until 06.11. | #3224ARTatBerlin | Galerie Thomas Schulte currently presents the solo exhibition Unbetiteltes Tautologisches Selbstportrait by the artist Abraham Cruzvillegas. The colorful installation Unbetiteltes Tautologisches Selbstportrait stretches across the two nine-meter high walls of the Corner Space and consists of boxes of shapes and sizes the bottoms of which are painted in thirty-four different color hues. In his installations and sculptures Abraham Cruzvillegas often uses found or discarded industrially produced, simple, everyday objects. In preparation for his installation at Galerie Thomas Schulte, the artist asked the gallery staff to collect and accumulate all kinds of empty packaging. The various boxes made from cardboard, paper or wood range, for example, from shoe and egg cartons to cereal, chocolate, pizza and instant rice boxes, household appliances packaging, soap and detergents, make up and beauty products boxes, wine and champagne boxes, and six-packs for beer and soda, along with many of the products that the gallery and its staff had consumed over months. The bottoms of the boxes have been painted in thirty-four different colors, using a color system which the artist first used in his contribution to documenta in 2012. In Cruzvillegas’ color scheme, every color stands for a specific idea, […]

until 27.11. | #3205ARTatBerlin | Hazegallery presents from 12th November 2021 (Opening: 11.11.) the exhibition The Saga of the Unencumbered by Form by with works by the artist Nat Apanay, curated by Iren Russo and Sasha Grigg. In November, Berlin based gallery HAZE GALLERY with the informational support of the independent art & fashion magazine PURPLEHAZE, will present a solo exhibition of the contemporary Russian artist and architect- Nat Apanay. The project called “The Saga of the Unencumbered by Form” recreates the author’s statement on the themes of corporeality, the place of man in the cosmic and digital world order, the relationship between the micro and macro levels. Portrait, 2019, 142 х 96 сm, oil on canvas On November the 4th, public performance will mark the opening day of the exhibition. The artist will practice a ritual dance that expresses the moment of the emergence of a form. The performance will begin at 19.00 and take place on the streets of the German capital next to the gallery (gallery address: Bülowstrasse 11, 10789, Berlin-Schöneberg). State of mind, 2019, 120 х 90 сm, oil, plaster, pigments on canvas The exhibition is an assemblage of different media. Nat seeks to express creation […]

until 15.01. | #3202ARTatBerlin | Galerie Michael Haas presents from 15th October 2021 the exhibition Kompass with works by the artist Frank Gerritz. This is his first solo exhibition at Galerie Michael Haas in Berlin. With his aluminium works, iron sculptures and drawings, Frank Gerritz will occupy both the gallery rooms in Niebuhrstraße and the rooms of the Kunst Lager Haas in Lise-Meitner-Straße. A compass is a navigation device whose needle moves constantly and yet always points in the same direction. Frank Gerritz is also in permanent motion and at the same time goes his way very directly and purposefully. An important parameter of his works are human body dimensions, which run through his entire work in various proportions. At the same time, these are also found in references between the different groups of works. This shows in how many directions Gerritz is thinking at the same time to find out the possibilities of design. The process of creation of his works is decisive in this respect. His wall and floor sculptures are created in intensive and elaborate processes. Exemplary are his works in which he draws for months, with very soft pencils on MDF boards and thereby compresses the […]

until 13.11. | #3210ARTatBerlin | Luisa Catucci Gallery shows from 21st October 2021 the solo exhibition DAS THEATER DER WIRKLICHKEIT by the norwegian artist Kenneth Blom. The internationally renowned Norwegian artist Kenneth Blom approaches his compositions with the attitude of a stage director: on engineered backgrounds, characters/actors go on scene to personify the theater of reality. The use of diagonal lines skillfully mixed with horizontal fugues and minimalistic geometric design – reminding of the tautness and charm typical of the buildings at the time of the birth of modern architecture – brings the focus of the viewer to the human drama happening in the painting, invariably. Blom’s sense of theatricality possesses an evident psychological substratum: the characters of his painting and their state of mind reflected in their actions – either if they stay put, jump, run or fall – are indisputable archetypes of the human psychological condition, and existential obsessions. Kenneth Blom, Conpound, 100 x 120 cm The latent sensitivity of the compositions is furthermore underlined by the sapient alternation of abstract and figurative painting, where wild strokes alternate with controlled ones, contributing to build the mystery, the inquietude and the narrative ofeach painting. Additionally, the scenographic backgrounds with […]

until 30.10. | #3199ARTatBerlin | Esther Schipper currently presents the solo-exhibition “It Would Have Taught Me Wisdom” by the artist Cemile Sahin. This is the artist’s first exhibition with the gallery. Sahin’s new installation creates an environment in which text and image are entangled: it is composed of colored plexiglass panels with digital prints, which form a sculptural structure, set against a wallpaper representing the signing ceremony of the Sèvres contract. In both the imagery and its underlying narrative, the new work draws on the artist’s research into the treaties of Sèvres (1920) and Lausanne (1923) and their ongoing impact a century later. A major motif is a digitally reconstructed 3D model of a porcelain statue of the goddess Minerva, which was the centerpiece on the table where the Sèvres treaty was signed. Cemile Sahin’s artistic practice operates between film, photography, sculpture, and literature. Freely deploying different media, without privileging one or the other, her work embodies today’s synchronicity of image- and text-based communications. Integrating images into her books and text in her image-world, Sahin moves with extraordinary agility between words and pictures, between still and moving image, between text as form, sign, and symbol. Sahin’s debut novel TAXI was […]

until 11.11. | #3187ARTatBerlin | Galerie feinart berlin presents from 14. October 2021 the solo exhibition “Shades of Water” by the artist Ebrahim Ehrari. The exhibition brings together the masterful etchings from Ehrari’s early work with the intensely colored abstract oil and acrylic paintings of his later work. Ebrahim Ehrari, O. T. , 1998 © Ebrahim Ehrari From 1957 Ebrahim Ehrari, born in Urmia, Iran (West Azerbaijan Province) in 1938, worked for two years as a pipeline welder on the island of Kharg in the Persian Gulf. In some cases, diving was carried out to a depth of up to 40 meters without diving equipment. This haunting experience of the sea, its power and quiet depth as well as its variety of forms have shaped the artist’s work for a lifetime. Works from Ehrari’s early and late work now come together in an exhibition entitled “Shades of Water”. The focus is on the motif of water: water as an element of life, as a symbol for purification, time and knowledge, but also as a representative of fate, the unconscious and longings, as well as an elemental force and warning. Ebrahim Ehrari, Versuch zu atmen, 1998 © Ebrahim Ehrari Ebrahim Ehrari’s […]

until 23.10.| #3197ARTatBerlin | Laura Mars Gallery currently shows the group exhibition Jubilee Jubilee on the occasion of its 20th anniversary. The Laura Mars Gallery turns 20 years young this year and celebrates its existence with a festive group exhibition. On view are works by numerous artists, most of whom have been with the gallery for a long time and vice versa. The artistic positions presented at Laura Mars bring into play work-immanent logics and aesthetic concepts that stand for a certain independence. Perhaps this is why the group exhibitions Gundula Schmitz has been putting together since 2001, occasionally in cooperation with others, always seem coherent – despite the most diverse works of art that are sometimes assembled for these shows. The group or solo exhibitions of national and international artists are often accompanied by a supporting program of lectures, film presentations, discussions, concerts, and more. In addition, the affiliated Fantôme Verlag publishes accompanying catalogs and artist books. The most visible highlight of the glamorous birthday exhibition Jubilee Jubilee will be an installation created by artist Bettina Allamoda especially for the occasion. A sequined fabric stretched across the room acts as a ‘support material,’ a specific ‘wrap’ for the heterogeneous […]

until 30.10. | #3193ARTatBerlin | Galerie Kewenig Berlin / Warehouse currently presents the solo-exhibiton “365 Days: 1938/2017” by the artist Jamie Diamond. KEWENIG is pleased to present Jamie Diamond’s first exhibition at Warehouse in Berlin Moabit, featuring a series of photographs. Through performance and photography, Diamond explores concepts of identity, memory and intimacy that form the core of ‘365 Days: 1938/2017’. The starting point for this series is a family album Diamond found at a flea market during a visit to Berlin in 2015. The photographs, dating from 1938, record the first year of a young child’s life, with each page showing the child’s age in days. A year later, after the US presidential election cast a shadow over the years to come, Diamond, who was pregnant, remembered the photographs and began to identify with the child’s mother, imagining her story at the start of World War II. Diamond acted out the scenes from the 1938 pictures, using similar locations, furniture and poses, matching the album’s time frame. She then merged the two photographs into one composition, emphasising the transparency of the two images. The discrepancies between the superimposed images reveal the tensions and similarities between 1938 and 2017, Germany […]

until 06.11. | #3184ARTatBerlin | Galerie Sievi shows from 1st October 2021 the solo exhibition Réminiscence with sculptures by the Belgian artist Martin Hollebecq. Between ying and yang, between storm and abundance, between industrial and organic materials, the works of Martin Hollebecq offer all the richness of a human reflection on the environment and the poetry of the living world. Silent and alive, with a thousand and one cries, depending on the bumps or the quieter areas, the material comes to life and leaps from its veins to water the heart of man … Rift, 59 x 35 x 12 cm, Blauer Stein, Polychrom S’il existe une voie menant de l’emotion a l’abstraction, c’est assurement celle que suit avec bonheur depuis plus de quinze ans Martin Hollebecq (Comines, 1962). Eveillant ses mondes de pierres a la poesie du visible, il les tatoue de mille battements de creur aux relents d’humanisme. A la fois totems des temps modernes et volumes geometriques petris de veines sensibles, ses creations appellent a la rencontre et a l’echange des sentiments. En brillant chef d’orchestre, Martin Hollebecq sait faire se tutoyer des elements de prime abord dissonants comme des metaux de recuperation, des pieces de bois, des […]

until 02.01 | #3190ARTatBerlin | Schinkel Pavillon currently shows a duo exhibition with the artists HR Giger and Mire Lee. The Schinkel Pavillon brings together the worlds of the late Swiss visionary HR Giger (1940-2014) and the South Korean artist Mire Lee (b. 1988), transforming into a site for an exploration of the darkest aisles of the human body and psyche. This equally seductive and dystopian scenario is the first institutional exhibition of Giger’s work in Germany, as well as the first major presentation of Lee’s work here. HR Giger was a painter, sculptor and designer known as the ‘father’ of Xenomorph – the protagonist monster in Ridley Scott’s 1979 film ‘Alien’. The Schinkel Pavillon exhibition not only showcases the artist’s iconic works that led to the creation of the Alien protagonist, but also repositions Giger as a late surrealist. It presents the artist’s influential Gesamtkunstwerk – his early surrealist oil paintings, ink drawings, sculptures, as well as previously unexhibited private diaries – highlighting the age-defying Freudian horror and societal fears so deeply implanted in his work. Giger’s universe is paired with that of Mire Lee, who has recently become known for her kinetic sculptures and quasi-alchemical installations. Newly commissioned, […]

until 31.12. | #3180ARTatBerlin | Galerie Brockstedt shows from 1st October 2021 a solo exhibition with paintings and drawings by the artist Isabel Quintanilla (1938-2017). The 3 G-regulations apply (tested, vaccinated, recovered). Isabel Quintanilla, Sierra de Guaderrama, 1990/91, 79,5 x 100,5 cm, Oil/Wood Isabel Quintanilla Spanish Realist painter and draughtswoman 1938 born in Madrid 2017 died in Madrid Isabel Quintanilla, Luisa Diaz, 1987, 74 x 58 cm, Pastel, Paper Isabel Quintanilla, El muelle (Harbour pier ), 1972, 33 x 40,5 cm, Oil/Wood 1949-52 Attends drawing and painting classes in the workshop of the painter Trinidad de la Torre in Madrid; also takes classes with Gutiérrez Navas and Maruxia Valero. 1952-53 Attends evening classes at the School of Arts and Crafts in Madrid; awarded the extraordinary prize of the Central Council; in her free time she paints plaster models of art reproductions plaster models of classical sculptures to prepare for the entrance examination to the Academy of Arts 1954-59 Studies at the Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes, Madrid, 1959 first participation in an exhibition in Granada, Rodriguez-Acosta Foundation 1960 works as a drawing teacher; marries Francisco López, who in that year wins the Grand Art Prize of the Spanish Academy in […]

until 20.11. | #3178ARTatBerlin | Galerie kajetan Berlin presents from 17 September 2021 in the framework of the inauguration of the new gallery premises in Charlottenburg the exhibtion Erich has just left the building, a group exhibition in memory of the artist Erich Reusch. With works by: Monika Brandmeier, Marc Goroncy, Werner Haypeter, Ingrid Lønningdal, Norbert Kricke, Erich Reusch, Günter Umberg, Elisabeth Vary, Jan Wawrzyniak This year, the German sculptor and “pioneer of decentralised space” Erich Reusch would have turned 96. On this occasion, kajetan Berlin is presenting a group exhibition of nine positions from different generations and genres in its new space at Grolmanstrasse 58 – works by Reusch’s companions, friends, students and colleagues that can be read as direct and sometimes surprising commentaries on his artistic legacy. In 2019, the gallery hosted Reusch’s last solo exhibition during his lifetime. With the participating artists, kajetan Berlin looks to convey the space as the actual event, in the spirit of the media experimenter. Jan Wawrzyniak | Erich Reusch | Monika Brandmeier | Norbert Kricke | Werner Haypeter | Erich Reusch | Exhibition view | Erich has just left the building | In Erinnerung an Erich Reusch | Galerie kajetan 2021 | […]

until 30.10. | #3175ARTatBerlin | Sprüth Magers Berlin shows from 17th September 2021 the solo exhibition It Seems Like That with new works by the artist Andro Wekua. Concurrently, Sprüth Magers announces a solo exhibition by Andro Wekua, presenting new paintings. Wekua’s works have an almost magnetic quality that oscillates between seduction and repulsion, creating a mysteriousness and intrigue that is captivating–if also slightly unsettling–to the viewer in its direct appeal to their emotional psyche. Exhibition dates: Friday, 17th September – Saturday, 30th October 2021     Image caption: Andro Wekua, june berlin, 2021 (Detail) © Andro Wekua, Courtesy the artist, Sprüth Magers, and Gladstone Gallery Exhibition Andro Wekua – Sprüth Magers Berlin | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin

until 30.10. | #3172ARTatBerlin | aquabitArt Galerie shows from 17th September 2021 the duo exhibtion UNMASEKD #3, the third show from the series UNMASKED, with paintings and drawings by the artists Wilfried Habrich and Peter Lindenberg. The fact that the exhibition takes place in a very striking time for our society is reflected in the name. UNMASKED can be associated with many things – dropping the mask, showing one’s true face, revealing oneself, but also with crossing boundaries and discovering the feeling of liberation. Peter Lindenberg, Blicke 1, 40 x 33 cm, 2015 For the duration of the exhibition, artist presentations will take place ONLINE and the series “2 minutes for ART” will provide a brief insight into the work of each artist. Peter Lindenberg, Blicke 4, 50 x 40 cm, 2015 Peter Lindenberg, Gerade so, 120 x 100 cm, 2020 “Wilfried Habrich and Peter Lindenberg share wall and space in “UNMASKED #3“, without challenging each other or contesting the course. In a comparable and yet co pletely different way, they had already entered into a dialogue in the aquabitArt gallery in the fall of 2020. Once again, as befits people of their profession, they both lean far out of […]

until 30.10. | #3167ARTatBerlin | Buchmann Galerie presents from 10th September 2021 the solo exhibition “Directions” with new works by the artist Bettina Pousttchi for Gallery Weekend Berlin. Following her exhibition In Recent Years (2019/20) at Berlinische Galerie, which provided a comprehensive overview of the artist’s sculptural and photographic work, the installation Panorama at KINDL’s Kesselhaus (2019/20) and the large photographic installation Amplifier this summer on the main façade of Konzerthaus Berlin, the exhibition at the Buchmann Galerie focuses on new sculptures, wall reliefs and photographic works. In the new works, Bettina Pousttchi deals with the objects and sign systems of the continually changing urban space as an environment for living. Directions is the title of a new group of works by the artist that is the focus of the exhibition. It is a series of wall reliefs made out of cut and colour-coated steel, whose shape is derived from street signs in the form of arrows. These urban sign systems, which we often perceive only unconsciously, appear as if they have been cut out of their environment and placed in a new context of meaning. Mounted at a slight distance from the wall, the cut-out objects seem to float. […]

until 23.10. | #3170ARTatBerlin | Crone Side Berlin presents from 15 September 2021 (Opening: 14.09.) the first solo exhibition Swipe up by the artist  Ruscha Voormann in the Berlin project space of the Galerie Crone. The exhibition takes place as part of the new art event Gallery Weekend *Discoveries, which aims to introduce young, emerging artists to a wider public for the first time. Under the title Swipe Up, Voormann is showing a series of works of largeformat, abstract picture compositions made of acrylic paint, acrylic glass and plexiglas. Ruscha Voormann, Cast from Black and White, 2020 Acryl auf Leinwand, 200 x 150 cm RVO/M 20-001, Photo: Ruscha Voormann, Courtesy: Galerie Crone, Berlin Wien The title Swipe Up is derived from the gesture of applying paint, in which the artist deals with the reactive behaviour of acrylic paint between a plexiglas plate and the actual painting surface, the canvas. The plexiglas plate is usually used in the form of a round disc. Through targeted, rotating movements, it leaves traces of paint between itself and the canvas. This creates an interaction between control and loss of control. The plexiglass and acrylic glass plates give the paintings their original and genuine motifs […]

until 23.10. | #3159ARTatBerlin | Kuckei + Kuckei presents from 14th September 2021 the exhibition NACHTSTÜCKE by the artist Gerhard Winkler. The concept of Nachtstücke (nocturnes) has its culturo-historical counterpart in music, painting and literature. In literature, it tends to describe eerie and gloomy characters (as found in the works of E.T.A. Hoffmann and other representatives of “Black Romanticism”); in the domain of music, however, it primarily appears in the form of nocturnes (Nottornos) and, above all, in “melancholic piano pieces”, such as those of Frèderic Chopin and John Field. In the domain of painting, the notion of Nachtstücke, which enjoyed immense popularity between the 15th and 17th centuries (Rembrandt and Bosch) in the epoch of the Romantics, experienced a renaissance that was associated with a new orientation and ideas charged with content. From this time on, the artists (one naturally thinks of Caspar David Friedrich and his school) now created nocturnal landscapes, which often involved mysterious illuminations that could be interpreted as existential “soul landscapes”. In the early 20th century, Nachtstücke generally appeared in the form of postcards displaying motifs of the shining moon. At best, Magritte’s The Empire of Light might still come to mind here. And like […]

until 30.10. | #3149ARTatBerlin | Galerie Buchholz presents from 15th September 2021 a solo exhibition with works by the artist Peter Fischli. Planet People Profit Peter Fischli’s new project “Planet People Profit” develops a sort of Mnemosyne Atlas of an underrecognized visual culture, even if its focus is not on symbols and gestures towards images but on texts/titles and their adornments. Various ordering schemata and subcategories overlap within the publications it presents – for one thing, they all deal with making money and optimizing income, while many also fall under the category of self-help or how-to books. Some, however, come from serious publishers and can be described – if only with some caution – as academic. Most are available as physical books, though some are only available as e-books and so are simply presented as if physical copies existed. Some were photographed in the shelves of dedicated bookshops in London’s business airport – its so-called “City Airport” – while others were found online. Some are obscure, some are highly successful, some are summaries of longer and more successful books. What they all have in common is that they aim to help their readers earn money. The sense of guilt they […]

until 02.10. | #3155ARTatBerlin | Contemporary Fine Arts currently presents the solo exhibition “Margaritas at the Mall” by the artist Nick Goss. It is by pure coincidence that Nick Goss and I share so many memories from the shopping centre*, and that I should be invited to write about his new paintings sourced from those familiar spaces: a drunken brawl in The Palace Bowl; crowds loitering on just those escalators; a Bakerloo Line train rolling onto the platform at Elephant & Castle, its near-emptiness facilitating a surprise instance of homely camaraderie. It is not so important to the paintings to know which train, which mall, exactly. Still, the fate of this roundabout, these streets, is particularly well-poised to speak of our time and its people: of the city as a placeholder for loss and memories; of pictures both as death-masks and carrying structures. In this traffic junction we see (and hear) the end of brazen modernist idealism and the neoliberal tidal wave that has continuously flooded the UK over the last decades, leaving the streets undead, and in the place of that famous ‘stiff upper lip’ installed a new British affect par excellence: a light despondency, a solemn stillness under […]

until 13.11. | #3162ARTatBerlin | Galerie Z22 presents from 11th September 2021 the solo exhibition BEYOND THE IMAGINARY LINE with works by the photographer Stephanie Cornfield. Read more about this in the interview with the artist on DEEDS. “Go to the wild side of life and feel the sounds of being on the road. Transcribe this emotion into immortal images, create a moment of immortality. During the night walks in the camps of the Saddhus, an. Live the fires at the ghats to the limit, go beyond and develop cinematic and dreamlike images. A key image of a funeral in Varanesi can be controversial, as some people find photographing the dead disrespectful. For me, the image conveys a peaceful feeling as death is a part of our lives. In the Hindu religion, life is the introduction to death, which is perceived as the liberation of the soul. This is where life meets death. At this ghat, death is celebrated, a peaceful unusual ritual of happiness with moving chanting. Repentant melodies that lead the dead to the gate of heaven. When one dies in Varanesi, one receives moksha (salvation), samsara (rebirth) and eternal peace. The liberation from life and death. Varanasi, […]

until 13.11. | #3143ARTatBerlin | Bermel von Luxburg Gallery shows the solo exhibition and presentation of the book “Peters Tisch” by the artist Peter Herrmann as well as the two series “BREAKING THROUGH” and “INJECTIONS” by the artist Omar Hassan in collaboration with Luisa Catucci Gallery from 16th September 2021. Bermel von Luxburg Gallery is honored to present the second solo show of the German artist PETER HERRMANN. For this unique occasion, BvL worked hard and is delighted to present the new release of the book PETERS TISCH by Aleksandra von Luxburg. Bermel von Luxburg Gallery would like also to thank STIFTUNG KUNSTFONDS for the generous support as the exhibition happens in the frame of the program NEUSTART KULTUR. Bermel von Luxburg Gallery kicks off the arty autumn season with the Berlin Art Week 2021. Bermel von Luxburg Gallery will participate at the Berlin art fair Positions Berlin with the solo show of Peter HERRMANN and present the new book at the iconic Tempelhofer Flughafen. Moreover, The Berlin based galleries, Bermel von Luxburg Gallery & Luisa Catucci Gallery have decided to unite their forces to present and celebrate the first solo exhibition in Berlin of the international renown Italian-Egyptian artist […]

until 02.10. | #3153ARTatBerlin | Semjon Contemporary shows from 4. September 2021 (Opening: 03.09.) the exhibition X : Y – Construction of the Modern: The Berlin Collection Dr. Carl Theodor Gottlob Grouwet (1919). “The current walls of the Staßen-Salon and Kleines Kabinett were built in 2010 for Construction of the Modern (KdM) in what was then KioskShop berlin (KSb). As a contemporary gesamtkunst-werk by me, it was open to the public from 2000 – 2011, and was very well attended, and an unique part of the Berlin Art World. Coming October, the walls will be dismantled in order to expose  KioskShop slumbering behind it and to bring it to life and to show it to the public again before it is presumably destroyed if an amicable rental agreement with Berggruen Holding is not reached. The tragedy is: KioskShop and Construction of the Modern have probably drawn the attention of the major investor and art lover Nicolas Berggruen to the building. Whatever the situation will be at the end of the year: I wish you a nice end of the summer and a good start into the Kunstherbst.” Semjon H.N. Semjon Vernissage: Friday, 3 September 2021, 7:00 – 9:30 p.m. Exhibition […]

until 09.10. | #3150ARTatBerlin | Galerie Inga Kondeyne – Raum für Zeichnung shows from 4th September 2021 a solo exhibition with new works by the New York artist Eve Aschheim.  Drawing is an inner need for the artist. During the quarantine period, Eve Aschheim felt compelled to react to the greatly changed life in New York in her drawings. Things almost came to a standstill, the silence was broken by ambulances, then police sirens and protests. Despite the isolation, it was an inventive time in which she experienced a new way of responding mentally to uncertainties. The pencil guides her hand across her preferred material, Mylar. Pencil lines tentatively occupy the page and suddenly the blue magically and translucently spreads across the surface from behind. Lighter than Air, 2021, Graphite, black  gesso, ink, acrylic on mylar, 46 x 30 cm  The interweaving of spaces and their sudden expansion into interstices already characterised Eve Aschheim’s drawings in her early work. With elementary, precisely placed graphic elements, she built up complex structures in the pictorial space and destabilised them at the same time – sometimes explosively. Beneath the layered, permeable surface is a suspended state with radical linear anchors. Traces in subtle […]

until 06.11. | #3140ARTatBerlin | Galerie Kremers shows from 7th September 2021 the group exhibition “Hokuspokus – Artists as shamans”. Presented Artists: Joseph Beuys, Adébayo Bolaji, Uwe Bremer, Jude Griebel, Peter Hammer, Gregor Hiltner, Karl Kunz, Juan Logan, Natascha Mann, Alan Neider, Christian Rösner, Adolfo Schlosser, Paul Schwietzke, Taylor A. White, Reiner Zitta This exhibition continues the VOODOO exhibtion which took place at the gallery two years ago. It follows the trail of the shaman in the artist. Whether they have created magical objects, whether they practice rituals and ceremonies, whether they regard themselves as mediators between the worlds, and whether they – more or less voluntarily – claim to have a special social role in society, whether they focus on the relation between man and nature in general, between Man and animals in particular or, last but not least, between man and his kind: the artists in this show are all universalists, including the curator gregor hiltner, who has focused on the phenomenon of belief and superstition since the beginning of his artistic career. Adébayo Bolaji, Woli Prophet, 2020, Constructed with found materials, steel, gold leaf, wood, tire, wire and tambourine cymbals, 105 x 150 x 53cm The reference […]

until 30.09. | #3132ARTatBerlin | Sexauer Gallery currently presents the solo exhibition “Matter & Mind” by artist Isabelle Graeff. In her solo exhibition, Isabelle Graeff reflects on the relationship between spirit and matter with ceramics, large-format photographs, a neon sign and a video installation. People have always sought answers to these questions in myth, religion and science. In her works, Graeff combines science with spirituality and contrasts a world view that is solely focused on the material and the principle of duality. Courtesy by Sexauer Gallery, Isabelle Graeff, Foto: Marcus Schneider In her second solo exhibition at SEXAUER, Isabelle Graeff uses photographs, ceramics and a video installation to explore the question of matter and spirit, body and soul, atom and emotion. People have always sought answers to these questions. In myth, in religion, in science – a search with intellect, mental techniques and spirituality. The artist is particularly interested in the tension between matter and consciousness. In the video work Quantum, three naked pregnant women recite a lecture given by Max Planck in 1944 on the primordial cause of matter. Planck postulates that there is no matter as such, only a vibration of particles behind which stands an intelligent mind. […]

until 25.09. | #3129ARTatBerlin | galerie weisser elefant presents since 21st August 2021 the exhibition RAUM ERMESSEN by the artist Pascal Brateau.  Pascal Brateau attempts the almost impossible: to fold space; something invisible. He is not concerned with objects that are in space, but those with which space itself becomes tangible, touchable. He says: “You can only understand space if you measure yourself against it; where “se mesurer” in French means to measure, but at the same time to confront, to encounter, in the sense of confronting, defying…A beautiful thought: to defy space, to wrest from it as an artist what you have to say. That means nothing less than asserting oneself in a space that is always socially determined, as a free space, a space of one’s own, a play space, both public and private. Courtesy by galerie weisser elefant, Pascal Brateau Space, we could say with the great Sun Ra, who famously overcame even large spaces because he came from Saturn, is THE big thing in the first place: Space is the Place. Pascal takes a much more pragmatic approach and therefore also uses the obvious elements: Light and dark, inside and outside, fullness (form) and emptiness. – […]

until 30.10. | #3134ARTatBerlin | 68 projects presents from 15th September 2021 the solo exhibition Metaphor with works by the Chinese artist You Jin. In his works, the artist creates his own universe to reflect on the complexity of the human being as well as on social dilemmas. Passionate about the digital world himself, You Jin works in a country that has experienced a tremendous economic and technological boom and has since wanted to break with the past. Today, You Jin belongs to a new generation of Chinese artists who are changing the contemporary scene. In his works, You Jin pursues a method of observation that fuses philosophical theories of both Eastern and Western thought. In this way, he aims to bring together the perspective relationship between Chinese and Western painting as a means of dialogue and understanding universal energies. His dynamic paintings thus reflect on our contemporary lives, influenced by ever-changing circumstances, ideals and situations that often require a systematic update of self-reflection and expression. He applies elements from traditional Chinese culture and iconography, from the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove to Taoism and the symbolic meaning of bamboo and water. Like traditional Chinese landscape painters, You Jin […]

until 09.01. | #3125ARTatBerlin | Haus am Waldsee presents from 17th September 2021 the multi-disciplinary exhibition “Drawing as Continuum” by the artist Tony Cragg, curated by himself and Katja Blomberg. The show focuses on works since the 1970s. Eleven series in eleven rooms will be on display, with early photographs, hand drawings and watercolours as well as lithographs that allow a deeper insight into Tony Cragg’s artistic and scientific thinking. The increased turn to drawing on paper took place in the 1990s. Now Cragg uses the drawing pencil both for technical communication as a sketch or as a way of contemplating the form and content of complex artistic questions, most of which are motivated by the natural sciences. In the 2000s, he also created autonomous drawings, as well as coloured watercolours and lithographs. Tony Cragg, Untitled, 2014, Bleistift auf Papier, 56 x 43,7 cm, Courtesy der Künstler, Foto: Michael Richter, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2021 In his drawings, too, Cragg dives deep into the fields that emerge from the examination of material and form, micro- and macrostructures. He often works through themes on paper in series, as if they were series of experiments in the laboratory. In the 1990s, for […]

until 30.10. | #3128ARTatBerlin | Galerie Pugliese Levi presents since 14th August 2021 the first solo exhibition “Shapes and Shadows” with recent paper works by artist and scenographer Claudia Doderer. ““Though the base material is still the model board of earlier days, slightly colored, layered in so many different shades of white, what is of interest to Claudia Doderer today is the little, the pure, the contours, the shadow, the cautiously unwieldy, the quiet resistances.” (Gertrud Leutenegger, 2020) „Claudia Doderer’s works emerge from her deep understanding of music. Angles and proportions are then as important as keys and tones. Folds and cuts produce spatial effects, indeed they create spaces for extended perception. Immersion into the material fully exploits its potentials instead of reaching incessantly for something new. In this way her art produces new subtleties which challenge and surprise us. And which, when we have taken our time and looked closely, will delight us.” (Dr. Bernd Feuchtner, 2020) Claudia Doderer was born in Wiesbaden and lives in Berlin. She graduated from the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Berlin where she studied with Achim Freyer in the master class for stage design and experimental composition with Dieter Schnebel. Since 1986, she has […]

until 11.09. | #3121ARTatBerlin | Kristin Hjellegjerde Berlin presents from 9. August 2021 the solo show Funny Games with works by the artist Yassine Balbzioui. Amidst a verdant tropical landscape, a man sits astride an inflatable pink flamingo as if he were floating on a swimming pool and yet, there’s no water in sight. Mystery, deception and play are at the centre of Morocco-based artist Yassine Balbzioui’s surreal painted scenes. For his latest exhibition, Funny Games at Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery Berlin, he presents a powerful new body of work that explores a curious liminal space between humour and danger, reality and dream. The exhibition borrows its title from Austrian screenwriter and filmmaker Michael Haneke’s 1997 psychological thriller, which similarly to Balbzioui’s paintings, blurs the boundaries between fact and fiction. In the film, two young men hold a family hostage and torture them with sadistic games in their holiday home, frequently breaking down the fourth wall by addressing the camera so that audience becomes witness. Although Balbzioui does not depict horror or violence, he is interested in how the torturers’ restlessness is linked to a certain nostalgia in the sense that their “games” mimic childlike behaviour. In the making of art, […]

until 13.11. | #3118ARTatBerlin | RASCHE RIPKEN presents from 3th September 2021 the solo exhibition Mustersiedlung with new objects by the Berlin artist Hein Spellmann. Hein Spellmann begins with detailed photographs of urban architecture and turns them into façade objects, organized on the wall as individual pieces or in small groups. His original interest was in typical Eastern European »Plattenbau«, made by prefabricated elements, but in the meantime he has expanded his architectural repertoire to include other forms, such as the façades of stairwells, hotels, industrial buildings, or storefronts, which determine the appearance of (sub-)urban spaces everywhere. His work is based on photographic urban explorations in various European countries, whereby he has recently taken up a number of Berlin architectures, including well-known buildings of post-war modernism. Haus IV, 2020, wood, foam, CLC-print, silicon, 38 x 77 x 9 cm The realization of the objects, however, always follows the same manual procedure and is based on the combination of different materials. Hein Spellmann backs the color prints on foam, braces them with a wooden frame, and finally seals them with a transparent layer of silicon, which gives his objects a sculptural, three-dimensonal shape. Kleines Bikini, 2020, wood, foam, CLC-print, silicon, 48 […]

until 06.11. | #3115ARTatBerlin | janinebeangallery presents from 20th August 2021 the solo exhibition Corporeal and Incorporeal Structures with assemblages of the Mexican artist Rogelio Manzo. For Rogelio Manzo, the practice of portraiture is more than a way to capture a likeness. His darkly compelling images of the human figure reflect a blend of cultural influences -as well as an underlying concern with the fragility of life-. In his work Manzo seeks to reveal the character of his subjects as they are “forced” to be themselves. He goes beneath the body’s protective layer of skin, which registers all personal events that scar the human being, to reveal their fragility and inevitable mortality. Rogelio Manzo, Daniela X, 2019, 16 x 16 cm, Oil and mixed on resin panel “Through these works I am exploring the different stages of our lives as human beings,” Manzo explains. “For me the skin is not only our protective varnish against harmful exterior forces or the medium with which to be touched and caressed, it is also where we register all of our personal events that somehow had touched us enough to scar us.” Manzo studied architecture while simultaneously making an informal study of painting. But […]

until 12.09. | #3112ARTatBerlin | Galerie Sievi currently presents the group show Vitality & Silence. Vitality & Silence” shows works by the artists Darko Lesjak, Olivier Messas and Berit-Kristina Weiss. Olivier Messas For Olivier Messas, painting in particular represents a perfect balance between spirituality and realism. It is a means to express his emotions, his cultural heritage but also his need to escape in colors, shapes and motifs. He finds inspiration in his many travels and encounters with different cultures. Over the years, Olivier Messas refined his style, which is now characterized by vibrant colors and clean lines. Darko Lesjak Darko Lesjak’s painting is inspired by the power and aesthetics of nature, which are reflected in his dynamic and colorful pictorial compositions. In his new series “Eisbach”, however, he surprises with reduced color tones and powerful figurative elements that leave a pensive, almost mystical impression.     Berit-Kristina Weiss Berit-Kristina Weiss’s work is concerned with landscape painting in the broader sense and aesthetic positions that commonly underlie art. She is particularly interested in the realm beyond the zenith of beauty and perfection. Kristina was born in Berlin and completed her artistic and humanities studies there. She lives and works in […]

until 14.08. | #3109ARTatBerlin | GALERIE SCHMALFUSS BERLIN currently presents the group exhibition „RUW!“ with works by Katharina Arndt, Hanna Becher, Thomas Hillig, Jakob Kirchheim, Petra Lottje, Paula Muhr, Kathrin Rank, Susanne Roewer, Eva Schwab, Poul R. Weile & Marian Wijnvoord. For those who don’t know RUW!: This name stands for a group of Berlin artists who have been working on various self-imposed themes in a DIY process since 2013. The composition of the group is always fluid, some have been there since the beginning, others joined later. Thomas Hillig, ICC_Parkhaus_20170326-155 | Inkjet print on photo paper / Aludibond, 40 x 60 cm, 2017 The RUW! magazine comprises selected original works and is published in an edition of 50 copies. At the annual pop-up exhibitions, one small work per participant is shown to accompany the magazine. Susanne Roewer, Gulliver, 2017, bronze / palladium coated (with steel frame), 170 x 30 x 40 cm In the spacious rooms Galerie Schmalfuss Berlin turns this concept around and breaks the usual framework. The title RUW! remains, but the artists get the opportunity to show now also together their large formats and plastic works, accompaniment becomes the magazine. Hannah Becher, Station, 2021, Acrylic / […]

until 02.09. | #3106ARTatBerlin | Luisa Catucci Gallery shows from 9. August 2021 the exhibition GEHEIMKABINETT curated by Isorropia Homegallery with works by five artists. On show are works by Silvia Argiolas, Piero Figura, Andrea Gallo, Nico Mingozzi and Silvia Paci. The title of the exhibition is a tribute to the “Gabinetto Segreto” (Secret Cabinet), a section of the National Archaeological Museum of Naples in which exhibits exclusively erotic and sexual samples of Greek and Roman art. Over the course of time, the Cabinet has been subjected to censorship, prohibiting the public display of the works it contains and even threatening their destruction. The sexual act, represented by the ancient art in an explicit and natural way, was seen by later audiences as a symbol of depravity, obscenity and sin. Piero Figura This fact vividly exemplifies the difficult relationship between the public and erotic art, which has always been controversial and a subject of scandal. The works of the five artists are a part of this tradition and, with different languages and ways they investigate multiple facets of sexuality, inviting us to a reflective and generative confrontation, starting from the idea that inclusive culture is essential for the collective well-being. […]

until 04.09. | #3103ARTatBerlin | Galerie Thomas Schulte currently shows the solo exhibition Listen to me, little pig! by the artist Maria Loboda. Maria Loboda’s exhibition Listen to me, little pig! at Galerie Thomas Schulte is dedicated to the failures, double interpretations and misinterpretations in the communication between humans and nature. With characteristic wit and irony, the artist transforms the space: a series of prints of pastoral landscape paintings bear hand-embossed titles of unexpected ambient soundtracks. The prints form the panoramic backdrop for Loboda’s fragmented garden landscape. Between fruit trees growing out of brutalist sculptures and candle-shaped overgrown metal trellises, the artist plants manipulated quotations from literature, music and art history, among which visitors mingle to be seduced. In the gallery’s Cornerspace, artist Lawrence Weiner’s exhibition Dried Earth & Scattered Ashes Or Dried Earth & Buried Gold Or will be presented at the same time. The gallery is delighted that Lawrence Weiner has accepted the invitation to show a work in the gallery’s Corner Space this summer. Weiner defines his work as sculpture. Sculpture consists of language and the material to which it refers. Here, language is the primary form in which the work exists. When the installation of the […]

until 28.08. | #3100ARTatBerlin | Galerie Inga Kondeyne – Raum für Zeichnung (> Room for Drawing) presents from 24. July 2021 a solo exhibition with works by the artist Sam Szembek.  This year, we can again perceive the tension between 4 or 5 concentrated black lines on the white of Sam Szembek’s papers in an exhibition at the gallery. Over decades, the material for his work has remained unchanged: Paper, charcoal and eraser. The white of the papers in the studio constantly challenges him again and again as a counterpart. Concentrated, the accumulated experience transfers the lines through his hand until he is convinced that these jet-black lines must stand in relation to each other on the white sheet in this way and no other. Between the infinite possibilities offered by the vertical, horizontal and diagonal line progressions, recurring patterns of drawing crystallise, which, as it were, stand in the field of their own tradition. Sam Szembek’s preferred format of 78 x 98 cm allows him to work in an expansive manner. The drawings illustrate anew how the artist tries to mark out areas with signs through lines in the infinity of white. Sam Szembek, o.T., 2020, Charcoal on paper, 78 […]

until 11.09. | #3097ARTatBerlin | ARTES Berlin presents from 17th July 2021 the group exhibition ZERO+ with unique pieces, editions and collectors’ items by the fathers of the ZERO movement juxtaposed with selected works by contemporary conceptual artists.  Zero is the silence. Zero is the beginning. Zero is round. Zero is turning. Zero is the moon – the show brings together more than 30 works, including unique pieces, editions and collectors’ items by the fathers of the ZERO movement Heinz Mack, Otto Piene and Günther Uecker and their circle, including Adolf Luther, Hermann Goepfert, Herbert Zangs, Lucio Fontana and Bernard Aubertin. The exhibition ZERO+ expands the positions with works by contemporary artists, including Wolfgang Flad, Fabian Gatermann and Thomas Röthel, who work in a comparable conceptual and stylistic way and bring the idea into the present with new techniques and media. Adolf Luther, Hänge-Linse, 1980 Fabian Gatermann, Mobile, 2021 The objects shown have in common a clear and reduced visual language. An aesthetic and creative diversity that ranges from lens objects, coloured ceramic fields, nail trees and prints, lithography and serigraphy, mobile, mixed media and installation to assemblage and collage. Taken as a whole, the monochrome and sometimes polychrome objects […]

until 09.09. | #3094ARTatBerlin | Galerie Kornfeld presents from 7th August 2021 in cooperation with the Frankfurt based gallery Anita Beckers, the exhibition Reverberations by the Spanish-American artist Daniel Canogar. Data drives the world we live in today, from our homes to our offices and slowly creeping its way into every aspect of our sense of self and life, so it is no surprise that the works of Canogar raise a very pertinent question of our times: is this data-driven society for the better or worse? Combining a variety of recent projects, this exhibition explores the many sides of this virtual coin. As one enters into the colour field movements of Canogar’s sculptures and screens, one loses sight of the world one finds oneself in. Is it the world I can touch and feel, or the other, the one which exists in this complex virtual space that has profoundly infiltrated our society? In fact, it is this tactile relationship between the “real” and “virtual” which Canogar is most interested in. Canogar’s work thus captures how we interact with technology, and vice versa, how technology modifies our sense of the world around us and the social fabric of communication and connection. […]

until 06.08. | #3091ARTatBerlin | Kristin Hjellegjerde Berlin shows from 10th July 2021 the solo show Your Gaze Makes Me with works by the artist Wendimagegn Belete. A series of proud figures appear vibrantly dressed in elaborate, traditional costumes, while their faces are veiled by black. For this latest body of work, Eithopian artist Wendimagegn Belete has appropriated black and white ethnographic imagery, which he enlarged, digitally manipulated and then printed, before hand-colouring details to create vibrant, textured portraits that examine not only the tactility of images, but also their relationship to time and history. Your Gaze Makes Me, his solo show at Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery Berlin, offers a compelling exploration of how learnt habits of perception can limit our understanding of both the image and history, and how art can liberate new ways of seeing. Belete’s practice is preoccupied with cultural heritage and identity in relation to historical narratives and the concept of epigenetic inheritance, of memories that transfer over generations and permeate our present. Over time, he has collected a vast array of source materials – photographs, letters, recorded conversations, maps and textiles – which he weaves together to create richly layered visual narratives that move back and […]

until 24.07.| #3088ARTatBerlin | Laura Mars Gallery currently presents the installation BAR by the artist and professor Ina Weber. The Third Place (a term coined by American sociologist Ray Oldenburg) refers to places that, unlike home and the workplace, are public, accessible places of encounter, such as parks, libraries, and cafés. Here, the private person becomes a public one, interacting with others. Ina Weber’s installation BAR shows such a place, where, in the curved time around closing time, after-hours visitors can pick up the echoes of conversations, ideas, and occurrences. The installation is accompanied by music from Joe Baiza and Michael Lembach, made and recorded especially for this occasion. Ina Weber (*1964) lives and works in Berlin. 1989 – 94 Studied at Kassel University with Harry Kramer and Martin Kippenberger, among others; since 2016 professor of sculpture at the UdK University of the Arts, Berlin. Photo: © Florian Raidt Exhibitions in preparation 2021: Caretakers Lounge, solo exhibition at the Deutsche Oper Berlin on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the Bornemann Building, from 18 September; Die Kant, group exhibition at the Museum Charlottenburg / Wilmers-dorf, curated by Annett Gröschner and Ina Weber, from 5 November; In Situ, urban symposium […]

until 22.08. | #3085ARTatBerlin | PSM Gallery shows from 6th July 2021 the exhibition Destined to Protect the Productive with works by the artist Sophie Erlund , as well as the Office of Erbulian Strategies: The 37th Session with Shannon Bool and Sophie Erlund. Within her artistic practice Danish artist Sophie Erlund has been dealing with a continuously enhancing cluster of topics and questions raised by philosophers such as Hannah Arendt, Timothy Morton and Shoshana Zuboff. Erlund’s sculptures, installations, film and sound works are thus informed by her thoughts about the so-called symbiotic real, and a more-than-human perspective in the time of the second modernity individual, and its implications on the psychology of the digital age. Beside new sculptures and assemblages for her fifth exhibition at PSM Sophie Erlund will install the Office of Erbulian Strategies: The 37th Session, a collaborative project with the artist Shannon Bool, staging an installation of furniture objects in a post-Freudian setting. Vernissage: Sunday, 4th July 2021, 12:00 – 6:00 pm Exhibition period: Tuesday, 6th July – Sunday, 22nd August 2021     Image caption: Sophie Erlund, Gentle interdependence 2, 2021, wood, glass, ceramic, concrete, clay, metal, electro-boards, moss, mushrooms, foam, 115 x 115 x […]

until 09.10. | #3082ARTatBerlin | Salongalerie Die Möwe presents from 3rd July 2021 in the exhibition KLASSISCH MODERN both historical and contemporary works by women artists. The new exhibition “CLASSIC MODERN” follows on from the presentation “The Female Statement”, in which Salongalerie Die Möwe gave an insight into the creative potential of women artists of Classical Modernism in 2019/2020. KLASSISCH MODERN now spans a temporal arc from the Weimar Republic through the post-war period to the immediate present. With this exhibition, “The Seagull” once again directs the focus to women in art, who have often been disadvantaged in art historiography and still have to fight for their recognition on the art market today. The exhibition brings together contemporary art by Ines Doleschal, Ute Hausfeld, Christine Jackob-Marks, Holle Vollbrecht and Caroline Wagner with works by representatives of classical modernism such as Else Hertzer, Katja Meirowsky and Erna Schmidt-Caroll. Paintings, watercolours, drawings, prints and sculptures by these artists illustrate an admirable density and continuity of female creativity in the diversity of subjects and styles. Ines Doleschal | bauhaus, weiblich (für Anni Albers #1 u. #2) | 2019 | Acrylic on paper (collage) | 32 x 24 cm each For Ines Doleschal (*1972), […]

until 22.08. | #3079ARTatBerlin | Esther Schipper presents from 3rd July 2021 the solo exhibition Inexistence by the artist Etienne Chambaud. It is the first exhibition of the artist with the gallery. The works included in the exhibition are a scent and a sound installation, a sculptural work generating a pattern of temperatures, three light installations, glass works, bronze sculptures and modified panel paintings. The first work encountered by the visitor is Multiplex, a scent installation invoking familiar spaces but also acting as a subtle disruption. It uses the chemical compounds present both in animal markings and in human environments to create a molecular link between tiger habitat and movie theatre. The work draws on the notion of involuntary memory: the often unconscious association of a place or an experience with a scent. The only light source in the exhibition space is provided by the three works from Chambaud’s series Models for Afar. Between a video screen, a lightbox and a lamp suspended from the ceiling, each work from the series emanates softly modulated light formations as it is programmed to simulate the atmospheric and meteorological light conditions of the sky at a specific time and place. Bathed in a […]

until 20.08. | #3076ARTatBerlin | Crone Berlin presents from 26th June 2021 the solo exhibition The Ecstatic Static by the Austrian artist Robert Muntean. On display are 22 mostly large-format paintings in which the artist undertakes a condensation of his previous works where the body is understood as as an outer shell or cipher of emotion. Muntean was born in 1982 in Leoben, Austria, and has lived in Berlin since 2008. Since his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and Leipzig, he has developed an idiosyncratic painterly style that oscillates between abstraction and figuration. At first glance, both his canvas and paper works give the impression of purely abstract, gestural painting. Only on closer inspection, however, does one discover figurative elements underneath, which are mostly bodies and people, and are often taken from photographs of pop stars or cult figures. In Muntean’s new exhibition The Ecstatic Static, the figures themselves now come to the fore for the first time. They become the defining, immediately recognizable element of the paintings. The abstract, gestural painting style is still visible, but now serves to outline the figures of the bodies and bring them to the fore. Their posture—their being bent, […]

until 23.07. | #3073ARTatBerlin | Luisa Catucci Gallery presents from 23rd June 2021 the exhibition WIDE ANGLE with works by the sculptor Nadia Galbati and the photographer Enrico Pietracci. Elaborations of urban photographs and sculptural extrapolations of architectural spaces are the protagonists of the exhibition WIDE ANGLES by Italian artists Nadia Galbiati and Enrico Pietracci, hosted in the show rooms of Luisa Catucci Gallery, in Berlin Schillerkiez-Neukölln. Nadia Galbiati, sculptress from Milan, bases her research on the study of angles in contemporary architecture, and their fundamental role to define a physical space, placing the as foundation of the relationship between empty space and material.  Her sculptures are the synthetic result of the analytic observation of these angles, in relation to the volumes and lines in urban spaces and architectures – with a predilection for the rational architecture of the 1930s. By reinterpreting the urban landscape and the macro-structures of buildings into sculptures and engraved metal plates of relatively small dimensions, Galbiati creates a new type of space – slightly reminding of El Lissitzky and the Bauhaus and constructivist movements – where the viewer becomes suddenly aware of the Taoist balance between full and empty, solid and aery. Nadia Galbiati “ […]

until 20.06. | #3070ARTatBerlin | Galerie Guido W. Baudach currently shows the exhibition Response to Transient and Steady State Flickering Stimuli with works by the artist Thomas Zipp. This is the ninth solo exhibition of works by the Berlin-based artist with Galerie Guido W. Baudach. The show is conceived as a space-specific overall experience that brings together works of different media such as painting, sculpture and performance in an in-situ installation. Titled Response to Transient and Steady State Flickering Stimuli, Zipp subjects different theories and methods of scientific research into the human perceptual apparatus in relation to mental processes to an artistic experimental test. The gallery becomes a laboratory. Zipp transforms the exhibition space into an organically shaped course through a walk-in room-within-a-room installation, in which the existing walls are overlaid by a continuous, black lacquered boarding. The installative intervention largely dissolves the original spatial structure. The white cube is replaced by an amorphous dark blob. The unfamiliar architecture puts the ability to orient oneself, which is shaped by western design traditions, to the test. The conditioning of self-location in enclosed spaces, fixated on corners and edges, no longer applies. The resulting uncertainty demands a reaction, an adjustment. The audience […]

until 30.06. | #3067ARTatBerlin | KLEINERVONWIESE currently presents the solo exhibition IST HIER EIN NASHORN IM RAUM? (> IS A RHINON IN THE ROOM?) with works by the artist FRANEK. This is the fourth exhibition at the gallery’s new refuge in the so-called “Triangle” at Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin-Mitte. Since the dawn of the Corona Age, which has taken everyone by surprise with its various private and social trials of all kinds, the gallery’s continued activity at Friedrichstrasse 204 has only been possible thanks to the generous offer of this shelter. FRANEK is a painter, draughtswoman and graphic artist. Sculptures, photos, films and recordings complement her work. “She is one of the most imaginative and idiosyncratic visual artists of the present day.” L. Zerull The solo exhibition on the occasion of the Berlin Gallery Weekend 2021 shows, among other things, works from the artist’s Corona Diary. Here and in general, FRANEK nonchalantly puts the old controversy of visibility and perception to the test: when you look at pictures, you see things that are visible and yet exist nowhere else. Every picture carries the paradox of a visible absence. Every picture is a disturbance, an undermining of normality. … Animals, elf creatures, […]

until 10.07. | #3064ARTatBerlin | Galerie Inga Kondeyne – Raum für Zeichnung shows from 5th June 2021 a duo exhibition with works by the artists Christiane Schlosser and Peter Riek.   CHRISTIANE SCHLOSSER A colourful sound dominates the gallery space in Christiane Schlosser’s exhibition. A ‘sea of colour’ in blue-violet covers the longest wall. She has drawn 90 individual sheets (34 x 24 cm, 2020) line by line in meditative serenity. In each line, she makes a decision to pause before concentrating again on the brush. At times, Christiane Schlosser wants to use colour, but always remains located in her idiosyncratic drawing work. This is clearly revealed when looking closely at other drawings in the exhibition. Works in which it is often only apparent from close up that she has touched the paper with her pencil over a large area in a regular, concentrated manner. In the close observation of her abbreviations, which are often variations on basic geometric shapes, tension dissolves into calm. Her drawn planes continue, absorbing time. Christiane Schlosser Christiane Schlosser, 1960 born in Viernheim, grew up in Mannheim; 1980-82 studied at the HfbK Hamburg; 1983-86 studied at the HdK Berlin; 1989 scholarship from the state of Rhineland-Palatinate […]

until 28.08. | #3061ARTatBerlin | Galerie Brockstedt presents 10th June 2021 in the exhibition “Szenario” paintings and drawings by the artist Rocco Hettwer. “Our Life – Dramatic Snapshots of a Film” Anyone who has seen the pictorial creations of the painter Rocco Hettwer, born in 1964 in Wurzen, Saxony, who is now being shown again at the Galerie Brockstedt, knows that he is concerned with the exciting staging of figure in the room. Again and again he lets his figures act on a stage space dramatised with light and shadow, thus increasing their expressive power. Rocco Hettwer, Der Zopf, 2021, 52 x 42 cm, Oil on canvas In this way, he stands in the tradition of a realism that was shaped not least by his years at the Weißensee Art Academy, but which is not – as was once the case in the Renaissance – concerned with a race against reality, but with a personally shaped present-day psychogram of the individual, his sensitivities, his hardships. And we, the viewers, in our encounter with his works, in turn unfold individual thoughts through our respective different stories and imprints. Rocco Hettwer, Lilli im blauen Kleid, 2020, 120 x 80 cm, Oil on […]

until 12.08. | #3058ARTatBerlin | drj art projects presents from 19th May 2021 the group show UPSPACE with works in editions and series by 20 international artists. The exhibition UPSPACE sends a strong signal of the vitality and power of conceptual + minimal art in persistently difficult times. Works by 20 international artists show a broad spectrum of new and established approaches in the programme of edition ROTE INSEL. Accordingly, the artworks assembled in this presentation are all either editions or series of uniques of a specific artistic concept. They range from prints and paintings, to a multitude of works on and with paper, to three-dimensional light objects or sculptural works in ceramics or wire. Ausstellungsansicht UPSPACE drj art projects, Foto: via drj art projects Both as an exhibition composition as well as individual works, they emphatically underline the power of the small format, in which artistic ideas develop a very large presence in condensed form. At the same time, the selected works – corresponding to the approach of an edition exhibition – are attractively priced. All these aspects have been chosen very consciously by drj art projects and formulate important intentions of the exhibition: it invites both the return of the […]

until 26.06. | #3054ARTatBerlin | Galerie mutare shows from 19th May 2021 paintings by the artist Ruthi Helbitz Cohen in the exhibition series Platons Höhle | Plato‘s Cave | La Caverne de Platon | La Caverna de Platón, a gallery project with several artists of the gallery. As part of the exhibition, there will be a portrait event with Ruthi Helbitz Cohen on 29 May 2021 from noon to 5pm, in which the artist will paint female portraits – due to the current situation in Israel via video link to the gallery. If you are interested, please ask for the exposé of the mutare gallery on this event. Half of the sales proceeds from this portrait campaign will be donated by the gallery and artist to the “Lebenskultur-Verein für Teilhabe e.V.”, which enables older people with lower incomes to visit cultural events. Ruthi Helbitz Cohen, Example portrait Ruthi Helbitz Cohen was born in Israel in 1969. From 1989 until 1991 she studied art and psychology at the University of Haifa. From 1992 until 1998 she completed her artistic training at the Hamidrasha School of Art of the Beit Berl College in Kfar Saba and at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design […]

until 19.06. | #3051ARTatBerlin | Kuckei + Kuckei currently presents the solo show Ausstellung ARTIFACTS FROM THE AGE OF ACCELERATION with works by the artist Lilly Lulay. The smartphone has radically changed our daily life in the last years. Always close at hand to connect us to the world, it has redefined our culture of communication and our sense of the here and now. Lilly Lulay’s new works investigate what takes place behind the scenes of our touchscreens, looking far back, both geographically and temporally. Today, sending a photo around the world takes just seconds and a few clicks. At Your Fingertips, Uncovering Histories of Information Transmission is a growing archive, in which Lulay‘s assembles images of people, cultural techniques, and raw materials that are, or were, involved in the transmission of images via the smartphone. In her archive, data centers meet abaci, hieroglyphs meet emojis, and blueprints for the photographic recording of biometric data from 1840 meet today’s AI-controlled facial recognition software. This flood of images is presented on slim aluminum tubes that look like futurist versions of the relay batons and scrolls that were used in ancient cultures to convey information from A to B. Via metallic structures, […]

until 10.07. | #3046ARTatBerlin | Galerie Judin presents from 1st May 2021 the solo exhibition We Had Everything Before Us with new works by the artist Adrian Ghenie. With this exhibition of new paintings, Adrian Ghenie and Juerg Judin look back on 15 years of collaboration. It began in 2006 with the now legendary group exhibition The Cluj Connection, followed by a solo exhibition within a year—Ghenie’s first appearance on the international scene. Since then, he has become one of the most successful painters of his generation—the first generation to grow up in the new age of the internet. Ghenie’s response to this unprecedented flood of information, images and the technical “anything goes” was (and remains), his focus on the traditional, almost reactionary medium of painting. What distinguishes him from other figurative painters of his peer group is his profound understanding of art history, that never exhausted itself in citation, and an increasingly virtuoso play with different stages of recognizability. Much has been written about Ghenie’s examination of the famous and the notorious of history who either led the way to the great evolutions of the 20th century (Charles Darwin, Vincent Van Gogh)—or were responsible for its great catastrophes (Hitler, […]

until 20.06. | #3043ARTatBerlin | Crone Berlin presents from 28th April 2021 on the occasion of the Gallery Weekend, the exhibition Currencies of De*Capital Delirium by the artist Ashley Hans Scheirl, who, together with his/her partner Jakob Lena Knebl, will occupy the Austrian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2022. Paintings, sculptures, and drawings merge in the gallery spaces to form a room-filling installation. They lead the visitor into an exuberant, seemingly insane dream world. Consumption and the search for meaning, restriction and freedom, greed and renunciation, excess and isolation, rebellion and resignation, identity and transformation, gender and hierarchy, individual lifestyles and the global economy of rejection collide here and culminate in a digital-anarchist-neutralized big bang, or at least in a new world currency that gives the exhibition its title: Currencies of De*Capital Delirium. Exhibition view Ashley Hans Scheirl, Currencies of De*Capital Delirium, Crone Berlin, 2021, Courtesy Crone Berlin Exhibition view Ashley Hans Scheirl, Currencies of De*Capital Delirium, Crone Berlin, 2021, Courtesy Crone Berlin Left: Ashley Hans Scheirl, Synapse Trading, 2021, Acrylic on canvas, 125 x 175 cm (AHS/M 21-004) Right: Ashley Hans Scheirl, Fluffy Sucker, 2021, Acrylic on canvas, 125 x 175 cm (AHS/M 21-005) Angela, Angela Scheirl, Angela Hans, […]

until 05.06. | #3040ARTatBerlin | Galerie EIGEN + ART Berlin shows from 28 April 2021 the solo show “Vie imaginaire, chapitre II: Ensemble” with pantings by the artist Tim Eitel. “Art is the opposite of general ideas, it describes individuals, desires only the unique. It does not classify, it unclassifies.”  Marcel Schwob, Imaginary Lives, 1896 There are certain aspects in the work of Tim Eitel that return time and again: the solitude of the characters and their silence, the image framed as a disquieting illusion, or the co-existence of figuration and fields of abstraction that open up the pictorial space and grant it autonomy. The paintings often manifest a fading of the real world, comparable maybe to the films of Michelangelo Antonioni, and the emerging emptiness offers a form of introspection in which psychological tensions unwind and ease in the face of the void. And yet this second chapter in Eitel’s collection of imaginary lives—staged three years after the first at the same gallery—achieves a marked coming-together, more in the style of Éric Rohmer, and a new proximity between protagonists. In these recent paintings, a sense of touch comes to the fore, an attention for others. A beard is being trimmed, […]

until 29.05. | #3037ARTatBerlin | Galerie Eigenheim shows from 30th April 2021 on the occasion of the gallery weekend the solo show “the truth of fragile” by the artist Anna Bittersohl. Parallel to this, the exhibition “Die Konferenz der Tiere” (> The Conference of the Animals) by the artist Gökcen Dilek Acay will be presented in the salon. Anna Bittersohl – the truth of fragile Anna Bittersohl’s painting is permeated by an enigmatic poetry, her expressive gestural brushwork is characterized by overlaps and breakthroughs, fragmentary figurative elements lie close beside abstract hints of landscapes or floral elements. For the artist, this painting style is a metaphor for memories and their persistence. These are often present only fragmentarily in excerpts, are superimposed by new events. The protagonists are accordingly involved in an unclear plot or marked by phlegmatic absence. Anna Bittersohl, Title pending / Oil, acrylic, gouache on paper / ca. 292 x 327 cm / 2021, courtesy by EIGENHEIM Weimar/Berlin The exhibition title “the truce of fragile” is just such a poetic approach to a dialectical state between standstill and the ongoing transformation of given circumstances. Universal questions of our present come up: Why are we here? What are we […]

until 18.06. | #3034ARTatBerlin | Galerie ART CRU Berlin presents from 29th April 2021 a Solo Show with works by the artist Robert Fischer. In 2007 he was awarded the recognition prize at the international art competition Euward. The wealth of knowledge, of narrative and pictorial descriptive art makes his works seem literally charged. Each picture seems to contain truths that Fischer interprets, describes and conveys. In his works, several levels of shaping and reporting overlap. First, the artist puts a proliferating and interconnected system of signs and images on paper. When looking at it, one instinctively tries (in vain) to decipher the long rows of signs, which are reminiscent of (familiar) letters and numbers, and in part appear as if “mirror-inverted”. Fischer combines these sequences with minimalist drawings: Crosses, or combinations of short lines or circles that sometimes make you think of faces. Often these signs and shapes are organised into groups and joined together by framing lines. After the majority of the sheet has thus been coded and pictured with the first layer – this sometimes happens airily with many open spaces, sometimes close together, as if Fischer wanted to spread a veritable net of information over the […]

until 19.06. | #3031ARTatBerlin | Galerie Martin Mertens shows from 28th April 2021 the group show Art Figurativa with works by Robert Bosisio, Peter Demetz, Domenico Grenci and Bruno Walpoth. The exhibition with four artists (two painters and two sculptors) gives an insight into the extremely lively artistic production in the field of figurative art in South Tyrol and Upper Italy. The more than 400-year-old tradition of figurative carving in Val Gardena, which has made a great name for itself in the field of sacred and profane wood art, has produced a group of sculptors in the last 20 years who have brought figurative contemporary sculpture to new heights at the highest technical level and are successful worldwide. Here we present two of them Peter Demetz and Bruno Walpoth. In the field of painting, we are showing new works by Robert Bosisio, who has also been strongly concerned with the image of man in recent years and was voted Artist of the Year in South Tyrol in 2020. In addition, there is Domenico Grenci, a painter and draughtsman from Bologna, who also deals almost exclusively with the human figure and even more specifically with portraits. Robert Bosisio (*1963) works on […]

until 30.07. | #3028ARTatBerlin | Galerie Gilla Lörcher shows from 30th April 2021 on the occasion of the Gallery Weekend the solo exhibition If you lived here, you’d be disappointed with objects by Chilean artist Francisco Rozas.  Galerie Gilla Loercher is very pleased to present the forth solo exhibition by Chilean artist Francisco Rozas. The artist constructs big, fragile, geometric objects, that oscillate between flatness and three-dimensionality. His objects embody exemplary visualisations of mathematical dependencies. Only on second sight the observer may realize, that Rozas’ objects are made of light materials, such as card paper or paper. Installation view Francisco Rozas at Galerie Gilla Loercher. Foto: CHROMA Francisco Rozas, born 1980 in Temuco, Chile. Lives and works in Berlin. The artist studied at the ARCIS University Santiago de Chile, at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf with Prof. Rita McBride and at the Universität der Künste UdK Berlin with Prof. Gregor Schneider and Art in Context (Masters Degree). He received the DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austausch-Dienst) stipend and the CONICYT (National Commission for Scientific and Technological Research) award. Installation view Francisco Rozas at Galerie Gilla Loercher. Foto: CHROMA His work has been shown at many insitutions and galleries: Kunsthalle Bremerhaven; Al Riwaq Art Space […]

until 26.06. | #3026ARTatBerlin | Galerie kajetan Berlin presents from 30 April 2021 on the occasion of the Gallery Weekend the duo exhibition “abhanden” (> mislaid, give away, shed, stolen, lost) by the artists Marta Guisande and Bea Otto. The title of the exhibition exemplifies what we have lost in a very acute and fundamental way in a year of pandemic threat: certainties that we have previously taken for granted as ordinary or entirely self-evident. This theme, which runs through our entire gallery programme so far, at times to a greater or lesser extent, is also apparent in the very different works by Marta Guisande and Bea Otto. Marta Guisande | Bea Otto | abhanden | Exhibition view 2021 | Courtesy the artists & kajetan Berlin | Photo: Marcus Schneider Born in Seville and living in Cologne, Marta Guisande is a painter who applies the colour material she uses – such as egg tempera, casein or acrylic – swiftly and spontaneously onto the unprimed canvas. Marta Guisande | Untitled | 2020 | Mixed media on cotton | 60 x 40 cm Courtesy Marta Guisande & kajetan Berlin | Photo: Marcus Schneider However, Marta Guisande’s working process also includes moments of observation, reflection […]

until 29.05.| #3023ARTatBerlin | Laura Mars Gallery shows from 17th April 2021 a duo show with the presentations “Museum Müm” by the artist Matias Bechtold and “European Park” by the artist Louise Bristow. The joint exhibition by Louise Bristow and Matias Bechtold offers a synopsis of the respective miniature worlds that both artists have been working on for a long time. Louise Bristow composes landscape-format oil paintings on the basis of self-made models and various pictorial models. In trompe-l’œil-like table or stage situations, heterogeneous pictorial ‘personnel’ meet: photographs and reproductions that function quasi as stage sets in the background, patterned prints as well as architectural models and imaginatively designed stereometric bodies. Scenic details of children’s playgrounds are often recognisable, whereby the evocation of the sphere of carefree play is often motifically juxtaposed with the working world of adults. In addition, there are cultural artefacts from the past: the spectrum ranges from prehistoric hand wedges to folkloristic-looking objects to post-war design, Soviet monumental sculpture and modernist architecture. Louise Bristow, European Park, 2020, oil on wood panel, 40 x 80 cm Heirlooms from past epochs, soberly recorded in painting, are also to be found in the picture European Park, painted in 2020 […]

until June | #3021ARTatBerlin | Galerie Max Hetzler presents as of April 2021 at the gallery in Bleibtreustraße 45 and in the Window Gallery at Goethestraße 2/3 a solo show with works by the artist Raymond Hains. The exhibition is visible through the window front or can be visited by appointment. A central figure in post-war French art, Raymond Hains developed a complex artistic universe that playfully takes up elements of the real world and explores the visual and metaphorical possibilities of linguistic systems. Known in the late 1940s primarily for his works with torn posters, the “Affiches lacérées” and later the “Palissades”, Hains plays in his work with verbal and visual associations, the reference to historical moments and reflects central elements of the emerging consumer society of his time. Along with artists such as Yves Klein, Jean Tinguely and Jean Villeglé, Hains was one of the founding members of Nouveau Réalisme, the French counterpart to Pop Art that emerged in 1960 and sought to reshape the relationship between art and life. Despite the short-lived nature of this group, which emerged in an earlier phase of Hains’ artistic career, the dualism between artistic tradition and popular culture accompanied him throughout […]

until 20.08. | #3017ARTatBerlin | Galerie Z22 shows from 24th April 2021 the duo show ALL THE BEAUTIFUL BEINGS with works by the artists Carolina Amaya and Danielle Benvenuto. In “All the Beautiful Beings” Carolina Amaya and Danielle Benvenuto join forces to celebrate life. Using various mediums such as painting, photography, sculpture and installations, they explore the nature of being and how we make contact with our life force through the felt experience: the sensual, the erotic and the mundane. It is a tribute to all the beautiful beings on this planet and to our bodies which allow us to navigate and move deeper into our lives. Danielle Benvenuto Carolina Amaya Carolina Amaya Opening: Saturday, 24 April 2021, 12:00 – 21:00 (Soft Opening, time slot booking at info@galerie-z22.com) Exhibition dates: Saturday, 24 April – Saturday, 20 August 2021 (visits from 29 June to 16 August by appointment only). NOTE: For incidence over 100, a negative Covid 19 test from the same day is mandatory in addition to the Luca App.     Image caption cover: via Galerie Z22, Carolina Amaya + Danielle Benvenuto Exhibition Carolina Amaya + Danielle Benvenuto – Galerie Z22 | Contemporary Art – Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin […]

until 15.05. | #3014ARTatBerlin | EIGEN + ART Lab presents from 15th April 2021 the solo show Investment by the artist Malte Bartsch. In the past there was not necessarily more tinsel, but more noise and more fire. Cars were buzzing, cigarettes were glowing, fireworks exploded. This was probably not particularly wise, healthy or sustainable, and not everything was better in the past. This much is certain. Nevertheless, this noise-making is also a way of expressing one’s joy at the mere fact that one is inexplicably alive. What happens when nothing glows any more because the e-cigarette (recently: tobacco heater) with blueberry flavor no longer burns anything crackling but only heats it moderately, when the Tesla glides silently through a frigid world and when the fireworks are consumed digitally via a screen instead of blowing up a proper bang and sulphur smell? That these things will be reduced in the future is pleasing. Because it is reasonable and because it will ensure a cleaner and healthier future. One that leaves a better world for generations to come. Yet the silence in which the present slowly begins to mantle itself also disguises its functionalities, the present is lost in empty speculations […]

until 08.06. | #3011ARTatBerlin | Haus am Waldsee shows from 7th April 2021 a digital solo exhibition by the artist duo Fischer & el Sani. In continuation of our successful Lockdown video art programme in cooperation with Videoart at Midnight from the beginning of February to the end of March 2021, we are pleased to announce Haus am Waldsee’s first online digital solo exhibition for April to June 2021. In weekly rotation, new videos by the artist duo Fischer & el Sani will be shown on our website every Wednesday. Program: 7.4.    Appropriation takes you on a weird ride, 2020 14.4.    Freedom of Movement, 2019 21.4.    Der Dreisatz der Identität, 2015 28.4.    Contaminated Home, 2021 5.5.    Spelling Dystopia, 2008 12.5.    The Rise, 2007 19.5.    Toute la mémoire du monde – Alles Wissen der Welt, 2006 26.5.    Klub 2000, Rom – Paris – Marzahn, 1998 2.6.    Be supernatural, 1995 Nine projects provide an exciting overview of 25 years of joint work. Fellowships have taken Fischer & el Sani to Amsterdam, Rome, Tokyo and Sapporo for extended periods. Thus, not only the transformation of the metropolis of Berlin since reunification has been a continuous theme of their work, but above all other historical spaces where they track down changing […]

until 03.07. | #3009ARTatBerlin | Galerie Kremers presents from 29 April 2021 two solo exhibitions. On the one hand, the exhibition “Metamorphosis I – Possible Worlds” with paintings by the artist Erik Nieminen, on the other hand, the exhibition “Metamorphosis II – The Cosmic Tiger” with new works by the artist Fiona Ackerman in the Gothic Hall of the gallery. Erik Nieminen | Metamorphosis I – Possible Worlds Paradises exist. There are artificially created places, for example zoos or gardens, which remind Homo Sapiens of where he actually came from. Erik Nieminen’s painting practice is an exploration of possible space. It shows us the manifold worlds open to us when we withdraw from the gravity of the real (everyday) world and reflect on what has always shaped our perception and our experience: a mélange of sensory impressions, often reflected by memories, moods, hidden longings and premonitions, such as of the epochs when our ancestors still lived in the trees. Metamorphoses takes place on the canvas. Erik Nieminen deconstructs fragments of reality, geometric shapes, memory snippets and random findings in order to abet the construction of new worlds. Like in an alchemical process, forms and figures find and lose their role […]