until 24.05. | #2396ARTatBerlin | Galerie aKonzept shows from 26th April 2019 the “Howling Exhibition” by the artist Guillaume Sebag (*1975). This suite of 9 works shown in the aKonzept gallery is a demonstration of the coherence of the artist and the complexity of the composition of his images, which are far removed from failure. Guillaume Sebag extends to the extreme the risk of losing this spectacular and unique homogeneity of his works to the whole. We feel this physical, sensual quality of painting. Guillaume Sebag paints without a brush by mixing the colours of the tubes with his fingers directly on the canvas, which is firmly clamped to the wall and prepared with Caparol. The charcoal sometimes draws a contour or an isolated line or draws something almost figurative that blends in with the architecture. Sometimes the remains of charcoal are glued to the canvas, which is later mounted on a frame.   Guillaume Sebag, 220 x 140 cm Guillaume Sebag, 160 x 105 cm These moving, unstable works do not allow a close look, as they consist of several hearts that beat together, causing excitement in the audience. The eyes wander on the canvas or quickly stop at […]

until 11.05. | #2425ARTatBerlin | Galerie Wagner + Partner shows from 5th April 2019 the exhibition NEXUS by the artist Eckart Hahn. WAGNER + PARTNER is pleased to announce the sixth solo exhibition of the painter Eckart Hahn, Nexus. Eckart Hahn has a unique way of translating special—mostly invisible—connections, to create splendid pictorial renditions. The exhibition Nexus presents Hahn’s latest paintings in an installation-like arrangement, transforming the gallery into a single meta-connection – with various rope-ends that seem to appear from or disappear into the walls. Eckart Hahn – Fade away – 50 x 40 cm Acrylic on Canvas 2018 Courtesy WAGNER + PARTNER Rope: connects or binds, disconnects or rescues, and its meaning is dependant on the connection. In Hahn’s works, “rope” is less a symbol than a semantic space. Rather, it is contextual and capable of reconstructing particular and unparalleled creations. Nonetheless, all these works hint at a hidden inner connection. The exhibition titles of recent years elucidate this by way of example: Nexus (2019), Limbus (Limbo, 2017) or Myzel (Mycelium, 2015). Akin to networks, roots or underground channels, they serve to “connect” the iconographic universe of the Reutlinger artist. Eckart Hahn – Roter Faden 140 x 100 cm Acrylic on Canvas2019 Courtesy WAGNER + PARTNER Eckart […]

until 22.06. | #2419ARTatBerlin | 68 projects shows from 25th April 2019 the exhibition I’ve got nothing to lose by the artist of the 68projects residency program Cristina BanBan. 68projects is pleased to present the first solo exhibition of artist Cristina BanBan in Germany, I’ve got nothing to lose. The exhibition includes several large scale dynamic paintings and drawings including works made in Berlin last October during BanBan’s 68projects residency. BanBan’s figurative work depicts voluptuous female bodies and narratives beginning with the artist’s personal experience as a point of departure. Her paintings document her everyday life and emotions with honesty and confidence. She chooses to depict a body performing the extremes of flexibility and motion. Women are the stars in BanBan’s work. Ballooning to envelop the entirety of the canvas, the figures in her paintings unapologetically take up space with their flesh. Their shapely forms reclaim the traditional authority of the male gazeand reorient the significance of the female figure. Her women take on an active role in their presence, controlling the gaze of the viewer and addressing it in various positions of repose, erotic pleasure and dominancIn As I set myself free, Acryl auf Leinwand, 2019, 180 x 150 cm BanBan’s work At the […]

until 28.04. | #2416ARTatBerlin | DISKURS Berlin presents from 28th March 2019 the exhibition GEOMETRY OF OBEDIENCE by the artist Via Lewandowsky. The exhibition is curated by Jungmin Lee. Volker Via Lewandowsky (born 1963 in Dresden) works with installation, sculpture, object art, photography, performance, painting and drawing. A square metal sculpture repetitively moves and collapses on the floor with tremendous sound. The four sides that compose the square embody a limited form while moving in pairs or individually. The square tries to get up, bending all of its joints. One might see human nature in the gesture of the machine: falling and getting up over and over again. Realizing the movement seems to be a metaphor of limited freedom and adaptation in human society might bring up sadness or melancholy as we see the futile actions the square continues to take, with unsuccessful results. This is Via Lewandowsky’s 2013 piece Contenance (Relational Sculpture No. 5). Unlike this earlier work A Square Meter (2019), presented in the exhibition Geometry of Obedience, repeatedly moves and stops slowly and gracefully in the air, rather than struggling on the floor. The square dances as if in slow motion, drawing geometric gestures in the air, […]

until 17.05. | #2413ARTatBerlin | Galerie HELLE COPPI shows from 30th March 2019 the exhibition  HERTA GÜNTHERs FRAUEN with artworks by Herta Günther. On display are paintings, pastels and colour etchings by the artist Herta Günther (1934-2018). The exhibition will be accompanied by a catalogue, 64 pages, 55 colour illustrations, 20 € plus postage on dispatch. HERTA GÜNTHER Café Kehl – 1988 – charcoal – pastel – 53,5 x 39,5 cm In the Cabinet: Constructive Exercise – Wilhelm Müller and Hermann Glöckner – Painting and Drawing. Vernissage: Saturday, 30th March 2019, 4:00 – 6:00 pm. Saxophonr: Hinrich Beermann Exhibition period: Saturday, 30th March – Friday, 17th May 2019 (closed for Easter holidays on 19 and 20 April 2019)   Image caption: HERTA GÜNTHER  Café Kehl · 1988 · charcoal – pastel · 53,5 x 39,5 cm Exhibition Herta Günther – Galerie HELLE COPPI | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Ausstellungen Berlin Galerien | ART at Berlin  

until 20.04. | #2410ARTatBerlin | Contemporary Fine Arts shows from 23rd March 2019 the exhibition BALLAD OF A THIN MAN by the artists Günther Förg and Julian Lethbridge. Günther Förg (1952-2013) and Julian Lethbridge (*1947) come from two worlds – Förg working and teaching at the University in Karlsruhe and later at the Academy in Munich, Lethbridge painting in New York’s Meatpacking District since the heydays of Max’s Kansas City. Their paths never crossed, the connection between the two is not obvious. Upon closer look, however, a story about painting arises, where gesture, tactility, repetition and seriality are paramount. In the meeting of these painters, we are struck with the insistence that constraint and repetition enable expression. As Förg and Lethbridge meet in Ballad of a Thin Man, the second presentation of works by the artists at CFA, the pair appear as the cool and collected conjurers of the poltergeists of the 20th century. The exhibition borrows its title from Bob Dylan, whom Förg and Lethbridge appreciated and valued as a fellow artist, and who, like the painters, carved out a path with humble understanding and quick wit. Detail of the invitation card to the exhibition – Collage of a sculpture by Günther […]

until 24.03. | #2407ARTatBerlin | Schinkel Pavillon is showing until 24 March 2019 the exhibition The Act of Seeing With One’s Own Eyes by the artists Stan Brakhage and David Kamp, curated by Ed Atkins. Taking its title from the notorious 1971 film by Stan Brakhage, The Act of Seeing With One’s Own Eyes is an exhibition about how intellectual and sensory deprivation might conspire to heighten immanence, by empathic and also abjectly corporeal means. There is no reprieve and no redemption, cultural or otherwise –– there is only the seeming differentiation of your senses, and the recognition of death and life. Some time later, this exhibition might productively be thought of as a cadaver. In the basement of the Schinkel Pavillon, Brakhage’s 16mm silent film shows the activities of forensic pathologists at the Allegheny Coroner’s Office in Pittsburgh sometime in 1971. It’s part of a trilogy of films Brakhage made at state institutions in Pittsburgh that year. The other two were the city police force, and the West Pennsylvania Hospital (Eyes and Deus Ex, respectively). The Act of Seeing With One’s Own Eyes depicts the entirety of multiple and overlapping autopsies. The bodies are abstracted and the film is 32 minutes of alabaster and ebony cadavers, latexed […]

bis 06.04. | #2404ARTatBerlin | Michael Reid präsentiert aktuell die Ausstellung “She wrapped a bandage around her eyes and vowed to share the darkness” der Künstlerin Sangeeta Sandrasegar. She wrapped a bandage around her eyes and vowed to share the darkness is an installation of 101 delicate paper cut-outs that draws upon characters in the Indian Sanskrit epic Mahabharata and continues Sangeeta Sandrasegar’s interpretation of various passages within this text. Using light and shadow as a formal motif, Sandrasegar gives voice to identities caught on the margins of society. The 101 characters that don the walls of Michael Reid Berlin reference Wayang Kulit, an Indonesian form of puppet theatre. Taking inspiration from the assimilation of Indian’s and Chinese in Indonesia, and the Wayang Kulit’s common reference of the Mahabharata, Sandrasegar intentionally provides an intercultural symbol for this installation. She wrapped a bandage around her eyes and vowed to share the darkness takes its title from the vow of blindness that the character Ghandari takes upon her arranged marriage to Dhritarashtra, the blind king of Hastinapura in the Mahabharata. Ghandari’s devotion to her husband is rewarded with a boon to have 100 children. After a long gestation of two or more years, Ghandari […]

until 18.08. | #2401ARTatBerlin | me Collectors Room Berlin presents from 10th April 2019 the exhibition BEYOND with seven international artistic positions from the Olbricht Collection, who use their respective art forms to explore the subject of the afterlife. Each artist fills a separate space with art in their chosen media, ranging from painting, sculpture, video, installation to printmaking. Works by Jonas Burgert, Jake & Dinos Chapman, George Condo, Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg, FORT, Kris Martin and Francisco de Goya will be shown. As a kind of vague assumption, sinister threat, or blissful reward, the idea of the ‘afterlife’ has gripped mankind since the beginning of time. Religious promises of salvation, manifested psychosis, and ominous memento mori conjure a nebulous concept of the ‘beyond’. While the depiction of agony and death evokes the transience of earthly life, mythical illusory worlds oscillate between the here and the there, catastrophe and dream-like beauty, the material world and the hereafter. The ‘other side’ is also invariably always much farther removed than that casual phrase may make it sound, something illusively much greater than ourselves that is there to be attained, understood, and discovered. Francisco de Goya, Los Desastres de la Guerra, 1810 […]

until 30.03. | #2398ARTatBerlin | Galerie mehdi chouakri shows from 16th March 2019 the solo exhibition PIÈCE UNIQUE II by the artist Saâdane Afif at the gallery in Mommsenstraße.   Vernissage: Saturday, 16th March 2019, noon – 4:00 p.m. Ausstellungsdaten: Saturday, 16th March – Saturday, 30th March 2018   Image caption: Performance View Her Ghost Friend: 3 Tokyo Sessions at MOT Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, 2017 Exhibition Saâdane Afif – Pièce Unique II | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin  

until 04.05. | #2394ARTatBerlin| Galerie Inga Kondeyne – Raum für Zeichnung shows from 22. March 2019 an exhibition by the artists Johannes Regin and Aja von Loeper. Johannes Regin provokes our vision with drawings that are often not perceptible at first glance. His works invite us to take a close look and to look through overlapping fragments of traces. Even the smallest deviations, tension shifts in the rhythm of his dot grids, leaking old traces of colour and the remains of signs can move into our consciousness. Regin gets involved with the material he chooses. He immediately knows how large his innumerable dots have to be, recognizes whether they have to be drawn or painted on or whether they have to be engraved, punched or chiseled into the material. Found objects are a counterpart for him, he looks into their stories. Lineal cracks, gaping fractures – he brings all these levels together in their complexity with his exaggerations. Gently touching or set hard, it will evoke a state of suspension. In contrast, the grid dots can rhythmically become flooded waves. The memory traces of our own network resonate, they are not fixed. Regin increasingly undermines his own meticulous set of […]

until 20.04. | #2391ARTatBerlin | Galerie Buchholz shows from 15th March 2019 the exhibition “Kanye” by the artist Heji Shin. On display is a series of photographs by Heji Shin, who portrayed the controversial American rapper Kanye West. In December 2018, these works were shown at the Kunsthalle Zürich. Heji Shin – Kanye West Vernissage: Friday, 15th March 2019, 7:00 – 9:00 p.m. Exhibition period: Friday, 15th March – Saturday, 20th April 2019   Image caption: Courtesy of Galerie Buchholz – Heji Shin Exhibition Heji Shin – Galerie Buchholz | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibition Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin

until 27.04. | #2388ARTatBerlin | H ART MANN GALLERY presents from 16th March 2019 the exhibition REINSCHEINEN by the artist Johannes Oberthür. H ART MANN GALLERY will present new works in the third exhibition with the artist Johannes Oberthür. You and your friends are cordially invited to the opening. Johannes Oberthür, Strahl II, 2017, Öl auf Nessel, 35 x 200 cm Biography – artistic career of Johannes Oberthür 1959 born in Kassel, Germany 1979 Abitur 1979-1981 Civilian service 1981 Move to Munich, studies of classical philology and philosophy at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich 1982 studies interrupted, free theatre work (direction) 1983 move to Berlin; autodidactic study of art (infinitely much learned with Prof. H. Bachmann, HDK Berlin) 1983-1986 First studio in Berlin since 1988 exhibitions at home and abroad 1993 besides the artistic work and exhibitions continuation of the study of philosophy (2nd main subject: modern German literature) 1995 exam (MA) with Prof. M. Theunissen and Prof. A. Bennholdt-Thomsen 2000 Doctorate (Dr. phil.) with Dr. C. Iber and Prof. M. Theunissen Johannes Oberthür lives with his wife and three children in Südholt (Lower Saxony) and Berlin; works here in a large studio on large formats, there in a small studio on […]

until 21.04. | #2385ARTatBerlin | König Galerie (Nave) presents from 9th March 2019 the exhibition THE SERIOUS LIFE OF A RIDICULOUS MAN with works by the artist Erwin Wurm. Erwin Wurm, Bar, 2019, bronze, wood, glass, steel, 182 x 140 x 60 cm, unique  Vernissage: Friday, 8th March 2019, 6:00 – 9:00 pm Exhibition period: Friday, 8th March to Sunday, 21st April 2019   Image caption: Erwin Wurm, Bar, 2019, bronze, wood, glass, steel, 182 x 140 x 60 cm, unique Exhibition Erwin Wurm – König Galerie | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries – ART at Berlin

until 06.04. | #2383ARTatBerlin | EIGEN + ART Lab currently presents the exhibition Hundred liters of diet ink with works by the artist Igor Hosnedl. Igor Hosnedl’s creatures are bred in test tubes and greenhouses – preferably without sugar, long lasting, but not without additives. Poster-sized pictures with floral patterns and glossy surfaces, pastel-coloured side tables with funnel-shaped vases and cut flowers form a clinical synthesis of the arts. On closer inspection, however, the perfect surfaces have sharp incisions and erosions, and like the half bulb painted in the manner of the Old Masters, they fan out into a multitude of layers (Alphabet still life, 2017-19). The picture with the alphabetically ordered roots and buds reads like a key to Hosnedl’s approach, in which meticulously performed operations distil a multi-layered relief with almost obsessively recurring formal language. Igor Hosnedl, Character from borrowed book, 2019, Pigmente und Kleber auf Leinwand, 210 x 135 cm, Foto: Otto Felber, Berlin  More the laboratory of a contemporary alchemist than a tasteful Art Deco interior, the traditional genres of painting, occidental iconography and classical avant-garde are melted down here. Hosnedl extracts, sublimates and lets different fabrics react with each other. Female figures with flowing hair […]

The Berlin gallery Semjon Contemporary cordially invites you to the Paul-Gerhardt-Kirche in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg. On Friday, 8 March 2019, at the beginning of Lent, the altarpiece will be covered with a Lenten or Fasting cloth designed by the artist Ursula Sax. Lent cloths are also called hunger cloths. They are traditionally used in Catholic and Protestant churches during the 40-day Lent before Easter to conceal the image of Jesus, e.g. on the cross. In some areas the entire altar is covered, so that a liturgy can only be followed with hearing, not seeing. The aim is, … Read the article further on > DEEDS.WORLD <   Bildunterschrift: altarpiece covering with the fasting cloth of Ursula Sax, Photo: Markus Rheinfurth Fasting Cloth by Ursula Sax – Paul-Gerhardt-Kirche Prenzlauer Berg | Contemporary Art in Berlin – ART at Berlin  

until 30.04. | #2377ARTatBerlin | Köppe Contemporary shows from 22nd March 2019 the exhibition nichts kommt von nachts (> nothing comes from night) with paintings and paper works by the artist Kevin A. Rausch. Kevin A. Rausch, born 1980 in Wolfsberg (Carinthia) and now living in Vienna, is a prominent international representative of the young generation of Austrian artists. His pictures are created in a mix of spontaneity, calculation and experiment. They are characterized by an exciting expressive aesthetic between realism and abstraction, the art of Kevin A. Rausch draws on many sources of inspiration, Rausch relies on a mixture of many influences. Transitions between ‘High and Low’ are characteristic. The rapid mix of his pictorial language of art, underground, street art and punk design elements reveals references to the young protest culture. Kevin A. Rausch | Green Light, 175 x 125 cm, 2017, Mischtechnik / Leinwand His painting process is, as Rausch once said, “a painting, painting on, painting away, painting over, and applying and removing”. Rausch’s paintings are “sedimentations of materiality”, formulated the Austrian art historian Florian Steiniger. And indeed, some pictures appear as if another dimension penetrates the consciousness from the deep layers – or as if traces […]

until 23.03. | #2373ARTatBerlin | Galerie Hunchentoot shows from 2nd March 2019 the exhibition “Strangers in a cloud oder eine Reise in den Randbereich von Rhodopsin” by the artists Jens Hanke (with drawing, collages) and Friedrich-Daniel Schlemme. The gallery cordially invites you to the opening on Friday, 01.03.2019 from 7 p.m. on.8 p.m. Concert as part of the vernissage: Ringela Riemke, Violoncello, plays: Bernd Alois Zimmermann: 4 short studies for violoncello Helmut Lachenmann: Pression for a cellist Vernissage: Friday, 1st March 2019 from 7 p.m., at 8 p.m. Concert: Ringela Riemke, Violoncello Exhibition period: Friday, 1st March to Saturday, 23rd March 2019   Image caption: Courtesy by Galerie Hunchentoot – Jens Hanke and Friedrich-Daniel Schlemme Exhibition Jens Hanke + Friedrich-Daniel Schlemme – Galerie Hunchentoot | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin

until 13.04. | #2370ARTatBerlin | Galerie mutare shows from 2nd March 2019 the exhibition Abstrakte Bildwelten (> Abstract Picture Worlds) by the artist Volker Henze. The abstract work of Volker Henze is penetrated by a passionate energy and a pervaded colour sensitivity. His non-representational colour compositions seem to be fluently in motion, radiating a powerful beauty. The painting style becomes spontaneous and intuitive. The encounter of lively, exciting colours with abstract shaping creates an optical illusion, that seems to perceive multiple dimensions within one flat surface. This is how large-format imageries emerge on the canvas that with painterly intensity create a beautiful, vibrant, at the same time expressive world. VOLKER HENZE, F 35 (Rastplätze) 2018, Oil on Canvas, 140 x 200 cm Background: VOLKER HENZE was born in Halle an der Saale in 1950 and finished a study of the painting in 1972-1977at the College of Fine Arts Dresden with a diploma. In 1981 he moved to Berlin (Prenzlauer Berg), took a teaching assignment for painting in 2001-2004 at the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weissensee and had a Representation of the Chair of Painting at the Institute for Art and Material Culture of the University of Dortmund from 2004-2006. The works of the […]

until 06.04. | #2367ARTatBerlin | Esther Schipper presents from 23rd February 2019 the exhibition Studiosaurus Ferox by the artist Florin Mitroi with artworks by 1974 to 2002. Esther Schipper is pleased to announce Studiosaurus Ferox. Florin Mitroi, Works of Art 1974–2002, the first solo exhibition of works by Florin Mitroi (1938-2002) with the gallery. Esther Schipper represents the Estate of Florin Mitroi. Curated by the art historian Erwin Kessler, this comprehensive exhibition examines almost thirty years of the Romanian artist’s considerable production. Studiosaurus Ferox is a playful reference to the natural history nomenclature and refers to Mitroi as both a secluded artist who rarely left his studio, and as being “ferociously” prolific. Spanning Mitroi’s recurrent motifs, the scenography unfolds in four distinct chapters: landscapes, portraits, erotic drawings, and zinc cut-outs Florin Mitroi, Semn (Sign), 1990, tempera on canvas, 55 x 41 cm (unframed), 56,5 x 42,3 x 3 cm (framed), Photo © Alexandru Paul The first section, Landscapes, brings together an ensemble of small symbolic landscape paintings realized between 1977 and 1998. Each composition depicts an almost abstract countryside bathed in the changing light of the different moments of the day. The paintings were made with egg tempera on wood, […]

until 30.03. |#2364ARTatBerlin | Stella A. shows from 15th February 2019 the exhibition The Wave with photographs by Michael Behn. “These photographic images were taken between 2014 and 2018 at routine walks around the Large Prälanksee near Neustrelitz. Behind an agricultural field one can see an end moraine from the last ice age, forming a long stretched wave. During walks I began to take photographs of this wave always from the same spot. Part of the road is paved, where ocassionally cars or bicycles pass Pedestrians or hikers are rare, especially on overcast or cool days. Most of the time one is alone” (M. B.) This way no one walks on this autumn eve. Bashō The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue. Vernissage: Thursday, 14th February 2019, 7:00 – 9:00 p.m. Exhibition period: Friday, 15th February – Saturday, 30th March 2019   Image caption: Courtesy of Stella A. – Michael Behn Exhibition Michael Behn – Die Welle – Stella A. | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin    

until 23.03. | #2361ARTatBerlin | Laura Mars Gallery shows from 16thFebruary 2019 the exhibition Can the Snail fly? by the artist Martin Städeli. Even with the title of his exhibition Martin Städeli opens up a tension-filled semantic field. The answer seems clear at first: of course, earth-bound, arduously crawling creatures — that moreover carry the burden of their dwelling along at all times — cannot fly. Nonetheless, or in spite of this, the absurd question is accompanied by a utopian shadow of sorts. Well, why not, after all — one might think. What would happen, if? The negation opens up into a sphere of possibilities. Just as obvious-cryptic as the title is the line drawing on the invitation: sticking on the clearly defined stereometry is the soft and curvaceous. The constructed conditions obviously surrounding us meet a curled-up, encapsulated interior world. Simultaneously, a critical point is being indicated: the jeopardization that may result from the confrontation with the vertices and terminal points of a constructed world. Or is it all merely about self-assurance, a curious measurement of the coordinates one inserts, and must insert, oneself into?   Martin Städeli, Schnecke1, 2019, Edding on paper, 10 x 15 cm Ambiguity in the form of specific stress ratios fundamentally determines Martin Städeli’s artistic work. His characteristic formulations made […]

until 22.03. | #2358ARTatBerlin | Galerie HELLE COPPI is currently showing the exhibition on the occasion of the 90th birthday of the artist Harald Metzkes. An image in the passing of time The painting “Polytechnischer Unterricht”, painted in 1959, was discussed fiercely from the beginning. In 2017, Harald Metzkes dedicated a group of paintings and watercolours to the controversies, which will be exhibited here for the first time. Introduction: Dr. Jörg Makarinus HARALD METZKES Polytechnische Comödie mit antiproletarischem Nachtreten (Polytechnic comedy with antiproletarian aftermath), 2017· Oil / Canvas· 125 x 135 cm In addition, works from six decades are presented. HARALD METZKES Nach dem Bad auf dem Stein (After the bath on the stone) 1975· Oil on Canvas· 80 x 70 cm Vernissage: Saturday, 26. January 2019, 4:00 – 6:00 p.m. in the presence of the artist Exhibition period: Saturday, 26. January – Friday, 22nd March 2019   Exhibition Harald Metzkes zum 90. Geburtstag – Galerie HELLE COPPI | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin  

until 09.03. | #2355ARTatBerlin | Kuckei + Kuckei currently shows a solo exhibition b the artist Ingmar Alge. A larger-than-life canvas, a dark, nearly pitch-black background on which seemingly haphazard abstract areas of color are in motion, each shifting from a subtle rose tone to a lush, vibrant pink. Strong contrasts between light and dark, somber and pleasant, lightness and heaviness, subtle and harsh—at first glance Austrian Ingmar Alge’s large-scale painting can be described in essentially these terms. Some viewers will even feel pulled into the depths of the lush and multi-layered application of paint. As viewers, the work’s enigmatic, ambiguous message does not let us go; captivated by its magical aura, we look around for answers: What does it want to show or tell us? What does it leave out? What might it even be purposely concealing from us? At second glance, it seems like it wants to give us hints—subtle, inconspicuous, hidden—prompting us as viewers to search for clues like a detective: and in fact the dark background releases fragments of human silhouettes—skin reflecting a faint light. Hands hold up illuminated areas of pink color, legs jut out from underneath, a face in profile emerges in between without […]

until 08.04. | Kunsthaus Dahlem currently shows the exhibition ZERO [+1] – Early Works by Hal Busse. Hal Busse (actually Hannelore Bendixen-Busse) is one of the few women artists who belong to the artistic avant-garde of postwar modernism. Committed primarily to painting in the 1950s, she appears at the end of the decade with sculptural works, nail paintings, surface reliefs and cube progressions. She exhibits together with Otto Piene and Heinz Mack with the artist group ZERO, but is also represented in exhibitions by the artists’ associations Junger Westen and Gruppe 53. In doing so, she is part of those artistic circles which sought to liberate the art of the postwar period from its questionable legacy and set a new beginning in abstraction and non-objectivity. Hal Busse in ihrem Atelier in der Rosenstraße, Stuttgart, um 1959, Fotograf: Anton Stankowski Hal Busse was born in 1926 as the daughter of the landscape painter Hermann Busse in Jagstfeld in southern Germany. At the age of twenty she began her studies at the State Academy of the Arts in Stuttgart, which she completed in 1953 as a master student of Manfred Henninger. During her studies she attended several correction sessions by Willi Baumeister, probably […]

until 16.03. | #2351ARTatBerlin| Galerie Inga Kondeyne – Raum für Zeichnung presents from 1st February 2019 an exhibition by the artist Tomoko Mori. We cordially invite you to the exhibition opening “backstage”, with a small selection of paper works by TOMOKO MORI. “During the work process she weighs up the relationship between consciously planned action and intuition time and again. Just as, for example, the natural landscape can change within seconds during an earthquake, Mori’s artificial landscapes also change by reacting to processes and coincidences. She first transfers mental images and impressions onto paper and produces drawings and sketches in various techniques and formats. She also uses an archive of photos she took herself. The resulting drawings form the core of her artistic work, they are the basis for everything that follows…”. Marijke Lukowicz in catalogue “Archipelago”, gold rush program 2018 Tomoko Mori, o.T., 2016, Graphit, Tusche, 30 x 21 cm Biography: Born 1982 in Hokkaido; lives in Berlin; 2018 Goldrausch artists program; 2014 Masterclass with Prof. Hanns Schimansky, Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin; 2013 ZOMERKAMP SCHELDA’PEN Residency Program); since 2012 co-director of the project space studio NIKIBI in Berlin-Neukölln; 2008-13 Studied painting at the Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin; 2005-07 working as textile designer […]

until 27.02. | #2348ARTatBerlin | Galerie1214 presents from 1st February 2019 the exhibition bebop by the artist Nicole Wendel. As an artist and draughtswoman, Nicole Wendel develops her work more and more consistently as research on the perceptive and active body in space. For Wendel, two-dimensional drawing and performance have become two complementary instruments of her artistic work. The curator and art critic Ludwig Seyfarth writes about Nicole Wendel’s current graphic work: “Nicole Wendel’s large-format core drawings suggest a space of indeterminate depth in which an airy substance seems to spread. It almost seems as if the picture is breathing. The analogy to human breathing is not accidental, for the artist’s entire graphic oeuvre is closely related to physical processes and actions, which she usually carries out as a performer together with other partners. Thus we see spontaneous impressions of the body on the drawings – traces of feet are clearly recognizable, for instance – as they also emerge as direct results of performances. In addition, there are carefully placed individual, often parallel strokes, either precisely as if drawn on a ruler or gestically set and sometimes so fine that they remind one of engravings in an etching plate. There […]

until 06.04. | #2344ARTatBerlin | Sprüth Magers Berlin shows from 1st February 2019 the exhibition All Is Fair In Dreams And War by the artist Andro Wekua. Andro Wekua’s work strides powerfully and forcefully in our direction – while constantly eluding us. As visitors we find ourselves caught between contradictory movements, and the result is a tension that we cannot easily escape. This accounts for some of the intensity and quality of Wekua’s work, but not all. Much of it has to do with the artist’s way of weaving images together and playing them against one another, and the undertow this creates. The draw of this maelstrom is narrative and cinematic in nature, although his films in particular tend toward abstraction. Take Wekua’s latest film All Is Fair in Dreams and War (2018). Running just over five minutes, the film unfolds before our eyes in the form of a central composition (or rather a Rorschach test). It is arranged around a central axis, a burning palm tree, which appears in the middle between 1 minute 54 and 3 minutes 14. It is a single (and the longest) uncut take, around which a series of shorter “before” and “after” sequences appear […]

until 24.02. | #2323ARTatBerlin | König Galerie (Nave) currently shows the exhibition Fixed Sky Situation by the artist Helen Marten. Helen Marten works across sculpture, painting and writing to create a body of work that questions the stability of the material world and our place within it. Alluding to language, systems and intentionality, her work across all media sets out to imagine the miraculous substructure beneath the veneer of our habitual lives. The peculiar juxtapositions of material that Marten creates give attention to things that do not necessarily have a defined physical shape in the world: the notions of labour and work; the emotional capacity of paint or the verbal distortions of language are all bought into conversation. Whilst their complex references might not be made immediately explicit to the viewer there is something alchemic in the way the materials are collided and ideas are often communicated through the obstinate willfulness of the finished form. Hieroglyphic, yet charged with significance Marten’s material language is one that is tangentially spun out but rooted always to a diagrammatic logic. There is a luscious, generous quality to the production of these works, with the strategies of layering and contingency bordering on obsessive. Metaphor is a widely used […]

until 16.03. | #2339ARTatBerlin | Galerie ART CRU Berlin presents from 8th February 2019 an exhibition with paintings by the artist Günter Neupel. Galerie ART CRU Berlin is exhibiting works by Günter Neupel. Between drawing and painting, between fairy tale and myth, the artist has developed his own visual language. His pictures tell stories that seemingly come from another world and exist independent of time. Günter Neupel, Das leise Zittern vor Ostern, 2008  fineliner, colored pencil, marker, 70 x 50 His dense images are populated by a variety of figures. The pictures seem to be based on an order that gives the subjects a certain narrative structure: Neupel groups the figures together in rows, rectangular divisions or concentrically in mandala-like forms. In his recurring motifs, you will often finds animals such as birds, lions, fish or deer, which seem to be small deities linked with a symbolic meaning. Crowned figures can be seen, presumably kings and fools, as well as a recurring bird-headed figure reminiscent of ancient Egyptian artistic representations of Horus. The figures, created with casein paint, are usually outlined with fine-tipped pens, giving the images a consistent flatness. At the same time, they appear exceptionally vivid and full of […]

until 02.03. | #2336ARTatBerlin | H ART MANN GALLERY shows from 26th January 2019 the exhibition BLAU (BLUE) by the artist Squaw Hildegard Rose (1942-2017). The exhibition BLAU is curated by Renate Grisebach. Introductory words on the evening of the vernissage: Dr. Jutta Götzmann, Director Potsdam Museum – Forum für Kunst und Geschichte. You and your friends are cordially invited to the opening.   Vernissage: Friday, 25th January 2019, 7.00 to 9 p.m. Exhibition period: Saturday, 26th January – Saturday, 2nd March 2019   Image caption: Squaw Hildegard Rose o.T. 1992/2002 Mixed media on wood 80 x 180 cm (detail) Exhibition Squaw Hildegard Rose – H ART MANN GALLERY | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin  

until 09.03. | #2333ARTatBerlin | Bermel von Luxburg Gallery presents from 26th January 2019 the double exhibition Space made by color by the artists Cristina Ghetti and Arnd Kaestner. Parallel to the exhibition, “The Bridge in Dialogue with African Tribal Art” will be shown in the Art Cabinet of the Gallery. Arnd Kaestner, Untitled (Fassade), 100 x 160 cm, Lack auf Holz, 2008 Cristina Ghetti, Double wave series Mn87b, 35 x 70 cm, acrylic on wood Vernissage: Saturday, 26th January 2018, 6:00 – 9:00 p.m. Exhibition period: Saturday, 26th January – Saturday, 9th March 2019   Image caption: Cristina Ghetti, Double wave series Mn87b, 35 x 70 cm, acrylic on wood Exhibition Cristina Ghetti + Arnd Kaestner – Bermel von Luxburg Gallery | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin    

until 09.03. | #2330ARTatBerlin| Daniel Marzona presents from 18th January 2019 the exhibition memento mori, curated by Dr. Burkhard Brunn, with the artists William Anastasi, Kirstin Arndt, John Beech, Sid Gastl, Ben Greber, Charlotte Posenenske, Michael Reiter, Marike Schuurman, Tsujimura Shiro and Martina Wolf. Transience in the tradition of MEMENTO MORI In Dutch still life painting during the Golden Age, “memento mori” was intended to remind people, even while surrounded by worldly pleasures and goods, to think of the end of life, expressed in what were known as vanitas symbols: an extinguished candle, an upturned or half empty glass, a violin, flute and a cold clay pipe (this explains the saying: only smoke and mirrors), or a plate perilously balanced on a table edge. The Latin word vanitas means vanity in the sense of futility. In the landscape painting of the Dutch baroque a broken off or horizontal tree trunk is seen as a symbol of death. With the transience of life in mind an impression of insecurity is created, nothing seems fixed, everything fluctuates, disappears, a concept expressed in English in the word precariousness. The sociologist Ulrich Beck uses the German term “Prekariat” to refer to a group of […]

extended until 09.03. | #2327ARTatBerlin | ALEXANDER OCHS PRIVATE shows from 18th January 2019 the group exhibition ORNAMENT + ABSTRAKTION with artworks by Colin Ardley, Tanja Rochelmeyer, Brigitte Schwacke and Anja Schwörer. Addendum: The exhibition was supplemented by the work INSIDE by the artist Axel Anklam. One hundred years ago in 1919, a year after the end of the first world war, architect Walter Gropiusfounded a new art school, the Bauhaus, in Weimar, Germany. On the occasion of the school’s centenary, this year sees numerous exhibitions. After two relocations, first to Dessau and then to Berlin, the Bauhaus was banned by the Nazis in 1933. In the 1950s, the former Bauhaus student Max Billfounded the Ulm School of Designin the tradition of the Bauhaus. This would become one of the originators of concrete art. Anja Schwörer, o.T., 2018, Netzgewebe, gefärbt und gebleicht, 62 x 55 cm In the Bauhaus’s founding manifesto, Walter Gropius wrote: “The ultimate objective of all artistic activities is construction (…).Architects, sculptors, painters… We must all go back to working with our hands.” In 1947, Max Bill formulated his conception of concrete art: “The objective (…) is to develop objects for intellectual and spiritual use (…). Ultimately, concrete art is the pure expression of harmonious […]

until 27.02. | #2324ARTatBerlin | Galerie Eigenheim presents from 11th January 2019 in the newly designed salon of the gallery the exhibition GOLDLAUTER of the artist Lars Wild with painting and drawing.  This exhibition accompanies the solo show of the artist Benedikt Braun in the gallery Eigenheim. Lars Wild GOLDLAUTER Accompanying Benedikt Braun’s SHOOTINGSTAR, the exhibition GOLDLAUTER by the artist Lars Wild will be shown in the newly created salon of the Galerie Eigenheim Berlin. Goldlauter – a secluded resort at the foot of the Great Beerberg, on the southern slope of the scenic Thuringian Forest, with its vast meadow valleys and dense forests on the Rennsteig, is in this case not only regarded as the location of the origin of this series of leaves by Lars Wild, but also as a metaphor for a place of retreat and contemplation, spiritual purification and oblivion of the world. The gloomy landscapes balance between the fateful impact of a comet or the crash of an airship and the idyllic peace of a lake landscape or an abandoned holiday resort. The landscapes, however, are not borrowed from a real existing model, but originate solely from the painter’s imagination. Above all, there seems to be a serious […]

until 09.02. | #2320ARTatBerlin | Galerie Eigenheim presents from 11th January 2019 the exhibition SHOOTING STAR by the artist Benedikt Braun in a solo show. Accompanying the exhibition, works by the artist Lars Wild will be shown in the newly created Salon of the Galerie Eigenheim. Benedikt Braun chooses this time the high drama of shooting, with specially constructed shooting machines. In his solo exhibition Shooting Star, gallery visitors find themselves in the midst of a projectile drama, whether as witnesses or perpetrators. The process of shooting involves a lot: the shooter, the target, the weapon, the reason and the consequences. Benedikt Braun’s artistic work is known for leading viewers to places where it secretly becomes so interesting that it hurts: with verve to the edges and into the taboo zones of society. This exhibition ends on 09.02.2019. Poster “SHOOTING STAR” with clay pigeon throwing machine in front of the throwing wall as part of an interactive artwork by Benedikt Braun Benedikt Braun SHOOTING STAR Accept the automatic object – close your hand around the object – find the right posture – set the direction – aim for the target – and now pull the trigger; then the bang and shortly […]

until 24.02. | #2317ARTatBerlin | Galerie mutare presents from 12th January 2019 the exhibition “Enchanting Sea of Flowers” with painting by the artist Reinhard Stangl. The exhibition “ENCHANTING SEA OF FLOWERS” presents works of the painter Reinhard Stangl, who lives in Berlin and Brandenburg, and who – for the first time – approaches the topic “flowers” in a subtle way. The exhibition opens on January 12th and will be open until February 24th 2019. In his rich and characteristic work the avowed urban citizen has so far preferred for his work subjects such as cities and bars at night and also landscapes. Now, Reinhard Stangl has mostly in a nearly erotic-appearing way dedicated himself to the floral motif. The often used black background of his pictures makes the strong colours of the flower details glow, often in a figurative, but sometimes also in an almost abstract way of painting. The beauties of nature are captured in a usually bright, but also in an isolated darker manner. They always seem to charm the viewer in a mysterious way. Reinhard Stangl REINHARD STANGL, born in Leipzig, studied painting from 1972 to 1977 at the College of Fine Arts, Dresden. Then he was […]

until 22.02. | #2314ARTatBerlin | Peres Projects presents from 11th January 2019 the group exhibition Road to the Unconscious. Finding your center, standing still, take a deep breath in. Pay close attention to your breath as you pull it in through your nose and push it out through your mouth. Breath slowly, deeply, naturally. Once you’ve found your breath rhythm, we’ll begin your journey. Go at whatever pace feels comfortable, and take breaks whenever you feel is necessary. As you begin to walk counter clockwise through the space, pay attention to your steps, left and right, and check in with your breath. Feel how your body moves, the shifting of your weight, enjoy the motion. You feel strong, energetic, but not rushed. When you’re ready, turn your attention to your surroundings, the idols on your left and right guiding you deeper into this dream world, allow yourself to be submerged in the environment, the sculptures and wall works create the world you’re entering. Pay attention to the characters you begin to encounter, they’re sharing a meal and look up at you as you pass by them, meeting your gaze. You don’t need to feel afraid of them, they are friendly, […]

until 18.04. | #2311ARTatBerlin | Alfred Ehrhardt Foundation presents from 12th January 2018 the first part of the series 100 Years Bauhaus. Alfred Ehrhardt – Painting, Drawing, Graphics. Until the end of the year, three further parts of the exhibition series will be shown. On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Bauhaus in 2019, the Alfred Ehrhardt Foundation is planning four exhibitions dealing explicitly with the theme of the Bauhaus. At the beginning, the exhibition Alfred Ehrhardt – Painting, Drawing, Graphics will be shown, which Ehrhardt presents not as photographers, but as graphic artists and painters. In particular, it focuses on the pictorial work of his Bauhaus period, which, following a solo exhibition at the Dessau Meisterhaus Schlemmer in 2007, can now also be seen for the first time in Berlin. During his stay at the Bauhaus in Dessau in the winter semester of 1928/29, Alfred Ehrhardt was a member of the circle of Bauhaus greats such as Josef Albers, Oskar Schlemmer, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, and Lyonel Feininger, who had a decisive influence on his artistic work as well as his later teaching activities. Alfred Ehrhardt, Ohne Titel (Abstrakte Komposition), undatiert, Tempera auf Holz (Masonit), 41,4 x 41,4 […]

until 12.04. | #2308ARTatBerlin | 68 projects presents for the Bauhaus year the group exhibition Chicago Grid starting 17 January 2019, curated by Jan Tichy. On the occasion of the centenary of the founding of the Bauhaus in 1919, Chicago based artist and educator Jan Tichy has organized a group exhibition for the project space 68projects. This exhibition resonates with his solo exhibition at the Galerie Kornfeld across the street. The pedagogy of László Moholy-Nagy, developed at the New Bauhaus in Chicago has influenced Jan Tichy’s artistic practice. Education as a creative dialogue between students and instructors was a crucial element of this method. Jan Tichy has been developing this new Bauhaus master’s practice over the last decade at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Chicago Grid brings together artists and educators  who have previously collaborated with Tichy as teachers and as students, from both sides of the educational exchange. This exhibition questions the concept of the grid in its many forms and implications, giving a nod towards the Berlin Bauhaus artists, who were fascinated by the Chicago street grid system. The artists in this exhibition include: ‍ Faheem Majeed, Alfonso and Gillion Carrara, Kate Conlon and Boyang Hou, Shawn Decker, Frances Lightbound, David […]

until 26.01. | #2306ARTatBerlin | Galerie Barbara Wien currently shows the exhibition the big aspiration of the small picture One of Dieter Roth’s most important books, Mundunculumfrom 1967, is about perception, vocabulary and the world. In one of the pictures in this book, Roth shows “how a small picture can have a big aspiration, and a big picture can have a small aspiration”. It’s a sketch that outlines the impact of seeing – in the mind of the beholder, big can have a relatively small impact, whereas small can have a bigger impact. The sketch is of magnificent simplicity, and that’s the crux of the matter. Dieter Roth, Mundunculum, 1967 We chose Dieter Roth’s drawing as a motto for our exhibition, which devotes itself to the small format. On show are drawings and objects from all artists represented by the gallery. Artists: Georges Adéagbo Eric Baudelaire Nina Canell Mariana Castillo Deball Jimmie Durham  Hans-Peter Feldmann Ester Fleckner Luca Frei  Ludwig Gosewitz Ian Kiaer Arthur Köpcke Dave McKenzie Elisabeth Neudörfl Peter Piller Eva von Platen Vaclav Pozarek Michael Rakowitz Dieter Roth Tomas Schmit Shimabuku Ingrid Wiener Haegue Yang Vernissage: Friday, 30th November 2018, 18:00 – 21:00 Uhr Exhibition period: Saturday, 1st December 2018 – Saturday, 26th January 2019   Image […]

extended until 26.01. | #2302ARTatBerlin | Semjon Contemporary presents from 7th December 2018 the exhibition Accrochage with artworks of all artists of the gallery and of guest artists.   Vernissage: Friday, 7th December 2018, 7:00 – 9:30 p.m. Exhibition period: Friday, 7th December to Saturday, 19. January 2019 – extended until 26.01.2019! ATTENTION: Christmas break from 22 December 2018 to 7 January 2019   Image caption: Courtesy of Semjon Contemporary – several artworks Exhibition Accrochage – Semjon Contemporary | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin – Contemporary Art – Ausstellungen Berlin Galerien – ART at Berlin  

until 31.01. | #2299ARTatBerlin | Galerie Pugliese Levi presents from 18. December 2018 the exhibition Tiger and Lion with paintings by the artist Xiaohua. Galerie Pugliese Levi is pleased to present new works of Chinese artist Xiaohua. The artist continues drawing with her stitching work on canvass and on paper. She introduces additional textile elements to extend the space of the canvass and to give shape to her visions. The new series of oil paperworks “Tiger and Lion” in intense shades of dark red colour is also shown along with larger scale works. There is a tiger and a lion One speaks the truth the other hears it as a lie And there is also an eagle, between them Then a fable starts. Xiaohua, 2018 Xiaohua,Tiger and Lion, 2018, 23 x 31 cm Xiaohua was born in Suzhou, China, in 1986. Following studies at Suzhou Art & Design Technology Institute, professional work as an editor and extensive travel, she began to study painting at Chinesisch-Deutsche Kunstakademie in China in 2012 and moved to Berlin in 2013 in order to continue her studies at Berlin University of the Arts (UdK). She graduated in Fine Arts and obtained a “Meisterschüler” title in […]

until 09.01. | #2295ARTatBerlin | Galerie mutare shows from 1st December 2018 the exhibition Urban landscapes, installations and collages with paintings by Kuisoon Park and collages and objects by Ahu Dural. From December 1st, the Mutare Gallery will be presenting works by the South Korean painter Kuisoon Park and the Berlin artist Ahu Dural. Both artists live in Berlin, Ahu Dural also in Vienna. The exhibition will be on display until January 9th, 2019. Kuisoon Park’s pictures look like frozen moments, yet clear and warm. They convey the feeling that time stands still. She is inspired by her surroundings and looks for rooms from which a pleasant calmness emanates. Her expressive, nevertheless minimalistic (urban) landscapes, characterized by an absence of human beings, describe places that exist on the border of daydream and reality. She represents the reality with simple sketches. The colours and the forms are abstracted, so that the reality blurs in the end. KUISOON PARK, Olivaer Platz,100 x 120cm, Oil on Canvas, 2018 KUISOON PARK, schweben, 40 x 40cm, Oil on Canvas, 2018 Ahu Dural graduated after her studies in illustrative drawing in performance Art / Sculpture, and has committed herself since then to the threedimensionality; and found in […]

until 22.12. | #2251ARTatBerlin | Galerie Kunst am Gendarmenmarkt currently shows the exhibition New pictures from Paris – metropolises and people – Moscow, Paris and the rest of the world by Ekaterina Zacharova, curated by Peter Michael Dinter. Dear Madam or Sir, Dear friends and guests of the Galerie Kunst am Gendarmenmarkt, We would like to invite you to the second exhibition of Mrs. Ekaterina ZACHAROVA at the gkag. In her very typical painting style, full of energy, movement, verve and magic, Ms. Ekaterina Zacharova shows us her latest paintings from Paris. And there are not so many ideas and myths about such a dazzling city as Paris. Paris, the city of longings, city of love and fashion. Paris, the queen with a great past. City of constant change, with dark sides seething and nightly enchanted – yellow, golden shining. Center of power and Accrochage of cultures. Hedonistic and romantic, mystical and enervating at the same time. Walküre, Dublin, 2011, 100 x 120 cm, Öl auf Leinwand  For this we present you selected works from the previous s eries of pictures. New York, Havana, Moscow and Shanghai. We are looking forward to your visit of the Vernissage as well as the exhibition! […]

until 22.12. | #2288ARTatBerlin | WENTRUP currently presents the solo exhibition Doppelgänger by the artist Karl Haendel. Wentrup Gallery is pleased to present Karl Haendel’s second solo exhibition with the gallery, titled Doppelgänger, opening on 16th November 2018. Since the start of his career Haendel (b.1976) has used drawing to discover connections between seemingly disparate nodes of cultural data, drawing attention to the overlaps between the social, political, and personal. Through formal manipulation and repacking of pre-existing imagery, Haendel explores how our culture uses images to produce opinions, values and beliefs and how the images we produce reflexively re-shape these frameworks. However, this exhibition is not really an exhibition, it might be better described as two exhibitions in one, or perhaps, an exhibition with a split personality. Upon entering the gallery you are immediately confronted with a wall interrupting your path, forcing you to choose which way to go – left or right. Wentrup gallery is bisected by a wall, and each half of the space appears just like its other half; the drawings in both spaces are identical in size and medium, framed in the same manner, and hung in the same configuration. You are never able to view a work next […]

until 18.01. | #2289ARTatBerlin | Köppe Contemporary presents from November 30, 2018 the exhibition Black Nymphéas by the artist Arno Bojak. Arno Bojak, born 1974 in Wuppertal, studied painting from 1994 to 2000 at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf with Prof. Markus Lüpertz. His paintings are based on careful observations of everyday life and contemporary events. The central theme of the artist’s work, who has been living in Berlin since 2001, is the human image. He has also retained this focus in his new series of pictures created in 2018. Schwere Sonne – Die Pisserein, 190 x 160 cm, 2018, Acryl auf Nessel Bojak’s paintings are created from a mix of references – to art history, literature, fairy tales, legends and children’s book illustrations, comics or the genre of fantastic film. As in earlier pictures, children are often depicted. Child figures have always functioned as archetypes in Bojak’s work. They represent for the human species. Sommerloch, 160 x 145 cm, Acryl auf Nessel, 2018 It is noticeable that the images of man have changed in the most recent works. It is no longer the busy cool kids and insidious little monsters that are depicted in the childish milieu, but adolescents in adolescence. The […]

until 26.01. | #2284ARTatBerlin | Buchmann Galerie shows from 17th November 2018 the Solo Exhibition Sculpture by the artist Tony Cragg. Buchmann Galerie is delighted to announce an exhibition featuring new sculptures and drawings by Tony Cragg. In the main exhibition space, a monumental sculpture from the new series Skulls, measuring 240 x 227 x 172 cm, makes a powerful impression with its complex interlock of internal and external spaces. The entire volume of this work constructed from layered plywood is permeated by innumerable close-lying and in some cases interlaced, tube-like forms. They open up a surprising insight into the sculpture’s internal depths. Resembling foam and yet conveying solidity, the work evokes organic forms, the innermost part of which generates the exterior. Tony Cragg explains: “There exists a real psychological pressure and need for the viewer to see beyond the surface and that all the forms we see provide a connection to the greater and more fundamental external and internal forces that make them.”  The group of work Hedges, inspired by Tony Cragg’s childhood memories of landscapes with hedges in his English home region, comprises filigree leaf- and blade-like forms. The red-brown, matt shimmering patina of the steel contributes to these natural […]

until 22.12. | #2280ARTatBerlin | KÖNIG GALERIE (Nave) presents from 24th November 2018 the solo exhibition I can see forever by the artist Jeremy Shaw. I think he has access to a state that far exceeds ours. That doesn’t make it a categorically different state that he’s achieving. It just means that he is able to touch something and to see a vast landscape where we only get a sliver of that experience. – Dr. Daniel Moore, I Can See Forever Jeremy Shaw’s artistic practice is characterized by a complex use of effects and narrative devices in relation to perceptions of reality and expressions of ideology in contemporary art, film and popular media. His most recent film, I Can See Forever (2018), is the final chapter of the critically-acclaimed and widely exhibited Quantification Trilogy, preceded by Quickeners (2014), and Liminals (2017). All three films explore the potential of catharsis to simultaneously represent and effect states of mind, perception, ecstasy, belief, religious fervour, escapist fantasies, and extremes of subjective experience as formulated in sub- and counter-cultures that have changed the Western political landscape since the 1960’s. Through a precise management of the expectations of film, Shaw’s works directly challenge normative forms of […]

26.01. | #2271ARTatBerlin | Sexauer Gallery shows from 22nd November 2018 the solo exhibition METABOLICA by the artist Thomas Feuerstein.  For his exhibition METABOLICA at SEXAUER Thomas Feuerstein will create an autonomous art world. He carbonizes Algae hydrothermally in a pressure reactor – a processual sculpture which is in the exhibition – manufactured for this specific purpose. He uses the coal he extracts to make charcoal pencils, which in turn he uses to create the drawings for the exhibition. This procedure also has an economic element: if Feuerstein no longer has algae, he can no longer draw. All resources are finite in his autonomous art world. In another example Feuerstein irradiates a Haematococcus pluvialis (in german: blood-rain algae) – also cultivated in a sculpture – on a picture surface with ultraviolet light. Eventually, the green alga turns red, dries, and finds its final state in the picture BLUTREGEN (blood rain). Using biological and chemical processes, Feuerstein thus creates an art world of captivating but also irritating beauty. Thomas Feuerstein works experimentally and universally. He refers to cultural history, philosophy, literature, natural science, economics and current scientific discourses as well as religions and science fiction. He links ancient Greek thought with the postmodern world, always bringing […]

until 23.12. | #2275ARTatBerlin | Galerie Z22 shows from 10th November 2018 the exhibition Greetings from Arcadistan with new works by Kai Teichert. At the same time in the Whitecube the exhibition Popolation by Eric Massholder will be presented. The artist Kai Teichert has transformed the unusually sunny summer of 2018 in Berlin into a series of oil paintings that offer provocative nudity. His figures bathe in light and color, relaxed and seemingly with all the time in the world. An idea that does not seem to belong to the beginning of the 21st century. Kai Teichert – Greetings from Arcadistan (Einladungskarte) The artist plays with numerous art historical and cultural associations: Lukas Cranach’s fountain of youth from the year 1564 is reminiscent of the reform movement from Monte Verità near Askona in Switzerland around 1900. Teichert’s bathing scenes settle in the Arcadian longing for renewal and innocence, but they also do not omit political echoes: He titled the wall-sized, central painting of our exhibition “Greetings from Arcadistan”. He combines the old Arcadia with our globalized reality, whereby multilayered interpretations are offered that could be casually shortened to a rhyme: “Far away is next door, greetings from Arcadistan”. The exhibition is […]

until 26.01. | #2276ARTatBerlin | Kewenig Berlin presents from  6th November 2018 the solo exhibition Painting 2003 – 2018 with works featuring the artist Bernd Koberling. The exhibition takes place on the occasion of the artist’s 80th birthday. He was born on 4 November 1938 in Berlin. KEWENIG is pleased to present the exhibition »Malerei 2003 – 2018« with works by Bernd Koberling (*1938, in Berlin) on the occasion of his 80thbirthday. Koberling is one of the most important German painters of his generation who has continuously succeeded in reinventing and developing his artistic language during his 60 year career. This not only created a unique body of work, but also a “Vital Echo”[1]amongst his peers and the following generations of younger Berlin artists. The first exhibition of the artist in the gallery’s Berlin space sheds light on the last 15 years of his work, in which he concentrated primarily on his so-called ‘Plattenbilder’ (1999-2011) and ‘Ölbilder’ (since 2012). Just how essential the encounter with nature is for Koberling’s art is reflected in the titles of his works, such as ‘Sonnesonnen’, ‘Autumn Heath’ or ‘Naturblock’. The exhibition begins with a space dedicated to the painter’s watercolour works.  Koberling creates his watercolours – a […]

until 12.01. | #2269ARTatBerlin | Bermel von Luxburg Gallery shows from 15th November 2018 the solo exhibition Malerei von 1984 bis 2018 by the artist Peter Herrmann. At 81 years of age, Peter Herrmann is a living book whose pages are dense with print. Peter Herrmann is a wonderful storyteller. He speaks with a voice that exudes tranquillity and warmth. This voice is both audible in conversation with his friends, but also silently permeates his paintings. The stories told by his pictures frequently focus on everyday experiences expressed with a humorous twist and are imbued with a sincerity that is both direct and genuine. He is a thoroughly down to earth individual; both he and his art are absolutely authentic. The frequently used cliché of the artist as a social outcast certainly does not apply in the least to Peter Herrmann. Peter Herrmann inspires us to view familiar, everyday objects or situations from a different perspective – in doing so, we pay them more attention than usual, no longer take them for granted and see them in a fresh new light. In fact, his coffee machine and ashtray paintings remind me of Jasper Johns’ “Two Beer Cans” from 1960. Here […]

extended until 09.02. | #2265ARTatBerlin | EFREMIDIS GALLERY presents from 24th November 2018 the group exhibition Content Is A Glimpse featuring the artists Anna Tuori, David Schutter, Fiona Rae, Jorge Queiroz, Mark Lammert, curated by Jurriaan Benschop. This exhibition centers on the human figure and the way it is evoked in contemporary painting. Five artists with different backgrounds present works that imagine and (de-)form the human figure, or present otherwise allusions to the body. Artists: Anna Tuori, David Schutter, Fiona Rae, Jorge Queiroz and Mark Lammert. Installation view Anna Tuori Installation view from left to right: Mark Lammert, Fiona Rae, Jorge Queiroz, David Schutter Fiona Rae, Figure 1l, oil and acrylic on canvas, 183 x 129.5 cm, 2014 Courtesy of Buchmann Galerie and Efremidis Gallery Exhibition: Saturday, 24th November 2018 – Saturday, 26th January 2019 – extended until 9th February 2019!   Image caption: Fiona Rae, Figure 1l, oil and acrylic on canvas, 183 x 129.5 cm, 2014 – Courtesy of Buchmann Galerie and Efremidis Gallery Exhibition Content Is A Glimpse – EFREMIDIS GALLERY | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin  

until 01.12. | #2259ARTatBerlin | CAMERA WORK presents since the 20th October 2018 a Exhibition by the artist, environmentalist, polar explorer and extreme sportsman Sebastian Copeland. The gallery CAMERA WORK is pleased to present an exhibition of the photo artist, environmentalist, polar explorer and extreme sportsman Sebastian Copeland from 20 October 2018. The exhibition includes more than 30 works from his oeuvre, including impressive large-format photographs. »Helping people fall in love with their world, is a catalyst for wanting to save it.« – Sebastian Copeland With his work, Sebastian Copeland does not just pursue the intention to show the beauty of nature. Rather, it is his goal to enter into dialogue with the viewer and to encourage him to question the origin of the represented natural objects and the connection with the human being. The artist functionalizes the camera as an extension of his gaze and his experiences on the expeditions – as a means of communication to work out the sublimity, meaning and transience of nature and raise the threat of climate change from an abstract to a concrete danger. The exhibition shows photographs of a distant natural space that dissolves. In doing so, Sebastian Copeland works mainly out the […]

extended until 16.03. | #2263ARTatBerlin | Galerie Bastian currently presents its last exhibition – THE TIMES THEY ARE A-CHANGIN’ with seven artist spaces. Galerie Bastian is pleased to present the Group Exhibition THE TIMES THEY ARE A-CHANGIN’ with seven artist spaces. The works of the following artists are presented: Mark Alexander, Joseph Beuys, Anselm Kiefer, Christopher Orr, Paul Wallach, Andy Warhol und Wim Wenders. In the new year Ulrich Erben will replace the current Wim Wenders exhibition on the ground floor. “”THE TIMES THEY ARE A-CHANGIN’” (Bob Dylan), title of our exhibition, quote from a song by Bob Dylan, says more about space and time than about an artists’ program. And so the upcoming last exhibition in our gallery Am Kupfergraben combines a farewell and a new beginning. Almost a decade of work ends at a truly unique location in the context of Berlin’s Museum Island. We had the good fortune to build David Chipperfield in a very special topography, a much-noticed house; the courage to build this house now combines with the joy of handing it over as a gift from the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation in January 2019. The house will determine its own future in a new […]

until 03.02. | #2162ARTatBerlin | KINDL – Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst currently shows the group exhibition Routinised Absurdity by the artists Louis de Belle, Juno Calypso, Brooke DiDonato, Christoph Grill, Aleksey Kondratyev, Elisa Larvego, Sandra Lazzarini, Pierrick Sorin, Sebastian Stumpf and Ben Zank, curated by CUCO – curatorial concepts berlin e.V. The thematic exhibition Routinised Absurdity presents works by ten international contemporary photographers who deal in different ways with daily routines and surprising breaks in them. Although the settings of the pictures seem familiar, viewers are simultaneously confronted with the unexpected and inexplicable. The highly narrative photographs not only show the absurdity inherent in mechanised behaviours, but also raise questions about the state of a performance-oriented society in which efficient action is paramount. The downsides of the constant functioning of each individual are also examined—fatigue, overwork, and collapse. Curated by CUCO – curatorial concepts berlin e.V. (Hanna Dölle, Katherina Perlongo, and Annika Turkowski) Brooke DiDonato, Closure, 2016, © Brooke DiDonato | Ben Zank, Crash, 2017, © Ben Zank. Vernissage: Friday, 29th September 2018, 5 – 9 pm Exhibition period: Sunday, 30th September 2018 – Sunday, 3rd February 2019   Image caption: Brooke DiDonato, Closure, 2016, © Brooke DiDonato. Ben Zank, Crash, 2017, © Ben Zank. Exhibition Routinised Absurdity – Galerie KINDL | Zeitgenössische […]

until 17.11. | #2248ARTatBerlin | Galerie Wagner + Partner currently shows the exhibition Portrait Extended – Six Positions to Our Self with works of the artists Alexandra Baumgartner, Nezaket Ekici, Emel Geris, Csilla Klenyánski, Soline Krug and Natascha Stellmach. Triggered by our hypermodern lifestyle, questions about the individual production of meaning become compulsory. At the same time old traditional contexts of meaning, patterns of interpretation, landmarks are dissolved, they merge into each other and are different / new. Often, only the means of self-assurance seem certain. A look into the social media shows how this is structured: The pursuit of uniqueness as an expression of the respective individual personality is characterized by a constant search for meaning and identity, attributes that are associated with certain fashion and sports trends, music and art exhibitions , the choice of the right food – we meanwhile “curate” everything that comes under our noses; Everything ultimately succumbs to this ideal of the supposedly self-determined. But to what extent is this ideal a fallacy? In the group exhibition Portrait Extended the artists take into account the search for identity, image and origin. To what extent are we self-determined or externally determined? How much power does […]

until 30.11. | #2254ARTatBerlin | galerie1214 shows from 10th November 2018 the solo exhibition The Garden of Forking Paths by the Berlin-based Brazilian painter Isabelle Borges. GALERIE1214 presents Berlin-based Brazilian painter Isabelle Borges in a solo exhibition. With her decisive position for an abstraction, that feeds on experiences in the practical world, she has been following a consistent project of artistic research for many years. The experience of growing up in the drawingboard-city Brasilia, was for Borges the starting point of her explorations of spaces. The resulting sensitization by a rationalistic-modernist city planning and architecture allowed her to develop important motives of her work. Her interests expanded into the exploration of general patterns of spatial organization throughout nature. In her work, Borges seeks to find the nexus between the poetic, the intuitive, and the analytic, revealing to the patient observer the metaphysical dimensions of reality. Painting means for her delving deeper into what cannot be described neither by sociology (the big narrations) nor by mathematics alone. Correspondingly, Borges’ objects, wall paintings and paintings continue to develop surprising qualities: when two color surfaces differ in delicate nuances and unity becomes diversity; when an object causes its surroundings to glow with luminous reflected color; […]

until 08.12. | #2252ARTatBerlin | Galerie Martin Mertens shows from 20th September 2018 the exhibition Temperature of Time by the artists Tessa Verder and Ralf Peters. In this double exhibition we show works by the photo artists Tessa Verder and Ralf Peters. The connecting element is nature as a motif, which, on the one hand, is familiar and on the other hand unfamiliar. Both artists are related to the art of German Romanticism. The calm and aloofness that sets in the work of both artists, seems ambivalent in today’s time, which is characterized by speed and networking. The motives of both artists form a calming pole in the midst of the flood of images that surrounds us daily and online every day. You can almost feel a connection to the German romanticism and yet the pictures seem strangely unreal. Ralf Peters, Winter 3, 60 x 60 cm, C-Print, 2018 In dealing with German romanticism, both artists also address questions about their homeland and identity – terms that have become more relevant today and that trigger controversial discussions. At Verder, photos from around the world (such as Iceland, South America, Africa or Asia) are interwoven with elements from paintings by Caspar David Friedrich or other romantics to create […]

until 23.11. | #2226ARTatBerlin | Köppe Contemporary presents from 19th October 2018 the exhibition Idyll & Destruction by the artist Ulrich Baehr. Born in Bad Kösen / Saale in 1938, the Berlin-based painter Ulrich Baehr celebrates his 80th birthday this year. 1958-65 Baehr studied at the College of Fine Arts Berlin (1958-65). He was co-founder of the legendary Berlin self-help gallery, Großgörschen 35 ‘. This was followed by scholarships and study visits in Paris, New York, Levanto (Italy) and Los Angeles. Ulrich Baehr taught at the Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig. After a visiting professorship at the University of the Arts in Berlin, he was until 2006 a professor of painting and art in the Public space in Hannover. In 2006 he received the German Critics’ Award. The Twentieth Century XVII | 2002, Oil / Canvas, 160 x 200 cm “Ulrich Baehr’s historical paintings and the ‘German Toirsi’, with which he became known in the 1960s and 1970s, have inscribed themselves in art history,” writes the curator Beatrice E. Stammer. Such motifs were triggered, for example, by earth-shattering ship disasters. In the series ‘The Twentieth Century’, such dramatic subjects appear as ‘a dark summary of the twentieth century’ (Simone […]

until 17.11. | #2242ARTatBerlin | 68 projects presents from 24th October 2018 the solo exhibition Clocks Deep In Us by the New York Painter Yevgeniya Baras. The world of fantasy often serves as an escape from reality and its many social, economic and physical limitations. Reality, on the other hand, is often considered desirable in the midst of the illusions of fantasy. However, the two can not always be strictly separated. The paintings by Yevgeniya Baras are porous objects that blur the line between the fantastic and the real and soften the barriers of all stable areas. In these works of art, located between object and image, the material leads a life of its own. Jute, wool, tire rubber, fabric, stones and wood are often physically attached to the surface of the painting and at the same time integrated into it, making it a part of the sitter. Baras’s works refer to seemingly ancient codes that both confirm and refute their narratives. As soon as one thinks to recognize a pattern, it is immediately undermined by repetition and transformation. It is never really attached to a symbol, so that one could ascribe a fixed meaning to it. Untitled, Öl auf Leinwand, 2018, […]

until 10.11. | #2235ARtatBerlin | Sprüth Magers Berlin presents from 29th September 2018 a Solo Exhibition with thirteen brightly hued sculptures and three large paintings by the artist Gary Hume. Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers are delighted to present an installation of entirely new works by Gary Hume, thirteen brightly hued sculptures and three large paintings on paper that present the viewer with immediate colour and curves. The sculptures, all from the series Wonky Wheels (2018), are imperfectly round, wheel-like armatures rendered in steel and brightly coloured enamel, measuring between one and three metres in diameter. They are pulled and manipulated into shape by the artist, rendering each unique in form and character. The economy of line and slightness of shape means the wheels appear to balance precariously, vulnerable to the slightest touch or influencing action, teetering on the verge of a bumpy movement that could go back or forth, or result in a fall. Together, they may reference an imperfect wheel of life and conceive a carnival of time and a ‘wonkiness’ of both personal and historical experience whose narrative, though inevitable, is never stable. The Wonky Wheel (Red), 2013 50 1/4 x 50 1/4 x 2 3/8 inches, […]

until 10.11. | #2195ARTatBerlin | ChertLüdde presents since 22nd September 2018 the Exhibition Signs of Signs by the artist Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt. Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt was born in Wurzen in 1932. In 1950 she moved to Berlin — where she still lives today— and attended the Workers’ and Farmers’ faculty. In 1954, she met Robert Rehfeldt; they married one year later. She was employed by the Department of Exhibitions at the Academy of Arts and made drawings in her spare time. At the start of the 1970s, she started to develop her trademark typewriter graphics (Typewritings) and participated in the Mail Art projects. She became a member of the Association of Fine Artists of the GDR in 1978. Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt, Figuration collagiert, 1980’s,  31.5 × 23 cm; Courtesy the Artist and ChertLüdde, Berlin Exhibition period: Saturday, 22nd September – Saturday, 10th November 2018   Image caption: Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt, Figuration collagiert, 1980’s, 31.5 × 23 cm; Courtesy the Artist and ChertLüdde, Berlin Exhibition Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt – ChertLüdde | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin

until 10.11. | #2233ARTatBerlin | Galerie Fahnemann currently shows an exhibition with artworks by the artists Günther Förg, Imi Knoebel, Raimund Gierke and Frank Stella. Frank Stella shows the series Shards. “When it comes to printing, I have to work the same way I do painting, different media, different qualities, but in the end it’s all about the same problem: it has to be art.” Frank Stella The series “Shards”, consisting of five main sheets – each lithography and screen printing – and four variants, was printed with up to 43 colors from 49 lithoplates and 3 sieves. It is one of Stellas most important graphic creations. Frank Stella – Shards I Variant A Frank Stella – Shards II Stella made the collages as a study for painted reliefs, but then first produced the prints. He then sliced ​​the litho plates of the “Shards” to make three-dimensional designs for the reliefs. The word “shards” refers to Stella’s use of found materials from other works. Frank Stella – Shards III Particularly noteworthy is that Stella, unlike his irregularly limited works, has thought of the pure rectangular shape. He said to the motives for the series that he has “a lot of […]

until 08.12. | #2228ARTatBerlin | Galerie Pugliese Levi shows from 9th October 2018 the solo exhibition Solitude by the French photographer and farmer Thibaut Duchenne. Galerie Pugliese Levi is pleased to present the second solo exhibition of the French photographer and farmer Thibaut Duchenne as part of EMOP Berlin – European Month of Photography 2018. “I perceive the emerging shadows, taming the light in the course of the seasons. I see the muffled hues, the ocres, rust, the browns in the soil imbued with memory. Touching lightly with the eyes the cracked soil that undulates so brittly, silently watching, waiting patiently so as to better catch and convey. Spontaneous, journeying and errant, simplicity remains my artistic approach.” Thibaut Duchenne, September 2018 Thibaut Duchenne leaves his farm in Picardy for solitary journeys. He never leaves behind his favoured subjects: the abandoned rural places, the closed-down dwellings, a certain desolation of life, where he never fails to find poetic beauty. Thibaut Duchenne – Galerie Pugliese Levi – Reflet 1 Thibaut Duchenne’s photography is precise, uncompromising and sensitive. His work pays homage to nature and rural life. The objects and landscapes he photographs, conquered by rust and dust, are touching even though immortalised in an […]

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