostly small format canvases that the artist worked on in the course of the last two years. Hausì remained faithful to his subject matter of earlier works: man in nature, landscape, animals and portraits. He creates dense auratic atmospheres in his very typical and increasingly colourful layered painting style. Hausì, the colourist, creates a pictorial universe which references European painting positions of the 19th century. The viewer often finds himself in complicity with the artist in search for hidden secrets and readings. Simon Cantemir Hausì has created an iconography, which depicts hunting scenes, lions, eagles, snakes, also shepherds and is inspired by Romanian pagan culture and mythology. His sculptural work references traditional art of Romanian wood craftsmanship. Hausì’s previous exhibition was rhetorically entitled What do you See? and questioned contextualizing conception and cultural interpretation. This current exhibition turns his quest towards an newly found scrutiny and introspection. Simon Cantemir Hausì lives and works in Cluj, the capital of […]

until 28.07. | #2069ARTatBerlin | H ART MANN GALLERY show from 30th June 2018 the exhibition “Gemächer” with artworks by the artist Marianne Stoll. Dear Sir or Madam, Dear art lovers, On the last weekend before the start of the summer holidays in Berlin, I am pleased to invite you to the next vernissage Friday, June 29, 2018 from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. With the title “Gemächer [Chambers]” I will present works by Marianne Stoll. First impressions in advance can be found at www.marianne-stoll.de For all further information, please refer to the enclosed invitation. We look forward to seeing you and greet you until then Reinhold Hartmann Vernissage: Friday, 29th June 2018, 7.00 bis 9.00 pm Exhibition period: Saturday, 30th June to 28th July 2018   Image caption: Marianne Stoll Gartenhaus III 2017 Öl- und Acrylfarbe auf Papier 70 x 100 cm Exhibition Marianne Stoll – H ART MANN GALLERY | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin | Galleries Berlin | ART at Berlin    

until 07.07. | #2066ARTatBerlin | EXILE currently show the exhibition “Aleppo” by the artist Tess Jaray. “…the darkness does not lift but becomes yet heavier as I think how little we can hold in mind, how everything is constantly lapsing into oblivion with every extinguished life, how the world is, as it were, draining itself, in that the history of countless places and objects which themselves have no power or memory is never heard, never described or passed on.” (W.G. Sebald, Austerlitz) EXILE is pleased to present a solo exhibition by London-based artist Tess Jaray entitled Aleppo. Jaray, born 1937 in Vienna, has investigated architectural structures and ornamental patterns in her work since the 1950s. A building’s particular structural rhythm, for example the patterned tiling of the roof of the Stephansdom in Vienna, remains a core inspiration and driving force for the artist’s visual translation into painterly abstraction. Yet Jaray’s perception of architecture frees its specific forms from their contextual site and elevates them towards a universal moment of aggregation and transcendence. In the late 1990s Jaray was able to visit the city of Aleppo in Syria. Here, Jaray was fascinated by the particular contrast created between alternating light- and […]