until 20.11. | #2899ARTatBerlin | Sprüth Magers Berlin currently shows an Online Exhibition by the artist Andreas Schulze. Andreas Schulze and Sprüth Magers share a history. In February 1983 Monika Sprüth opened her Cologne gallery with an Andreas Schulze exhibition, and since that fateful day he has had fifteen solo exhibitions with the gallery and has exhibited widely in major museums. Celebrating Schulze’s unique achievement, Jörg Heiser, writer and professor at Universität der Künste Berlin, explores the artist’s life and work in an in-depth essay, from his early days in Cologne’s heady 1980s art scene to his important room installations and his recent paintings based on his travels in Sicily. Heiser coined the term “intranscendence” to characterize the inward, fearless nature of the artist’s vision. We invite you to join the esteemed critic on a guided tour through Schulze’s playful oeuvre. Exhibition period: Thursday, 22nd October –  Friday, 20th. November 2020 To the Online Exhibition: spruethmagers.com/exhibitions/andreas-schulze-online-2020     Image caption: Andreas Schulze, Untitled (Morris Nolde/Rügen), 2009 © Andreas Schulze / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, 2020 Exhibition Andreas Schulze– Sprüth Magers Berlin | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Ausstellungen Berlin Galerien Berlin | ART at Berlin

until 16.01. | #2896ARTatBerlin | The Charlottenburg galleries Meyer Riegger, Klaus Gerrit Friese and Kicken Berlin are jointly presenting the exhibition Helmut Newton 100 | Jonathan Monk 51. On the occasion of Helmut Newton’s centenary birthday on October 31, 2020, Kicken Berlin takes this opportunity to show and reposition Newton’s work in a dialogue with contemporary artists, together with the Berlin galleries Klaus Gerrit Friese and Meyer Riegger. At Galerie Friese on Fasanenplatz, Newton’s works build a new connection with the erotically charged Pop Art of the American William N. Copley (1919-1996). Meyer Riegger has invited the British artist Jonathan Monk (*1969) to react directly to Newton’s photographs with specially created works. Exhibition period: Saturday, 31st October 2020 to Saturday, 16th January 2021             Image caption: Image: Helmut Newton, ‘Heute ein König’, 1996, beer coaster, ballpoint pen, 10,7 x 10,7 cm. “For Rudi. Der grösste Kunsthändler der Welt – I AM AN ARTIST and this is the Proof! Dein Helmut, 31.10.1996” Courtesy Kicken Berlin. Exhibition Helmut Newton 100 | Jonathan Monk 51- Meyer Riegger | Contemporary Art – Kunst in Berlin – ART at Berlin

until 09.01. | #2893ARTatBerlin | Galerie Kornfeld shows from 7th November 2020 the solo show Auto-Splash with sculptures and picture reliefs from corrugated board by the artist Martin Spengler. The title of the exhibition derives from the British physicist Arthur Mason Worthington, who for more than two decades sought the ideal form of a splashing drop, attaching great importance to the afterimages of his observations, which were, so to speak, burned onto his retina. This notion that the image an object leaves behind in the viewer’s mind is much stronger than the actual moment of seeing also holds true, according to Martin Spengler, for any kind of art experience. The work is not the object, but that which develops between object and viewer. The more intense this image, the stronger its effect, which, however, cannot arise without the triggering object. Martin Spengler finds the motifs for his works – contemporary cityscapes, skyscrapers, facades, towers and Gothic cathedrals – in image files and sketches that serve as models for detailed preliminary drawings. According to the artist, as soon as this “preliminary sketch” is completed, “the work is finished in the mind”. For him, the work of art is the “proof that […]

until 27.11. | #2890ARTatBerlin | Peres Projects presents from 30th October 2020 the exhibition Diálogos Remotos by the artist Dalton Gata. Peres Projects is pleased to present Diálogos Remotos, Dalton Gata’s (b. 1977, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba) first solo exhibition in Berlin. Born in Cuba and based in Puerto Rico, Gata’s work operates across multiple registers; the symbolic, political, as well as the personal to address themes of migration, desire, and consciousness. In Diálogos Remotos Gata, invites us into an imagined home and the six paintings on view are set in various rooms, looking out at the world beyond their walls. Their compositions hover between the intimacy of private interiors and distant vistas and are populated with details from the Gata’s real life and home – a photograph of the artist as a baby, the terrazzo flooring in his studio. These instances of the real are haunted by their own instability, as with the bloodied floor under the tiger’s lunch, and the sleek equine figure with a human face, uncanniness populates each canvas. Gata’s domestic spaces draw on an association of familiarity and safety while simultaneously offering unsettling revelations into the unconscious mind – that which is dreamed, the ego […]

until 05.12. | #2887ARTatBerlin | WENTRUP presents from 23rd October 2020 the exhibition “Adrift gleaming serenest rustling air” with works by the artist John McAllister. “These new paintings allow you to become absorbed, they are a place where your thoughts can wander,“ says John McAllister, ”you can drift in and out without being told what to think.“ Don’t just look at nature. Smell it, feel it, get absorbed by it. “It’s a release to be absorbed,“ he states. As you can safely do, without even going outside, through the sheer force of his art. “Like sitting in the shade looking out into the comforting heat allowing the color to mesmerize and soothe. The sound of a fan gently blowing while looking through a window into the afternoon sunshine, your eyes wandering through the landscape outside and occasionally catching some of the reflection from the glass and letting you back in.” John McAllister, adrift duskdazed some divine glamour, 2020, oil on canvas 183 cm 72 cm “Having the landscape at a glance, holding it in your mind” is something we could easily do for hours in a painting as in the immersive environment of much adrift seemed serenest sea. As his […]

until 28.11. | #2884ARTatBerlin | Semjon Contemporary shows from 24th October 2020 the exhibition edit-2.0/Der Zweite Öffentliche Raum (> The Second Public Space) with wall objects, installation and photography by the artist Thomas Prochnow. The two-part title of the exhibition already reveals that two artistic and thematic focuses are set here, which Thomas Prochnow will show. edit-2.0 summarises the two previous exhibitions edit_black (2017) and edit_white (2019), or presents an excerpt from both. In both exhibitions the artist presented his edit works, which deal with principles of order and question the concept of standardisation. On the one hand there is the order – one could also say the edit feature – colour, on the other hand there is the order of the standard size, the DIN size. Following both parameters as basic principles, the artist creates a field of activity that is diverse and surprising in its output: If in edit_black the colour black is the main feature, the artist composes from all imaginable materials, be it found objects (wood and building board remains, coated or raw) or materials from the DIY market such as grids, rubber mats and the like, which he assembles into a picture as in an […]

until 09.01. | #2881ARTatBerlin | 68 projects shows from 7th November 2020 the exhibition Rooms & Beings with works by Georgian artist Rusudan Khizanishvili, curated by Nina Mdivani. Rooms & Beings is the first solo presentation of Georgian artist, Rusudan Khizanishvili in Berlin. Khizanishvili balances between Georgian culture, which is so rich in traditions, and the conceptually driven contemporary discourse on representation and its functions. The fourteen works on view were all created in 2020 while the artist was living in Tbilisi, and can be thematically divided into two categories: works centred around sacral transformations, and those featuring theatrically staged interactions within rooms. These two themes are implicitly interconnected for the artist, as the human being and her identity are of central interest. Questions of self, connections to biology, cultural memory and myths, and the female body are all the subjects of an ongoing investigation for Khizanishvili, who shows maturity of purpose and mastery of colour. Khizanishvili’s paintings go against the grain of constructed identity as expected from a post-Soviet artist. By creating a powerful and unique visual vocabulary, she remains only loosely connected to the preoccupations of post-colonialism, addressing them in more abstract terms, rather than aspects of mastery […]

until 09.12. | #2878ARTatBerlin | re|space gallery shows from 9. October 2020 the exhibition South.Southwest with exponents of contemporary Latin American photography by Sebastián Liste, Christina de Middel, Álvaro Ybarra Zavala, Laura León, Jesús Rocandio, Adriana Zehbrauskas, Stephen Ferry, Tomás Munita and Emilia Brandão. The works from the South.Southwest collection exhibited at re|space gallery in Berlin are a curated visual insight into Latin American identity. The visual palette is as diverse as the Latin American people, portraying culture, nature, folklore and the everyday. This fine art photography collection has been compiled by the artists Sebastián Liste, Christina de Middel, Álvaro Ybarra Zavala, Laura León, Jesús Rocandio, Adriana Zehbrauskas, Stephen Ferry, Tomás Munita and Emilia Brandão to showcase the strength of contemporary Latin American photography. As photographers, the artists are under the patronage of Leica Iberia, have worked extensively with world-renowned photography agencies such as Magnum and Getty Images, are represented in established fine-art collections such as the New York Metropolitan Museum and have been published in major international publications such as Time Magazine. Though partially stemming from documentary photography projects, the works within this collection have been chosen for their distinct artistic value. What distinguishes this collection from documentary photography […]

until 31.10. | #2875ARTatBerlin | Galerie Eigenheim shows from 3rd October 2020 at the salon of the gallery the solo show Ill Skys with paintings by the artist Lars Wild. Ille Himmels – Lars Wild’s “Ill Skys” shows dystopian landscapes and bittersweet portraits created last year. The motifs are not based on a model but, freely sprung from the artist’s spirit, the use of colour, whether oil, acrylic or lacquer, is unconventional. The respective material is mainly applied and every little graphic intervention by scratching, wiping and smearing becomes an element that shapes the picture. The extremely fine brush stroke simulates a water surface, the soft, matt colour gradients worked into the paper create voluminous cloud formations. The monochrome, overall very reduced colour palette is broken up mainly by the colourfulness of the background. At the same time, references to the naturalistic painting of the Romantic period are unmistakable. His portraits, sometimes anatomically perfect, sometimes grimacingly distorted, are familiar in a disturbing way, but they tend to be abysmal due to shadows cleverly placed in the corners of the mouth or eye sockets. Lars Wild was born in Gotha in 1981, studied fine arts at the Bauhaus University Weimar and […]

until 31.10. | #2872ARTatBerlin | Galerie Gilla Lörcher shows from 2nd October 2020 the solo exhibition Vintage Portraits: cultural workers of the 70s / 80s with photographs by the artist Ute Schendel. The exhibition is part of the EMOP – European Month of Photography. For the European Month of Photography EMOP 2020 and the exhibition at Galerie Gilla Lörcher, the photographer Ute Schendel has selected a series of vintage print portraits from the 70s and 80s. They show prominent personalities from the world of theater, film and literature with whom the photographer was / is in close contact. Back then, Schendel experimented with a sulfur toning technique on Agfa P90 paper. This painterly component gave the ‘realistic’ portraits an expressive power. After a series of attempts, she left it at that and turned to documentary photography in the future. The vintage print portraits remained in the photographer’s Basel studio archive and were rediscovered by her in 2019. 13 large-format sulfur tonings (each 45 x 60 cm) by: Fernando Arabal, Mauricio Kagel, Walter Stöhrer, Samuel Beckett, Peter Kurzck, Ezra Gerhard, George Tabori and others will be presented. These pictures are complemented by black and white portraits (silver gelatine prints, also mostly […]

until 14.11. | #2858ARTatBerlin | Bermel von Luxburg Gallery shows from 11th September 2020 the group show EQUILIBRIUM. The title comes from Latin and means “balance”. It is about the balance of three painters and three sculptors who are shown in dialogue: Works by Christo Daskaltsis, Philipp Haager, Masaya Hashimoto, Kosuke Kato, Nadège Mouyssinat and Robert Pan will be presented. Robert Pan, Gold Christo Daskaltsis, 0916-02, 2016, 80 x 120 cm, Oil on Aluminium It is also about a balance in unknown and unequal times. A balance in the post Covid-19 era, when the world was plunged into uncertain and unbalanced times. With this exhibition the gallery wants to set a sign of hope, stability and faith. Masaya Hashimoto, Narcissus tazetta var. chinensis, 33 x 17 x 7 cm, deer antler, 2019, Copyright Haruhi Okuyama, 2020 Kosuke Kato, Legato V Philipp Haager, Z2_Nahfeld Phase #15 4zu3 Asian Nebula, 2016, 170 x 260 cm, Indian ink, linen montiert In the cabinet, under the title SELECTIONS, selected works by Thomas Canto, Uli Fischer, Benjamin Herndon, Lev Khesin and Olaf Schirm are on display. Preview Days: Wednesday 9 September + Thursday 10 September 2020 from noon to 8 pm Vernissage: Friday, 11 September […]

until 21.11. | #2850ARTatBerlin | Köppe Contemporary presents the exhibition “Tomorrow Never Knows” by the artists Jim Avignon and Julia Benz starting September 29, 2020. Under the title “Tomorrow Never Knows”, Galerie Köppe Contemporary with the artist Jim Avignon and the artist Julia Benz opens its doors for the first time since March 2020 on September 26th for a vernissage. With the title “Tomorrow Never Knows” the artists refer to a song of the Beatles from 1966 from the album Revolver. Jim Avignon, painter and draftsman, illustrator, animator, concept artist, action and street art artist, songwriter, musician, performer and organizer of happenings, began his career in the early 1990s in New York and Berlin Jim Avignon, It‘s Complicated, Mixed media on paper, 2020. Meanwhile, Jim Avignon is internationally known as a “chronicler of urban life”, as he was once called, not only for his unmistakable visual language, but also for his actions in public space. The large-format paintings that the artist creates for his exhibitions are mostly created with acrylic paint on paper or cardboard. The coloring is reminiscent of pop culture, especially since the picture design is often determined by the signal-like primary colors red, yellow and blue. In […]

until 09.10.| #2846ARTatBerlin | Galerie Thomas Schulte will present the first version of the solo show by the artist Michael Müller, which consists of two parts: “Anton im Bastrock” and the installation “Bikini on Mars” in the gallery’s Corner Space, starting on 9 September 2020. The second version, “Aesthetic judgement and selflessness: exposing oneself to something with an empty gaze and without support”, begins on 17 October and will be shown until 7 November 2020. This is the first solo presentation of the artist, which takes place in the gallery following his extensive exhibition cycle “18 Exhibitions” (2013 to 2017). For the first time, the two exhibitions will focus on Müller’s painterly oeuvre on a larger scale. Müller is known to date primarily for his conceptual-complex, multi-layered installations, performances and as a curator. Several new groups of works of programmatic painting will be presented, “Vor und hinter dem Glas”, “Handicap”, “Schwierige Bilder”, “Abstrakte Autogamie”, “Verschränkte Werke” and “Urteilskraft”. In it, Müller examines the classical approaches, methods and techniques of painting – its formats, materials, presentation and perception – and questions our learned approaches to and expectations of painting. The large-format picture series are each dedicated to different aspects of the […]

 until 14.11. | #2840ARTatBerlin | Sprüth Magers Berlin presents from 12th September 2020 the exhibition by the artist Andreas Gursky. Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers are pleased to present a substantial exhibition of new photographs by Andreas Gursky at their Berlin gallery, his first new body of work in almost three years, in which he takes up a range of themes that he has investigated for decades. The exhibition will also be accompanied by an online show on their website. Despite the continuity in theme and subject matter—our built environment and humankind’s impact on the natural world—the new pictures embed his analyses in current events, offering altered settings and situations to explore. Rhine III (2018) revisits his important work Rhine II (1999)—the dimensions, setting and composition of both are all almost identical. And yet, just twenty years later, the mood is drastically altered. The drought of summer 2018 reduced the river to a record low, and the new picture offers a dystopian vision of the once flourishing river landscape. Cruise (2020) also brings to mind an important earlier work, Paris, Montparnasse (1993). The same grid-like structure appears, but instead of a large apartment building, here there are hundreds of windows […]

until 31.10. | #2844ARTatBerlin | Galerie EIGEN + ART Berlin is currently showing the exhibition “In abisso” with works by the artist Nicola Samorì. The interview with the artist in the context of Gallery Weekend 2020 and background information on his work can be found on DEEDS.WORLD. Nicola Samorì’s relationship to the sources of his pictures is suffused with a continuous grappling with the history of visual art – not didactic, but substantive. His work as a painter and sculptor necessarily implies confrontation with this legacy, which nowadays is all too often regarded as unwieldy ballast. Samorì has no fear of the past or of his predecessors. He takes possession of them as role models and uses them to traverse the necessary path of knowledge and selfknowledge, using them as instruments to deconstruct their language and to found his own poetics. Nicola Samorì, La degenerazione di Daniel, Oil on Bardiglio marble, 40 x 30 cm, 2020 The suggestive power of an art-historical icon can be so great that it is reworked again and again over the centuries; each work becomes a building block that gradually loses every component of recognizability, increasingly becomes one with its respective creator, and moves ever further […]

until 20.09. | #2860ARTatBerlin | aquabitArt Galerie is showing the exhibition “From the Land of Eternity” with works by the artist Huda Al Saie, curated by Frances Stafford, starting September 11, 2020. On September 11 the new exhibition “From the Land of Eternity” by Huda Al Saie opens its doors at aquabitArt gallery during Berlin Art Week 2020. Huda Al Saie is a Bahraini artist, most known as the leading pioneer of porcelain art in Bahrain. Exploring new forms of expression, she started creating multiple series of larger acrylic paintings on canvas in 2018 that, due to the scale and medium, allowed Al Saie more freedom in her process. Thanks to the immediacy of the paint, she was now able to enact larger gestural strokes and work with abstraction in general compared to the extremely detailed and precise work that usually lends itself to traditional porcelain painting. Al Saie is inspired by the unique and ancient architecture of Bahrain and the Kingdom’s flora and fauna. Huda Al Saie, Birds in Paradise (Bahrain), Photo: Matt Wardle, 2020 As a connoisseur of Bahraini art, curator Frances Stafford presents the latest works by Huda Al Saie in the exhibition, “From the Land of […]

until 30.01. | #2863ARTatBerlin | GALERIE SPRINGER BERLIN presents the exhibition “An den Strömen” with works of the photographer couple Ute Mahler & Werner Mahler from October 06, 2020. Galerie Springer Berlin is opening the exhibition An den Strömen (At the Streams) by Ute Mahler and Werner Mahler on October 3 to mark the EMOP European Month of Photography Berlin 2020. This new and previously unpublished series emerged from the summer of 2019 onwards for the exhibition Kontinent – Auf der Suche nach Europa (Continent – in search of Europe) by the Ostkreuz photographers’ agency at the Academy of Arts (10/02/2020 – 01/10/2021). For this series, both photographers toured Europe’s major rivers and streams – the Elbe, Rhine/Waal, Danube, Po and Volga – where social, ecological, political, economic and historical themes become apparent and enable both artists to create a superlative portrait of Europe. In images that are both emotionally powerful and photographically impressive, they depict extracts from life, architecture, and portraits along Europe’s biggest streams. The artists started at the Elbe, the Rhine and the Danube in Bulgaria in 2019. The Po followed that autumn and in February 2020 they continued on their journey to the Volga. Visits to […]

until 07.11. | #2857ARTatBerlin | EFREMIDIS GALLERY shows from September 11, 2020, exhibition “Good” with works of the artist Hadi Fallahpisheh. Hadi Fallahpisheh performs alone in the darkroom. The lack of light impairs his vision and, consequently, movements become absurd and cumbersome. To make his work he uses different tools and methods: balls and flashlights, ceramic and photographic techniques. The performance has elements of slapstick comedy. Isolated in a pitch-dark room, the artist throws a ball—again and again—at a sheet of metallic Kodak paper. Sometimes missing its target altogether, when the ball does hit the paper, a bulb lights up. The flash causes a photogram and by exposing different objects, creates faint outlines and grids. In the following step, he uses a flashlight to make line drawings on the light-sensitive paper. Hadi Fallahpisheh shrugs at the rules: he crosses boundaries between media and ideas and misuses his materials. The strength of his photographic surfaces lies in their remarkable painterly appearance. It’s only logical that the artist stretches the thick photographic paper to mimic and also taunt the idea of painting. Hadi Fallahpisheh, Love in the Room, 2020 The resulting artworks are twofold: a document of a lonesome performance and an […]

until 24.10. | #2845ArtatBerlin | Kristin Hjellegjerde Berlin presents from September 11, 2020, the exhibition Zima Blue by the Norwegian artist Martine Poppe. Public and private, demure and violent, ordered and wild – for her second exhibition in Berlin, young Norwegian artist Martine Poppe has produced an extraordinary series of paintings and sculptures. Pastel bands – painted in Poppe’s trademark circular brush strokes on silk or polyester restoration fabric – are reminiscent of the controlled silence of Agnes Martin’s striped works. Between the stripes, however a partial view of draped and paint-splattered fabrics generates a surge of contemporary noise and energy. Suspended between the tactile and the unreachable, Poppe’s works flex and glow through the delicate canvas. “The surface is usually regarded as the ‘real’ painting, so the space behind – still visible between the lines of the cool, ordered surface – is a place I can be violent, intimate, vulnerable and lost.” Martine Poppe, Between the lines, oil on polyester restoration fabric and textiles 160 x 110 cm, 2020 Acutely aware of the role her gender plays in how people view and understand her work, Poppe fixes splatter-painting – widely perceived as a hyper-masculine technique – between soft fabrics […]

until 19.09. | #2852ARTatBerlin | EIGEN + ART Lab currently shows the exhibition “Face First: Researchers Gone Wild” by artist Adam Harvey. The exhibition Face First: Researchers Gone Wild looks at the use of unconstrained and non-consensual data sources in Artificial Intelligence systems. Beginning in 2007 with the “Labeled Faces in the Wild” dataset and continuing throughout 2020, the practice of collecting images “in the wild” has become normalized, but is still largely unregulated and often problematic. Today, dozens of image training datasets with millions of images and identities feed into industrial facial recognition systems with little oversight. The works presented in Face First: Researchers Gone Wild showcase discoveries made during the multiyear research project MegaPixels that investigates image training datasets created “in the wild”. Adam Harvey, Datageist: Duke MTMC Camera 6, 2019, visualisation based on the Duke MTMC Person tracking Image dataset, credit: Adam Harvey, 2019 courtesy the artist and EIGEN + ART Lab Adam Harvey (US, 1981) is a researcher and artist based in Berlin focused on computer vision, privacy, and image politics. He is a graduate of the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University (2010) and previously studied engineering and photojournalism at the Pennsylvania State University. […]

until 26.10. | #2861ARTatBerlin | Galerie Eigenheim presents from September 5, 2020 three exhibitions of paintings, drawings and installations by the artists Enrico Freitag with “Nebelherz”, Rao Fu with “Im Regen” and Wang Yuhong with “Seven Stars”. Galerie EIGENHEIM Berlin hereby cordially invites you to the autumn exhibition. On 04.09. they will open an exhibition in which the three artists Enrico Freitag, Rao Fu and Wang Yuhong will be confronted with each other in a dialogue-like manner. In the front room of the exhibition they show new works, mainly pastels on paper, by Enrico Freitag, which are less concerned with global issues but more with inner states of mind. These are juxtaposed with new large-format paintings by Rao Fu, chanching between dream and reality. In this room they develop a contrasting dialogue with installations by Wang Yuhong, while in the rear salon new paintings and paper works by the artist from Shanghai are on display. For many years EIGENHEIM Weimar/Berlin has maintained contact with artists from China. Wang Yuhong, for example, has been an artist of the house since 2010 and Rao Fu, born in Beijing, since 2018. Works by Enrico Freitag have also been shown frequently in China – […]

until 11.10. | #2835ARTatBerlin | ifa-gallery is showing the exhibition TIME GOES BY by the artists Rebecca Horn and Antonio Paucar from September 10, 2020. The world is out of kilter. What form might international artistic and cultural exchange take on during a global pandemic? ifa Gallery Berlin takes advantage of this moment of immobility to place works from the ifa (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen) collection in a contemporary context. Artist and Master Student In the current climate, the unsettling yet touching works of Rebecca Horn take on a new significance. Her films, performances and sculptures open up a space between the poles of life and death, past and future, interior and exterior, human and machine. Horn not only influenced a subsequent generation of artists; she actively sought a dialogue with them. The exhibition presents such a dialogue with her master class student Antonio Paucar, an artist who lives between Berlin and Huancayo (Peru). In his performances, Paucar moves through private, public and political spaces and landscapes that are both culturally and symbolically laden. He waits for change, senses transience, the power of the unconscious, sows memories so as not to forget. In poetry, they find a shared language of proximity, […]

until 02.10. | #2828ARTatBerlin | CAMERA WORK presents the exhibition “15 YEARS – COLLECTED DREAMS” with photographs by artist David Drebin from September 5, 2020. The exhibition takes place on the occasion of the artist’s 50th birthday and comprises more than 15 large-format photographs, including rarely exhibited major works such as “Movie Star” and “Dreams of Central Park”, new works and spectacular lightboxes. The photo book “Collectors Edition” (teNeues) will be published on the occasion of the exhibition. David Drebin has been represented by the CAMERA WORK gallery for 15 years. During this time he has developed into an influential and important contemporary photographic artist. In the exhibition, which traces Drebin’s artistic development over the last 15 years by means of selected major works, visitors can gain an insight into the artist’s oeuvre. David Drebin’s leitmotif is the depiction of women in connection with longings, fantasies and their relationship to the big city. In the photographs, the women are surrounded by an exciting and stimulating atmosphere that is unapproachable, unreachable and at the same time irresistible. Becoming a voyeur, the viewer enjoys a view into apartments and city scenes in which glamorous women are mysteriously staged. Drebin lets the viewer […]

until 19.12. | #2830ARTatBerlin | Galerie Judin shows from September 12, 2020 the exhibition “Made in Germany” by the artist Tom of Finland. It is the second solo exhibition with Tom of Finland in the gallery. Under the pseudonym Tom of Finland, Touko Laaksonen (1920-1991) rose to become one of the most important and influential Finnish artists. His iconic depictions of proud and life-affirming gay life have given a decisive impetus to international gay emancipation since the 1960s. But although we clearly associate his lustful portraits of self-confident cops, cowboys, farmers, and men in black leather with the USA, Tom’s rise to gay icon hood began neither in his native Finland nor in the USA. Of all conceivable places, it was the northern German city of Hamburg and outstanding figures of the local gay scene that led to the very first exhibition of the artist’s work since the 1970s, a bar named after him and decorated with his works, two murals, and the creation of the world’s largest collection of his works in private hands. Regular commissions for advertising material for gay events in the Hanseatic city allowed Tom to hang up his livelihood in an advertising agency – and […]

until 24.10. | #2839ARTatBerlin | Galerie Martin Mertens presents from 5th September 2020 the exhibition JE NE SUIS PAS SEULE with works by the artist Katrin Bremermann. As the title of her third solo exhibition with us, Katrin Bremermann, who lived in Paris for a long time, has chosen the title of a poem by Paul Éluard “Je ne suis pas seule” (“I am not alone”). When dealing with literature/poetry, she is interested in finding words that interest her, touch her emotionally or tell a story. They should raise questions and create expectations. This forms the basis for her work. Here it becomes clear that Katrin’s work is very emotional despite its formal rigour. She wants the respective work “to end so far that it remains unexplainable, but at the same time it is very present and independent”. Katrin has repeatedly described her work in the studio as a laboratory-like situation. She engages in various reflections and experiments on forms, colours and boundaries. In doing so, she constantly explores new elements and materials and consciously seeks new technical challenges. For the first time in this exhibition, we are showing her works with acrylic glass, which have emerged from this testing […]

until 24.10. | #2815ARTatBerlin | Galerie Max Hetzler shows a comprehensive exhibition of the artist Bridget Riley from September 5, 2020. Gallery Max Hetzler is pleased to draw your attention to their comprehensive solo exhibition with works by the internationally renowned artist Bridget Riley in all three Berlin locations. This is the seventh solo exhibition of the artist with the gallery. Since the beginning of her career, Bridget Riley has constantly expanded the concept of abstraction and its possibilities for the painterly process. Aware of how individual and collective experiences influence the way we view the world, the artist creates works that liberate color and form from their illustrative potential and enable what the artist calls “pure seeing”. Riley conceives her paintings by condensing and combining specific forms. Vertical and horizontal stripes, circles, triangles and rhombuses, curved lines seem to move rhythmically across the canvas. The artist’s profound engagement with movement, light and color results in a complex oeuvre, which is based on a long-standing fascination with the physical process of perception. The exhibition at Galerie Max Hetzler Berlin includes new paintings and wall works from recent series as well as significant works from the past years that trace Riley’s […]

until 21.11. | #2826ARTatBerlin | Galerie kajetan Berlin presents from 12th September 2020 the solo show Gatekeeper with works by the artist Bettina Blohm. Bettina Blohm’s work is an amalgamation of the European tradition and American Process painting. In over 30 years, the German-American artist has developed a vocabulary of shapes and gestures, a limited set of tools, with which she works, concentrating on pattern, repetition, rhythm, scale and color. For Bettina Blohm, paintings are material objects, they have a visual identity and they tell a story. In line drawing, analogous to writing, the grids are first created, segment by segment, from top left to bottom right. Repeated over-painting or wiping away condenses the grid, creating a paint surface that shows the process of its making, a history, like a character in a play. Lines slip, and tilt or bend the space, the works have an appearance of being in flux, of unstable geometry. Bettina Blohm | From the series DAYLIGHT MUTATIONS | 65 x 50 cm | 2019 | Acrylic, gouache, charcoal on paper | Courtesy Bettina Blohm & kajetan Berlin | Photo: Marcus Schneider Bettina Blohm started the current series in 2017, using mostly a vertical format of […]

until 02.10. | #2812ARTatBerlin |Laura Mars Gallery currently shows the exhibition BACK TO EARTH! with works by the artists Bettina von Arnim, Hanna-Mari Blencke, Habima Fuchs, Thomas Grötz, Uwe Henneken, Franziska Hufnagel, Jan-Holger Mauss, Hans-Jörg Mayer, Vincent Tavenne, Corinne Wasmuht + Marcus Weber. Curated by Thomas Grötz, Gundula Schmitz and Marcus Weber. At the beginning of the 20th century, Russian Cosmists believed they could raise the dead and colonize distant planets with people who would have become immortal. By now, we rather seem to ‘ride the last big wave’, like Lieutenant Doolittle in John Carpenter’s SF dystopia “Dark Star” — only to burn up in a distant atmosphere afterwards. ‘Let there be light!’ cries art, which seems to mediate between a hopeless darkness and the illumination of conditions — or embodies both at the same time. But first there is a black hole. Vincent Tavenne’s sculpture “Black Hole” opens the exhibition course, in which aspects such as retrofuturism, occultism and avant-garde, notions of ‘space is the place’, metaphysical abstractions, and roaming planets are artistically encompassed. A further gravitational field within the exhibition, which attempts to navigate through the infinite parallel universes of outer space and earth by means of painting, […]

until 10.10. | #2811ARTatBerlin | Semjon Contemporary presents from 22nd August 2020 the exhibition Lunapark Transylvania by the artist Gil Shachar. The title already points in a possible associative direction, which is not undesirable to think here: The term Lunapark probably stands for an amusement and theme park for everyone, as it is represented today by Disneyland, for example. In combination with the addition Transylvania, thoughts immediately come up about Count Dracula from Transylvania, the former Transylvania, now located in Romania. In 1897, the Irish poet Bram Stoker had created an imaginative monument to the historical person Count Dracul (dracul in Romanian for devil) of the 15th century as a vampire, which made him the most famous representative of that very region, also called Wallachia. It is interesting that the Lunapark – the artist was not aware of this until now – had its origin in Berlin of all places. Back to the roots! From 1904-1919 the Lunapark was a popular destination for the divertissement of Berliners and visitors to Berlin, with up to 16,000 restaurant seats. The number of visitors had already reached the first million in 1910. In 1934 the Lunapark was closed by order of the Nazi […]

until 17.09. | #2808ARTatBerlin | Galerie Z22 presents from 15th August 2020 the group show Cars: from Beauties to Scrap. with photographies by the artists Tina Winkhaus, Dirk Krüll and Hardy Brackmann. Cars: from Beauties to Scrap. Icons, myths, marvels of technology, cars have made their long journey throughout history. Cars have their own stories to tell indeed and yet we, as creators and consumers of these timeless travel machines, have been telling stories about them since their birth in the late 1800’s. From being man’s best friend to landing on the floors of some of our greatest museums to their death as pieces of scrap in a junkyard, Galerie Z22 shows with a wink the automobile industry as it likes to see itself and at the same time is a farewell to an epoch. In this exhibition cars in their functional and timeless beauty will be explored, the true technical and artistic marvel they are, alongside of a car industry caught up in the games of greed and glamour which is well aware of the reality of our time: that with mass transit and other innovation cars are indeed becoming a relic of the past. Tina Winkhaus Winkhaus offers […]

until 25.09. | #2806ARTatBerlin | Galerie Gilla Lörcher presents from 28th August 2020 the solo show with paintings by the artist Claudia Desgranges. Galerie Gilla Lörcher | Contemporary Art is very pleased to present the solo exhibition of Claudia Desgranges during the Berlin Art Week and the Gallery Weekend Berlin 2020. Both art events will take place this year in the week of 09.09.-13.09.2020. The exhibition by Cologne-based painter Claudia Desgranges is the third part of the “Female Contemporary Abstract Painters” series at  Galerie Gilla Lörcher. The series started with Ivana Klickovic from Berlin (17.01. – 28.02.2020) and followed by Simone Strasser from Munich (14.03. – 13.06.2020). Claudia Desgranges says about her artistic work, which refers to an examination of abstract modernism, minimalism, abstract expressionism and color field painting: “It is my goal to achieve freedom in painting, to go beyond conventions, to initiate new viewing habits … We are exposed to so many media, everything is going faster and faster, a lot at the same time. I respond to this with the slow medium of painting … The goal is not to sink into a picture, the eye should wander around.” Claudia Desgranges, Composite Painting. 200 x 200 cm. […]

until 15.08. | #2803ARTatBerlin | Semjon Contemporary currently shows the exhibition Interim . Summer Freshness . Longing for Art with works by artists of the gallery. The exhibition forms a short interlude before continuing with the construction of Gil Shachar’s Lunapark Transylvania. Exhibition view, Interim . Summer Freshness . Longing for Art, Photo: Galerie Exhibition view, Interim . Summer Freshness . Longing for Art, Photo: Galerie Exhibition view, Interim . Summer Freshness . Longing for Art, Photo: Galerie Exhibition period: Saturday, 1st August to Saturday, 15th August 2020     Exhibition Interim . Summer Freshness . Longing for Art – Semjon Contemporary | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin – Contemporary Art – Exhibitions Berlin Galleries – ART at Berlin  

until 29.09. | #2799ARTatBerlin | hilleckes probst galerie shows from 20th August 2020 the group show LIGHT AS A MATERIAL with works by the artists Udo Nöger and FuXiaotong.  The painting of Udo Nöger is assigned to the gestural-abstract Neo-Expressionism. Nöger lives and works in Los Angeles, USA. Udo Nöger 2013, be water 19, mixed media, 200 x 250 cm Udo Nöger, Arena 2010, mixed media, 150 x 250 cm Udo Nöger, 2013, Gewicht des Lichtes 45, mixed media, 150 x 500 cm FuXiaotong works with pinpricks on paper. She lives and works in Beijing, China. FuXiaotong 2020, 58,275 Pinpricks, handpaper, 45.7 x 26 in (116 x 66 cm ) | FuXiaotong 2020, 103,500 Pinpricks, handpaper, 45.7 x 26 in (116 x 66 cm ) | FuXiaotong 2020, 176,279 Pinpricks, handpaper, 45.7×26 in (116 x 66 cm ), 2018 Exhibition period: Thursday, 20th August – Tuesday, 29th September 2020     Exhibition LIGHT AS A MATERIAL – hilleckes probst galerie | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin

until 22.08. | #2797ARTatBerlin | Michael Reid currently shows the solo exhibition As surprising as life with collages by the artist Lucy Dyson. Lucy Dyson’s intricate handcrafted collages are recognised for their compelling and unique narratives, often underpinned with a light-hearted and colourful sense of humour. Also a talented animator, Lucy says: “Ever since I was a child I have always made collages, cutting up old encyclopaedias – and family photographs! I never consciously decided on animation or collage; they have always gone hand-in-hand for me. The subversive nature of collage has always appealed to my sense of humour: making new worlds, escapism, being left alone to work out ideas that fail when I try to put them down in words.” Lucy Dyson, Sleeping Snail/ Schlafende Schnecke, 2020, found images, paper collage, 24 x 22 cm, mounted on 30 x 30 cm acid free archival paper This new body of work is selling fast, with half of the exhibition acquired before opening. Lucy Dyson is a Berlin-based Australian artist, animator and award-winning music-video director who had her debut solo exhibition at Michael Reid Berlin in January 2019. To date, she has directed and produced over fifty music videos for clients […]

bis 29.08. | #2794ARTatBerlin | Contemporary Fine Arts presents from 30th July 2020 the exhibition  Leaky Keyholes with works by the artist Werner Büttner. When Werner Büttner became a professor at the University of Fine Arts Hamburg, after a long night of drinking and reciting poetry with Franz Erhard Walther he had business cards printed with the enigmatic job title “Professor für Unterhaltung der Art” (Professor for the Entertainment of the Species). During an afternoon spent together at the artist’s studio in Geeshacht, a small town on the Elbe distinguished only by Alfred Nobel’s invention of dynamite and the densest population of nightingales in Northern Germany, I learned first-hand that Büttner is indeed a consummate entertainer. Neither bombastic nor particularly light-hearted, qualities typical of showmanship, he instead exudes a performative mildness—a genteel deadpan manner that is echoed in the unsettling, often bleak world that his recent canvases depict. Each painting in his exhibition Undichte Schlüssellöcher (Leaky Keyholes) at Contemporary Fine Arts proposes a self-contained universe and on first glance it can be challenging to chart any real connection between the assembled works. Those looking for clear, straightforward messages will not find them here: a painting of a plague doctor hangs alongside canvases that portray a bottle […]

extended until 05.09. | #2791ArtatBerlin | Kristin Hjellegjerde Berlin shows from Thursday, 30th July 2020 the solo show “Everything” with the artist Richard Schur. Imagine a watch, each component crafted, polished and positioned by hand, using tools refined and perfected by a true master. A watch so exquisite it becomes time’s keeper rather than its teller. Everything is connected; if just one component is altered or removed, the hands of time will cease to turn. Now imagine that power to escape time conjured with pure colours and simple forms. The Kristin Hjellegjerde gallery in Berlin is delighted to present a selection of paintings by Richard Schur, one of the finest colour painters at work today. As much a mediator as an architect of colour, Schur composes initial studies on a section of Masonite board, numerous layers of paint applied over a period of months, connections organically unearthed between as many as sixty rectangular colour fields. A rhythm builds, with the deep strength of an infinite number of relationships and the fragility of a piece of music dependent on every note for its success. Richard Schur: Everything, 2020, Acryl auf Leinwand, 160 x 120 cm, 63 x 47 1/4 in. Success […]

until 27.08. | #2788ARTatBerlin | Galerie ART CRU Berlin shows from 28th July 2020 the solo exhibition STAPELLAUF – WAS SONST with collages by the artist Macks Querfeldt. When Macks Querfeldt gets his stacks going, he does not want this event to be understood exclusively as an account of private feelings. The artist’s work is just as much a protocol, created by selection, of the social upheavals that produce these very stacks. With his assemblages, Macks Querfeldt transforms the gallery into his press office, his kiosk, his world receiver. O.T., 2019, Acryl u. Collage auf Leinwand, 40 x 60 cm Kant, Leibniz or Freud, coffee-making monkeys or lace curtains. There is nothing that does not exist in the artist’s densely populated combination compositions. Macks Querfeldt arranges his view of the world from a great wealth of materials, newspaper and magazine cuttings, found objects, strings, upholstery, even wigs. In a constant process of collecting and selecting, a protocol of social upheavals is thus created. Among the 25 works shown are numerous “classical” collages, which in their combination with colored canvases on which the artist places his cutouts, are sometimes reminiscent in their effect of pioneers of collage and Pop Art, such […]

until 31.08. | #2785ARTatBerlin | Galerie Barbara Thumm shows from 17th July 2020 the summer exhibition “Summer Breeze” with highlights from the gallery programme. During August it is open by appointment only. In main room of Galerie Barbara Thumm works by the gallery artists will be shown: Maria José Arjona, Fiona Banner aka The Vanity Press, Valérie Favre, Simon Cantemir Hausí, Diango Hernández, Anna K.E., Anne-Mie van Kerckhoven, Johnny Miller, Chloe Piene and Carrie Mae Weems. In the Showroom the gallery present works by artists from the New Viewings project. Martin Dammann, “Jeder im Jeweils”, 2020, Watercolor and pencil on paper, 195 x 298 cm courtesy the artist and Galerie Barbara Thumm The gallery is open in July Thursday and Friday from noon to 6 pm and Saturday from 1 to 7 pm. Once a month the gallery is also open for you on Sundays from noon to 6 pm. The next Sunday is 26 July 2020. Please note that the gallery is only open by appointment in August. Soft Opening: Friday, 17 July 2020, 1 – 7 pm Exhibition dates: Friday, 17 July – Monday, 31 August 2020   Exhibition Summer Breeze – Galerie Barbara Thumm | Berlin Contemporary […]

until 04.10. | #2782ARTatBerlin | Haus am Waldsee shows from 18th July 2020 the exhibition Revolutions of Choice of the architect duo Frank Barkow and Regine Leibinger. In a loose sequence, the Haus am Waldsee as a place of contemporary visual art also presents international architects who maintain their offices in Berlin. With GRAFT (2012), Haus-Rucker-Co (2015) and J.MAYER.H (2016), leading architectural artists were presented who also have their roots in the USA through study and teaching. In the summer of 2020, Haus am Waldsee will be dedicated to the American-German architect duo Frank Barkow (*1957) and Regine Leibinger (*1963), whose work has been able to develop globally from Berlin since the 1990s. After studying at Harvard University, Barkow Leibinger founded an office in Berlin in 1993. Frank Barkow has taught as a visiting professor at leading American universities as well as in London and Lausanne. Regine Leibinger also taught internationally, in addition to her joint construction activities, and held a professorship at the Technical University of Berlin from 2006 to 2018. Today both partners share a professorship at Princeton University. Barkow Leibinger is one of the pioneers of a generation of architects who are constantly trying to expand the […]

until 02.08. | #2779ARTatBerlin | König Galerie currently shows at the Chapel the exhibition SOFT CRUSH with works by the artist  Mona Ardeleanu. Patterned fabrics, lace, tassels or furs form the elements from which Mona Ar- deleanu creates mysterious objects. Her works attract the visitor’s eye, the soft fabric evoke warmth, traditional patterns recall memories of the familiar. “Soft Crush” is, on the one hand, the description of a spontaneous attraction and at the same time an expression of the soft materiality of the depicted objects. For the artist, fabrics carry emotions, they create identity as well as uniformity. At the same time, they form the boundary between the inside and the outside, offering protection from the cold or from glances. The patterns and shapes shown create associations with canopies, lanterns and lace doilies. Ardeleanau draws non-hierarchically from European and Asian tradition. Design and handicrafts are important sources of inspiration for her. This is evident in the artful draping, interweaving and intertwining and in the references to handicraft aids such as embroidery or weaving frames. The works oscillate between figurative and abstract; they are indefinable hybrids that only emerge on the canvas as surreal fantasy objects. The spontaneity of the creation contrasts with the fine painting. The works are precisely composed and executed with an almost old masterly precision. Ardeleanu works on the flat surface of a canvas, but the drapes of her fabrics create the illusion of a three-dimensional space. The suggestion of silhouettes, hair and braids gives the impression of physicality, Ardeleanu herself calls her objects “bodies”. They usually hover in monochrome picture spaces, which further emphasizes their fantastic character and sculptural quality. However, Ardeleanu is increasingly softening this strict pattern. In Fade 2020 / V, she surrounds the tunic-like object with a ring of light, […]

until 25.10. | #2776ARTatBerlin | From 9 July 2020 the Bärenzwinger shows the group exhibition SOUND.NODES. Several events will take place during the exhibition period. The »sound.nodes« exhibition is a first step toward exploring the subject of opening, the theme of our new annual program »Openings, not Openings.« The idea here is that the various artistic approaches and perspectives shown allow the Bärenzwinger’s spaces to expand in self-reflection. New insights and changes in circumstances due to the current situation are forcing the Bärenzwinger into a self-critical, fusilli-shaped process of opening at a time when opening is either prohibited or only possible under strict conditions. The space offers different themes, dynamics, and perspectives to connect and create »nodes«, which in turn further evolve in a self-reflective manner, continuously interlinking in new ways over time. The act of listening among the participating artists and their contributions raises a wealth of questions that will determine the next steps we take: to what extent is opening an act of opening the self? How do we ourselves approach opening, and how open are we to perspectives that question our own standpoint? How do we cope with the fact that the memories of others don’t always […]

bis 29.08. | #2772ARTatBerlin | taubert contemporary is showing from 4th July 2020 the exhibition A-Z – a memento with works by the recently unexpectedly deceased Swedish artist Lars Arrhenius in juxtaposition with works by other gallery artists. Galerie Taubert Contemporary writes about the exhibition: “It was with great regret that we heard of the loss of Lars Arrhenius (1966–2020) who passed away just a few weeks ago after an operation. He had been battling a stubborn autoimmune disorder for years. Lars leaves behind his wife and two children, who remain in our thoughts. From the beginning of his artistic career, Lars Arrhenius was committed to exploring new things, in particular new media and digitalisation. Over the last 10 years his focus was on environmental protection, which became his central concern. I first came into contact with Lars’s work through an exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart in 2007, ‘Pictogram – The Loneliness of Signs’. This exhibition was widely discussed and an image of a section of ‘The Man without one Way’ fascinated me to such an extent that my wife and I set off immediately. The exhibition itself was outstanding and Lars’s contribution even more impressive than expected. Lars Arrhenius, […]

until 25.07. | #2769ARTatBerlin | Contemporary Fine Arts (CFA) shows from 25th June 2020 the exhibition Die Unschuldigen with works by the artist Henning Strassburger, the first exhibition of the artist with the gallery.  Henning Strassburger brings the anxieties and hopes of his generation into the heart of his painting with a fatal equanimity. “People no longer see innocently, so as a painter I cannot do that either”. The world we live in is vague and sketchy. Identification happens on surfaces. We constantly take on changing roles in changing constellations and contexts. To believe that any image remains innocent is an illusion. In his new works, Strassburger has reached way back into the 20th century. Back to early Pop Art and to Jasper Johns whose gray pictures with their ciphers, numbers and letters came when the contradictory codes and symbols of our contemporary world were only just emerging. For his own grey paintings, Strassburger has used leftover paints to mix together “the most colorful gray you can imagine”. A gray that does not lack color, instead uniting all tones and moods in one. Abstract and figure, writing and gesture, form and surface, texture and materiality melt together in the simultaneity […]

until 21.08. | #2766ARTatBerlin | Galerie aKonzept and Raphael Lévy show from 19th June 2020 the solo exhibition Exceptionally Ugly by the artist Wolf Vostell. On display are 20 artworks from 1958 to 1980. Due to the current situation, we kindly ask you to arrange your visit in advance. Please, register by the Link. The title of the exhibition is borrowed from an article by John Antony Thwaites written for the “Deutsche Zeitung” in 1961 about the first exhibition of a 28-year-old artist named Wolf Vostell at the Lauhus Gallery in Cologne, Germany. (1) The journalist, who has come from another exhibition at the Kunstverein, writes: “When you come from the Kunstverein, you feel as if you have drunk too much sweet champagne. The senses and feelings are not flattered; we do not take a trip to the happy islands. We are irritated, spat upon. But the effect is strange.” Without knowing his work, one would think that this is a group exhibition, since none of his works look alike at first glance. Our exhibition is a heterogeneous and certainly incomplete presentation that wants to emphasize Vostell’s plastic inventiveness, his manifold abilities to adapt his paintings to their purpose, while […]

extended until 15.09. | #2763ARTatBerlin | drj art projects shows from 21st June 2020 the exhibition ÜBERTRAG with works by the artists Denise Winter and Hartmut Böhm. “Dear friends, dear audience! How do you announce an exhibition today that was planned for a different time? Not only regarding the date, but also the state of the world and its character? An exhibition that is now in a completely different situation than the one it was conceived for? It opens seven weeks later than planned. Its title is ÜBERTRAG [Transfer]. And still, this refers to the artistic works, their contents, methods, techniques and effects. To the basic artistic concepts as well as to the resulting works themselves. In the exhibition they are positioned in relation to each other, and major differences between them are apparent. On the other hand, it also becomes clear that they are very close to each other. In particular, they are representatives of the time in which they were created. The title ÜBERTRAG is thus directly related to the generations of the two artists Hartmut Böhm and Denise Winter. The exhibited works reveal how their authors relate to the issues of their time and the world around them: The […]

until 06.08. | #2760ARTatBerlin | Migrant Bird Space presents from 19th June 2020 the solo show archegraph study_Berlin with works by the artist Yuya Suzuki. In search of a new visual language, Japanese artist Yuya Suzuki responds to the environment around him: minimalist amorphous shapes, semi-symmetric patterns and bright, blazing colours function like fragments or syllables of an unintelligible code. When viewed as series or as room-filling installation, Suzuki’s works unfold into a linguistic landscape that feels strangely familiar, yet cleverly escapes definitive meaning. Each image is created from a part of an actual city-scape, but the level of abstraction varies: from motifs that closely resemble the original to heavily abstracted patterns. His “archegraph studies” — a term he coined in 2016— are visual texts that could also be described as an abstract syntax or musical pattern. Suzuki’s notes proliferate endlessly, defying a harmonious melody.  Yuya Suzuki: archegraph study_Berlin, 2020 | Migrant Bird Space  Yuya Suzuki: archegraph study_Berlin, 2020 | Migrant Bird Space Suzuki creates drawings, paintings and sculptures that are linked to our unconscious perception of contemporary urban life. He is a flaneur. Travelling the world, Suzuki wanders through cities he visits and collects impressions of mundane objects and […]

until 25.07. | #2757ARTatBerlin | Galerie Martin Mertens presents from 13th June 2020 the exhibition New Entries  with works by Sebastian Herzau, Daniel M.E. Schaal and Tobias Stutz, three new artists of the gallery. The painter Sebastian Herzau from Halle moves in the most traditional genres of painting: portrait, still life and landscape (not represented in this exhibition). However, he treats these genres in a very individual way. In his portraits and still lifes, he makes use of trompe-l’œil painting, which already amazed viewers in the Renaissance and especially in the 17th and 18th centuries. Sebastian Herzau, The Great Below T-MI-20, Acryl auf Leinwand, 65 x 50 cm, 2020 A subtle humour pervades his works, especially in the small still lifes on supposed cardboard. These seemingly casual pictures pick up on the quodlibet of the 18th century – a realistic depiction of disordered documents that seem to go beyond the picture format, which enjoyed great popularity. A further group of works are the blurred portraits, which seem to lie under a layer of ice or a disc covered with ice. Both in the portraits and in the pictures made unrecognizable with painted tape, there is a great distance from the […]

until 15.08. | #2749ARTatBerlin | hilleckes probst galerie presents from 16th June 2020 the summer exhibition with the title HITZE(FREI) (>HEAT (FREE)). On display are works by the following artists in the gallery: Sonja Alhäuser, Eliska Bartek, Alvar Beyer, GAMA, Barbara Anna Husar, Marina Herrmann, Ute Hoffritz, Udo Nöger, Dodi Reifenberg, Yoel Diaz Vazquez and Fu Xiaotong. The exhibition HITZE(FREI) focuses on current works on paper by the artists.   Barbara Anna Husar, Koordinatentickets_Ticket to Coordinate I (Illusion of individual experience), 2020, mixed media, variabel bis 25 x 25 cm Barbara Anna Husar, Koordinatentickets_Ticket to Coordinate IX (Reliquie), 2020, mixed media, variabel bis 25 x 25 cm Yoel Vasquez Diaz San Felipe, 2015, B/W Photography, Digital on Hahnemühle paper 310 g, 70 x 70 cm Alvar Beyer, Everest, 2013, Acrylic on paper, 20 x 14 cm || Alvar Beyer, Kleiner Schneesee, 2013, Acrylic on paper, 20 x 14 cm, e. A Fi Xiaotong, Schakal, Copper wire, 2020 Fu Xiaotong, 89700, Handpaper, 115 x 65 cm, 2020 Sonja Alhäuser, Ok and not Ok, 2019, 29,7 x 40 cm, watercolour, crayon, pencil on paper, 2100 € (without frame) Eliska Bartek, Mein Garten II, 2020, Watercolor on paper, 64 x 50 cm || […]

until 29.08. | #2752ARTatBerlin | Meyer Riegger currently shows Franz Ackermann’s new outdoor project “Die Scheune” [The Barn] on the gallery façade. With “Die Scheune”, the Berlin gallery Meyer Riegger is turning itself inside out. Starting from the dimensions of the front door on Joachimsthaler Straße, a three-part, colored installation has been created which both deconstructs the existing architecture on site and also re-defines it. In this process, the interplay of sculptural forms and flat-plane images proves to be a productive dis-orienting force: it confounds the gaze of the beholder just as it also opens up the gaze to further fields. Over the course of the coming weeks, Franz Ackermann will repeatedly add objects and image-supports to the square panels – or replace and even remove them. Thus the installation will be in a continuous state of becoming, and it will be possible to react, even in the short term, to the most recent changes undertaken over this indeterminate period. Franz Ackermann, for whom the personal experiences and impressions that he gathers in the course of his (worldwide) travels are of essential importance, is thus again concentrating on the characteristic features of a certain place at a certain time and […]

until 08.08. | #2748ARTatBerlin | Galerie Kornfeld is showing in cooperation with the Frankfurt gallery Anita Beckers the first joint exhibition of Elvira Bach and Annegret Soltau, curated by Christoph Breitwieser, director of the Museum Bensheim, in the project room of Galerie Kornfeld 68 projects from 27 June 2020. Until recently, the world was a small place. Dubai, New York, Paris, London. A full calendar, day-to-day life on a tight schedule. And now, suddenly, the pages are blank. Gallerists turn inwards. They adjust to this exceptional situation: Everything seems new, unfamiliar, surprising and sometimes frightening. The world is turning at a different pace. New input, new output. New paths and possibilities open up through communication and exchange. Not only in the fields of economy and computer science. In Berlin and in Frankfurt. Art and the art market are affected in the same way. Alfred Kornfeld and Anita Beckers are exploring new paths for themselves in this new large and small world. Input and output. For both gallerists this means exchange between artist and observer through the medium of the artwork and new creative ways in which the artist reacts to the changing circumstances around him. Driven by a constant curiosity […]

until 25.07. | #2744ARTatBerlin| Daniel Marzona presents from 5th June 2020 the exhibition A Space full of Drawings and a Drawing in Space. On display are works by the artists Stephen Antonakos, John Beech, Hal Busse, Olaf Holzapfel, Bernd Lohaus, Aron Mehzion, Ferdinand Penker, Joanna Przybyla, Fred Sandback, Elodie Seguin, Günther Uecker. The world is loud, And I’m quiet! (…) Paul Scheerbart, 1909 Now that the streets are getting fuller and louder again, public life is slowly rebooting, and most people are trying to feel their way to a “new normal” that is as busy as possible, we are using our summer exhibition to celebrate once more the value of stillness, concentration, and slowness. All of the works gathered in the exhibition – mostly drawings – are nonfigurative and borne by a gesture of tranquility. Nothing here pounces upon the viewer, nothing imposes itself. The works ask the viewer for a stance corresponding to the artistic stance – a focused and nuanced grasping of their respective aesthetic qualities. Despite the stringency of their fundamentally deliberate and measured work methods, the formal questions and emphases of the participating artists can be clearly distinguished. The combination and juxtaposition of precise color values […]

until 04.07. | #2742ARTatBerlin | Galerie EIGEN + ART Berlin shows from 28th May 2020 the exhibition All there is with works by the artist Ulrike Theusner, the first solo exhibition of the artist with the gallery EIGEN + ART. Under the fragment of a Janis Joplin quotation “All there is”, the artist subsumes about four dozen monotypes and pastel drawings. Landscapes, demons, masked people, grimaces. Portraits of usually disoriented-seeming young people in garish, motley colors. “Pictures of my generation, my surroundings,” says the artist, “an inventory of our time and our moods.” Joining this are props from her repertoire: skeletons, birds, harlequins, devils. Theusner’s worlds bundle this side and the beyond, life and death in an inextricably interwoven meshwork. Her works remain as if tied to the present as snapshots. “Our actual life takes place only in the moment,” says Theusner. “‘All there is’ is the realization of the current ‘now’ situation, nothing is shifted to the future, everything that there is happens at this moment. Art helps one know oneself, clear the buried path to a deeply hidden emotional world, and penetrate to one’s own core, one’s own reality.” Excerpt from the text by Thomas Girst Ulrike Theusner, The […]

until 11.07. | #2739ARTatBerlin  | Galerie Eigenheim is showing the group exhibition Eigenheim Edition #4 – Bauhaus 100, this year’s highlight of Eigenheim Weimar/Berlin, starting Friday, May 22, 2020. The 4th Edition is a comprehensive and authentic reflection of last year’s 100th anniversary of Bauhaus. The gallery has succeeded in bringing together the most important protagonists and most extensive productions. Please note: Opening hours from 26.05.2020 Tue – Sat from 14 to 19 o’clock. A maximum of 5 visitors may be in the gallery at any one time. Please use this booking system, to plan your visit to the exhibition or contact the gallery by e-mail when you would like to visit the Galerie Eigenheim. One year after the great anniversary 100 years Bauhaus, EIGENHEIM Weimar/Berlin would like to look back, researched the complete programme of the Bauhaus Association and developed an edition that brings together the internationality and diversity of artistic positions in the context of the anniversary. The aim was to create a contemporary document that would have an effect beyond the anniversary and at the same time initiate a discourse that would deal with contemporary social and aesthetic questions Participating artists: Adam Noack, addenda architects, Antje Hanebeck, […]

until 06.09. | #2736ARTatBerlin | Alfred Ehrhardt Stiftung shows from 26th June 2020 the exhibition Cristal réel der Künstlerin Isabelle Le Minh. The exhibition period was originally planned for 2 May to 21 June 2020. With the first presentation in Germany of the exhibition Cristal réel by the German-French artist Isabelle Le Minh (*1965), the Alfred Ehrhardt Foundation’s archival work, which normally remains hidden, comes into its own: the inventory of approximately 20,000 photographs and the restoration of 1,000 glass plates. This archive work not only provides the humus for further art historical research, but also provides inspiration for new artistic discourse. A number of contemporary artists have already taken up the challenge of dealing with Alfred Ehrhardt’s work. But never before has Ehrhardt’s work been interpreted so intensively, directly and profoundly as by Isabelle Le Minh. Her new work is part of her After Photography group, in which she reinterprets the works of master photographers and questions their creative methods. After her involvement with Henri Cartier-Bresson, Hiroshi Sugimoto, and Bernd and Hilla Becher, she is now followed by Alfred Ehrhardt. © Isabelle Le Minh / ADAGP, Paris 2020 || © Alfred Ehrhardt Stiftung Isabelle Le Minh addresses the photo-historical conditions […]

until 19.09. | #2733ARTatBerlin | Robert Morat Galerie shows from 14th May 2020 the exhibition Human Territoriality by the photographer Roger Eberhard. “Human Territoriality” is a selection of Roger Eberhard’s photographs of former borders, around the globe and down through the course of human history. Some of these border lines have shifted over time, by only a few hundred meters or much more, due to climate change or man-made changes in the landscape, others have vanished with the fall of mighty empires on either side. Eberhard’s photographs, supplemented by in-depth captions, help us to grasp the protean puzzle of the world’s cartography. In a time of mass migration, border walls and spreading nationalism, they reveal the inherent instability of these man-made demarcations. 100th Meridian, USA, 2018 Borders are a means of separation. They separate two sides, defining a here and a there. But they also delineate what lies within the boundaries, instilling a sense of safety and security. Although they implicitly stake a claim to permanence, nothing is as changeable as boundary lines. So it is ironic that people and entire nations should develop so much pride and protectionism on the basis of existing borders, while they are artificial constructs […]

until 02.08. | #2730ARTatBerlin | König Galerie (Nave) presents from 16th May 2020 the exhibition SHORT STORY with works by Elmgreen & Dragset. For their first solo exhibition at KÖNIG GALERIE in Berlin, opening May 16th, Elmgreen & Dragset will present three new figurative sculptures within an immersive setting that transforms the visual appearance of the upper gallery, the NAVE, at St. Agnes. Short Story sets the stage for a match between two boys. When entering the gallery space visitors will encounter an almost full-size tennis court, slightly raised off the ground. A net in the middle divides the two players and creates a sort of horizontal diptych. The white lines painted onto the orange-brown ground surface not only indicate the set rules of the sport, but also visually remind us of the grid principles of Modernism and the road markings that regulate our behavioural patterns within public space. The white-painted figurative bronze sculptures of the boys are placed diagonally at opposing ends of the playing field, small and isolated on the large plane. The boys’ bodies and gazes are turned away from each other, the dialogue and play between them have come to an end. Rather than joy, a […]

until 12.06. | #2727ARTatBerlin | Peres Projects shows from 8th Maiy 2020 the exhibition Street Prophecy by the artist Richard Kennedy. Street Prophecy by Richard Kennedy will be the next exhibition opening on May 8th. The gallery will be open from 11am to 7pm to accommodate additional visitors throughout the day and encourages visitors to preschedule their visit by calling the gallery to ensure a pleasant and safe visit. Richard Kennedy (*1985) lives and works in Berlin, Germany. Education MFA, Milton Avery Institute, Bard College, New York, US Upcoming Performance Hot with Excess: A Season of Contemporary Artists’ Opera, Zabludowiz Collection, London, UK Upcoming Group Exhibition Ubuntu, a Lucid Dream curated by Marie-Ann Yemsi , Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR Current Group Exhibition TIME SHARE, as part of Performa, curated by Job Piston, New York City, US Solo Exhibitions 2020 missed connections, Johyun Gallery, Haeundae Busan, KR missed connections, Gallery2, Seoul, KR 2019 (G)hosting, Peres Projects, Berlin, DE Group Exhibition 2019 Great Force,curated by Amber Esseiva, ICA, Richmond, US Performances 2019 Touch of Elegance, ICA, Richmond, US Confessions of Professional Side Rich, as part of Assembly, The Kitchen, New York City, US HIR, as part of Open Call, The Shed, […]

until 20.06. | #2725ARTatBerlin | 68 projects presents from 1st May 2020 the exhibition Ab- und Zusagen | Gedanken eines Galeristen with works by Hiba Al Ansari, Tammam Azzam, Stéphane Couturier, Nick Dawes, Farshad Farzankia, Hubertus Hamm, Rusudan Khizanishvili and Vera Pagava. Even gallerists think. Actually, always. Especially intense in times like these. Not only from time to time. After all, it’s not enough to act intuitively, to find creative forms of presentation, to motivate artists, to ensure that collectors and art connoisseurs are content. It is also not enough to plan exhibitions, to organize diligently, to work hard, to talk a lot, to realise one’ s passion for the gallery and to sell paintings. The gallerist must also think, have foresight, and perceive future possibilities in the present moment. A given situation may change, sometimes gradually, at other times abruptly. And occasionally the unforeseen overrides all plans. From time to time, confirmations are followed by cancellations… Images were supposed to go on journeys. New works by Tammam Azzam, Farshad Farzankia, Nick Dawes, Hiba Al-Ansari, Rusudan Khizanishvili, Stéphane Couturier, Hubertus Hamm and Vera Pagava. From Berlin to Art Dubai, Paris Photo New York and to Frieze New York. Shutdown. Lockdown. […]

until 02.06. | #2722ARTatBerlin | hilleckes probst galerie shows from 30th April 2020 the exhibition Sonnenwelt (> Sunworld) with paintings by the artist Alvar Beyer. The exhibition will be visible from 30th April onwards at the Homepage of the gallery. Due to the current situation there will be no opening ceremony. But the pictures are hung in the gallery and can also be seen on site by appointment. The currently valid rules and protective measures will of course be taken into account. Instead of a vernissage, the gallery owners Bettina Hilleckes and Anna Probst, together with the artist Alvar Beyer, will welcome you in this VIDEO, and provide insight into the exhibition and the work. Sonnenwelt, 150 x 110, Acrylic on Canvas 2020 Frühes Grün 150 x 110 cm, Acrylic on Canvas 2020 The artist Alvar Beyer comes from Weimar, he studied in Leipzig with Arno Rink and Neo Rauch, among others. Beyer lives and works in Berlin. Zho,150 x 110, Acrylic on Canvas 2020 Fractal III 150 x 200 cm, Acrylic on Canvas 2017 Alvar Beyer 1970 born in Weimar 1991-96 Study of painting and graphic arts at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig, with Prof. Arno Rink and Neo […]

until 23.05. | #2720ARTatBerlin | Galerie Martin Mertens shows from 21st March 2020 the exhibition Raum und Hülle by the artist Jens Hausmann. The exhibition can be visited virtually as a 3D Tour (GALLERY VISIT). For many years, Berlin-based painter, Jens Hausmann has been one of the most notable painters in the field of architecture in central Europe. Even if this label in itself is slightly misleading, because for Hausmann his work is not about architecture, but rather about painting. Jens Hausmann, Ruine Hülle, 110 x 100 cm He is a constructivist in the best sense, as his architectural and pictorial spaces are constructions. While many of his architectural forms are based on real buildings, the buildings are mere triggers for the creation of an image. His scenarios are constructed realities, rather than a portrayal thereof. Jens Hausmann, Raumstation Bühne, 170 x 240 cm Although the landscape fragments and vegetation that inhabit his paintings have a seemingly romantic element to them, the confrontation between culture and nature is not to be understood in the romantic sense. In his paintings, Hausman makes it clear that nature no longer stands for the ‘other’ that is independent of humankind and therefore the opposite […]

extended | #2716ARTatBerlin | Galerie ART CRU Berlin reopens on 9th June 2020 the”Strippenausstellung” (> String Exhibition), that is on show since 20th March 2020, with the artists Uwe Paulsen & Emil Päffel, Achim Maaz, Norbert Backner, Concetta Cassarà, Thi Thu and Katinka Kaskeline. Please note the following for your visit from 9 June 2020: initially limited opening hours apply: Tues and Thurs 12-6 pm, Wed 2-6 pm The usual distance rules of at least 1.5 m must be observed during each visit. There may be a maximum of 3 visitors in the gallery at the same time. Visits are generally only possible with a mask or mouth and nose protection. If you are interested in portfolio folders and books please use gloves (available on site). After severe water damage, Galerie ART CRU Berlin is presenting works at greatly reduced prices in a “string exhibition”. During the installation the gallery is also open on Sundays. On 04.11.2019 the non-profit gallery had to close its doors for 3 months. A neighbour had observed water flowing out of the entrance door. After the police and fire brigade had pumped off the water, which was up to 20 cm deep, the gallery management […]

until 15.03. | #2714ARTatBerlin | Robert Morat Galerie presents from 11th March 2020 the exhibition “Who are you?” by photographer Florian Jaenicke, which will be shown for only a few days. During this period the book premiere will take place on 13th March. “We often stare at Frederick for a long time because we cannot believe that his big eyes cannot see us. Because where the images are formed in the brain, there’s constant thunder and lightning.” In his photo column in the ZEITmagazin, Florian Jaenicke has been giving millions of ZEIT readers an insight into life with his son Friedrich, who is severely disabled, every week since the beginning of 2019. In the book accompanying the column, Jaenicke describes with sensitivity, respect and love how life feels with a child who cannot speak or maintain eye contact. A reading that shifts perspectives – and teaches what happiness means. For Friedrich: The Beatles and roast pork. For his parents: love for Friedrich. Friedrich, Photo: Florian Jaenicke Vernissage: Tuesday, 10th March 2020, 6:30 – 9:00 pm Book Release:Friday, 13th March 2020, 6:30 Uhr, together with Christoph Amend, editor-in-chief of ZEITMagazin (CANCELLED!) Ausstellungsdaten: Wednesday, 11th March to Sunday, 15th March 2020 Finissage: Sunday, […]

extended until 04.07. |#2710ARTatBerlin | Galerie Dittmar shows from 13th March 2020 the exhibition “The 1970s” with works on paper by Gerhard Altenbourg, Georg Baselitz, Rudolf Englert, Georg Frietzsche, Joan Hernández Pijuan, Imi Knoebel, Arnulf Rainer, Aldo Rossi, Gottfried Salzmann, Ernesto Tatafiore and Hannsjörg Voth. The 1970s is a decade of eminent importance in the visual arts. New art movements emerged in the late 1960s, such as conceptual art, interdisciplinary and process-like approaches; furthermore, photography, to which previously little attention was paid, was integrated as an art. One fundamental document for the expanded, and then random, concept of art is Joseph Kosuth’s programmatic publication in 1969: “Art after Philosophy”. The term of avant-garde stayed in use as a “metahistorical category” (Christian Demand) to be on the safe side. At the same time, the picture, the painting, the medium of paper, underwent a great renaissance that was hopefully not its last blossoming. Ernesto Tatafiore, Les souvenirs, 1974, Aquarell, Bleistift, Collage, 24,5 x 34,5 cm Depending on the individual circumstances, either essential foundations for what was to come were laid, initial outstanding works were presented or important, sometimes crucial overviews of works were created. The following generation was able to build upon […]

until 18.04. | #2707ARTatBerlin | Contemporary Fine Arts shows from 7th March 2020 the exhibition Space Lips with sculptures and collages by the artist Katja Strunz. The presence of the past is Katja Strunz’s subject, the fold is her method, metal and paper her material. The work is about getting from A to B—what it means, why we care—and in this way, about the relationship between space and time. The daunting continuum! The traumatized body folds time. Traumatic experiences are not processed like memories, instead they get stuck, stored in the body. In psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk’s 2014 bestseller The Body Keeps the Score, he describes how trauma “comprises the brain area that communicates the physical, embodied feeling of being alive,” revealing the physical dimension to the continuous reliving of the past that mires people with PTSD. In the present, survivors experience their traumas as fragmented images, sounds and emotions that the brain can’t register as belonging to the past. In angular flaps and folds, Strunz renders ruptures and intrusions. Metal fans into delicate shapes in neutral tones. Pages of old books find new form, spliced and overlapping. Suspended, sharp angles assume a softness. If life isn’t linear, the present […]

until 18.04. | #2704ARTatBerlin | Galerie aKonzept and Raphael Lévy present from 6th March 2020 the solo exhibition “Subliminale images” by the artist Jiří Valoch. “Our exhibition cannot pretend to explain Valoch’s prolific work, nor place it in the political and artistic context of his time. However, what we are exhibiting sums up fairly well the essence of his work, which is that of extracting meaning from life and of sharing it. It is not difficult to understand his work which, despite its graphic reduction, is generous because it leaves its interpretation open to all. His works often animate our thoughts so vividly that they provoke smiles and the joy of abandoning ourselves in spaces that quickly become familiar to us even if we had never been there. His works are joyfully serious and profound. They are like a friend who suggests to us in a word or two a thought that we make our own. As when Valoch printed in 1973 “fragment of a book that does not exist” on a single sheet, which was at the same time the title of the work. Jiří Valoch is good for us.” Raphaël Lévy fragment of a book that does not […]

extended until 18.07. | #2701ARTatBerlin | Bermel von Luxburg Gallery shows from 6th March 2020 the group exhibition MATERIA with abstract works by eight artists. For all art enthusiasts who cannot be in Berlin at the moment, the exhibition MATERIA can also be visited online as a 3D tour. Click here for the GALLERY VISIT at the Bermel von Luxburg Gallery. The group exhibition entitled MATERIA will include the following international abstract artists: Thomas Canto, Fred Eerdekens, Uli Fischer, Benjamin Herndon, Lew Khesin, Nadège Mouyssinat, Robert Pan, Olaf Schirm MATERIA is about artists sharing the same formal artistic language of abstraction. However, their research, approach, methods of production and use of material to depict abstraction are diverse and unique. Exhibition view MATERIA – Bermel von Luxburg Gallery – Large gallery room 2 with view into room 3 Exhibition view MATERIA – Bermel von Luxburg Gallery – Large gallery room 3 with view into room 2 Bermel von Luxburg Gallery will celebrate its 2nd anniversary with this exhibition. “We would like to thank all artists, collectors and friends for your incredible and generous support. This would not happen without all of you! We hope to see you all in person. With […]

until 05.04. | #2698ARTatBerlin | König Galerie (Nave) currently shows the exhibition THE REAL EXTENT with artworks by the artist Jorinde Voigt. KÖNIG GALERIE presents The Real Extent, an exhibition of new works by Jorinde Voigt, on view in the Nave of St. Agnes from February 22, 2020 through April 5, 2020. This is Voigt’s fourth solo exhibition with the gallery. The works in The Real Extent, which include a new series of suspended works and recent works on paper, continue the artist’s investigations related to the process of perception. Jorinde Voigt’s drawings and sculptural works develop rigorous, idiosyncratic systems to depict how one’s inner world—such as personal experience, emotion, and memory—intersects with external conditions. The artist’s ongoing Immersive/Integral series articulates an ever-expanding lexicon of forms: scribbled notations, swiftly looping lines, jagged eruptions of gold leaf, and rhythmic vertical strokes. A recurring motif in the series is the torus, a donut shape that lacks a clear boundary between inside and outside. For the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, the topology of this form exemplified how the unconscious is not merely an interior psychic system, but intersubjective by nature. The torus has become a central perceptual model explored in Voigt’s artistic practice […]