until 17.06. | #3470ARTatBerlin | Migrant Bird Space presents from 13. May 2022 the exhibition with photoraphy works by the artist Li Xiang alias Gulu. Born in 1983 in China, Li Xiang graduated from Beijing Film Academy, majoring in Film and Television Advertising. Took up photography in 2008, he initially started focusing on contemporary Chinese subcultures, the idea of the body as a weapon, and the reality as the foundation of existence, constantly trying to reject definitions and labels. In recent years, Gulu’s goal has been to restore the identity of those who have been “materialized” by society; to do so, he employs different techniques, such as photography, texts, handwork, and painting. Gulu, Ausstellung “Suddenly Retreating Desire”, Simulacra Studio, Beijing, 2020 In his latest solo exhibition “Suddenly Retreating Desire” Li Xiang encourage young people from all over the world to show their true self in front of the camera. He furthermore reconstructs by hand the reality depicted in the Polaroids taken, breaking the limitations of the square and blurring the boundary between photography and painting. As an artist whose main theme is the body, Gulu argues it is not an object, but the embodiment of emotions; it has nothing to […]

until 16.07. | #3469ARTatBerlin | nüüd.berlin gallery presents from 3. June 2022 (Opening: 02.06.) the exhibition SCAN with works by the Croatian artist Deni Horvatić. In Horvatić’s life-size photographs of scenes from everyday life, the artist removes the distance between the environment and the sitter by choosing a particular point of view: Shot from below, the images hide as much as they reveal, for they deny the viewer a glimpse of the part of the body we most immediately associate with identity – the face. Deni Horvatić: SCAN, Bedroom 1-3, 2020, C-Print mounted on Dibond, 220 x 168 The best portraits give us the intimate feeling of being face to face with the person portrayed. But even in the most intimate embrace, the constraints of the physical world prevent us from fully uniting with that person; two bodies cannot command the same point in space. Deni Horvatić: SCAN, Accident 1-6, 2020, C-Print mounted on Dibond, 142 x 83 cm Deni Horvatić defies this in his SCAN project. Using a scanner-like camera, the artist records his subjects in such a way that the viewer is offered a point of view that he literally shares with the sitter: I see you from […]

until 06.07. | #3466ARTatBerlin | Galerie Pugliese Levi presents since 5. May 2022 the second solo show Safe Place by the Hungarian artist Tünde Újszászi. Safe Place presents recent paintings along with a series of ink drawings on paper. Repetition, as a soothing and meditative act, is the main focus of Újszászi’s work and the theme of this exhibition. Departing from the special weaving techniques and small foldings of previous installations, gestural repetitions take place here on canvas. Taming the passing of time and overcoming her fears remain Tünde Újszászi’s preoccupations, along with her original research on the medium and all its possible uses. Tünde Újszászi, Safe Place 06, 2021, acrylic, oil pastel on canvas, 100 x 70 x 4 cm “Repetition is safe. The reason why I always aspire to achieve it is because I’m afraid to immerse myself in the void.“ Tünde Újszászi This exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue. Exhibition dates: Thursday, 5. May  – Wednesday, 6. July 2022 Meeting with the artist: Saturday, 7. May, from 2:00 to 8:00 pm     Exhibition Tünde Újszászi – Pugliese Levi | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin

until 27.05. | #3464ARTatBerlin | Peres Projects shows from 29. April 2022 the exhibition am I dead yet by the artist Stanislava Kovalcikova. Stanislava Kovalcikova’s (b. 1988 in Czechoslovakia) elegiac canvases which depict human figures, are studies of painting itself. Drawing on contemporary and historical perspectives of the human figure, her work directly references art historical styles. “If you compare it to organic processes like mushrooms under the earth, that all of a sudden pop out, but which is way smaller than the entire system. And sometimes I really have to wait for years, I know if I do it too early then I ruin the painting” Stanislava Kovalcikova Stanislava Kovalcikova, Those who smile will also bite, 2021, Painting – Oil, foil on canvas, 80 x 80 cm (32 x 32 in) Equally, Kovalcikova’s work operates through a tradition of Eastern orthodox mysticism. An exploration of the figure as an icon, the individual psychic experience portrayed in her work is always referential to something larger – an archetype from a collective narrative. Opening: Friday, 29. April 2022, 6:00 – 8:00 pm Exhibition dates: Friday, 29. April – Friday, 27. May 2022 Special opening for the Gallery Weekend Berlin: Friday, 29 April […]

until 11.06. | #3462ARTatBerlin | Galerie Friese shows from 30. April 2022 (Opening: 29.04.) the exhibition 7 Häuser by the artist Horst Antes. In his exhibition 7 Häuser (7 Houses), Antes shows seven monumental paintings, some of which consist of several parts, depicting the dark, reduced houses typical of Antes. The works, including newly created works, are being shown for the first time in the synopsis curated by the artist himself. Horst Antes, who took the shock of the Falklands War – that is, that the West felt able to wage war after and despite the experience of World War II – as an occasion to banish the figure from his work, has since devoted himself to images of figures, images of houses. The houses are dense, self-contained areas of colour most vividly set in relation to one another. They elude hasty readability. They are monstrous signs of life itself that have become images. Horst Antes, Haus Sekulic (für Klaus Gallwitz), 2021, Acrylic on canvas, 130 x 100 cm, Photo: Andrea Lensini, Siena Horst Antes (*1936) studied under HAP Grieshaber at the State Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe, where he also held a professorship from 1984 to 2000. Antes exhibited […]

until 11.06. | #3459ARTatBerlin | REITER | Berlin prospect presents from 29. April 2022 the exhibition DA IST NUR ZUKUNFT by the artist Thomas Sommer. Opening for Gallery Weekend Berlin next week. Thomas Sommer is showing large multi-part works created over the last three years. Thomas Sommer paints sublime landscapes inspired by the impact of nature and its magnificence on the soul and body. His work specifically refers to the Romantic tradition of landscape painting and uses colour palettes and painterly gestures by greats of the art historical canon such as Caspar David Friedrich, Iwan Aiwazowski, Johann Heinrich Füssli or even William Turner. Painted two centuries after the models Sommer cites, however, his landscapes show traces of our present-day relationship to a natural environment irreversibly damaged by us humans. Sommer’s work aims to make tangible the problematic position of nature in our relationships to life as an object of ongoing public concern. In his latest works, Thomas Sommer combines several paintings into a compositional whole in order to capture the complexity of the subject of his choice. On a metaphorical level, this reveals the fractured relationship to nature, while the bringing together of individual parts to form a whole painting […]

until 22.07. | #3456ARTatBerlin | Meyer Riegger presents from 29. April 2022 two exhibitions by the artists Eva Koťátková and Meret Oppenheim. The gallery shows the exhibition “Blankets, Monsters, Anna and the World” with works by the artist Eva Koťátková and the exhibition “Meret Oppenheim” by the artist Meret Oppenheim. Eva Koťátková, Sleeping body going to battle, detail,  2021, installation, textile costume, metal objects, 148 x 100 x 100 cm. Photo: Lino Santo   Opening: Friday, 29. April 2022 – 6:00 to 9:00 pm. Exhibition dates: Friday, 29. April to Friday, 22. July 2022 Special opening for the Galerie Weekend Berlin: Friday, 29. April 2022 – 11:00 am to 9:00 pm; Saturday 30. April and Sunday, 1. May 2022 – 11:00 am to 7:00 pm     Image caption title: Meret Oppenheim, Tätowiertes Portrait, 1980, stencil and spray on photograph on light cardboard, framed, 50 x 38 cm Exhibition Eva Koťátková + Meret Oppenheim – Meyer Riegger | Contemporary Art – Kunst in Berlin | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin

until 17.06. | #3453ARTatBerlin | Kicken Berlin presents from 30. April 2022 (Opening: 29.04.) the exhibition Projects (MoMA 1973 et al.) by the artist Klaus Rinke. Haubrok foundation shows Wasserwerk Rinke at the same time (Opening there: 24.04.). On the occasion of the Gallery Weekend, Kicken Berlin, in cooperation with the Haubrock foundation, is showing extensive work complexes from the 1960s to the 1980s by Klaus Rinke (*1939) in two parallel exhibition projects. Rinke counts among the most important contemporary artists internationally. As a pioneer of performance and action art, his works explored the relationship between body in space and time. Trained at the Folkwangschule in Essen from 1957-1960 and then a professor of sculpture in Dusseldorf from 1974 until 2004, Rinke feels at home in a variety of disciplines and embodies like few others an expanded definition of the artist. He is drawer, painter, photographer, sculptor, action, and concept artist at once. The haubrok foundation’s exhibition of the series Wasserwerk Rinke focuses on early performative works and is accompanied by the exhibition Sequenzen. Konzeptuelle Fotographie by Angelika Platen, which shows Rinke’s environment in the 1970s. Entitled Klaus Rinke | Projects (MoMA 1973 et al.), Kicken Berlin will present a […]

until 02.07. | #3449ARTatBerlin | RASCHE RIPKEN shows from 29. April 2022 the exhibition „Silent City“ by the Dutch artist Jan Ros. City, architecture, mobility – these are themes Jan Ros has explored for a long time. Using photographs as source material, he transforms them into multifarious paintings mainly oriented toward space and object, but which also engender abstract passages defined entirely by color. He switches the degree of acuity and path of movement depending on the subject, modeling sculptural volumes out of broad brushstrokes, and working with stencil-like inserts and sharp contours that stand out from their painted surroundings like cut-outs. Jan Ros, Hansa Staircase, 2022, oil on wood Ros’s repertoire includes urban landscapes and famous modernist, International-style buildings, as well as images of cars and airplanes, or of transitory sites like gas stations and transit terminals, which often recollect filmed images, like scenes from a road movie. Jan Ros, Tow Truck, 2022, oil on wood Furthermore, his paintings of empty interiors – which feature views of urban panoramas through a window – also demonstrate that the interaction of inside and outside, light and shade, plays an important role in his pictorial compositions. Opening: Friday, 29. April 2022, 6:00 […]

until 11.06. | #3446ARTatBerlin | ARTCO Galerie Berlin presents from 28. April 2022 the exhibition “Feels like home again” with works by the artist Adeolu Osibodu.   Exhibition dates: Thursday, 28. April – Saturday, 11. June 2022     Image caption: Adeolu Osibodu Exhibition Adeolu Osibodu – ARTCO Galerie Berlin | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin

until 04.06. | #3443ARTatBerlin | Jarmuschek + Partner shows from 23. April 2022 (Opening on 22.04.) the group exhibition Accurate Glitch by the artists Filip Gudović, Luc Palmer, Katharina Stadler, Andreas Steinbrecher and Denise Werth. Jarmuschek + Partner presents five artists from the class of Prof. Thomas Scheibitz at the Düsseldorf Art Academy. Under the title Accurate Glitch, paintings and three-dimensional works by Filip Gudović, Luc Palmer, Katharina Stadler, Andreas Steinbrecher and Denise Werth will be shown. The individual artistic approaches presented here are united by the acceptance of the flawed as the basis for the work: even the planned and accurate action in the creative process is by no means a guarantee for the absence of glitches. Understanding this as a challenge, the artists constructively deal with ideas and expectations regarding the subject and in comparison to the resulting work. A reflection on this is also possible for the viewer. Filip Gudovic (*1992 in Belgrade, Serbia) creates a system in his paintings by means of geometry, which guides the distribution of colors and shapes. In each painting he explores the freedoms of intuition within the self-imposed construction. Abstraction is both process and method to precede the developement of the […]

until 04.06 | #3440ARTatBerlin | Semjon Contemporary presents from 29. April 2022 (Opening 28.04) the exhibition Coming together by the artist Dirk Rathke. Dirk Rathke, O.T. (#851), 2018, 65 x 38 x 9cm, oil on cotton, Photo: Dirk Rathke Opening: Thursday, 28. April 2022, 7:00 – 9:30 pm Exhibition dates: Friday, 29. April to Saturday, 4. June 2022 Special opening fo the Gallery Weekend: Sunday, 1. May 2022, 1:00 am – 4 pm     Exhibition Dirk Rathke – Semjon Contemporary | Zeitgenössische Kunst – Contemporary Art – Exhibitions Berlin Galleries – ART at Berlin

bis 25.06. | #3438ARTatBerlin | Luisa Catucci Gallery presents from 6. May 2022 (Opening on 05.05) the duo-exhibition LOST MILLENNIALS with painting and sculpture by the artists William Grob and Valère Mougeot. The exhibition LOST MILLENNIALS presents a dialog between British artist William Grob, and French artist Valère Mougeot, both part of the Millennials Generation, also known as Generation Y. The show takes the title from the series of paintings that William Grob started during the pandemic, when for the first time he – like most people of his whole generation – experienced the time going on a less speedy rhythm, allowing him to catch up with his thoughts and reflections on life, identity, and circumstances. The same happened to Valère Mougeot, that took advantage of the forced stop to ponder on his situation and ended up deciding to quit his secure job as a graphic designer to plunge into a full-time investigation of reality through his artistic practice. Valère Mougeot, Pigeons Millennials are facing a rough time figuring out their position, being lost, and confused by the schizophrenic-bipolar claims of modern society. They are required at the same time to be ecological, though compulsive consumers, to be sympathetic, though […]

until 04.06. | #3435ARTatBerlin | FeldbuschWiesnerRudolph (FWR) presents from 29. April 2022 the exhibition MEER ALS DAS by the artist Thorsten Brinkmann. „In my bronzes they (= the things) are robbed of their actual function. (…) Basically they are only sculpture. Representatives of themselves.” (Thorsten Brinkmann, 2022) As a medial novelty in the artist’s repertoire, a parcours of miniature bronze sculptures populates the exhibition spaces of the gallery. In fact, they continue an endless series of works begun years ago, that of the “True Romans” (2005/06), which the artist has now cast in bronze and partially painted in color. One example is the symbiotic connection between a funnel and a power plug cable. In between are new sculptures such as the ostrich leather handbag running along on dog legs with the gallant title “Lifti L`Otrûche”. All seemingly vibrant constellations with playful ease – though they are difficult to lift. Thorsten Brinkmann, Äglyle, 2022, C-print and Found object, 40 x 30 x 11 cm  „At the moment I am working on new visual pieces. (…) They are surreal-looking horizons, combined with real found objects. (…) It’s a romanticized view, of course; (…) into the distant infinity, constructed through the close up […]

until 10.06. | #3432ARTatBerlin | Galerie Gilla Lörcher presents from 29. April 2022 the exhibition It cut through blood by the artist Joanna Jones. Joanna Jones has developed a very idiosyncratic visual language over the last four decades, which is probably most closely related to the Abstract Expressionism of Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Helen Frankenthaler or Grace Hartigan. And yet Jones’ approach is quite different, also more radical and immediate. Her imagery is very energetic and expressive, and she allows the viewer to participate in her incredible sense of colour and tone. The painter uses her body exclusively for the application of paint, whereby it is not about frottage here but rather about dancing, flowing movement in the paint and a direct expression of an inner world, her thoughts and feelings. Joanna Jones places the generally large-format canvases on the floor of her studio and proceeds in a kind of ‘blind’ flight into the colour, she then repeats the process again and again, gets up and looks at what has been created almost blindly, and then decides with which colour, with which consistency of colour or with which movement she continues her composition. The depth effect that her paintings […]

until 04.06. | #3429ARTatBerlin | BBA Gallery shows from 28. April 2022 (Opening on 29.04.) the exhibition Hereafter by the artist Rhys Himsworth. A challenger of space and time, Welsh-born artist Rhys Himsworth captures our fast-paced world and ever-changing environments, transforming them into romantic artworks where time stands still. He will present his innovative, artistic approach in his upcoming solo exhibition Hereafter at the BBA Gallery in Berlin. Rhys Himsworth, Anaphalis javanica Aurum Argentumque, 2021, Digital UV ink, acrylic and crushed computer housing, on aluminium, 80 cm x 100 cm, © Rhys Himsworth / BBA Gallery In the form of a peaceful protest against mass production, techno-capitalism and the detours of global trade, Himsworth has developed a circular artistic approach to give technical waste an afterlife. In this way, he undermines our linear perception of time and resists the pace of mass consumption by reducing the sprint of our fast-moving social system into stasis. Rhys Himsworth, Topographies of Decline #01, 2020, Digital UV ink, acrylic and crushed LCD screens on aluminium,155 cm x 122 cm, © Rhys Himsworth / BBA Gallery Himsworth has been collecting, chopping and recycling redundant electronic equipment for over a decade – long before the subject […]

until 14.05. | #3426ARTatBerlin | lorch + seidel contemporary shows from 14. April 2022 in temporary showroom at aquabitArt (Auguststraße 35) the exhibition with paintings and glass objects by the artist Julius Weiland. Julius Weiland’s latest paintings revolve around the architecture of the 1960s and 1970s – in particular socialist modernism and socalled Brutalism. The fascination aroused by these buildings lies in the logical rigor of their design language, as well as in their impression of hyperbole, which appears so alien today. The painterly interpretation does not however betray which era is being invoked. Abstraction and altered coloration give rise to new architectures that seem as contemporary as they seem utopian. Facades are disaggregated into small areas of color, and spaces presented in dramatic perspectives. Contrasting with all of this are Julius Weiland’s glass objects, whose soft organic shapes and mellow colors are reminiscent of the natural world. Allusions to moods and natural phenomena, they elude all semantic explicitness. Linking them element to the paintings, evidently, is composition – the merging of forms and colors into coherent unities. Forms that grow from the inside out are suggestive of the primordial and endlessly transformative powers of nature. Julius Weiland, l. Fahrstuhl, Oil […]

until 04.06. | #3423ARTatBerlin | Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery Berlin presents from 30. April 2022 (Opening on 29.04) the exhibition Bloomin´eck by the artist Lee Simmonds. A figure sits in an embroidered armchair against a purple curtain patterned with roses. It is, in some ways, a familiar, almost stereotypical middle-class domestic setting and yet, something’s amiss: where the figure’s head should be a white orchid is growing, its tendrils creating a spindly bridge between a vase and person’s neck; their hands are translucent and smokey; jagged chunks of earth hang suspended in the air. Bloomin ‘eck, the title painting of British artist Lee Simmonds’ solo exhibition at Kristin Hjellegjerde Berlin, welcomes us into a world where nothing is quite as it seems. Simmonds’ compositions typically emerge through a deep engagement with the process of painting – his tools and materials. With this particular show, the artist found himself reflecting on some of his earlier works and how and why his practice had evolved in a certain direction. ‘I was struck by the intensity of detail in those images, which is something I’ve tried to avoid more recently because I tend to be working from my imagination and at a much larger […]

until 30.06. | #3420ARTatBerlin | Sprüth Magers Berlin presents from 29. April 2022 the exhibition IN WARM SHROUD. KISSING THE BLOOM CRUX. A FROST WINDOW. by the artist Sterling Ruby. Since the early 2000s, Sterling Ruby has moved nimbly between mediums and disciplines, connecting art, craft, popular culture, history, philosophy and other fields to produce a rich compendium of objects and images. Deeply invested in the materials he uses, Ruby incorporates their histories and tactile qualities into each of his series, as well as his autobiography and world view. The examination of underlying social structures and social power constructs is an essential starting point for Ruby. Through compositional strategies such as verticality, duality, shifts in scale, the combination of the most diverse materials as well as references to craft and mechanisms of the creative process itself, the paintings, textile works, ceramics and sculptures installed in the Berlin gallery display central subjects of his artistic practice. The title, IN WARM SHROUD. KISSING THE BLOOM CRUX. A FROST WINDOW., offers a lyrical entry point to the exhibition in an abbreviated, poetic language, nodding to the titles of several bodies of work. A group of new WIDW. paintings (short for “window”), an ongoing […]

until 04.06. | #3417ARTatBerlin | neugerriemschneider presents from 30. April 2022 (Opening on 29.04) the exhibition Faule Stellen by the artist Thomas Bayrle. The gallery is opening a new gallery space at Christinenstraße 18-19, also with an exhibition Durchscheinen ist alles by the artist Thomas Bayrle (until 20.08). Bayrle’s Faule Stellen features paintings and mixed-media prints that continue his career-long investigation of humankind’s relationship to industrialized mass production, employing multiplied modular forms to create intricate tableaux of modernity. Durchscheinen ist alles, the inaugural exhibition at our Christinenstrasse space, shows Bayrle engaging with his position among artistic peers, including Martin Kippenberger, Yayoi Kusama, Pablo Picasso and Elaine Sturtevant. Recent works by Bayrle in Faule Stellen expand his adoption of the smartphone’s form as a component of imagemaking, deploying his signature technique of creating images from swarms of smaller, often distorted and warped motifs to shape portraits of industrial robots. He takes as his focus the mechanical arms now commonplace for repetitive manufacturing applications, building upon the artist’s fascination with the industrial mass production that continues to inform his practice. The pieces of machinery are positioned in the center of each composition, shown in various stages of their choreography-like articulation as if […]

until 27.08. | #3414ARTatBerlin | Konrad Fischer Galerie presents from 29. April 2022 the exhibition Practice by the artist Bruce Nauman. The gallery presents a new video installation of Bruce Nauman entitled Practice. Since Six Sound Problems for Konrad Fischer, the artist’s first solo exhibition in Europe at Konrad Fischer in 1968, Konrad Fischer Galerie has held 18 solo exhibitions dedicated to Bruce Nauman and assisted in presenting his work at numerous exhibitions around the world. Nauman has repeatedly made his body and his hands in particular the object of his work. Practice shows the artist’s hands slowly moving across an old wooden table. In this process, the camera alternately shows the left and the right hand making the mark. Permutation and alteration vary the image, creating a complex visual structure. The apparently endlessly repeating gesture remains the same, forming an X. Nauman’s work was inspired by reading the catalogue The Reservation X: The Power of Place from the First People’s Hall at the Canadian Museum of Civilization, which his grandson gave him. An illustration in the book showed a contract signed between the Canadian government and Isapo-Muxika, a chief of the Sisika, otherwise known as the Blackfoot. While the […]

until 25.06. | #3411ARTatBerlin | Galerie kajetan Berlin presents from 23. April 2022 (Opening on 22.04.) the first solo-exhibition in the gallery Strokes by the artist Shila Khatami. Until now, industrial material such as perforated steel-aluminum and hard fiber plates were the main carrier and starting point of Khatami’s (*1976 in Saarbrücken) pictorial syntheses of geometric signs and gestural, expansive painting. Meanwhile, her most recent pictorial inventions show the artist turning to canvas, to which Khatami inscribes her compositions of dynamic forms and colored processing traces by means of large-scale paint rollers, stencils, as well as industrial paints and markers. In her show at Galerie kajetan the artist frames and contextualizes her most recent series of non-figurative paintings by two space-specific installations that testify to Khatami’s analytical approach to painting. Shila Khatami, Strokes, Exhibtion view, Courtesy Shila Khatami & Galerie kajetan, Photo: Marcus Schneider The exhibition opens with the installation 7, conceived in situ, which exemplifies Shila Khatami’s artistic approach. The artist took up the form of the exhibition lighting on the ceiling of the anteroom to transform it into a sign – the number seven – in her work and to let it become new forms through reflections. Her […]

until 18.06. | #3408ARTatBerlin | Crone Berlin presents from 29. April 2022 the exhibition “Two Two Three Nine” by the artist Hamlet Lavastida. Hamlet Lavastida, born in Havana, Cuba in 1983, is one of the most influential Latin American artists of the younger generation. Together with other intellectuals, he initiated the 27-N democracy movement, which last year caused the largest mass protests in Cuban cultural history. When Lavastida returned to Havana from a residency in Berlin in September 2021, he was arrested and imprisoned for three months. After weeks of torture-like interrogations, he was expatriated and deported to the EU. Since January 2022, he has been living in forced exile in Berlin, and at the end of June 2022 he will take part in documenta fifteen in Kassel within the Instar project at the invitation of the artist collective ruangrupa. Two months before documenta, the exhibition Two Two Three Nine will give Gallery Weekend visitors the opportunity to take an in-depth look at Lavastida’s artistic practice. On display at Crone Berlin’s over 150-square-meter space will be more than 45 new works that the artist has created since his expatriation and that reflect both his personal experience and the themes of […]

until 25.06. | #3405ARTatBerlin | Galerie Kornfeld presents from 28. April 2022 the exhibition Black Gardens, Minimal Interiors and Some Ceramics by the artist Bruce McLean. The exhibition Black Gardens, Minimal Interiors and Some Ceramics presents paintings from the current body of work Minimal Interiors as well as new ceramics by Scottish artist Bruce McLean, one of the most important figures in contemporary British art. The works celebrate the colours of spring and a return to nature, condensing Bruce McLean’s experiences over the past year. Nature and the universal unity of all matter are recurring themes for Bruce McLean. Nevertheless, his works are not just simple representations of nature. McLean often combines painting and collage in his works, and in his monotypes, wood and other surfaces serve as image carriers in addition to paper. With his ability to use a wide variety of media, he speaks a formal and rather conventional artistic language, but constantly tries to question the traditions of art. Bruce McLean Unknown Orange Flower against Green, 2008, Acrylic and oil on canvas, 225 x 200 cm Echoing McLean’s exploration of the garden theme in the Future Garden series – based on Spanish gardens so familiar to the […]

until 25.06 | #3403ARTatBerlin | Galerie Michael Haas presents from 29. April 2022 the exhibition Zukunft und Anmut, No.1 (>Future and grace, No.1) by the artist Anton Henning. The exhibition opens for the Gallery Weekend Berlin. Anton Henning is the master of contradiction whose special interest is modernism. In the exhibition “Zukunft und Anmut, No. 1″, he uses paintings, sculptures and furniture to combine the design for more beautiful living with the futility of idea and future in a composition specially tailored to the rooms of the Michael Haas Gallery. It is a multi-layered, intelligent-sensual demonstration of the autopoietic system that the artist has been developing since the early nineties and that is constantly condensing. The exhibition is the permanent expansion and concentration of a web of isms referring to itself and modernity and its missed possibilities (through dogma). For all their thoughtfulness, the expansive staging of the exhibited works exudes a refreshing lightness: Anton Henning’s work is both a challenge and an inspiration. Not least the numerous international public and private collections in which he is represented speak for this. Parallel to the exhibition at the Michael Haas Gallery, the Sexauer Gallery is showing ” Zukunft und Anmut, No. […]

until 24.07. | #3369ARTatBerlin | KINDL – Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst currently shows the solo exhibition Red Threads at Maschinenhaus M2 by artist Michaela Melián. In her visual and acoustic collages, Michaela Melián (*1956 in Munich) asks questions about the social, about memory, language, and identity. Her drawings, objects, multimedia installations, and audio works refer to a complex network of historical facts and their traces in the present day. Melián’s first retrospective in Berlin covers the entire range of her work as an artist. The updated works, including the sound sculptures Mannheim Chairs, the multimedia installation Heimweh (Else Lasker-Schüler), Mossberg Model Bullpup (a gun-shaped velvet sofa), and the tapestry from the installation Girl-Kultur, present a wide range of contexts. The centrepiece of the exhibition is the installation TANIA, which was developed specifically for the KINDL, on the multilayered myths surrounding the guerrilla Tamara Bunke (alias Tania), whose biography has been interpreted in a variety of ways in the East and West, including North and South America. While Tamara Bunke / Tania played a major role in the public consciousness in East Germany, in present-day Germany she has practically disappeared from public memory. The artist follows these various traces and condenses them into […]

until 21.05. | #3388ARTatBerlin | ARTES Berlin presents from 2nd April 2022 the solo exhibition MALEREI (> PAINTING) with new works by the artist Christian Awe. In the solo exhibition MALEREI, ARTES Berlin is showing more than 20 new works by the artist Christian Awe, whose oeuvre includes traces of Informel as well as influences of Abstract Expressionism. The artist’s works fascinate with their intensity of colour and their dynamism. With an almost dancing lightness and a painterly virtuosity, Awe combines colours and forms and creates a moment of freedom and joie de vivre for the viewer. Abstracted forms draw a special measure of movement that literally pushes out of the picture and makes its surface tactile. In doing so, Awe explores the boundaries of painting time and again. Energetic streams of colour, powerful splashes and spontaneous, airy floating gestures cover underlying layers and form an exciting symbiosis in a dialogue of spontaneity, experimentation and artistic calculation. They unite to form poetically pulsating worlds of colour that sweep the viewer away into a cosmos of colours and emotions. Christian Awe, Farbtanz, 2022, Acrylic on canvas, 130 x 180 cm Whether on canvas, paper or on house facades several hundred square […]

until 03.04. | #3394ARTatBerlin | aquabitArt Galerie presents since 23. March 2022 the exhibition Window Watching – Enjoy art through the window by the artist Janine Mackenroth. “Window Watching” is a project that runs through 2022 and features works by artists from the gallery as well as guest artists. All exhibited artworks are presented in detail in the gallery’s online shop › BUY ART, can be purchased there and picked up in the gallery. “In her paintings, Mackenroth addresses the stony path for female artists, which is characterised by male-favouring systems. The SIGNET RING FOR WOMEN IN ART No.1 in silver or gold, a noble piece of jewellery, wants to connect women more visibly in the art world, in a system in which this is not yet sufficiently the case. Mackenroth takes up the theme of the male signet rings and spins it until it gets an all-female following. The colourful work Chips, created in New York, refers with material and title to “chipped nails” and the obligatory trip to the weekly manicure. At the same time, it picks up the chips used in the casino and gambling. The connection of the two associative paths underlines the fact that in […]

until 02.07. | #3391ARTatBerlin | janinebeangallery presents from 29. April 2022 the solo exhibition Lärm der Zeit II (>Noise of Time II) by the artist Guido Schulz in the Salon of the gallery. The janinebeangallery presents new photographies by Guido Schulz in the gallery’s salon. Guido Schulz „Stasimuseum“, 2022, Fine Art Print on Aludibond sealed under Plexiglas Edition 3, 109 x 60 cm „We see and mourn: the volatility and evanescence, the melancholy of the metropolis, the inward rural life, the seductions of the night, the revenge of the day, the majestic neon lights, the strict geometry of the refuges and meeting points in the infinite; the beauty of the dilapidated. And then we have to laugh – about that, of course.” (Excerpt Benjamin von Stuckrad Barre in “Schall und Rauch”) Guido Schulz „Famous Last Songs“, 2021, Fine Art Print on Aludibond sealed under Plexiglas Edition 3, 200 x 100 cm Guido Schulz is not only the manager of the DJ-legend Westbam and of the German hip-hop institution Bass Sultan Hengzt, but also constitutes an outstanding figure in the music business since the eighties. As a veteran of the music branch and former head of the A&R department of Sony […]

until 21.05. | #3386ARTatBerlin | drj art projects shows from 10th April 2022 together with Frontviews (Opening there: 08.04.) the exhibition “—t—e—x—t—i—l—e— Artists and their works from the universe of fabrics and inter-weaving techniques” with international positions of textile art. The exhibition —t—e—x—t—i—l—e—  is a cooperation between drj art projects and Frontviews. 17 positions from a selection of international artists who work with textiles will be shown simultaneously at the programme gallery drj in the Rote Insel and in the exhibition space HAUNT on Kluckstraße. The exhibition’s concept revolves around the artists themselves: the curatorial impulse is to show a considered cross-section of the fundamental questions and themes that arise in work with fabric and woven materials, as represented by the invited artists. Thus the exhibition’s subtitle is »Artists and their works from the universe of fabrics and inter-weaving techniques.« Textile is a universe of its own—in all of human existence and therefore also in art. Participating artists: Alke Reeh, Stephan Ehrenhofer, Esther Seidel, Bettina Allamoda, Robert Gschwantner, Haleh Redjaian, Anja Schwörer, J Stoner Blackwell, Aiko Tezuka, Kathrin Köster, Alana Lake, Tristan Schulze, Samantha Bittman, Nele Marie Gräber, Yasuaki Kuroda, Natalie Reusser,  Justina Moncevičiūtė The conceptual assumption of the project is the following: Since the participating artists have intentionally chosen to work in this particular field of visual art, they must also have knowledge of this superordinate cultural universe and have formed […]

until 14.05. | #3368ARTatBerlin | EIGEN + ART Lab presents from 24th March 2022 the solo exhibition I Heard Talking Is Dangerous by Lauren Lee McCarthy. How is it that we feel connected to other people? Can these moments be retroactively induced, and if so, what is the code of intimacy? And how does it relate to digital code? Lauren Lee McCarthy deals with questions like these. Her practice has roots in the digital, and the artist’s performances and web-pieces reach far into the physical world. Five years ago, her web-based performances could be read as technological dystopia, but it wasn’t really that simple even then, as paranoia began to accompany her every move online. With culture wars on social media and the popularity of conspiracy theories, it became clear for the first time to the masses what power digital platforms have over world events. And as suddenly as we woke up to this world, its laws became the generally accepted truth. Yet McCarthy has always alluded to something darker, something harder to understand. There is a fundamental dialectic in her work. Isn’t being watched also a kind of being part of a greater whole? Isn’t it also a form […]

until 16.04. | #3382ARTatBerlin | Jarmuschek + Partner presents from 25th March 2022 the solo exhibition schweben, stürzen, fliegen with new works by the artist Elisa Manig – for the first time installative objects and drawings. The Hamburg-based artist puts us in an intense state of physical and sensual engagement. Like in a whirl, we as viewers try to orient ourselves and to fathom the relationship of her works to the surrounding space. band, 2021, wood, Aludibond, Lacquer, 90 x 83 x 11 cm But again and again we encounter irritations and supposedly impossible constellations in which weight, gravity, tension and dynamics seem to follow new laws. With a reduced formal language and often cheerful, light colours, the artist processes elements from our everyday world. fit in, 2021, wood, lacquer, 7 x 62 x 2,5 cm In her works, Elisa Manig plays not only with our visual experience but also with our fundamental understanding of how our physical world works. klapp, 2022, steel, 82 x 42 x 8 cm With disturbing ease, she questions our intuitive ability to react, exposes our very own human impulses and protective instincts and takes them ad absurdum. bucket, 2022, Aludibond, wood, steel, lacquer, 110 […]

until 09.04. | #3366ARTatBerlin | Sexauer Gallery currently shows the solo exhibition Hidden Home by the artist Hannah Parr. Entering the exhibition hall, one finds oneself in a huge living space, at least at first sight. A double bed in the middle, an ironing board, three monumental mosaics on the back wall, like windows, two smaller ones on a side wall – almost everything red and white, fragmented, broken, split. And a blond wig on a plinth. Seemingly, anyway. But more on that later. Hannah Parr, who grew up on the south coast of England, lives and works in Zurich. She creates her mosaic-like works from red and white barrier slats that are commonly used in Swiss construction sites. The three monumental red-and-white mosaics on the back wall of the exhibition hall also consist of these slats. The mosaics, which at first seem purely abstract, can be seen as radically abstracted landscapes – a fictional one on the left, a remembered one in the middle, and a real one on the right. ART at Berlin – courtesy by Sexauer Gallery and Hannah Parr The left mosaic suggests an abstract and fragmented interior with a table, a vase, a draped ceiling, and a window view of a landscape […]

until 23.04. | #3378ARTatBerlin | Galerie Nordenhake Berlin presents from 19th March 2022 the exhibition SPRING by the artist Michał Budny. Michał Budny’s work is driven by the urge to capture the essence of the ephemeral, ambiguous, difficult to grasp aspects of human experience and emotion. His working process always begins with the precise observation of emotions, locations, or relationships for which he finds a spatial equivalent in his sculpture. This exhibition, entitled “Spring”, focuses on a classical theme of art history that spans the ages and cultures, which Budny explores from the perspective of our contemporary life and our profound distance to the laws of nature. The sculptures and wall objects in the show, most of which were created specifically for the exhibition, reflect natural forms in a concise way and with their reduced abstraction and materials take up the traditions of minimal art and constructivism. Made of wood, metal, rubber and sand, they initially seem quite distant from the evocative, fragile materiality of Budny’s earlier works using aged paper, cardboard, foils, and fabrics. But upon closer inspection, the new solid sculptures reveal manifold sensual qualities. Haptic surfaces that oscillate in the light, dramatic angles, handmade curves and edges, […]

until 19.03. | #3375ARTatBerlin | aquabitArt Galerie shows from 8th March 2022 (Opening: 12.03.) in cooperation with the Galerie Sophie Vandré the exhibition Leben / Still-Leben / Memorabilia by the artist JEHAN. The exhibition takes place in the premises of aquabitArt Galerie at Auguststraße 35. The exhibition of the recently founded Galerie Sophie Vandré shows a collection of expressive oil paintings that were created over the past years by the Berlin-based artist JEHAN. JEHAN, „Jazzy Schlozz Wizz’n“, 2020, oil on canvas, 100 x 80 cm His paintings show the vulnerability of the creature to the point of disaster. He paints to reflect on what he has seen, on what he has experienced. In this sense, his paintings are reminiscences. Painting for JEHAN always means “to paint anew” – in his own way, powerful, sometimes unpleasant, straddling the line between abstraction and representation. JEHAN, „Um Berlin I“, 2020, oil on canvas, 30 x 40 cm JEHAN’s paintings are designed in bright colours, using impasto. Spaces become pure surfaces, without the illusion of light and shadow. Instead, there is a space shaped by sensations and imagination. JEHAN, „Um Berlin II“, 2020, oil on canvas, 30 x 40 cm JEHAN, born in 1962 […]

until 21.05. | #3372ARTatBerlin | Galerie Schindler in Potsdam presents from 24 March 2022 the exhibition Equinox with works by the artist Sue Hayward. Born in Brisbane in 1962, artist Sue Hayward finds her inspirational source in the endless stories about the human condition and, in particular, the relationship between people and the environment. She grew up in Australia, where she was able to develop a special affinity for nature. The artist often uses plants, animals, and especially birds in her work as symbols of the various aspects of human expression. She is often concerned with loss and the longing for unity that manifests itself in nature, for example. Sue Hayward, Equinox, 2021, oil, wax, dammar, acrylic on gauze, canvas and wood, 150 x 110 cm Hayward works in a variety of media, sculpture, installations and especially painting, where she seeks to create new dimensions of perception and imagery by incorporating transparent areas into the canvas. The use of gauze, inserted into the surface of the painting, allows for the creation of transparent elements, creating a new kind of pictorial space where light and shadow are processed in a completely different way from the opacity of the canvas. Sue Hayward, […]

until 23.04. | #3364ARTatBerlin | KLEMM’S presents from 13th March 2022 the solo exhibition itself and else by the artist Elizabeth Jaeger. It is the second solo exhibition by Elizabeth Jaeger at the gallery. With her objects and sculptures, Elizabeth Jaeger succeeds in exploring the relationship between corporeality and perception, between consciousness and emotion. Often engaging with the insights of a personal experience or the observation of a situation, her works create environments that are mildly surreal and focus on the interconnectedness of all living beings. Her materials are simple, but haptic and ‘auratically’ charged: clay, ceramics, plaster, steel, silk and glass are means to create a new visual vocabulary: strangely familiar, yet always ‘off by two degrees’. Elizabeth Jaeger’s new solo show creates a meditative space that uses dark matter as starting point of an intimate observation. The walls are inhabited by anthropomorphic black ceramic vessels, placed on steel structures in a game of precarious and surreal balances. The diffuse emotionality radiated by these monolith-like beings is consciously broken by the hardness and severity of the material. Floating objects as vessels for the soul, heavy in the fragility of their existence. One could approach Elizabeth Jaeger’s work as an […]

until 01.05. | #3358ARTatBerlin | Galerie Pugliese Levi presents since 5th March 2022 the group exhibition The Spring Show. All gallery profits from this exhibition will be donated in full to UNHCR, the UN Refugees Agency. Works by gallery artists Maibritt Ulvedal Bjelke, Tünde Újszászi, Lars Strandh, Shawn Stipling, Rebecca Salter and Gwen Hardie will be on display. Statement of the gallery on the benefit exhibition: With broken hearts we stand in solidarity with the people of Ukraine and for the defence of fundamental human rights. We considered canceling this exhibition, as it seemed unconceivable to continue showing art in the actual context. Instead, we’ve chosen to use this opportunity to actively support those hit by this tragedy. The gallery’s profits from this exhibition will be entirely donated to UNHCR The UN Refugees Agency. We pray for peace. Exhibition start: Saturday, 5 March 2021 (regular opening, no vernissage) Exhibition dates: Saturday, 5 March – Sunday, 1 May 2022      Image caption: Maibritt Ulvedal Bjelke, white-romance no 02, 2021, 152 x 122 x 3.5 cm, acrylic and paper on canvas Exhibition The Spring Show – Pugliese Levi | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Ausstellungen Berlin Galerien | ART at […]

until 26.03. | #3355ARTatBerlin | Sprüth Magers Berlin currently shows a solo exhibition with works by the artist Hyun-Sook Song. On display are new as well as older large-format paintings that offer a comprehensive impression of her artistic work. This is the artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. Each brushstroke in Song’s work marks a unique, intuitive movement that documents the artist’s state of mind at a given point in time—an aspect that locates her work in the post-Dansaekhwa movement. Her practice embraces the act of painting as a physical-performative event that occurs in a state of complete concentration and meditation. Though reduced in terms of coloring and formal vocabulary, the variations are endless. Yet Song’s paintings do not depict objects, and their titling further underscores the absence of a narrative—they are rather an expression of the artist’s memory of certain forms and themes from her homeland. Exhibition dates: Saturday, 12 February – Saturday, 26 March 2022     Image caption: Hyun-Sook Song, Brushstrokes Diagram, 2021 © Hyun-Sook Song, courtesy the artist and Sprüth Magers Exhibition Hyun-Sook Song – Sprüth Magers Berlin | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin

until 03.07. | #3360ARTatBerlin | KINDL – Centre for Contemporary Art presents from 6th March 2022 the group exhibition Landscapes of Belonging at Maschinenhaus M1 / M1 VideoSpace. Participating artists: Pia Ârĸê, Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen, Ewa Einhorn & Jeuno JE Kim, Birit Haarla & Katja Haarla & Outi Pieski, Julie Edel Hardenberg, Hanni Kamaly, Lap-See Lam, Britta Marakatt-Labba, Fatima Moallim, Hans Rosenström, Sara Rönnbäck, Elsa Salonen, Magnús Sigurðarson, Erika Stöckel, Lada Suomenrinne. The term “colonisation” is usually associated with dependency relations and mechanisms of oppression of the North towards the global South. Decolonisation processes in Northern Europe, on the other hand, play a much smaller role in the public consciousness, although the indigenous Sámi people in Fennoscandia – on Swedish, Norwegian and Finnish territory – and those of the Inuit on Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland), colonised by Denmark, are still struggling for belonging and self-determination today. Iceland, which was subjugated by Norway and Denmark, also fought for its independence until the middle of the 20th century. The group exhibition Landscapes of Belonging at KINDL – Centre for Contemporary Art takes up these processes and shows works by artists from the European North whose themes are aspects of belonging and communal shaping of locality in […]

until 21.05. | #3351ARTatBerlin | Galerie Max Hetzler shows from 3rd March 2022 a solo exhibition  with works by the artist Thomas Struth at Bleibtreustraße 45 and Bleibtreustraße 15/16. Three central themes from Thomas Struth’s current oeuvre, which revolve around universal questions of our time with a focus on science, nature and portraiture, will be shown at the two gallery locations in Bleibtreustraße. The rooms on the first floor of Bleibtreustraße 45 are dedicated to photographers taken at CERN, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research. The world’s largest scientific facility near Geneva uses particle accelerators to research the origins of the universe. Struth’s interest in CERN is in the philosophical questions, the political dimensions and the pictorial possibilities inherent in cutting-edge technology. Do these highly complex conglomerations of cables and valves carry hope for a better future? The CERN cluster shown here is part of Struth’s body of work Nature and Politics, in which he has been investigating since 2007 how ambitions and human imagination become sculptural, spatial realities. Surrounded by the images of technology, the viewer encounters works that deal with nature. A central room is dedicated to a 220 x 450 cm winter landscape entitled Schlichter Weg, Feldberger […]

until 12.03. | #3338ARTatBerlin | Jarmuschek + Partner shows from 22nd February 2022 the group exhibition Catch up 22. The motto. Delays, postponements and obstacles – 2022 is THE YEAR in which Galerie Jarmuschek + Partner catches up with what was not possible in the last two years. The 22nd of each month is now marked in the calendar. Whether digital or analogue, in the gallery or out, something happens on these days under the motto CATCH UP 22 – insights, events and art. Corinne von Lebusa, gush baby, 2020, drawing, watercolor, lacquer on cardboard, 70 x 50 cm Faisal Habibi, This Thing 40, plywood, 104,5 x 97 x 20 cm The group exhibition. As a prelude and to set the mood, Jarmuschek + Partner is presenting a selection of special works by all the artists in the gallery programme – including some that are being presented for the first time this year. Helena Hafemann, o.T. (Fadenschein Nr. 10), porcelain and yarn, 32 x 20 x 2 cm Oliver Gröne, Landschaft 2021, oil on canvas, 100 x 70 cm Patrick Cierpka, NEUE STERNE SEHEN (4), 2021, oil on canvas, 120 x 100 cm On display are works by Sabine Banovic, […]

until 14.04. | #3347ARTatBerlin | WENTRUP presents from 24th February 2022 the ninth solo exhibition “A blink of an eye and behind us the hours” by artist Gregor Hildebrandt at the gallery. A large clinker-bricked gateway leads onto the grounds of Gregor Hildebrandt’s studio. On the left side of the facade, an old company signet with the inscription “Groterjan. Malzbierbrauerei Groterjan & Co. Aktiengesellschaft” reminds of the industrial past of the building. The artist reproduced this round bronze plaque in the manner typical of his work from analog data carriers – in this case, vinyl records. It matches the dimensions and proportions of the Groterjan sign and is the centerpiece of the exhibition. Right next to the work Groterjan (2022), the artist presents 73 cut vinyl records. These framed records are the remains from the production of the central vinyl work. Deciphering the individually cut fragments, they form the hidden, shadowy counterpart of the Groterjanpiece. Moreover, they represent a system of archiving, entirely in the sense of an invisible field of a represented world. On the opposite side of the gallery space hangs a framed white rectangle. What at first glance appears to be a blank sheet of paper grows beyond […]

until 23.04. | #3343ARTatBerlin | janinebeangallery shows from 11th March 2022 the exhibition It’s A Match by the artists Florian Fausch and Beate Höing. With the artworks by Florian Fausch and Beate Höing in the exhibition „It’s a Match“ janinebeangallery shows a juxtaposition of abstract paintings and on the other hand sculptures featuring rather figurative and symbolical topics. Florian Fausch’s paintings are transitions from geometrical, architectural structures into deep color fields and gradients. His contrasting luminous colors can also be found in the hybrid sculptures of Beate Höing, who combines objets trouvés virtuosically with her own ceramic objects. Beate Höing—inspired by the ornamental and the textural material used in the cultural-historical folk art of fairy tales and myths as well as of traditions and rituals—took up these influences in her painting and ceramic work. Out of them she has created her own autonomous iconography. Hereby already inherent,associated and recollected images come together in an ambivalent game of reality and fiction where dreams and nightmares, relief and dread lie side by side. Materiality and form are thus inseparably linked. Furthermore the artist’s oil paintings and ceramic sculptures, including her installations, tell of a passion for the beauty, the delicacy and the […]

until 09.04. | #3342ARTatBerlin | Galerie Thomas Schulte presents from 19th February the solo exhibition Interstellar by the artist Jonas Weichsel in the gallery’s Corner Space. In a multi-part installation conceived for Galerie Thomas Schulte’s Corner Space, Jonas Weichsel presents 30 new paintings from his Interstellar Paintings series. The series is the latest iteration of Weichsel’s intensive color explorations, in which he meticulously mixes, composes and arranges color to form complex relationships–­–here, resulting in a continuous, immersive spatial gradient. With Interstellar, Weichsel further develops his highly precise painting practice, building on formats and techniques introduced in previous series. Incorporating both analog and digital tools, techniques and aesthetics, Weichsel works to expand the potentials of the painting medium in the digital age, producing layered images that, upon close inspection, reveal a quiet complexity. Opening: Friday, 18th February 2022, 6:00 – 9:00 pm. Exhibition dates: Saturday, 19th February – Saturday, 9th April 2022     Image caption: Jonas Weichsel, Interstellar (Detail) 2022 © Photo: Jonas Weichsel Exhibition Jonas Weichsel – Interstellar – Galerie Thomas Schulte | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin

until 02.04. | #3332ARTatBerlin | Galerie kajetan Berlin presents in collaboration with valerie_traan gallery (Belgium) from 19th February 2022 the group exhibition About architecture with works by the artists Filip Dujardin, Frederic Geurts, Geert Vanoorlé, Haleh Redjaian and Paul Gees. The exhibition is jointly curated by valerie_traan gallery from Antwerp and Galerie kajetan from Berlin. Gallery valerie_traan’s presentation about architecture at kajetan articulates the shared story of 4 important artists represented by the Antwerp gallery: Paul Gees, Filip Dujardin, Frederic Geurts and Geert Vanoorlé. ‘ About architecture, valerie_traan at kajetan, Exhibition view 2022, Courtesy the artists, valerie_traan gallery and Galerie kajetan, Photo: Marcus Schneider Haleh Redjaian, an artist who collaborates with both kajetan gallery and valerie_traan gallery, will also participate in this Berlin exhibition at kajetan as well as in the upcoming show kajetan at valerie_traan in Antwerp in autumn 2022. ‘ About architecture, valerie_traan at kajetan, Exhibition view 2022, Courtesy the artists, valerie_traan gallery and Galerie kajetan, Photo: Marcus Schneider All the artists involved in the Berlin exhibition work with and on architecture or use architectural elements as building blocks for their artistic practice. Their individual works playfully deal with the constructions and de-constructions of spaces and objects, stimulating […]

bis 12.03. | #3328ARTatBerlin | PSM Gallery presents from 12th February 2022 the exhibition Lichtung by Daniel Lergon. A deep interest in natural scientific phenomena forms the source of Daniel Lergon’s practice, which he translates into the visual vocabulary of abstract painting. By working off conceptual tasks around light, ductus and movement in painting or technical questions around pigments, tools or surfaces, Daniel Lergon unlocks a visual potential in the correlative interplay between light and surface, and the optical effects and perceptions that result from this. Daniel Lergon’s current series of works is executed by the use of varying soil pigments applied as a base coat on canvas for monochrome, structural gestures over a white minimal shape. Each soil pigment (e.g. such as green earth or slate, originating from different geographic regions) results in a unique color scheme, which, when used as a base coat, blent with the top layer of paint to create new shades and nuances of color. The soil pigments form a clear contrast to Lergon’s previous use of a ‚charged‘ base coat, e.g. when he was using a glowing neon yellow color or retro-reflective fabrics as paint surface. While the ‘charged’ backgrounds would enhance the painting on its […]

until 16.04. | #3326ARTatBerlin | KVOST presents in collaboration with EEP from 10th February 2022 the group exhibition Dialog between Generations . Belarusian Female Artists. Participating artists: Kate Smuraga, Tatsiana Tkachova, Oksana Veniaminova, Vasilisa Palianina and the VEHA Archive. Various approaches to contemporary photographic thought and research blend seamlessly with classical portrait photography in the exhibition curated by Maya Hristova and Yevgeny Roppel / EEP Berlin, inviting viewers to look behind the Western veil of silence at Belarusian culture and photographic tradition. For many of us, Minsk, which is only about 1000 km from Berlin, a similar distance to Paris, could be on another continent. What makes us see one culture as familiar and the other as exotic? To develop sympathy for one and pigeonhole the other? Behind the stereotypes of Belarus or of what the mass media present as another “failing state” and as “the last dictatorship of Europe”, there is pressure. Pressure to learn more about the culture of a country where mass protests, repression of the media and the abductions and torture of civilians are currently taking place. While all this is happening, we seek comfort in art. It is this new generation of Belarusian artists who have […]

until 17.03. | #3318ARTatBerlin | Galerie feinart berlin presents from 17th February 2022 the exhibition “Fold the time. And move on” with works by 20 artists from painting, drawing, etching, photography and sculpture. They come together to set a sign for their artistic work and the art world in general after 2 years under Corona in Germany. What if time could just be folded up and thrown away? What if time could just be folded up and thrown away, yes, skipped backwards? And then just continue where you left off? After two years of the Corona pandemic at the latest, we know very well that this is not possible. Every one in his/her own way. Wolfgang Petrick, Melancholische Freunde, 174 x 104cm, 1990s © Wolfgang Petrick After the end of the first lockdown in May 2020, 17 artists spontaneously realized a joint exhibition in the gallery feinart berlin, combined with a collection of individual reports and statements on their experiences under Corona: “For me, it was like falling into a coma, sometimes with no idea what and who I would see when I woke up.” (Tiba) | “Painting the view from my apartment I had the strange feeling that the […]

until 02.04. | #3315ARTatBerlin | Galerie Barbara Wien shows from 12th February 2022 the exhibition project Jimmie Durham. texts and recordings as a solo show. The artist and author Jimmie Durham has died in Berlin on 17 November 2021. The shock this news has caused in the art world is enormous, as Durham was one of the most important internationally active contemporary artists and is a role model for many who are equally interested in political, scientific and aesthetic issues. Durham has inspired many other artists and provided early complex commentary on issues that are on everyone’s lips today, including the Eurocentric gaze and its consequences. As a political activist, he has spent his life campaigning for the rights of indigenous populations. In the 1970s, Durham co-founded and chaired the International Indian Treaty Council at the United Nations, where his work led, among other things, to the Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Durham has been present at many art biennials, he has participated several times in the Documenta in Kassel and a work by Durham will also be on show at documenta fifteen in 2022. He received the Goslar Kaiserring art prize in 2016, and in 2019 the […]

until 28.02. | #3320ARTatBerlin | alexander levy currently presents the group exhibition Ichbla willbla wasbla ichbla willbla! by the artists Dieter Roth, Elisa Jule Braun, Andreas Greiner and Anne Duk Hee Jordan. Collaboration and exchange with other artists were fundamental throughout Dieter Roth’s life. Dieter Roth’s (1930-1998) multifaceted and multimedia oeuvre encompasses not only visual art but also literature and music. In his works, themes such as transience and life, deconstruction and creativity, playful humor and a critical questioning often appear side by side. Roth was concerned with the fusion of art and life, so he also incorporated bodily functions and everyday routines such as eating or sleeping into his creative process. Again and again, organic material appears in his work, subject to the inevitable course of gradual change and decay. Dieter Roth, Fliegertransport, 1969, silkscreen and cheese on paper, edited reproduced drawing, 40 x 44,5 cm Elisa Jule Braun’s video works, installations, and performances operate at the intersection of digital techniques, mass media image repertoires, and urban life-worlds. In her series HUMUS HUMANA (2017-ongoing), dust acts as a relic and trace of everyday experience. It simultaneously symbolizes existence as well as transience, fleetingness, and the past. Physical components such as skin and hair, as […]

until 05.03. | #3312ARTatBerlin | FeldbuschWiesnerRudolph (FWR) presents from 5th February 2022 the exhibition Mixed Tape with works by artists from the gallery as well as some new discoveries. The gallery team Stefanie Feldbusch, Andreas Wiesner and Jette Rudolph on this: “As also known from the good old “mix tape”, we would like to take all friends, collectors, visitors and new guests on our loosely as well as spontaneously arranged exhibition tour. To admire favourite works, to experience comebacks and newcomers and to test a foretaste of the new art year 2022. Be there! We and all the artists are looking forward to seeing you!” In line with the containment of the Corona pandemic, the rule of 2G Plus and mask requirement applies. Please bring both your vaccination or convalescent proof and a negative Covid test not older than 24 hours. Opening (Open House): Saturday, 5. February 2022, 11:00 am – 6:00 pm Exhibition period: Saturday, 5. February to Saturday, 5th March 2022      Image caption title: Marta Djourina, Untitled, 2021, direct exposure on analog photo paper, self made film negative, unique, 180 x 240 cm Exhibition Mixed Tape – FeldbuschWiesnerRudolph | Contemporary Art – Kunst in Berlin Exhibitions […]

until 19.03. | #3309ARTatBerlin | Semjon Contemporary presents since 21st January 2022 the exhibition benthos borborygmi by the artist Michael Kutschbach. After being postponed twice due to the pandemic, the latest work by the artist, who has been living back in Adelaide/Australia for years, is presented in his exhibition “benthos boborygmi” at semjon contemporary gallery. “benthos borborygmi” are fantasy words meaning life at the bottom of the sea and the sound of stomach growling. This expresses (again) his appreciation of Lewis Carroll. In 2021, Michael Kutschbach had been commissioned by the Guildhouse in Adelaide to create a multi-channel video project for their Collection Project. The subject: the collaboration and engagement with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra as a differentiated body of sound and organism. The premiere of the three-channel video took place in Adelaide in public space, among other things on house-high video screens. Due to the pandemic, there was no direct contact with the orchestra. The artist’s observations were made digitally, from live film recordings of concerts to orchestra rehearsals to communication with individual orchestra members. The pictorial realisation speaks a biomorphic abstract language. At the same time, it reflects the artist’s interest in siphonophores. These are state jellyfish, which […]

until 12.03. | #3306ARTatBerlin | Galerie Martin Mertens shows from 29th January 2022 the solo exhibition Update by the artist Peer Kriesel. Having already presented the Berlin artist Peer Kriesel at fairs in Berlin and Amsterdam since 2020, Galerie Martin Mertens is now showing this versatile work for the first time in a solo exhibition at the gallery. The central medium of his work is drawing, although he also works with sculptures and objects. One of the groups of works comprises drawings/overpaintings on historical papers, such as land and sea maps as well as postcards, which in the past had certain functions and sometimes a high value for the users. It is also about the change in the appreciation and valuation of printed papers as communication and information media. While nautical charts were extremely important and valuable until the 19th and 20th centuries and were very helpful sources of information, in the age of GPS and Google they have largely lost their function and thus their value. They now only have a graphic value. By painting over them, Kriesel gives them a new life and a new value in a different context. Kriesel draws inspiration for his drawings from the […]

until 05.03. | #3303ARTatBerlin | Galerie aKonzept and Raphael Lévy present from 22nd January 2022 the exhibition FRUSTRATION with works by the artist Emmanuelle Rapin. The impossible image and the space of its narrative. What is hidden behind an image? What story is buried in the texture of the painting? These questions can be those of the viewer contemplating the artwork which observes him and which will end up hypnotizing him in a slow movement of vertigo. This essential experience of being drawn into the space of the image is at the base of my artistic practice. I remove images from their pictorial frame, literally pulling the threads of the canvas to unroll a story. My yarn intertwines personal mythologies, art history, and cultural representations, where the process of creation itself and the conditions of emergence of an image weave the main storyline. The use of thread and needle is preponderant in my work. The embroideries form unstable textures whose survival depends on the knot. The embroidered images thus carry the possibility of their own disappearance. Knotting and unknotting, making and unmaking. This repertoire of gestures and techniques can be found in classical representations of women at work: embroidering, sewing, […]

until 26.02. | #3300ARTatBerlin | Köppe Contemporary presents from 25th January 2022 (Opening: 21.01.) the solo exhibition Berlin Visionen by the artist Michael Köster with a selection of works dominated by black-and-white photographs and characterized by suggestive stagings on the computer. The motifs in the exhibition – almost without exception they are views of Berlin architecture – are effectively staged with precise lighting, sharp contouring, and the finest nuances of light and dark. The dramaturgy of light and shadow is an essential element in enhancing the mood of the picture. Koster’s formal language reveals influences of New Objectivity photography as well as those of Film Noir. But associations with painting also arise when viewing some of the pictorial stagings, whose atmosphere is reminiscent of the enigmatic mood of inanimate and stillness in Pittura Metafisica paintings. The fact that the motifs develop such a haunting presence in the course of the editing process on the computer is partly due to the fact that Michael Köster isolates the buildings on which he focuses. They are detached from their real urban contexts in which they normally stand – the buildings around them, for example. The process of alienation that this entails is heightened […]

until 12.02. | #3297ARTatBerlin | Galerie mehdi chouakri shows from 15th January 2022 the exhibition “Die Aussage ist: Das Verhalten des Materials zur Häufigkeit seiner Wiederholung” (> The statement is: the behavior of the material to the frequency of its repetition”) by the artist Peter Roehr. Peter Roehr (1944-1968) was a German painter and object artist. In January 1968, together with the gallery owner and collector Paul Maenz, he opened the store “Pudding Explosion” in Frankfurt / Main, which, according to the two owners, offered “psychedelic food with hippie accessories”. It was the first store in Germany to offer such a wide variety of political, spiritual and ironic articles, from incense sticks to the Peking Review. When the artist died of lymph gland cancer in August of the same year at the age of only 23, he left behind an exceedingly impressive artistic œuvre of over 600 works. The complete archive with films, notes, letters, manuscripts and the artist’s estate list was bequeathed by Paul Maenz to the Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK) in Frankfurt / Main in 2011. It can be viewed online. A structure of order, not a composition. A surface is filled with similar objects, one cannot […]

until 25.02. | #3294ARTatBerlin | DIEHL shows from 14th January 2022 the exhibition A CAGE TO LIVE IN by the artist Carmen Calvo.  Carmen Calvo Sáenz de Tejada (born 1950 in Valencia) is a Spanish conceptual artist, noted for her contribution to the contemporary art of the Valencian Community. Opening: Friday, January 14, 2022, noon – 7:00 p.m. Exhibition Dates: Friday, January 14 to Friday, February 25, 2022     Image caption: Carmen Calvo, A Cage to Live In, 1998, installation Exhibition Carmen Calvo – DIEHL | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin

until 26.02. | #3291ARTatBerlin | SCHMALFUSS BERLIN gallery shows from 15th January 2022 the double exhibition IN SIGHT with works by the artists Thomas Kitzinger and Hans Thomann. Oil painting on aluminum and objects are presented. Surfaces, perspectives, transparencies. The first vernissage of the SCHMALFUSS BERLIN Gallery in 2022 is dedicated to Thomas Kitzinger and Hans Thomann. Both artists re-position their models in an art space that is subject to its own rules. Thomas Kitzinger (*1955) creates paintings in which he captures macro images of plants or vases in oil on aluminum. He unemotionally focuses on the detailed views of his model, so that his object paintings resemble portraits. The artist is known for his dynamically realistic still lifes and portraiture. He lives and works in Freiburg, Germany. Thomas Kitzinger, A1-21, Oil / Aluminum, 38 x 60 cm, 2021 Thomas Kitzinger, A8-21, Oil / Aluminum, 70 x 120 cm, 2021 Hans Thomann (*1957) uses items he encounters in his everyday life to create immersive objects. The use of reflective and transparent surfaces always directly involves the surrounding space and the audience. He lives and works in St. Gallen, Switzerland. Hans Thomann, verschiedene Objekte, 2021 Opening: Saturday, 15 January 2022, 3:00 […]

until 19.03. | #3288ARTatBerlin | Galerie Schindler in Potsdam shows from 28. January 2022 the exhibition CODE UNIQUE by the Dresden artist Andreas Hildebrandt. On display are the latest prints. Entitled code unique, the gallery will show entirely new color linocuts by established artist Andreas Hildebrandt in January 2022. The intensely colored prints in various formats explore the superimposition of different sign systems. Andreas Hildebrandt, Raumschnitt Through multiple cut linoleum stencils superimposed on top of each other, new and surprising perspectives emerge. A coded cosmos emerges, which illuminates everyday signs and structures from technology and culture that surround us. Andreas Hildebrandt, Blende The special exhibition is complemented by original graphic art books and a wall piece specially developed for the gallery space. Andreas Hildebrandt, Fokus Marke I Andreas Hildebrandt was born in Dresden, where he studied landscape architecture, painting and graphic arts at the HfBK in Dresden. He lives and works with his family in Potsdam. Andreas Hildebrandt im Atelier, Foto via Galerie Schindler Vernissage: Thursday, January 27, 2022, from 6:00 p.m. Exhibition dates: Friday, January 28 to Saturday, March 19, 2022 Finissage + Book presentation: Friday, 18 March 2022     Image caption title: Andreas Hildebrandt, Marke, Linoldruck auf Leinwand, […]

until 05.02. | #3285ARTatBerlin | Kristin Hjellegjerde Berlin shows from 12th January 2022 (Opening: 11.01.) the exhibition PERIOD DRAMA by the artist Louis Bennett. Familiar picturesque country village scenes are rendered surreal against burning orange skies while larger-than-life characters appear caught suspended between visual layers of history. In this latest body of work, Lancashire-born, London-based artist Louis Bennett explores the concept of the rural idyll as both a contemporary psychological state and a powerful record of a complex past. Rendered in the artist’s signature acid colour palette with spliced imagery, each painting in Period Drama, the artist’s solo show at Kristin Hjellegjerde Berlin, possesses its own distinct narrative and atmosphere, while expressing a wider sense of displacement and anxiety. At the same time, fluid brushstrokes and drips of paint mark a shift away from the hard-edged graphic style of previous works towards a more confident and dynamic aesthetic. Louis Bennett, Cold Poem, Oil on Calico, 130 x 180cm Bennett’s process typically begins with the collection of found imagery from old books and magazines, but while these materials were previously used as visual or atmospheric prompts, the artist has taken a different approach with these latest works by employing a projector […]

until 05.02. | #3283ARTatBerlin | HazeGallery shows from 14th January 2022 the exhibition Nonverbal Stories by the artist Lentov. Lentov is the pseudonym of the artist Elena Fuks. The exhibition is curated by Iren Russo.  In program structuralism’s essay by Roland Barthes, The Death of the Author, a philosopher research phenomenon transforms author’s ideas in the reader’s minds into something different. How does it happen? How does our personal experience influences our text’s interpretation and understanding? Why is author’s idea isn’t the same thing as the reader’s interpretation? According to Barthes when the reader sees the text, and starts reading it, interpreting it, the author is dying, because his idea is transforming and never will be the same. Lentov, Diptych 01 Sence Trip, acrylic, graphic, canvas, 1950 x 1300 mm In visual arts, as in texts, the same process is happening. We see an artwork, and our imagination, life experiences, education  help us to understand visual forms. It’s a unique, unrepeatable understanding for everyone. The solo show of the artist Lentov Non-verbal Stories is about an essential trait of art — an ability to make a viewer feel and reflect. It is the first time Lentov presents abstract artworks and […]

until 12.01. | #3288ARTatBerlin | Galerie Gilla Lörcher presents from 16th December 2021 the exhibition Radiants extended by the French artist Capucine Vandebrouck. With the radiants, the artist experiments with the light and color effects of PVC film. The play of colors and light. that the works unfold in the gallery space is amazing and absolutely spectacular. Marie Cozette about Capucine Vandebrouck’s work: “In 1967, Robert Morris achieves in the Western Washington University an iconic work called Steam Cloud, a simple cloud of smoke emerging from the ground. At the time the American artist designs this work, it is a question of thinking about a work as a random shape, shifting and impermanent. He will talk about anti-form in a text published in 1968, in conflict with the canons of minimalism dominating the American artistic scene. From there you could pull the many strings of a star shaped artistic genealogy, where entropy, chance, fundamental ambiguity, immateriality, disappearances and decoy effects would be mixed together. It is in this frame that the work of Capucine Vandebrouck would be inserted, somewhere between the Dust Breeding of Duchamps and the „scribbles“ of Sol le Witt, between the proponents of arte povera and the […]

until 26.03. | #3266ARTatBerlin | Sprüth Magers Berlin currently shows an exhibition of works by the artist Robert Irwin. Robert Irwin has spent over six decades producing art that examines our experience of seeing and moving through the world, heightening viewers’ awareness of their senses and surroundings. His wall works, sculptures and site-conditional installations, which regularly employ light, reflection and colors as their primary materials, involve a careful balance of presence and absence that use simple, understated means to generate sophisticated visual and spatial effects. Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers are delighted to present an exhibition of new work by the celebrated American artist. Concurrently, Light Art Space (LAS) is presenting Robert Irwin’s new location specific exhibition Light and Space at Kraftwerk in Berlin, opening December 5. Opening: Friday, 3rd December 2021, 6:00 – 9:00 pm. Exhibition dates: Saturday, 4th December 2021 – Saturday, 26th March 2022     Image caption: Robert Irwin, Sunday Morning, 2020 (detail) © Robert Irwin/ARS (Artists Rights Society), New York, Courtesy by the artist, Pace Gallery and Sprüth Magers. Photo: Pablo Mason Exhibition Robert Irwin – Sprüth Magers Berlin | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin

until 10.12. | #3272ARTatBerlin | BARK Lab presents on 10th December 2021 a performance by the Berlin Strippers Collective. The performance will take place on the occasion of the opening of the new art space. To kick off the program of the BARK Lab with a big bang the curators were able to win the Berlin Strippers Collective. The self-organised, autonomous, feminist collective advocates for the de-criminalization of sex work globally. The artists’ performances are at the intersection of art, performance, entertainment, work and activism. The Berlin Strippers Collective condemns gender and racial discrimination in the sex industry and challenges oppressive structures. To fight against stigma and misinformation they gather as a creative and political group, challenging their audience to see the body, nudity, sexuality, and movement without shame but as art in itself. BARK Lab is a place for exploration and interdisciplinary experiments. In making use of the space right next door to BARK BERLIN GALLERY, the curators and invited artists, whether emerging or established, are encouraged to break new ground. BARK Lab is run by the four Berlin based curators Tristan Deschamps Nicola E. Petek Polina Piagin Daniel Seyde Vernissage: Friday, 10. December 2021, 7:30 & 8:00 pm […]

until 17.12. | #3267ARTatBerlin | Michael Reid Berlin currently shows the group exhibition Spirit Worlds – Contemporary Works from Maningrida, Northern Territory with works by artists from Maningrida. With works by Samuel Namunjdja, Paul Namarinjmak Nabulumo, Janet Marawarr, Carlos Namunjdja, Deborah Wurrkidj, and Anniebell Marrngamarrnga Bindalbindal, the group has its genesis in body design, rock art and cultural practices such as manikay (song), bunggul (dance), doloppo bim (bark painting), sculptures, and kun-madj (weaving). Michael Reid Berlin is honoured to present our final exhibition of 2021, eight works from the renowned Maningrida Arts & Culture centre. The art created at Maningrida comes from big country. Spanning 7,000 km, with over one hundred clan estates, the spirits painted and woven for this exhibition vary greatly, yet for 50 years the artists that created them have been unified in their expression through Maningrida Arts & Culture. Courtesy by Michael Reid – Spirit World From Paul Namarinjmak Nabulumo’s portrayal of Namarrkon the Lightning Spirit, who makes lightning and thunder by striking out with kurlbburru, the stone axes which protrude from its joints, to Janet Marawarr’s Namorrorddo, the profane spirit who carries a feared fighting stick, the miyarrul, and whose eerie cry is heard at night, these spirits represent knowledge and tradition […]