until 31.01. | #2648ARTatBerlin | me Collectors Room Berlin is currently showing an exhibition by Gerhard Richter with portraits from the Olbricht Collection. Gerhard Richter has secured an international reputation as one of the most important and successful German artists of current times. The exhibition’s focus is also on human images – one of the central themes of Richter’s editioned works since the 1960s. Both photographs from his family photo album and press photos of famous personalities (Mao, Elisabeth) serve as models for Richter’s exploration of artistic techniques. At the same time, he draws on some of his painted portraits and portraits (Ema (Akt auf einer Treppe), Onkel Rudi), which he subsequently reproduces as prints or photographs. A prominent example of this approach are Richter’s 48 Portraits, which are shown as an edition in the me Collectors Room. The painterly models were shown in 1972 in the German Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Although most famous for his paintings, over the last few years his editions have also increasingly become the focus of attention. The Olbricht Collection is the only institution worldwide that owns Richter’s editions in their entirety and can thus depict his oeuvre over a period of five […]

until 30.11. | #2645ARTatBerlin | Michaela Helfrich Galerie presents from 30th November 2019 the exhibition Angezettelt … with artworks by the artist Tina Engel. On display are paintings and monotypes. Vernissage: Friday, 29th November 2019, 6:00 to 9:00 pm Exhibition period: Saturday, 30th November 2019 to Thursday, 30th Januar 2020   Image caption: Courtesy of Galerie Michaela Helfrich + Tina Engel Exhibition Tina Engel – Galerie Michaela Helfrich | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin

until 08.02. | #2642ARTatBerlin | Galerie kajetan Berlin shows from 7. December 2019 the solo exhibition Some Things Last a Long Time by the artist Haleh Redjaian. Ever since Rosalind Krauss’ paradigmatic and eponymous essay of 1979, the Grid was considered as a checkpoint of Modernity to eradicate any residual of narrative, literary, realistic and illusionistic aspects in the field of visual arts.[1] Although Haleh Redjaian often draws precise straight lines on paper, and pulls strained threads on hand-woven rugs, her work focuses on the disruption and thus inadequacy of the grid, of an ordered system. Redjaian’s grid-breaking markers are never expressive and rarely irregular, deviating only minimally from its rigid pattern and thus irritating it even more. They usually consist of carefully drawn lines, simple geometrical shapes, and come in the same formalistically strict sign language as the grid itself, the rigidity of which they generically make disappear. Haleh Redjaian: Untitled_2018, 20,5 x 29 cm, Bleistift und Buntstift auf Papier | Graphite and color pencil on paper Photo: Eberle & Eisfeld, Berlin In this sense, an existential deviation can be experienced in particular in Redjaian’s expansive thread installations, one of which can be seen in kajetan Berlin. With a […]

until 08.02. | #2639ARTatBerlin | Gallery Persons Projects shows from 23rd November 2019 the exhibition “Configured Landscapes”, the first solo exhibition of the artist Ragna Róbertsdóttir. Parallel to this, the artist Sandra Kantanen will be shown with the exhibition Smokeworks. Persons Projects proudly presents Ragna Róbertsdóttir’s first solo exhibition Configured Landscapes. This collection of works, from the 1980’s to the present, reveals the diversity as well as the tactile sensitivity that Róbertsdóttir has continuously exhibited throughout her illustrious career. Her minimalistic roots reach back to the early 1980’s, beginning with her earliest experimentations with textiles and organic materials that were inherently common within her Icelandic environment. Róbertsdóttir’s approaches her work methodically, leaving each element used, enough space to define its own presence of being. To fully appreciate the gravity of Róbertsdóttir’s art, one needs to merely image taking a walk into one of Iceland’s many austere landscapes. It feels less like a trek into somewhere and more like a journey to elsewhere. Her pieces project an overall sensibility that harbors both the power of its materiality combined with the lightness of its becoming, whether it be salt, stone or glass. In the interview for the newspaper Independent she said once “I always have […]

until 21.11. | #2636ARTatBerlin | Galerie Michael Haas shows from 22nd November 2019 an exhibiiton with the artists Hans Uhlmann and Günter Umberg. In an extensive exhibition, Galerie Michael Haas confronts sculptures and drawings by Hans Uhlmann (1900-1975) with paintings by Günter Umberg (*1942). A strict, intensively densifying abstraction, which at the same time testifies to an incredibly sensitive handling of the possibilities of drawing and painting, characterizes the two very distinct artistic positions: the late sculptures and drawings of the time around 1960 by Hans Uhlmann and the monochrome works by Günter Umberg, which seem to float in front of the wall surface and which were created in recent years. Uhlmann, who studied engineering in Berlin, turned to sculpture as a young man. Geometric bodies, partly completely abstract, partly in strongly simplified configurations of iron or wire, were the focus of his artistic life. He left behind an extensive oeuvre of drawings in addition to his many sculptures. Beginning in the late 1950s, Uhlmann developed distinct black-and-white drawings of line, space, and dynamics based on moving bodies and their outlines. These drawings increasingly condense and leave the amorphous behind in favour of clarity and concentrated austerity. Uhlmann’s works on […]

until 20.01. | #2632ARTatBerlin | Kunsthaus Dahlem currently shows an exhibition with artworks by the sculpteur Jussuf Abbo. The sensitively modelled female heads by the sculptor Jussuf Abbo inspired the Berlin art scene of the Golden Twenties. Abbo participated in the progressive movements of his time and was a close friend of Else Lasker-Schüler and Kurt Schwitters. With the Nazi takeover, Abbo was repeatedly branded – he was stateless after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, exposed by his Jewish ancestry to Nazi racial fanaticism and his girlfriend Ruth Schulz was illegitimately pregnant by him. In a dramatic way, the pair fled to England in 1935, where Abbo could not continue his career. On the occasion of the release of the first monograph on the life and work of the artist, Kunsthaus Dahlem dedicates a solo exhibition to Jussuf Abbo with about 40 works on paper and sculptures. The exhibition is supported by the Mehler family and Freundeskreis Kunsthaus Dahlem – Bernhard Heiliger e.V. In cooperation with Centrum Judaicum, Berlin, and Aktives Museum Faschismus und Widerstand e.V., Berlin and Gerhard-Marcks-Haus, Bremen. JUSSUF ABBO, Frauenkopf, 1928, Zinn Nachlass Jussuf Abbo, Brighton/England, Foto: Gunter Lepkowski THE ARTIST: LIFE AND WORK Abbo was […]

until 10.01. | #2629ARTatBerlin | Luisa Catucci Gallery presents from 22nd November 2019 the exhibition Hypnagogic Atlas with artworks by the artists Dario Ghibaudo and David Hochbaum. „The most characteristic slumber, the one most appropriate to the exercise of the art.. Is the slumber which I call “the slumber with a key”… you must resolve the problem of “sleeping without sleeping”, which is the essence of the dialectics of the dream, since is a repose which walks in equilibrium on the taut and invisible wire which separates sleeping from walking“ Salvador Dali The American artist David Hochbaum and the Italian sculptor Dario Ghibaudo are both wild creators of fantastic universes born out their florid imagination and their own personal mythology and peculiar vision of world and society.  The fictive reality they create, each in his own way due drastic differences of media, style, color and composition, offer to the viewer a perspective on realms populated by fantastic creatures and marvellous animals, waltzing around imaginary towns, natural places or just conquering the room space with their presence – inviting the spectator to reflect on his/her own reality and inner journey. Masked as playful scientific catalogue the works by Dario Ghibaudo out […]

until 12.12. | #2627ARTatBerlin | Galerie mutare shows from 19th November 2019 an exhibition with paintings and graphics by the guest artist Rolf-Dieter Grass in the second room of the gallery. Rolf-Dieter Grass, born in 1951, was a member of the artists’ group “Der Karton” in Saarbrücken, whose works have claimed an art space for satire and have contributed critical marginalia to the Saarland cultural scene. He was involved in numerous joint exhibitions and artist symposia in Saarland and was awarded the 1st prize of the artist competition for the renewal of the Ludwigskirche in Saarbrücken. After a solo exhibition in Darmstadt in 1988, he was invited to a joint exhibition of the Artlantis Artists’ Circle in Bad Homburg. In 2016 and 2019 he participated with his works in the Friedenauer Ateliertour Südwestpassage, but also had solo exhibitions in Berlin. Rolf-Dieter Grass lives and works in Berlin. Since 17 November, paintings by the artist Deborah Esses have been shown in room 1 of the mutare gallery at the same time as Rolf-Dieter Grass. Vernissage: Tuesday, 19th November 2019, 7:00 pm Exhibition period: Tuesday, 19th November – Thursday, 12th December 2019 Opening hours November + December 2019: Wed – Fri 14.00 […]

until 07.12. | #2624ARTatBerlin | Galerie Z22 presents from 9th November 2019 the exhibition APOKALYPSE with artworks by the painter Eric Massholder on the occasion of the 5th anniversary of the gallery.  The apocalypse reaches Berlin-Wilmersdorf. Ring free for monetary snakes, skulls and the Antichrist. For the fifth anniversary of the Berlin gallery Z22, the German-French artist Eric Massholder presents his visions of the swan song on a society that has dedicated itself to its own vanities and that largely shifts away responsibility for the planet or an enriching peaceful coexistence. In large, intensive formats, he manifests the market criers of the present who have dedicated themselves solely to growth. Without realizing that too much property restricts personal freedom, status symbols condense life exclusively to the monetary. Lifetime is destroyed in the stupidest way. Charmed with wit! Increase your empathy! Think more! Question things! Get creative! Go ahead!! It will be an evening with unexpected ideas, a provocative implementation, special speeches and performances. Vernissage: Saturday, 9th November 2019, 7:00 pm, Opening speech: Dorothee Baer-Bogenschütz Exhibition period: Saturday, 9th November – Saturday, 7th December 2019   Image caption: Courtesy Galerie Z22 / Eric Massholder Exhibition Eric Massholder – Galerie Z22 | […]

until 21.12. | #2621ARTatBerlin | Galerie Martin Mertens presents from 9th November 2019 the exhibition Essential Beings by the artist Flavia Pitis. The gallery Martin Mertens has already presented the work of the Romanian painter Flavia Pitis in two double solo exhibitions 2016 and 2018 together with her husband Radu Belcin. Now follows her first solo exhibition in the gallery. This new group of works, which was created for the exhibition, has already begun in 2018. While at the time Pitis was even more strongly based on the human portrait, which was superimposed by porcelain-like forms, the porcelain figures now seem to develop a life of their own and want to transform themselves into human beings. Isolated and dramatically illuminated like on a theatre stage, a Baroque scenery emerges in which the forms seem to swell out of the picture in an opulent and overloaded manner. Flavia Pitis, Melted Shine, Öl auf Leinwand, 90 x 70 cm, 2019 Flavia says so: “Essential Beings” is an attempt to convey a fleeting impression of a living material that harbors a spiritual self in a constantly changing identity. The material of the seemingly porcelain-like substance is in constant flux in accordance with the […]

until 21.12. | #2618ARTatBerlin | Esther Schipper presents from 16th November 2019 the exhibition ALGO-R(H)I(Y)THMS by the artist Tomás Saraceno. Algo-r(h)i(y)thms transforms the exhibition space into a landscape of nets. In Spanish “algo” means “something”. “Rhythm” comes from the Greek rhythmos, can be equated with “movement characterized by the regulated sequence of strong and weak elements, of opposing or different conditions”. Although rhythm is both biological and inherent, theorized as evolutionary instinctive, and linked in human history to the speed of the human heartbeat, gait, and affect, our contemporary moment operates at a tempo that is artificially imposed and not intuitively perceived. Algo-r(h)i(y)thms is thus an urgent invitation to tune into our sym(bio)poetic future, the radical reciprocity of all things, alive or not, through a language of vibrations. Essentially blind, the weaving spider creates an image of the world through the vibrations it sends and receives through the web, which also serves as an organic and specialized instrument for transmitting these seismic signals. The spider/web is therefore seen as a material extension of the spider’s senses and, following some arguments, of its consciousness. By accessing this environment, the work stimulates the participants to see, touch, hear and exist for a moment […]

until 16.11. | #2615ARTatBerlin | Galerie Michael Haas presents the exhibition Gefährdende Spiele by the artist Dennis Scholl. Galerie Michael Haas is showing new paintings by Dennis Scholl (*1980). In Gefährdende Spiele (Endangering Games), Dennis Scholl sets out in search of the lost innocence of childhood. He reveals that an unspoiled youth is an illusion and that tragedy and cruelty hide behind every transfiguring memory. The artist follows this trail and makes memories visible while inviting the viewer to participate in the scenes like a “Peeping Tom”. Since the individual interpretation reveals far more about the viewer than about the artist, the images serve as a mirror for self-reflection and as a reminder for open contemplation of things. Dennis Scholl Through his art, Dennis Scholl attracted attention early on. Already during his studies at the Hochschule für bildende Künste in Hamburg, which he completed in 2007, his works were shown in major institutional exhibitions – for example in the Hamburger Kunsthalle. Since then, numerous solo and group shows have followed in national and international contexts, most recently in New York City and at the Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation in Berlin. His work is represented in public and private collections worldwide. While Scholl worked […]

extended until 21.12. | #2612ARTatBerlin | Galerie Guido W. Baudach presents from 26th October 2019 the solo exhibition Heedrahtrophia by the artist Andy Hope 1930. Monsters, Painters, Mutants The series of new paintings by Andy Hope 1930, exhibiting at Galerie Guido W. Baudach under the title HEEDRAHTROPHIA, stems from the artist’s first visit to Japan in the spring of 2018. In addition to the new impressions gained there, Hope found himself confronted by Japanese pop culture, face to face with the monsters and monster tales he had long been following. A dedicated collector of comics, films and figures from the areas of horror, supervillains and superheroes, dinosaurs and extraterrestrials, Hope attained his status and widespread international reception primarily by the manner in which he ploughed through the field of Americana, outmaneuvering the pitfalls of affirmation and anti-America criticism with an abundance of wit and a wealth of art-/historical allusion. Though a relatively late discovery, Japan must have been experienced as a kind of déjà vu. After his return, Hope took up a monster that had long held his fascination: a kaiju named Hedorah from the monster film Godzilla vs. Hedorah (Japan 1971, distributed in Germany under the title Frankensteins Kampf gegen die Teufelsmonster, […]

until 18.01. | #2609ARTatBerlin | Galerie Kornfeld shows from 22nd November 2019 the solo exhibition Les Nouveaux Constructeurs by the artist Stéphane Couturier. The exhibition “Les Nouveaux Constructeurs” will present, for the first time in Germany, photographer Stéphane Couturier’s work that resulted from his involvement with French painter Fernand Léger’s œuvre. Upon the invitation of Julie Gutierrez, curator of the Fernand Léger Museum in Biot, Stéphane Couturier worked intensely with the oeuvre of Fernand Léger, one of the masters of modern painting in early 20th-century France. Léger was particularly attentive to the radical transitions of his time. The central focus of his work was the changes people and cities went through due to machines and mass production. Drawing from the form experiments of the cubists, his body of work found its particular artistic expression, which merged the cubist avantgarde with communist engagement. Sète, Pont Sadi Carnot n°2, 2018, C-Print, 140 x 100 cm, Ed.: 5 “I became aware of the many elements that brought him closer to me–his fascination with the city, with industrial elements, with architecture, with the geometry of forms…”, comments Stéphane Couturier on his involvement with Léger’s body of work. As images of urban landscapes and industrial […]

until 21.12. | #2607ARTatBerlin | Migrant Bird Space presents from 26th October 2019 an exhibition with artworks by the artists Huang Zejian and Bu Yunyun. Two Chinese artists exploring the sensuality and inherent eroticism of everyday materials and images. Both work in a variety of media, yet base their initial approach to art on the medium of photography. Employing amorphous shapes made out of mixed materials and nylon fabric, Huang Zejian’s sculptures fathom human sexuality and the particular appeal of human limbs. He uses photographs of body parts to print on nylon textiles or satin, which he then fills with EPS Polystyrene, suing his pieces together to create disturbing installations of a surreal beauty. While these sculptures remain entirely abstract, the sexual innuendo is undeniable, making it difcult, in fact, to display parts of Huang’s work in China. To Huang, the human body is central to his work in every aspect as “it cannot hide human desires and inner conflict, it’s the only medium for sex and eroticism.” (2018) IMG_20190627_0009, 2019 © Huang Zeijan, Migrant Bird Space Bu Yunjun has a professional background in painting, yet decided to pursue his interest and talent in photography. He collects everyday scenes and […]

until (tba) | #2604ARTatBerlin | Semjon Contemporary shows from 1st November 2019 the exhibitions edit_WHITE by the artist Thomas Prochnow and Curves by the artist Dirk Rathke. On show are wall objects, collages & assemblages by Thomas Prochnow as well as new works and installations by Dirk Rathke in the form of paintings, wall sculptures and objects. Thomas Prochnow Dirk Rathke Dirk Rathke Vernissage: Friday, 1st November 2019, 7:00 – 9:30 pm Exhibition period: Friday, 1st November to … (to be announced)   Events in the context of the exhibition and further dates of the gallery: Reading from Gustav Peter Wöhler The Alphabet of the Sea by Christoph Klimke in cooperation with Elfenbein Verlag Thursday, 28 November, 8 p.m. Meet the artist! Talk with Thomas Prochnow and Dirk Rathke Saturday, 30 November, 4 p.m. Fotofever Paris with works by Gerda Schütte & Nataly Squat 8. – 10.11.2019 Opening: 7 November marking time Exhibition on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Werkstättengalerie of the German Workshops Hellerau Curated by Colin Ardley Among others with works of the gallery artists Dittmar Krüger, Susanne Knaack, Dirk Rathke, Ursula Sax and Marc von der Hocht, as well as Colin Ardley Until 29.11.2019 […]

until 30.11. | #2601ARTatBerlin | Galerie EIGEN + ART Berlin shows from 24th October 2019 the exhibition A planets revolution by the artist Ryan Mosley. Ryan Mosley’s paintings have always been precarious, knife-edged, intuitive things, characterised by their exuberance, headlong free-wheelingness, sucking in motifs from the drifting, ever shape-shifting worlds of circus and carnival, the brawling anarchy of Dada. Rooted in figurative impulses, they revel in the bizarre, the improbable, the unpredictable and the grotesque. They are self-delighting, self-enclosed worlds of abandonment, staged performances, theatrical presentations which we willingly spectate. And behind them we have always felt the shadowy presence of all those artists who have helped to shape them, from Daumier to Kitaj, Hogarth to Degas, Manet to Picasso, Léger to Darger. Until now. His fourth solo show at Galerie EIGEN + ART marks a shift of tone and feeling. Its title, A planets revolution, nods in the direction of our political uncertainties as never before. A mood of perplexity seems to transform the romp of his heightened colours into exaggeratedly desperate throws of optimism. Ryan Mosley, Under a strange canopy, 2019, Oil on canvas, 183 x 150 cm, Photo: Jules Lister In the painting Songs for the sea […]

From 25 October 2019, the Kunstbibliothek im Kulturforum will be showing the exhibition “Typoems und Künstlerbücher” with works by printer and publisher Hansjörg Mayer. The printer, teacher and publisher Hansjörg Mayer, who lives in London, became one of the most important protagonists of concrete poetry and the art of the 1960s with his experiments in printing techniques and his edition hansjörg mayer. In collaboration with the artist, the Art Library shows the diversity and artistic stubbornness of the publishing house, from his first typographic works, which he called typoems, to the international influence of Concrete Poetry from Stuttgart to São Paolo, to the experimental artist’s books by Dieter Roth. Dieter Roth, Bücher und Grafik Gesammelte Werke 20, 1970, edition hansjörg mayer, Offsetdruck, © edition hansjörg mayer; Dieter Roth Foundation, Hamburg As early as the mid-1960s, Hansjörg Mayer (*1943, Stuttgart) attracted the attention of the art and literature world. As a young man, Mayer had already come into contact with the Stuttgart circle around the philosopher Max Bense, who introduced him to the latest international trends in art, literature and music. Mayer’s fascination with the printing process, which he experienced every day in his family’s print shop, gave rise to the […]

until 16.11. | #2597ARTatBerlin | Galerie mutare shows from 12th October 2019 the exhibition A Lifetime Achievement with paintings and graphics by the artist Alo Altripp. Alo Altripp, born 1906 in Altrip near Speyer, attended the Kunstgewerbeschule Mainz (applied arts, decorative painting) in 1921-24, followed by the Meisterschule für das Malerhandwerk in Munich and the Akademie für Kunst und Gewerbe in Dresden in 1925. In 1928/29 Altripp worked as a theatre painter at the Staatstheater Wiesbaden, then as a freelance artist. In 1932 he met Alexej Jawlensky for the first time and became his friend in 1934. He travelled to Strasbourg and Colmar, in the period 1935-39 he completed annual study stays at the Goetheanum in Dornach. He regularly visited Paul Klee and his family in Bern. 1943-45 he was employed as a draughtsman at the Opel company in Rüsselsheim, 1945-49 also as a draughtsman at the Central Collecting Point in the Wiesbaden Museum. In 1949 he stayed in New York with a scholarship from the Barnes Foundation, Merion. 1951-71 he taught as a lecturer at the Werkkunstschule Wiesbaden, today the Hochschule RheinMain. In 1976 he was awarded the Max Slevogt Medal of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate. The artist died […]

until 26.10. | #2551ARTatBerlin | KLEMM’S currently presents the exhibition Form, Class & Beauty – iniated by Viktoria Binschtok with works by the artists Gabriele Beveridge, Viktoria Binschtok, Ulrich Lamsfuß and Ken Lum. Our image-based reality lays the ground and provides the necessary input for the mixed media works that compose the exhibition Form, Class & Beauty. Through a diverse repertoire of appropriation strategies, public images are shifted into new contexts of meaning, which block themselves against obvious associations. The fusion of photography with text, algorithms, painting, and object leads to various combinations and opens up alternative perspectives on familiar representations. Those are above all stereotypical representations of beauty, status, gender, etc… that dominate our urban and social environments (online and offline). They manifest cultural codes that set the bar of ideal existence in a system. Everything that cannot be seen in the general canon of images is also socially marginalized. The artistic rearrangement of the fragments of our visual culture is staged here in what can be understood as aesthetically seductive assemblages – however, it does not exclude a critical examination of its impact. Viktoria Binschtok, August 2019 Gabriele Beveridge (b. 1985, Hong Kong) lives and works in London, UK. Gabriele’s […]

until 25.10. | #2594ARTatBerlin | Peres Projects shows from 27th September the exhibition (G)hosting by the artist Richard Kennedy. Peres Projects is pleased to present (G)hosting, Richard Kennedy’s first solo exhibition at the gallery. The title of the exhibition plays on the term hosting, which has been taken up in the gay community on online forums and apps for dating, to indicate a space that’s safe for invitation (i.e. can you host), and ghosting – to drop out of a situation without warning or explanation. The overlapping and entangled actions of hosting and then ghosting, that fit together in spite of their oppositional meanings indicates Kennedy’s preoccupation with the epistemological force of language. The spaces opened up in language for seemingly contradictory affects to coexist. For his first exhibition in Europe, Kennedy presents (G)hosting, an opera without an audience, which was developed over the course of his 2019 summer residency at Open Forum in Berlin. Considering opera through a language of African American experience – drawing on the oral histories told through spirituals and chain gang songs, Kennedy disrupts the tradition of Western Theatre, where the primary mode of engagement is through observation, in order to generate new participatory modes of viewership. […]

until 22.09. | #2591ARTatBerlin | Michael Reid shows from 21st September 2019 the exhibition Closer To Life by the artist Xander Haywood. The exhibition can be seen for only two days in the gallery and is continued online until 19 October 2019. Xander Haywood’s new series takes a contemporary and imaginative approach to the traditional oil-painted life-study, combining botanical paintings and portraits of people living in Berlin. Xander Haywood’s artistic practice explores the boundary between the real and the imagined, infusing the outer world as it is conventionally experienced with the artist’s subjective and emotive inner perceptions. Through his use of perspective and attention to detail, Xander aims to create an intimate and immersive experience, with the intention of dissolving the separation between subject and object, the image and the viewer. Alexandra, 2019 Vernissage: Saturday, 21st September 2019, 6:00 – 8:00 pm Exhibition period: Saturday, 21st September to Sunday, 22nd September 2019, 11:00 am to 5:00 pm, continued online until 19 October 2019   Image caption: Xander Haywood Exhibition Xander Haywood – Michael Reid | Contemporary Art – Kunst in Berlin – Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin

extended until 01.02. | #2587ARTatBerlin | GALERIE SPRINGER BERLIN shows from 28th September 2019 the exhibition  Expanded Photography 2002-2019 by the photographer Aitor Ortiz. In the exhibition Expanded Photography 2002–2018, Galerie Springer Berlin is showing three different work cycles by the Basque artist Aitor Ortiz in which traditional photographic boundaries are surpassed in surprising and fascinating ways. © Aitor Ortiz Espacio Latente 012 2018 archival pigment print on Hahnemühle paper 70 x 70 x 4 cm signed 7/7 © Aitor Ortiz Espacio Latente 018 2018 archival pigment print on Hahnemühle paper 70 x 70 x 4 cm signed 7/7 The highlight of the exhibition is the presentation of works from the related series Vicinay and Link (2018). Vicinay is a chain factory in the former industrial area of Zorrotzaurre in Bilbao. The manufacturing plant, which produced a total of 10,000km of ship-mooring chains over a 60-year period, was moved to a new location as a result of urban-development measures and gentrification. Ortiz, who grew up in the vicinity of the industrial site and has been based there via his studio for many years, had parts of the steel floor panels in the former manufacturing plant removed piece-bypiece, involving extensive effort. […]

until 01.11. | #2558ARTatBerlin | Crone Berlin currently shows the exhibition Medusa: Floating Body by the artists Tomas Kleiner and Marco Biermann. The work of Marco Biermann and Tomas Kleiner, who have been working together as a performative collective for the past five years, investigates the interaction of public and individual space in which we may act. Their performances and actions have been exhibited in institutions including Museum Abteiberg in Mönchengladbach, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Museum Morsbroich in Leverkusen, and Belvedere 21 in Vienna. The exhibition Medusa: Floating Body captures and documents their newest performance, which began on the Rhine near Düsseldorf at the end of June and will continue in the rooms of Galerie Crone in Berlin. The romantic notion of breaking out of routine and taking off for new shores inspired the artists to use Medusa: Floating Body to once again playfully engage with the public space.  The project saw them drift down the Rhine on a specially made air mattress over the course of a day, past the town of Uerding and the city of Duisburg to an unknown destination. Extensive communication with the authority for water and shipping (DLRG), the coast guard, the local regulatory agency, […]

until 02.11. | #2559ARTatBerlin | Galerie Max Hetzler presents from 27th September 2019 the solo exhibition a sort of speech by the artist Edmund de Waal in the gallery rooms Bleibtreustraße and Goethestraße. Galerie Max Hetzler is pleased to announce British artist Edmund de Waal’s second solo exhibition on view across both gallery locations in Berlin. Recognised for his delicate porcelain vessels meticulously arranged in carefully composed groups displayed in vitrines or shelves, Edmund de Waal creates his own dialogue between tradition and modernity, blank spaces and opulence, minimalism and architecture. His unique ceramic objects, coloured in subtle nuances and irregularly shaped, form the base of his installations and combine ideas of repetition, rhythm and composition with references to literature and music. In his exhibition, de Waal presents a group of new free-standing glass vitrines, each forming a thoughtful composition of porcelain, steel, gold and marble elements, installed in the large gallery space of Goethestraße. In this new body of work, de Waal continues to explore the boundaries between text and sculpture. At its centre, the exhibition contains a major new text work in which de Waal has covered a vast freestanding wall with porcelain slip and gold leaf into which […]

until 09.11. | #2582ARTatBerlin | Kewenig Berlin presents from 13th September 2019 the exhibition daß die Geschichte zusammenbleibt (> that history remains together) by the artist Imi Knoebel. Vernissage: Friday, 13 September 2019, 6:00 – 9:00 pm Exhibition eriod: Friday, 13 September – Saturday, 9 November 2019   Image caption: daß die Geschichte zusammenbleibt – Schattenraum 6 + 3 Bilder, 1989 Acrylic and fiberboard on wood Cube: 216 x 360 x 120 cm | 85 x 141 1/2 x 47 1/4 in Black painting: 240 x 450 x 9 cm | 94 1/4 x 177 1/2 x 3 1/2 in Two panels: 240 x 90 x 9 cm | 94 5/8 x 35 3/8 x 3 5/8 in each © Imi Knoebel Photographer: Gunter Lepkowski. Courtesy the artist and KEWENIG Exhibition Imi Knoebel – Kewenig Berlin | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin

until 19.10. | #2560ARTatBerlin | Galerie EIGEN + ART Berlin presents from 13 September 2019 the exhibition  HOW TO FANCY THE LIGHT OF A CANDLE AFTER IT IS BLOWN OUT by the artist Olaf Nicolai. Vernissage: Friday, 13 September 2019, 5:00 – 8:00 pm Ausstellungsdaten: Friday, 13 September to Saturday, 19 October 2019   Image caption: Courtesy Galerie EIGEN + ART Berlin, Olaf Nicolai Exhibition Olaf Nicolai – Galerie EIGEN + ART | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin

until 21.12. | #2548ARTatBerlin | Galerie Judin presents from 14 September 2019 the exhibition Das Frühwerk by the artist Eugen Schönebeck. Galerie Judin is pleased to present Das Frühwerk, Eugen Schönebeck’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. Eugen Schönebeck (*1936) is one of the most sig­nif­icant post-war Ger­man artists. All the major social, polit­ical and artis­tic upheavals of the time are reflected in his life and work. He grew up in Saxony at the end of the Sec­ond World War, where he begun his artis­tic edu­ca­tion as an apprentice in dec­o­ra­tional paint­ing. He con­tin­ued his train­ing in East Berlin, before leav­ing the young GDR for West Berlin—then the epi­center of non-rep­re­senta­tional art. Together with fel­low stu­dent Georg Baselitz, he devel­oped a new style of fig­u­ra­tive paint­ing. With the large-format por­traits of social­ist lead­ers he made in the mid-1960s, the artist pre-empted issues raised by the protests of 1968. Only a few years after gra­dua­ting, Schönebeck with­drew him­self from the art mar­ket. He shifted his art to a pri­vate sphere, not least because there was no sociopo­lit­ical utopia to fol­low the move­ment of 1968. He stopped paint­ing in oils, but con­tin­ued to draw—and became the myth­ical pio­neer of new Ger­man fig­u­ra­tion. […]

until 02.11. | #2577ARTatBerlin | Galerie Klaus Gerrit Friese shows since 7th September 2019 an exhibition with drawings by the artist Thomas Müller. “Drawing, alongside painting, is the second core element of our gallery programme. Many of our artists have their very own, intensive approach to this medium, and it is therefore a pleasure to exhibit Thomas Müller, an artist whose work is entirely dedicated to drawing. His complex, multi-layered works on paper are as strict, precise as they are poetic in the same artistic trait: they ignite a pull that grips the viewer. This is how I have always imagined art, and I think of Thomas Müller when I read these sentences by Kafka: “How do you like my drawing? Well, you know, I used to be a great draughtsman. But wait, I’ll send you some old drawings next time so you have something to laugh about. Those drawings satisfied me at that time, it’s been years, more than anything in his time.” Because Thomas Müller knows his way around literature, in his field of drawing and far beyond, and he gives all his artistic energy to every single sheet we present to you in this exhibition.” Klaus Gerrit […]

until 14.09. | #2576ARTatBerlin | Anaid Art Gallery shows from 12th September 2019 the Pop up Solo-Exhibition ONIRIX in the framework of Berlin Art Week with paintings by the artist Mihai Florea alias FM. The solo show, “ONIRIX” by Mihai Florea aka FM, spanning 9 (nine) paintings created by the artist in the last year. ONIRIX is an exhibition about the power of the human unconscious, the images that reside and resist in our memory after the dream. Nine years ago, Mihai Florea dreamt three dreams in three different nights. Scrutinizing the unconscious and remembering his dream images, the artist began to paint. Each dream has three sequences that were realized in painting as three movie shots. This exhibition takes place in cooperation with the Berlin fashion design label Maisonoée and is shown in the rooms of the Luna Studio (Zimmerstraße 91, 10117 Berlin-Mitte). Vernissage:  Friday, 13 September 2019, 6:00 -9:00 pm Exhibition period: Thursday, 12 September to Saturday, 14 September 2019, 10:00 am – 8:00 pm WHERE? Luna Studio, Zimmerstraße 91, 10117 Berlin-Mitte   Image caption: Mihai Florea (FM) – The Dangerous Backyard, Öl auf Leinwand, 120 x 140 cm, 2019 © Anaid Art Gallery Exhibition Mihai Florea aka […]

until 26.10. | #2579ARTatBerlin | Michaela Helfrich Galerie shows from 12th September 2019 the group exhibition Spiel mit der Wirklichkeit (> Playing with reality) with the artists Horst Kistner, Thomas Gatzemeier, Gerard Waskievitz, Simon Czapla and Ulrike Pisch. Light and colour is the constitutive basis of the works, but they also always have art history in mind. Horst Kistner and Thomas Gatzemeier stand in the long tradition of an artistic attitude and develop their own impressive positions, Gerard Waskievitz mixes existential themes from Berlin city life with well-known Renaissance depictions, Simon Czapla creates a new space of meaning in his painting through the interplay of pictorial material, allusions and associations, Ulrike Pisch surprises with her painterly praise of dreams, chance and spontaneity in a constructive world. Vernissage: Wednesday, 11 September 2019, 6:00 to 9:00 pm Exhibition period: Thursday, 12 September 2019 to Saturday, 26 Oktober 2019   Image caption: Gerard Waskievitz, Paris Bar Berlin, 2019, Oil on canvas, 120 cm x 160 cm Exhibition Spiel mit der Wirklichkeit – Galerie Michaela Helfrich | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin

until 02.11. | #2574ARTatBerlin | Kristin Hjellegjerde Berlin shows from 13th September 2019 the exhibition “Mirror, Mirror” with artworks by the artist Vanessa Prager. Through thick impasto strokes, groups of women emerge melting into one another against swirling abstract backgrounds. The figures appear writhing, pink and fleshy, a combining mass that is simultaneously a single entity and an expression of multitude. Los Angeles-based artist Vanessa Prager presents her latest body of work entitled ‘Mirror, Mirror’ at Kristin Hjellegjerde Berlin. Though the human body is a recurring theme in the artist’s work, her figures in this latest series take on a new looseness, breaking down physical boundaries to form abstract visualisations of identity in which the individual is able to slip between multiple personalities. As Prager notes this slippage can provide access to a deeper empathy, which is envisioned through the merging of the artist’s figures. ‘See through you’, for example, depicts an entwined, moving mass of bare skin, which is suggestive of a sexual embrace and yet, we are unable to distinguish between bodies. The title of the work goes further to imply an element of performance in which the painting is somehow revealing the true nature of the being. […]

until 13.10. | #2553ARTatBerlin  | Galerie Eigenheim presents from 30. August 2019 the group exhibtion ALL DAY REVOLUTION | Unsere Liebe Digitalität with the artists Max Albrecht, Fanny Josefine Dehnkamp, Samira Engel, Thomas Hawranke, Johannes Heinke, Stephan Isermann, Tonio Mundry, Adam Noack, Katrin Steiger, Marcus Sternbauer und Sirin Unmanee. At the salon of the gallery, paintings by the artist Anna Bittersohl will be shown. The third exhibition of EIGENHEIM Weimar/Berlin as an official showcase of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Bauhaus deals with various aspects of the digitization of our society. In our everyday life a revolution takes place, which does justice to the fundamentals of a revolution. Tonio Mundry – Original Spam Infinite Influence It is not without reason that the concept of the digital revolution, a change of all areas of life through digital technology, has been intensively discussed for a decade. Like the Industrial Revolution, which formed the basis of the Bauhaus, the digital revolution will also bring new forms of live, art and design. The resulting changes in the business and work, in public and in private life are taking place at a rapid speed. New media are increasingly influencing […]

until 04.10. | #2544ARTatBerlin | Galerie Minimal currently presents the solo exhibition The Deconstructed Self with photographs by the artist Natalie Christensen. The Los Angeles Center for Digital Arts named Natalie Christensen one of the „Ten Photographers to Watch“. After exhibitions in London, New York and Los Angeles, the American photographer and psychotherapist presents her work „The Deconstructed Self“ for the first time in Berlin. Natalie Christensen – Deep Blue Pool Natalie Christensen finds her motifs in the banal scenes of the periphery of the American Southwest. Fascinated by the unmistakable light and crystal clear air, she composes photographs of suburban everyday life whose symbolism penetrates deeply into the subconscious, evoking stories that are often disturbing, sometimes amusing but always present. Speaking on The Deconstructed Self, Christensen states: “In 2014 I moved from the state of Kentucky to Santa Fe, New Mexico leaving my lifelong home and my 25-year career as a psychotherapist behind. While it was an exciting moment it was also a time of questioning and reflection. Like many artists who have come to New Mexico, I was immediately drawn to the distinctive Southwestern light. The beauty of the natural environment is evident to most people; however, my […]

until 05.10. | #2541ARTatBerlin | Semjon Contemporary presents from 31st August 2019 the exhibition “Tanz mit dem Raum – Das Geometrische Ballett und andere (performative) Projekte” (> Dance with Space – Geometric Ballet and other (performative) Projects) with artworks by the artist Ursula Sax. This exhibition is conceived as a supplement to the new performance of the Geometric Ballet and attempts to trace the development towards this piece, which is based on her diverse dance sculptures, and to relate it to her other sculptural works. The advance ticket sale for the premiere in the Radialsystem on 6 September 2019 for the re-appropriation of Geometrisches Ballett (Hommage à Oskar Schlemmer) is sold out. Tickets may still be available at the box office. There are only a few tickets left for the 2nd performance on 7 September. Tickets for the premiere of the Dresden Appia stage version on 20 September 2019 at the Festspielhaus Hellerau can be purchased here Choreography: Katja Erfurth; a production by Tristan Production | Management | Event UG in co-production with HELLERAU – Europäisches Zentrum der Künste. Initiated by Semjon H. N. Semjon, Semjon Contemporary. Supported by the Saxon State Ministry of the Interior and the Kulturstiftung Sachsen, […]

until 02.11. | #2538ARTatBerlin | Bermel von Luxburg Gallery shows from 7th September 2019 the exhibition German Abstractionism by the artists Karl Otto Götz, Bernard Schultze and Fred Thieler. Bermel von Luxburg starts the season with: “German Abstractionism”. Selected works by three important artists in the history of German abstract painting will be shown: Karl Otto GÖTZ, Bernard SCHULTZE and Fred THIELER. Selected works of art from an exclusive collection will be on display. Bermel from Luxburg Gallery looks forward to meeting you. Karl Otto Götz 06 – Gouache 30 x 20 cm #KarlOttoGötz #BerndSchultze #FredThieler #Vernissage #OpeningBerlin #ArtShow #Ausstellung #Ausstellung #BerlinArtWeek #Positionen #ArtfairBerlin #GalleryWeekendBerlin #AbstractPainting #AbstractArt #InformelleKunst #Quadriga #GermanArt #BerlinGallery #ContemporaryArt #Museum #ZeitgenössischeKunst #Fasanenstrasse #Charlottenburg #Kurfürstendamm #KunstBerlin #ArtCollection #ArtCollector #Auction #Sothebys #Christies #ArtBasel #ArtCologne #Tefaf #Lifestyle #Design #EnjoyArt #BermelvonLuxburg The Galerie Bermel von Luxburg will participate in the Berlin Art Week 2019 at the art fair POSITIONS (12.09.-15.09.2019, Tempelhof Airport). Vernissage: Saturday, 7th September from 7 to 9 pm Exhibition period: Saturday, 7th September to Saturday, 2nd November 2019   Image caption: Karl Otto Götz, Courtesy Bermel von Luxburg Gallery Exhibition German Abstractionism – Bermel von Luxburg Gallery | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin […]

until 14.09. | #2534ARTatBerlin | Contemporary Fine Arts presents from 16th August 2019 the exhibition Ferragosto by the artist Edgar Leciejewski. This is the first exhibition by Edgar Leciejewski with the gallery CFA Berlin. Fire is an ambiguous phenomenon. In cultural history it stands for both destruction and renewal. In the Middle Ages, for example, fire was regarded as a medium of punishment and purification. As a kind of intermediate realm, it marked the border between paradise as a place of absolute bliss and hell as a place of eternal damnation. In many cultures it is revered as something divine. In China, grieving relatives still burn bundles of so-called “hell money” to provide for their dead relatives in the afterlife and to make the gods merciful. Some of this magical-transformative power of fire also seems to blaze in Edgar Leciejewski’s new “fabric pictures”. There, forms of still life, assemblage and portrait are pushed over each other like different foils. “Fire takes and gives” says Leciejewski. “In the fire one sees everything.  The artist quotes an abundant dozen culturally or socially significant women of the present through pictures in pictures and brings them together in his studio with various decorative fabrics […]

until 02.10. | #2532ARTatBerlin | Galerie Pugliese Levi shows from 10th August 2019 the exhibition Entanglement by the artist Marc Lambrechts. Reception with Marc Lambrechts: 14th September 2019. New works by Marc Lambrechts will be shown. In these works the artist playfully takes up the phenomenon of entanglement, one of the most fascinating aspects of quantum mechanics. On September 14, 2019, as part of the Berlin Art Week 2019, the gallery will host a reception at 6 p.m. in the presence of the artist, who will personally give an introduction to the exhibition that evening. Start of exhibition: Saturday, 10 August 2019, from 1:00 p.m. Reception: Saturday, 14 September 2019, 18:00, with an introduction to the exhibition by Marc Lambrechts Exhibition dates: Saturday, 10 August – Wednesday, 2 October 2019   Image caption Marc Lambrechts, Entanglement dance 3, 2019, 15 x 30.5 cm Exhibition Marc Lambrechts – Entanglement – Galerie Pugliese Levi | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin  

until 31.08. | #2529ARTatBerlin | Galerie Brockstedt shows from 1st August 2019 a summer accrochage. On display are paintings, sculptures and collages by the artists Tino Geiß, Johannes Grützke, Martin Heinig, Hans Scheib and Annette Schröter. Annette Schröter Martin Heinig The current opening hours of Galerie Brockstedt in Berlin after the summer holidays are Tue – Fr 11 am – 6 pm and Sat 11 am – 2 pm. Hans Scheib, Guter Morgen, 2012 Tino Geiß Johannes Grützke Exhibition period: Thursday, 1st August to Saturday, 31st August 2019   Please make a note: Thursday, September 12, 2019 from 6 p.m. – 9 p.m the Galerie Brockstedt will open the exhibition “Horst Janssen on his 90th birthday” in Berlin. Exhibition Sommer-Accrochage – Galerie Brockstedt | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin    

until 16.11. | #2526ARTatBerlin | 68 projects will present from 6 September 2019 the group exhibition Story as a Woven Carpet of seven artists living and working in Georgian Tbilisi: Andro Eradze, Levan Chelidze, Salome Chigilashvili, Tezi Gabunia, Nino Kvrivishvili, Tamar Nadiradze and Giorgi Qochiashvili. The exhibition is comprised of cultural fragments and addresses new narratives constructed in the young artists’ work. Georgia has always been somewhat exoticised throughout the history starting from Ancient Greeks and up to the 20th century travelers’ accounts. What others have said and opined about the country is collected in Georgian textbooks and was taught to generations. The artists presented in this exhibition are telling stories from their own perspective. They represent the generation that may have started the process of creating and telling their own stories, similar to Demna Gvasalia’s SS19 Paris show. These 21st century Georgian artists choose their cultural and visual references via Internet, via computer screen, accessing the information beyond physical borders and discovering other ways of seeing and doing things. For them, everything is available at once, on the screen, with no time evolution as explained in art history, neither following traditional canons of good and bad. Although, they’re drawing […]

Until mid-September 2019, the Hamburger Bahnhof Museum is showing the exhibition “Emil Nolde. Eine deutsche Legende – Der Künstler im Nationalsozialismus” (> Emil Nolde. A German Legend – The Artist in National Socialism). The Expressionist Emil Nolde is probably the most famous ‘degenerate artist’: no other artist confiscated so many works, no other works hung so prominently on the first stages of the exhibition Degenerate Art of 1937/38. How do Nolde’s ostracism and his professional ban fit in with our knowledge that he was a member of the Nazi party and did not lose faith in the National Socialist regime until the end of the war? The art critic Adolf Behne took Nolde’s special case seriously by trenchantly calling him a “degenerate ‘degenerate’” on his 80th birthday in 1947. Emil Nolde in Munich, January/February 1937. Photo by Helga Fietz, the wife of Nolde’s art dealer in Munich Günther Franke, Nolde Stiftung Seebüll, © Nolde Stiftung Seebüll It has long been known that Emil Nolde was a party member. But what this has to do with his art, and how the historical circumstances of National Socialism have affected his work, has never before been comprehensively examined in an exhibition. The exhibition […]

until 07.09. | #2521ArtatBerlin | Starting on 20 July 2019 Kristin Hjellegjerde Berlin exhibits “Recycle” a show by the artist Ephrem Solomon. Kristin Hjellegjerde Berlin presents Recycle, a new body of work produced this past year by Ephrem Solomon. It’s a continuation of his ongoing exploration into nature, the effects of climate change, the human condition and the cycle of long-term transformations that occur as time passes. Solomon conceptualises the cosmos as ‘the origin of the universe and the meaning of human life in the vastness of space,’, at a time when notions of societal freedom, race, multiculturalism and nationhood are continuously being called into question. Regarding his new series, Solomon states; “I’m interested in the idea of cycles that take place within cultures and over extended periods of time. When we try to understand the cosmos, both as a way of system of thinking and our universe, they become a point of departure, both intellectually and physically. Our ability to unite the two provides a space where we can begin afresh with the comfort of the past.”’ Over the past few years Solomon has garnered recognition in Ethiopia as well as internationally for his striking two-dimensional woodcut and mixed-media […]

until 31.08. | #2518ARTatBerlin | Robert Morat Galerie shows from 13 July 2019 the exhibition Still (Noon) by the photographer Shane Lavalette. When Swiss Fotostiftung in Winterthur and the Musée de l’Elysée in Lausanne approached young American photographer Shane Lavalette to contribute work to a group show titled “Unfamiliar Familiarities. Outside Views on Switzerland” in 2016, Lavalette started to research in the Winterthur archives. He came across contact sheets of a reportage by Theo Frey. Swiss photographer Theo Frey (1908-1997) was a photo journalist and a documentarist. For the 1939 Swiss National Exhibition he visited and systematically photographed in twelve Swiss villages, aiming to tell a story of Switzerland at that moment in time. Untitled, 2016, 31 x 41 cm, Archival Pigment Print, Ed. of 6 + 2 AP’s Untitled, 2016, 31 x 23 cm, Archival Pigment Print, Ed. of 6 + 2 AP’s “Following the footsteps of Frey’s journey from nearly eighty years earlier, I now traveled to the same twelve villages in order to find new images that explore the fabric of Switzerland today”, explains Shane Lavalette, “guided by chance encounters and my own meditations on the past, present, and future.” Untitled, 2016, 70 x 61 cm, Archival Pigment Print, Ed. of 5 + […]

until 17.08. | #2515ARTatBerlin  | Galerie Eigenheim shows from 6th July 2019 the exhibition THE SUMMER OF CHINA 中国的夏天 – Forget it Jake it´s Chinatown – from KTV to Malatang – the China connection with the artists Frederik Foert, Konstantin Bayer and guests 忘了杰克是唐人街 – 从KTV到马拉唐 – 中国的联系. For more than 10 years EIGENHEIM Weimar/Berlin has had an intensive connection to China. One reason for the location of the new Berlin gallery rooms in Kantstraße 28 in Charlottenburg, in the middle of the historically grown Chinese Quarter. This street is home to numerous Asian shops and specialty restaurants, which is why Kantstrasse and the surrounding area are popularly known as Chinatown. The first Chinese came to Berlin Charlottenburg at the beginning of the 20th century to study at the nearby universities. Already in 1902 the Association of Chinese Students was located in Kantstraße 118 and the Chinese Embassy was at that time on Kurfürstendamm. This cultural concentration has continued to this day. Banner Webseite Eigenheim CHINA 2019 The exhibition aims to build on this parallel between gallery programming and location and to bring together the artists of the house as well as guest artists with a Chinese background. It would […]

until 14.09. | #2512ARTatBerlin | GALERIE SPRINGER BERLIN presents from 13th July 2019 the exhibition LUMINESZENZEN by the photographers Maria Jauregui Ponte and Kathrin Linkersdorff. With the exhibition LUMINESCENCES, Galerie Springer Berlin is introducing two artists who will be expanding the gallery’s programme from now on. The two photographers complement each other in the exhibition in an impressive way. Both have been working and experimenting with light and shadow, and colour and darkness for many years. The results of this process are to some extent very different, but they come together in a stunning combination in the exhibition. MARIA JAUREGUI PONTE »In the group of works Überstrahlungen (Overexposures), Maria Jauregui Ponte has worked without a camera. The artist has exposed photographic paper in a specially built dark box with colourful light sources, producing unique photographs that are reduced to an interaction of colour tone, brightness and saturation, and in their colourful abstraction are reminiscent of the monochromatic colour surfaces in Mark Rothko’s paintings.« (Barbara Esch Marowski) © Maria Jauregui Ponte –  o.T./ Überstrahlung usk, 2011-2012 »Maria Jauregui Ponte plays with light – and (almost) blindly! This creates images in which colors, lights and lines of light arise a mysterious world. However, […]

until 17.08. | #2509ARTatBerlin | Esther Schipper presents from 27th June 2019 an exhibition by the artists Christoph Keller, Hito Steyerl and Tao Hui. Esther Schipper is pleased to bring together works by Christoph Keller, Hito Steyerl and Tao Hui. Christoph Keller has been with the gallery since 1997; Hito Steyerl and Tao Hui joined the program recently. If the works presented here are characterized by a variety of forms, they all address issues of identity, belongings and migration. While Christoph Keller’s body of work reflects upon the traces left by history and politics on our urban landscape, Hito Steyerl makes visible our society’s political contradictions and hypocrisies through a system of cultural references. Tao Hui’s immersive multimedia installations bend the boundaries of fiction and reality to address cultural and identity related issues. Tao Hui, The Tangible Ones, 2018 Courtesy the artist and Esther Schipper, Berlin / Photo © Gallery Vacancy, Shanghai Vernissage: Thursday 27 June 2019, 6:00 – 9:00 Uhr Exhibition period: Thursday, 27 June – Saturday, 17 August 2019   Image caption Tao Hui, The Tangible Ones, 2018 / Courtesy the artist and Esther Schipper, Berlin / Photo © Gallery Vacancy, Shanghai Exhibition Christoph Keller, Hito Steyerl, Tao Hui – Esther […]

until 03.08. | #2506ARTatBerlin| Galerie Inga Kondeyne – Raum für Zeichnung shows from 28th June 2019 the exhibition by the artist Kazuki Nakahara.  We cordially invite you to the “backstage” exhibition opening, with a small selection of new drawings by Kazuki Nakahara. On stage opens at the same time the Wichtendahl Galerie: MATS BERGQUIST I Vintersaga. Kazuki Nakahara came from Tokyo via Vienna to Berlin in 2005 to study here. In the rapidly changing art world of this city he now asserts himself as an extraordinary draughtsman. Nakahara draws tightly meshed, linear networks with coloured pencil over the papers. At first glance, signs that cannot be unravelled are mostly horizontally flowing, woven into often overlapping worlds of lines. These, in turn, open up into long, excessive structural formations, which atmospherically surround light zones and flows. Motion patterns are fathomed in the interaction with and against each other, in collision or disappearance on levels of the surface newly conquered by him. A remarkable openness to the world spreads out graphically on the white papers. Kazuki Nakahara, o.T., 2019, Buntstift, Kreide auf Papier, 30 x 84 cm Biography: Born 1980 in Kagawa/Japan; 2000-05 studies at Yokohama City University; 2005-10 studies at Kunsthochschule […]

until 22.06. | #2503ARTatBerlin | EIGEN + ART Lab presents from 20th June 2019 for three days the exhibition make a wish (microdose) by the artist Felix Leon Westner with a performance at the opening evening. Language as a mirror, the commentary as shields reflecting possible meanings of signs. Harmony as an old pal and a false friend, triggering fantasies of rhythm and therefore of orientation and belonging. Swift-flowing sketches of conversations of the now, the never, the ever. We yearn to make sense as we love to get lost. Felix Leon Westner works with our desires. He blows them up, he microdoses them down. His practice is combining pop and poetry with rave and analytical reflections. He is a musician performing a set of songs on a stage. Putting layers of sound – that originate from his organ of speech but are mainly noises with snippets of language – on top of each other, looping them to create scapes that could almost be called tracks but is than breaking them off before they become too harmonic, too rhythmic, too much of an earwig. At the same time Westner is a stenographer. The drawings that he produces while performing – […]

until 11.07. | #2500ARTatBerlin | Laura Mars Gallery presents from 15th June 2019 the solo exhibition DOPE ON CANVAS by the Berlin artist DAG. The dose makes the dope. The latest series of paintings by the Berlin artist DAG explores the fine line between ecstasy and crash, pleasure and hangover. From 15 June to 11 July 2019 it will be shown for the first time by the Laura Mars Gallery. DAG’s latest works concentrate on lines that are loosely or condensed into lucid geometric objects. They stagger brightly in color on darkly set canvases, cross, overlap, form alliances and dissonances, entice the viewer to explore their own lights and shadows. Like layers of electronic music, the layers of lines overlap, are dissolved, rewritten, form parallel tracks in a compositional network. Following the ideas of Concrete Painting as formulated by Theo van Doesburg, DAG’s compositions are entirely concentrated on color and composition. They need no content, no art historical reference, when edges and angles, formations and surfaces incessantly change the direction of seeing, thinking and feeling. Because DAG’s pictures could be anything – traces, objects and at the same time their dissolution. “Subversion must create its own chiaroscuro,” writes Roland Barthes […]

until 24.07. | #2497ARTatBerlin | Galerie mutare shows from 22nd June 2019 an exhibition with paintings by the artist Karl Oppermann. Karl Oppermann was born in 1930 in Wernigerode.
 After graduating from high school, he studied at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Berlin. From 1970 to 1985 he worked as a freelance artist in his studio on the island of Elba (Italy). From 1971 to 1996 he was a professor for free painting at the Hochschule der Künste, today Kunst Universität Berlin. In 2008 the “Stiftung Karl Oppermann” was established together with the Hochschule Harz. The painter’s works have already been shown in numerous national (including Schloss Charlottenburg/Berlin, Hamburg) and international exhibitions (including New York, Venezuela, Colombia). His works can be found in public and private collections such as the Jewish Museum, Berlin, Prussian Cultural Heritage – Kupferstichkabinett, Dresden, Landesmuseum Bonn, Biblioteca Nacional de Madrid. Karl Oppermann – Glaube, Liebe, Hoffnung, Öl_Lw, 130 x 150 cm, Jahr 2000 Seit 1989 arbeitet Karl Oppermann in seinen Ateliers in Barcelona (Spanien) und im Harz. Vernissage: Saturday, 22nd June 2019, 7:00 – 9:00 p.m. Exhibition period: Saturday, 22nd June – Wednesday, 24th July 2019 Opening hours during June and July 2019: Wed […]

until 27.07. | #2493ARTatBerlin | Galerie Nordenhake Berlin presents from 8th June 2019 the exhibition Fool’s Gold – Pirate with paintings from the Eighties by the artist Harvey Quaytman. Looking at the paintings of American abstract artist Harvey Quaytman (1937-2002) and his prolific oeuvre spanning four decades, one is struck by the sheer physical presence of the works and the richness of shapes, colours and materials. His distinctive and personal approach towards abstraction resists any facile attempt to grasp or canonize. Curator Apsara DiQuinzio places Quaytman’s approach at the junction of “Abstract Expressionism, Minimalism, Process art, and Constructivism — a place where considerations of line, distilled geometric forms, materiality, atmosphere, and texture all coalesce.” Galerie Nordenhake presents a selection of paintings, conceived between 1980 and 1995, when Quaytman decided to work under a creative restrain, limiting himself to the basic form of a square canvas containing an equilateral cross. The cruciform unites and at the same time divides the picture, establishing four smaller squares within the painting’s overall square frame. Within these confines Quaytman found a structure in which he studied, in seemingly endless variations, the interplay between symmetry and asymmetry. He builds a rhythm through repetitions, shape, texture—and colour. […]

until 31.08. | #2492ARTatBerlin | 68 projects presents from 27th June 2019 in cooperation with Villa Aurora & Thomas Mann House e.V. the exhibition of the artists of the 68projects residence program Michael John Kelly and Rachel Eulena Williams. 68projects is pleased to present a duo presentation featuring Los Angeles artist Michael John Kelly and New York artist Rachel Eulena Williams. Kelly’s large-scale paintings and drawings as well as William’s object-like works were all created during their stay in Berlin as part of our residency program. The exhibition provides an insight into the artists’ practices and a unique reflection on the influences their stay in Berlin had on their work. At the invitation of Villa Aurora & Thomas Mann House e.V., Michael John Kelly spent two months as Berlin fellow in Berlin. For his stay, Kelly brought more than 40 digital paintings on paper with him, which he successively tore apart over the period of the residency. His art, situated between digital drawing, video art and classical abstract painting, references an entire era of artistic practice.His aim is not so much to translate digital painting back to its analogue counterpart, but instead to connect them, making them experienceable. Williams also explores the conditions […]

until 22.06. | #2487ARTatBerlin  | Galerie Eigenheim presents from 31st May 2019 an exhibition with photography and installation by the artist Julia Scorna at the salon of the gallery. In her photographs, objects and installations, Julia Scorna discovers a sensual, poetic way discussing the human being and behavior towards nature. Scorna deals with sustainability issues, as well as beliefs in the digital age; embedded between progress and the eternal search for meaningfulness of existence. Her photographs are taken during many travels on which the analog medium format camera is her constant companion. Due to the choice of a film material with high photosensitivity, the large-format prints as well as the play with the depth of focus and natural or artificial light situation, often creates a picturesque aesthetic, which quite reveals references to the romantic painting of the 19th century. The pictures showing mountain views, which are influenced by humans, or landscapes, in which strange-looking testimonies of human existence, such as cement plants or wind turbines are embedded; In Marocco Scorna photographed palm trees, which are actually transmission towers, or took pictures of underground garden in the Paris Metro in another series. The absence of men – is something that these […]

until 15.06. | #2484ARTatBerlin | Galerie Sievi currently presents the exhibition by the artists Gudrun Sailer and Beate Bitterwolf. Plantares, Floridez, Horizonte – nature as inspiration, this is the great constant of Beate Bitterwolf’s artistic work for the painter born and raised in the Allgäu. The close-up view of the organic world of the plants on the one hand, the wide view into the depths of the landscape, the mountains, the earth on the other hand. Her painting moves between large expanse and small-scale painterly structures. In detail as in the overall view, her paintings are characterized by a great variety of techniques, structures and movements. There are almost always crossings and overlaps. The canon of forms seems to have sprung from the painterly process and to have been guided by a dynamic movement. Beate Bitterwolf, Floridez 19-1-4, 60 x 100 cm, 2019 The concept of the pictures flows together with the particularities of the techniques: flowing, glazing, brushing as Beate Bitterwolf calls it, masking, smoothing, collaging, hatching, pouring – all these achievements of the informal – are used by her in a variety of ways. Leaving this context and contrary to the laws of the informal, the artist drives […]

until 03.08. | #2482ARTatBerlin| Daniel Marzona presents from 21st June 2019 the solo exhibition Berlin Floater 2019 (after Marfa Floater silver/gold, Marfa, 2019) by the artist Mischa Kuball. Mischa Kuball (born 1959) lives and works in Düsseldorf. He has been working as a conceptual artist in the public and institutional sphere since 1977. He uses light as a medium to explore architectural spaces as well as social discourses, public and private space merge into an indistinguishable whole in politically motivated participation projects. The question of a contemporary definition of public space art  has undergone a substantial change since the 1970s up until our time. Since 2009, Mischa Kuball has developed a series of sitespecific installations entitled ’public preposition’ – a group of works, interventions, projects, and performances made over a period of several decades. What they have in common is that they appeal to a public sphere and implicitly question in what locations and under what circumstances what we mean by “public” is constituted and how it should be understood. In that project series Mischa Kuball reposits the topic oft he oublic space within an extended context. “Preposition” here means words, such as “at/auf”, “among/unter” or “beside/neben” and thereby the relationship between […]

until 26.05. | #2480ARTatBerlin | Semjon Contemporary is presenting the exhibition 48 hrs with all artists of the gallery on only two days (25 + 26 May 2019) on the occasion of the imminent temporary closure of the gallery spaces. Unusual circumstances require unusual measures. Due to the Berggruen Holding’s renovation of Schröderstraße 1 for the tenants – mainly for the benefit of the holding – the gallery has to close for a longer period of time. For the artists* inside the gallery, but also for the gallery, this means a loss of presence for a period not yet precisely defined and thus the loss of the possibility of selling their art. For all gallery visitors*, the presentation of artworks in the small cabinet rooms such as the Schaulager or the office (often also in the other rooms) in Semjon’s Hängung is an appreciated institution within the gallery’s programme and its appearance. This concept has helped to secure the gallery’s economic base for almost eight years. Therefore, in order to survive the coming economic drought, the 48 hrs exhibition, which lasts only two days, has been created. As a thank-you for the loyalty of the returning gallery visitors and as […]

until 08.06. | #2454ARTatBerlin | Galerie Berlin shows until 8 June 2019 a group exhibition of painting and sculpture. Participating artists: Erich Heckel, Bernhard Heisig, Alfred Hrdlicka, Franziska Schwarzbach Vernissage: Thursday, 25 April 2019, from 6 p.m. Exhibition period: Thursday, 25 April – Saturday, 8 June 2019   Image caption: Courtesy of Galerie Berlin – Erich Heckel Exhibition Erich Heckel, Bernhard Heisig, Alfred Hrdlicka, Franziska Schwarzbach – Galerie Berlin | Contemporary Art – Zeitgenössische Kunst – ART at Berlin  

until 13.07. | #2447ARTatBerlin | Galerie Judin currently shows the first solo exhibition of the artist Michael Buthe with the gallery entitled Die Tagebücher und Buchobjekte 1963-1994 (> The diaries and book objects 1963-1994). Michael Buthe (1944-1994), whose 75th birthday and 25th anniversary of death are this year, is undoubtedly one of the most dazzling artistic personalities of German post-war art. With his eccentric appearance, his spectacular exhibitions, his commuting between Cologne and Marrakech, his professorship at the Düsseldorf Art Academy and his close friendships to Sigmar Polke, Jürgen Klauke and Blinky Palermo, he is an integral part of German art history. The fact that his life-affirming and color-intensive work is rooted in a conceptual understanding of art and is not exhausted in a carefree, aestheticized reception of the “Orient” is demonstrated by none of his groups of works as forcefully and touchingly as his so-called “diaries”. These artist’s books, which Buthe designed with the means of drawing, painting, collage and assemblage – but hardly with writing and text – not only provide a comprehensive insight into the artist’s entire oeuvre, but also reflect his entire life: his formative youth and study years in Kassel, his open studio in Cologne […]

until 25.05. | #2462ARTatBerlin | Kronenboden shows until 25th May 2019 the exhibition Ersatz – Originale (Substitute – Originals) by the artist Billy Cowie. The dancer, who is projected into the gallery space and consists solely of light, is experienced by the visitors in the gallery space with the help of LCD shutter glasses, life-size and up close. Vernissage: Friday, 12 April 2019, 7:00 p.m. Exhibition period: Friday, 12 April to Saturday, 25 May 2019 WHERE? Kronenboden, Schwedenstraße 16, 13357 Berlin Wedding, U-Bahn Osloer Straße WHEN? by appointment (0152 09425100) and at the Kolonie Wedding weekend 26 to 28 April 2019   Image caption: Billy Cowie, tangochair Billy Cowie – Kronenboden | Contemporary Art Berlin Zeitgenössische Kunst Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin

bis 15.06. | #2444ARTatBerlin | Esther Schipper currently shows the exhibition Some Other Life by the artist Ryan Gander.  On the occasion of Gallery Weekend 2019, Esther Schipper is pleased to present Ryan Gander’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. Some Other Life will feature new works—sculptures, installations, and a video—all articulated around the notion of illumination and enlightenment, both physical and metaphorical, notably through the use of neutral or middle grey, a tone that is perceptually about halfway between black and white on a lightness scale. Many of the exhibited works incorporate the use of rechargeable batteries for the storage of electricity that allow the works to function. In the artist’s own words: “Not only are many of the works conceptual timepieces unto themselves, but like our individual life cycles, they are quite simply running out. This relates to the mortality of the human condition and our anxiety around the influence we play in the world during our time here.” Upon entering the exhibition space, visitors encounter two rolls of pure white carpet, partially unrolled and positioned side by side on the floor, show wheel tracks and footprints left by two vehicles and their drivers in what could be […]

until 21.06. | #2457ARTatBerlin | Peres Projects currently presents the exhibition ultrapath by the artist Beth Letain. It is Beth Letain’s second solo exhibition at the gallery, opening on the occasion of Gallery Weekend Berlin, 2019. Beth Letain’s monumentally scaled paintings are adamantly, absurdly honest about what they are: brightly colored stripes, squares, stacks, and slabs suspended across impossibly weightless white grounds. These are lively and quotidian forms, easily named but stubbornly resistant to description. In their simplicity, their unassuming thematic variations, these works hold up a mirror to painting’s modernist past. Reflected in them we can see Malevich’s quest to materialize the immaterial, to make color float in an imagined infinite; also echoed is Gertrude Stein’s strict assurance that there is no repetition, only insistence. The ghosts of the old guard are here, represented by the material directness of the paintings and the painter’s curiosity about the operations of vision, about how almost nothing may be built into absolutely something. But these engagements of modernist problem solving, modernist rigor, and modernist entanglement with material and form have refused the self-seriousness that defines that canon. Letain makes paintings that are both top-heavy and weightless, guffawing and full of grace. These […]

until 29.07. | #2474ARTatBerlin | H ART MANN GALLERY shows from 18th May 2019 an exhibition with new works by the artist Michael Bause. It is the third exhibition of the artist in the H ART MANN GALLERY. Michael Bause o.T. 2019 acrylic, lacquers on cotton 80 x 60 cm Vernissage: Friday, 17 May 2019, 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. The artist will be present. Exhibition period: Saturday, 18 May – Saturday, 29 June 2019   Image caption: Michael Bause o.T. 2019 acrylic, lacquers on cotton 80 x 60 cm Exhibition Michael Bause – H ART MANN GALLERY | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin  

until 29.05. | #2465ARTatBerlin | Stella A. currently presents the exhibition Plan with paintings by the artist Peter Scior. In this exhibition we are presenting paintings from two new series by Peter Scior. One of those series is about spatial rooms and ties in with the theme of the interior. The deserted rooms are like stages awaiting action. The incoming sunlight is projecting stains and color patches on walls and objects, thereby forming a composition, a plane sketch on a plane- on the wall, on the floor, eventually on the flat canvas. Karton, Öl auf Leinwand, 40 x 30 cm, 2019 In the other series boxes can be detected waiting for their assembling. The boxes lie flat on the floor. Here too, the focus is on transitional states, on relocation, on removal into a future situation. The cool paintings of Peter Scior look like film stills referring to past or future situations. Raum 1, Öl auf Leinwand, 50 x 60 cm, 2019 In these as well as in other paintings Scior is focusing on the silent qualities of painting and make them visible. Experiences with abstract painting are echoed in the display of elementary shapes of light and shadow. „Space is created […]

until 22.06. | #2435ARTatBerlin | Blain|Southern Berlin currently presents the solo exhibition Indeterminacy by the artist Bernar Venet. Blain|Southern Berlin presents two major bodies of works from the last decade by conceptual artist Bernar Venet (b. 1941, France). The exhibition debuts Venet’s Continuous Curve series, which stems from the artist’s renowned Indeterminate Line sculptures, several iterations of which are shown here, alongside related works on paper. Five large Indeterminate Line sculptures of looping rolled steel stand freely on the ground floor of the gallery. Their order and balance find their counterpoint in what appears to be the same loops, collapsed into a chaotic heap that obstructs the entrance. Venet describes this Effondrement: Five Indeterminate Lines and the accompanying Indeterminate Lines as “the result of improvised, intuitive, and empirical work. These sculptures don’t create themselves. One must witness their production to understand how difficult it is to cold-twist these full steel bars, the largest of which measure 11 centimetres in square section. One then understands the dangers to which I expose myself and the physical efforts that I am subjected to. At each instant it is necessary to find improvised solutions so that I can attain the desired goals”. The upper […]

until 01.06. | #2446ARTatBerlin | Galerie EIGEN + ART Berlin currently presents the exhibition Dystopia by the artist Martin Eder. The Devil holds the strings that move us! In repugnant things, we discover charms; Every day we descend a step further toward Hell, Without horror, through gloom that stinks. Charles Baudelaire, from the Foreword to Les Fleurs du Mal, 1857-1866. Oil slicks and seas of plastic, poison gas bombs and aerial attacks, data theft and surveillance – the world is going under as we watch. The future? A bleak scenario. Martin Eder’s painting series is positioned in this dystopian overall mood. As a counter-vision to the optimistic but unrealistic no-place of utopia, his dystopia has long since come into being; his pictorial world has taken it in, quietly and subversively. The bleakness does not manifest itself as a black apocalypse, not as destruction or purgatory, but conceals itself in the violet sky, in neon lamps and concrete ruins, in wrecked cars instead of dead nature. With the stylistic means and motifs of dystopian fiction – whether Orwell’s 1984 or Matrix – Martin Eder creates a feeling, a light, into which he plunges his pictures. It shifts between isolation and repression, […]

until 22.06. | #2432ARTatBerlin | Galerie Inga Kondeyne – Raum für Zeichnung presents from 10th May 2019 the exhibition by the artist Hanns Schimansky. “In the folds, as others have already mentioned, the artist transfers a drawing into a physical presence, a palpable thing whose folded surface works together with the drawn forms. The distances that separate the forms are as important as the forms themselves. And yet, once again, it is impossible to recognize an underlying order in its placement. The realm in which they find themselves and which they define is completely abstract. We have experienced a world outside discursive language that is at once unapproachable and intimate, reserved and expressive. By going beyond the scope of language and its ability to verbalize, Schimansky achieves very differentiated and specific seeing and viewing. These circumstances mix unlikely possibilities such as awe and fear, playfulness and despair, community and isolation. Such strong, imaginative blends are important components in the regeneration of our daily lives. That’s why Schimansky’s work is so important.” John Yau, Necessary Drawings, catalogue: Hanns Schimansky La Ligne Claire, p. 69 o.T., 2012, Faltung, Tusche, Gouache, 40,5 x 46 cm Hanns Schimansky, Born 1949; grew up in Stralsund […]

until 28.06. | #2428ARtatBerlin | Galerie Gilla Lörcher presents from 26th April 2019 the solo exhibition Beauty treads a razor edge with works by the artist Joanna Jones. Artist statement: Beauty treads a razor edge „Let the bitter be bitter and the sweet be sweet until the bitter and the sweet become one. These words, that I first heard spoken by activist and mystic Jim O’Dea, stayed with me during the 16 month period in which I made these paintings. I paint using a performative process that positions my body as an agency of a particular kind of knowing, taking painting into the territory of an event – a constitution of elements that make something happen: the consistency of the paint, my choice of colour, what concerns my mind, what vibrates through my body, what rings in my ears. Alexander Kluge said that the only thing that we own is ourselves – it’s true but there is nothing to which we are not connected.“ – Joanna Jones March 2019 The British artist Joanna Jones lives and works in Dover (UK). Following a foundation year at Northwich College of Art, she continued her studies in London at the Byam Shaw School. […]