until end of March | #2973ARTatBerlin| Galerie Inga Kondeyne – Raum für Zeichnung shows since 15th February 2021 a showcase exhibition in the gallery window with works by artists of the gallery.   The gallery is temporarily closed due to the current situation. Therefore, gallery owner Inga Kondeyne has decided to hold a showcase exhibition, in which works by artists of the gallery will be presented in rotation. Kazuki Nakahara and Hanna Hennenkemper will start the show. Kazuki Nakahara, o.T., 2020, Colored pencil, 47 x 37 cm Hanna Hennenkemper, o.T., 2016, Photogravure, 30 x 40 cm Followed by: The scaffolding in front of the gallery has now been removed, so that nothing stands in the way of barrier-free art enjoyment. Inga Kondeyne remains available for you by email and by phone at 0176 50257727. Wichtendahl Gallery currently has an exhibition with Dorthe Goeden ‘cuts and correlations’. Exhibition dates: Monday, February 15, 2021 until the end of March 2021     Showcase Exhibition – Galerie Inga Kondeyne | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Ausstellungen Berlin Galerien | ART at Berlin    

until 17.04. | #2970ARTatBerlin | WENTRUP presents from 5th March 2021 the Solo Show e e e B n n N n with works by the artist Miriam Böhm (*1972). It is the third solo show of the Berlin photographer. e e B n n N n – a string of individual letters that tempts one to create words. But even without forming a word, these letters have their own reality. The photographic work of Miriam Böhm is similar. Just as a word is made up of individual letters and a sentence of individual words, the artist builds her pictures from individual picture elements. These picture elements are in turn equivalent picture components within the picture, which are positioned and put together or superimposed in such a way that they are equally motif, carrier of meaning and picture content. From folded paper, cut cardboard surfaces, drawn-in lines or shadows, landscapes, textiles, glass, structures, folds and creases, Böhm creates minimalist, formally emphasised pictorial arrangements that reflect visually on space in different ways and in the broadest sense. Böhm’s photographs are created – partly analogue, partly digital – somewhere in the field of tension between surface, fragment and space; between the poles […]

until 20.03. | #2967ArtatBerlin | Kristin Hjellegjerde Berlin shows from 19th February 2021 the exhibition Money and Fairy Tales by the artist Celina Teague. Characterful, vibrant animals and bold slogan text combine on the canvas to create arresting imagery that simultaneously seduces and confronts the viewer. For her forthcoming solo show Money & Fairytales at Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery Berlin, Portugal-based artist Celina Teague continues her exploration of climate change and environmental issues in relation to the information and imagery that we consume through media sources. The exhibition borrows its title from Greta Thunberg’s speech at the U.N. Climate Action Summit in 2019, whilst several of the paintings repurpose the slogans of other young activists in both a celebration of their efforts, and a critique of the adoption of language as an image without deeper consideration for the message that it conveys. By reframing these familiar phrases of text within a painted image, Teague rebels against rapid digital consumption and invites us to engage in a deeper kind of contemplation. Whilst the artist admits that many of these most recent works appear confrontational, she does not subscribe to the idea of didacticism. Her artistic practice is, in part, an expression of […]

until 08.05. | #2964ARTatBerlin | Bermel von Luxburg Gallery presents from 18th March 2021 the group show with the title GENESIS as an encounter of five artists – a dialogue between three painters and two sculptures. GENISIS will feature new artworks by Roberto Cordone, Djeric-Hunold, Nadège Mouyssinat and Robert Pan. The etymology of the title GENESIS comes from the Greek word “gignesthai” carrying the meaning: “to be born, a beginning or the origin of anything”. The first book of the Old Testament recounts with the Genesis the events from the Creation of the World. Relating the meaning of Genesis to the current state of the world we live in, Bermel von Luxburg Gallery wants to set a sign to reflect the rebirth of cultural and social life. We are all experiencing world-wide social distancing, seclusion, some might even say, a deprivation of joy of life, arts and culture. GENESIS is for BvL the restart of social life, the encounter of people, live experience of arts and culture. You are invited to join the gallery in celebrating the beauty of life. Vernissage: Donnerstag, 18. März, 2021, 18 bis 21 Uhr Ausstellungsdaten: Donnerstag, 18. März bis Samstag, 8. Mai 2021     Image […]

until 17.04. | #2961ARTatBerlin | 68 projects shows from 6th March 2021 the exhibition THE WILD, THE FURLESS AND THE SPIRIT OF THE B.U.D. with paintings and plastic installations by the artist duos Böhler & Orendt.‍ In the course of their artistic collaboration, Matthias Böhler and Christian Orendt are increasingly concerned with the tragic, comic or absurd political and ecological consequences of mankind’s influence on the fate of its environment. As their distinctive artistic approach to this issue Böhler & Orendt adopted a method that could be dubbed as hybrid media storytelling: Freely using various mixed forms of graphic, digital, sculptural and performative techniques as well as scenographic or model making practices they are creating a more and more complex cosmos of installative narratives that are often intertwined or based on each other. Böhler & Orendt, Imminence (The Sweet Certainty of Deliverance from the Darkness that Surrounds Us), 2021, 133,5 x 92 cm, painted over photo collage on paper  The exhibition “The Wild, the Furless and the Spirit of the B.U.D.” circles around a narration about a fictitious supernatural vessel, the “Benevolent Utopization Device” (B.U.D.). The story was originally invented for a large eponymous installation commissioned by the Neues Museum […]

until 31.03. | #2958ARTatBerlin | Luisa Catucci Gallery shows from 1st February 2021 the exhibition THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS, a “sensational Shop Window exhibition” in four stages with works by artists Per Christian Brown, Boris Eldagsen, Eleonora Roaro and Mathilde Nardone. To bring colour and positive energy to its neighbours and the city – and at the same time show that art doesn’t stand still – Luisa Catucci Gallery has decided to open THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS // in Mirrorland. In the shop windows, the gallery presents a selection of videos & art by Per Christian Brown, Boris Eldagsen, Eleonora Roaro and Mathilde Nardone every two weeks. 1 – 14 February 2021: Per Christian Brown | “Lumen Naturae” The colorful and vibrant pieces by Norwegian artist Per Christian Brown (b. 1976) on display are inspired by both ancient medieval alchemical ideas of transformation and the mysteries of material substances we find in nature. The artist’s analogue photo series has been meticulously produced in his studio, composed as tableaux in glass tanks where liquid colors, varied rocks and minerals have been staged. These compositions express the artist’s own abstract impressions and ideas about volcanism, as the ultimate of all the natural […]

until 24.04. | #2956ARTatBerlin | Galerie Martin Mertens presents since 23rd January 2021 the first solo show by the Düsseldorf painter Simone Lucas. Due to the current situation, the gallery will remain closed for the time being and there will be no vernissage, but the exhibition is expected to be on view until mid-April. Martin Mertens and his team can still be reached by phone and email. Works can be purchased and collected by appointment. Simone Lucas studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy, where she was a master student of the painter Dieter Krieg, a representative of New Figuration. In her dream-like pictorial worlds, she combines expressionist and surrealist elements to create a cosmos all of her own. Simone Lucas, The slow Eye, Oil and mixed media on canvas, 150 x 170 cm, 2020 The exhibition deals above all (like many of her paintings) with the field of tension between interior and exterior space. It is like a slow inner eye journey through an entire cosmos/planetary system, with infinite possibilities and paths. Lucas says: “These inner spaces (or the journeys through inner spaces) were certainly also created under the impression of this pandemic that blocks our outer space. The painting […]

until 10.04. | #2953ARTatBerlin | janinebeangallery shows from 4th February 2021 the exhibition High on Paper with works by Inna Artemova, Anna Borowy, Florian Fausch, Kathrin Günter, Juan Miguel Pozo and Arny Schmit. The opening will take place virtually. During the lockdown, the exhibition is visible through the large windows and digitally, after the lockdown regular (12-18 hrs) according to the then permissible guidelines of the federal government. In the exhibition „High on Paper“ (February 4th – April 10th 2021) janinebeangallery focuses on artworks on paper. Featured are works by the artists Inna Artemova, Anna Borowy, Florian Fausch, Kathrin Günter, Juan Miguel Pozo and Arny Schmit. The structure of the drawings of the Russian artist Inna Artemova resemble sequences of storyboards or film stills, in which phantastic sceneries unfold. The depicted people, objects and architectures poise in an oddly unsettling limbo, as if the order of space, time and gravity were suspended. Inna Artemova Paper-Utopia # 4374, 75 x 105 cm, Tinte, Marker, Bleistift auf Papier, 2020 The drawings of Swiss artist Florian Fausch are utopian architectural landscapes with a formal language which follows its own laws. These are places as well as „nonplaces“ at once, circling the concept of […]

until 11.04. | #2950ARTatBerlin | Galerie Pugliese Levi presents from 20th January 2021 the exhibition one by one, in which one work by each artist of the gallery is shown for a few days in the gallery window. This form of presentation will take place until mid-April. The artist Juliana Borinski will be the first. #1 Juliana Borinski 20.– 24. Januar 2021 When she works on photography or cinema, Juliana Borinski never uses a camera or video camera. She creates images that are generally abstract, using photosensitive paper or film directly, in order to explore their inherent aesthetic and technical abilities. What should only be a receptacle for images, its medium, thus becomes the very material of her work. Juliana Borinski from the series Between Humiliation and Happiness 2013, photograms / ilford perl paper, 65.5 x 55 cm For the series Between Humiliation and Happiness, the artist reworks a sheet of photosensitive paper that has been previously overexposed, then subjects it to various rubbings and folds before exposing it again on a new sheet. Photographic skeleton-like forms against a black background result from this: a typology of image-less photographs. Juliana Borinski looks for errors, lacks and chance. She positions herself deliberately at the […]

until 30.01. | #2947ARTatBerlin | Köppe Contemporary shows since 1st December 2020 the solo show “Tegel Moments” des Fotografenby the photographer Bernd Rathjen, a tribute to the cult airport. The exhibition can be visited online via the gallery website. It should have been closed long ago, but for years its fans celebrated every single day of Tegel Airport’s involuntary extension. On 8 November the time has come and we will say goodbye. Bernd Rathjen has captured special views in his series Tegel Moments, showing us once again what we liked so much about the architectural gem, also taking us to places we carelessly overlooked in our haste. In a mix of moments “picked” in passing and carefully composed tableaus, a very personal homage to this exceptional airport is created. Bernd Rathjen | Geometrie, 2020 As early as 1948, a runway was built to relieve the airlift to Tempelhof. After the first civilian flight in 1960, an intensive planning and construction phase took place from 1965 onwards, which ended with the ceremonial opening on 23 October 1974. One week later, on 1 November 1974, the legendary Terminal A with its passenger bridges A0 to A14 went into operation. The hexagonal ground […]

until 28.01. | #2944ARTatBerlin | Galerie feinart berlin currently shows the exhibition AufBruch with paintings, drawings and photography by the artist Aurore Millet. The exhibition is also visible online as 3D Tour. The exhibition with the title “AufBruch” (English “BreakOut”) is inspired by the question to what extent Aurore Millet’s in content and style complex works produced between 1996 and 2020 can be looked at and understood in the continuum of an artistic development. The drawings, photo prints and paintings have in common that, at the origin of every creative process, the artist is concerned with the act of looking closely and seriously: looking between and behind the things in our everyday world of perception and their abstraction or, in some cases, radicalization of the essentials such as colors, contours, negative- and positive forms. To look closely in this way means to be attentive, alert and critical, as for example in the series Reminiscence, that was created from 2001 to 2004 out of personal experiences with the war in Palestine and Israel. Between everything and nothing stands life – and artistic freedom. Aurore Millet’s works challenge us to face the world again and again with alert eyes and senses. Exhibition period: Thursday, […]

until 27.02. | #2941ARTatBerlin | Galerie Kornfeld presents from 16. January 2021 the solo show All Saints with photographs by the Georgian artist David Meskhi. It is the artist’s first solo exhibition at Galerie Kornfeld. Within this newest body of works, Meskhi aims to capture the idealised moment of human gesture and sublime beauty. Religious ecstasy, homoerotic connotations and the gender fluidity of the male body in its transformative years brings us to a combination of heavenly and earthly states of being. The bodies, not yet ingrained with social definitions of gender, fall into a more natural setting of finer tones of masculine and feminine energies. Universal bodies who in turn reach out to the cosmos to assert their presence. The subject matter becomes the most important – not narrowly gender related, but rather humanistic as the work delivers a strong juxtaposition of defiance verses compliance. The bodies are cropped off at different angels flying free or kneeling in conformity to the confines of society – be it religious, political or social. As Meskhi captures the young athletes in training, the viewer witnesses the instant between leaping and falling – a brief moment of weightlessness when the body reaches the […]

until March 2021 | #2938ARTatBerlin | drj art projects will be showing from December 2020 “insights unheard of …”, a space-oriented exhibition of installation, drawing and painting by the artist Anna Kubelík [CH] and the artist Matthew Hawtin [CA]. With sound performances by Oliver Schmid [CH]. The exhibition can only be visited by appointment. Dear audience of drj art projects, once again in this pandemic year 2020, an exhibition cannot be opened as planned – although a postponement has already been made. More than that, this time it remains completely unclear when and to what extent visitors will be able to see the works of Anna Kubelík and Matthew Hawtin that are installed inside our rooms. And thus also when and at what times the sound performances by Oliver Schmid will be able to be experienced there. It merely remains for us to announce  insights unheard of …  as such in the first place. It will be assembled from the beginning of December. As soon as there are reliable conditions under which we can offer dates for visits, we will announce them. Until then we will keep the website drj-art-projects.com/insights-unheard-of/ up to date. Best regards from Christiane Bail + Matthias Seidel Exhibition […]

until 06.01. | #2935ARTatBerlin | Michaela Helfrich Galerie shows from 12th December 2020 the group show EVERY JACK HAS HIS JILL / JEDER TOPF FINDET SEINEN DECKEL with paintings, installation and sculpture. On show are works by: ROLAND BEHRMANN / GILBERT BROHL / SIMON CZAPLA / OLIVER DEHN / TINA ENGEL / FABIAN FREESE / THOMAS GATZEMEIER / CHRISTINA GAY / ANNA GENGER / SUSANNE HUSEMANN / THOMAS JÜPTNER / HORST KISTNER / JENS KLOPPMANN / CLAUDIA KOCK / DAVID D. LAUER / HEIKE MARDO / ULRIKE PISCH / ALAN RANKLE / PINA RATH / STEPHAN PAUL SCHNEIDER / ALEX SCHILOW / NANAKO SHIKATA / MARCIA R. SZÉKELY / ELENA TAMBURINI / GERARD WASKIEVITZ Opening: Saturday, 12. December 2020, 2:00 – 8:00 pm Exhibition period: Saturday, 12. December 2020 – Wednesday, 6. January 2021 Opening hours: Tuesday to Saturday, 2 – 6 pm and by arrangement     Image caption: © Alex Schilow Exhibition Every Jack has his Jill – Michaela Helfrich Galerie | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin  

until 16.01. | #2932ARTatBerlin | Esther Schipper shows from 6th December 2020 the exhibition false ruins and lost innocence with works by the artist Isa Melsheimer. It is the third solo show of the artist with the gallery. The exhibition entitled false ruins and lost innocence comprises three large-format ceramics, textile works and a series of gouaches. Isa Melsheimer is well known for her exploration of the history of architectural styles, her works reflect both her intensive research and form-based investigations. The artist, whose work is concerned with modernist, post-modern and brutalist aesthetics, has increasingly introduced organic elements into buildings in recent years – influenced by her reading of post-human theoretical debates as well as by her examination of metabolic architecture, a movement that has its origins in 1960s Japan. Isa Melsheimer’s works carry her far-reaching associations with ease: personal, literary, historical, philosophical, architectural references are dissolved in an intense materiality. Three large-format ceramics draw on existing buildings: the artist gives these groundbreaking structures an “inner” life that refers to theoretical debates in architectural discourse. For example, one of Le Corbusier’s works, “Villa Shobhan” (Ahmedabad, 1951-56), juxtaposes a horse’s head from the gable of the Greek Parthenon, ca. 438 BC, […]

until 09.01. | #2929ARTatBerlin | Esther Schipper presents from 27th November 2020 the Online Exhibition Virtual Leonardo’s Submarine with new works by the artist Hito Steyerl on the website of the gallery. Virtual Leonardo’s Submarine is Hito Steyerl’s first solo project with Esther Schipper and the first virtual exhibition organized by the gallery. This project is organized in collaboration with Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York. Originally conceived in 2019 as a video environment for the 58th Venice Biennale, Leonardo’s Submarine has been completely reworked as a Virtual Reality (VR) experience. Upon entering the virtual space—via the means of a VR headset or by web browser version—viewers will find themselves floating under water, surrounded by fish, seaweed, and coral. The artist’s avatar, outfitted in full PEOPLE gear, swims alongside. The VR experience offered by Virtual Leonardo’s Submarine echoes Steyerl’s concept of a Bubble Vision which she developed during her 2018 lecture at the Yale School of Art. VR experiences place the viewer at the center of an environment while also disembodying them: “The viewer is absolutely central, but at the same time, he or she is missing from the scene. (…) Is this ‘bubble vision’—this 360-degree vision—a training scheme to adapt […]

until 13.02. | #2926ARTatBerlin | Galerie kajetan Berlin shows from 5th December 2020 the Solo Show Various, Elsewhere, Ongoing with works by the Dutch artist Marc Nagtzaam. Marc Nagtzaam has been producing a body of work that is based on one main subject: the idea of pattern, the repetition. He draws lines, grids, circles, words or sentences as in an endless search for collecting pieces of information. The repetition and the graphic structure of his works seem reminiscent of minimal and conceptual aesthetics. Most of Marc Nagtzaam´s drawings consist of colourless, darkly filled in graphite surfaces. Abstracted elements from architecture, graphic design, details from found photographs, or parts from previous drawings are starting points for every series of works. Marc Nagtzaam’s series ‚Borrowed Space | An Index of Forms’ (drawings behind glass in the exhibition) is also about drawn compositions that are borrowed from shapes and elements from existing book covers, posters and paintings. Points, lines and surfaces form a kind of structure. Marc Nagtzaam | Various, Elsewhere, Ongoing | Exhibition view 2020 / 2021 | Courtesy Marc Nagtzaam & kajetan Berlin | Foto: Marcus Schneider Gentle, subtle and powerful, Marc Nagtzaam also maximizes perspective energies in the condensed surfaces […]

until 23.01. | #2922ARTatBerlin | Galerie Kremers shows from 20. November 2020 the group exhibition “Talking Stones and Mysterious Plates” with etchings, woodcuts and lithographs by the artists Natascha Mann, Uwe Bremer, Johannes Grützke, Gregor Hiltner, Friedrich Meckseper, Michael Runschke, Ernst Weil and Gerhard Wendland. “Lustful and colorful, obsessed with detail, mysterious and following an order that is unique to the artist, not always easy to decipher, romantic, poetic or drastically expressive, full of wit and depth or serious and thought-provoking, but artistically and technically always on the same highest level and with a variety of different formats, we present masterpieces of printmaking. Uwe Bremer, Zwitter, 1970, Farbradierung e.a., 44,4 x 49 cm There are only a handpicked number of artists who handle printmaking techniques in this mastery and only a few viewers know how much work and skill there is behind these graphic sheets. Such complicated techniques are hardly taught at the academies any more and most of the artistic gravure printing and lithography workshops have already closed. Johannes Grützke, Die Knochenbrecher, 2007, Lithographie 38/40, 100 x 130 cm We show a great selection of colour etchings and colour lithographs. During the Corona pre-Christmas period, sheets are available at […]

until 15.01. | #2920ARTatBerlin | Migrant Bird Space currently presents the group show A Future Without a Past with works by the artists Seulki Ki, Tomoko Mori, You Gu and Zhé Wang. The group show presents four young female Asian artists that explore concepts of identity through their artistic work. Taking a step back from the ordinary, the show invites its viewers to nurture a critical view of what brings us together and what keeps us apart. In an attempt to further the examination, the exhibition aids the viewer in positioning an awareness on questions about identity and on what terms it is of compelling importance in today’s world. Once the practical and daily roles we assume are laid aside, the unmistakable common ground is left to be here and now. Time and space are our lifelong companions, whether we have it minute capacities and share only a small portion of it with others, or whether we reside comfortably and inattentively enveloped in it. Yet the nexus of time and space also comprises an intersectionality of nation, community, faith and social status generating a universal condition of what it is to be human. We discover the unique circumstances of our […]

until 13.02. | #2917ARTatBerlin | Sprüth Magers Berlin presents from 20. November 2020 an exhibiton by the artist Cindy Sherman. Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers are pleased to announce an exhibition of new works by Cindy Sherman, one of the most influential artists internationally who has been associated with the gallery since the 1980s. It is the first time this 2019 series will be on view outside the United States. In her latest body of work – in which Sherman impersonates a cast of androgynous characters – the artist continues her long-standing investigation into identity as a social construction, addressing topics such as gender and social roles. Sherman’s new works bring these conversations squarely into the twenty-first century, when gender expression and fluidity have become mainstream subjects, casting further doubt upon the rigid constructs of twentieth-century masculinity and femininity. Visits can be scheduled under this Link Exhibition period: Friday, 20th November – Saturday, 13th February 2021     Image caption: Cindy Sherman, Untitled #611, 2019 © Cindy Sherman, Courtesy Sprüth Magers and Metro Pictures, New York Exhibition Cindy Sherman – Sprüth Magers Berlin | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin

until 05.02. | #2914ARTatBerlin | Galerie Barbara Wien presents from 14th November 2020 the exhibition Endnote, yellow by the artist Ian Kiaer. Ian Kiaer’s Endnote projects began in 2010. Like marginal notes, he developed and adjusted these works as configurations of fragmented models. He has conceived an approach to painting as a ‘minor’ form with each of his installations linking to a thinker, writer or architect. Through two essays, an extended interview and numerous illustrations, this book offers the opportunity to revisit some of his main works and exhibitions over the last 10 years. Ian Kiaer’s new monograph “Endnote, Tooth” is available and can be signed at the opening. Vernissage: Saturday, 14 November 2020, noon – 6 pm, Ian Kiaer is in town, so there will be a talk with the artist after a tour of the exhibition. Exhibition dates: Saturday, 14 November 2020 – Saturday, 6 February 2021     Image caption: Ian Kiaer, Toothhouse Ceiling 2014 – 2020, detail, Photo Guenzel Rademacher, Exhibition Ian Kiaer – Galerie Barbara Wien | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin

bis 02.01. | #2911ARTatBerlin| Galerie Inga Kondeyne – Raum für Zeichnung shows from 14th November 2020 at the backstage of the gallery works by the artist Astrid Köppe as a follow-up to the August exhibition “Spontaneous Paradise”. Gallery owner Inga Kondeyne invites you on a voyage of discovery into the almost endless encyclopaedia of enchanting fantasy organisms of Astrid Köppe. The wondrous Din A 4 drawings by Astrid Köppe look like pages from expedition diaries, flipped open, taken apart and soon spread out on the walls of the gallery in a game of puzzle. And they are, as we know, the product of the artist’s imagination. Naturally grown forms, reduced to their origins, are rhythmically reoccupied with narrow and broad strokes, with large and small dots, which are chosen to be slightly flowing or strong. With the keyboard of drawing – together with striking, mostly strong colour settings – she brings forth surprising new existences, one follows the other; over the years endless in their individual appearances on the said sheets. One becomes an observer of an artistic amoeba world of almost inexhaustible shapes, whose irritating, sometimes bizarre otherness often enough seems to be underlaid with a wink of the […]

until 19.12. | #2908ARTatBerlin | Galerie Michael Haas presents from 7th November 2020 the solo show Leave No Stone Unturned by the artist Gary Kuehn with works from the 60s until today.  In Gary Kuehn: Leave No Stone Unturned, Galerie Michael Haas shows paintings, sculptures and drawings by the American artist Gary Kuehn (*1939). The exhibition comprises works from six decades. Gary Kuehn is one of the most famous artists in the USA, but he has also been exhibited continuously in Germany since the late 1960s. His extensive oeuvre includes sculptures, paintings, collages and drawings. Kuehn is not interested in illustrating purely structured and methodical work in his art. Rather, he constantly reacts anew to social contexts in relation to his own state of mind. This combination of emotional subjectivity and the perception of facts of an objective reality is the basis for his works. With an enormous sense for materiality and a craftsmanlike knowledge of its properties, Kuehn works with wood, metal, plaster, polyester, plexiglass, aluminium and steel. Kuehn is best known for his sculptures from the 1960s, which at first glance seem like classics of Minimal Art. At second glance, however, their playful, personal and often contradictory nature […]

until 13.02. | #2905ARTatBerlin | Salongalerie Die Möwe shows from 14th November 2020 the exhibition “From Brass to Ziegler” with works by artists from the Forgotten Generation. The new exhibition “From Brass to Ziegler” in the Salongalerie Die Möwe (The Seagull) broadens the view to an entire generation, which has been at the centre of the gallery’s work since the founding of the “Möwe”: artists whose work has long been unjustly forgotten. The paintings, watercolours, drawings and sculptures from the first half of the 20th century not only captivate through their individual mastery, but also demonstrate in their diversity the creative contribution with which these artists enriched the various art movements in Germany. Hans Thiemann | Der Gabentisch | 1944 | Öl Many of them belonged to groups that had been searching for a new form of artistic expression since 1900; they were members of the Novembergruppe, founded in 1919, studied at the avant-garde Bauhaus or exhibited in Herwarth Walden’s legendary Sturm-Galerie. The National Socialists defamed their art as “degenerate” and removed it from museums and galleries. Some artists left Germany, others went into internal emigration, the war destroyed studios and livelihoods. Lotte Laserstein | Frau mit spitzem Hut | […]

until 09.01. | #2902ARTatBerlin | Galerie Born Berlin shows from 5th November 2020 the exhibition Solid Shapes with new works by the artist Angela Dwyer.  The five different platonic bodies (solid shapes) must each fulfil three laws: 1. the body must fit into a sphere This means that all corners or edges touch the inside of a sphere. 2. all surfaces or polygons of the body must be the same (e.g. triangles or squares or pentagons or hexagons etc.). 3. all edge lengths of the body must be equal. In my new works I examine forms which we think we already know and which we take for granted. I started with triangles with different angles, then diamond shapes, up to hexagrams and tilted cubes, manifest three-dimensional forms. Angela Dwyer – As It Was, 2020, Öl auf Leinwand, 80 x 100 cm While in my previous work I was looking for an abstract way to make visible the conflicts between man and nature, settlement and desert, – like earthquakes or floods, which also includes the reconstruction of a city on its ruins or the permanent digging up of a harbour, the new series I call “Solid Shapes” is looking for a more […]

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-Wilmersdorf galleries Meyer Riegger, Klaus Gerrit Friese and Kicken Berlin will show from 31 October 2020 in cooperation the exhibitions “Helmut Newton 100” in different approaches. 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, […]