bis 28.02. | #2365ARTatBerlin | Migrant Bird Space currently shows the exhibition Mount Meru & Mustard Seed by the artist Gao Yutao. Spanning a web of myths and microcosms, Gao Yutao’s first solo-exhibition at Migrant Bird Space Berlin revolves around the theme of “stone”: the stone as a prominent subject in Western & East-Asian mythologies, as a medium of spirituality and as an object of artistic merit in and of itself. The title of the exhibition, “Mount Meru & Mustard Seed”, goes back to Buddhist cosmology where the sacred Mount Meru is considered to be the center of all physical and spiritual universes. As the metaphor goes, fitting the entire five-peaked Meru into a tiny mustard seed means recogni-sing the potential of even the smallest things in life: both are subjects of thought and as such, they occupy the exact same space in the mind. In the first part of the exhibition, Gao Yutao uses scanned imagery of stone-structures and postcards from artworks on East-Asian & Greek mythology to create surreal large-scale prints which explore the interconnections of micro- and macro- Gao Yutao “Moon #2”, 2018, sculpture installation combining moon-stone as well as vinyl-records of Claude Debussy’s “Clair de lune” and […]

until 01.06. | #2362ARTatBerlin | Salongalerie Die Möwe shows from 7th March 2019 the exhibition Inescapable. The Bauhaus Artist Fritz Kuhr With our exhibition about the artist Fritz Kuhr (1899-1975) we are commemorating the founding of the Bauhaus in Weimar 100 years ago. Paving the way, educating talents, and offering a shelter for modern art, the Bauhaus was a place of innovation in the early XXth  century. Fritz Kuhr was a student and a teacher at this influential school of art and design from 1924 to 1930. His artistic work was particularly influenced by his teacher Paul Klee. Fritz Kuhr, Studie des Kükens, 1953, Öl auf Presspappe, 36 x 45 cm Our presentation refers to the creative spirit of the Bauhaus, a spirit that, in a multifarious way, continued to influence the artist’s work after the Second World War. The paintings give an expression of Kuhr’s inescapable artistic power, the independence of his œuvre, and the painter’s fondness for experiments. Vernissage: Thursday, 7th March 2019, 6:00 p.m. – the laudatory speech is given by Professor Philipp Oswalt, from 2003 to 2014 director of the Bauhaus-Dessau Foundation Exhibition period: Thursday 7th March to Saturday, 1st June 2019   Inescapable. The Bauhaus Artist Fritz […]

until 23.02. | #2359ARTatBerlin | Galerie Nordenhake Berlin currently shows an exhibition with sculptures by the artist Johannes Esper and paintings by the artist Lucas Reiner. The exhibition brings together two artists working in two different media: paintings by Lucas Reiner and sculptures by Johannes Esper. Informed by a profound engagement with their specific material, both artists rely on a subdued palette to create raw yet delicately structured works that are striking in their poetic subtlety. In the last years Johannes Esper has focused on creating hand moulded sculptures and wall objects in stoneware, a specific type of clay that is fired at high temperature in an industrial kiln. A beautiful matter of factness and an economy of means characterise the new sculptures in the exhibition. Some are reminiscent of Bruce Nauman’s early polyester resin sculptures or Carl Andre’s stacks. The deliberately untitled works are primarily based on one simple, irregular rectangular shape, that Esper at times stacks, strings, folds or cuts to create more complex forms. Their surfaces become richly nuanced and structured by merging the traces of the hand, remnants of sand and the possible glazing. Conscious of working with a highly determined medium, considered one of the […]

until 02.03. | #2356ARtatBerlin | KLEMM’S currently shows the exhibition dreams by the artist Fiona Mackay. “I was in the winter of my life, And the men that I met along the road were my only summer.” — Lana  Del Rey dreams. A fragment of time from 2017 to 2019, from the North to the South and back again where repetitions recur as hallucinations in both day and in night, awake or asleep. Leaving dreams to continue endlessly, where dreaming generally is forbidden. The second solo exhibition of the artist Fiona Mackay showcases a glimpse into the painter’s world of hallucinatory imagery, manifested as paintings on paper. Like reoccurring dreams, gestures, motifs and colors repeat throughout her works. The everydayness of paper as a supporting material is tied to the world of tactile reality, while its fragility and lightness – an innate quality of paper – is symbiotic to the sublime, whimsical world of dreams. “Who belonged to no one – who belonged to everyone. Who had nothing, who wanted everything, With a fire for every experience And an obsession for freedom That terrified me to the point that I couldn’t even talk about it – And pushed me to a […]

until end of May | #2353ARTatBerlin | Galerie Brockstedt shows from 21st March 2019 a solo exhibitions with bronze sculptures, paintings, drawings and graphics by the expressionist-cubist artist William Wauer. Once again, Galerie Brockstedt succeeded in bringing an important collection of Classical Modern art from a private collection in Zurich to Berlin. The collection consists of 20 bronze sculptures and 10 paintings by the expressionist-cubist artist William Wauer (1866-1962) from 1916 to 1930, along with various drawings and graphic works. The “jack-of-all-trades” William Wauer was born in 1866 in Oberwiesenthal/Erzgebirge as the son of an assistant preacher. His further career led him to study art, philosophy and art history in Dresden, Berlin, Munich and Leipzig. He travelled to the United States, to Vienna, Zurich and Rome, worked as editor, feuilleton editor and illustrator of magazines and as artistic expert for the Lingner-Werke in Dresden, where he developed the form of the ODOL bottle still in use today. In 1905 he went to Berlin and was brought to the Deutsches Theater by Max Reinhardt. He worked in radio and was a pioneer of silent film from 1911/12. William Wauer devoted himself to the fine arts from 1916 and created magnificent sculptures, drawings, […]

until 09.03. | #2352ARTatBerlin | Galerie Eigenheim shows from 15th February 2019 the exhibition GERMAN DREAM by the artist Marc Jung. Accompanying this, works by the artist Lars Wild will be shown in the newly created salon of the Eigenheim Gallery. Marc Jung GERMAN DREAM Marc Jung (*1985 in Erfurt) is a visual artist. He lives and works in Erfurt and Berlin. Jung studied fine arts at the Bauhaus University in Weimar, at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and completed his master’s degree at the Academy of Fine Arts Dresden. The work of Marc Jung is characterized by a fight between rules and anarchy, between harmony and destruction. His pictorial agenda being a social sweeping blow, it also contains reminiscences of Grosz and Dix,; and his direct and naive style catapults Basquiat’s expression into the Here and Now. His composition is a deconstruction beyond recognition of painters like Bacon and Velasquez. In doing so, he combines the dirt of today’s street with the heroes and conceptual theories of established classical painting, easily breaking down traditional genre boundaries. Marc Jung, BACON AND EGGX, 2016, mixed media on canvas, 200 x 150 cm Jung is a complete realist who has made […]

until 18.04. | #2349ARTatBerlin | GALERIE SPRINGER BERLIN presents from 12th February 2019 the exhibition ANTHROPOCENE – New Photographs by the Canadian artist and photographer Edward Burtynsky. »Mankind has reached a precarious point in the history of the planet it inhabits. Their influence on the Earth is stronger than all the forces of nature combined!« Edward Burtynsky’s comprehensive project “The Anthropocene” examines the state, dynamics and future of the Earth under the influence of man-made changes. In it he has created a multidisciplinary group of works comprising photography, film, virtual reality, augmented reality and scientific work. In the exhibition we show a high-ranking selection of photographs from the series. We cordially invite you and your friends to the opening of the exhibition on Saturday, February 9. At the same time we invite you to the artist talk with Edward Burtynsky on Thursday, 14.02.2019 at 19 o’clock in the gallery. We would also like to draw your attention to the film presentation of “Anthropocene: The Human Epoch” at the Berlinale. Heide & Robert Springer Vernissage: Saturday, 9. February 2019, 1:00 – 6:00 p.m. Exhibition period: Tuesday, 12th February – Thursday, 18th April 2019 Filmfestspiele Berlinale: Anthropocene: The Human Epoch Film by […]

until 23.02. | #2346ARTatBerlin | Galerie Michael Haas shows since 25th January 2019 a solo exhibition by the artist Peter Brüning with artworks from 1964 to 1970. In this exhibition, Galerie Michael Haas presents works from the artist’s final creative phase. Peter Brüning was born on 21 November 1929 in Düsseldorf and died at the age of 41 on 25 December 1970 in Ratingen. Rhein Nr. 22/66, 1966, oil on canvas 140 x 200 cm Vernissage: Friday, 25th January 2019, 7:00 – 9:00 p.m. Exhibition period: Friday, 25th January – Saturday, 23rd February 2019   Image caption: Rhein Nr. 22/66, 1966, oil on canvas 140 x 200 cm Exhibition Peter Brüning – Galerie Michael Haas | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibition Berlin Galleries| ART at Berlin  

until 06.04. | #2345ARTatBerlin | Sprüth Magers Berlin shows from 1st February 2019 the solo exhibition CUTS by the artist Astrid Klein.  At the heart of Astrid Klein’s work is a reflection on mechanisms of representation, (visual) stereotypes and power structures that guide and determine both our perception and our thinking. She combines existing visual material with equally important text fragments drawn from an in-depth examination of philosophical, aesthetic and scientific theories. Klein’s continuous re-arrangement, transformation and filtering of image and text elements gives rise to complex compositions that cannot be tied to any one, unequivocal statement. On the contrary, it is the viewer’s responsibility to find meanings and create semantic links within the works. They are provocative at the content level but not only; formally the works also testify to the artist’s enormous mastery of materials. Time and again, she questions the possibilities and limits of various artistic formats, whereby the potential of painting plays a particularly important role in her considerations. Astrid Klein, CUT II, 1986/1996 © Astrid Klein  The artist’s current exhibition at Sprüth Magers centres on a presentation of the CUTs (1986/1996) group of works. These collage pieces were first shown in 2018 as part of […]

until (to be announced) | #2341ARTatBerlin | Michaela Helfrich Galerie shows from 26th January 2019 the group exhibition Charlottenburger Hängung with artworks by 27 artist. “A Petersburg hanging does not only mean a collective hanging, but is also considered qualitatively and quantitatively in this country. If I translate this for our new exhibition, one could speak at eye level with art, because art is usually distributed on walls. This procedure then also determines one of its curatorial placement features by itself: young and established art mixes value-free on any accessible wall surface and thus becomes a “Charlottenburger Hanging” here in the district. Nothing is expected at first in Berlin, but a lot has always been expected in Petersburg. The eye must hurt, nothing fits and the “Charlottenburger Hängung” becomes an authentic art experience.” – Michaela Helfrich Exhibition view Gerard Waskievitz Participating artists: Gerard Waskievitz, Pina Rath, Simon Rosenthal, Jutta Kritsch, Jens Kloppmann, Simon Czapla, Nanako Shikata, Ulrike Pisch, Thomas Gatzemeier, Oliver Dehn, Gilbert Brohl, Pola Polanski, Horst Kistner, David D. Lauer, Stephan Seitz, Fabian Freese, Thomas Jüptner, Christina Gay, Stephan Paul Schneider, Bernhard Ailinger, Roland Behrmann, Andreas Koch, Oliver Estavillo, Lucas Oertel, Eva Maria Horstick, Heike Mardo, Jan Ziegler. Vernissage: Saturday, […]

until 09.03. | #2338ARTatBerlin | Galerie Barbara Weiss shows from 26th January 2019 the exhibition A Fatal Attraction with artworks by seven artists. Participating artists: Eva Barto Maria Eichhorn Richard Frater Jonathan Horowitz Samuel Jeffery Yuki Kimura Karin Schneider Vernissage: Friday, 26th January 2019, 6:00 – 9:00 p.m. Exhibition period: Saturday, 27th January – Saturday, 9th March 2019   Image caption: Courtesy of Galerie Barbara Weiss Exhibition A Fatal Attraction – Galerie Barbara Weiss | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin  

until 09.03. | #2335ArtatBerlin | Kristin Hjellegjerde Berlin shows from 19th January 2019 the exhibition “An Island of Truths” with the artist Maha Ahmed. Drawing on feelings of isolation and wonder, Maha Ahmed depicts the experience of identity as it is constructed and re-constructed through the narratives of others. Presenting a new body of work for her first solo show at Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery Berlin titled An Island of Truths, the Pakistani artist examines the impact of ‘othering’ on the construction of self and the concept of truth when it is contained within specific cultural boundaries. Her intricate, otherworldly visions of fantastical creatures and distant worlds, offer a poignant refection on her personal feelings of isolation, during a period of working and living in Tokyo, and the way in which we can view cultures different from our own. Ahmed dreams up imaginary worlds in which her characters — often mythical or hybrid creatures — are in some way at odds from their surrounding and other inhabitants, thus emphasising the seemingly minor differences that nonetheless create a haunting detachment between individuals sharing the same environment. “This whole imagery comes from my own experiences of feeling different,” admits Ahmed. “In Japan, the […]

until 02.03. | #2332ARTatBerlin | Galerie Born Berlin presents from 18th January 2019 the exhibition “Ogham” by the artist John Noel Smith.  The paintings deal with paint and pattern, but they are also deeply nourished by the world itself, by shapes in nature, by knots, by the shapes that appear when the structure of the world is closely, or microscopically, examined, by waves and particles. But the canvases are also nourished by the idea of connection and disruption, by the clash or the intersection between the straight line and the line that curls, by colour that is easily named and shades within shades that are much harder to be sure about, that hit the nervous system uneasily. John Noel Smith Some of the marks also suggest human marks, such as the swirls and elaborate designs in early Irish illuminated manuscripts, such as early writing, such as patterns in stonework, such as signs that have been left in the landscape by culture as much as by nature. They also embody or dramatize human struggles or the conflict between tension and ease, between what is coiled and highly charged and what has been assented to. Colm Tóibín Vernissage: Thursday, 17th January, 6:00 – 9:00 […]

until 16.02. | #2329ARTatBerlin | Galerie EIGEN + ART Berlin presents from 17th January 2019 the exhibition Odes To Relics by the artist Melora Kuhn. Melora Kuhn presents her first show of sculpture, mostly ceramic female heads, broken from their bodies, propped up and lying down; delicately and precariously balanced. The eyes are closed, allowing the viewer to gaze upon the wreckage without confrontation. At first glance, the sculptures appear as ancient relics, displayed as one would find at a museum. Pieces broken, puzzled together with dates of relevance as in MCMLXXI. The viewer is witness to a history turned to stone, to stories frozen in memory like the smudged lips of head MCMLXXXIV, as if a hand had just wiped the scarlet paint off a harlots mouth, in a state of permanently fallen disarray. Head MMVIII is missing its skull. It stands empty with the aid of an iron scaffolding, referencing structures of thought that support a facade. Melora Kuhn, MCMLXXXIV, 2018, glazed ceramic, 22,9 x 30,5 x 22,9 cm, photo: Chris Kendall By definition, an ode infers praise or gives poetic attention towards something. A relic is a piece of the body of a deceased holy person or an object of sentimental or historical […]

until 16.03. | #2326ARTatBerlin | Robert Morat Galerie presents from 19th January 2019 the exhibition Kleinstadt (Small Town) by the photographers couple Ute and Werner Mahler. “We have been interested in this topic for a long time, we worked on suburbs and non-exciting places before. We wanted to visit cities that are not in any travel guide and that are too far from the highway for people to pass through. These places are biotopes in which life seems manageable. Where there is great community, but also strong social control. Where there are no attractions, the little things become exciting.” Ute Mahler in an interview with ZEIT Magazin. Kleinstadt #01, 2016 Ute and Werner Mahler (born 1949 and 1950), were key figures in photography in the former GDR and co-founded the renowned photography agency Ostkreuz after the fall of the Wall. After having pursued successful careers for decades independently, the couple presented their first joint project in 2011, a series of black-and-white portraits titled “Monalisas of the Suburbs”. In 2014, a second joint project followed, “The Strange Days”, a series of large format landscape studies. Kleinstadt #23, 2016 Now the couple presents a new joint project and its third joint publication, […]

until 10.03. | #2322ARTatBerlin | Haus am Lützowplatz presents from 17th January 2019 the exhibition “Burning Man – Electric Sky” by the artist couple Römer + Römer. With “Burning Man – Electric Sky“, the Berlin-based artist couple Römer + Römer presents a new series of works at the Haus am Lützowplatz that is concerned with the Burning Man festival. The exhibition mainly consists of nocturnal images, in which the Black Rock Desert in the State of Nevada is turned into a make-believe world lit by thousands of artificial light sources. The in some cases very large pictures painted on canvas were created on the basis of a research trip made in 2017. Römer + Römer, Black Rock Bandits Raccoon, 2018, Öl und Acryl auf Leinwand, 230 x 300 cm Living and working together since 1998, the artists Nina and Torsten Römer (*1978 in Moscow and *1968 in Aachen) met at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf where they became master students of A.R. Penck. Their artistic work is based on the transmission of their photographs to large-format panels, offering viewers a juxtaposition that is both essentially sensual and media-reflexive. In the works by Römer + Römer, the indexical principle of photography – the testimony […]

until 08.03. | #2319ARTatBerlin | Köppe Contemporary presents from 25th January 2019 the exhibition Christian Rickert – Master of Light Dramatics with drawing and photography by the artist. For the first time we present the photographic work of Christian Rickert in addition to drawings. Until his withdrawal from the public art scene in 1986, Rickert was not only one of Berlin’s most outstanding illustrators, but was also internationally known, exhibiting with Baselitz, Beckmann, Beuys, Chagall, Chillida, Hockney, Hrdlicka, Janssen, Mirò, Picasso, Pollock, Richter, Tàpies, Vasarely, and Wols. Christian Rickert continued to develop his art in his Grunewald studio even after his retirement. With works never before shown in public, the exhibition rediscovers the artist’s work and focuses on works from the 1980s to the present day. Dr. Wolfgang Köppe Christian Rickert – Studie für ein Portrait Max Beckmann, 4.III-9.V.1983, 59,4 x 42 cm, Bleistift auf Papier Christian Rickert made headlines in the 1960s to 1980s. The Berliner received several awards for his virtuosic-furiose drawings with their socio-critical themes. In 1970 he received the renowned Ruhr Prize. Soon he was considered one of the metropolis’s greatest talents in the context of the critical Berlin realists in the group of such excellent […]

until 22.04. | #2316ARTatBerlin | me Collectors Room Berlin presents from 15th February 2019 the exhibition ZOO MOCKBA – Toy Animals from the Soviet Union – 1950 to 1980 – The Collection Köpcke & Weinhold. ‘ZOO MOCKBA – Toy Animals from the Soviet Union’ presents an exemplary selection of original toys produced between 1950 and 1980. Approximately 100 figures by eleven artists – all sourced from the Köpcke & Weinhold Collection, which comprises more than 400 objects in total – will be on view in the lounge of me Collectors Room Berlin from 15 February to 22 April 2019. Anonym, Lew Smorgon, Valeri Kotow, Evolution, 1960er Jahre, Plastik © Köpcke und Weinhold During the tsarist era, Russia had no toy industry of its own. Those who could afford it spoiled their children with dolls and toys from Germany and France; everyone else made do with handmade pieces carved from wood or sculpted from clay. Such objects reflected a traditional folk art aesthetic that in many ways still characterises the broader perception of Russian toys and Russian culture in general. But in the 1930s, when the Soviet Union’s first industrially manufactured toys first rolled off the assembly line, designs began mirroring aspects […]

until 09.03. | #2313ARTatBerlin | Galerie Thomas Schulte shows from 25th January 2019 at the Corner Space of the gallery the exhibition A Walking Artist by the artist Hamish Fulton. UPCOMING Dieter Appelt 26 January to 9 March Hamish Fulton (Corner Space) 26 January to 9 March “I describe myself as ‘a walking artist’. Walking art is the bringing together of two entirely separate activities, walking and art. I transform ideas into experienced realities. If I do not make a walk I cannot make any art. I am an artist who walks, not a walker who makes art. Not every artist enjoys walking and not every walker is tolerant of contemporary art. An artwork may be purchased, but my walks cannot be sold, stolen or re-produced by artificial intelligence. An artwork cannot re-present the experience of a walk. My walks range from multi-week solo camping treks to short communal urban walks involving up to several hundred participants. Every piece of art I materialise contains a walk text. I make art exclusively from walks that I have personally experienced. When the walk has been completed, the text can be written. The facts of the walk cannot be altered, but as time […]

until 21.12. | #2310ARtatBerlin | Galerie Gilla Lörcher shows from 15th December 2018 the solo exhibition One-single-artwork-show #8 with one artwork by the artist Joanna Jones. We cordially invite you to the One-single-artwork-show # 8 (Do-Sa 15-18 hrs open), where an abstract painting of the British painter Joanna Jones is in the centre. With this exhibition we say goodbye to the winter break. Joanna Jones Untitled, 210  x 160 cm, acrylic on canvas, Foto Gilla Loercher Joanna Jones’s practice over several decades has included painting and performance. Interested in the inter-connectedness of things, thoughts and encounters she has developed a performative process in painting that positions her body as an agency of a particular kind of knowing and takes painting into the territory of an event. 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. Jones received her National Diploma of Design in painting from Goldsmith`s College, and graduated from the Royal Academy Schools in 1970. Joanna Jones is a recipient of several art awards including the first prize in the Greater London Councils painting competition (1969), a […]

until 12.04. | #2307ARTatBerlin | Galerie Kornfeld presents for the Bauhaus year the solo exhibition Thin Lines by the artist Jan Tichy starting 17 January 2019. For the occasion of the Bauhaus Centennial, Chicago based artist and educator Jan Tichy has developed a solo exhibition for Galerie Kornfeld and organized a group exhibition for the project space 68projects across the street. Both exhibitions function as one project and are a continuation of previous engagements with the history of Bauhaus. In his text “Social Formalism” (2017) Tichy describes his works to exist at intersections where forms collide with their circumstances. Social formalism could be described as a socially conscious artistic practice which uses visually formalistic language. The artist often uses archive-based content to link historical layers and values to contemporary issues. With these practices he created in 2016 the exhibitionWeight of Glass at Galerie Kornfeld, mirroring the escape of Lucia Moholy from Berlin in 1933 and the subsequent loss of her work to the fate of today’s migrants.Installation no. 30 (Lucia) is on display at Akademie der Künste as a part of the Bauhaus Centennial opening festival. The exhibitionThin Lines is a contemplation on a contemporary social space resonating with local […]

until 20.12. | #2305ARTatBerlin | EIGEN + ART Lab currently shows the group exhibition CHEERS with artworks by artists of the last 12 month. Does it always get worse? The feeling that the year has just rushed by? At the Lab, we are still reminiscing about mild summer evenings that promised to never end. And suddenly it is November. Most of the people just continue with their year and slide into the new one – often not knowing what is happening today and what has happened yesterday. But not with us! We want to review the last year: CHEERS is a group exhibition, with works by artists the Lab has realised projects with during the last 12 months. The corporeality between the digital and the analog, the beginnings of media art, the artist as an influencer – we want to bring together all these topics another time. The Lab represents a new generation of artists that reflects upon the here and now. If you look at the here and now of one year, there is a lot to look at. We want to celebrate the chaos with you – maybe just to lift the dust a bit (maybe to get a clearer view): […]

until 31.01. | #2301ARTatBerlin | From December 2018 until the end of January 2019, Galerie1214 shows positions and developments of painterly motifs by artists of the gallery and from the collection. Britta Lumer‘s “Dyade” (2017) is a multi-perspective portrait with indian ink on paper and canvas, which brings the portrait of a head from a Rembrandt’s dark background. Britta Lumer, Dyade, 2017 Jessica Buhlmann‘s complex image “Folded Space” (2016) reveals the musical impregnation of the painter, supplemented by the object “Octett”. Jessica Buhlmann, Folded Space, 2016 By Marie Irmgard we show acrylic works on paper, which translate da Vinci’s stain-form experiments into the fluid. Marie Irmgard Isabel Borges is represented by constructivist picture collages and a small, enigmatic composition in acrylic. Isabelle Borges Isabelle Borges Isabelle Borges From the collection we show three plates by Wolfgang Betke a (virtual) triptych of haunting energy, which combines the symbolism of painting with a intricate design of the surfaces. Wolfgang Betke Wolfgang Betke Wolfgang Betke From Christina Michalis‘ oeuvre, we take up material-specific works with acrylic and sand from 2012, combined with the sophisticated foil print Avoid / Nobody (2017), homage and ironic refraction at the same time. Christina Michalis Exhibition period: Saturday, 1st […]

until 15.01. | #2298ARTatBerlin | axmann kunstgalerie presents from 1st December 2018 paintings by the French artist Daniel Therasse and the Italian artist Michela Crisotomi. Gallery owner Otto Axmann briefly introduces both artists: “Daniel Therasse was born in France in 1955. He has received various international exhibitions and awards, including the Prix de l’Assemblee. The art critic Luis Porquet (Une Vision Bouillonnante du Monde, 2013) compares Daniel Therasse with a social director who stages the daily life of people as a big, sometimes absurd carnival. He finds inspiration where life is concentrated. Be curious, look at his works of art. We cordially invite you.” Daniel Therasse “From our international art scene we present the artist Michela Crisostomi, born 1976 in Italy. Michela Crisotomi studied at the Accademia Belle Arti in Florence. She graduated from the Orneore Metelli School of Art. In 2011 she received the Gold Award of the International Festival of Contemporary Art of the city of Sulmona. Various publications including Stemperando. Curated by Giovanna Bar-Bero in cooperation with Nationale d’Arte Contemperanea. Michela Crisotomi’s art can be seen in exhibitions worldwide. Discovery is her keyword. To interpret icon painting in a contemporary way. We look forward to your visit.” Michela […]

until 26.01. | #2296ARTatBerlin | Blain|Southern Berlin presents from 1st December 2018 the solo exhibition Kenny by the artist Henning Strassburger. For his first exhibition with the gallery, Blain|Southern presents new paintings and works on paper by Henning Strassburger (b.1983 Meissen, Germany). Strassburger’s latest series of works entitled Kenny, can be seen as the continuation of two earlier series Pool and Jane. In all three, he draws references from pop-cultural semantics, where the deliberate adoption of an English word, over the native tongue, loads it with associative meaning. Strassburger’s seemingly spontaneous aesthetic belies a meticulous and pre-planned practice where themes and motifs unfurl across series and over time. First appearing in the Pool works (2014), elements such as the splashes, the grid and the subtle accentuation of the painting’s edges now reappear in his latest series. For Strassburger the grid plays an important role, firstly as the structure for most of his paintings, and also as a reoccurring visual motif. The splashes are, at once, gesture and signifier. The concrete grey gloss floor paint employed in several works here references Jane, Strassburger’s 2017 series of mixed media works that includes concrete sculptures in the form of the floor-plans to Jane […]

until 28.12. | #2291ARTatBerlin | Galerie aKonzept presents from 1st December 2018 the group show DEAD EXHIBITION. An almost narrative exhibition. The idea for this exhibition came after reading a short anonymous French text. The subtitle of the exhibition “An almost narrative exhibition” was chosen because the works on display do not directly illustrate the text or tell its story. They are a supplement to its content. Text: db, the grandson of the famous mb and the son of the less famous jb, lives in his grandfather’s house in a village far from a town, from which he was not allowed to leave and where he received us holding his dog on a leash, first for a coffee on the terrace of a restaurant near the station from which we came – I think he wanted to know if we were honest people before he let us into his house, formerly the house of his famous grandfather – where he sat in front of us and ordered a sausage sandwich and apple juice, a coffee and apple juice for us, without taking off his mirrored sunglasses, and we also did not take off ours, we talked about his dog, she […]

until 12.01. | #2276ARTatBerlin | Galerie Barbara Weiss presents since 20th November 2018 the solo exhibition Diary by the Ukrainian photographer Boris Mikhailov. Opening: Saturday, 17th November 2018, 6 – 9 pm Exhibition period: Tuesday, 20th November 2018 – Saturday, 12th January 2019   Image caption: Galerie Barbara Weiss – Boris Mikhailov Exhibition Boris Mikhailov – Galerie Barbara Weiss | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin

until 26.01. | #2285ARtatBerlin | Blain|Southern Berlin presents from 1st December 2018 the solo exhibition The Grinders Cease by the artist Mat Collishaw, his first with the gallery in Berlin. In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened…’ (King James Bible, Ecclesiastes 12:3) Blain|Southern is delighted to present The Grinders Cease, an exhibition by Mat Collishaw, his first with the gallery in Berlin. The exhibition testifies to the depth and breadth of Collishaw’s practice, with new and recent works including installation, sculpture, photography and painting. Collishaw is a key figure in an generation of contemporary British artists who came to prominence via the group show Freeze in 1988. He has never shied away from challenging subject matter, exploring ideas around death, destruction and decay. The artist is known for works that reference art history and create a contemporary dialogue with past masters. The Grinders Cease reflects his preoccupation with the vanitas theme, used since the Renaissance as a way of reminding viewers of the impermanence of worldly pleasures. The exhibition title is borrowed from the […]

until 19.01. | #2281ARTatBerlin | Galerie Michael Haas shows from 7th December 2018 the solo exhibition Across the garden with paintings by Reinhard Pods (*1951). Reinhard Pods, who was born in Berlin in 1951, is one of the Berlin savages around Bernd Koberling, Luciano Castelli, Rainer Fetting and others who expressively opposed the barren art of the 70s. From 1971 to 1977 Pods studied at the Hochschule der Künste Berlin and was a master student with Karl Horst Hödicke. He then spent a year in New York as part of a scholarship. In 1979 he founded together with Frank Dornseif, Ter Hell, Elke Lixfeld, Rainer Mang and Gerd Rohling the group and self-help gallery 1/61, named after the Kreuzberg postal delivery district. In contrast to the Berlin Wilden 1/61 was rather conceptual. The group organized a series of exhibitions from 1979 to 1980. During this time Pods was awarded the Villa Romana Prize, thanks to which he received a working scholarship in Florence. In 1988 he received the Villa Massimo Prize and returned to Italy. He was honored in 1986 in Bonn with the award of the Art Fund and also received the Will Grohmann Prize (1994) and the Fred Thieler Prize of […]

until 06.01. | #2279ARTatBerlin | König Galerie (Chapel) shows from 24th November 2018 the solo exhibition TENGAM TENGAM by the Korean artist Koo Jeong A. The work of Koo Jeong A incorporates objects with the capacity for transformation,still and moving images, sound and scent. These disparate mediums are combined with elements such as wind, gravity, and site-specific reconfigurations and interventions into architectural space. Often using commonplace matter in order to conjure alternative realities, Koo Jeong A traces a certain poetic within the nature of forms that permeate the universe. What underpins her transient approach to making is an interest in the minute details of our earthly environments and the cosmic constellations that simultaneously connect  and expand them. Koo Jeong A traverses these details with a flexible, rationalmovement where order and disorder, perception and memory, beauty and practicality are always oscillating. At König Galerie, Koo Jeong A presents a selection of her recent magnet artworks. The artist’s interest in this material is part of a ten-year exploration into its properties and potential uses. From an architectural tool to a relational object of healing, the magnet’s humble form is embedded with an expansive set of possibilities, which Koo Jeong A draws upon in […]

extended until 09.03. | #2277ARTatBerlin | Galerie Brockstedt presents from 23th November 2018 the solo exhibition Sculptures by the artist Hans Scheib. “Art does not reproduce the visible, but makes visible.” Paul Klee These words by Paul Klee seem to be written especially for the sculptor Hans Scheib, who was born in Potsdam in 1949. “As long as I can think back, I have dreamed of becoming an artist,” says this great, much honored wood sculptor of himself, who has always consistently refused to accept any fashionable or political trend in his free thinking. Hans Scheib, Die Welle (The Wave) With a chainsaw and chisel – sometimes in bronze – he creates figures of striking immediacy, interpreting the world in an honest, humorous and even unmistakably personal language. His timeless figures, often borrowed from mythology, tell of longing, loneliness, fragility, sexual hunger, humour and tragedy. Far from the aesthetics of beautiful appearance, he bases his work on the tradition of expressive formal language, which is rooted in the deliberate reflection of the coloured wooden sculpture of the Brücke Expressionists. Scheib’s creatures reflect the general human. They address us in a lively and profound way, touching us with their often wide open […]

until 12.01. | #2274ARTatBerlin | Brutto Gusto Fine Arts shows from 9th November 2018 the double exhibition with works by the Dutch ceramists Wietske van Leeuwen and Carolein Smit. Wietske van Leeuwen – ‘Rocambolesk’ 2015, pot with lid, stoneware 2015  Carolin Smit – ‘Medusa’ ceramics 2016 Vernissage: Friday, 9th November 2018 Exhibition period: Friday, 9th November 2018 – Saturday, 12th January 2019     Image caption: Courtesy by Brutto Gusto Fine Arts – Wietske van Leeuwen – Carolin Smit Exhibition Wietske van Leeuwen + Carolein Smit – Brutto Gusto Fine Arts | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin    

until 15.12. | #2268ARTatBerlin | H ART MANN GALLERY shows from 10th November 2018 the solo exhibition GEORDNET – UNGEORDNET by the artist Karsten Kelsch. I would like to cordially invite you to the next and last year’s vernissage at HART MAN GALLERY. With the title GEORDNET – UNÄORDNET I will present new works by KARSTEN KELSCH. Karsten Kelsch, Waldstück III, 2018, paper perforated with the deflection iron, 200 x 70 cm (detail) The first point bears witness to the next; Clusters, separations, distances, seals – just a grid. The point is the smallest graphical unit in it. The distances between the dots – whether open or condensed – create the visual image. The forest is a representation of mere conceivable abstraction; The invisible becomes visible with the help of the grid. Additional impressions in advance can be found at www.karstenkelsch.de To the opening, you and your friends are cordially invited. Opening: Friday, 9th November 2018, 7 – 9 pm Exhibition period: Thursday, 10th November – Saturday, 15th December 2018   Image caption: Karsten Kelsch Waldstück III 2018 Papier mit dem Ausschlageisen gelocht 200 x 70 cm (Detail) Exhibition Karsten Kelsch – H ART MANN GALLERY | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin […]

until 12.01. | #2261ARTatBerlin | Galerie ART CRU Berlin shows from 23rd November 2018 the exhibition INNOCENCE with figurines by the artist Rudi M. Bodmeier from the studio Augustinum in Munich. Oberschwester Eva-Maria Salat Steckrübe,  Farbstift/Fineliner auf Karton, 92 x 41 cm He combines elements from the animal, plant and thing world with drastic exaggeration to bizarre mixed creatures. They are buxom female bodies that Bodmeier puts in tight-fitting costumes, dresses or uniforms. Female connoted attributes such as breasts and hips are overemphasized or literally exaggerated. In their coquettish to elegant poses, they are reminiscent of mannequins and fashion photography. The women become virtually depersonalized and mutate into alien, dangerous beings. His caricaturing collages can irritate and upset. But they also allow us to critically review our mass media images of femininity. Klaus Mecherlein, who has been working with the artist for years as director of the studio Augustinum, speaks of a “puzzle of pupation and transformation, exile and strangeness”, an “aura of the unredeemed” that surrounds them, these “mixed creatures of woman and animal, woman and plant, woman and object. ” Fräulein Dibbels Dackel, 2008, Farbstift/Fineliner auf Karton His mostly 40-60 cm tall figures are created by the artist in a […]

until 01.12. | #2267ARTatBerlin | Esther Schipper presents since 26th October 2018 the exhibition The Light Pours Out by the artist Martin Boyce. Esther Schipper is pleased to announce The Light Pours Out, the first solo exhibition of Martin Boyce with the gallery. Martin Boyce has subtly transformed the gallery space by creating a system of ledges that cover the walls, transforming their surfaces into sculptural settings and formal frames for his sculptures. With the presentation of new works from his series of painted perforated steel panels with attached metal elements, large screens and works from his series of Jesmonite plates, the artist continues his hybridization of different traditions of art, architecture, design and urbanism – both western and eastern , modernist and historical. Based on lines from the Cubist Concrete Trees of 1925 by the brothers Jan and Joël Martel, who have acted as “lexicon of forms” for the artist since 2005, the strips refer both to the history of architectural ornamentation and to the fondness of the 18th and 19th centuries Century for ornaments. In this context, they refer in particular to the history of exhibitions – the pattern of the rectangles gives space a new rhythm, literally […]

until 17.11. | #2258ARTatBerlin | Philipp Haverkampf Galerie currently shows the Solo Exhibition SUPERMAN RETURNS WITH SWIMMERS by the painter Katherine Bradford. Bradford ‘s paintings have their roots in abstract, gestural painting. Little by little fguration found it’s way into her work. A current new aspect, is the size of her subjects; her work was formerly populated by mainly smaller fgures. Nowadays, larger shapes are often positioned prominently on the canvas. These fgures do hold the paintings‘ composition.The fgures themselves are striking patches of colour, which structure the image and merge it in unity: blazing magenta next to a night-sky blue, and warm yellow next to a burly red come together to embody fresh and spherical paintings. Standing in the tradition of abstract expressionism and color feld painting, Bradford’s paintings, flled with fgures and set in motion, are reminiscent of works by Mark Rothko or Barnett Newman. They also evoke the light-fooded rooms of a James Turrell, brought to the screen, in which her protagonists capture the stage of the scene and perform peculiar choreographies. Radical self-empowerment, superhero(ines), compassion and social cohesion are the cornerstones that make up Bradford’s fantastical world. At the same time feelings of foreboding, isolation and […]

until 29.11. | #2230ARTatBerlin | Galerie Schwind currently presents a solo exhibition with new paintings by the artist Markus Matthias Krüger. At the start of Kunstherbst, Gallery Schwind Berlin is opening an exhibition on September 29, 2018 at 3 pm with new works by the Leipzig artist Markus Matthias Krüger. Krüger is completely committed to the landscape. People do not appear on his paintings, but are constantly present in the leftover civilization relics, deserted architecture and domesticated nature. By reducing the pictorial elements to their basic geometric basic forms, the mathematically rigorously constructed perspectives and the endless repetition of motifs, such as straw bales of trees or bricks, the infinite is finally made visible. More and more, the observer gains the impression that the landscape is used by the artist as an intensive field of experimentation for the exploration of form and color, in which he carefully arranges his pictorial forms and the classification into a pure landscape painting is no longer quite suitable. In the tension between old-masterly-fine-painter precision and modern clarity of his compositions Krüger justifies a reinterpretation of the genre and its role as a renewer of contemporary landscape painting. Markus Matthias Krüger, 35 Strohballen, 2018, Acrylic and […]

until 08.11. | #2223ARTatBerlin | H. M. Klosterfelde Edition currently shows the exhibition LOVE PODIUM (travel version) by Dan Peterman. A series of events will be taking place around the LOVE PODIUM throughout this fall: Annika Kahrs THIS IS A LOVE SONG: September 28 2018, on occasion of art berlin gallery night Kasia Fudakowski: October 11 2018 Mareike Begner & Eric Winkler: October 17 2018 The Performance Agency presents Realities: November 7 2018 Courtesy of H.M. Klosterfelde Edition – Dan Peterman – Foto: dotgain.info  Originally conceived in 2006, Dan Peterman‘s sculpture and performance workLove Podium testifies to the myriad forms and circuits through which democracy takes shape. In a time when the struggle between right and leftist politics has returned to Europe with grave consequences, Peterman’s political playfulness can be understood as a welcoming antidote, to virulent political tribalism. The first iteration of Love Podium comprised two speech podiums, arranged in opposite directions on a platform, and constructed from planks of recycled plastic. When visitors assumed these oppositional positions and began speaking, a literally conflicted discourse ensued, with their words clashing and rhyming unpredictably. As with the current version of Love Podium – wherein artists and musicians have taken the role of speakers – this socially activated sculpture produced […]

extended until 29.11. | #2255ARtatBerlin | Galerie Gilla Lörcher shows from 27th of October 2018 the solo exhibition Support with new works by the Chilean artist Franzisco Roza. Galerie Gilla Lörcher | Contemporary Art is very excited to present the new objects by Chilean artist Francisco Rozas (*1980). Since 2013 Francisco Rozas is concentrating on the construction of big, fragile, geometric objects, that oscillate between flatness and three-dimensionality. They embody exemplary visualisations of mathematical dependencies. Only on second sight the observer may realize, that the objects are made of light materials, such as card paper or paper. SUPPORT is the artist´s third solo show at Galerie Gilla Lörcher. With his installation “In Planning” (2014), Francisco Rozas investigated the process of designing and the gallery space as a permanent site of construction. His solo „Pretending“ (Gallery Weekend 2016) comprised a large amount of 2 meter tall objects arranged all over the gallery like models on a catwalk. Francisco Rozas, Untitled, 2018, paper, wood, 180 x Ø 16 cm (Detail). Foto: Francisco Rozas 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 […]

until 22.12. |#2250ARTatBerlin | Stella A. shows from 19th October 2018 the Group Exhibition AMPLE FOOD FOR STUPID THOUGHT featuring works by Joseph Beuys, George Brecht, Marcel Duchamp, Robert Filliou, Ludwig Gosewitz, Alison Knowles, Takako Saito, Tomas Schmit, Jiri Valoch et al. AMPLE FOOD FOR STUPID THOUGHT[1] Once upon a time …” could be the fabulous beginning of an article on an art epoch when artists were turning towards the insignificant and every day life. What is meant, is the time of Fluxus-Art. When it began and when it came to an end or if it ended at all, is disputed. Whether it is or was a movement comparable to the Dada movement for example, is also undecided. It is even unclear which artists belonged or belong to Fluxus. „Maciunas was the only one who had a concrete idea of what Fluxus meant, but I am very much for leaving it uncertain. I much prefer each doing what he wants to do. .. nobody can say who or what Fluxus is. I find this nice.“[2] Besides the spectacular actions, concerts and performances of the Fluxus-artists there is a more quiet side of Fluxus which is easily overlooked and overheard. For more than 50 years […]

until 17.11. | #2249ARTatBerlin | Galerie EIGEN + ART Berlin shows from 18th October 2018 the solo exhibition Malafonte by the artist Nicola Samorì. Nicola Samorì’s human figures are frozen in fear. Their faces are darkened by a large abstract segment, a sinister source, a “poisoned well” coming from within the centre of the works: the “mala fonte”. Framing the cavity, the figures are stricken with dismay, their translucent bodies are festered. A tempest appears to have dissolved them. The “mala fonte” is an unknown disaster, an erosion, a tragedy that can’t be explained, something intangible. It is a mental composition, Samorì’s works rely on: The feeling that fear is dominating our lives. Malafonte, Nicola Samorì’s first solo exhibition at Galerie EIGEN + ART Berlin, is influenced by an artistic period during which the emotional expression of fear has been ubiquitous. Between 1520 and 1600, the artists of Mannerism directly coped with tragedies such as Sacco di Roma, a violent depredation of the city of Rome. Works like Il serpente di bronzo by the Fiorentine artist Agnolo Bronzino were influenced by the pain the artist experienced. Fear was a condition of Mannerism. To Samorì, we are living in Manneristic times again. It […]

until 24.11. | #2246ARTatBerlin | Semjon Contemporary presents from 12th October 2018 the exhibition It’s not dark yet… by the artist Dittmar Danner aka Krüger. Dittmar Danner aka Krüger is known to us as Dittmar Krüger: The new name irritates. That’s the program! His familiar ‘signature art’ is the color space cube, the wall object that unites both painting and object. The painting takes place primarily within the ‘cut’ cubes. The mostly 12 cm deep boxes are mainly aligned high rectangular. His painting in the box has in the past often evoked the question of whether an artificial light source was integrated into it. Not without reason she was asked. The artist creates a visual experience by the skillful choice of his color (for example Cadmium Yellow in combination with Cadmium Orange or Prussian Blue with Ultramarine). The luminosity of the color is enhanced by the pre-glazed, with thousands of grinding marks provided Plexiglas disk, so a maze of innumerable ‘light ruts’. As with the fiberglass cable, they act as light signal conductors and scatter the color space inwards and outwards. Thus, the impression of an artificial light source can not be completely dismissed, especially if the artist works on the visible […]

until 17.11. | #2243ARTatBerlin | Galerie Kornfeld shows from 24th October 2018 the solo exhibition From Wood and Leather Boots by Samuel Bassett. Galerie Kornfeld is pleased to present the first exhibition of new and recent work by British artist Samuel Bassett in Germany. Developing a distinctive voice by diving head first into auto-biography, Bassett’s works catalogue his day to day life with honesty, humour and pathos. This auto-biographic approach to painting leads Bassett to work in a figurative manner, making the figures in his painting an allegory to his life. Further themes in Bassett’s art are of boats and fisherman as a reference to the traditions of his home town, St. Ives, as well as to his family background, and to contemporary leisure life. Questions about how our world is changing and how we place ourselves in-between the past and the future are raised. Often in Bassett’s paintings, a central figure is depicted as interacting with another sort of matter, this may be: paint, another figure or an abstract shape. This “matter” is a connection to the “abstraction” in the works and introduces another subject into these paintings, namely paint. Flat painted shapes edit and lay down spatial relationships in Bassett’s […]

until 10.11. | #2236ARTatBerlin | Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery presents from 27th September 2018 the exhibition And He Built A Crooked House by the artists Chris Agnew and Marcel Buehler. Neon light is reflected in nickel-plated CO2 cylinders. Finely engraved lines contrast moments captured in oil. For Berlin Art Week 2018, the Kristin Hjellegjerde gallery exhibits work by Berlin-based Marcel Buehler and British Chris Agnew; two artists united by an interest in what lies beneath the surface. The exhibition title “And He Built A Crooked House” refers to a science fiction short story of the same name, written by Robert A. Heinlein in 1940 – obsessed by the idea of creating a spatial, rather than a temporal, 4th dimension, an ambitious young architect builds a house in the form of a tesseract. An earthquake makes his ideas an unplanned reality; formerly distant rooms are suddenly close together, or even occupy the same space. Windows look out onto different cities and worlds. Leaving is impossible, until a second earthquake occurs and the house disappears into Nirvana. Now almost 80 years old, many elements of the story seem shockingly contemporary. Digitisation has indeed introduced a fourth dimension into our lives and thinking. Time […]

until 20.10 | #2032ARTatBerlin | EIGEN + ART Lab currently shows the group exhibition NOMADIC BODIES with works by the artists Adam Harvey, Annkathrin Kluss und Johanna Bruckner. “If I were to phone my younger self and the young Bill would ask me: ‘What kind of cool technology are you carrying with you right now?’, I would have to answer: ‘I have a huge colour TV in my pocket, which allows me to talk to anyone in the entire world, even if it doesn´t have actual keys but instead visual imitations of keys. We are all connected with the same invisible thing called the Internet and people are using it to send each other pictures of cats and to watch porn for free.’ What is he supposed to think of us?”1 Humans are increasingly embedded in larger systems of ecology, technology, economics and networked reality. The physical-real and the immaterial-digital space are closely connected via social networks, artificial intelligence, communication technologies, algorithms and pervasive surveillance systems. During the 18th century, the human body was perceived as a machine-like system that stood at the center of the world, passively absorbing and processing information. At the same time, phenomenologists like Husserl and Merleau-Ponty […]

until 30.09. | #2153ARTatBerlin | Galerie oqbo shows from 1st September 2018 the group exhibition paperfile #14 with works by eight artists. Exhibition with Marcus Bjernerup (Berlin) Markus Linnenbrink (New York City) Alice Musiol (Cologne) Jochen Schneider (Berlin) Martin Schwenk (Dusseldorf) Sylvia Schwenk (Berlin) Jana Troschke (Berlin) Heiko Wommelsdorf (Hamburg). This year, paperfile enters the 14th round. The heart of the producer gallery oqbo | room for picture word and sound offers a carefully selected mix from drawings, photographs, digital prints, collages and many other forms of expression on paper. paperfile #14 complements 2018 the drawing archive in the paper cabinets of the gallery with new, exciting positions. paperfile #14 2018 Container Love | Andreas Schalhorn A plan or graphic cabinet, ie what is called paperfile in English, is by no means uncommon in the art world beyond museum collections of drawings and prints. Plan cabinets can be found, for example, in the administrative and ancillary rooms of galleries, art shops or art associations. However, direct use by the public is only possible in exceptional cases. The actual music plays anyway in the exhibition rooms, in which then large-scale paintings, sculptures or (video) installations are shown. As a rule, in […]

until 03.11. | #2224ARTatBerlin | White Square Gallery shows since 15th September 2018 the solo exhibition “Where do we come from? Who are we? Where are we going?” by the Cambodian artist Sokuntevy Oeur. “Where do we come from? Who are we? Where are we going?” Is the first solo exhibition of the young Cambodian artist Sokuntevy Oeur (*1983 Cambodia) in Berlin, presenting thirteen colorful oil paintings, divided into two cycles, which she will produce in 2018 this exhibition created. Sokuntevy Oeur, Abendland, 2018, Öl auf Leinwand, 90 x 155 cm (Ausschnitt), © Sokuntevy Oeur Opening: Friday, 14th September 2018, 7 – 9 pm Exhibition period: Saturday, 15th September – Saturday, 3rd November 2018   Image caption: Sokuntevy Oeur, Abendland, 2018, Öl auf Leinwand, 90 x 155 cm (Ausschnitt), © Sokuntevy Oeur Exhibition Sokuntevy Oeur – White Square Gallery | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin  

until 20.12. | #2210ARTatBerlin | BQ Berlin shows from 20th September 2018 the exhibition Kommunalka 55 by the artists Irina Rastorgueva and Thomas Martin.  Municipal housing developed as a response to the housing crisis in urban areas. They were presented by the authorities as a product of the “new collective vision of the future”. Usually lived between two and seven families in a common housing unit. Each family had its own space, often used as a living room, dining room and bedroom for the entire family. All residents of the entire apartment shared the corridor, the kitchen (also called communal kitchen), the bathroom and the telephone (if existing). The communal apartment became the predominant form of housing for generation of people in the USSR. Examples of communal housing still exist today in “the hippest central areas of major Russian cities”. Kommunalka – Irina Rastorgueva + Thomas Martin The Great Russian Encyclopedia Populated by generations of socially differently classified residents, the Kommunalka represents an osmosis of ideology and lifestyles. Walls, wallpaper, furniture, crockery, everyday necessities are steeped in the aura of overuse. They breathe history, they tell about it. In their entirety they form a palimpsest of private life under the […]

until 10.12. | #2227ARTatBerlin | August 35 Exhibition Space + Art Management berlin show from 4th December 2018 a solo exhibition by the artist Heidi Fosli with the participation of the artist Josée van Schuppen. Heidi Fosli will be present in the gallery for the duration of the exhibition. This exhibition is being curated by Gabriela Caranfil and Art Management Berlin. August 35 Exhibition Space is talking place at Auguststraße 35. This exhibition presents Contemporary artist Heidi Fosli from Norway in her solo exhibition with the extraordinary participation of Contemporary artist from Holland, Josée Van Schuppen; artists that has been featured in The First Berliner Art Book© series. HEIDI FOSLI; Amor Fati, 100 x 120 cm, oil on canvas, 2015 JOSÉE VAN SCHUPPEN, Composition in Green and Yellow, (detail), 50 x 70 cm, mixed media, 2015 More information about the exhibition and the two artists in this video: Vernissage: Tuesday, 4th December 2018, 5:00 – 8:00 p.m. Exhibition period: Tuesday, 4th December to Monday, 10th December 2018. Heidi Fosli will be present in the gallery for the duration of the exhibition. Exhibition location: August 35 Exhibition Space, Auguststraße 35, 10119 Berlin-Mitte (otherwise WHITECONCEPTS)   Image caption cover: Heidi Fosli (links) & Josée van Schuppen (rechts) Exhibition Heidi Fosli […]

extended until 02.03. | #2169ARTatBerlin | Salongalerie Die Möwe presents from 13th October 2018 the group exhibition Radical. Visionary. Nonconformist. Centenary of the November Group. Since the opening of the ‘Möwe’, artists of the November Group have been a main topic of the gallery’s exhibition and collection activities. Our presentation ‘Radical. Visionary. Nonconformist.’ pays tribute to the foundation of this artists’ association, 100 years ago. From 13 October 2018 to 9 February 2019, the ‘Möwe’ exhibits works of art, not only by the founding members Cesar Klein and Moritz Melzer, but also paintings by Hans Brass, Herbert Behrens-Hangeler, Erwin Hahs, Gert H. Wollheim, and Richard Ziegler. The presentation is completed by the works of many other Novembrists, as Rudolf Ausleger, Gottfried Graf, Paul Grunwaldt and Albert Mueller. The director of the Bröhan Museum Berlin, Dr. Tobias Hoffmann, will give the laudatory speech. Albert Mueller, Erwachen, 1920s, watercolor Moriz Melzer | o.T. | 1910er Jahre | Farbmonotypie The November Group was – until its removal from the register of associations by the National Socialists in 1935 – supported by a democratic and liberal idea: It wanted to unite art and people and was open to all art genres and contemporary forms of […]

until 30.11. | #2206ARTatBerlin | axmann kunstgalerie presents from 15th September 2018 paintings by the French artist Alain Ponçon. Born near Paris, Alain Ponçon lives and works in Saint Maur sur Loir near Chartes. He is internationally known through exhibitions in North America and Europe. His works of art have a strong artistic expression. Alain Ponçon – Dame – Öl auf Leinwand – 55 x 46, 2003 Alain Ponçon – La Brasserie – Leinwand 60 x 60 Alain Ponçon – Le Zinc His artistic roots come from realism and expressionism. He has an artistic power in the sense of Art Brut. However, his works of art are anything but “art singular.” They show a profound social criticism and the cheerfulness of everyday life. Alain Ponçon – Chat au Fauteuil panneau Alain Ponçon – Sourires His clear view also of the abysses and ambivalences make his works of art extraordinary and very lively. With strong colors, mainly in oil and tempera, he shows with a wink a reflection of society. Alain Ponçon – Et Maintenant? Alain Ponçon – Casse à la Poussette- Leinwand 60 x 60 cm Accompanying Alain Ponçon, the axmann kunst galerie houses works by other gallery artists from the fields […]

until 07.11. | #2213ARTatBerlin | Galerie Z22 presents from 1st October 2018 the double exhibition PERSONAL THEATER with photographs by Katerina Belkina, Simon Annand and Hardy Brackmann and UN CERTAIN REGARD with photographs by Andreas A. Koch und Frank Massholder. PERSONAL THEATER explores the boundaries between human identity and role play. Simon Annand photographs actors in their wardrobe, a physical space for concentration and privacy. He is a silent observer in the countdown of the last 30 minutes before the performance. He shows the actors as human beings in their split between themselves and the role in which they have not yet fully hatched. Simon Annand (* 1955) lives and works in London. For more than 30 years, Annand has photographed actors in her dressing room in the intimate 30 minutes before the curtain rises. SIMOND ANNAND, DANIEL CRAIG, 1999, Hahnemühle FINEART, 30 x 20, 10 + 2 Katerina Belkina stages herself in digitally reworked photographs referring to different types of “psycho” types of women in our society. She frees her tableaux of details to filter out the essence of the individual. Her art is her own personal theater, with which she razor-sharply points out the loneliness and isolation of the person […]

until 22.10. | #2212ARTatBerlin | Andreas Reinsch Project shows from 22nd September 2018 the exhibition abendland (occident) by the artist Günther Haußmann. Anyone who says Occident also has Orient in mind, and Christianity and Islam. It is a thinking in opposites. In the case of Judaism, the catastrophe had to happen first in order to be able to say: Judaism belongs to Germany. The question of whether Islam belongs to Germany will not be answered first by a catastrophe, but by reason. Günther Haußmann – Abendmahl 2015 – Fotografie auf Alu-Dibond 200 x 100 cm But we are impatient and calculate everything on the monetary value and do not realize that we think in much too small a coin. The incidents after autumn 2015, when about 50 mostly Muslim refugees arrived in his hometown on the Baltic Sea, have released something that has not been called on for a long time in our rich world: compassion, helpfulness and the good feeling of doing the right thing. Something he hoped was the popular mind and soul. It turned out differently. Vernissage: Saturday, 22nd September 2018, 6:30 to 8:30 Uhr. Speech: Prof. Hans-Dieter Knapp Exhibition period: Saturday, 22nd September – Monday, 22nd October 2018 Finissage: […]

until 21.12. | #2181ARTatBerlin | Galerie Hilaneh von Kories shows from 22nd September 2018 the exhibition “Blende f/5.6 –BrightMoments” by the filmmaker Bogdan Dziworski. Filmmaker and photographer Bogdan Dziworski is arguably one of the most important artists associated to the Polish avant-garde and experimental cinema. Dziworski developed a huge reputation as an image artist in his home country; whereas in Germany especially his photographic images are a fresh discovery to the local art scene. His contrasty analogue black and white images deliver an insight into the everyday life of Polish cities during the second half of the 20th century. Since the 1960’s he created this particular body of work, which often gave him the cognomen “Polish Cartier-Bresson”. Similar to the French photographer, Dziworski has a distinct aesthetic for the momentum and follows a humanistic approach in his photography. Bogdan Dziworski, f5,6-001, A52-DZ001, 14-604-Warszawa 1964, 30 x 22 cm “My photography from that time was never staged. It is ‘ran to’. Day after day I photographed, sometimes up to eight hours. You need to wait for this precise moment, in which reality determines the stage. You need to be lucky. And I was.” Bogdan Dziworski Bogdan Dziworski, Warszawa 1964, Lodz 1961 Vernissage: […]

until 22.09. | #2167ARTatBerlin | pavlov’s dog presents from 1st September 2018 the Solo Exhibition Last Paradise II with photographs by Ekaterina Sevrouk. It rustles in the green copse, bright red flamingo flowers stand out, the Jungle smells of damp air. A Leopard shows. Just for a moment the Illusion is perfect but yet the leopard stands still without any movement surrounded by lively colours. The ambivalence between once living nature and new created objects is precisely staged. In an almost baroque style Ekaterina Sevrouk decorates her taxidermic animals with vibrant coloured flowers which create an opulent flora and fauna ensemble. The photographer visualises the tension between nature and extirpation. Life and death in their own way. Ekaterina Sevrouk, Westlicher Flachlandgorilla, 2017, 150 x 100 cm, C-Print, gerahmt Mink, gnu, tiger, African boar, zebra, puma and cockatoo – Sevrouk’s animals fascinate through an exotic beauty and are more than just a setting. The supplements derive from the Museum of Natural History Salzburg, Vienna and Dublin. They are a symbol that the Human forgets what surrounds him and how to maintain it. In Thomas Manns “Zauberberg” its says that the flower has the purpose to euphemize death. Sevrouk involves this quote […]

until 27.10. | #2202ARTatBerlin | PSM Gallery shows from 18th September 2018 an  exhibition featuring works by Peggy Franck and Freek Wambacq, curated by Sjoerd Kloosterhuis. Peggy Franck (1978, The Netherlands) lives and works in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Her lusciously coloured works offer an unusual combination of painting, installation and photography. Solo-exhibitions include: Stigter van Doesburg, Amsterdam (2018), Arcade, London (2018 and 2016), Luceber huis, Bergen aan Zee, Stigter van Doesburg, Amsterdam (2014), Fons Welters, Amsterdam (2012) and Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster (2009). Her work has been included in group exhibitions at: Hilversum Museum, Hilversum (2017), Martin van Zomeren, Amsterdam (2017), Manifesta Foundation, Amsterdam (2014), The Photographers Gallery, London (2013), Nieuwe Vide, Haarlem (2013), FOAM, Amsterdam (2011), Museum de Pont, Tilburg (2011), Zabludowicz Collection, London (2011) and Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem (2009) Freek Wambacq (1978, Belgium) lives and works in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. In his practice he makes use of a wide range of materials which often allude to the reality beyond the image. Solo exhibitions of his work have been held at Witte de With, Rotterdam (2015), Objectif Exhibitions, Antwerpen (2013), Museum M, Leuven (2011), Kiosk, Gent (2008), Netwerk Center for Contemporary Art, Aalst (2008), SMAK, Gent (2005). Last year he presented an […]

until 27.10. | #2205ARTatBerlin | Galerie ART CRU Berlin shows from 14th September 2018 in the framework of the 10th anniversary of the gallery artworks by Peter Pankow, Betty Feix, Christo Lufundiso Luanza and Melanie Edwards. Peter Pankow (*1968) works in the Thikwa Workshop for Theater and Art. Its baroque painterly feel, at first glance, thanks to its color and format, has a powerful and impressive effect. On a closer look, complex relationships emerge from figurative and delicately colored narrative. His leaves are his mental deposits, which he plows with needles and exposes again. There are precise notes or protocols about themselves, as superego, Unterich, Altich and Neuich. Words and descriptions of his searches, which Pankow also uses on stage, when he gives information about himself. The artist has been exhibited many times, has been awarded the Lothar-Späth-Förderpreis and the European Art Award / EUCREA Prize and nominated for the euward 7 in 2014. Peter Pankow The art of Betty Feix (born 1990) emerges in books or on canvases and is about her dreams, in the middle of which the artist often writes or paints herself, weddings, trips to the South Seas or bizarre encounters of her characters. Characteristic of the canvas works […]

until 17.11. | #2176ARTatBerlin | Galerie Thomas Schulte shows from 29th September 2018 artworks by the artists Alice Aycock and Jonas Weichsel.  alice aycock – early works jonas weichsel – echo box Opening: Friday, 28th September 2018, 6 – 9 pm Exhibition period: Saturday, 29th September – Saturday, 17th November 2018   Image caption:  Alice Aycock / Tropico de Cancer: Boundary Line 23 1/2 degrees North, Tamaulipas, Mexico. Left (side): Torrid Zone. Right (side): North Temperate Zone, 1973 / vintage photograph / Photo: Mark Segal / 17 × 25,4 cm | 6 ¾ × 10 in (Top) Exhibition Alice Aycock + Jonas Weichsel – Galerie Thomas Schulte | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin

until 06.10. | #2179ARTatBerlin | Galerie Franzkowiak presents from 11th September 2018 the exhibition In the tropics the hair feels different by the photographer Jan Michalko and the painter Monika Michalko. It is hot and loud and colorful and in the tropics the hair feels different. Photographer Jan Michalko and painter Monika Michalko, brother and sister from Berlin, have been living, working, traveling and fighting in Sri Lanka for the past six months. They explored the realities and fantasies of everyday life and culture on this uniquely diverse and mysterious island universe. The colorful result of their artistic adventures and explorations can be seen as an experiment at gallery Franzkowiak soon! Opening: Saturday, 8th September 2018, 7 pm Exhibition period: Tuesday, 11th September – Saturday, 6th October 2018   Image caption: Preview: New Work Monika Michalko Exhibition Jan Michalko + Monika Michalko – Galerie Franzkowiak | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin  

until 11.11. | #2166ARTatBerlin | SAVVY Contemporary shows from 13th September 2018 the group exhibition GEOGRAPHIES OF IMAGINATION, a project within the framework of DIS-OTHERING: BEYOND AFROPOLITAN AND OTHER LABELS – a cooperation between BOZAR – Center for Fine Arts (Brussels), Cultures in Motion (Vienna) and SAVVY Contemporary (Berlin). EXHIBITION WITH Salwa Aleryani, Heba Y. Amin, American Artist, Rossella Biscotti, Chimurenga, Saddie Choua, Michele Ciacciofera, Anna Binta Diallo, Dimitri Fagbohoun, Mahir Jahmal, Jackie Karuti, Anna Líndal, Ibrahim Mahama, Tanja Muravskaja, Oscar Murillo, Daniela Ortiz and Sandra Schäfer. INVOCATIONS 14.09.–15.09.2018 WITH Salwa Aleryani, Heba Y. Amin, Rossella Biscotti, Michele Ciacciofera, Andrea Cusumano, Hamid Dabashi, Anna Binta Diallo, Discoteca Flaming Star, Drummers of Joy (feat. Ekow Alabi, Kofi Asamoah, Akinola Famson, Eric Sunday Owusu), Dimitri Fagbohoun, Nacira Guénif-Souilamas, Helon Habila, Hector Thami Manekehla, Wayne Modest, Musa Okwonga, Daniela Ortiz, Johannes Paul Raether, Sandra Schäfer, Jelena Vesić,  and many more GEOGRAPHIES OF IMAGINATION is a project within DIS-OTHERING: BEYOND AFROPOLITAN AND OTHER LABELS – a collaboration between BOZAR–Centre for Fine Arts (Brussels), Kulturen in Bewegung (Vienna) and SAVVY Contemporary (Berlin) on the necessary deconstruction of “othering” practices in European cultural institutions. It consists of an exhibition, symposia, a festival, talks and performances, a residency program, mapping research, and a website, all manifesting […]

until 27.10. | #2160ARTatBerlin | Sexauer Gallery shows from 21st September 2018 the solo exhibition Inzision by the artist Jeewi Lee. Since several years Jeewi Lee has been working on an artistic cycle of works that deal with visibility of traces. It focuses both on human traces from our everyday lives and on historical traces that burn themselves into various materials and thus bear witness to history. 

In her work “Tracing the 38th Parallel of Korea” (working title), she refers to certain historical traces of the history of her homeland Korea, which at the same time bear witness to people’s everyday lives. The 38th degree of latitude as a central marker of the border represents a manifestation of the complex Korean conflict. Courtesy of Sexauer Gallery and Jeewie Lee Using an ancient Asian technique, she makes paper prints of Korean trees that are rooted exactly at latitude 38. The age of the trees is a relevant criterion, since she only selects trees that were already fully grown before the division of the country in 1945. Naturally, trees cannot leave their homeland on their own. For this reason, they are a living testimony, exemplary for the 1945 division. Lee has chosen ten evenly distributed topographic […]

until 13.10. | #2174ARTatBerlin | Galerie EIGEN + ART Berlin currently shows the Exhibition DEEP SLEEP by the artist Birgit Brenner. Birgit Brenner researches in her art the digital patterns with which we live. “I call it ‘hand poly’,” says the artist, referring to her paintings – “hand poly” as a variation on the “low poly” from the early days of 3D animation. Low poly consists of a relatively small number of polygons that are 2-dimensional shapes made of straight lines and angles. “Low poly is rather a lousy setting,” Brenner says, “A rough, quick depiction of nature.” It is a manipulation of reality, a fiction: “Art is also a fiction. A fragment of reality. Artistic reality.” The language of virtual reality inspires Brenner’s work. Like “deep speech”, an end-to-end speech recognition network. “End-to-end” is when you play a game until the very end without going back. Or “permadeath”, a term used to refer to a situation in which a character cannot reappear after having been killed. “You die, just as in real life,” Brenner explains, “without having a chance for optimizing.” In times of 3D art, Birgit Brenner likes to mock up of 3D scenes: a flat sculpture that nevertheless looks like […]

until 20.10. | #2190ARTatBerlin | H ART MANN GALLERY shows from 15th September 2018 the solo exhibition Je suis Gustave by the artist Zuzanna Skiba. Who is Gustave and why the title? Zuzanna Skiba (1968) has been working for more than three years as a tribute to Gustave Courbet (1819 – 1877) with his idea of ​​the individual’s revolution and thought, with the directness to paint pictures as soul bearers and sensibility – inner and outer landscapes. The results are charged, dark, erotic and sensual and are presented for the first time in their entirety in the H ART MAN GALLERY in Berlin-Mitte. In the solo exhibition “JE SUIS GUSTAVE”, Zuzanna points out Skiba’s view of exactly this attitude. The Berlin-based artist Zuzanna Skiba looks at the world with all her topographical, political and personal information, memories as well as her, and combines in the series of works a view from different perspectives: from above, from the middle or from below. She is a painter and trained cartographer with a focus on cross-country skiing, hillshading and thematic cartography. The artist works internationally in the context of fine arts, with a focus on painting, drawing and science. Je suis Gustave, 2017, […]

until 10.11. | #2184ARTatBerlin | KOW shows from 8th September 2018 the group exhibition THE FUEL OF YOUR LIVES BECOMES ASHES IN OURS related to the pressure towards right side in Germany. The gallery and the artists want to set an example. Participating artists: Alice Creischer, Henrike Naumann, Mario Pfeifer, Andreas Siekmann, Michael E. Smith, Tobias Zielony In light of recent events, KOW has changed its programming on very short notice and put together an exhibition to throw a spotlight on the swing to the right in Germany. The gallery and the contributing artists want to take a stance at a time when political—and, for more and more people, everyday—life is turning into a nightmare. We want to stand with all those who fight back against this development. In its more lucid moments, the public debate over the new tip of the radical right-wing iceberg—Chemnitz, Saxony—touches on the insight that the social discord that has erupted and the neo-national mindset behind it are intolerable but by no means baseless. It is hardly astonishing that rightist pied pipers in black suits harness people’s dissatisfaction and claim to speak for the majority, which is to say, the people; or that they succeed in mustering an enraged mob […]

until 10.11. | #2168ARTatBerlin | EFREMIDIS GALLERY presents from 14th September 2018 the exhibition All of this and Nothing by Susanne Rottenbacher and Claus Rottenbacher. All of this and nothing by the berlin-based artists Susanne Rottenbacher and Claus Rottenbacher. The boundless staging power of Rome’s catholic churches in Claus Rottenbacher’s photographic series prostratio and the monumental light sculpture disassembly by Susanne Rottenbacher offer fascinating links. The interplay of both positions creates an inner space that negotiates not only the enigmatic force of the churches of Rome, but also the dissolution of their spatial and ideational limits. Claus Rottenbacher’s interior views of baroque and neoclassicist churches allow the viewers to experience the images from a worshipful perspective. The artist’s architectonic strategies in the composition of the series, creates an overwhelming feel for the visitor; particularly through the monumental design of space reinforced by the extreme lowermost view and the large-format of the analogue photographs. The viewer too, lies on the marble floor of the nave and positively falls into the picture. Any human presence appears ephemeral compared to the richly decorated spatial volume. The polar opposition of divine transcendence and worldliness is further reinforced by the time exposure blurring the figures […]

until 13.10. | #2189ARTatBerlin | janinebeangallery shows from 8th September 2018 the exhibition DU, VENUS UND ICH with the artists Anna Borowy, Peter Doherty, Beate Höing and Jonathan Meese. In its upcoming exhibition janinebeangallery will put in context the artworks of the artists Anna Borowy and Beate Höing together with those of Peter Doherty and Jonathan Meese. Collages of the British artist, musician and poet Peter Doherty meet the paintings of Berlin artist Anna Borowy, the impetuous mixed media works of Jonathan Meese interact with the subtle sculptures made of ceramic by Beate Höing. The exhibition not only offers the opportunity to rediscover the respective characteristics of each artistic position through their dichotomies by comparison thus to gain new perspectives on them. Furthermore common features reveal among the artworks, which are initially perceived rather complementary. Besides all contentual charge and emotional dedication to the motifs an unpretentious approach to the subjects by all artists of the exhibition can be noticed. This is established by a distinctly visceral, straightforward technique and by the vivid authenticity of the artist‘s directly appealing contents and open concepts. Anna Borowy Summer Night With A Passenger 160 x 150 cm 2018 Anna Borowy, born 1985 in Uelzen, […]

until 10.11. | #2182ARTatBerlin | Robert Morat Galerie shows from 8th September 2018 the exhibition “Manhattan Sunday ” with artworks by the photographer Richard Renaldi. “Manhattan Sunday” is a personal account of New York nightlife and at the same time an homage to New York as a place of self-fulfillment, a canvas on which people have been projecting their desires, dreams and imaginations for generations. The black-and-white large format images describe a Saturday night and a Sunday morning in Manhattan. The series is a collection of portraits, urban landscapes and interiors of bars and clubs, capturing New York’s vibrant nightlife and the moment when the clubs release their guests into the morning, into the streets of the sleeping city. Richard Renaldi, „6:50″, New York, from the Series „Manhattan Sunday” Richard Renaldi, „5:12″, New York, from the Series „Manhattan Sunday” Richard Renaldi, „6:17″, New York, from the Series „Manhattan Sunday” Richard Renaldi, „6:27″, New York, from the Series „Manhattan Sunday” Richard Renaldi, born in 1968, is considered one of the most influential contemporary portrait photographers in the United States. He was best known for his view camera work (“Figure and Ground”, 2006 or “Touching Strangers”, 2014). “Manhattan Sunday” was awarded a […]