until 20.10. | #2127ARTatBerlin | 68projects der GALERIE KORNFELD shows from 14th September 2018 the Group Exhibition Moments of Intimacy by the artists Kyle Coniglio, Anthony Cudahy and Doron Langberg. Resisting solidification of form and relying on strategies of artifice, play and observation. Anthony Cudahy, Doron Langberg and Kyle Coniglio make figurative paintings that play with a tender depiction of their subjects. Through strategies of collage, mood lighting and unexpected editorial reveals; these three painters use painting as an allegory of queer desire. Specifically produced for this exhibition, Kyle Coniglio’s series of lounging men in smoky rooms evoke the artifice of an emotional moment, dramatized by the cut of the light, the face of the figure in his paintings cast in shadow, and unzipped pants that rest on the figure’s legs. The emotion on the face of these figures is lost in concern mimicking worry, and points to the artifice of these paintings, causing wonder about what might be tragically wrong? Anthony Cudahy, primarily working from found photographs, makes paintings that focus on the crop and repetition of this crop as a point of tension in his work. Pulling from what Cudahy calls “image histories”, Cudahy is interested in the transformation and degradation that an image […]

until 15.09. | #2123ARTatBerlin | CWC Gallery currently shows the solo exhibition The Nineties with photographs by Michel Comte. The CWC GALLERY is pleased to present a solo exhibition by the photo artist Michel Comte from 28 July 2018 onwards. With more than 70 works, the exhibition gives a comprehensive insight into the impressive artistic work of Michel Comte of the 1990s. Michel Comte is one of the most important contemporary fashion and society photographers in history. His visual aesthetics influenced the 1990s and, above all, has had a lasting influence on fashion photography to this day. »In Comte’s paintings, art and reality collide. They are brutal and poetic – dazzle and disturb. The emotions that evoke them are painful and complex: food for the mind and soul.« – Geraldine Chaplin on Michel Comte From Nadja Auermann to Gisele Bündchen or Helena Christensen to Claudia Schiffer and Bridget Hall: Michel Comte has always been one of the few photographers who has worked with the world’s most famous top models in history. Unconditional confidence in Michel Comte’s artistic understanding and the “relationship” with him results in unexpected scenarios and in a revelatory devotion that is reflected in the photographic works. Be […]

On the occasion of the 10th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, curator Gabi Ngcobo and her team—Nomaduma Rosa Masilela, Serubiri Moses, Thiago de Paula Souza, and Yvette Mutumba—have invited Antonia Majaca and Sohrab Mohebbi to rethink and expand the format of the Curators Workshop. After a number of successful, theme-based workshops held in relation to the 4th to 9th editions of the Berlin Biennale, this iteration, as proposed by the workshop directors, is centered on the biennial exhibition itself. It encourages an exchange with the Berlin Biennale staff, curators, contributors, and participants. This edition of the Curators Workshop takes as its primary subject matter the parameters, resources, and tools offered by the Berlin Biennale. The program examines the exhibition as a complex network of material, political, and aesthetic contingencies. It focuses on its visible and invisible alliances and relations, using the biennial as a site of encounter and study. The ten-day gathering with a group of fifteen contributors selected from nearly 400 applications is comprised of daily Crit Sessions involving analyses and discussions about the curatorial decisions, conceptual constellations, and individual artworks, in addition to close readings of accompanying discursive and publishing programs. The program also includes in-depth conversations with […]

until 27.09. | #2121ARTatBerlin | Galerie Z22 shows from 25. August 2018 the Group Exhibition MAN EATS WASTE…WASTE EATS MAN – GARBAGE STRIKES BACK with works of the artists Dirk Krüll, Eric Massholder, Monika Radhoff-Troll, Caryzma (Frank Suffert and Diana Zeynebalhindawi) und M&M-project. Plastic waste is one of the biggest human challenges and threats to our planet, in addition to the global population explosion and climate change. For a long time, environmentalists and experts have warned against plastic contamination, but politicians are only hesitantly reacting. According to a study published in the scientific journal Science at the beginning of 2015, about 8 million tons of this waste were released into the oceans in 2010. A PET plastic bottle disintegrates only after 450 years. With exhibits from: DIRK KRÜLL ERIC MASSHOLDER MONIKA RADHOFF_TROLL KÜNSTLERGRUPPE CARYZMA M&M-project Vernissage: Saturday, 25th August 2018, 7.00 pm Ausstellungsdaten: Saturday, 25th August – Thursday, 27. September 2018   Image caption: Courtesy of Galerie Z22 Exhibition MAN EATS WASTE…WASTE EATS MAN – Group Exhibition – Galerie Z22 | Contemporary Art – Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin – ART at Berlin

until 12.10. | #2118ARTatBerlin | Köppe Contemporary shows from 7th September 2018 the exhibition “The Remains Of The Night – Review of the twenties and their dramatic end” by the artist Jim Avignon. At the Galerie Köppe, Jim Avignon will, of course, in the typically subversive “Jim Avignon style”, dedicate a theme that goes from the twenties of the last century to the present. He will quote artists such as Otto Dix, Max Beckmann and George Grosz, among others, with selected works from the period, but also return to the question of whether there are certain parallels between that epoch and our present. Jim Avignon will face themes such as the salon culture of today’s club culture and nightlife. But topics such as gentrification and right-wing (then as now) should also be included. Jim Avignon – Die Stunde des Opportunisten The Golden Twenties or the period from 1924 to 1929, stood in Berlin for a completely new attitude to life. Cosmopolitanism and internationality, Dreigroschenoper (Threepenny Opera), Bubikopf (Bob), Josephine Baker, Dada, Bauhaus architecture, outstanding sports competitions, dance amusements, a booming nightlife with bars, clubs and amusements of all kinds – these are just a few of the keywords that exemplify the spirit of […]

until 31.08. | EX-EMBASSY presents from 4th August 2018 the exhibition and text series with the artists Megan Cope (Quandamooka); Archie Moore (Kamilaroi); Sumugan Sivanesan (AU) & Carl Gerber (DE); Sonya Schönberger (DE); and Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll (AU / UK) and texts by cultural scientist Ben Gook (AU); Legal scholar Sarah Keenan (UK); Historian Peter Monteath (AU); Artist, critic and curator Rachel O’Reilly (AU); and author Nathan Sentance (Wiradjuri). EX-EMBASSY is hosted by artist Sonja Hornung (AU / NL) with curatorial advice from Rachel O’Reilly (AU). EX-EMBASSY is an exhibition and text series that unfolds from the former Australian embassy in the German Democratic Republic (GDR). Five artistic works and five texts are located in and around this iconic modernist structure. Built between 1973 and 1975, the former embassy is part of a barely known but unprecedented architectural experiment: in the late 1960s and early 1970s, 135 diplomatic buildings were erected in the peripheral northeast of Berlin, in Pankow, for a short period of time. Virtually without national symbolism these prefabricated, modular structures are still scattered throughout Pankow. Australia, often referred to in the communiqués of the GDR as the “fifth continent”, plays a subordinate role in the history […]

until 15.09. | #2112ARTatBerlin | Jarvis Dooney shows from 21st July 2018 the exhibition Autofocus by the photographers Torsten Schumann and David Schikora. If you are in Berlin for the summer, we invite you to join us this Friday, 20th July from 19:00 for the opening of Autofocus; exhibition of two Berlin based German photographers: Torsten Schumann & David Schikora. Preview the work in More Cars, Clothes and Cabbages from Torsten Schumann, published by Pepperoni Books – and self published photo book Autolose Autoreifen in der Ukraine by David Schikora. Vernissage: Friday, 20th July 2018, 7.00 pm – 9.00 pm Exhibition period: Saturday, 21st July – Saturday, 15th September 2018   Image caption: ART at Berlin – Courtesy of Jarvis Dooney – Torsten Schumann + David Schikora Exhibition Torsten Schumann + David Schikora – Autofocus – Jarvis Dooney | Contemporary Art – Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin –ART at Berlin 

bis 04.08. | #2107ARTatBerlin | On the occasion of its anniversary mianki.Gallery currently presents the exhibition 10 years mianki.Gallery – Nr. 3/6 with works of the artists Tina Heuter and Claudia Kallscheuer. 10 years mianki.Gallery – Tina Heuter & Claudia Kallscheuer For the 10th anniversary, we have come up with something very special. In 2018 we will show all artists in four-week double exhibitions. Look forward to the individual positions and the dialogue in the juxtaposition with the other position. After the successful start with the first two exhibitions, in July, the exhibition Tina Heuter & Claudia Kallscheuer will be in session three. Tina Heuter Tina Heuter is a subtle observer of her surroundings and her everyday situations are just as important as the moods of the people and the behavior of society in current affairs. These observations flow into her works and she always succeeds in lending something special to everyday life and, at first sight, making it look quite natural, even almost everyday, special situations. Tina Heuter, Denker, Bronze, 2017, 165 cm, Foto Urs Kuckertz Claudia Kallscheuer Writing and drawing on the sewing machine, embroidery and sewing and threads sometimes hang – unusual expressions in the art of […]

until 08.09. | #2109ARTatBerlin | 68projects of GALERIE KORNFELD presents from 2nd August 2018 the Group Exhibition Cat Scan by the artists Jillian Mayer, Rodrigue Mouchez and Michael Sailstorfer, curated by Omar Lopez-Chahoud. The artists in Cat Scan, all multidisciplinary in practice, will present an array of sculptural works that are conceptually layered and formally engaging. Mechanically and technically speaking a Cat Scan is a computer-processed combination of x-ray measurements taken from many different an- gles to produce cross-sectional images, in effect, a Cat Scan is a way to get inside of something without cutting it open. This is an approach that each of the artists in Cat Scan uses, they engage familiar contemporary cultural references to make their works accessible to their viewers; they give a visual, conceptual or physical hook for the viewer to get into their works from many different angles. Evoking and embracing the performative yet absent body, each artist approaches making objects as a way to awaken and trouble binaries between technology & our evironment, physical objects & mental objects and absence & presence. Each of these artists approach their work as a way to share with viewers new ways to interpret think and look closely. […]

until 20.09. | #2106ARTatBerlin | Tschechisches Zentrum Berlin currently shows the exhibition Foreigners of the artist duo David Böhm and Jiří Franta. The Czech Center Berlin cordially invites you to the opening of the new exhibition “Foreigners” by David Böhm and Jiří Franta on Thursday, July 12, 2018 at 7 p.m. The successful artist duo, whose most important medium of communication is drawing, transcends the limits of standards, between artistic media and our ideas about the medium of drawing itself. In the summer exhibition of the TZB Gallery they ironically and playfully investigate the phenomenon of being a foreigner, both with regard to life in the closed Bohemian basin and also based on their own travel experiences. Jiří Franta + David Böhm David Böhm, Jiří Franta: Foreigner The successful artist duo David Böhm and Jiří Franta, whose most important medium of communication is drawing, transgress the boundaries of standards, between artistic media and our ideas about the medium of drawing itself. In the summer exhibition of the TZB Gallery they ironically and playfully investigate the phenomenon of being a foreigner, both with regard to life in the closed Bohemian basin and also based on their own travel experiences. In their […]

until 25.07. | Kleine Humboldt Galerie currently shows the exhibition [insert title]. Four international artists, four weeks of artistic practice in the gallery space inside the main building of Humboldt University and one final exhibition presenting the artists’ work. With its upcoming project the Kleine Humboldt Galerie will transform the Lichthof Ost in Berlin Mitte into a temporary studio. After a month of artistic practice, the space will be open to the public, showing not only the artwork itself but also the context in which it has been created. [insert title] asks its visitors to be part of the exhibition in a participatory way. [insert title] invites the four artists Helena Hladilová, Anouk Kruithof, Britta Lumer and Zorka Wollny inside the main building of Humboldt University to create new works using different techniques and approaches. During the working period, regular open studio sessions and artist workshops give visitors the opportunity to experience the creative process. Afterwards, the outcome of the artistic work will be presented without changing the context of its creation, leaving the traces of the creative practices intact. The project [insert title] is a call for participation that aims to encourage visitors to come up with their own […]

until 05.08 | #2102ARTatBerlin | Galerie Verein Berliner Künstler (VBK) shows from 21st July 2018 the Solo Exhibition REVIEW (Rückblick) with works by the artist Eberhardt Purrucker. The gallery VEREIN BERLINER KÜNSTLER presents the title REVIEW from 21.07. until 05.08. 2018 works by 91-year-old artist EBERHARDT PURRUCKER. The exhibition gives an insight into his long and interesting artistic work. On display are early to recent works. His motives are manifold: houses, trees, landscapes, fountains, water, clouds. Whether photography, watercolor or drawing – in his works, temperament, drama and energy can always be felt. Purrucker’s big theme is nature in all its varieties. In his works, he plays with the transfer of the objective to the abstract, thus leading the viewer on an associative journey. His sculptural snapshots, which evolve from movement and rhythm, dominate his pictorial character, and regardless of when the work was created, they reflect a deep creativity and an uninterrupted young and alert spirit of the artist. The artist himself says of his artistic work: “The forces, the processes of creation, which form the wealth of forms and forms of our environment, also shape every individual, for it is itself a part of nature. My dynamic compositions […]

until 19.08. | #2096ARTatBerlin | König Galerie (Chapel) shows from 14th July 2018 the solo exhibition EDEN of the artist Sabine Moritz. KÖNIG GALERIE is pleased to present the first exhibition of oil paintings by Sabine Moritz in Berlin. Emphasising abstraction in this new body of work, EDEN celebrates a masterful and sensitive rush of colours. The paintings communicate reality in an expressive and emotive manner; they transmit an impassioned atmosphere by exploring notions of experience, memory, and transience. Moritz’s work encaptures the fragility and fleetingness of time — her practice is continuously influenced by childhood memories of the high-density concrete housing sceneries of Lobeda — a suburban satellite of Jena in Eastern Germany — where Moritz first began to draw and paint. Figurative paintings from Sabine Moritz’s ongoing series of floral still lifes and grey-scaled cityscapes are also on display. Quoting the artist: »I often draw or paint flowers that I have in my studio, and the painting of these flowers is a representation of the present, in which you find yourself thinking about something distant, as in a sort of daydream.” Regen, Sterne, Granit, Glut and See (2018) are five nonrepresentational depictions of natural phenomena achieved with an […]

until 28.07. | # 2099ARTatBerlin | Galerie Buchholz currently shows an exhibition by the artists Florian Pumhösl and Atsuko Tanaka. Works by the artists Florian Pumhösl and Atsuko Tanaka (from the late 60s to 2000) are shown. Atsuko Tanaka Vernissage: Freitag, 8th June 2018, 7.00 pm– 9.00 pm Exhibition period: Friday, 8th June – Friday, 28th July 2018   Image caption: Courtesy of Galerie Buchholz – Atsuko Tanaka Exhibition Florian Pumhösl + Atsuko Tanaka – group exhibition – Galerie Buchholz | Contemporary Art – Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin – ART at Berlin

until 01.09. | #2094ARTatBerlin | Galerie Berlin shows from 19th July 2018 the exhibition Earth – Water – Light by the artists Christoph Bouet and Hans Georg Wagner. To be shown are paintings by Christoph Bouet and sculptures by Hans Georg Wagner. Hans Georg Wagner, “Tänzerin (figurehead)”, 2015, Oak, partially dyed, oiled, 154 x 40 x 33 cm Vernissage: Thursday, 19. Juli 2018, 6.00 pm Exhibition period: Thursday, 19th July – Saturday, 1st September 2018   Image caption: Hans Georg Wagner, “Tänzerin (figurehead)”, 2015, Oak, partially dyed, oiled, 154 x 40 x 33 cm Exhibition Christoph Bouet + Hans Georg Wagner – Galerie Berlin | Zeitgenössische Kunst – Contemporary Art – ART at Berlin  

until 31.08. | #2092ARTatBerlin | taubert contemporary shows from 13th July 2018 the guest exhibition by the artist Bodo Buhl (1951–2010), realized by Katharina Andrelang and Ulla Gröne. Bodo Buhl, sculptor and photo artist, studied at the Munich Art Academy (1973 – 1979). His passionate interest in architecture and the finesse of statics shape the creative years from 1979 to 1992, inspired by themes from the financial and business world. The conceptual and socio-political content of his work is combined with facets of postmodernism and his typical satirical, pointed humour. In recent years, before his untimely death, he has compiled an impressive graphic oeuvre. International exhibitions and presence on the art market brought him great recognition. For the first time we present his entire work in the context of a contemporary reception and classification in contemporary art in order to make the value of the artist visible to an international audience. The exhibition “Flashback”, realized by Katharina Andrelang and Ulla Gröne (www.private-transaction.com), shows photographs, sculptures and drawings by the German artist. Bodo Buhl Bodo Buhl, born 1951 in Marienweiher, Germany. He lived and worked until his death 2010 in Munich, Germany. Vernissage: Thursday, 12th July 2018, 6.00 pm – 9.00 pm Ausstellungsdaten: Friday, […]

until 25.08. | #2087ARTatBerlin | Laura Mars Gallery shows from 11th July 2018 the exhibition AMALGAMATE with photographs by Gosbert Adler and Thomas Hauser. The exhibition Amalgamate presents photographs by Gosbert Adler and Thomas Hauser. They fuse into a contemporary survey of the topics of image of man and portrait. In the series Girls Seen (2013-2016) and Jessica Standing (2015-2016), Thomas Hauser continues his portrait work. Employing a consistently stringent visual vocabulary, he develops his idea of female beauty literally as a confrontation, a juxtaposition, with the high resolution of large-format exposures. In the two multipiece typologies of body expositions the genre boundaries of nude, portrait, and still life dissolve. The simple gesture of showing reveals, together with the young women’s seemingly classical, yet sometimes disturbingly liberal poses, alternating between exposure and concealment, the dubiousness of mass-media-multiplied ideals of beauty. While Hauser time and again replays comparable image formulae with different models, Gosbert Adler, in the work Return to Reason (2018), investigates the full range of human relations in the image of their various acts and stances. What do gestures convey of a person’s relation to his or her environment? How do people position themselves to one other? More to the […]

until 10.08. |#2086ARTatBerlin | pavlov’s dog presents from 6th June 2018 the single exhibition YUGOMANIA with photographs by Joerg Waehner. The white plaster crumbles from the red brick wall, a gray gutter runs through the picture. In this red, white and gray gape small bullet holes. The photo was taken on the territory of the former Yugoslavia. In this way, the Yugoslavian war and the disintegration of the country in the 1990s, with their contradictions and fragility, are symbolic of the time after the Iron Curtain, which has led to new demarcations and social upheavals. Joerg Waehner approaches this era with the help of an extended photography concept. Through photographs, drawings, texts and frottages, Waehner materializes the historical remnants into haptic image carriers in a kind of sociological maturation process. In YUGOMANIA the past permanently influences the present. Waehner takes photographs of young soldiers from the Yugoslav War with the area mirrored on tombstones, combining images of former President Tito with landscapes from a calendar. A former national shield of Yugoslavia was simply overwritten with “Slovenia”. Traced Waehner brings this memory to light. In this way, YUGOMANIA pushes one image into the next to expose the repressed layers of war. […]

until 31.08. | #2068ARTatBerlin | galerie1214 presents from 26th July 2018 the exhibition „Linie Fläche Raum“ by the artist Roland Dostal. In the framework of the opening on Thursday, 26th July, 6:30 pm, an artist talk with Roland Dostal will take place. The work of Roland Dostal is carried out at the intersection of different positions, cultures and procedures, from the attitude that the path to truth in art is taken from very different points. Secrecy, development and density are key words for a work which Dostal has been constructing and forming for 30 years. Roland Dostal, Untitled, 2017, ca. 21 x 30 cm, mixed technik on paper Roland Dostal, Untitled, 2017, ca. 21 x 30 cm, mixed technik on paper Dostal is an illustrator, developer, literally a geographer in a wealth of structures whose mapping he drives forward in the often many states of his works on paper, recently on rough bast. In an interview in 2014, after a stay in Asia of several years, Dostal strikingly explained his style of working: “I always work with the ‘fundus’, I work on it for years, and thus it is difficult to distinguish between old and new. The gestures of the 1980s can […]

During the summer holidays of 2018, the National Museums in Berlin will offer families, children and young people a varied program consisting of  workshops as well as exhibition talks. This year, on the occasion of the large summer camp on Museum Island Berlin, it’s time to say “Together with artists, children and young people explore the museums together with artists and turn the Kolonnadenhof into an open-air studio. What is discovered in the museums is also visible outside – in an open-air exhibition, one’s own paintings, plaster casts, photographs and furniture are presented. Contemporary art is the focus of the holiday offers in the Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum for Contemporary Art – Berlin, in which the exhibition “Hello World. Revision of a collection “. At the Kunstgewerbemuseum the exhibition “Food Revolution. Designing for the Society of Tomorrow “an edible garden will emerge. And the exhibition “100 Percent Wool” offers exciting topics for a holiday week in the Museum of European Cultures in Berlin-Dahlem. Admission to the National Museums in Berlin is free for children and adolescents up to the age of 18.   MEHRTÄGIGE WORKSHOPS Teilnahmegebühr: 36 € (dreitägig), 78 € (viertägig), begrenzte Teilnehmerzahl, Anmeldung erforderlich   Museumsinsel Berlin Sommercamp […]

until 22.07. | #2082ARTatBerlin | galerie1214 shows since 1st July 2018 in the group show „Come from painting“ positions and developments of pictorial motifs by artists of the gallery. Uta Reinhardt’s “Zwei” (Two, 2010, provenience Collection Gunzenhauser) offers seemingly pure figuration, which grows in fact out of the configuration of colours in a clear schema. Uta Reinhardt Britta Lumers «Dyad» (2017) is a masterly, multi-perspectivist portrait in ink on paper and canvas, which prepares the portrayed head in the fluid phase out of a Rembrandt blackness. Jessica Buhlmanns «Folded Space» (2016), composed dominantly from forms of green shades an a current background reveals how many of her works the musical impregnation. Jessica Buhlmann Gallery View galerie1214 Stefan Kees shows one of his strict “Stratifications” (2016): painting in space, in whose geological bandings the luminous, shiny yellow lacquered stays in contrast with a vigorous black. Marie Irmgard presents acrylic works on paper, expressive forms that reward the patience of contemplation with exciting discoveries. Isabelle Borges is represented with a constructivist composition of 2017 that shows a vivid red. Gallery View galerie1214 Marie Irmgard By Wolfgang Betke we show a triptych of forceful energy that combines the semiotic potential of painting with a refined […]

Galerie Kornfeld shows the film “Querelle” by Rainer Werner Fassbinder in German language on Wednesday, 4 July 2018 at 7 pm. The film screening takes place in the context of the exhibition “” Querelle “cycle” by the artist Jürgen Draeger. The gallery asks for registration at galerie@galeriekornfeld.com or by phone at 030 889 225 890. Comprehensive information on the current exhibition in the gallery can be found in the exhibition description.   Image caption: Filmplakat Querelle – Credit: Gaumont Filmscreening Querelle – Galerie Kornfeld | Ausstellungen – Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin – ART at Berlin    

until 31.08. | #2075ARTatBerlin | rk – Galerie für zeitgenössische Kunst im Rathaus Lichtenberg shows from 11th July 2018 the group exhibition HEIM_Spiel Lichtenberg of Frauenmuseum Berlin e.V. with several female artists from Lichtenberg. It has always been a special concern of the rk Gallery for Contemporary Art, professional artists living and working in the district to offer a podium, to create a way to present their artistic work to the public in their “HOME”. Numerous artists have applied for the invitation to this exhibition. Nine artists who live in Lichtenberg or have their studio in the district were selected by a jury to present their works of art on the subject. Heim_Spiel is an exhibition series developed by the Frauenmuseum Berlin e.V., which will be realized over a period of several years in various districts of Berlin and invites to an examination of the topic “home”. The idea of ​​the series is to offer the artists of a particular district a forum there as well. A career in the art world is, especially women with children, rarely granted. They have to do more, work more, be offensive and “better” than their male counterparts in order to be perceived as professional […]

until 11.08. | Galerie Dittmar shows from 27th June 2018 the exhibition of photography „Lissabon“ by the artists Tina Deininger + Gerhard Jaugstetter. The starting point for these photographs was the study of the Portuguese writer Fernando Pessoa, who has repeatedly conjured up the essence and history of his country, especially of Lisbon and its people in dense pictures. This challenged the photographers Tina Deininger and Gerhard Jaugstetter to pursue their tracks in their own way. The images capture, free from anything purely documentary or anecdotal, moments that reflect a mood, a certain sentiment. The authenticity to which the photographers are committed also includes the classical photographic methods used. It plays a lot of shadowy, nocturnal, which can be read metaphorically and, moreover, taken literally, meant a technical challenge for the photographers before all content related references. Far from any staging, but of great formal certainty, the images are condensed into tableaux of almost symbolic power. The feeling of life that is given expression and lets something timeless, a historical deep layer echo, is free of any nostalgia. All this is close to Lisbon, as Pessoa saw it, hiked and imagined and used as a projection screen for his inner travels. The brown-toned baryta […]

until 19.08. | #2072ARTatBerlin | KÖNIG GALERIE presents from 30th June 2018 the exhibition “Subversive Praktiken” by the artist Andreas Mühe at the nave of the former church St. Agnes. Andreas Mühe subverts his images. He topples significations and crushes expectations. Preconceived social orders are reshuffled; he trivializes hierarchies and inverts or undermines authorities. His artistic activity occurs almost secretively — he undermines meanings, fluctuates between them and shifts perspectives. Andreas Mühe transforms openly expressed or subdued propaganda; he arranges groups into uncommon formations. Diversion is his business and he is skilled in subordination. Mastering the language of power and the words of the powerful, he expresses precisely these notions by utilizing their perfected ideology. He effortlessly interchanges between Teichoscopy — a term used in theater by which actors describe things they supposedly see and which enables them to deal with simultaneously occurring events — and the so-called “report by messenger“ device, which transports past events into the present. It is his continuous goal to destroy the power of images in the eye of the beholder. Vernissage: Friday, 29th June 2018, 6:00 – 9:00 pm Exhibition period: Saturday, 30th June to Sunday, 19th August 2018   Image caption: Andreas Mühe, […]

In collaboration with the Berliner Ensemble, KW Institute for Contemporary Art will present the public workshop Hier wird heute Abend ein Mensch wie ein Auto ummontiert / Ohne dass er irgendetwas dabei verliert. Brecht in der Auto-Werkstatt by Olaf Nicolai. This workshop will show the assembly and repair of a Mercedes-Benz Ponton, which once belonged to Helene Weigel, the former intendant of the Berliner Ensemble and Bertolt Brecht’s wife. At the same time, Brecht’s learning play Man Equals Man will be developed with actors. Here, questions will be raised about the nature of performance and theater as well as the meaning of labor in the context of contemporary economics and art production. The garage visits are structured in traditional shifts and enable exciting insights into labor at various levels. Olaf Nicolai  Hier wird heute Abend ein Mensch wie ein Auto ummontiert / Ohne dass er irgendetwas dabei verliert. Brecht in der Auto-Werkstatt WHEN? Friday, June 29 – Sunday, July 1, 2018 WHERE? A car workshop in Berlin – Prenzlauer Berg A production by the Berliner Ensemble in cooperation with KW Institute for Contemporary Art Car workshop in Berlin – Prenzlauer Berg Shifts: Friday, June 29, 2018, 7 – 9pm Saturday, June 30, 2018, 11am – 1pm, […]

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 […]

until 18.08. | #2131ARTatBerlin | photo edition berlin will present from 24th June 2018, an exhibition on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the gallery with a cross section of the gallery artists. “We will show a cross-section of our artists as well as the editions, catalogs and books that we have edited and published over the years, with individual works from our own collection completing the program, with video documentation of the interviews and exhibitions included separately to see the artists on a monitor. There is a 15% discount on all works and publications for this festive occasion. As always, we look forward to your coming and interest. Best regards, Gunther Dietrich Tomás Rodriguez Bernd Böhlendorf “ Vernissage: Sunday, 24th June 2018, 2:00 – 8:00 p.m. Exhibition period: Sunday, 24th June to Saturday, 18th Augustl 2018   Image caption cover image: Exhibition view photo edition berlin – Matthias Leupold Anniversary Exhibition 10  years photo edition berlin | Contemporary Art – Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin – Exhibitions Berlin Galleries – ART at Berlin                  

until 30.06. | Galerie Schlachthaus.fresh & fine art shows lithographs by Otto Piene until the end of June with poems by Fernando Arrabal, text by Ante Glibota and sculptures by Andreas Blank and Stefan Rinck. The exhibition was curated by Constanze Kleiner, Ante Glibota and Stephan von Wiese. “Breaking out of the art world, filling the vacuum” (Otto Piene) Front, page 3 of the edition (Otto Piene: “The crucified sharks”, 2014) To “The Nights of Héliogabalus” (poems by Fernando Arrabal, lithographs by Otto Piene, text by Ante Glibota, sculptures by Andreas Blank and Stefan Rinck) in the gallery Schlachthaus.fresh & fine art, Berlin With a brilliant cooperation, the lithographic portfolio: ” The nights of the Héliogabalus “, Otto Piene decided in June 2014 his artistic work. Shortly before his death, the painter, light and Sky Art artist was inspired by verses written for him by the French-Spanish poet Fernando Arrabal. The final stone of the work was a last major work. Schlachthaus.fresh & fine art Berlin Charlottenburg presents this surprising last Volte in a work rich in experiments and ideas for the first time. Otto Piene got to know Arrabal personally in Paris in 2013 and may have seen in […]

until 08.07. | #2060ARTatBerlin | KÖNIG GALERIE shows from 9th June 2018 the exhibition “One Day For Eternity” by the artist Tatiana Trouvé. In One Day For Eternity, her third solo exhibition at KÖNIG GALERIE, Tatiana Trouvé continues her exploration of time, space, and memory—as well as the expanded context of the creative process itself. The exhibition presents the most recent installation in a series entitled Les Indéfinis. The origins of this body of work lie in the myriad transformations that an artwork endures: from an idea, to a work, and finally to its status a collected object—a dynamic process that recalls social-cultural anthropologist Arjun Appadurai’s assertion that “all things are congealed moments in a longer social trajectory […] brief deposits of this or that property, photographs that conceal the reality of the motion from which their objecthood is a momentary respite”[1] .Citing her frustration with the difficulty of obtaining the loan of her own artworks for exhibitions as one of the inspirations for Les Indéfinis, Trouvé has created a collection that evades capture, an uneasy space of betweeness—an operation that emerges less from the realm of theory than the intuitive and fantastical space of fiction, namely the work of […]

until 27.07. | #2057ARTatBerlin | Galerie Inga Kondeyne – Raum für Zeichnung shows from 22nd June 2018 a double exhibition with the artists Christiane Schlosser and Marlies Appel. Christiane Schlosser The often large-format drawings by Christiane Schlosser must be confronted directly, otherwise the intricacies and the persevering consistency with which she adds her worlds of signs to one another can not be perceived. Trained as a painter, the artist over the years is now obviously located in her idiosyncratic drawing work. Something like serenity seems to have crept into her work. Nothing seems wanted. By regularly touching with the pen, she fills the paper surfaces completely, and adds time to the course of the mostly horizontally arranged work – the Christiane Schlosser’s own sense of landscape for levels that trigger peace. In the subsequent viewing, it becomes clear that their abbreviations (points, squares or their interior patterns …) are not set mechanically in succession. Conscious, constantly renewed concentration in the preparation of the individual details characterizes this work. And yet accidents happen. On the large formats, the long journey with the pen over the surface can get out of hand. When lines of horizontal and dots fall out of line, […]

until 02.08. | #2055ARTatBerlin | Magic Beans Gallery presents from 22nd June 2018 the exhibition “Tom Hoops Introduces Wild Dogs in Paris”, curated by Tom Hoops. Magic Beans is pleased to present the Tom Hoops curated group show Tom Hoops Introduces Wild Dogs in Paris. “People gave us everything for free. We were only allowed to use a limited amount of film per image, but there were no limits to creativity. I always say they let go of us like wild dogs in the streets of Paris “- Helmut Newton. Photographer Tom Hoops, known for his strong emotional portraits, and Ermahn Yuceer, founder of Greyhours watchmaking, founded Wild Dogs in Paris in 2016 as a photography collection. The collection aims to promote existing and ongoing personal projects so that they can be pursued with passion, free of the committees’ limitations or job orders to which many photographers are bound. The works selected for this purpose are produced independently throughout the world by both young and established artists. There are no restrictions on the genre or theme, just a circulated collection of classical and new visions of photography from the entire spectrum of the medium. While Wild Dogs builds a strong […]

until 14.07. | #2052ARTatBerlin | Galerie ART CRU shows from 15th June 2018 the exhibition NATURALE SYSTEME with artworks by Haci Sami Yaman and Beatrice Guder. The images of Haci Sami Yaman are high-contrast compositions of different points, lines, lines and calligraphic elements that do not seem to obey at first glance rules to follow. They arrange themselves into patterns or forms, structures and streams emerge that convey a very unique fascination. The images seem to vibrate, charged with a variety of resonant meanings and pulsating energies. At the same time, they resemble aerial photographs or suggest sketches by landscape architects. The exciting effect of the images is enhanced when you know that Yaman is an almost blind artist. At his work he has special acrylic pencils available. When applying paint, the artist may, for example, by pressing these pins particularly hard or by tapping. Yaman, who has been a frequent contributor to the Open Studio for almost two years, likes to share the underlying theories of energy, how switch systems work, and other philosophical-technical thought-concepts. “He talks about systems, circuits, planetary structures. Of complex interactions, currents and electrification. His pictures are networks, pixelations, data processing. He describes levels and […]

until 19.07. | #2049ARTatBerlin | Galerie Martin Mertens shows from 9th June 2018 the group exhibition “VOLTO” with artworksy by the artists Radu Belcin, Anya Belyat-Giunta, Aron Gàbor, Ugo Giletta, Eric Gruber, Marine Joatton. Exhibition concept: Lorand Hegyi. The exhibition “VOLTO” presents different aesthetic visions and artistic methods within contemporary drawing, in the context of the interrogation about the face motive and its evocative connotations. The medium of drawing became in the last years a very frequented and central discipline in contemporary art praxis because its personal, intimate, subtle, fragile nature as well, as because of its extremely rich evocative aura. Drawing like writing enables spontaneous improvisations and frequents un-definitive and un-finished shaping, while the freed imagination, the radical fantasy open dimensions of infiltrations in different territories of experiencing realities. Drawing liberated itself from any public obligation of creating definitive formations, from any institutional demand of monumentality and material solidity, from any conventional hierarchic systems and representations. While shaping figures from our most intimate and hidden inner universe, drawing is keeping an almost anarchic, uncontrollable, spontaneous dynamism, a somewhat disturbing uncertainty and a magic fluidity of images. Ugo Giletta: Pastello, 27 x 20 cm, Pastellkreide auf Papier, 2014 The subversive […]

until 06.10. | #2046ARTatBerlin | Salongalerie Die Möwe presents from 6th July 2018 the exhibition “Summer Studio by the Sea. The Artists’ Village Ahrenshoop“. By the end of the 19th century, painters had discovered the former fishing village and present-day seaside resort of Ahrenshoop. Because here on the Darß they found what they were looking for in their artistic work: atmospheric motifs in untouched nature, the clear light of the north, silence, loneliness and freedom. Soon the newcomers formed one of the most famous artists’ colonies in Germany. Although it began to dissipate at the beginning of the First World War, the Darß remained attractive to artists, especially during the summer months. In the 1920s, they again chose the place as a summer residence or permanent home address. Ahrenshoop and its surroundings also proved themselves as a protective retreat in politically difficult times. Vera Schwelgin, Tag – Vogel und Sonne, 2017, woodcut Among the founders of the artists’ colony in 1892 was the painter Anna Gerresheim. For her, Ahrenshoop was “quite a place to reflect on herself and to do serious work”. Pictures of her as well as Hans Brass, Edmund Kesting, Hans Kinder, Ulrich Knispel and many other painters […]

until 14.07. | #2044ARTatBerlin | Galerie Berlin shows from 31st May 2018 the exhibition “Saat” with the artist Jens Elgner. On display is painting by Jens Elgner, including new works. In addition, the gallery shows art by Silke Weyer. Jens Elgner, 16.05.1958 born in Blankenburg in the Harz Mountains, studied architecture in 1979, changed his subject to painting at the Kunsthochschule Berlin Weißensee. The artist lives and works in Blankenburg. Vernissage: Thursday, 31st May from 6 pm Exhibition period: Thursday, 31st May to Saturday, 14th July   Image caption cover: JENS ELGNER – Refugium –  2018  –  Mischtechnik auf Leinwand  –  140 x 100 cm Exhibition Jens Elgner – Galerie Berlin | Zeitgenössische Kunst – Exhibitions Berlin – Galleries Berlin – ART at Berlin  

until 28.07. | #2041ARTatBerlin | 68 projects presents from 22nd June 2018 the exhibition “shifter” dby the artist Michelle Jezierski. The exhibition is curated by Domenico de Chirico. With the exhibition shifter, 68projects presents large-format paintings by Berlin artist Michelle Jezierski. In these paintings, space and time are used as a starting point to view perspective space in abstraction and landscapes. Inspired by a restless and vivacious energy and free from both established conventions and outdated formalisms, Michelle Jezierski’s work evokes swirling scenarios of juxtaposed images, where the light is radiated back by vivid, exciting colors. Her work is based on a sensory idea of ​​fragmented space – simultaneously synchronous and time-shifted – with the landscape as a catalyst, where the boundaries of two-dimensionality are explored through the introduction of geometric lines and fixed frames that break up the image plane. This creates an optical illusion that appears to span several dimensions within a flat surface. All of these elements merge seamlessly with a focus on the interaction of spatial perception as opposed to the representation of a concrete image, thereby moving away from traditional landscape compositions. Her paintings have a stimulating effect on the subjective perception of the viewer and avoid […]

until 14.07. | #2039ARTatBerlin | The gallery Pugliese Levi shows from 5th June 2018 a solo exhibition with paintings by the artist Maibritt Ulvedal Bjelke. Galerie Pugliese Levi presents a new solo show of Maibritt Ulvedal Bjelke. The exhibition celebrates 25 years of artistic creation of the Danish artist since her graduation from Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1993. Recent works from the series static-romance, chroma-flirt and tosca will be shown. Maibritt Ulvedal Bjelke, tosca no 05, 2018, 121 x 121 x 3,5 cm  “There was concentration and a strong visual and spiritual power in her work. 25 years later, everything, in appearance, seems to have changed, but rigor, strength, and colours still reign supreme. No more paper fields warped by liquid colour, but clean, reduced, visually compact and stretched surfaces. Still drippings, but so thin that they have become coloured lines. No longer approximative lay-outs of fields but rigorous geometries made from subtle permutations, rotations, symmetries of the painting. No more dirt, but an impeccable shimmer of colours. In the most recent artworks, a weaving of very tight cut coloured paper bands on preparatory canvases gives the impression of a head-spinning colour kaleidoscope. Nothing else than a tight weaving of colours to occupy […]

until 28.07. | #2036ARTatBerlin | Robert Morat Galerie shows from 26th May 2018 the exhibition “The Drake Equation” with photographies by the artists Andrew Phelps and Paul Kranzler. A book launch will take place at the opening reception on 25th May. The “National Radio Quiet Zone” was established in the 1950s in the state of Virginia. There are no radio or TV broadcasts and cell phones do not work – no radio wave is to disturb the grotesque, huge telescopes in their search for traces of extraterrestrial life. Photographers Andrew Phelps and Paul Kranzler visit a place where a bizarre mixture of people lives together: the rural population of a provincial town, the highly specialized scientists of the research facility and city dwellers fleeing electromagnetic fields, electro-sensitive civilization refugees. “I think that in the photographic work that you now hold in your hands, there are many things involved, time and science and technology and nature. For me, however, it is essentially a work on America“, writes Alard von Kittlitz in the text to the accompanying book, that has been published by Fountain Books Berlin. NRQZ – Andrew Phelps + Paul Kranzler NRQZ – Andrew Phelps + Paul Kranzler NRQZ – […]

until 20.07. | #2035ARTatBerlin | Migrant Bird Space presents from 16th June 2018 the exhibition  THE MERCY OF NOT KILLING by the artist Chenchenchen. Chenchenchen (陈陈陈, a.k.a. ccc, b. 1987) is a Chinese conceptual artist best known for his performance “The Mercy of Not Killing 2.0”, in which he hung ten construction workers from the rims of a 34-meter high tower. In his work, ccc often employs the human body to ponder the social conditions of modern society. Working in performance, digital art, painting and sculpture simultaneously, his multi-medial projects interact and constitute a series of parallel worlds. They are coherently arranged into ccc’s futuristic panorama of “Poor Sci-Fi”: a techno-dystopian vision derived from the struggles of everyday life. Performance of Mercy of Not Killing 2.0 in Wuxi, Feb. 2017 ©  Image courtesy ccc – UCCA Beijing His work is smart and spectacular, addressing issues specific to Chinese culture while noting the individual ramifications of life in a globalised world. Where traditional values and norms seem suspended, ccc projects a humanistic vision, highlighting the positive powers of universal human values. Following ccc’s seminal presentation at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing in 2017 and numerous exhibitions in China, this […]

until 27.07. | #2023ARTatBerlin | Galerie Berlin-Baku shows from 27th May 2018 the anniversary exhibition “Ebrahim Ehrari.80” on the occasion of the 80th birthday of the artist. The master of Aquatinta has turned 80! On the occasion of Ebrahim Ehrari’s 80th birthday we, the Gallery Berlin-Baku & qgallery are dedicating him a jubilee exhibition from May 27 to July 27, 2018, that gives very good insights into his comprehensive artistic life’s work. The exhibition shows the wide range of his artistic work from the beginning of the seventies until today. The main focus of the show is primarily graphics with seemingly surrealistic and metaphorical imagery in addition to colorful paintings and early optical illusions. The artworks reflect the rich and diverse life experiences of the artist, show many motifs enriched with symbols and also hints at critical debates with society and politics. Ebrahim Ehrari, Verteidigung, 1974 Aqua tinta, 30 x 40 cm Many years Ebrahim Ehrari’s artistic work focused on graphics (especially Aqua Tinta) – and he was a master of his trade. His metaphorical encrypted imagery contains elements of surrealism, the game with perspectives and spaces, picking up proportions and bringing together different levels of reality. The balance between European […]

until 19.05. | #2032ARTatBerlin | EIGEN + ART Lab currently shows the exhibition CONDITION: UNCANNY with artworks of the class Birgit Brenner: Antonia Christl, Laura Fröhlich, Suah Im and Jakob Tyroller. “The miracles are many, but the greatest is man.” 1 -Sophokles, Antigone Many attempts have been made to translate the lines quoted above from Sophocles’ Antigone. According to some translations, this means: There are many miracles, none is greater than man. At the same time, however, it can also be interpreted as follows: There are many miracles, none is more miraculous than humans. The word “miracle” seems to have a certain ambiguity in its different implications. Especially in the course of various translations into German, the passage from Antigone has undergone a fundamental change of meaning. So Hölderlin chose in his German interpretation of 1804 the word “monster”. In his introduction to metaphysics (1953), Heidegger in turn decided that it was “uncanny” (English: “uncanny”): “Manifoldly the uncanny, nothing more / beyond man beyond eerie.” According to Freud, the uncanny is the psychological experience of feeling something familiar and foreign at the same time. Unlike something that is merely mysterious, the uncanny refers to a state in which an event or […]

Paper positions berlin 2018 was held for the second time during Gallery Weekend in April. Her big sister, the now established art fair POSITIONS, has been enriching the Berlin art scene since 2014 and, in particular, the art autumn, the”Kunstherbst” of the captial as part of Berlin Art Week. In the spring of 2018, the paper positions moved from their first, still relatively small location in Charlottenburg’s concept mall BIKINI Berlin to the east of the city: namely to the impressive atrium of the former telegraph office in Jägerstraße in Berlin-Mitte. With significantly more space and an elegant, classy atmosphere, the art fair gave gallery owners from all over the world the opportunity to present an overview of the diverse range of paper works to interested visitors during the gallery Weekend. paper positions 2018 at telegraph office (Telegraphenamt) – © ART at Berlin, Stephanie Schneider From April 26 to 29, 2018, a total of 47 selected international galleries from 11 countries presented their most important positions in contemporary and modern art with a focus on the material of paper. On display were drawings, collages, silhouettes, texts, photographs, artists’ books and objects, which were to be inspected in the best lighting […]

until 15.06. | #2027ARTatBerlin | Peres Projects shows from 27th April 2018 the exhibition “The Mulch” with artworks by the artist Rebecca Ackroyd. A friend recounted being in a tutorial at art school with an esteemed professor. They were looking at a Cindy Sherman, from the Untitled Movie Stills series. The subject was a woman, her back turned from the camera, standing by an empty roadside beside a small carry case. The professor asked if the case looked warm. My friend was puzzled, but started to look closer at the case – yeah, he thought, maybe it was warm. Maybe, thinking of that glow you get when people open chests in the movies – there was something warm inside it. Maybe, given the Noirish, Cold War stylings of the image (turned away from the viewer, the subject is inscrutable as a spy), something radioactive. Perhaps she’s going to hand over these hot goods, that’s why she’s on the road: on the run. The professor paused. ‘I asked if it looked worn’, he clarified. Not warm. And the tutorial went on. I still like my friend’s speculation better. Sometimes, the stories we tell, the interpretations we offer, when we don’t get […]

until 26.05. | #2024ARTatBerlin | Anaid Art Gallery shows from 26th April 2018 the exhibition UNTOUCHABLE LOVE with artworks by the artist Alexandru Rădvan. Anaid Art Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of Alexandru Rădvan’s (born 1977) solo show Untouchable Love, showcasing his most recent artworks. Alexandru Rădvan is one of the most intriguing Romanian contemporary artist who for more than a decade has questioned the relationship between contemporary society and the ancient myths and mythology. The exhibition Untouchable Love presents a series of large paintings in which the artist reinterprets the myths of Apollo and Daphne from the Greek Mythology. Apollo, the god of light, day, and art, insults the god of love, Eros, who takes revenge on him by shooting him with the arrow of love. Apollo falls in love with the chaste Daphne; despite the certainty that he will never be able to convince her to reciprocate. Daphne, to get rid of Apollo, asks her father to transform her into a laurel tree, and Apollo, in a final gesture of affection, grants immortality to the bay leaves to make them eternally green. Alexandru Rădvan is a painter employing large and voluptuous surfaces and who reinterprets old […]

until 09.09. | #2020ARTatBerlin | Sprüth Magers Berlin presents from 28. April 2018 an exhibition by the artist ANDRO. At the center of Andro Wekua’s new exhibition at Sprüth Magers is a life-size sculpture made of nickel silver – a silver-like alloy of copper, nickel and zinc – and a group of paintings. The untitled sculpture recalls Wekua’s earlier mannequin figures and continues their subtle formal vocabulary. The androgynous figure appears situated between the sexes; its body has a prepubescent, almost childlike look. On the back of the sculpture sits a small, black bronze Pegasus with purple wings—a futuristic element, childish toy and mythical reference in one. The physical proportions of this figure are realistic only at first glance; they are unthinkable in real life. The figure is a composite of various, non-related body parts. Before casting, it was composed of miscellaneous models of real limbs. Even the sculpture’s body posture probes the limits of what is physically possible. It recalls the Christ figure in Michelangelo’s unfinished Rondanini Pietà. In the original, the Virgin Mary stands behind her dead son and tries to hold him upright. Wekua’s figure stands in a pool; water runs from parallel slits on its arms […]

until 30.06. | #2017ARTatBerlin | Galerie Fahnemann shows from 20th April 2018 an exhibition by the artist Hans Hartung. Note: Exhibition “HANS HARTUNG Painting as an Experiment – Works from 1962-1989”, at the Kunstmuseum Bonn, 24 May to 19 August 2018 Exhibition period: Saturday 20th April to Saturday, 30th June 2018   Image caption: Hans Hartung, T1987-H24, 1987, Acryl auf Leinwand  acrylic on canvas, 95 x 250 cm Exhibition Hans Hartung – Galerie Fahnemann | Zeitgenössische Kunst | Contemporary Art | Ausstellungen Berlin | Kunst in Berlin | Galerien Berlin | ART at Berlin  

until 21.07. | #2004ARTatBerlin | Galerie 36 shows since 14th April the exhibition “Shapes & Symbols – Early advertising works 1953-1970” by the American photographer Bert Stern. Galerie 36 is pleased to present the first comprehensive exhibition of the visionary advertising images by American photographer Bert Stern (1929 – 2013) from the early fifties to the late sixties. The exhibition “Shapes & Symbols” shows a selection of iconic photographs that emerged during the highly productive time of his rise to become one of the leading advertising photographers. Many of the works exhibited have never before been publicly displayed outside publications and magazines of their time and can now be seen for the first time in terms of their artistic value. Campaign Smoothest of the Smooth, Smirnoff vodka 1957 Campaign The Prophetic Perugia for I. Miller, 1957 Campaign Driest of the Dry, Smirnoff vodka, 1955   Bert Stern is credited with having redefined advertising imagery in the early 1950s and decisively shaped the development of color advertising photography into an art form. Previously, advertising in magazines was used primarily to illustrate the text. Through his conceptual vision, Stern ushered in a new era of advertising, one where photographic images began to communicate much more elusive and seductive messages to consumers. One […]

until 17.05. | #2012ARTatBerlin | Galerie Berlin-Baku shows from 27th April 2018 the exhibition “Caught in Reality & Future” by the artist Sabine Burmester with a sound installation of Steven Kovar. To kick-off the Gallery Weekend we present for the 3rd time a “From Waste to Art” artist at our gallery. This year it is the German artist Sabine Burmester. As with Khalil Chishtee (2015) and Kitty Wales (2016), the artist gets the gallery space for free development and the installation is created within a specified period of time inside the gallery premises. Let’s get surprised! Ohne Titel 14-27 2014, Acryl, Mischtechnik, Altmetall, Wellpappe, Seidenpapier, Schelllack, Steine, Champagnerkreide auf Leinwand, 40 x 40cm Sabine Burmester “Materials from nature and everyday life play a very important role in my artwork. Old, proven, consumed, used, discarded materials are communicating with each other on canvas, they are interdependent but at the same time approaching, supporting and complementing each other. I consciously use their surface structures, their colours and characters for my compositions. In conjunction with a broad, complementary colour spectrum (acryl), they show the subject of being human, the transience, the persistence and discovery of new (living) spaces. I place the materials in a […]

until 23.06. | #2009ARTatBerlin | Galerie Hunchentoot shows from 20th April 2018 the exhibition “A PATH IS FORMED BY LAYING ONE STONE AT A TIME” by the artist Stefan Roigk. Vernissage: Friday, April 20, 2018 from 19 clock, 20 clock: Michael Barthel – sound collages & reading Exhibition period: Friday, April 20 to Saturday, June 23, 2018   Image caption: Courtesy by Galerie Hunchentoot – Stefan Roigk Exhibition Stefan Roigk – Galerie Hunchentoot | Opening Berlin | Contemporary Art | Zeitgenössische Kunst | Exhibitions Berlin |  Kunst in Berlin | Galleries Berlin | ART at Berlin

until 26.05. | #1999ARTatBerlin | Galerie Pugliese Levi shows from 27th April 2018 the exhibition”One Year Anniversary Show” with Maibritt Ulvedal Bjelke, Julian Anderson, Marc Lambrechts, Thibaut Duchenne, Xiaohua, Birgitte Lund, Tiina and Heiska, Rebecca Salter RA. Galerie Pugliese Levi celebrates its first anniversary with a group show presenting selected works of the gallery’s artists. Two new artists will be introduced on this occasion. The Finnish painter Tiina Heiska will have a solo show at the gallery in September 2018. With a strong sense of physicality and energy, the female figures of Tiina Heiska are set into virtual spaces to unfold a dramatic tension. Referencing photographic and filmic situations, the paintings question the relationship of body, image and personality. Heiska’s paintings describe the human condition; they are intense, mysterious and sometimes troubling. Rebecca Salter RA is a special guest of the anniversary exhibition. The British artist has received international acclaim for her paintings and printmaking. While living in Japan for many years, Salter studied traditional Japanese woodblock printing and she combines this interest with her main practice in painting. The trace of the human hand is paramount and its presence energises the surface, subtly disturbing an underlying calm but providing […]

until 02.06. | #2003ARTatBerlin | Galerie Martin Mertens shows from 26th April 2018 the exhibition “New York” by the artist Daniel Bodner. The American painter Daniel Bodner began painting in the mid-1980s in New York. His focus was on the human figure. With his move to Amsterdam in 1990, he became more concerned with the relationship between figure and surrounding space. From 2005, the representation of light and the question of how light can describe space and the human figure, or in certain cases also blur or dissolve, became increasingly important. His paintings increasingly took up formal aspects of photography, whereby Bodner is not concerned with imitating photographs, but with the aspect of the transience of photographs. The yellowing of old negatives and the chemical processes in his photographs became a central aspect of his paintings. In his pictures, he takes up photographic decay processes such as mold or oxidation as visible metaphors for human experiences such as loneliness, alienation, memory and longing. The works in this group of works are the result of years of very fundamental study of the human figure in urban space. Bodner transfers fleeting New York street scenes and the barely perceptible glittering against the […]

until 21.04. | #2000ARTatBerlin | Galerie Max Hetzler shows from 26. Januar 2018 the exhibition LADI ROGEURS: SIR LOUDRAGE – a still life by the artist LORIS GRÉAUD at the  Gallery in Goethestraße. Galerie Max Hetzler is pleased to announce the upcoming solo exhibition LADI ROGEURS: SIR LOUDRAGE – a still life by Loris Gréaud at Goethestraße 2/3. Since the beginning of the 2000s, Loris Gréaud has pursued an atypical path in the field of contemporary art. His work prioritises the idea of the ‘project’. Using this temporally limited concept as a frame for his practice enables the artist to intervene with the given conditions of space and time. Systematically blurring and erasing the limits and borders between fiction and reality, Gréaud’s projects create fluid, challenging and otherworldly experiences. Gréaud’s first solo exhibition LADI ROGEURS with Galerie Max Hetzler in Paris in the beginning of this year was conceived as a three-dimensional sketch, encompassing the entire gallery space. In the spirit of the cinematic cross-fade principle, the show in Berlin is a continuation of Paris, reconfiguring the gallery space while drawing from the codes of a still life. Tinted in a purple, diffuse light, the space is interrupted by organically formed sculptures, […]

until 20.05. | #1997ARTatBerlin | Galerie Verein Berliner Künstler (VBK) shows from 21st April 2018 the group exhibition “totalitär UPDATE 18” with artworks by the artists of the Berlin artist club VBK. Sandra Becker, Viola Bendzko, Gerda Berger, Birgit Borggrebe, Catherine Bourdon, Conrad Brockstedt, BUCCO, Barbara Czarnojahn, Christoph Damm, Ute Deutz, Christian Ebel, Burghild Eichheim, Ute Faber, Monika Funke-Stern, Gerhard Gabel, Marianne Gielen, Lupe Godoy, Axel Gundrum, Margret Holz, Hella Horstmeier, Rosika Jankó-Glage, Jürgen Kellig, Karsten Ketsch, Susanne Kessler, Claudia Kochsmeier, Karoline Koeppel, Matthias Koeppel, Simone Kornfeld, Maria Korporal, Joan Lazeanu , lna Lindemann, Peter Lindenberg, Dorothea Markner-Weiss, Nele Probst, Volker Nikel, Larissa Nod, Michael Otto, POGO, Renate Pfrommer, Ute Richter, Astrid Roeken, Regina Roskoden, Franziska Rutishauser, Peter Schlangenbader, Robert Schmidt-Matt, Sabine Schneider, Bernadette Schröger, Evelyn Sommerhaff, SOOKI, Ruza Spak, Richard Stimmei, Anita Straud, Andrea Sunder-Plassmann & Sigi Torinus, Helga Wagner, Gerard Waskievitz, Gundrun Wernet, Karla Woisnitza, Barbara Zirpins, Ayca Nina Zuch Project Management: Sandra Becker Jürgen Kellig, Vernetzung, 2017 (Detail) ARTS CLUB BERLIN at the VSK presents at the exhibition on Monday, 07. May. 2018.19.30 clock “Materiality digital – everything programmed? Reflections on the Power of Digital Technologies “, lecture by Gertrud Schrader, artist and lecturer of the Leibniz […]

until 06.05. | #1993ARTatBerlin | SAVVY Contemporary currently shows the exhibition WE HAVE DELIVERED OURSELVES FROM THE TONAL – of, with, towards, on Julius Eastman. After last year’s kick-off with LET SONORITIES RING in the framework of the MaerzMusik Festival by Berliner Festpspiele, we are delighted to present the results of a year filled with research, reflection and inspiration through and on the life and work of Julius Eastman. WE HAVE DELIVERED OURSELVES FROM THE TONAL – Of, with, towards, on Julius Eastman is an exhibition, and a program of performances, concerts and lectures that deliberate around concepts beyond the predominantly Western musicological format of the tonal or harmonic. The project looks at the work of the African American composer, musician and performer beyond the framework of what is today understood as minimalist music, within a larger, always gross and ever-growing understanding of it—i.e. conceptually and geo-contextually. Together with musicians, visual artists, researchers and archivers we aim to explore a non-linear genealogy of Eastman’s practice and his cultural, political and social weight, and situate his work within a broader rhizomatic relation of musical epistemologies and practices. For the project, new substantial artworks and musical pieces have been commissioned and will […]

until 06.05. | #1990ARTatBerlin | Künstlerhaus Bethanien shows since 13th April 2018 a group exhibition by the artist Brook Andrew, Timur Celik | Erdoğan Zümrütoğlu , Muriel Gallardo Weinstein, Tomoyuki Ueno and Ze Wei. The artists are presented during Gallery Weekend 2018 in this exhibitions: Brook Andrew Stretching the Guidelines of Glue Timur Celik | Erdoğan Zümrütoğlu Eyewitness Muriel Gallardo Weinstein On weaving a basket Tomoyuki Ueno Schwarzwald Ze Wei Peace is upon me the day of my birth, and the day of my death, and the day of my being raised up alive.* *The noble Qur’an, Surat Maryam {19:33} Brook Andrew Stretching the Guidelines of Glue is Brook Andrew’s first solo exhibition in Berlin. His interdisciplinary arts practice uses new and historical forms, images and text to draw comparisons between Australian and international histories of colonialism and modernity. He aims to make forgotten stories visible and generate new dialogue around dominant narratives and blind-spots in pedagogical and artistic practices, offering alternative choices for interpreting history in the world today. These perspectives are informed by his cultural inheritance of Australian Wiradjuri (Aboriginal) and Celtic ancestry. Brook Andrew’s presentation at Künstlerhaus Bethanien combines earlier and more recent work reflecting on his research in Berlin over […]

until 26.05. | #1987ARTatBerlin | Esther Schipper currently shows the exhibition AA Bronson + General Idea, 1968-2018. AA Bronson + General Idea, 1968–2018 is the first exhibition of selected works by both the group and its surviving member, AA Bronson, presented as a continuity. Partz and Zontal died in 1994. Ausstellungsdaten: Friday, 27th April bis Samstag, 26th. Mai 2018   Image Caption: AA Bronson, Hotel Photos, 1995-2000, series of 5 color C-prints, 27,9 x 35,6 cm each (detail) Photo © AA Bronson Exhibition AA Bronson + General Idea, 1968-2018 – Esther Schipper | Zeitgenössische Kunst | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin | Kunst in Berlin | Galleries Berlin | ART at Berlin

until 24.06. | #1983ARTatBerlin | König Galerie shows from 27th April 2018 the exhibition “When Dinosaurs Ruled The Earth” by the artist Claudia Comte. The exhibition will be on display in the nave of the gallery, the nave of the former St. Agnes church. KÖNIG GALERIE is pleased to present When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth, Claudia Comte’s second exhibition at the gallery. Comte has conceived an immersive environment comprising spruce trees, new sculptures, and a multi-channel video installation for the nave of the space. When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth brings together multiple aspects of Comte’s work with a particular focus on the history of materials and the play between ancient and digital technologies. Returning to the use of wood, marble, and bronze in craft and industrial production which have long played an important role in her work, the exhibition can be seen to ‘look back to look forward’. In uncovering prehistoric technologies, as well as systems and languages in contemporary forms, the exhibition proposes that connections between these ideas might provide help to navigate the Anthropocene. In the main space of KÖNIG GALERIE, a large grid-formation features twenty spruce trees suspended from the ceiling – each tree revealing a carved […]

until 02.06. | #1980ARTatBerlin | Galerie Poll presents the exhibition “Johannes Daniel. Painting and Daniel Poller. Photography” In the second part of its 2 x 2 exhibition series, Galerie Poll presents a painter and a photographer – Johannes Daniel and Daniel Poller – for the first time in Berlin. At the beginning, the painter Justus Bräutigam and the photographer Susanne Keichel also showed new works. Johannes Daniel makes use of conventional means in painting and develops current images from them. This process of becoming a picture is the focus of his examination of the conditions and possibilities of painting. He is particularly interested in transforming everyday situations, visual experiences in art exhibitions or listening and reading experiences as well as digital images into his artistic work. For Daniel, this results in a continuous process of developing and formulating images: “For me, the compulsion to continue lies in repeating and sampling pictorial thoughts and fragments and in the basic irrecoverability of an intellectual construct in pictorial expression. For the next formulation is the renewed attempt to thematize the relationship between the inner and the painted picture”. The oil paintings are single paintings, but they are always also related to the paintings […]

until 16.06. | #1977ARTatBerlin | Magic Beans Gallery shows from 27. April 2018 the exhibition “Beware of the Seductive Traps of Spiritual and Psychic Power” by the artist Seungmo Park. Magic Beans is pleased to present Seungmo Park´s first solo exhibition in Berlin. Titled Beware of the Seductive Traps of Spiritual and Psychic Power, the exhibition will be composed of works from several of Park´s diverse series as well as a new sculpture. Together, the works present the artist´s engagement with the evanescent properties of seeing and sensing, presenting artworks whose very appearance evinces the transitory nature of perception. The central work of the exhibition is an installation involving a large new wire and pulp sculpture. This work is in the rough shape of walking person, and will be placed in the first room of the gallery, offering the interactivity typical of some of Park´s Maya series, which are also being shown. Seungmo Park, Ego, 2018, Edelstahl Gewebe, 87 x 30 x 86 cm While the form is recognizable, its globular yet delicate look creates a certain distance to the object. Nevertheless, it generates within the viewer an affinity usually reserved for more “realistic” sculptures or artwork, and it is in […]

until 01.06. | #1974ARTatBerlin | Migrant Birds Space presents from 20th April 2018 the exhibition [TAIKONAUT] by the artist Lu Sisi. Migrant Bird Space Berlin is delighted to announce [TAIKONAUT], a new solo show by Lu Sisi that brings key visual and sonic works from the artist’s The Age of Digital / Analogue and 㸚 (li) series together under one roof. The Age of Digital / Analogue is a series forming one of the nine parts of Lu Sisi’s monumental epic The Age of Digital. Lu’s 2011-13 epic offers a historical reflection on the industrial revolution, its parts ranging from epoch-marking new industrial technologies such as printing presses, weaving looms, cameras and steam engines to the Welsh forests once lost to industrialisation but now regrown. Lu Sisi’s visionary treatment of this history rivals an epic poem, majestic in its endeavour and pathos. Like a taikonaut from the future who roves back through history, it fuses and intersects chaos, technology and romanticism. Lu Sisi shifts his unique gaze from the industrial revolution to a broader theme in history and human creative endeavour in li 㸚 (2017). A digital audio-visual creation already experienced by museum-goers in Beijing and Shanghai, this is a […]

until 31.08. | #1970ARTatBerlin | Arndt Art Agency shows from 27th April the exhibition Plastic Democracy by the artist Eko Nugroho. Vernissage: Friday, 27th April 2018, 6:00-8:00 p.m. Exhibition period: Friday, 27th April to Friday, 31st August 2018   Image caption: Eko Nugroho, “Blooming Plastic Flowers” (2017), manual embroidery, 276 × 206 cm Exhibition Plastic Democracy – Arndt Art Agency | Contemporary Art – Kunst in Berlin | ART@Berlin

until 21.04. | #1967ARTatBerlin | Dorothée Nilsson Gallery currently shows the exhibition GEGEN DEN STRICH by the artist Martin Mlecko. Photography, film and literature have constantly inspired Martin Mlecko. They became both a subject and a medium for him and have particularly influenced his subtle view of everyday life. The exhibition “Gegen den Strich” introduces Mlecko’s world of thoughts with a selection of conceptual works from various phases of his artistic work. Based on the title of Joris Huysmans’ novel “Gegen den Strich” (Against Nature) with the same title, which was important to him, Gegen den Strich alternates between ideas of reality, aspects of beauty and the complex search for their discovery. Martin Mlecko, born October 15, 1951 in Essen and died on September 25, 2016 in Berlin, was a German photographer, conceptual artist and filmmaker. Vernissage: Friday, 06th April 2018, 6:00-9:00 p.m. Exhibition period: Saturday, 07th April to Saturday, 21st April 2018   Image caption: Martin Mlecko: Bibliothek XIV, from the series Evidenz (Libraries) © The Estate of Martin Mlecko Exhibition GEGEN DEN STRICH – Dorothée Nilsson Gallery | Contemporary Art – Kunst in Berlin | ART@Berlin

until 25.05. | #1964ARTatBerlin | Gallery Jochen Hempel shows from 27th April 2018 the exhibition  by the artist Jong Oh. Jong Oh’s artistic practice is quite particular since he does not use a studio but creates minimal sculptures in situ that respond to a given spatial situation. Responding to the nuanced configuration of each site, the artist constructs spatial structures by suspending and interconnecting a limited selection of materials: rope, chains, fishing wire, perspex, wooden and metal rods and painted threads. The elements of the work seem to float, and depending on the spatial relationship of the viewer with it these elements are connected and cross each other or appear as absolutely independent, suggesting additional dimensions to the simple three-dimensional space. Sometimes the threads that suspend these elements are practically invisible and sometimes the artist paints the thread lightly, reinforcing the visual presence of the element. Jong Oh also uses lighting to create his compositions, where real shadows or painted lines by the artist in graphite extend his ethereal structures and favor the effect of optical illusion in a dialogue of lines and planes. His practice defies the traditionally expected assumption in sculpture of dense masses and heavy objects, acting […]

until 29.06. | #1949ARtatBerlin | Brutto Gusto Fine Arts shows from 27th April 2018 the exhibition “Don’t touch me (I can seriously hurt you)” with artworks by the artist Frank Bruggeman. It all started in the summer of 2017 when Frank Bruggeman bought a globular, hanging, Mobach vase online. To his dismay, the late-1970s Dutch design icon arrived in pieces. Something had gone terribly wrong in transit. Attempting to repair it was futile: there were simply too many fragments. When Bruggeman realised he couldn’t throw away the shards, he began to think about another use for them. He decided that they should once again become part of a three-dimensional vase. This was the genesis of his first shard vase, in which he attached the fragments to a cylindrical container in such a way that they only gained in expressiveness. The result is a new vase that looks far more fragile than the ‘donor vase’, while simultaneously conveying the message: don’t touch me because I can seriously hurt you. Frank Bruggeman, Scherfvaas 3 After that first shard vase, Bruggeman realised that similar objects could result from a completely different emotion to that of sadness at a damaged vase. In many languages […]

until 09.06. | #1957ARTatBerlin | Galerie Katharina Maria Raab presents from 14th April the exhibition NOTHING ESCAPES MY EYES  by the artist David Krippendorff. 1871 Giuseppe Verdi’s Aida had its world premiere in Cairo at the Khedivial Opera House. 1971 The Khedivial Opera House was destroyed by fire. A multi-storied parking garage was built in its place, but the square still retains its original name: Opera Square, Meidan El Opera. 2013 For the first time in the opera house’s history, Aida was cancelled in protest against the attempts by the Muslim Brotherhood to impose their control over culture. Katharina Maria Raab is pleased to present David Krippendorff’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. The show presents his film Nothing Escapes My Eyes, accompanied by a series of related works on paper. Nothing Escapes My Eyes tells a universal story that unfolds without words, depicting the silent transformation of a place and a human being, both subjected to the melancholy of conforming. Inspired by Verdi’s Aida, the film metaphorically depicts current issues of cultural identity, loss and the pressures to conform. We see a woman (actress Hiam Abbass) sitting in front of a mirror framed by light bulbs, in the process of shedding one identity for […]

until 14.07. | #1954ARTatBerlin | Ikeda Gallery shows from 14th April 2018 the exhibition by the artist George Condo. Exhibition period: Saturday, 14th April to Saturday, 14th July 2018   Image caption: George Condo, “Untitled”, 1989, oil on canvas, 55.8 x 45.7 cm Exhibition George Condo – Ikeda Gallery | Contemporary Art – Kunst in Berlin | ART at Berlin