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Nazir Tanbouli | Postcards from Paradise | Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery Berlin | 20.09.-14.10.2023


until 14.10. | #4044ARTatBerlin | Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery Berlin shows from 20th September 2023 (Opening: 19.09.) the exhibition “Postcards from Paradise” with works by the artist Nazir Tanbouli. The title “Postcards from Paradise” is significant: the images are a window into a tender, radiant world of timeless tranquillity, but as “postcards” they imply that we too can visit it. These writings depict a heavenly paradise – but it is not a theocratic heaven of condemnation or reward. It is a place of tranquillity, free from strife, battle and fear. It is a garden where humans and animals come together to enjoy each other. Tanbouli exposes the folly of human supremacy and exposes it as a fabrication that rejects the concept of the “wild” and the hierarchy of species. Tanbouli’s work includes traditionally therianthropic figures – mixed creatures of man and beast – such as the centaur and the minotaur, but also creatures of his own invention. These forms reject the ancient Greek concept of human superiority in favour of the Egyptian method of combining man and animal to create gods. The animal (or material) nature of the god is seen as equal to his human (or intellectual) nature. The work […]
Thomas Etzold | MOVE – ALL – WAYS | Michaela Helfrich Galerie | 19.09.-19.10.2023


until 19.10. | #4041ARTatBerlin | Michaela Helfrich Galerie shows from 19 September 2023 the exhibition MOVE – ALL – WAYS by the artist Thomas Etzold. Thomas Etzold was born in Frankfurt am Main and has lived and worked in Berlin for a long time. He is a cameraman and photographer. In his photographic works, he shows us magical moments from his experience and tries to convey the special atmosphere of the moment and trigger emotional associations. Terrazza Beach – Grosseto Mare, ColorPrint on Alu-Dibond, 95 x 70cm, Aufl.1/3, Alu shadow gap frame Q206 Night, FineArt-Print b/w, glossy, 60×40 cm framed, edition of 2/3 Chicago City Summer, ColorPrint from PolaScan Original, 65 x 78 cm edition 1/3, Artbox frame Whitney Museum of Modern Art – running woman, ColorPrint on Alu-Dibond, 50 x 87 cm, edition 2/3, ArtBox frame Opening: Tuesday, 19 September from 7 pm Exhibition dates: Tuesday, 19 September – Thursday, 19 October 2023 Artist talk: Thursday, 28 September at 7 pm / Moderated by Günter Jeschonnek Finissage: Thursday, 19 October 2023 from 7 pm Caption titel: Ital al Mare ll, fine art print on canvas, 195 x 70 cm, edition 2/3, shadow gap frame Exhibition Thomas Etzold […]
Asta Gröting + Ming Wong | Fortune | carlier gebauer | 16.09.-18.11.2023


until 18.11. | #4043ARTatBerlin | carlier gebauer shows from 16. September 2023 (Opening: 15.09.) the exhibition Fortune by the artists Asta Gröting and Ming Wong. “(…) the relation between our bodies, our physical being and the space around us, our working space. In our case it’s the studio, because this is something which is fragile, which is being threatened to become miniaturized through external forces – the cost and the commercialization of our physical space (…) The ever-decreasing comfort zones.” Ming Wong in conversation with Asta Gröting (June 2023) Fortune marks a decade of friendship between Asta Gröting and Ming Wong, who both had their first exhibitions with carlier | gebauer over ten years ago. Fortune presents a reflection and mirroring of the two’s perspectives on work, space, media and materials in a changing Berlin, an increasingly precarious city for artists. The gallery space is transformed into a scenography of shifting spaces, colours, lights, sounds, objects and ideas that emerge from conversations about their evolving artistic practices in response to the ever-changing conditions of the city. Central to her collaborative approach to the occasion are two new films that emerged from experiments in re-experiencing the physicality of the artist’s studio […]
Willem De Rooij | Root | Galerie Thomas Schulte | 14.09.-28.10.2023


until 28.10. | #4040ARTatBerlin | Galerie Thomas Schulte shows from 14 September 2023 the installation “Root” by the artist Willem De Rooij. Root is a new installation by Willem de Rooij, developed especially for Galerie Thomas Schulte. Touching on notions of identity and nationalism, it juxtaposes a seventeenth-century painting on loan from the Stadtmuseum Berlin with thirtyfour unique photographic responses made by De Rooij. In the seventeenth century, the Dutch Republic housed many prolific painters who developed numerous specialized painting genres. Individual artists crossappropriated each other’s formal and iconographical techniques, which led to a rich and complex visual culture. Because of their innovations, Dutch artists became sought after by wealthy patrons across Europe. One of them, Willem Frederiksz van Royen (ca. 1645, Haarlem, NL–1723, Berlin), arrived in Berlin from the Dutch Republic in 1669 to become a court painter to Friederich Wilhelm, Elector of Brandenburg, and his successor, Friederich I. Van Royen later became one of the founders of the Akademie der Künste, and after, a director and a professor there. Inspired by artists such as Melchior d’Hondecoeter, he specialized in flower still lifes and menageries. These were decorative genres that were popular with the elites of the time, and […]
Alan Rankle + Gerard Waskievitz | Landscapes, so far… | Michaela Helfrich Galerie | 13.09.-19.10.2023


until 19.10. | #4038ARTatBerlin | Michaela Helfrich Galerie shows from 13 September 2023 the group exhibition Landscapes, so far… by the artists Alan Rankle and Gerard Waskievitz. Alan Rankle in an interview with Anna McNay about his Pastoral Collateral series the artist stated: ‘I wanted to relate ideas about historical, idealised, pastoral landscape in art to the grim reality of the environmental crisis that we are in, which isn’t just an environmental crisis anymore, it’s a totally impregnated social and political crisis heading towards disaster. Considering the historical origins of the genre in relation to my own paintings, I wanted to convey the irony implicit in how the 19th century Romantic movement, with its emphasis on the idyllic natural world of an imaginary past, was sponsored by people who, having made gigantic fortunes out of the Industrial Revolution by building their empires on the slave trade and the criminal use of the Enclosures Acts forcing the poor from their traditional peasant homes to work in their factories and mills, also laid the foundations of environmental pollution on a catastrophic scale’. Turner and other artists were commissioned by the barons of the Industrial Revolution to take the Grand Tour and pick up ideas from […]
Juan Uslé | Norte Abierto | Galerie Thomas Schulte | 14.09.-28.10.2023


until 28.10. | #4039ARTatBerlin | Galerie Thomas Schulte shows from 14 September 2023 the solo exhibition “Norte Abierto” with paintings by the artist Juan Uslé. Repetitions and variations radiate across a series of new medium-scale paintings by Juan Uslé in Norte Abierto at Galerie Thomas Schulte. Opening on the occasion of Berlin Art Week, the exhibition marks the artist’s ninth solo exhibition at the gallery. In elongated, vertical canvases comprising horizontal rows of stacked brushstrokes, Uslé’s paintings are full of oscillations: gradients in a state of flux. As well as contradictions: they are paced and structured though meandering, marked by lyrical turns. The environments they open up are woven from continuous, processual paths that are nonetheless susceptible to sudden shits, interruptions and moments of pause. This openness and continuity filters through the works in the exhibition. In accumulations of time, color, gestures and signs, the repetitional continuity of the works gives way to a richly layered fabric, a constellation of experiences and sensations. We can peer through the cracks and slippages, soak up the reflections that bounce off the surface, follow the threads that construct the whole—line by line, row by row. Like screens, they offer glimpses into another layer […]
Maki Na Kamura | Contemporary Fine Arts (CFA Berlin) | 16.09.-04.11.2023


until 04.11. | #4034ARTatBerlin | Contemporary Fine Arts presents from 16. September 2023 (Opening: 15.09.) a double exhibition by the artist Maki Na Kamura. The double exhibition will take place at Galerie Michael Werner Berlin and Contemporary Fine Arts. Modernism confronted painting with the finding of social insignificance. Since then, no theory has been able to justify why painting is still being done and why it should concern even the last person. Painting’s struggle for survival in the 20th century, which was nevertheless so successful, can be traced back to a special strategy of the artists, namely to transform the traditional means of painting into a contemporary form. The legitimacy of this discipline is based on the inexhaustible possibilities of using colour, surface, form, lines, light and mass to produce new, unprecedented images. And as assertive as this strategy was in the metropolis of Paris, it found a new home in West Berlin after 1960 in the gallery of Michael Werner and in the late nineties in the Contemporary Fine Arts Galerie of Nicole Hackert and Bruno Brunnet. Maki Na Kamura now places her new paintings in the tradition of these galleries. In an act of concentration, she has perceived […]
Andy Hope 1930 | COURBETTE INDUSTRIA | Galerie Guido W. Baudach | 16.09.-28.10.2023


until 28.10. | #4037ARTatBerlin | Galerie Guido W. Baudach presents from 16. September 2023 (Opening: 15.09.) the exhibition COURBETTE INDUSTRIA by the artist Andy Hope 1930. Andy Hope 1930’s new cycle of paintings Courbette Industria, which is at the center of his exhibition at Guido W. Baudach, originates – even if it reaches far beyond this first source of inspiration – from an impressionable experience with a Bolting Horse. This is the title of Gustave Courbet’s strange and monumental painting in Munich’s Neue Pinakothek. A saddled horse dashes riderless at full gallop through a dark, otherwise empty forest scene. Painted in 1861, Courbet had conceived the canvas as the left-hand piece of a group of hunting scenes, sometimes called the “Hunting Trilogy”, for the Paris Salon of that year. The centerpiece of this triptych was Fight of the Deer (now in the Louvre), and the painting on the right was Deer by the Water (Marseille, Musée des Beaux Arts). Courbet himself was a passionate hunter; during a one-year stay in Frankfurt am Main in 1858, he had killed a capital stag during a New Year’s Eve hunt in the Taunus, as he proudly wrote to his sister. During his Frankfurt period, he had participated in several par […]
45 Years Kunsthaus ARTES | Special Exhibition | ARTES Berlin | 15.09.-11.11.2023


until 11.11. | #4036ARTatBerlin | ARTES Berlin shows from 13 September 2023 the special exhibition „45 Years Kunsthaus ARTES“ with more than 120 artworks by over 50 artists. In the most exciting week of the Berlin art year, Berlin Art Week, Kunsthaus ARTES Berlin cordially invites you to celebrate 45 years of ARTES together for one weekend. ARTES Berlin is also expanding its gallery space and doubling the exhibition area in the beautiful Gründerzeit building. Visitors to the exhibition can look forward to an extensive exhibition with more than 120 works of art by over 50 artists and a charming bar in the courtyard, where it is wonderful to immerse oneself in conversations about art. In the special exhibition “45 years of Kunsthaus ARTES”, ARTES Berlin shows paintings, installations, sculptures and editions. Among them are collectors’ items from Classical Modernism by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Erich Heckel, Max Liebermann and Emil Nolde, among others, as well as contemporary, renowned positions such as Stephan Balkenhol, Cornelia Schleime, Georg Baselitz, Gerhard Richter, Günther Uecker, Neo Rauch and Tony Cragg. The exhibition is rounded off by works by younger artists from the ARTES programme, including Christian Awe, Marion Eichmann, Willi Siber, Karoline Kroiß, Winnie […]
Hana Usui | Fragile Beauty – The Age of Uncertainty | Galerie Dittmar | 13.09.-25.10.2023


until 25.10. | #3965ARTatBerlin | Galerie Dittmar presents from 13 September 2023 the solo exhibition „Fragile Beauty – The Age of Uncertainty“ with works of the artist Hana Usui. The Japanese artist Hana Usui, born in Tokyo in 1974, moved to Vienna in 2000. With this move, she opened up new areas of expression based on her earlier cultural imprint. This concerns the relationship between oil drawing and ink painting and, related to this, the way in which the drawn and the painted are combined. In addition, in recent years there have been an increasing number of diverse photographic processes and installation works. The artist’s work has increasingly focused on political issues and the dangers of our time, also triggered by the reactor catastrophe in Fukushima. Based on her artistic language, which she has developed over the years, she approaches these difficult issues in a more mediated, indirect way, giving them a new visual expression. Hana Usui’s delicate works do not offer simple solutions, are not apodictic, rather they point to a fragility, provoke reflection and open up a principled, existential level. Participation in important survey exhibitions, for example in the Metropolitan Art Museum in Tokyo, in the Museum Residenzgalerie […]
Begegnung an der Spree | Q Gallery Berlin | 15.09.-05.10.2023


until 05.10. | #4035ARTatBerlin | QGallery shows from 15. September 2023 the grou exhibition Begegnungen an der Spree (Encounters at the river Spree) with works by Russian artists in exile: Anastasia Astakhova, Innokenti Baranov, Mika Plutizkaya, Anna Rumyanseva and Vladimir Sorokin. Bridges of Freedom: Berlin has once again hosted Russian artists, as it did a hundred years ago. Russian artists who disagree with Putin’s regime and the war in Ukraine have found refuge in Berlin to start a new chapter of their lives in a country where truth, humanism and freedom are an absolute value. The exhibition “Begegnung an der Spree” not only presents art, but also builds parallels between the immigration of Russian artists* in the 1920s. Anastasia Astachova, Sie träumen nur vom Frieden (They dream of peace only), 2023, oil on canvas, 120 x 90 cm Today, as a hundred years ago, many Russian artists choose Berlin as a symbol of freedom and diversity, hoping that their art and voice can be expressed freely, without fear of censorship and repression. The exhibition “Begegnung an der Spree” not only presents a variety of artistic works, but also delves into the historical context. It recalls the times a century ago […]
Ivana Kličković | RECENT WORKS | Galerie Gilla Lörcher | 16.09.-27.10.2023


until 27.10. | #4033ARTatBerlin | Galerie Gilla Lörcher shows from 16 September 2023 (Vernissage: 15.09.) the solo exhibition „RECENT WORKS“ with paintings by the artist Ivana Kličković. Galerie Gilla Loercher | Contemporary Art is very pleased to present the second solo exhibition of Ivana Kličković. The focus of Ivana Kličković’s practice rests on the process of selection and “sampling” of culturally and chronologically distant visual patterns – such as Japanese woodblock prints, drawings of old theatrical scenery or digital images pulled from the Internet – which she recreates on canvas as simultaneously overlapping layers of reduced image fragments that form large-scale compositions, spatially flat and open to interpretation, both abstract and/or quasi-representational. Confirming atemporality as one of the main features of her painterly gesture, Kličković indirectly but accurately comments on the multidirectional, constant and often chaotic circulation of images in our everyday lives, in which everything has already been seen and exists intertwined, independently from isolated cultural patterns and social phenomena. By reacting to and participating in a global economy of images, in which dissemination of visual information is organised in such a way, Kličković takes over and examines the logic of overlapping, mixing, flexibility, conflict, and simultaneity of visual motifs […]
Ugo Rondinone | i don’t live here anymore | Esther Schipper | 15.09.-21.10.2023


until 21.10. | #4032ARTatBerlin | Galerie Esther Schipper shows from 15 September 2023 the solo exhibition “i don’t live here anymore” with photographs by the artist Ugo Rondinone. Which place did you leave? Why don’t you live there anymore? And where did you move? The statement as title i don’t live here anymore immediately raises questions that will most likely remain unanswered, but it doesn’t matter. It looks like a good place, with room to express oneself; to deepen understanding of the self; to experiment with fetishist interests; to play with gender; to show fierceness as much as vulnerability; to probe the sculptural potential of the body by morphing it into abstraction. Nevertheless, it is not only a space of joy and happiness, as the photos’ references to Pierrot indicate—a quietly observing archetype known to symbolize a sense of melancholy. What is the melancholy about? Is it about what one leaves behind when moving away, moving on or up? Goodbyes are indeed always part of change, markers of transition to move into a new mode, state, or phase. A certain ease with change is, however, also discernable in these five photos, as much as in the larger body of Rondinone’s photographic […]
Katarina Kudelova | Burning Bright in the Forest of the Night | BBA Gallery | 12.09.-27.10.2023


until 27.10. | #4026ARTatBerlin | BBA Gallery presents from 12. September 2023 the exhibition Burning Bright in the Forest of the Night by the slovak artist Katarina Kudelova. During Berlin Art Week 2023, BBA Gallery will present the exhibition “Burning Bright in the Forest of the Night” from Slovakian artist Katarina Kudelova. The exhibition of the 1st Prize winner of the BBA Artist Prize 2022 exhibition will feature a site-specific installation composed of firecrackers, and fuse; a video recording of her winning Artist Prize installation; as well as ceramic sculptures and landscape tapestries made of feathers from the past 10 years. A childhood spent in the Slovakian countryside among a family of forest engineers provides the idyllic backdrops of her works and acute awareness of the natural world. Dichotomic, the topical works are a critique of the contemporary dialogue between man and nature and the role of man in its unsalvageable destruction. Kudelova’s explosive practice makes use of firecrackers, wick and fuse to address themes of transience, mortality, predetermined cycles of life, climate and forest fires. Opening: Tuesday, 12 September 2023, 6 pm to 9 pm Exhibition dates: Tuesday, 12 September – Friday, 27 October 2023 Artist Talk & Finissage: […]
Anicka Yi | A Shimmer Through The Quantum Foam | Esther Schipper | 15.09.-21.10.2023


until 21.10. | #4031ARTatBerlin | Galerie Esther Schipper shows from 15 September 2023 the solo exhibition “A Shimmer Through The Quantum Foam” by the artist Anicka Yi. Esther Schipper is pleased to announce Anicka Yi’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. Entitled A Shimmer Through The Quantum Foam, the exhibition features a series of unique animated pod sculptures that pulse and undulate, casting their flickering light across the surfaces of luminous algorithmically-generated paintings. Below this suspended constellation of bio-techno lifeforms, the soft glow of an aqueous ooze—indicative of life’s marine origins—sprawls in a shallow crater in a built-up section across the gallery floor. Anicka Yi has produced a unique body of work over the past decade, that operates at the intersection of politics and macrobiotics. Her practice questions traditional distinctions between what is human, animal, plant, and machine, and is the result of an alchemical process of experimentation that explores often incompatible materials. Yi collaborates with researchers to create materials and media that are often inherently political, delving into the cultural conditioning of sensation and perception in a way she describes as a “biopolitics of the senses.” Yi’s diverse installations draw on scientific concepts and techniques to activate vivid fictional scenarios, asking […]
Wenn die Sirenen heulen (it´s on us) | Sexauer Gallery | 08.09.-13.10.2023


until 13.10. | #4030ARTatBerlin | Sexauer Gallery presents from 8. September 2023 the group exhibition Wenn die Sirenen heulen (it´s on us) by the artists Martin Assig, Aram Bartholl, Hannah Hallermann, Verena Issel, Anne Mundo , Nik Nowak, Raul Walch, curated by Anne Mundo & Dirk Teschner. When the Sirens howl (it’s on us) deals with the threats of climate change and war. The focus is on the question of the influence of man-made threats to our existence. Since the outbreak of the 2020 pandemic many things have been put to the test. It became apparent who acted in solidarity and who used the crisis for their own interests. The Russian attack on Ukraine brought war back to Europe. Gas deliveries were stopped, the climate crisis became more prominent. Art can help close the communicative gaps regarding these crises. Since facts alone are often not enough to move a society to change, it can help to address senses and feelings as well. Opening: Friday, 08 September, 6 pm – 9 pm Exhibition dates: Friday, 08 September – Friday, 13 October 2023 Image caption: Courtesy Sexauer Gallery Exhibition Wenn die Sirenen heulen (it´s on us) – Sexauer Gallery | Zeitgenössische Kunst in […]
Anna Leonhardt | MALEREI | Galerie Friese | 16.09.-28.10.2023


until 28.10. | #4029ARTatBerlin | Galerie Friese shows from 16. September 2023 (Opening: 15.09.) the exhibition MALEREI by the artist Anna Leonhardt. For Art Week 2023, the gallery presents works by the painter Anna Leonhardt for the first time. Based in New York and Berlin, she was born in Pforzheim in 1981 and began studying painting under Ralf Kerbach at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Dresden in 2002, where she graduated with a master’s degree in 2010. Displayed in the first two rooms of the gallery, Anna Leonhardt’s paintings explore color, materiality, and space. By sculpting and layering the paint with a palette knife, the artist creates polychromatic, vividly rendered color fields with strong textures and spatial depth that form the background to floating abstract blocks of color. The gradual transformation of color, shape, space, and light creates a charged relationship between figure and ground. Leonhardt’s earlier representational and figurative compositions have steadily dissolved into clashing fields of color over time, culminating in a consistently abstract style of painting that emphasizes the working process. In her current works, Anna Leonhardt stretches out infinitely expansive spaces containing abstract blocks of color that interact with each other. The backgrounds of the […]
Richard Rezac | HARLEQUIN | Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi | 09.09.-14.10.2023


until 14.10. | #4026ARTatBerlin | Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi present from 09. September 2023 the exhibition HARLEQUIN by the artist Richard Rezac. Opening: Saturday, 9 September 2023, 6:00 – 9:00 pm Exhibition dates: Saturday, 9 September – Saturday, 14 October 2023 Caption title: Richard Rezac, courtesy of Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi Exhibition Richard Rezac – Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galerien | ART at Berlin
Jana Schröder | VIBR ANX 80 | Meyer Riegger | 16.09.-21.10.2023


until 21.10. | #4025ARTatBerlin | Meyer Riegger shows from 16 September 2023 the exhibition “VIBR ANX 80” by the artist Jana Schröder. When it comes to painting, Jana Schröder has always imposed rules on herself. The works in her PERLASYNTHIC , NEUSEC , and HAWO series , however, which are now on view for the first time at Meyer Riegger , are di ff erent: Schröder works more freely , there are n o longer any fixed rules. As the artist herself says, “I tried to do everything possible with colour here. The one rule here was probably that I was allowed to do any thing.” These are some of the rules that are normally in force: only two colours, r ound shapes only , and no corners. Or: n o interrupted lines, only continuous ones. If she breaks a rule , but the visual result makes sense, then adapted rules will follow. In this way, Schröder systematically re – evaluates the fundamental mechanisms of paint ing. These restrictions enable her to find the freedom of her own pictorial language time and time again . Before Schröder began the PERLASYNTHIC series in 2021, she tended to work with oil paints. […]
Jeanette Mundt | God Told Him to Wait | Galerie Société | 08.09.-21.10.2023


until 21.10. | #4024ARTatBerlin | Galerie Société present from 08. September 2023 (Vernissage: 07.09.) the exhibition God Told Him to Wait by the artist Jeanette Mundt. This is Jeanette Mundt’s fifth solo exhibition at the gallery. Mundt’s dynamic, formally omnivorous practice freely taps a variety of input, ranging from art historical references to personal photographs. Reworking and repurposing motifs from sources as diverse as Odilon Redon, illuminated manuscripts, medieval tapestries, Wade Guyton, and Matthias Grünewald, Mundt’s recent paintings eschew adhering to an individual style in favor of a poly-aesthetic approach. Two ongoing currents in Mundt’s practice come to the fore in this exhibition: an interest in painting elements in motion, such as fire and light, and bringing art historical imagery into new configurations that explore the ambiguous space between how we consume images in everyday life and art. Her richly seductive works, which construct images from multiple sources, speak to questions of painting, depiction, correction, and construction. The mood of these works—which are in turns contemplative, sensual, foreboding, and celestial—respond to the rage and rapture that pervade a cultural moment marked by climate change, the rise of religious extremism, and the curtailment of women’s rights. Art historian Bettina Funcke describes […]
Nora Turato | NOT YOUR USUAL SELF? | Sprüth Magers Berlin | 16.09.-11.11.2023


until 11.11. | #4023ARTatBerlin | Sprüth Magers Berlin shows from 16 September 2023 the solo exhibition “NOT YOUR USUAL SELF?” by the artist Nora Turato. In recent years, Nora Turato has emerged as one of the most exciting new voices on the contemporary art scene. Throughout her practice – which spans performance, video and graphic design – she examines the ephemeral nature of language, using text as her artistic source material. Drawing from film, advertising, literature, conversations, social media captions and theater, she deploys a collection of appropriated words, sentences, fragments and quotes with sharp wit and studied precision. Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers are pleased to announce a solo exhibition by Nora Turato at Sprüth Magers, Berlin, which will debut a series of new enamel panels featuring a custom typeface as well as a site-specific wall painting that cut through the cacophony of everyday life and reflect on the vernacular of present-day visual culture and zeitgeist. Collating the information streams of the world in text pools, Turato publishes “scrapbooks of our culture” once a year. For her performances, murals and enamel panels alike, she culls from these collections that reflect not only her personal influences and surroundings but also […]
Pamela Rosenkranz | Alien Blue | Sprüth Magers Berlin | 16.09.-11.11.2023


until 11.11. | #4022ARTatBerlin | Sprüth Magers Berlin presents from 16 September 2023 the solo exhibition “Alien Blue” by the artist Pamela Rosenkranz. An alluring and extramundane blue light emanates from the Window, Sprüth Magers’ Berlin storefront exhibition space that is sunken and high-ceilinged, allowing visitors to view displayed works from the street around the clock. The spectacular color or, to be precise, the wavelengths emitted by Pamela Rosenkranz’s Alien Blue Windows permeate the entire room and pour out of the building. Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers are pleased to announce a solo exhibition by the artist, showcasing five unique pieces from her enticing series alongside a selection of intricate kirigami works on paper. Four large and one smaller luminous work line the wood-paneled wall. From a distance, they seem to sink into the gallery’s architecture, while at close range, it becomes apparent they protrude into the space. Reminiscent of upside-down lancet windows found in Gothic churches, the shapes always correspond to an actual window in a building – modern or historical – somewhere in the world. The light works possess an unusual density of luminance, infusing the room and its exterior with an alien atmosphere Evoking many narratives, the […]
Bryan Adams | »In Colour« | CAMERA WORK | 14.10.–18.11.2023


until 18.11. | #4021ARTatBerlin | CAMERA WORK present from 14. October 2023 the exhibition »In Colour« by the artist Bryan Adams. The CAMERA WORK gallery presents an exhibition of over 20 large-format photographs by Bryan Adams from 14 October 2023. All the works are from the impressive “In Colour” series by the photo artist, which is being shown in a gallery in Germany for the first time. The exhibition is a comprehensive manifestation of the artistic development of the renowned photographer Bryan Adams. Inspired by the phrase “seeing the world through rose-[nted glasses”, Adams began experimenting with coloured Plexiglas, which adds an artistic component to his works and gives them another aesthetic and atmospheric level. In the elaborately conceived process, the high-quality fine art prints are combined with clear Plexiglas, which has previously been printed with various individual colour tones, to finally be laminated onto Alu Dibond before the final framing. In this way, the autodidact reinterprets selected portraits from his oeuvre. His “In Colour” works are produced in five colour variations: red, orange, blue, pink and nude. All spectrums will be represented in the exhibition. © Bryan Adams / Courtesy of CAMERA WORK Gallery Bryan Adams (*1959 in Kingston, Canada) […]
Bernd + Hilla Becher | Sprüth Magers Berlin | 16.09.-11.11.2023


until 11.11. | #4020ARTatBerlin | Sprüth Magers Berlin presents from 16 September 2023 the solo exhibition of the artist couple Bernd and Hilla Becher. For over five decades, Bernd and Hilla Becher produced a remarkable oeuvre in the pursuit of a straightforward theme: variation within limits. Precision, fine detail and methodology mark the Bechers’ work, which straddles several artistic categories. By systematically photographing commonplace industrial buildings across Europe and North America, they captured an architectural landscape in the process of disappearing. Approaching the structures with scientific interest, the artists classified, compared and contrasted their subjects in varying groups and “typologies,” as they named their celebrated grids. Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers are pleased to announce Bernd and Hilla Becher’s first solo exhibition at Sprüth Magers, Berlin. Showcasing the Bechers’ iconic style and formal rigor will be several rarely seen works along with two typologies that allude to the cultural and social significance of the constructions the artists referred to as “anonymous sculptures.” The show outlines the career of the German artist couple who, from the 1960s onwards, began challenging the perceived gap between documentary and fine-art photography. Developing a precise visual lexicon, they chronicled the architecture of heavy industry in […]
Markus Weggenmann | missing pink | Taubert Contemporary | 13.09.-04.11.2023


until 04.11. | #4019ARTatBerlin | Taubert Contemporary present from 13. September 2023 (Vernissage: 15.09.) the exhibition missing pink by the artist Markus Weggenmann. It was the commitment to “flatness”, to the fundamental flatness of the medium of the image, which the American critic Clement Greenberg demanded of all advanced painting in the post-war decades and which still finds its distant echo in the paintings of Markus Weggenmann. For his paintings, too, stage a sovereign surface art in spatiality that can at best still be found in the fading stage of form superimpositions. LW 421, 2022, high pigmented distemper on cotton, 120 x 100 cm, 47.2 x 39.4 inches This decided two-dimensionality manifests itself in two ways in the new works currently on show at Galerie Taubert Contemporary. On the one hand, the highly abstracted paintings refuse to open up any perspective space – all the colour forms seem to lie on one plane like silhouettes – and on the other hand, they confront the viewer with an absolutely flat (almost “photographic”) surface, in whose design the artist dispenses with both the relief of the paint application and any form of “handwriting”. Accordingly, these works also lack anything confessional or ostensibly […]
Michael Streun | IN RAGE | Galerie Tammen | 08.09.-15.10.2023


until 15.10 | #4017ARTatBerlin | Galerie Tammen shows from 8th September 2023 the exhibition “IN RAGE” with paintings by the artist Michael Streun. In his first exhibition at TAMMEN GALERIE, Swiss artist Michael Streun is showing a selection of works from the last six years. “Dystopias that take shape, visualised utopias and surreal pictorial worlds with ambivalent validity – these are the central elements in Streun’s paintings,” writes art historian Mario Schlachter. The works address social upheavals and radical changes and at the same time contain hopeful components. In 2017, shortly after the attack on Breitscheidplatz, Michael Streun spent an intensive six months in this lively metropolis, which was in a kind of state of shock, thanks to a scholarship from the city of Thun. The mood in Berlin at that time and the developments of recent years with the pandemic, the increasing social tensions and the momentous war occupy the artist’s mind. And the increasingly “frenzied” world. Michael Streun, Warner, 2022, oil on canvas, 200 x 180 cm, courtesy of Galerie Tammen Michael Streun is constantly developing his figurative painting and increasingly works on larger formats. The compositions do not reflect the actuality of the day, but make the […]
archiv SANDER | SCHAAL | INVENTORY | Galerie Georg Nothelfer | 14.09.-11.11.2023


until 11.11. | #4018ARTatBerlin | Galerie georg nothelfer shows from 14th September 2023 the exhibition INVENTORY with the archiv SANDER | SCHAAL in community with Eduardo Chillida, Christo & Jeanne-Claude, Galli, Gerhard Hoehme, Walter Menne, Robert Motherwell, Max Neumann, Georges Noël, Arnulf Rainer, Richard Serra and Fred Thieler. The two Berlin-based artists Finja Sander (*1996) and Daniel Schaal (*1990) take the exhibition title INVENTORY literally and embark on an open-ended exploration of selected positions from the collection of Galerie Georg Nothelfer. Both artists work independently and under the collaborative name archiv SANDER I SCHAAL. The focus of their collaboration is on long-term, multimedia narratives that evolve continuously over several years and are explored and expanded through ongoing repetition. Richard Serra, Min, 1990, Litography, Ed. 22. 133 x 205 cm. Courtesy Galerie Georg Nothelfer For INVENTORY, Sander and Schaal selected eleven different artists from Galerie Georg Nothelfer, who are initially juxtaposed during a happening with the two artists’ mere pool of material. Then Sander and Schaal radically expose themselves to the curated works: For several days a week, they will work through the selection, visible to the public at all times, developing confrontational strategies in a multimedia manner. The initial rational […]
Gunter Reski | ZWINGER Galerie | 09.09.-04.11.2023


until 04.11. | #4016ARTatBerlin | ZWINGER Galerie shows from 9. September 2023 (Opening: 08.09.) the exhibition of the artist Gunter Reski. Opening: Friday, 8. September 2023, 6pm to 9pm Exhibition dates: Saturday, 9. September– Saturday, 04. November 2023 Special opening hours Berlin ART Week: Friday, 15. September 12 – 21 Uhr Image title: Gunter Reski, o.T., 2023, Acryl auf Baumwolle, 170×40 cm Exhibition Gunter Reski– ZWINGER Galerie | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Ausstellungen Berlin Galerien | ART at Berlin
Antonio Paucar | Weaving and Uniting Silenced Voices | Galerie Barbara Thumm | 01.09.–13.10.2023


until 13.10. | #4015ARTatBerlin | Galerie Barbara Thumm presents from 1. September 2023 the exhibition Weaving and Uniting Silenced Voices of the artist Antonio Paucar. Antonio Paucar’s recent body of work, created during his residencies in different continents, builds bridges between diverse geographies and cultural traditions: those of the West, the Andes and the Peruvian Amazon, both times past and future. His work addresses contemporary conflicts, such as the murder of indigenous leaders and environmentalists, climate change and surveillance technology, current wars and totalitarian regimes. Some of his pieces evince his research into ancestral Andean textile art and its materiality, in relation to the body and textile-making. In the gallery, Antonio’s hands weave a spiral with white and black Alpaca fibers, an allusion to the principle of dual reciprocity in Andean worldview. The spiral symbolizes Andean thinking—inclusive, collective, linking reflection and action, and the past and the present as a cycle—in contrast to the linear Western conceptualisation, with its unidirectional notion of time. All action is offered as a meditative practice, creating energy, being in communion with the All, with nature, with Pacha Mama (Mother Earth). In fact, all of his exhibition constitutes a healing ritual for a world increasingly […]
A Retrospective – A Century of LOTHAR QUINTE | Bermel von Luxburg Gallery | 13.09.-05.11.2023


until 05.11. | #4014ARTatBerlin | Bermel von Luxburg Gallery presents from 13. September 2023 the exhibition A Retrospective – A Century of LOTHAR QUINTE by the artist Lothar Quinte. Like no other painter of his generation LOTHAR QUINTE combined in his life’s work several approaches of abstract painting from the 1960s to 2000. Bermel von Luxburg Gallery pays tribute to his work on the occasion of his 100th anniversary (Lothar Quinte would certainly have celebrated his birthday in Wintzenbach, France, where the internationally recognized painter died in the year 2000). Bermel von Luxburg Gallery will showcase artworks from different periods and creative phases: From the purely painterly-gestural artworks of the early 60s up to OpArt and then again, the very calm paintings of the 80s and 90s. Lothar Quinte surprises with paintings that could also have been created today as he convinces in colour, composition and monochrome. In addition to painting, his focus was on art in public spaces. Thus, Quinte developed in the course of the years several stained-glass windows (for example the Lübeck Cathedral) and wall works (textiles, carpets). However, Lothar Quinte was not only broadly positioned in terms of mediums, but he also opened up viewers to look at his artworks with a new visual language. […]
Bruce Clarke | ECCE NATURA | ARTCO Galerie Berlin | 13.09.-21.10.2023


until 21.10. | #4013ARTatBerlin | ARTCO Galerie Berlin presents from 13. September 2023 the exhibition ECCE NATURA by the artist Bruce Clarke. ECCE NATURA is the preamble to the museum production ECCE HOMO, which was presented for the first time at the Musée national de la Résistance et des Droits humains in Luxembourg. The exhibition looks at the themes it deals with – economic growth, power and the understanding of nature – from a different perspective and presents new works that delve into the latter theme in particular. In this elaboration, Clarke asks about the existential relationship of human beings to nature and uncovers the subtleties and conflicts of this field of tension. On 15.9, the exhibition will be activated with a performance by the renowned choreographer Tebby W.T. Ramasike. The South African choreographer, performer, dance teacher, dance researcher, Butoh practitioner and cultural activist was born in Johannesburg in 1965. Bruce Clarke will be present. Exhibition dates: Wednesday, 13. September to Saturday, 21. October 2023 Performance by Tebby W.T. Ramasike: Friday, 15 September 2023, 8:00 pm Image caption title: Performance von Tebby W.T. Ramasike, courtesy of ARTCO Berlin Exhibition Bruce Clarke – ARTCO Galerie Berlin | Zeitgenössische Kunst in […]
Marta Guisande | Neue Arbeiten | Galerie kajetan | 16.09.-25.11.2023


until 25.11. | #4012ARTatBerlin | Galerie kajetan Berlin shows from 16. September 2023 (Opening: 15.09.) the exhibition Neue Arbeiten by the artist Marta Guisande. Opening: Friday, 15. September 2023, 6:00 – 9:00 pm Exhibition dates: Saturday, 15. September – Saturday, 25. November 2023 Special opening hours: Berlin Art Week 2023, Saturday and Sunday, 16 and 17 September 2023, 11:00 am – 6:00 pm | Gallery Tour Charlottenwalk, Saturday, 25 November 2023, 11:00 am – 6:00 pm Image caption: Marta Guisande, Ventana, 2023, Mixed media on cotton, 85 x 65 cm, photo farbanalyse köln Exhibition Marta Guisande – Galerie kajetan Berlin | Zeitgenössische Kunst – Contemporary Art – Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin
INTERESTS | Group exhibition | Schiefe Zähne | 02.09.-14.10.2023


until 14.10. | #4011ARTatBerlin | Schiefe Zähne presents from 2. September 2023 (Opening: 01.09.) the group exhibition INTERESTS by the artists Matthias Groebel, Ariane Müller, Phung-Tien Phan, Lukas Quietzsch, Richard Sides, Philipp Simon and Angharad Williams in its new location at Potsdamer Straße 103, 10785 Berlin-Mitte. Opening: Friday, 1. September – 6:00 to 9:00 pm Exhibition dates: Saturday, 2. September – Saturday, 14. October 2023 Image caption: Matthias Groebel, Untitled, 2003 Exhibition INTERESTS – Schiefe Zähne | Zeitgenössische Kunst – Contemporary Art Guide | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin
Franz Schmidt | TELEVISION | Rasche Ripken | 08.09.-04.11.2023


until 04.11. | #4010ARTatBerlin | RASCHE RIPKEN presents from 8. September 2023 the exhibition TELEVISION by the artist Franz Schmidt. Work, living, leisure, consumption – from these and other spheres of life, the Berlin-based artist selects exemplary everyday objects that he translates into sculptures made of lacquered MDF. In the process, he transforms the objects to a subtle abstraction of minimalist appearance, changing proportions, details and colouring. Franz Schmidt, Automat, 2018, 140 x 70 x 60 cm, MDF, paint, 140 x 70 x 60 cm For example, he builds technical appliances, washing machines, radios, televisions, a beverage dispender, a cash register or a sewing machine, which are partly presented on pedestals and, in their iconic character, evoke images of memories and arouse individual desires. But there are also celestial phenomena such as a yellow star or half a rainbow, taking on an unexpectedly material shape. Franz Schmidt, Nähmaschine, 2018, MDF, paint, 168,5 x 89 x 40 cm In addition, the artist expands the arsenal of his objects with large-format black-and-white photographs – and thus creates a stage-setting that repeatedly evokes surprising perspectives and mental cross-connections. Opening: Friday, 8. September 2023, 8:00 – 9:00 pm, in the presence of the artist. […]
Jānis Šneiders | 1 : x ≤ ∞ Internal Topographies | Jarmuschek + Partner | 02.09.-30.09.2023


until 30.09. | #4009ARTatBerlin | Jarmuschek + Partner shows from 2. September 2023 the exhibition 1 : x ≤ ∞ Internal Topographies by the artist Jānis Šneiders. Worlds open up in the paintings of Jānis Šneiders. The fine lines of his single-point perspective grids get lost in the impenetrable depth of shadows and darkness. The high-contrast pictorial spaces created with few means seem at once clear and mysterious, highly objective and extremely dramatic. Without any scale or context, they leave us reeling between inner and outer infinities. In spite of a perceived representational nature, they are abstract structures that can be located both externally-topographically and internally. Not fixed on a meaning, they are open projection surfaces for the viewer’s imagination, for insights, memories, fears and longings. Jānis Šneiders (*1995) lives and works in Riga. He studied painting at the Art Academy of Latvia from 2015 to 2019 and at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp during an Erasmus residency in 2018. He continued his studies at the Art Academy of Latvia until 2022, where he graduated with a Master’s degree in Visual Communication. His works have been shown in numerous solo exhibitions in Latvia and Sweden and are included in prestigious […]
Astrid Köppe | look deep into nature | Galerie Inga Kondeyne – Raum für Zeichnung | 02.09.-14.10.2023
until 14.10. | #4008ARTatBerlin | Galerie Inga Kondeyne – Raum für Zeichnung presents from 2. September 2023 the exhibition look deep into nature by the artist Astrid Köppe in backstage of the Galerie. As a viewer of Astrid Köppe’s drawings, one becomes an observer of an artistic amoeba world of sheer inexhaustible gestalt development, whose irritating, sometimes bizarre otherness seems at the same time often enough to be underlaid with a wink and thus invites one to a voyage of discovery of its own kind. Naturally grown forms, reduced to their origins, are imaginatively reshaped by her. With the keyboard of drawing, combined with striking colour settings – brilliant radiance sometimes appears in passing – she produces surprising existences in drawing again and again. Endless in the individual expressions, one follows the other charged by observations of nature on journeys. Astrid Köppe, o.T. (Z23_058), 2023, Watercolour, ink, pencil, 29,7 x 21 cm Astrid Köppe, lives in Berlin since 2001; 1992-99 Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig, diploma + master student; born 1974 in Köthen / Anhalt; solo exhibitions (selection): 2023 Pretty Shiny Stuff, Seizan Gallery, New York; Look Deep into Nature, Galerie Inga Kondeyne; Concrete Matters (with Susanne Piotter), Galerie Carolyn Heinz, […]
Phoebe Boswell | Liminal Beach | WENTRUP | 15.09.-21.10.2023


until 21.10. | #4007ARTatBerlin | WENTRUP presents from 15. September 2023 the exhibition ” Liminal Beach ” of the artist Phoebe Boswell. Wentrup presents “Liminal Beach”, the first solo exhibition of London-based artist Phoebe Boswell in Germany. She was born in Nairobi in 1982 and studied at the Slade School of Fine Art and Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London. In 2022, she participated in the Lyon Biennale with a large two-channel video installation entitled dwelling. Her solo exhibition “A Tree Says (In These Boughs The World Rustles)” is currently on view at Orleans House in Twickenham near London. A woman flings herself into the air on a secluded beach, her red dress lifting from the force of that leap, its color a vibrant splash against the blue sky and endless horizon. She is so exuberant that she seems to defy gravity. Any moment now, those graceful arms might carry her away beyond where we can see. Phoebe Boswell’s Liminal Deity could be a portrait of joy and exhilarating freedom. But that dress: it is both elegant and harrowing, made of either feathers or flesh. Its shade of red hovers on the edge of darkness. Those could be […]
Eckart Hahn | Hart wie Schein | Crone Berlin | 15.09.-04.11.2023


until 04.11. | #4007ARTatBerlin | Crone Berlin presents from 15th September 2023 the exhibition „Hart wie Schein“ by the artist Eckart Hahn. It takes place within the framework of the Berlin Art Week and shows in an impressive way that Hahn has devoted himself to three things in his entire oeuvre: Painting, hyperrealism and the ad absurdum leading of an ever more absurd world. Eckart Hahn’s paintings amaze the viewer from the first moment with their meticulous, highly precise painting. His brushstrokes seem to effortlessly take on old master artistry and painterly virtue, but the motifs immediately reveal that we are in the here and now. Dreamlike, unreal human-animal figures are up to mischief, colourful plumage forms itself into soldiers’ helmets, black holes open up in desolate landscapes, cheeky birds peep out from under lifted women’s skirts and mighty creatures turn out to be wooden backdrops. The motifs of Hahn’s paintings leave it open whether they conceal symbolism or not. They can always be interpreted in this way or in another way. One can see one thing in them, but also the exact opposite. The only thing that is certain is that Hahn shows us a world in which nothing […]
Ej Hauser | Song Of Summer | Haverkampf Leistenschneider | 01.09.-14.10.2023


until 14.10. | #4005ARTatBerlin | Haverkampf Leistenschneider presents from 1. September 2023 the exhibition “Song Of Summer” of the artist EJ Hauser. Most of us are so used to reading that we forget that each letter is a shape, and each word is a composition. The type we read every day – in emails and books, on packaging and signs – has a significant aesthetic dimension. U.S. artist EJ Hauser has adopted graphic and typographic strategies for their philosophical purposes and works, revealing a new view of what we no longer see in everyday life among all the texts. EJ Hauser’s quasi-abstract, fabric-like paintings are composed of layers of pixels, text fragments, and chimerical figures that refer to networks both in nature and the plant world, as well as to digital systems and interconnections in our human communication world. For them, letters form a sculptural framework, a compositional structure that sometimes dissolves into pure text images, sometimes leads to text in combination with images, or sometimes is buried under successive layers of paint. Some are very explicit, others require a closer look to find the spine and curves of different letters jumbled together to dissolve the boundary between word and image, mixed […]
Simone Westphal + Karen Simon | Galerie Schindler | 31.08.-14.10.2023


until 14.10. | #4006ARTatBerlin | Galerie Schindler in Potsdam presents from 31. August 2023 the exhibition Verflechtung with works by the artists Simone Westphal and Karen Simon. The material approach that one senses in KAREN SIMONS’ works comes from a love of the spatial, the living, sinking into another world. With often delicate, transparent, but also strong colours, she paints with ink, gouache and acrylic on canvas, sometimes tulle. Karen Simon, still there, thread and ink on canvas, 95 x 75 cm, 2022 She often finds her inspiration in the moods of nature, places and feelings, whereby the representational is only hinted at, remains fragmentary or blurred. The sewn-on, embroidered or hanging threads suggest directions, connections, but also entanglements. The viewer is thus given impulses without being restricted in his or her way of seeing. Karen Simon, connection, 150 x 100 cm, thread and ink on canvas, 2023 With this opening up of new mental creative spaces, Simon succeeds in addressing people, evoking emotions, dreams or an examination of oneself. After viewing the works with their loose, floating, dancing threads, one is released with a feeling of having reconnected with oneself. Simone Westphal, Niki de St. Phalle, 35 x 20 […]
Lena Keller | Watching My Own Rotation | 68projects | 14.09.-04.11.2023


until 04.11. | #4004ARTatBerlin | 68projects presents from 14. September 2023 the exhibition Watching My Own Rotation of artist Lena Keller. 68projects by KORNFELD presents the painter Lena Keller for the first time with her solo exhibition Watching My Own Rotation. In her paintings, which are characterised by digital visual aesthetics, Lena Keller explores the relationship between man and landscape. The play with sharpness and blurriness makes the viewer think of images from the smartphone and of today’s viewing habits. Following the classic genre of landscape painting, Lena Keller’s paintings revolve around the longing for and alienation from natural habitats. Starting from manipulated photographic images, the artist explores questions of human perception and the influence of the digitally influenced environment that surrounds us. Representational images combine with supposedly virtual influences to create a pictorial reality of their own. The curator Larissa Kikol has written about this: „It’s these half-awake yet intense moments in the passenger seat when the blurry landscape appears close but out of reach. Sometimes they are childhood memories of innocent, early-morning departures on vacation. But they can also be experiences of deep contemplation, resulting in relaxation and a sense of healing. Rain, snow, heat, or cold, the […]
Martin Spengler | Creatio Ex Aliquo | Galerie Kornfeld | 14.09.–04.11.2023


until 04.11. | #4003ARTatBerlin | Galerie Kornfeld presents from 14. September 2023 the exhibition Creatio Ex Aliquo of the artist Martin Spengler. Kornfeld Galerie Berlin is showing works by Martin Spengler under the title Creatio Ex Aliquo. New reliefs and sculptures fill the space, which Spengler cuts out of corrugated cardboard blocks in his unmistakable technique, paints with gesso and then emphasises the cut edges with graphite. His works invite us to reflect on the changes and ambivalences of German society over time and to deal with current issues of our coexistence – even superficially “harmless” motifs such as a picture of the Colosseum in Rome, the depictions of waves breaking mightily or a la-ola wave in a stadium lose their innocence, but they too tell of the power of the masses. The exhibition “creatio ex aliquo” brings together new reliefs and sculptures by Martin Spengler, which he cuts out of corrugated cardboard blocks in his distinctive technique, paints with gesso, a primer for paintings, and then emphasizes the cut edges with graphite. The exhibition title is borrowed from the Latin „creatio ex nihilo“, and thus from the question of whether “something” can arise from “nothing.” By modifying this term […]
Filippo Gregoretti | EXNatura | Luisa Catucci Gallery | 01.09.-29.09.2023


until 29.09. | #4002ARTatBerlin | Luisa Catucci Gallery presents from 1. September 2023 (Opening: 31.08.) the exhibition EXNatura of artist Filippo Gregoretti. Filippo Gregoretti is a visual and conceptual artist, musician (pianist and composer), performer, university professor of transmedia design and digital experiences, pioneer of the integration of art, music and technology, developer of advanced algorithms and author of video games and immersive experiences. He is the first person to publish artworks as applications in the official stores. The AI does not create artworks, but the AI itself is the artwork. Gregoretti named his AI “Amrita” and developed it into an artificial intelligence artist – or an artificial emotional artist personality – capable of creating visual and audio artworks and communicating with the outside world and other artworks. The visual flow always begins in the pictorial, material and photographic world and is generated by the decisions of the AI personality during its artistic and emotional growth process. The music is elaborated based on complex harmonic guidelines and decision-making instructions that give the AI the ability to compose and improvise. Of course, Amrita needs to be guided on what decisions to make and what might inspire her in her artistic development. […]
Moritz Koch | Nightmare in Paradise | nüüd.berlin | 15.09.2023 until (follows)


until (follows) | #4001ARTatBerlin | nüüd.berlin Galerie presents from 15 September 2023 the exhibition “Nightmare in Paradise” by the artist Moritz Koch. There will be an artist talk with Moritz Koch and a guided tour of the exhibition on Saturday, 16 September 2023, 16:00. Opening: Friday, 15. September 2023, 7pm to 9pm Exhibition dates: Friday, 15. September until following. Image caption: Moritz Koch, ©Nüüd.berlin Exhibition Moritz Koch – nüüd.berlin gallery | Zeitgenössische Kunst | Contemporary Art | Ausstellungen Galerien Berlin | ART at Berlin
Michael Jastram | Zuflucht Sehnsucht | Galerie feinart Berlin | 07.09.-28.10.2023


until 28.10. | #4000ARTatBerlin | Galerie feinart berlin shows from 7. September 2023 Bronze sculptures by Michael Jastram: archaic-looking companions, female riders, warriors, goddesses, lonely drifters. The bronze sculptures by Michael Jastram, born in Berlin in 1953, show archaic-looking companions, female horsemen, warriors, goddesses, lonely drifters. They tell of man as an eternal traveller but also of his rationality and creative ability. Technical inventions let us overcome our physical limitations and dream of things that are still out of sight: Ladders, stairs, bridges, a boat, a wheeled cart. These ideas are as ancient as they are always wanting to be rediscovered in every human life. There is also something fateful in this image: man as driven and displaced. Michael Jastram, Kassandra (Seherin), Bronze, Wachsausschmelzverfahren, 61 x 39 x 19cm, 2017 © Martin Adam, Berlin “There is no substitute for travel. At home, others are the strangers; on the road, we are the strangers. Travelling requires exposing ourselves to risk, and we do it because strangeness is threatening but at the same time enticing” (Christoph Tannert 2018). Michael Jastram, Detail von Wolkenhaus, Bronze, Stahldraht, Wachsausschmelzverfahren, 88 x 135 x 23cm, 2010 © Martin Adam, Berlin Michael Jastram’s artistic commentary on society […]
Fenster auf Kipp // Heizung auf Fünf | EIGENHEIM Berlin @ Haunt Berlin | 01.09.–30.09.2023


until 30.09. | #3999ARTatBerlin | EIGENHEIM Berlin as a guest at HAUNT presents two exhibitions from 1 September 2023: the first exhibition “Fenster auf Kipp – Heizung auf Fünf” by the artists Enrico Freitag, Benedikt Braun and Konstantin Bayer and in November the second exhibition by the artists Anna Bittersohl, Gökçen Dilek Acay and Nina Röder. The first exhibition shows works by Konstantin Bayer, Benedikt Braun and Enrico Freitag. The title “Fenster auf Kipp // Heizung auf Fünf” is understood as a metaphor for human hubris and symbolises the idea of a never-ending wastefulness as well as the apparent impossibility of growing out of the comfort zone. Contemporary events are a mixture of fear of great upheavals and defiant insistence on the status quo. The three artists deal with these upheavals on the most diverse levels – be it economic, technological, social or ecological. EIGENHEIM Berlin is a guest for two exhibitions in 2023 at HAUNT, a remise at Kluckstraße 23 in the immediate vicinity of the Potsdamer Straße gallery district. The former training centre for Berlin gardeners is characterised by its modern straight-lined architecture, a multitude of rooms on two floors and a spacious, wildly urban outdoor area. The […]
Jan St. Werner | Excitation Resonance | EBENSPERGER BERLIN | 15.09.–11.11.2023


until 11.11. | #3998ARTatBerlin | EBENSPERGER BERLIN presents from 15. September 2023 the exhibition Excitation Resonance by the artist Jan St. Werner. For Ebensperger’s first exhibition at its new venue in Kreuzberg, electronic music artist and composer Jan St. Werner sonically activates the gallery spaces of Fichtebunker with custom built loudspeaker instruments beaming electronic sounds through a sequence of resonating chambers. Focus points are in motion, visual identification and object orientation are in question. Exhibition space, club, echo chamber, stage: “Excitation Resonance” challenges the conventions about how space can be thought and defined. Jan St. Werner Jan St. Werner is co-founder of the experimental music group Mouse on Mars and releases music under his own name via the Edition Fiepblatter Catalogue, distributed by Thrill Jockey Records, Chicago. In the mid-1990s, he was part of the Cologne sound and record collective A-Musik, worked together with Markus Popp (Oval) as Microstoria, and developed music for installations and films by visual artist Rosa Barba. In the 2000s, Werner was artistic director of STEIM, the Dutch studio for electro-instrumental music. He realized sound interventions and exhibitions for ICA London, Documenta 14, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, HKW, Berlin and Lenbachhaus, Munich, among others. In 2016 and 2017 Werner […]
Udo Nöger | present memories | galerie probst | 02.09.-01.12.2023


until 01.12. | #3997ARTatBerlin | galerie probst presents from 2. September 2023 the exhibition „present memories” with works on paper & board paintings by the artist Udo Nöger. The exhibition “Present Memories” reflects such a moment of the artist Udo Nöger. Here, his large-format panel paintings meet his current, as yet unpublished works on paper. In the midst of his richly filled life, the artist, who originally comes from Westphalia and has been based in the USA for over 30 years, looks back and forward in equal measure – uniting past and present in his current works. Now the threads of decades of his creative work are brought together. “All influences, all inspirations, all things, situations are reflected in my works on paper.” Udo Nöger, Paperworks, „present memories” 2023 For Nöger, paper is pure and unbiased. For him, the material lends a possibility of expression in its purest form and clarity. Already in the early 1980s, at the age of 18, Udo discovered his directness and spontaneity when working with paper. In phases, the medium accompanied his art career again and again. The artist remembers works from 1986, which he presented at the time in an exhibition with the Delta […]
David Schnell | Flyer | Galerie EIGEN + ART Berlin | 31.08.-28.10.2023


until 28.10. | #3996ARTatBerlin | Galerie EIGEN + ART Berlin shows from 31. August 2023 the exhibition Flyer by the artist David Schnell. The perspectives in David Schnell’s pictures have changed: What the gaze once saw before it, the strict pull from all edges of the space into the middle of the radiant world, a view from the central eye of the observer, is now replaced by an overview down from above. From the tower, from the apex of the pyramid, from an inexorable camera circling in the sky? An observation absolved from the human point of view, as taken by machines. It is the view of the angel of history. And before this eye, the deserted places are transformed – here, we ourselves adopt this non-human view – into states of things that no longer obey the basic truths of space and time. The structure bares itself. Components join it, lose their solidity, transform themselves. And the more our eyes approach the surfaces of the painted canvas, the more what we had just perceived as geometrically organized eludes us. We find ourselves in lucid abysses and floating shafts from which even the earth’s gravity has departed. What is architectonically […]
Black | Group Exhibition | Galerie Michael Haas | 16.09.-04.11.2023


until 04.11. | #3995ARTatBerlin | Galerie Michael Haas presents from 16. September 2023 (Opening: 15.09.) the group exhibition Black by the artists Josef Albers, Jordi Alcaraz, Horst Antes, Abraham David Christian, Dahn / Dokoupil, Jean Fautrier, Barry Flanagan, Frank Gerritz, Franz Graf, Beate Günther, John Isaacs, Per Kirkeby, Fritz Klemm, Gary Kuehn, Jakob Mattner, Charles Matton, Kate MccGwire, Rune Mields, Louise Nevelson, Diogo Pimentão, Arnulf Rainer, Emil Schumacher, Hans Uhlmann, Günther Umberg and René Wirths. Galerie Michael Haas presents around 30 works of classical modern art, art after 1945 and contemporary art. The connecting element seems simple at first glance, but the works on display prove the complexity in the artists’ approach to the common theme: the colour black. From Arnulf Rainer and Per Kirkeby to Louise Nevelson, Beate Günther and Frank Gerritz – many artists used and still use the effect and charisma of the colour black in their works. But what is black actually? Is it a colour or rather a non-colour due to the absence of colourfulness? Black, the darkest of all colours, is called an “achromatic colour” just like white and grey. Physically, black describes the absence of visible light or the absorption of all light […]
Willi Siber + Carlo Borer | shape|surface|seduction – Reine Verführung | Galerie SCHMALFUSS BERLIN | 09.09.-21.10.2023


until 21.10. | #3994ARTatBerlin | Galerie SCHMALFUSS BERLIN presents from 9. September 2023 die exhibition „shape|surface|seduction – Reine Verführung“ with works by the artists Willi Siber and Carlo Borer. GALERIE SCHMALFUSS BERLIN presents two extremely creative and versatile sculptors who could not be more different: Willi Siber, who was born in southern Germany and emerged from traditional wood sculpture, and the metal sculptor and industrial designer Carlo Borer from Switzerland. The delightful seduction of the senses combined with a critical view of contemporary events is what awaits visitors to the exhibition space|surface|seduction – works by Willi Siber and Carlo Borer at GALERIE SCHMALFUSS BERLIN. Willi Siber and Carlo Borer play with our sensual perception. They stage material, colour and space with the inclusion of light in such a way that their works beguile the viewer through the ambivalence of their appearance. Both sculptors describe themselves as tinkerers in terms of craft production steps and as researchers in the discovery of material-immanent properties. These skills, combined with their artistic creativity, give rise to works of art of unique grace and permanent change. What the viewer loves about them is the perceived doubt about their optical certainty. Opening: Saturday 9. September 2023 […]
Venus und Sonne im zehnten Haus | Group Exhibition | Mehdi Chouakri (Wilhem Hallen) | 12.09.-04.11.2023


until 04.11. | #3993ARTatBerlin | Galerie Mehdi Chouakri shows from 9. September 2023 the exhibition “Venus und Sonne im zehnten Haus” (Venus and Sun in the Tenth House) by the artists Julia Dubsky, Hannah Sophie Dunkelberg, Simone Fattal, Rochelle Feinstein, Estefanía Landesmann, Nancy Lupo, Liz Magor, Małgorzata Mirga-Tas, Margaret Raspé and Martha Riniker Radich. Exhibition dates: Saturday, 9 September to Saturday, 4 November 2023 Opening hours: Saturday, 9 and Sunday, 10 September, from 11:00 am to 8:00 pm / Tuesday, 12 September to Saturday, 4 November, each Saturday from 11:00 am to 6:00 pm and by appointment. Location: Wilhem Hallen, Kopenhagener Str. 60-72, 13407 Berlin-Reinickendorf Image caption: Courtesy of Mehdi Chouakri Exhibition Venus und Sonne im zehnten Haus – Mehdi Chouakri | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin
Benka | Spaltum | Galerie Z22 | 31.08.-23.09.2023


until 23.09. | #3992ARTatBerlin | Galerie Z22 presents from 31. August 2023 the exhibition Spaltum with new works by the artist Benka. Benka, CAPTCHA#85, 2023, Mixed Media on canvas,180 x 140 Opening: Thursday, 31. August 2023, from 7:00 pm Exhibition dates: Thursday, 31. August 2023 – Saturday, 09. July 2023 Exhibition Benka – Galerie Z22 | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin
Cevdet Erek | In Circulation | neugerriemschneider | 16.09.-28.10.2023


until 28.10. | #3991ARTatBerlin | neugerriemschneider presents from 16. September 2023 the exhibition “In Circulation” of the artist Cevdet Erek. Cevdet Erek’s first solo exhibition at neugerriemschneider opens at the Linienstraße location to coincide with Berlin Art Week and the autumn edition of Gallery Weekend Berlin. Erek explores the diverse interfaces between sound, space, perception, reception and time. In site-specific installations and sound works, he explores these rhythmically, as it were, drawing on his extensive experience as an architect, musician and sound designer. in circulation presents concentrated sculptural reflections on sound as a lived feeling and its physical manifestations. The three works Daf without Skin (2021), Larger Daf without Skin (2023) and Ruler Daf without Skin (2021) have their origins in Erek’s many years as a percussionist and the resulting deep sense of instruments, their use and texture. Developed in collaboration with instrument maker Sami Hosseini, the works refer to the frame drum of the same name. Held gently in the hand on the body, the characteristic rustling of the daf is created by metal rings hitting the taut membrane when the instrument is moved or struck. Erek’s works vary this technique; they have no drumhead and are suspended from […]
Irmel Kamp | Moderne in Europa | Galerie Thomas Fischer | 09.09.-28.10.2023


until 28.10. | #3986ARTatBerlin | Galerie Thomas Fischer presents from 9. September 2023 (Opening: 08.09.) the exhibition Moderne in Europa by the artist Irmel Kamp. Irmel Kamp, Antwerpen Opening: Friday, 8. September 2023, 6:00 – 9:00 pm Exhibition dates: Saturday, 9. September – Saturday, 28. October 2023 Exhibition Irmel Kamp – Galerie Thomas Fischer | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibibitons Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin
Mimmo Rotella | MANIFESTI LACERATI | Kewenig Berlin | 08.09.-04.11.2023


until 04.11. | #3990ARTatBerlin | Galerie Kewenig Berlin presents from 8. September 2023 the exhibition MANIFESTI LACERATI of the artist Mimmo Rotella. Opening: Friday, 08. September 2023 Exhibition dates: Friday, 8. September until Saturday, 4. November 2023 Image caption: ©Kewenig Exhibition Mimmo Rotella – Kewenig Berlin | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Ausstellungen Berlin Galerien | ART at Berlin
Kimsooja | META-PAINTING | Kewenig Berlin | 08.09.-04.11.2023


until 04.11. | #3989ARTatBerlin | Galerie Kewenig Berlin presents from 8. September 2023 the exhibition META-PAINTING of the artist Kimsooja. Opening: Friday, 08. September 2023 Exhibition dates: Friday, 8. September until Saturday, 4. November 2023 Image caption: Kimsooja portrait, ©Kewenig Exhibition Kimsooja – Kewenig Berlin | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Ausstellungen Berlin Galerien | ART at Berlin
Astrid Busch, DAG, Tina Haber, Teresa Mayr | FANTÔME SHOW 2023 | Laura Mars Gallery | 19.08.-09.09.2023


until 09.09.| #3988ARTatBerlin | Laura Mars Gallery shows from 19. August 2023 (Opening: 18.08.) the group exhibition FANTÔME SHOWS 2023 of the artists Astrid Busch, DAG, Tina Haber and Teresa Mayr. Fantôme Show 2023, showcasing the latest publications from the Fantôme Verlag. Four artists – Astrid Busch, DAG, Teresa Mayr and Tina Haber – will be exhibiting their works, including drawings, installations, and editions that explore the concept of a changing space. Through the versatile use of analogue and digital forms, they create new connections that show historical and personal contexts. Astrid Busch “world in minds”, 2022 (Installationsansicht) publiziert in Astrid Busch – World in Minds, Fantôme Vol. 76 Astrid Buschs works include installations, photographs, works on paper, objects, and moving images. The starting point of her works are usually architectural designs or places that she examines for their sensory perceptibility and their impact on people. Her motifs reference pre-existing and self-generated images, which are transformed, modified in dimensions and then translated onto various image carriers in the room under complex lighting conditions. This is how she makes the different spaces she looks at experienceable on different atmospheric levels. Based on her research on four international harbours she summarizingly created the book world of minds. […]
Ian Kiaer | Endnote oblique, pink | Galerie Barbara Wien | 09.09-09.11.2023


until 09.11. | #3987ARTatBerlin | Galerie Barbara Wien presents from 9. September 2023 the exhibition Endnote oblique, pink of the artist Ian Kiaer. Ian Kiaer’s work draws upon utopian approaches to architecture, literature, philosophy, and art. His recent research centers around The Oblique Function, an architectural theory conceptualised and developed by architect Claude Parent (1923–2016) and cultural theorist and architect Paul Virilio (1932–2018). Parent and Virilio explored a new architectural and urban order that would encourage fluid, continuous movement and force the body to adapt to disequilibrium. The central concept of The Oblique Function involves tilting floors and walls to open up space rather than limiting and closing it, thereby breaking away from modernism and its orthogonal vocabulary. Ian Kiaer (born 1971 in London, UK) currently lives and works in London and Oxford. Opening: Friday, 8. September 2023, 6 pm – 9 pm Exhibition dates: Saturday 9. September – Thursday, 9. November 2023 Image caption: Ian Kiaer, Endnote oblique, pink stain, 2023. Photo: Ketty Bertossi Exhibition Ian Kiaer – Galerie Barbara Wien | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Ausstellungen Berlin Galerien | ART at Berlin
Dittmar Danner aka Krüger | You want it darker – let’s kill the flame! | Semjon Contemporary | 26.08.-23.09.2023


until 23.09. | #3985ARTatBerlin | Semjon Contemporary presents from 26. August 2023 (Opening: 25.08.) the exhibition You want it darker – let’s kill the flame! by the artist Dittmar Danner aka Krüger. Dittmar Danner aka Krüger in front of his painting It’s not dark yet (M-70-2022), 240 x 160 cm, acrylic on canvas); photo: Jürgen Baumann Opening: Friday, 25. August 2023, 7:00 – 9:30 pm Exhibition dates: Saturday, 26. August to Saturday, 23. September 2023 Artist talk: Saturday, 9 September 2023, at 3 pm Exhibition Dittmar Danner aka Krüger – Semjon Contemporary | Zeitgenössische Kunst – Contemporary Art – Exhibitions Berlin Galleries – ART at Berlin
Kristina Weiss + Darko Lesjaks | Duo exhibition | Galerie Sievi | 18.08.-17.09.2023


until 17.09. | #3984ARTatBerlin | Galerie Sievi shows from 18. August 2023 the Duo exhibition of artists Kristina Weiss and Darko Lesjaks. Kristina Weiss has been working as a freelance artist in Munich and her native city of Berlin for around twenty years; intellectual thematisation forms at best the framework of her work, the viewer should perceive images and objects primarily on a sensual level and find a subjective approach. Kristina Weiss, ©Galerie Sievi Darko Lesjak’s painting is inspired by the power and aesthetics of nature, which are reflected in his dynamic and colourful pictorial compositions. The spiritual and the physical seem to strive for a close connection. In the process, he creates works of art that radiate vitality and joy, but sometimes also appear monumental and mysterious. Opening: Friday, 18. August 2023, 7 pm Exhibition dates: Friday, 18. August until Sunday, 17. September 2023 Image caption: Darko Lesjaks, courtesy Galerie Sievi Exhibition Kristina Weiss + Darko Lesjaks – Galerie Sievi | Contemporary Art Berlin – Ausstellungen Berlin Galerien | ART at Berlin
Adébayo Bolaji | To speak out loud | Galerie Kremers | 15.09.-14.10.2023


until 14.10. | #3983ARTatBerlin | Galerie Kremers presents from 15. September 2023 the exhibition To speak out loud of the artist Adébayo Bolaji. The second solo exhibition of the artist Adebayo Bolaji on the occasion of the reopening of the newly designed gallery in the Gothic Hall. In this exhibition, Bolaji, who lives in London and has Nigerian roots, takes the protest action of young Nigerians against police brutality as a starting point to reflect on the power of the voice: Adébayo Bolaji, ©Galerie Kremers “It was the events in Nigeria that got me thinking about the role of VOICE in society and then the voice of the individual. So what is it that liberates us, that makes us feel like ourselves, which in turn makes us feel free to speak, to express ourselves, to make art … and what is it that hinders us psychologically, politically and socially? -But for me it always goes back to the individual.” Bolaji uses this event as one of the multiple tracks in his search for his own as an intellectual Englishman with Nigerian roots. The exhibition will take place in both gallery spaces and the artist will be present at the opening. […]
Ai Weiwei | Know thyself | neugerriemschneider | 14.09.-30.03.2024


until 30.03. | #3982ARTatBerlin | neugerriemschneider presents from 16. September 2023 the exhibition “Know thyself” of the artist Ai Weiwei. Ai Weiwei’s fifth solo exhibition at neugerriemschneider, opening at Christinenstraße to coincide with Berlin Art Week and the autumn edition of Gallery Weekend Berlin. Know thyself brings together new works from his ongoing series in which he recontextualises art historical and contemporary images by deconstructing and reconstructing them with Lego bricks. With this medium, as playful as it is immediate, spanning both generations and countries, Ai undertakes a critical analysis of the Western cultural canon, infused with references to his own artistic career. In the course of his career, Ai has repeatedly created Lego works in order to question the criteria of pictorial composition and production through the manual processing of hundreds of thousands of building blocks. He successively expanded his investigation of the representational and conceptual possibilities of this medium to develop replicas of iconic artworks and other well-known images. Following Marcel Duchamp and his legacy of the readymade, Ai uses a mass-produced material to adapt existing motifs, which he often transposes into his personal social and political context through modifications. In doing so, the angular stones allude to […]
Noa Eshkol | Movement Notations | neugerriemschneider | 26.08.-28.10.2023


until 28.10. | #3981ARTatBerlin | neugerriemschneider presents from 28. August 2023 the exhibition “Movement Notations” of the artist Noa Eshkol. The fifth exhibition dedicated to Noa Eshkol at neugerriemschneider, on view at the Linienstrasse location during Berlin Art Week and the autumn edition of Gallery Weekend Berlin. movement notations forms a preview of the anniversary year 2024, in which the choreographer and artist would have turned one hundred. Following our earlier presentations of tapestries by Eshkol, we are showing rare sculptural, graphic and filmic works from her archive for the first time. These exhibits, some of which have not been seen for decades, document the development of the influential Eshkol-Wachman Movement Notation, illuminating a central foundation of Eshkol’s creative practice. Following a five-year stay in England, where she studied expressionist dance, Eshkol developed the Eshkol-Wachman Movement Notation together with the architect Avraham Wachman in Israel from 1951 to 1956. Published in 1958 in the book Movement Notation, this innovative movement notation is based on an interdisciplinary, universally applicable structure that goes beyond dance and the human figure in favour of an objective analysis of individual body parts. Eshkol and Wachman defined a scheme for different body shapes, standardised the mobility […]
Bernard Piffaretti | Kombi | KLEMM’S | 15.09.-28.10.2023


until 28.10. | #3980ARTatBerlin | KLEMM’S presents from 15. September 2023 the exhibition “Kombi” by the artist Bernard Piffaretti. Bernard Piffaretti (b. 1955 in St Etienne, lives in Paris) belongs to the central positions in the field of conceptual, contemporary painting. Since the late 1980s, his work has been determined by the idiosyncratic principle of repetition – the establishment of the ‘image double’, which finds its unity on the canvas. The intellectual starting point of Piffaretti’s new solo show at Klemm’s, is a playful yet distanced reflection on the once emblematic and still popular function of the ‘Kombi’ (Kombinationswagen) and the possibility offered through its multiple uses to discover the world. Piffaretti combines this concept both spatially and temporally over the course of the exhibition with the idea of a traditional “Cabinet of Curiosities”: his painterly repertoire can be explored by the viewer in a wide variety of ways – right down to the ‘iconographic’ margins of his canvases. In Kombi, Bernard Piffaretti proposes a personal collection – a ‘painting cabinet’ – of his own paintings, in which his works are exhibited, as it were, as ‘rarities’ and ‘curiosities’; anchored per se in the author’s consciousness and memory, they also acquire a […]
DAPHNE1 | Group exhibition | aquabitArt Galerie | 11.09.-19.09.2023


until 19.09. | #3979ARTatBerlin | aquabitArt Galerie shows from 11. September 2023 the group exhibition DAPHNE1 by the artists Janis Strobl, Ana Daniela Koch, Karen Fagour, Baal Ludwig Mondstein, KT KennedyKünstler, curated by Lukas Fuchs. In the exhibition “DAPHNE1” at the aquabitArt gallery, the narrative of the Daphne-Apollon mythology is instinctively re-examined. The canon of art history, determined by patriarchy, is critiqued and deconstructed through the works of women artists to provide an alternative, feminist narrative. Ana Daniela Koch, Albedo, 2023, 70 x 50 cm Daphne is no longer a victim, but is transformed into a symbol of resistance to sexualized violence through a metaphysical response a la “DEAE EX MACHINA” (Latin f. goddesses from the machine). Baal Mondstein, Skylla 2.0, 2023, 100 x 100cm, Acrylic on canvas with red crystalline The conceptual and intuitive works from different media will be on view during Berlin Art Week 2023. Janis Strobl, Couronne d’épines, 2022-280 x 310 cm, Tappestrie Exhibiton dates: Monday, 11. September to Tuesday, 19. September 2023 Artist Talk: Wednesday, 13. September, 7 – 11 pm / Sunday, 17. September, 7 – 11 pm Opening hours: daily, 12 – 10 pm Image caption title: Janis Strobl, Orea, 2022, […]
Tino Geiss | SPATIUM | Galerie Brockstedt | 09.09.-04.11.2023


until 04.11.| #3978ARTatBerlin | Galerie Brockstedt presents from 9. September 2023 the exhibition SPATIUM with paintings and collages by the artist Tino Geiss. The title and images of this exhibition of recent works by Leipzig painter Tino Geiß invite us to reflect…. Seen abstractly, “space” means a possibility, an opportunity for development or encounter. It invites us to enter it, to fill it with content, to shape it. On the one hand, it signals openness, but on the other hand it also protects what is inside. Tino Geiss, Blumenstrauss, 2023, 68 x 45, Acrylic, paper tape, lacquer on forex The rooms into which Tino Geiss leads us breathe silence: no living people – only their likenesses on busts or paintings – no animals, only plants adorn the lushly furnished interiors. Our eyes linger at first on the varied and painterly realistically executed details, but are lured deeper and deeper into new suggested perspectives: Other rooms, windows, door frames, staircases, galleries or pictures suggest levels behind them, which the artist staggers into one another like a collage with brisk brushstrokes, as if these realistic-looking rooms wanted to guide us into deeper layers of our consciousness. Tino Geiss, Große Sammlung, 2023, 240 […]
Jan Peter Tripp + Gaëlle Chotard | Raumkompositionen | Galerie SCHMALFUSS BERLIN | 29.07.-02.09.2023


until 02.09. | #3977ARTatBerlin | Galerie SCHMALFUSS BERLIN presents from 29. July 2023 the exhibition „Raumkompositionen“ with artworks by the artists Jan Peter Tripp and Gaëlle Chotard. Jan-Peter Tripp has created still lifes such as “Flower Power” and “Blanc de Blanc” as well as the portrait “Zampanillo” (Uli Wallner) especially for the current exhibition in the Galerie SCHMALFUSS BERLIN – contemporary fine arts. In these smaller paintings, too, we recognise the virtuosity with which Tripp composes his paintings as well as the ingenuity with which he wields his brushes. What looks like a striving for perfectionism is for Jan-Peter Tripp the pure pleasure of representation, the thrill of the painterly challenge. In contrast, Gaëlle Chotard plays with the malleability of the most diverse materials thanks to a rope-dancing gesture and draws dense but also fragile, light and transparent organic forms in space. Her meticulous and imaginative works, woven from metallic threads and born from a long work with the line in her sketchbooks, subtly mix volume, lines and movement. Chotard considers space as a white painting ground on which she makes visible her works, which are in muted colours, while at the same time emphasising the emptiness and shadows that […]
Houda Terjuman | Glide through evanescent lands | Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery Berlin | 22.08.-16.09.2023


until 16.09. | #3976ARTatBerlin | Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery Berlin presents from 22. August 2023 (Opening: 19.08.) the exhibition “Glide through evanescent lands” with works by the artist Houda Terjuman. Floating rocks tied together by string, trails of gold, a bicycle in a grassy field, a deserted swimming pool, an open door. For Houda Terjuman, life is made up of visual symbols that she collects and paints into exquisite dreamscapes that reflect on the passage of time and stories of migration. This latest series of delicate paintings, presented in Glide Through Evanescent Lands, her second solo exhibition at Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, is her most personal yet, inspired by her own experiences of dislocation and her continual search for balance. In many of these works, the objects – which Terjuman describes as surrogates ‘for us’ or our memories – appear untethered, suspended in space or else held by a thin piece of thread such as, the rocks in Unfasten the cord and emerge I and II. Both of these works depict two rocks, one tied by string and the other free floating in space. For Terjuman, the string represents the safety and comfort of society – the unsupported rock by contrast has […]
Studio Talks | Group Exhibition | ARTCO Galerie Berlin | 04.08.-02.09.2023


until 02.09. | #3975ARTatBerlin | ARTCO Galerie Berlin shows from 4. August 2023 the group exhibition Studio Talks with works by the artists Christian August, Bea Bonafini, Susanne Bonowicz, Jenny Brosinski, Julien Deiss, Johanna Dumet, Janes Haid- Schmallenberg, Atusa Jatari, Aneta Kajzer, Benni Kakert, Moritz Lindur, Timur Lukas, Rebekka Macht, Anna Nero, Laura Sachs, Selassie, Gemma Solà Sotos, Tom Solty, Fabian Treiber, Theresa Volpp, Marta Vovk and Fabian Warnsing. “It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.” In summer 2018, the curator Malte Bülskämper and his STUDIO TALKS project began with the first talks and studio visits in Berlin. The following five years were not only an exciting journey through many studios, but also through the different developments of contemporary painting. The group exhibition at ARTCO Galerie Berlin juxtaposes the different positions of the participating artists in their diversity and lets them enter into an exciting discourse. The exhibition invites us all to discover painting anew and to engage together in an encounter with the unknown – just like a good visit to the studio. As part of the exhibition, all the interviews in the Studio Talks series will be published as a book together […]
Dennis Rudolph I The Artwork of the Future II | FeldbuschWiesnerRudolph | 09.09.-14.10.2023


until 14.10. | #3974ARTatBerlin | FeldbuschWiesnerRudolph (FWR) presents from 9. September 2023 the exhibition “The Artwork of the Future (Cycle II)” by the Berlin multimedia artis Dennis Rudolph. “(…) The real work of art, i.e. the directly sensually represented, in the moment of its most bodily appearance, is the liberation of thought in sensuality, the satisfaction of the need of life in life. (…)” (Richard Wagner, The Work of Art of the Future, 1849) The staging of a unique fusion of traditional media and digital technologies will take place in the gallery’s spacious rooms. The audience is invited to enter a utopian world through the classic panel painting. At the center of the exhibition is the work titled “Frieze of the Gods II (Rise of Eurydice / Fall of Rome)” (2023). At first glance, it is an 8m-long canvas on whose surface a superficially abstract weave of broad brushstrokes is depicted. The brushstrokes are sometimes longer, sometimes shorter but always powerfully drawn and remain monochrome in their singular color trajectories. Slightly curved, they seem to follow the contour of an invisible logical form. The artist has applied the oil paint in a strikingly impasto manner, and so this painting resembles […]
Markus Rock | Chimera | BBA Gallery | 10.08.-06.09.2023


until 06.09. | #3973ARTatBerlin | BBA Gallery presents ab 10. August 2023 the exhibition Chimera by german photographer Markus Rock. BBA Gallery presents “Chimera”, a solo exhibition of the latest series by German fine-art photographer Markus Rock. His exhibition comes after Rock participated in the BBA Photography Prize 2022 group exhibition, as part of the 2022 shortlist. Photographed in 2019 at Uferstudios, Berlin, “Chimera” plays on perception and imagination. The bodies of Julia and Siri – uncanny in their resemblance – are a projection surface where individuals influence how parts of the body combine to form unusual organisms. Upon closer inspection, the Chimera dissolves back into a recognisable collection of disconnected limbs. In the manner of the mythological Greek Chimera, the two figures in the black space of the photographs merge together at bizarre angles. The boundary of the individual is blurred and absurd creatures are formed. The incorporation of dance and extreme physical proximity differentiates these photographs from his previous work. Intuitive and emotionally driven, “Chimera”’ is a testament to the transformative potential of human connections that goes beyond verbal communication. Opening: Thursday, 10th August 2023, 6pm to 9pm Exhibition dates: Thursday 10th August to Wednesday 6th September 2023 […]
Hungry for love | Group exhibition | Michaela Helfrich Galerie | 28.07.-26.08.2023


until 26.08. | #3972ARTatBerlin | Michaela Helfrich Galerie presents from 28. July 2023 the Group exhibition “Hungry for love” with Tanja Selzer and many other artists from the gallery’s network. Playing Venus 3, 2022, 220 x 170cm, Oil on Linen Tanja Selzer, ©Michaela Helfrich Galerie with artists : Ralf Rose, Ulrike Pisch, Tania Selzer, Carolin Hegerath, Klaas-Bosch, Roland Behrmann , Anja Margold, Heike Mardo, Alan Rankle, Tina Engel, Mariella Ridda, Ruo Zhang, August Schnee, Oliver Dehn, Bettina Semmer, Noëlo’Cunningham, Elena Tamburini, David D. Lauer, Christina Gaysz, Ärmin Paul, Fabian Freese, Laura Rosenow and Nanako Shikata. Opening: Friday, 28. July 2023, 6pm until 10pm Exhibition dates: Friday, 28. April – Saturday, 26. August 2023 Image caption: Bettina Semmer “Lonely Dancer”, 2021, 120 x 110 cm, acrylics and oil on canvas Group exhibition Hungry for love – Michaela Helfrich Galerie | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Ausstellungen Berlin Galerien | ART at Berlin
Renate Hampke + Ursula Sax | 2 x 88 – Two-times-eighty-eight – Circular Encounter | Semjon Contemporary | 26.07.-29.07.2023


until 29.07. | #3971ARTatBerlin | Semjon Contemporary presents from 26. July 2023 the exhibition 2 x 88 – Two-times-eighty-eight – Circular Encounter by the artists Renate Hampke and Ursula Sax. On the occasion of this event, two current works by both artists will be juxtaposed in the main room. Exhibition dates: Wednesday, 26. July to Saturday, 29. July 2023 Image caption: left Renate Hampke, right Ursula Sax, each 2023 Exhibition Renate Hampke + Ursula Sax – Semjon Contemporary | Zeitgenössische Kunst – Contemporary Art – Exhibitions Berlin Galleries – ART at Berlin
Tamim Sibai + Hans Scheib | Blickwinkel | Galerie Mutare | 28.07.-07.10.2023


until 07.10. | #3968ARTatBerlin | Galerie mutare shows from 28. July 2023 the exhibition with paintings, bronzes and wooden figures by the artists Tamim Sibai and Hans Scheib. Tamim Sibai, born in Damascus in 1991, studied painting in his home town in Syria until the outbreak of war. Like many artists, he left the country – but not initially for Europe. In Khartoum (Sudan), he learned German and has already exhibited his experimental oil portraits in publicly acclaimed solo exhibitions. In 2018, he completed his master class studies with Prof. Burkhard Held at the UdK. Tamim Sibai has focused on the human figure, especially the portrait, increasingly abstracting and reducing. His works have already been shown at solo and group exhibitions in Damascus, Berlin, Khartoum and in a private collection in Beirut, Khartoum, Graz, Montreal, Paris and Berlin. Hans Scheib was born in Potsdam in 1949, grew up in Berlin and studied sculpture at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts. Hans Scheib is considered one of the defining German sculptors of the present day. The human figure is at the centre of his work. His sculptures and objects are expressive, sometimes absurd and provocatively aesthetic. The works always take up […]
Lore Kegel | World traveler, grande dame, painter (1901-1980) | Galerie feinart Berlin | 27.07.-31.08.2023


until 31.08. | #3966ARTatBerlin | Galerie feinart berlin presents from 27. July 2023 the exhibition “World traveler, grande dame, painter (1901-1980)” mit drawings by the Africa and South America traveler and artist Lore Kegel from the 1960s to 1970s. Lore Kegel was one of the first women to study at the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1919 to 1922. Living in Hamburg from the mid-1920s, the emancipated, adventurous woman made a lasting name for herself primarily as an art dealer and collector of non-European, especially African art — a passion that also deeply inspired her work as a painter and poet. Lore Kegel, Unity of faith, pastel crayon, 1963 © feinartberlin Lore Kegel’s life was marked by an inexhaustible curiosity for travels to foreign cultures, for their nature, people and crafts. As early as the early 1930s, she traveled to India, Tibet and Lapland, and after 1945 to Central Africa, South America, Southeast Asia and Egypt. Under the National Socialist government, she was excluded from the Reich Chamber of Culture because of her Jewish ancestors. During the war, she organized so-called „Kegel-Abende” in her house on the Eilenau until it was bombed in 1943, where artists, writers and humanities scholars regularly […]
Gottfried Salzmann | Die Landschaft | Galerie Dittmar | 21.07.-17.09.2023


until 17.09. | #3965ARTatBerlin | Galerie Dittmar presents from 21. July 2023 the solo exhibition „Die Landschaft“ with works of the artist Gottfried Salzmann. Gottfried Salzmann, born in 1943 in Saalfelden near Salzburg, has lived and worked in Paris for over fifty years. 1972 first prize for drawing Pierre David-Weill of the Institut de France, Paris, and Theodor Körner Prize in Vienna. 1982 major monograph by Walter Koschatzky, director of the Albertina in Vienna. In the same year retrospective at the Albertina with catalogue. Also in 1982 monograph by Wieland Schmied on the drawings. 1991 Exhibition at the Rupertinum in Salzburg. 2007 at the Austrian Embassy in Washington D.C. 2011 awarded the Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art. 2023 on the occasion of the artist’s eightieth birthday, several institutional exhibitions, tributes and book presentations. Grüne Allee, 1984, Aquarell, 30,5 x 48 cm The gallery’s exhibition focuses on landscape watercolours and landscape drawings. Although Gottfried Salzmann stands in the tradition of the great watercolour masters, he works quite independently and has opened up new scope for the medium, both in pictorial strategy and in the use of colour. The charcoal and ink drawings form an independent part to a […]
J+1 | Group exhibition | Jarmuschek + Partner | 01.07.-26.08.2023


until 26.08. | #3964ARTatBerlin | Jarmuschek + Partner presents from 1. July 2023 (Opening: 30.06.) the Group exhibition J+1 of the artists Sabine Banovic, Abuzer Güler, Troels Carlsen, Ata Sander, Patrick Cierpka, Florin Kompatscher, David Eager Maher, Brian Fay, Oliver Gröne, Jan Sebastian Koch, Faisal Habibi, Evi Pangestu, Helena Hafemann, Martina Lang, Inga Kerber, Jochen Plogsties, Carina Linge, Norbert W. Hinterberger, Petra Lottje, Friederike Feldmann, Elisa Manig, Monika Brandmeier, Michael Merkel, Made by Us, Harding Meyer, Max Kaminski, Moritz Schleime, Rahel Goetsch, Jānis Šneiders, Zile Ziemele, Katharina Stadler, Josephine Seydler, Malwine Stauss, Stina Molander Skavlan, Andreas Steinbrecher, Mirjam Falkensteiner, Franziska Stünk, Christiane Möbus, Corinne Von Lebusa, Florian Wenzel, Majla Zeneli and Philipp Hennevogl. Majla Zeneli, LIGHT From 1 July to 26 August, Galerie Jarmuschek + Partner is presenting a special exhibition format for the second time: under the motto J+1, each of the gallery’s artists will not only show a current work of their own, but will also introduce a selected guest. Many of the invited artists have been a source of inspiration, an exchange partner and a role model for the hosts. Carina Linge, Dunkler Grund In Anton von Werner’s former studio – now the gallery space – works […]
Melissa Steckbauer | Boys, Boys, Boys | Migrant Bird Space | 15.07.-29.07.2023


until 29.07. | #3963ARTatBerlin | Migrant Bird Space presents from 15. July 2023 the exhibition “Boys, Boys, Boys” by the artist Melissa Steckbauer. Melissa Steckbauer will be presented as the first additional artist of the summer project “Boys Boys Boys” from 15.07. to 29.07. at MBS with her fascinating works. Melissa Steckbauer currently resides and works in Berlin. In recent years, she has shifted her focus from comprehensive research in painting to creating a series of works on paper, exploring the possibilities and complexities of this medium within spatial contexts. Steckbauer’s artistic practice is characterized by her exploration of the unique qualities and expressive potential of paper. Through techniques such as repetition, intricate cuts, and layering, she creates captivating geometric shapes and layered compositions on paper. In Steckbauer’s artwork, paper serves as an “image-bearer,” conveying profound emotions and interpersonal relationships. She likens her artistic process to writing love letters, where each artwork becomes a visual expression of something deeply human and transcendent. Through her meticulous craftsmanship and experimentation with photographic forms, Steckbauer aims to make the intangible aspects of the human experience tangible. The artistic exploration goes beyond individual experiences and encompasses the concept of sharing, which is essential for […]
Matthias Garff | Mimese | Galerie Tammen | 14.07.-02.09.2023


until 02.09 | #3967ARTatBerlin | Galerie Tammen shows from 14th July 2023 the solo exhibition “Mimese” with sculptures and objects by the artist Matthias Garff. “The motif of the animal and the use of found objects are essential features of my work. It questions man’s relationship to nature and is based on experiences in an urban environment where nature can be experienced primarily in cultivated form. My animals are city dwellers, their bodies formed from legacies of our civilisation. Architecture is landscape and habitat.” – Matthias Garff Matthias Garff “LAUBFROSCH”; 2023, postal telephone, clothes pegs, leather, upholstery nails, 13 x 30 x 35 cm Matthias Garff was born in 1986 in Solothurn, Switzerland. 2008-2013: Dresden University of Fine Arts [HfBK], basic studies, Prof, Christian Sery, specialist class, Prof. Ulrike Grossarth. 2013: Diploma in Fine Arts. 2013-2015: Master student, Prof. Lutz Dammbeck, HfBK Dresden. The artist lives and works in Leipzig. Vernissage: Friday, 14 July 2023, 19:00 – 22:00, Introduction: Christoph Tannert, Director Künstlerhaus Bethanien Berlin Exhibition period: Saturday, 15 July 2023 until Saturday, 2 September 2023 Bildunterschrift: Matthias Garff „Tagpfauenauge“ , 2023, Traffic signs, skateboard, can, table tennis bat, masks, sheet metal, 140 x 210 x 16 cm, […]
Dui Jip Ki / 뒤집기 | Group exhibition | Esther Schipper | 14.07.-31.08.2023


until 31.08. | #3962ARTatBerlin | Galerie Esther Schipper presents from 14. July 2023 the two-part exhibition of contemporary Korean art Dui Jip Ki / 뒤집기 with works bybthe artists Haneyl Choi, Hyunsun Jeon, Hong Joo Kim, Suyeon Kim, Taek Sang Kim, Lee Bae, Jin Meyerson and Donghyun Sonin at Berlin and Seoul galleries. Curated in close cooperation with Esther Schipper, Seoul, Dui Jip Ki brings together artists across five generations who work in a variety of media. The exhibition is a celebration of the gallery’s long-standing relationship with Korea, coming just shy of the first anniversary of the opening of the location in Seoul. The work of all eight artists (seven in Seoul) connects in specific ways to the rich history of Korean contemporary art. Engaging critically with social and political ideas, employing alternative conceptual strategies, addressing subverted identities and parallel histories, or renewing traditional techniques and materiality, the works in Dui Jip Ki can be taken as an aesthetic journey of origin, development, and emergence. Front: Haneyl Choi, Physically: vibe, humor, hormone, pheromone, stink, body language, 2023 Expandable foam, silicone, urethane urea resin, acrylic, styrofoam, steel frame, bronze wire 180 x 70 x 80 cm (excluding wire), Back: Presentation […]
Livia Sciorilli Borrelli | Visions in Thread | Luisa Catucci Gallery | 14.07.-25.08.2023


until 25.08. | #3961ARTatBerlin | Luisa Catucci Gallery presents from 14. July 2023 (Opening: 13.07.) the exhibition Visions in Thread by the artist Livia Sciorilli Borrelli. In the realm of contemporary art, the fusion of traditional crafts and modern expression often gives birth to captivating creations, while bringing back to the fore ancient art forms. Italian artist Livia Sciorilli Borrelli selected textile art as her form of expression, and precisely the technique of crocheting as her creative tool, combining meticulous craftsmanship with boundless inventiveness. Her big tapestry, as much as her small pieces, have a taste of minimalism and post-painterly abstraction, where essential elements and colours emphasize simplicity, purity, and objectivity. But instead of aiming for objectivity, Sciorilli Borrelli’s works want to take the viewer on an intimate journey. At the heart of her creations lies exactly this profound exploration of personal memory and subconsciousness, and their transformation into a collective narrative, as shown by her choice to use threads created out of recycled blankets and clothes – that at some point played some significant roles in her life – and by being the fruits of many hours of work – where the repetition of the movement inevitably triggers transcendent journeys […]
Wolken und Licht. Impressionism in Holland | Museum Barberini | 08.07.-22.10.2023


From 8 July 2023, the Museum Barberini in Potsdam shows its own Dutch form of Impressionism: Wolken und Licht (Clouds and Light) presents around 100 works by artists ranging from Vincent van Gogh to Piet Mondrian that have hardly been shown in Germany to date. The exhibition Clouds and Light. Impressionism in Holland shows until 22 October 2023 how artists were inspired by French influences to create their very own Dutch form of Impressionism. Landscape painting originated in the Netherlands. The realism of the Old Masters of the 17th century long remained the standard by which it was measured. With the open-air painting developed in France, the Dutch painters of the 19th century received new impulses. The comprehensive show is the first exhibition devoted to the subject and brings together around 100 works by some 40 artists, including key works by Johan Barthold Jongkind, Vincent van Gogh, Jacoba van Heemskerck and … Continue reading the article about the exhibition at Museum Barberini on DEEDS.NEWS. Image above: © David von Becker
RUW! | Group exhibition | Galerie SCHMALFUSS BERLIN | 08.07.-22.07.2023


until 22.07. | #3960ARTatBerlin | Galerie SCHMALFUSS BERLIN presents from 8. July 2023 (Vernissage: 07.07.) the exhibition „RUW!“ with works by the artists Hannah Becher, Thomas Hillig, Jakob Kirchheim, Petra Lottje, Paula Muhr, Kathrin Rank, Susanne Roewer, Eva Schwab and Poul R. Weile. For those who don’t know RUW! : This name stands for a group of Berlin artists who have been working on various self-imposed themes in a DIY process since 2013. The composition of the group is always fluid, some have been there since the beginning, others joined later. The RUW! magazine comprises selected original works and is published in an edition of 50 copies. At the annual pop-up exhibitions, one small work per participant is shown to accompany the magazine. In the gallery space, the concept turns around and break the usual framework! The title RUW! remains, but the artists get the opportunity to show now also together their large formats and plastic works, accompaniment becomes the magazine. You can get a great insight into the current Berlin art scene. Quality and professionalism remain at the same level as in RUW! magazine, but the dimension and presentation is now changed. The gallery is looking forward to its […]
Where The Wild Roses Grow | Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery @ Schloss Görne | 08.07.-13.08.2023


until 13.08. | #3959ARTatBerlin | Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery Berlin shows from 08. July 2023 the group exhibition “Where The Wild Roses Grow” with works by over 35 artists from 20 different nations at Schloss Görne. Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery presents “Where The Wild Roses Grow”, their third summer exhibition at Schloss Görne, Germany. Each year, the gallery invites established and emerging artists from within and beyond their roster to exhibit their works within the dramatic setting of an 18th-century castle and amid the sprawling gardens. This year’s edition borrows its title from a song by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and Kylie Minogue in homage to the wild surroundings and the transformative power of art. Untouched for 50 years, Schloss Görne had previously fallen into a state of disrepair – its imposing Neo-Baroque facade rises up between the trees while many of its cavernous rooms remain crumbling and overgrown. The ongoing partnership between the gallery and the castle has breathed new life into the building, supporting its gradual restoration into a vibrant cultural destination where the beauty of art and nature combine. In celebration of creative solidarity, the artists participating this year have each been asked to make new work […]
Amélie von Heydebreck – Metarmorphosis | Seungjun Lee – His Nature | Semjon Contemporary | 06.07.-22.07.2023


until 22.07. | #3969ARTatBerlin | Semjon Contemporary presents from 6. July 2023 the exhibition Metarmorphosis by the artist Amélie von Heydebreck and the exhibition His Nature by the artist Seungjun Lee. Seungjun Lee Opening: Thursday, 6. July 2023, 7:00 – 9:30 pm Exhibition dates: Thursday, 6. July to Saturday, 22. July 2023 Image caption title: Amélie von Heydebreck Exhibition Amélie von Heydebreck + Seungjun Lee – Semjon Contemporary | Zeitgenössische Kunst – Contemporary Art – Exhibitions Berlin Galleries – ART at Berlin
MASCOGA | Narrative Unfolding | Hazegallery | 06.07-15.07.2023.


until 15.07.| #4045ARTatBerlin | HazeGallery shows from 06 July 2023 the exhibition Narrative Unfolding by the artist MASCOGA. We are thrilled to announce the upcoming solo show of MASCOGA, a talented Uruguayan artist known for his vibrant and thought-provoking abstract paintings. The exhibition, “Narrative Unfolding” will open on July 6 and will feature a stunning collection of his latest works. MASCOGA has a unique style that defies traditional techniques and instead explores the depths of the abstract world. His canvases are filled with bold lines, vivid colors, and dynamic shapes that work together to create an emotional and intriguing visual narrative. The paintings provoke the viewer’s imagination and thoughts. Through his art, MASCOGA seeks to explore the power and influence of human emotions, as well as their ability to change and transform over time. The narrative of the paintings unfolds in a way that is both powerful and mysterious, inviting the viewer to ponder the meaning and significance of each work. Join us on July 6 to experience the captivating works of MASCOGA and immerse yourself in the incredible world of abstract art. Curated by Irina Rusinovich Opening: Thursday, 6 July 2023, from 7 pm Exhibition dates: Thursday, 6 July […]
SIXPACK | Galerie Inga Kondeyne – Raum für Zeichnung | 07.07.-05.08.2023


until 05.08. | #3958ARTatBerlin | Galerie Inga Kondeyne – Raum für Zeichnung in cooperation with Wichtendahl Galerie presents from 7 July 2023 the group exhibition SIXPACK by the artists Marlies Appel, Kazuki Nakahara, Christiane Schlosser, Simone Distler, Aja Von Loeper and Winni Schaak. Marlies Appel, o.T. 2019, 29 x 42 cm, coloured pencils on transparent paper Kazuki Nakahara, o.T., 2019, 115 x 98 cm, Coloured pencil on paper Opening: Friday, 7. July 2023, 5 to 8 pm Exhibition dates: Friday, 7. July – Saturday, 5. August 2023 Image caption title: Christiane Schlosser, o.T., 2013, 43 x 56 cm, Ink on paper Exhibition SIXPACK – Galerie Inga Kondeyne | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin
André Hemer | Birch Maple Oak Post Rococo | Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery Berlin | 07.07.-15.08.2023


until 15.08. | #3957ARTatBerlin | Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery Berlin presents from 07. July 2023 (Opening: 06.07.) the exhibition “Birch Maple Oak Post Rococo” with works by the artist André Hemer. Thick impasto swirls of paint and billowing floral forms frame glimpses of a purple and pink sky, portals to another world. Birch Maple Oak Post Rococo, André Hemer’s solo exhibition at Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Berlin presents a captivating new series of mixed-media and video works that explore the question of how to make a landscape of the contemporary moment. Taking cues from art history, Hemer filters the decadent and illusory aesthetics of the rococo through a modern sensibility to create shifting, layered images that are as unsettling as they are seductive. The New Zealand-born artist uses scanners and digital photography to capture three-dimensional objects (either found or created from paint) en plein air, recording the changes in light and atmospheric conditions of that particular day. For this series, Hemer has also used digital tools to further extend the images, growing flowers and replacing some shots of sky with generated aerial views to complicate notions of place or more broadly, reality. Not that Hemer aims at realism: he describes his works […]
Jenna Chang + Linna Chi | Being Human | Galerie Sievi | 30.06.-29.07.2023


until 29.07. | #3956ARTatBerlin | Galerie Sievi meets Taipei shows from 01. June 2023 (Opening: 30.06.) the exhibition Menschsein / Being Human / 為人 with works from Taiwan by the sculptor 張真英 – Jenna Chang, and the painter 祁慶玲 – Linna Chi. Follow-up exhibition of Berlin meets Taipei / 當柏林與台北相遇2023 – Menschsein / Being Human / 為人- under the curatorial project direction of Dr. Rania Sid Otmane, Kunstleben Berlin. Jenna Chang – Architect/Artist/Observer I studied sculpture when I was fifty, studied for my master’s degree when I was sixty, and maybe I’m planning to do a doctorate. I am glad that I have the ability to change. I have never considered myself as an artist, but I just want to change the status quo, or maybe it is just a big dream. After compiling nearly 100 pieces of my works (with records) over the past ten years, I have lost or destroyed at least a hundred pieces, which is quite an amazing creative power. I don’t have the habit of drawing and composing, usually when I look at what I think of or see, the image is already in front of me, so it’s already done. Linna Chi Eight works […]
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA BAUHAUS TOUR | Semjon Contemporary | 01.07.-02.07.2023


until 02.07. | #3955ARTatBerlin | Semjon Contemporary presents from1. July 2023 (Opening 30.06.2023) The exhibition UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA BAUHAUS TOUR by the UniSA study tour group. The UniSA study tour group of architecture and art students from the University of South Australia explores the Bauhaus in Weimar and its impacts until today. In Berlin a joint work-shop follows within the acommodations of CityLAB:Berlin, which guides into an exhibition on view at Semjon Contem-porary, the Berlin gallery representing Michael Kutschbach. with Lisa Crowder, Taylor Cunningham, Penny Fisher, Charlotte Folland, Charlotte Gross, Karla Hitchcock, Eloise Labaz, Ella Leak, Daisy Madigan, Lily Pertl, Isabel Pratt, Claire Puddy, James Rochow, Samuel Shute, Wee Shiang Tay, Phuc Linh Nhi Trinh, Lola Williams and Zoe Wood Vernissage: Friday, June 30, 7 – 9.30 pm Ausstellungsdaten: Saturday + Sunday, July 1st + 2nd, 1 – 7 pm Image caption: courtesy Semjon Comtemporary Exhibition UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA BAUHAUS TOUR – Semjon Contemporary | Zeitgenössische Kunst – Contemporary Art – Exhibitions Berlin Galleries – ART at Berlin
AUGENBLICKE | Group exhibition | Köppe Contemporary | 29.06.-12.08.2023


until 12.08. | #3970ARTatBerlin | Köppe Contemporary presents from 29. June 2023 the group exhibition Augenblicke ( Moments ) of the artists Simone Haack, ROMY, Malte Hagen Olbertz and Thomas Ritz. Gazes from paintings fix the viewer. How is it that the painted image of a human face not only grips us emotionally, but often even makes a lasting impression and is even indelibly imprinted in our memory? For example, the painting of the “Mona Lisa” by Leonardo Da Vinci or Jan Veermeer’s “Girl with a Pearl Earring” or also the portraits of modern painters. Why is it that we can hardly escape a work of art that depicts the portrait of a human being? The exhibition “Augenblicke” explores this question. It brings together portraits, nudes and figure paintings by four artists – Simone Haack, Malte Hagen Olbertz, Thomas Ritz and ROMY. Opening: Thursday, 29. June 2023 , 7pm to 10pm Exhibition date: Friday, 30. June until Saturday, 12. August 2023 Image caption : ©Courtesy of Köppe Contemporary Group exhibition Augenblicke – Köppe Contemporary | Zeitgenössische Kunst | Contemporary Art | Ausstellungen Galerien Berlin | ART at Berlin
Djourina-Maierhofer-Thun | Temporary Truths | FeldbuschWiesnerRudolph | 30.06.-22.07.2023


until 22.07. | #3954ARTatBerlin | FeldbuschWiesnerRudolph (FWR) presents from 30. June 2023 „Temporary Truths“ In the project show Marta Djourina and Sara-Lena Maierhofer invited the artist Sophie Thun (Vienna) to show photographic works together. We continue our tradition of guest curations and present the project show TEMPORARY TRUTHS in the gallery’s projectspace. Marta Djourina and Sara-Lena Maierhofer have invited the artist Sophie Thun from Vienna to show photographic works together. Although they work thematically in different fields, the three artists are united by their experimental approach to photographic material and their reinterpretation of analogue techniques. The works on display show photography as a trace, as an imprint of temporary truths, a medium for making visible something that otherwise remains hidden. In this exhibition, MARTA DJOURINA presents examples from her ongoing series of “Filtergramme” works. Here she visualises the medium of light in a performative process and in the laboratory of the darkroom as a legible trace with an intense colour effect in the image. Accompanying this, she also shows her biographically influenced project “From: Me / To: Me II”, for which she sends 160 postcards made of photographic paper from Berlin to Sofia, thus thematising the “travel experiences” and the […]
Milen Till | Till Now | Crone Berlin | 24.06.-29.07.2023


until 29.07. | #3953ARTatBerlin | Crone Berlin shows from 24. June 2023 the exhibition „Till Now“ of the artist Milen Till. Presentation of the book TILL NOW by Milen Till and opening of the exhibition of the same name at the Berlin gallery. The book and the exhibition provide an overview of Till’s work to date, which combines conceptual art with ready-made art and invites diverse interpretations. For example, curator and art historian Anja Heitzer writes in her text contribution to the book: “With his playful approach, Till takes aim at the art scene of the last century, which was characterised by the cult of genius and exuberant masculinity. With wit and charm, he questions the powerful gesture of large formats, the unbroken significance of big names and the special recognisability of great works.” Author and Head of Media at the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Holger Liebs, emphasises that Till’s interactive art actions “often reflect the logic of the internet, in its dialectic and suspension of authorship and virally generated fame of the individual”. The publicist and art critic Robert Prinz elaborates on the fact that Till repeatedly deals with iconographic works by famous artists in his works: “He peels out […]
Lin Zhipeng | Boys, Boys, Boys | Migrant Bird Space | 24.06-18.08.2023


until 18.08. | #3952ARTatBerlin | Migrant Bird Space shows from 24. June 2023 the exhibition “Boys, Boys, Boys” of the artist Lin Zhipeng. The first solo show of Lin Zhipeng in Berlin. Many of the artists unreleased photographs, selected for this year’s summer project “Boys, Boys, Boys” will be exclusively showed in this exhibition. In this exhibition series, our focus pivots towards ‘Boys Boys Boys’, an exploration of male emotional conflicts and expressions. Through an in-depth study of themes such as innocence, purity, deep-seated emotions, vulnerability, tensions of growth, and the intricacies of intimacy and desire, the artists involved in the MBS Summer Project BoysBoysBoys present a collection of compelling and intellectually stimulating artworks. They boldly challenge conventional aesthetic standards and gender norms, culminating in fresh, emotionally resonant, and intellectually evocative pieces. Mask&Cherry, Lin Zhipeng, 2011, 33x50cm, Digital print on fine art paper, Edition 1/10 The crux of this exhibition lies in the integration of our selves with the world and the active listening this entails, fostering an appreciation of beauty that is rooted more in intuition and perception than in analytic judgment. In this curated space, we deliberately shift from the didactic approach of aesthetic theories to an exploration of […]
Painting Paradise | Stefan Szczesny | ARTES Berlin | 01.07.-03.09.2023


until 03.09. | #3951ARTatBerlin | ARTES Berlin presents from 01. July 2023 the exhibition Painting Pardise of the artist Stefan Szczesny. Stefan Szczesny (*1951 in Munich) has left his mark on contemporary art. His studies with Günter Fruhtrunk, an early scholarship in Paris and stays in New York, the South of France, the Caribbean and the Villa Massimo in Rome had a lasting influence on the artist’s work. In the early 1980s, he was instrumental in the “Neue Wilde” movement. He initiated the exhibition “Rundschau Deutschland” in 1981 as the first presentation of the movement and thus brought expressive, figurative painting back into the consciousness of art in Germany. Szczesny’s works are now shown worldwide in numerous museum, solo and group exhibitions. The exhibition “Painting Paradise” shows new paintings and sculptures, including for the first time large, museum-quality canvas tableaux on which the artist spreads out his entire pictorial archive. The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue and four new small editions. Opening: Saturday, 01. July 2023, 6pm – 9pm Exhibition dates: Saturday, 01. July until Sunday, 03. September 2023 Image caption: Côte d’Azur, Stefan Szczesny, 2022. Acryl auf Leinwand, 200 x 300 cm Exhibition Stefan Szczesny – […]
WILD SOULS | Group exhibition | Hazegallery | 22.06.-01.07.2023


until 01.07. | #4047ARTatBerlin | HazeGallery presents from 22. June 2023 the group exhibition WILD SOULS by the artists Elena Muller, MA+KE lab, Maria Gigova-Wasserfaller, Ronald Anzenberger, Sandra Ruyssinck, Yan Jun White, Tina Mona Cohen, Marina Lioubaskina, Leonor von Salisch, Eunwan Han-Oehl, Anna Kolacka, Angela Chin, Alexandra Gorchakova and Katarzyna Najmrocka. Haze.Gallery is proud to announce a collective exhibition featuring art that showcases the beauty of animals and nature. The exhibition will open on June 22nd with a vernissage and close on July 1st with a finissage. This collective exhibition will highlight the relationship between art and nature, featuring original artwork from some of the most talented international artists. The exhibition will showcase a diverse range of artistic mediums including paintings, sculptures, photographs and a video all with a focus on animals and the natural world. The art in this exhibition conveys various themes of the natural world, such as conservation, preservation, and coexistence with wildlife. The message behind each piece has been thoughtfully curated to inspire awareness and appreciation for the beauty of nature and the importance of protecting the environment. Visitors will experience the beauty of animals and nature in a unique way through the artists’ perspective, from […]
Sea Hyun Lee | Bermel von Luxburg Gallery | 29.06.-29.07.2023 + 15.08.-31.08.2023


until 31.08. | #3950ARTatBerlin | Bermel von Luxburg Gallery and CHOI&CHOI Gallery present from 29. June 2023 the exhibition of the Korean artist Sea Hyun Lee. This is the artist’s first solo exhibition in Germany. CHOI&CHOI Gallery and Bermel by Luxburg Gallery present the exhibition “Red Sansu: A Landscape Within”, Sea Hyun Lee’s first solo exhibition in Germany. The exhibition will take place at Bermel by Luxburg Gallery. Building on his previous group exhibitions, such as at Tate Britain in London, UK (2007), Kunstmuseum Bochum, Germany (2010), Michael Horbach Foundation in Cologne, Germany (2015), Vestfossen Museum in Vestfossen, Norway (2016), Kunstmuseum Bern in Bern, Switzerland (2021), as well as his most recent solo exhibition at Foundation Kunsthall 3, 14 in Bergen, Norway (2021), this exhibition marks another milestone in bringing Lee’s artistic practice to a European audience. Curated by CHOI&CHOI Gallery Sponsored by Korea Arts Management Service Opening: Thursday, 29. June 2023, from 6pm to 9pm, a reception will be held. Exhibition dates: Thursday, 29. June until Saturday, 29. July 2023 + Tuesday, 15. August – Thursday, 31. August 2023 Image caption: Sea Hyun Lee, Beyond Red – 023JAN01, 2023, Oil on linen, 150 x 150 cm Exhibition […]
NEWS ++ READY STEADY GO: Museums inclusive! Action days on the occasion of the Special Olympic World Games – Museumsinsel Berlin | 18.06.-24.06.2023


On 18 June 2023, the action days “READY STEADY GO: Museums inclusive!” will start on the Museum Island Berlin. For a whole week, the Museum Island will be a meeting place for athletes and sports enthusiasts from all over the world who are visiting Berlin for the Special Olympic World Games. Workshops in the Kolonadenhof and exhibition talks invite you to explore the museums. All offers are planned inclusively, in simple language and accessible without barriers. Teams of people with and without disabilities will guide the participants. Participation is free of charge. The action days are part of the READY STEADY GO: Museums Inclusive! project, which the National Museums in Berlin have been implementing since the beginning of 2022. The aim is to develop a structure of services, infrastructure and communication that aims at a sustainable inclusive use of the museums. The first step will be taken by the Museumsinsel Berlin with Haus Bastian – Centre for Cultural Education of the National Museums in Berlin.. Continue reading the article about READY STEADY GO on DEEDS.NEWS. Image above: The Museum Island and the Berlin Cathedral, photo: abbilder, licensed under CC BY 2.0.
Natalie Paneng | Maze | Galerie EIGEN + ART Berlin | 08.06.-19.08.2023


until 19.08. | #3949ARTatBerlin | Galerie EIGEN + ART Berlin shows from 08. June 2023 the exhibition “Maze” of the artist Natalie Paneng. About Natalie Paneng The practice of multidisciplinary artist and world builder Natalie Paneng is to reinvent herself in digital worlds. In these worlds, the artist’s body is released from its constraints and driven to ecstasy; for her, play is an ever-present friend, the internet her limitless playground. I enjoy a kind of boundlessness that the internet as a platform makes possible. The internet is a place where I don’t have to follow the same rules and codes as in real life. It gives me the opportunity to be completely free in my explorations and contributions. I can take up more space in this place and choose how I want to be present. Natalie Paneng has taught herself photography and the technique of videography, focusing mainly on self-portraits. Self-portraits that she is constantly developing, portraying herself as different personalities and characters. He[She] has released her/his body from these constraints. He[She] plays with time and space. [Her] body is a needle. Now he[she] mixes history with her body and makes it a game that [her] body likes. (Binyavanga Wainaina, […]
Altered Emotions | Group Exhibition | ARTCO Galerie Berlin | 29.06.-22.07.2023


until 22.07. | #3948ARTatBerlin | ARTCO Galerie Berlin presents from 29. June 2023 the group exhibition Altered Emotions of the artists 1v151131_m06, Aaron Scheer, Anna Ehrenstein, Arne Grugel, Anna Nezhnaya, Cille Sch, Franco D. Sosio, Johannes Ehemann, Ju Schnee, Katya Quel, Tabitha Swanson and Zoltani + Gäste… ALTERED EMOTIONS is a group exhibition that delves into the profound impact of technological advancements on our perception and interaction with our surroundings. Through a wide range of mediums, the exhibition employs the power of aesthetics to explore the new structures which frame our reality. Examining the interconnected space of empathy, meaning and perception, the show offers a kaleidoscopic exploration of how we experience the world. The exhibition features 11v151131_m06, Aaron Scheer, Anna Ehrenstein, Arne Grugel, Anna Nezhnaya, Cille Sch, Franco D. Sosio, Johannes Ehemann, Ju Schnee, Katya Quel, Tabitha Swanson, and Zoltani + guests Technological advancements increasingly blur the line between the digital and the analogue world actively altering the human experience. As new inventions seep into the public as well as the private sphere, the structures and frameworks we once relied upon to understand reality feel inadequate. Our presence now extends beyond what lies within our physical reach, with our devices […]
NEWS ++ KW Institute: Enrico David, Emily Wardill, Hervé Guibert | 10.06.-20.08.2023


KW Institute for Contemporary Art presents its 2023 summer programme, which continues to explore the self and its representation. An example of this is the sculptures of Enrico David, who critically explores the autonomy of the body in its various stages of not being and becoming, and the works of Emily Wardill and Hervé Guibert, who each explore what lies beyond the reach of an image. the three artists will be shown in three separate solo exhibitions at KW Institute for Contemporary Art. The exhibition is the first institutional solo show of Enrico David (*1966, IT) in Germany and is dedicated exclusively to his sculptural practice. David works with sculpture, painting, textiles and installations, with drawing also playing a central role in his exploration of form. Situated between figuration and abstraction, his work constantly returns to the body as a point of departure, exploring the human figure as a metaphor for transformation…. Continue reading the article about KW Institute on DEEDS.NEWS. Img. above: Hervé Guibert, Chambre de Mathieu, c. 1989; © Christine Guibert/Courtesy Les Douches la Galerie, Paris.
Alfredo Jaar | The Temptation to Exist | Galerie Thomas Schulte | 24.06.-12.08.2023


until 12.08. | #3947ARTatBerlin | Galerie Thomas Schulte presents from 24. June 2023 the exhibition “The Temptation to Exist” of the artist Alfredo Jaar with selected artworks by 50 artists. For over four decades, Alfredo Jaar has used photography, film, installation, and new media to create compelling works that examine complex socio-political issues and the ethics and limits of representation. His exhibition The Temptation to Exist at Galerie Thomas Schulte, whose title makes reference to a book by Emil Cioran, showcases some of Jaar’s own works alongside artworks from around 50 other artists who have sought to resist and change the world since the 1950s. The show is an examination of memory and political participation, revealing the intersection between culture and democratic life, invoking a shared history and reclaiming agency. In the Corner Space, Hans Haacke’s work Grass Grows will be on display.In the first gallery room, an immersive experience is created with a large, red neon work by Jaar himself. Eschewing the presence of other objects, the room is entirely illuminated with a dense red light, building an atmosphere of poetic uncertainty, mirroring the unease of contemporary times. In the second gallery space, Jaar has tried to create what […]
NEWS++ Neue Nationalgalerie honours the founding of the Gallery Climate Coalition Berlin e.V.


On 8 June 2023, the founding meeting of the GCC (Gallery Climate Coalition) Berlin e.V. was celebrated at the Neue Nationalgalerie. The international initiative is dedicated to building knowledge about sustainability in museums and resources for local art institutions. Co-initiator is the artist Haley Mellin, currently Max Beckmann Fellow at the American Academy together with the Neue Nationalgalerie. As part of the founding of the association in Berlin, the website Barder.art was launched, through which Berlin art institutions can coordinate the sharing of resources and materials. With the founding of the association, GCC (Gallery Climate Coalition) Berlin e. V. is now the first official offshoot of GCC in Germany. GCC is an international association of art organisations with the aim of jointly reducing the environmental impact in the art business. GCC’s main goal is to reduce CO2 emissions in the arts sector by at least 50% by 2023 and to establish zero-waste practices. GCC was founded in London in 2020 and most recently… Continue reading the article about Neue Nationalgalerie on DEEDS.NEWS. Fig. above: Haley Mellin und Klaus Biesenbach. Credits Neue Nationalgalerie – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Eine Sommerausstellung | Galerie Schindler | 22.06.-29.07.2023


until 29.07. | #3946ARTatBerlin | Galerie Schindler in Potsdam shows from 22nd June 2023 the group exhibition EINE SOMMERAUSSTELLUNG (A SUMMER EXHIBITION) with summer artworks by 16 artists. Summer; sun; shadow; light; lightness; holidays; carefree; brightness; warmth; all that the coming season brings with it. 16 artists have dealt with the theme and the result is…summery! Berit Mücke, Rosendirigat, 200 x 135 cm, Tempera, Öl auf Leinwand, 2023 Let’s enjoy the warm season and see what artists make of it, how they bring the atmosphere of this wonderful phase of the year onto paper or canvas. We look forward to a relaxed exhibition and a colourful time with the art of summer. Brigitte Yoshiko Pruchnow, Let them eat cake, tres Leches, 30 x 30 cm, Acryl und Modelliermasse auf Leinwand, 2023 Including the artists: Alvar Beyer Birgit Borggrebe Christoph Brandl Sue Hayward Andreas Hildebrandt Florentine Joop Berit Mücke Brigitte Yoshiko Pruchnow Kathrin Rank Susanne Ramolla Tanja Selzer Constantin Schroeder Karen Simon Simone Westphal Sabine Wewer Su Weiss Interlaced, 2023, Opening: Thursday, 22 June 2023, from 6 pm Exhibition dates: Thursday, 22 June – Saturday, 29 July 2023 Image caption: Su Weiss I Home I 60 x 50 cm […]
Claude Closky | TOMORROW‘S SHADOW IT‘S A WIN-WIN | mehdi chouakri (Fasanenstraße) | 30.06.-02.09.2023


until 02.09. | #3945ARTatBerlin | Galerie mehdi chouakri presents from 30. June 2023 the exhibition “TOMORROW‘S SHADOW IT‘S A WIN-WIN” of the artist Claude Closky. Opening: Thursday, 29. June 2023 from 6 pm until 9 pm Exhibition dates: Friday, 30. June until Saturday, 02. September 2023 Image caption: Courtesy of Mehdi Chouakri Exhibition Claude Closky – mehdi chouakri | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Ausstellungen Berlin Galerien | ART at Berlin
NEWS ++ World premiere: Bis keiner weint – Neuköllner Opera | 08.06.2023


Junior producer Vanessa Edler is faced with an insurmountable task: she has to make a new blockbuster that won’t offend even the most sensitive viewers: a politically correct version of “Snow White”. … In a co-production of the Musical/Show programme of the UdK Berlin and the Neuköllner Oper, the opinion fairy tale “Bis keiner weint” (Until No One Cries) with music by Constanze Behrends, Franziska Kuropka and Lukas Nimscheck will premiere on 8 June 2023. Directed by Mathias Noack. Junior producer Vanessa Edler is faced with an impossible task: she has to make a new blockbuster that won’t offend even the most sensitive viewers: a politically correct version of “Snow White”. The management of her streaming provider expects a box office success for everyone. But is that even possible? Can a politically correct… Continue reading the article about Bis keiner weint on DEEDS.NEWS. Fig. above: Bis keiner weint 1539 – Thomas Koy
NEWS ++ Art Basel | 15.06.-18.06.2023


Art Basel announces highlights for this year’s edition, including large-scale installations in the Unlimited sector, site-specific art projects in Basel’s public spaces as part of Parcours and, for the first time for the Basel show, the Kabinett sector, in which galleries present curated exhibitions within their exhibition stands. Unlimited – curated by Giovanni Carmine, director of the Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen – will present 76 large-scale projects by renowned and emerging artists Parcours – curated by Samuel Leuenberger, founder of the Swiss non-profit exhibition spaces SALTS in Birsfelden and Country SALTS in Bennwil – will present 24 site-specific art installations in public spaces around Münsterplatz and in the city centre of Basel… Continue reading the article about ART BASEL on DEEDS.NEWS. Img. above: Art Basel 2022 © Art Basel
Kleber Cianni | MENOS | Hazegallery | 08.06-17.06.2023.


until 17.06.| #4046ARTatBerlin | HazeGallery shows from 08. June 2023 the exhibition MENOS by the artist Kleber Cianni. We are thrilled to present the solo exhibition of Brazilian artist Kleber Cianni, whose work reflects his journey of self-discovery. Through his works, this Brazilian artist has channeled the pain of his personal journey of self-discovery into powerful pieces of art. Each painting is a reflection of the artist’s psyche and the process of transformation that he has experienced. Despite the difficult emotional terrain he has traversed, his art is a testament to his courage and resilience. With the means of his work, the artist has created a visual language that speaks to all who have experienced the turmoil of self-discovery, and the transformative power of art. With each piece, he invites us to join him on this deeply personal journey, exploring the many hues of life’s emotional landscape. Curated by Irina Rusinovich Opening: Thursday, 8 June 2023 Exhibition dates: Thursday, 8 June 2023 until Saturday, 17 June 2023 Bildunterschrift Titel: Kleber Cianni, courtesy of HazeGallery Exhibition Kleber Cianni – Hazegallery | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galerien | ART at Berlin
Beaux Mendes | Black Forest | Galerie Barbara Weiss | 08.06.-15.07.2023


until 15.07. | #3944ARTatBerlin | Galerie Barbara Weiss shows from 8. June 2023 the exhibition Black Forest of the artist Beaux Mendes. Opening: Thursday, 8. June 2023, 6 pm until 8 pm Exhibition dates: Thursday, 8. June – Saturday, 15. July 2023 Image caption: Beaux Mendes, Untitled, 2023. Oil, acrylic and charcoal on half-chalk ground on linen. 43.5 x 47.5 cm | 17 x 18 2/3 in Exhibition Beaux Mendes – Galerie Barbara Weiss | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Ausstellungen Berlin Galerien | ART at Berlin
Christoph Keller | Future Archeologists | Esther Schipper | 08.06.-06.07.2023


until 06.07. | #3943ARTatBerlin | Galerie Esther Schipper presents from 8. June 2023 the exhibition Future Archeologists of artist Christoph Keller. With Future Archeologists, Christoph Keller revisits the themes of his own past as a trained hydrologist. The three-channel video installation is an artistic survey of the environmental conditions in the Owens Valley in the eastern Sierra Nevada in California. The starting point and formal centre of Keller’s video installation are three cinematic perspectives shot over the vast landscape of the now dried-up Owens Lake. Christoph Keller, Future Archeologists, 2023, 3-channel HD video installation (color, sound) Dimensions variable, 3 Screens: 96 x 167,6 x 5,8 cm each Duration: 34:19 min (each video), Exhibition view: Christoph Keller, Future Archeologists, Esther Schipper, Berlin, 2023, Courtesy the artist and Esther Schipper, Berlin/ Paris/Seoul, © The artist / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2023 Photo © Andrea Rossetti The Owens Valley and the area around the lake were once a thriving landscape where the indigenous people, the Paiute, maintained complex irrigation systems. In 1913, an aqueduct was built to supply the city of Los Angeles, diverting the Owens Valley water and drying up the lake in just 15 years. Subsequently, the area became notorious as a source […]
Sojourner Truth Parsons | If nobody wants you you’re free | Esther Schipper | 08.06.-06.07.2023


until 06.07. | #3942ARTatBerlin | Galerie Esther Schipper presents from 8. June 2023 the exhibition If nobody wants you you’re free of the artist Sojourner Truth Parsons. The vividness of everyday experiences, but also the strangeness of existence, form the basis of Sojourner Truth Parsons’ work. Her paintings have an astonishing atmospheric intensity. They combine bright colours, silhouettes of bodies and black surfaces that simultaneously function as architectural elements and framing. The compositions move on the threshold between abstraction and representation, oscillating back and forth, whereby recognisable forms such as bodies, but also flowers, streetscapes or landscapes can never be definitively fixed in one register or the other. The iconography composed of overlapping elements – layers of colour alternating with thin washes, matt surfaces with slightly shiny and iridescent passages – constructs an inner world that is more psychic landscape than forest or city block, embodying an emotional truth. Exhibition view: Sojourner Truth Parsons, If nobody wants you youʼre free, Esther Schipper, Berlin, 2023, Courtesy the artist and Esther Schipper, Berlin/ Paris/Seoul, Photo © Andrea Rossetti Urban landscapes with skyscrapers, hints of river views and window frames found their way into Parsons’ work after she moved to New York from […]
Fritz Bornstück | BUSCHFUNK | 68 projects | 29.06.-19.08.2023


until 19.08. | #3941ARTatBerlin | 68 projects shows from 29. June 2023 the exhibition “BUSCHFUNK” of the artist Fritz Bornstück. Expeditions into trash romance By Larissa Kikol You think you know them, these places, these compositions of old things, of rubbish, of idyllic vegetation. You don’t discover them by strolling, rarely by walking. To get here, you have to roam around, follow an urban explorer’s instinct, leave paths, look for hiding places. Children and young people are best at this, but so are homeless people or graffiti sprayers. And then they appear, the traces of the heavy objects, the technical legacies from past decades. Like a whispering bag from the 1920s, musical instruments, fire extinguishers, drawers full of stuff, a vendor’s tray from the cinema or a Converse Chuck shoe. Ambitiously piled high, romantically dropped down or burning warmth in a fireplace. Together they act like fertilizer, through them weeds blossom paradisiacally. After a few moments of contemplation, it finally becomes clear that Fritz Bornstück’s pictures do not show real places, they only seem that way at first glance. They are un-places, exposed in hidden places and relocated in a fictitious map of the world. Bornstück paints compositions from an […]
Paris Giachoustidis | Paris in Wonderland | Galerie Kornfeld | 29.06.–19.08.2023


until 19.08. | #3940ARTatBerlin | Galerie Kornfeld presents from 19. June 2023 the exhibition Paris in Wonderland of the artiste Paris Giachoustidis. In the surrealist poem Life is but a Dream by Lewis Carroll, the protagonist finds herself in a kind of dream. More famous than the poem is the book Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, in which the girl follows a white rabbit and dives into a wondrous world once she enters the rabbit hole. Psychoanalysis, dream interpretation and hallucinogenic drug induced experiences were read into the work. Paris Giachoustidis’ first solo exhibition at KORNFELD Galerie Berlin features new works from a series that specifically explores dreams. The Abduction of Paris depicts a surreal scene in which a woman is carried through the forest by a man. Inspired by “The Abduction of Helen by Paris”, the artist takes up Greek mythology and brings new attributes such as a torch into the action. The theft of Helen was the trigger for the Trojan War. Will the light of the torch bring knowledge and know how to prevent it? One of the most famous motifs from Ovid’s Metamorphoses is Narcissus, the beau who rejects the love of others and falls in love […]
Kristina Podobed + Olena Klochko | Crashed heaven | Galerie Z22 | 10.06.-09.07.2023 (until 27.07. by arrangement)


until 09.07. / 27.08. | #3939ARTatBerlin | Galerie Z22 presents from 10. June 2023 the Duo exhibition Crashed Heaven of the artists Kristina Podobed and Olena Klochko. KRISTINA PODOBED She started her photographic journey in 2011, mainly documenting herself and her female friends. Even if your stance on bodies, nakedness and sexuality in photography is free-spirited enough, Kristina’s Podobed photography are there to catch you off-guard, to push you to the boundaries where intimacy and vulgarity suddenly merge to create a rough and honest image. It is the photographers walking that fine line who end up challenging society’s moral status quo – and it’s those photographers that we need the most today. In 2015 and 2016 Kristina studied at International Summer School of Photography in Latvia (Jim Goldberg and Anouk Kruithof workshops ) Currently Kristina lives and works in Brest, France A disturbing strangeness of being. Kristina Podobed, © Galerie Z22 OLENA KLOCHKO Olena Klochko (Oleklo) was born in Bakhmut, Donetsk region . She took a degree in languages and worked as a translator for some time. She was doing drawing and painting, based on her own self-taught methods. Her first official solo show took place in Kursk in 1994 […]
Bridget Riley | Wall Works 1983–2023 | Galerie Max Hetzler | 09.06.-19.08.2023


until 19.08. | #3938ARTatBerlin | Galerie Max Hetzler (Potsdamer Str.) shows from 9. June 2023 the exhibition Wall Works 1983–2023 of the artist Bridget Riley. Wall Works 1983-2023, is a solo exhibition by Bridget Riley at Galerie Max Hetzler, Potsdamer Strasse 77-87. This is the artist’s ninth solo exhibition at the gallery and the most comprehensive retrospective of her wall paintings to date. Thirteen compositions, half of which are on loan from international public collections and four of which are newly created, offer an overview of this important group of works. ‘Those entering the exhibition rooms of Galerie Max Hetzler will have the opportunity to fully immerse themselves in the world of the British painter Bridget Riley (b. 1931). Thirteen large-format paintings stretch across the walls, spread over two floors. Together, the works form a serene school of vision. For Riley, the act of seeing is not a given. On the contrary, viewing, observing, looking, and focusing are actions which are often misunderstood by their performers. According to the artist, the challenge of modern art is “learning to paint once more and to reinvent painting for oneself.” Her point of departure lies in the many ways in which the world appears […]
Michael Dressel | 9 HOURS APART | Photographie from Berlin and Los Angeles | Galerie feinart Berlin | 10.06. – 20.07.2023


until 20.07. | #3937ARTatBerlin | Galerie feinart berlin shows from 10. June 2023 the exhibition “9 HOURS APART. Photographs from Berlin and Los Angeles” of the artist Michael Dressel. The life of Michael Dressel tells an extraordinary German-American artist’s biography. Born in East Berlin in 1958, after a failed escape attempt and two years in the GDR penitentiary, he experiences a few short but intense years in the wild pre-Wall West Berlin. Even before the fall of the Wall, he found himself on the West Coast of the USA and made Los Angeles his new home. There he worked for years as a sound editor for numerous Hollywood films, some of which won Oscars and Golden Reels for sound, including the last sixteen Clint Eastwood films, resulting in his appointment to the Oscar Academy. Throughout this time, he regularly commutes between the two metropolises – at home in both cities and equally familiar and foreign. Michael Dressel, Berlin 2022 © Michael Dressel The reflection on the daily experience in the world of stars and Hollywood studios and the awareness of their ultimate inadequacy played a special role in his photographic work from the beginning. How many people are there who […]
Portrait I | Group Exhibition | Galerie Tammen | 03.06.-08.07.2023


until 08.07 | #3936ARTatBerlin | Galerie Tammen presents from 03. June 2023 the group exhibition “Portrait I” with 7 various Artists. Galerie Tammen is planning the exhibition series PORTRAIT I. – III. The first part of the exhibition “Portrait I” shows works by the following artists*: Jon Thor Gislason, Volker Leyendecker, Ellen Mäder-Gutz, Bettina Sellmann, Martin Stommel, Rubica von Streng, Lars Theuerkauff. Nowhere is the human being so visibly present as in his face. For thousands of years, people have therefore tried to decipher the face and capture it in pictures. Abb. Volker Leyendecker, „Litith VI“, 2023, Öl auf Leinwand 120 x 80 cm What is the significance of the artistic portrait today in the age of the media flood of faces? In a time of digital omnipresence of portraits on Facebook pages, of selfies as a new form of self-portrait, in times of plastic surgery and computer-generated special effects, of digital facial recognition and simulation of facial expressions. Can it still be seen at all? The face, like the body, has always been subject to different cultural techniques, codes of expression and aesthetic criteria, the reciprocal relationship of gaze and sight. This is also reflected in the history of the […]
SOLVEIG K. BOLDUAN | Solo Exhibition | Galerie Mutare | 02.06.-21.07.2023


until 21.07. | #3935ARTatBerlin | Galerie mutare shows from 02. June 2023 the exhibition with paintings and sculptures of the artist Solveig K. Bolduan. Solveig K. Bolduan, born in 1958 in Pritzwalk, first trained as a disc potter in Saalfeld after her Abitur. She then studied at the Kunsthochschule Berlin Weißensee from 1978 to 1983 and received her diploma in sculpture and ceramics. She has been working as a freelance artist since 1983 and has won prizes at the Europa-Biennale Niederlausitz, among others. Solveig K. Bolduan, Ersatzwelt, 200 x 115 x 50 cm, Holz, farbig Various symposia and work stays have taken her to Brazil, Italy and Armenia, among other places. Her works have been shown in national and international exhibitions, e.g. in Berlin, Bonn, Imperia, Itschewan, Poland, Cottbus and Potsdam. Opening: Friday, 2. June 6pm until 9pm Exhibition dates: Friday, 2. June – Friday, 21. July 2023 Gallery opening to the Charlottenwalk: Friday, 2. June, 6pm – 9pm, Saturday, 3. June, 12 noon – 6pm Image caption: Solveig K. Bolduan, ERSATZWELT (Ausschnitt), Holz, 200 x 115 x 50 cm Exhibition Solveig K. Bolduan – Galerie Mutare | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Ausstellungen Berlin […]
Bo Larsen | “TWENTIES – golden?” | nüüd.berlin | 24.06.-02.09.2023


until 02.09. | #3934ARTatBerlin | nüüd.berlin Galerie presents under the title “TWENTIES – golden?” the abstract paintings of artist Bo Larsen, in which he deals painterly with the 1920s of this and the last century. In Germany, the Golden Twenties were the period between 1924 and 1929 and stand for a heyday of German art, culture and science and, especially in Berlin, for an open, liberal society and a frivolous and licentious nightlife. Before that, life was marked by the end of the First World War, the worst influenza pandemic in history up to that time, hyperinflation and political unrest and upheaval. The parallels to today are striking: pandemic and Ukraine war, inflation and economic crisis – and climate change on top of that. For Bo Larsen, Berlin – then as now a pulsating metropolis – glitters like a star above the supposed sunny side of (night) life. In fact, however, the gold coating of the imperial or federal capital is flaking off and only conceals a multi-class society that – each for himself – tries to master the vagaries of the times. Bo Larsen, Hope, 2023, oil, gold chrome, iron, copper, metal pigments, impact metals, oxidiser on canvas, 100 […]
Martin Eder | Elysium | Galerie EIGEN + ART Berlin | 01.06.-01.07.2023


until 01.07. | #3933ARTatBerlin | Galerie EIGEN + ART Berlin shows from 01. June 2023 the exhibition “Elysium” of the artist Martin Eder. It’s as if someone switched on the light in Martin Eder’s pictures. Rather than darkened by an ominous storm, the pictures in the exhibition Elysium at Galerie EIGEN + ART glow from within. Usually unclothed human figures or animals with fur or feathers (in this case, mostly the cute, cuddly sort) look at us from Eder’s paintings, but this time they do so always in fifty pastel shades. At first glance, they seem to lack every kind of darkness. But apart from the colors, something here is fundamentally different from before. Instead of exploring frightening corporeal-psychological states of emergency, Eder now enters Elysium – the Island of the Blessed, as described in Greek mythology. It is Paradise. Once one reaches it, healing, happiness, and idyll are in sight. Finally salvation. (…) Text extract Anne Waak. Martin Eder, Elysium, ©EIGEN + ART berlin Bodies are sold, they are abused, they are twisted, they are reinvented, they are drained, they are dragged around, thrown into cavities and left alone, locked in wrong perceptions, full of attitudes and fears. The spiritual […]
HELGE & SAXANA – Stille Riesen | Galerie SCHMALFUSS BERLIN | 02.06.-01.07.2023


until 01.07. | #3932ARTatBerlin | Galerie SCHMALFUSS BERLIN shows from 02. June 2023 the exhibition „HELGE & SAXANA – Stille Riesen“(>Silent giants). HELGE & SAXANA – Stille Riesen (>Silent giants) Opening, Friday, 02. June 2023, 4pm – 8pm The exhibition HELGE & SAXANA – Stille Riesen is on view from 02.06. – 01.07.2023 SAXANA, Nr. 15, 2022, Oil on canvas, 120 x 170 cm Helge & Saxana are among the most creative and successful art activists. Their landscapes, often painted plein air – abstract as well as expressively realistic – tell of their passionate commitment to a better world. In accordance with HELGES’ manifesto “Helge macht Feuer” (Helge makes fire), HELGES & SAXANA’s works are a concentrated flight of sparks charged with explosive contemporary criticism, classical realistic painting or imaginative abstractions. Sparks full of brilliance and explosiveness. These paintings and objects are contemporary witnesses of a world in upheaval. Internationally recognised by art lovers and collectors. On view at documenta fifteen, in art associations as well as museums. Opening: Friday 02.June 2023, 4pm – 8pm Exhibition dates: Friday, 02. June – Saturday, 1. July 2023 Image caption: HELGE HOMMES, Du, 200 x 300 cm, 2014 Group exhibition HELGE […]
Alessandro Zannier | HYPERCONNECTIONS | Luisa Catucci Gallery | 03.06.-07.07.2023


until 07.07. | #3931ARTatBerlin | Luisa Catucci Gallery presents from 3. June 2023 (Opening: 02.06.) the exhibition HYPERCONNECTIONS of the artist Alessandro Zannier. Alessandro Zannier, an Italian artist with an international career who has already participated twice in the Venice Biennale (Architecture 2021, Art 2022), is now taking Berlin by storm by participating in the Latitudes of Art Biennale curated by Virginia Monteverde, which opens exactly the day after his solo exhibition HYPERCONNECTIONS at the Luisa Catucci Gallery in Kunsthaus Bethanien. A double exhibition for the Italian artist, not by chance! Zannier’s double Berlin action concretises three different artistic realities into one effective connection: Luisa Catucci Gallery, Virginia Monteverde and Zannier’s main gallery ARTandide in Verona. Three places that share a similar vision of art and affirm their role as instigators for fundamental reflections on the implementation of a better future. Zannier is an atypical conceptual artist who oscillates with equal intensity between visual art and electronic auteur music – here under the pseudonym Ottodix. In recent years, his artistic practice has revolved around precise concepts inspired by physics, astronomy, the Anthropocene, Earth history and environmental issues. This artistic demarche makes him one of the protagonists of what is called […]
Daniel M.E. Schaal | ENTER:lapidarium | FeldbuschWiesnerRudolph | 09.06.-22.07.2023


until 22.07. | #3930ARTatBerlin | FeldbuschWiesnerRudolph (FWR) presents from 09. June 2023 „ENTER:lapidarium“ the first representative solo exhibition of the artist Daniel M.E. Schaal. “It (is) always about my contemporaneity. To observe and classify what it means to be a body in Western society. A body that causes systems to be questioned, but still exists as a body (…)” (Daniel M.E. Schaal, 2023) In accordance with the exhibition title (*”Lapidarium” = the accumulation of sculptures, objects or fragments historically relevant or even consecrated to a place), the visitor is taken on a journey of process-oriented as well as conceptual works that express their narrative in the snapshots of Schaal’s impressively large media diversity. This occurs, for example, as painting on canvas, as singular as well as serial prints on handmade paper and cardboard, or it transforms itself as a monumental hand-woven textile floating freely in front of the wall. Daniel M.E. Schaal, exhibition view at Galerie FeldbuschWiesnerRudolph Already in his student days at the UdK Berlin, the artist gained first public attention due to his collaboration in the performance duo SANDER/SCHAAL as well as through his fascinating prints. In the gallery, a paper web measuring more than 20m is installed […]
Rune Christensen | Wildflowers | Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery Berlin | 02.06.-01.07.2023


until 01.07. | #3929ARTatBerlin | Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery Berlin shows from 02. June 2023 the exhibition “Wildflowers” with works of the artist Rune Christensen. Once upon a time there were two girls who rode horseback through the forest at night, gathering flowers and fighting off any predators that they met along the way. Wildflowers, Rune Christensen’s second solo exhibition at Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery takes the form of a fairytale that reaches through time, far back into the ancient past and forward into the future. Each scene is inspired by the stories that the artist invents for his two daughters in which he imagines them to be fearsome warriors or ‘knight princesses’, but while these aural tales might be filled with bravery and drama, the paintings are more tentative with loose, watery brush-marks and a mix of bold and fading colours. In this way, they project a melancholic sense of beauty that feels both vivid and wavering. For Christensen, painting is a way of collecting and making sense of the many sights and experiences that he has accumulated over his lifetime. Each of his compositions incorporates a vast array of references to different cultures, fashions and beliefs which are unified by […]
Elnara Nasirli + Elfi Greb | RADIX | Q Gallery Berlin | 01.06.-01.07.2023


until 01.07. | #3928ARTatBerlin | QGallery presents from 1st of June 2023 the exhibition “RADIX – Radical Root Explorations in Berlin and Baku” by artists Elnara Nasirli and Elfi Greb. RADIX is a double exhibition by two artists from Berlin and Baku dedicated to root architecture as a central concept for growth, survival and belonging. RADIX – Radical Root Explorations in Berlin and Baku provides a nuanced look at the multiple mechanisms of rootedness in a changing climate and technological age. Homeostasis 10. Homeostasis 6.acrylic, pigment, spray paint on woodboard, DIA 100 cm, 2023, Foto Adil Yusufov, @Elnara Nasirli.jpg Curated by Emin Mammadov, the exhibition focuses on the effects of climate change on soils, the evolution of identity, and the connection between plant root growth and neuroplasticity. Visitors are invited to explore their own roots and reflect on what connects them to their environment and community. French Hospital, 2014, Pigment print on alu-dibond, 90 x 60 cm © Elfi Greb In nature, the architecture of roots plays a central role in the growth and survival of trees and plants. For us humans, too, it is important to feel rooted to a particular place, community or culture in order to develop […]
Victoria Jung | fever dream | BARK BERLIN GALLERY | 18.05. – 07.06.2023


until 07.06. | #3927ARTatBerlin | BARK BERLIN GALLERY shows from 18. May 2023 in the exhibition “fever dream” photographs by Victoria Jung about the queer community in New Orleans. A project about the enchanted everyday life of the queer community in New Orleans in the permanent spiral between catastrophe and empowered celebration. New Orleans has always been a city full of extremes. At least since the destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, people here have lived in an environment that is often crumbling, always threatened, and defective in many ways. Maybe that‘s why those who can’t fit into the American system anywhere else find a home there. Queer travelers who have been through a lot in their young lives. Katrina created gaps that provided easily accessible shelter. Fueled by the tolerant and warm-hearted spirit of the local urban population, a collective of unique people was able to flourish. A rebellious and unruly subculture for which artistic expression is vital to survival. The work shows the clinking and flickering of this magical world on a constant tipping point. It seeks closeness to the wayward protagonists, who have long since become friends, and takes part in their everyday life. An everyday […]
Isa Genzken | neugerriemschneider | 06.06.-19.08.2023


until 19.08. | #3926ARTatBerlin | neugerriemschneider presents from 06. June 2023 the exhibition by the artist Isa Genzken. It is the sixth solo exhibition of works by Isa Genzken at neugerriemschneider. Featuring key sculptures from the seminal series Empire/Vampire, Who Kills Death, which made its German debut at our gallery, and Aircraft Windows (both begun in 2003), the presentation is a reflection on our first solo exhibition with the artist on the occasion of her twentieth anniversary. Working across sculpture, installation, collage, photography, painting, drawing and film, Genzken’s celebrated oeuvre has taken a diversity of forms over the past five decades, continuously evolving in pace with the world that surrounds it. This very environment – one shaped by the fusion of local sensibilities and the drive of an industrial present – has given rise to works that highlight dichotomous, ambivalent and multifaceted existences, simultaneously serving as vehicles for Genzken’s reappraisal of her own artistic tactics. With architecture, design and the apparatus of popular and consumer culture as anchors, she creates modified realities that rely on, and pursuantly deviate from the familiar everyday with affecting concision. Isa Genzken, Ohne Titel, 2012 ©Isa Genzken. Private Collection. Courtesy neugerriemschneider, Berlin. Photo: Jens Ziehe, […]
Sharon Lockhart | neugerriemschneider | 09.06.-19.08.2023


until 19.08. | #3925ARTatBerlin | neugerriemschneider presents from 09. June 2023 the exhibition by the artist Sharon Lockhart. With a group of new cyanotype paintings, the artist continues to develop her filmic and photographic methods on canvas, continuing her enduring analyses of the temporal nature of images and their perception. The works are complemented by new photographs and a screening of EVENTIDE (2022), a contemplative photograph of a stretch of coastline in Gotland, Sweden. Here, Lockhart captures the transition from dusk to night and extends this gradual change to the film’s characters, who move slowly within a static frame. Based on photographs taken during the production of EVENTIDE, Lockhart adapts cyanotype-a photographic noble printing process developed in the mid-19th century around astronomy-to express the essence of the night sky in her paintings Untitled (Night Sky) (all 2022) and Untitled (Night Sea) (2023). Combining photographic and painterly techniques, she hand-applies photo emulsion over fiber-reactive dyes in luminous tones. These layers create finely nuanced abstract landscapes that, depending on how the eye fixes on the play of light and density, seem to elude perception. In this concentrated expression, they question established representations of nature and bring the processes of image creation and […]
Xia Peng & Teresa Murta | Authentic | Migrant Bird Space | 12.05-16.06.2023


until 16.06. | #3924ARTatBerlin | Migrant Bird Space shows from 12. May 2023 the Duo Exhibition “Authentic” of the artists Xia Peng and Teresa Murta. Mystery does not come into the world via expression, but through activity and concealment in it. The power of magic is grounded in a special esoteric or mystical knowledge that most people lack, a special ability or gift. While both this exhibition’s artists are realistic in their creative approach, their themes and subject-matters are imbued with a deeper understanding of reality and what lies beyond; they give free rein to fantasy without compromising on reality. This exhibition introduces Xia Peng and Teresa Murta by means of a dialogue between their technically proficient paintings. Their drawings and images transcend reality and stir our sensitivities. A selection of 20 of their outstanding recent works is brought together. Xia Peng’s New series Street view of the event, the question and introspection of painting as a traditional media is explored under the continuous acquisition of new ways of observation. Looking for personal orientation in the intersection of ancient image resources and modern technology. When we get unlimited image resources all at the same time, it will make us explore the essence […]
Giulietta Coates | Beyond Solitude | BBA Gallery | 19.05.-21.07.2023


until 21.07. | #3923ARTatBerlin | BBA Gallery presents from Friday 19. May 2023 the solo exhibition Beyond Solitude of the artist Giulietta Coates. Giulietta Coates, La Guérison (Text) #1 .jpg, © Giulietta Coates ‘Beyond Solitude’, a solo exhibition by Giulietta Coates at BBA Gallery in Berlin, presents a body of work by the artist that spans the last four years. Her monochrome photographs of grandiose landscapes taken in Haute Provence, France express a longing for nature, its beauty that remains elusive and distant, and the impossibility of capturing it completely. Individual motifs – rocks, a pool of water, a wooden stump-are allegories for wider narratives of loss and beauty, dread and longing. Photographic images are then intimate conversations with the artist’s immediate surroundings. With a distinctive style and presentation, these poetic images speak of our relationship to the ‘otherness’ of the natural world and a consciousness outside of our own. The expansive mountainous landscapes of Haute Provence where absolute solitude resounds, inform the works in the exhibition. Photography as a medium – not by design, but rather by practicality – is how the artist overcomes the gulf between herself and the otherness of beauty that surrounds her. Giulietta Coates, Impasse de […]
Selina Baumann | Erde | galerie probst | 02.06.-26.08.2023


until 26.08. | #3922ARTatBerlin | galerie probst presents from 2. June 2023 the exhibition Erde by the artist Selina Baumann. Selina Baumann (*1988) is known for her biomorphic, organic ceramic sculptures. Some are reminiscent of jellyfish, bacteria or extraterrestrial beings. Others are columnar and over two metres tall, entwined with bulging mesh. For Selina Baumann, her sculptures are “mystical beings”, as she calls them. That is why they bear names like “Bellis”, “Silene” and “Rafita”, names that sound strange and yet familiar – just like the creatures themselves. Although they are made of hard and heavy ceramics, the sculptures seem to be in constant change, they are characterised by the imperfect. They are unstable and crooked, almost as if they were still unfinished. Baumann himself says: “I don’t want to create anything pretty. The viewer should be disturbed by my sculptures, should feel the need to touch the sculpture and straighten it out.” galerie probst, Selina Baumann, Ylva, 2019, Keramik, 162 x 60 x 60 cm This literal grasping of their beings enables the viewer to have a haptic experience: is the surface porous and rough or smooth and cool? And what does this touch do to you? Baumann […]
LET THE MUSIC PLAY | Group exhibition | Galerie Z22 | 13.05.-02.06.2023


until 02.06. | #3921ARTatBerlin | Galerie Z22 presents ab 13. Mai 2023 the Group exhibition LET THE MUSIC PLAY of the artists Kati Von Schwerin, Leah Rudolph and Stephanie Guse. This series was inspired by the record shop “POP, Berlin”, which is known for its exquisite range of vinyl records. The shop hosts a cultural programme and exhibited my photographs in 2018. The photographic works are exactly the same size as the long-playing records (LP) used to be. They model golden record trophies through intricate collages of found material from consumer goods such as chocolate box inlays, lush shopping bags or glamorous packaging. Each artwork relates to a specific album such as BOB DYLAN: Nashville Skyline, DAVID BOWIE: Changes, DER PLAN: Es Ist Eine Fremde Und Seltsame Welt, EURYTHMICS: Savage, FELA: Fela & Africa 70, LCD: lcd soundsytem, MADONNA: Like a Virgin, NEIL YOUNG: Zuma, PATTI SMITH: Horses and QUEEN: Live Killers. Kati von Schwerin’s artistic work is characterised above all by the fact that she seems to be torn between the clear structures of pop art and an intellectually charged level of content, and basically cannot and will not decide on anything. It is cerebral and a little schizophrenic, […]
Katharina Stadler | HAPPY-GO-LUCKY | Jarmuschek + Partner | 13.05.-17.06.2023


until 17.06. | #3920ARTatBerlin | Jarmuschek + Partner presents from 13. May 2023 (Opening: 12.05.) the exhibition HAPPY-GO-LUCKY of the artist Katharina Stadler. The high-contrast, strong colours of shadowy shapes and surfaces run across the fabric fields delimited by seams in Katharina Stadler’s object-like paintings. Each play of colour and form is able to reach the viewer immediately on an emotional level and evoke pipe-chess-like associations. Yet in their interconnection, the sewn and painted cotton pieces are complex collages that challenge and puzzle. Each lot is not only special and unique as a surface, but also works in a specific pictorial depth, as its own pictorial universe in which one can immerse oneself, and which nevertheless interacts and connects with the whole in a mysterious way. Katharina Stadler’s large-format compositions are capable of evoking moments of contemplative calm and, at the same time, feelings of cheerful light-heartedness. She imagines the colours of her works at the beginning. She lets thoughts, memories and dreams flow into the multi-part painting process. Finally, she assembles something new and different from streams of consciousness that have become images. Deconstruction and re-creation can be read as a reference to human processes of processing what is […]
Hannah Bohnen + Linus Rauch | Doppelausstellung | TOM REICHSTEIN contemporary @aquabitArt Galerie | 28.04.-30.04.2023


until 30.04. | #3919ARTatBerlin | Hamburg-based TOM REICHSTEIN contemporary presents from 28 April 2023 the double exhibition with paintings by the artist Hannah Bohnen and collage by the artist Linus Rauch, at the AquabitArt gallery in Berlin. Hannah Bohnen‘s works are inspired by unconscious gestures, scribbles while talking on the phone, fluid movements. The almost invisible moments of our everyday life are the starting point of her sculptures, oberflächen and installations. The artist fixes the fleetingness of the world in her works and shows us the elegance and drama of this imperceptible life. “With my works, I try to arrest the uncertain, sometimes invisible moments of ephemeral action in forms, using dynamic materials and flowing shapes to communicate the decaying and almost imperceptible life of random gestures.” Hannah Bohnen Hannah Bohnen, ‘Telephone Drawing’, 2022, Installation view Linus Rauch works seem like paintings but are assemblages found materials, such as textile, foil, paper. Rauch sends them over each other collage-like. Shapes, shades, patterns are created. Thus, he expands the perception of the work and the surrounding space. These are works on the border between gallery, sculpture and space. Opening: Friday, 28. April 2023, 7:00 – 11:00 pm Exhibition dates : Friday, […]
When the silent song rises | Gruppenausstellung | ARTCO Galerie Berlin | 27.04.-10.06.2023


until 10.06. | #3918ARTatBerlin | ARTCO Galerie Berlin presents from 27. April 2023 the Group exhibition When the silent song rises of the artsists Beverly D. Renekouzou, Exocé Kassongo, Melody Howse, Thomias Radin, Selassie and Elihu Ashong. WHEN THE SILENT SONG RISES is a group exhibition with works and performances by Beverly D. Renekouzou, Exocé Kassongo, Melody Howse, Thomias Radin, Selassie and Elihu Ashong. The opening will take place on 27 April at ARTCO Galerie Berlin. As all participating artists also have a background in music and/or dance, a joint performance will be staged alongside paintings and video works. Contemporary expression that encourages a spiritual experience is planned. The Right Of Soil 1, 75×0,96m, 2022, T®Beverly Renekouzou The exhibition builds on the curatorial concept of Beverly Renekouzou and her latest series of works “Honorer le sacrifice”. The Berlin-based painter began the large-format paintings in 2022. They are a tribute to generations of people who lived on – or left – the African continent to contribute to Europe’s economic growth through hard work, frustrating integration experiences and other sacrifices. “They deserve more visibility and attention than any other European citizens,” the artist explains. The series also revolves around the personal experiences […]
Friedemann Heckel | Galerie Thomas Fischer | 28.04.-10.06.2023


until 10.06. | #3917ARTatBerlin | Galerie Thomas Fischer presents from 28. April 2023 the exhibition of the artist Friedemann Heckel. In his fourth exhibition at Galerie Thomas Fischer, Friedemann Heckel presents a series of watercolors that have been created since 2020. Based on photographs taken with his mobile phone, he painted large-scale still lifes and idiosyncratic portraits. The material itself comes to the foreground: the watercolor runs across the surface and frays, opening to the abstract and contrasting against the untouched white of the paper. And the figures? A captivating light brightens their faces and bodies, the light of a screen, the sun, a lighter. They seem lost in reverie or to be looking vaguely into the distance. What do they see? What do we see? Speculative melancholy and lurking premonitions. Opening: Thursday, 27. April 2023, 6pm – 9pm Exhibition dates: Friday, 28. April – Saturday, 10. June 2023 Image caption: Friedemann Heckel, © Courtesy of Galerie Thomas Fischer Exhibition Friedemann Heckel – Galerie Thomas Fischer | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Ausstellungen Berlin Galerien | ART at Berlin
Gabriela Torres Ruiz | The Path of Least Resistance | Galerie Brockstedt | 24.05.-30.06.2023 – extended until 12.08.2023


until 12.08.| #3916ARTatBerlin | Galerie Brockstedt shows from 24. May 2023 the exhibition The Path of Least Resistance of the artist Gabriela Torres Ruiz. The architecture of flow – or the path of least resistance How can art contribute to the perception of nature in its complexity? And: How can it promote perception, sensitivity and empathy for other forms of life as well as an awareness of a harmonious balance between human existence and the natural world? Gabriela Torres Ruiz, #2 aus der Serie Mimesis – Diptychon, 2019/2017, 40 x 80 cm / 2 x (40 x 40 cm), Pigment Print/ Alu-dibond, Ed. 1/6 + 2 AP Gabriela Torres Ruiz deals with these leading questions. She was inspired by Adrian Bejan’s theory “The Constructal Law” and, based on it, researched flow patterns that determine the structure of the entire universe. She found these flow patterns in rivers, neuronal networks, lightning, in the lungs, in the growth form of plants and in social dynamics. Every flow architecture on Earth follows the natural tendency to want to flow more easily. The evolution of its movement always pursues the goal of reaching equilibrium and minimising resistance. Gabriela Torres Ruiz, #3 aus der Serie […]
Oleg Kulik | ANIMA ANIMALIS | DIEHL | 27.04.-02.06.2023


until 02.06. | #3915ARTatBerlin | DIEHL presents from 27. August 2023 the exhibition ANIMA ANIMALIS of the artist Oleg Kulik. An exhibition by the artist, who was born in Ukraine and currently lives under house arrest in Russia. Hardly any other artist has challenged the viewer as provocatively as Oleg Kulik with his performances in the 90s and 2000s. No easy task, then. But Carsten, as has always been his way, very quickly and through his open curiosity and enthusiasm got to grips with Kulik’s world. A complex challenge in times of war. Working with Carsten was a great pleasure and an eye-opener for the artist and for me, as in all other joint projects in the past. Some exhibitions that will remain unforgettable for me. The titles speak for themselves. Dieter Hacker “Der Künstler als Amokläufer”, Christiane Möbus “Rette sich wer kann”, Hommage to Christos Joachimides “Kunst im politischen Kampf”, Sergey Bratkov “Heartbreak” and now Oleg Kulik “Anima Animalis”. Here the titles were programme. Art and provocative political attitudes were not a contradiction for Carsten, but a challenge. There he was in his element. Carsten Ahrens was a companion and a friend. But I especially admired his uncompromising approach when […]
Olaf Nicolai | I never look at you from the place from which you see me | Galerie EIGEN + ART Berlin | 27.04.-27.05.2023


until 27.05. | #3914ARTatBerlin | Galerie EIGEN + ART Berlin shows from 27. April 2023 the exhibition “I never look at you from the place from which you see me” of the artist Olaf Nicolai. The exhibition “I never look at you from the place from which you see me” by Olaf Nicolai presents a series of photographic works taken in June 2022 in Olympia, Greece. The motifs are the landscape and the historical facilities of Olympia – but in anamorphic and floating distortions. They were created using a parabolic mirror – the mirror used to IGNITE the Olympic Flame by the sun’s rays. Images that are mostly associated with the parabolic mirror are those of the media staging of the major event “Olympic Games”. These include the lighting of the Olympic flame as well as the torch relay that has followed since 1936. These gestures, which are as symbolic today as they are taken for granted, are inscribed in the historical object “parabolic mirror,” which is still used today. The constellation in which the photographs were taken presents a paradox: Images reflected by a parabolic mirror. A mirror that was not built to reflect outward. Rather, it is meant […]
Kapwani Kiwanga | Raw | Galerie Tanja Wagner | 14.03.-27.05.2023.


until 27.05. | #3912ARTatBerlin | Galerie Tanja Wagner presents from 14. March 2023 the exhibition “Raw” of the artist Kapwani Kiwanga. Galerie Tanja Wagner presents Raw, our fourth solo exhibition with multidisciplinary artist Kapwani Kiwanga. Raw features all new sculptural works, crafted from glass, silica sand, or sisal fibers. Each work unearths an incongruity: raw materials, despite being seemingly inert, actually remain in perpetual states of flux. As a trained anthropologist, Kiwanga observes how these materials mutate, travel, and evolve over time. Like people, and cultures, their partnerships and associations vary. Their values, both economically and culturally, fluctuate. In Raw, nature is beholden as a highly engaged actor in the course of human history. In her sisal and steel sculptures, Kiwanga nods to the fibres deeply woven histories with extractive economics and political subjugation. Kiwanga’s Hour Glass sculpture series, initially realized for the 59th Venice Biennale, is continued in Raw with four new Shifting Sands sculptures, each in various colors. The series, made with artisanally handblown glass and fracking sand, developed with Kiwanga’s found appreciation for sand’s ability to transform. We couldn’t be happier about Kapwani Kiwanga’s current and upcoming exhibitions. She has been selected to represent Canada at the 2024 Venice Biennale, curated by Gaëtane Verna. She currently […]
Paloma Proudfoot | The Three Living and The Three Dead | Soy Capitán | 28.04.–10.06.2023


until 10.06. | #39011ARTatBerlin | Galerie Soy Capitán shows from 28. April 2023 the exhibition “The Three Living and The Three Dead ” of the artist Paloma Proudfoot. “There is a sense of softness, of vulnerability, despite the hardness of the glazed clay.” Philomena Epps on Proudfoot’s work The evolution of Paloma Proudfoot’s new exhibition, The Three Living and The Three Dead at Soy Capitán, was informed by her research into Medieval cultural traditions surrounding death. In this period, death was often configured as a personified force, able to interact with the living. In the fresco The Triumph of Death (1440-5) at Palazzo Abatellis in Palermo, death is shown as an animated skeleton, depicted riding a skeletal horse through a rabble of people, with the characters in the crowd displaying a broad spectrum of reactions, from utter terror, bewilderment, and oblivious apathy. The legend of ‘The Three Living and The Three Dead’—from which Proudfoot’s exhibition and central piece takes its title—first appeared in the thirteenth century, with the moral tale functioning as an extension of the popular memento mori motif. In the story, three noblemen encounter three ecclesiastic decaying corpses in a forest. The corpses reproach the noblemen for their […]
Lost in Landscape | Gruppenausstellung | Migrant Bird Space | 03.05-03.06.2023


until 03.06. | #3910ARTatBerlin | Migrant Bird Space shows from 03. Mai 2023 the Group exhibition “Lost in Landscape” of the artists Dawei Dong, Yuya Suzuki, Fuzi and Peng Xia. Exhibition Dates: Wednesday, 3. May 2023 until Saturday, 3. June 2023 Image Caption: Lost in Landscape, Courtesy of Migrant Bird Space Group exhibition Lost in Landscape – Migrant Bird Space | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Ausstellungen Berlin Galerien | ART at Berlin
Leyla Yenirce | Splitter | Schiefe Zähne | 28.04.-27.05.2023


bis 27.05. | #3909ARTatBerlin | The Berliner Galerie Schiefe Zähne shows from 28. April 2023 the exhibition Splitter of the artist Leyla Yenirce. In her artistic practice across multiple media, Leyla Yenirce deals with the representation of resistance as well as cultural, medial and military structures of dominance. She exposes the fine line between glorifying ideology and resistant emancipation, sensibly interrelating what is often assumed to be opposites: feminism and war, pop culture and genocide, desire, longing and irony. SPLITTER A woman looks calmly and concentrated. What she sees and observes remains unclear. Sounds form a melody lose themselves, morph and begin to scratch at the image. The woman holds a Splitter in her hand and a game of its own starts. She redirects the light that falls on her. She blinds us and disappears in the reflection. Splitter is a portrait, a lullaby, a disruption. The work shows the moment when light enters and darkness arrives, people dissolve and reappear. Showing oneself or camouflaging oneself constitute contrasting processes that are negotiated in different contexts today: Is the woman in the video, then, a model who no longer wants to be looked at? For Leyla Yenirce, the starting point was still another: the […]
Sophie Reinhold | Traüm Weiter | Galerie Nordenhake Berlin | 28.04.-01.06.2023


until 01.06. | #3908ARTatBerlin | Galerie Nordenhake Berlin shows on 28. April 2023 the exhibition “Traüm Weiter” by the artist Sophie Reinhold. Sophie Reinhold thematises the dichotomy between simulation and real life in her first solo exhibition with Galerie Nordenhake in Berlin. A series of new paintings made specifically for the show and executed on surfaces prepared with bitumen, ground marble and graphite powder, juxtaposes a site-specific installation for the gallery space. Comprised of four sculptures the installation disrupts the line of sight upon entering the gallery and constrains as well as widens the perspective of the paintings. Their imagery speaks to mythology, which is underlined by the sculptural quality that breaks with a satirical use of ubiquitous images. This allows to get a curious hold of the technical process in which the artist stretches jute over a panel, to then apply layers of marble or graphite powder at times dyed with pigments. The result is sanded down to a fetishist smoothness, of which parts are carved to create figurative reliefs. Bare textile revealed in the process irritates the seductive illusion of perfection. These works come together heterogeneously, which speaks to their very nature facilitating a humorous rethinking of representative […]
Aziz Hazara | No Dress Code | PSM Gallery | 28.04.-17.06.2023.


until 17.06. | #3907ARTatBerlin | PSM Gallery shows from 28. April 2023 the exhibtion No Dress Code of the artist Aziz Hazara. Aziz Hazara’s solo exhibition No Dress Code presented at PSM during Gallery Weekend Berlin 2023, brings together a selection of photographs, videos, and audio installations that address the social and political lives of bodies, things, and environments at the mercy of the global military and aid industrial complex. Through these works, the artist demonstrates how war consumes, contaminates, and reconfigures every aspect of an environment and way of life, turning them into an active ground for the exercise of power and influence and preventing any attempt at resistance. Hazara’s works stage a powerful festival of naked truths that invite critical reflection on the still-destructive legacies of war. With his usual poetic and poignant style on full display, No Dress Code offers the viewer the opportunity to move beyond the formal “truths” that have disrupted our true understanding of Afghanistan’s contemporary realities for decades. It offers an expanded view of history that focuses on the sanctity of life and the physical environment that surrounds it. Opening: Friday, 28. April 2023, 6pm – 9pm Exhibition dates: Friday, 28. April – Saturday, […]
Sheila Hicks | In Hülle und Fülle / In abundance | Meyer Riegger | 29.04.-24.06.2023.


until 24.06. | #3906ARTatBerlin | Meyer Riegger presents from 29. April 2023 the exhibition “In Hülle und Fülle / In abundance” of the artist Sheila Hicks. The American artist Sheila Hicks, who has lived in Paris since 1964, plays with natural materials in breathtaking colours. From wool, linen or silk, she knots, weaves or spins new forms again and again. On the one hand, the artist is influenced by modernism through her painting studies with Bauhaus master Josef Albers at Yale University. On the other hand, she is influenced by the traditional arts and crafts of various continents, which she got to know on her travels and during longer stays in Chile, Mexico, India and Morocco, among other places. The exhibition at Meyer Riegger covers a period of several decades. It is a retrospective of an extensive, fascinating body of work and at the same time an insight into the current artistic production of Sheila Hicks, whose creative energy remains unbroken to this day. Opening: Saturday, 29. April 2023 Exhibition dates: Saturday, 29. April bis Saturday, 24. June 2023 Image caption: Sheila Hicks, Rempart, 2016, Photo: Raphael Fanelli Exhibition Sheila Hicks – Meyer Riegger | Contemporary Art – Kunst in Berlin | Ausstellungen […]
Hiwa K | Like a Good, Good, Good Boy | KOW | 28.04.-01.06.2023


until 01.06. | #3905ARTatBerlin | KOW presents from 28. April 2023 the exhibition Like a Good, Good, Good Boy of the artist Hiwa K. In his exhibition at KOW for the 2023 Gallery Weekend, the Kurdish-Iraqi artist presents a new video installation in which he returns to his native Sulaymaniyah. The three-part work Like a Good, Good, Good Boy interconnects three places that loomed large in Hiwa K’s childhood and youth: his family’s modest home, now a ruin; the old school; and the notorious Amna Suraka prison, where, between 1979 and 1991, Saddam Hussein’s henchmen tortured, raped, and murdered countless men, women, and children. In the central video projection, a camera drone pans along a thick rope that, stretched across rooftops and streets, literally ties the three buildings and institutions together. With a total length of some 1,600 yards, the rope also intertwines the stories and histories of the sites. A second video shadows Hiwa K as he walks through his school. He recalls the hellish routines of studying under the teachers, some of whom moonlighted as torturers at the prison, as well as the dangers posed by friends and even one’s own family and early gestures of futile resistance. […]
Slavs and Tatars | Hang Don’t Cut | Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler | 28.04.–29.06.2023.


until 29.06. | #3904ARTatBerlin | Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler shows from 28. April 2023 the exhibition “Hang Don’t Cut” of the artist Slavs and Tatars. Uzbek legend has it that the melon originally grew only in the Garden of Eden. One day, the people received the melon as a divine gift from the Almighty, who had inscribed a message on it before sending it to them. The presence of tiny cracks on the ripe melon caught the attention of the locals, as they appeared to be reminiscent of Arabic script. The pattern is never repeated, so with each melon, the people were not only gifted a treat, but new knowledge. Unfortunately, the people could not decipher the melons’ message. Slavs and Tatars’ newest body of work looks to a variety of melons found in Central Asia, in particular in Uzbekistan and Xinjiang, as repositories of knowledge, as vectors of writing, as well as agencies of resource extraction. Considered to be a rare delicacy, the winter melon is carefully stored in warehouses (ковунхане) to ripen late, amongst the last fruit to do so as the first frosts arrive. So it is that the melon is coveted throughout Eurasia as an exceptional, almost miraculous product […]
Bjørn Melhus | [dramatic music continues] | EBENSPERGER BERLIN | 28.04.-17.06.2023
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until 17.06. | #3903ARTatBerlin | EBENSPERGER BERLIN presents the exhibition “[dramatic music continues]” of the artist Bjørn Melhus . “The exhibition title [dramatic music continues] is a so-called closed caption, an audio description from feature films for people who cannot hear, a service provided by most streaming services. Thus the title is paradigmatic for the present time and not least also a reference to my artistic practice, which in the last three decades has been based predominantly on the extraction of mass media audio material.” Bjørn Melhus The title also describes a privileged state in which the sound of the ongoing catastrophe can be muted and the doom is only perceptible as an abstract description in closed captions. Embedded in a temporary overall installation, the exhibition contains various video works from between 2020 and 2023 that explore, among other things, transistoric narratives of dystopia and utopia. The series GATEKEEPERS (2023) is a new production for this year’s Gallery Weekend. They are mutating, fictional guards; watchmen or bouncers from another world who ambivalently stand guard at the threshold of an apparent transition. It remains open whether they are concerned with the control of spatial borders, which are becoming increasingly impermeable due to […]
Henning Strassburger | Contemporary Fine Arts (CFA Berlin) | 28.04.-03.06.2023.


until 03.06. | #3902ARTatBerlin |Contemporary Fine Arts presents from 28. April 2023 the exhibition of the artist Henning Strassburger. Contemporary Fine Arts is excited to present Henning Strassburger’s third solo exhibition at the gallery. In his new paintings, Strassburger seems to abandon abstraction in favor of the human body, one of the main interests of figurative art. And yet, the paintings depict bodies underwater, bodies in the shower, and at the pool. Always looking away, the protagonists hide their intimate parts, caught in vulnerable moments one would rather not be caught in. They are as fluid as the water itself. In bright pink, blue and yellow, Strassburger creates staged settings where uneventful and everyday activities excite as if taken from a film. Grids become bathroom tiles, splashes become bathtubs and hot tubs. As the bodies within dissolve or are just about to, they consist only of individual parts at its most extreme. “I wanted to paint situations that can resolve in any direction. Just as “The Hedonist” stands rather awkwardly under the jet of water that starts somewhere above the painting. The scenes are then captured in the “unphotogenic” moment, if you will. Like in photos that you would sort […]
Samuel Hindolo | Guest room | Galerie Buchholz | 28.04.-17.06.2023


until 17.06. | #3901ARTatBerlin | Galerie Buchholz shows from 28. April 2023 the exhibtiion Guest room by the artist Samuel Hindolo. Samuel Hindolo is a painter whose work depicts indeterminate humanlike figures situated in architectures and passageways. He occasionally also works in video, photography, sculpture, and sound. Samuel Hindolo (b. 1990, Prince George’s County, Maryland, US) received his MFA from Bard College in 2021 and lives and works between Brussels and Berlin. Guest room is his first solo exhibition with Galerie Buchholz. “Disciples in the Garden is a depiction of Christ’s three dearest friends asleep in Gethsemane with their chins to their chests. Somewhere outside the frame is Christ complaining about something. He turns to them for support and comfort in this moment of intense agony. Night persists and his heavy eyed cohort joins him. Eventually they abandon him for a nap. The task at hand is too grand for them to confront—so rest it is! They’ve settled for a cold patch of ground. Being adrift gives them the sense that they’re elsewhere in some prolonged retreat from the present when in fact looming in the distance is something else.” Samuel Hindolo. Opening: Friday, 28. April 2023, 6pm – 9pm […]
Das Geschäftsjahr 22/23 | Group exhibition | Michaela Helfrich Galerie | 28.04.-14.06.2023


until 14.06. | #3899ARTatBerlin | Michaela Helfrich Galerie shows on 28. April 2023 the group exhibition “Das Geschäftsjahr 22/23” by the artists Jens Kloppmann, Gerard Waskievitz, Stephan Paul Schneider, Nanako Shikata, Klaas Bosch, Bettina Semmer, Gilbert Brohl and Pina Rath. Seemingly at random, over 100 portrait drawings are placed in a glass case, overlapping each other, covering each other, but sometimes still peeking out from under stacks of other images, demanding relevance. They are people of the moment that we can’t get past: Deciders, perpetrators, victims. Hopefuls or no-hopers who slide over each other and are overshadowed by ever newer actors who then form another layer. Ultimately, it is about a tectonics of the present. (Jens Kloppmann) Jens Kloppmann “Das Geschäftsjahr 22/23”, glass showcase with drawings, 160 x 60 x 90 cm, 2023 © 2023 Patricia Sevilla Ciordia, all rights reserved. Nanako Shikata o.T.(Strommast Serie), 2011, watercolour on black paper, 24 x 30cm Photo: Nanako Shikata Gerard Waskievitz “auslichten” 2023 charcoal on paper 220 x 140cm Photo Gerard Waskievitz Stephan Paul Schneider group of works: “Das utopische Archiv” (DUA) “DUA: o.T._11/22”, 2022, digital work,140 x 100 cm, archival inkjet print, handmade paper/aludibond, Diasec (Edition: 5 + 2 EA) Photo: Stephan […]
Britta Thie | Scene | WENTRUP | 28.04.-03.06.2023


until 03.06. | #3900ARTatBerlin | WENTRUP presents on 28. April 2023 the exhibition ” Scene ” of the artist Britta Thie. From 28 April to 3 June 2023, Wentrup will present Scene, an exhibition of a new series of works by Britta Thie. Visitors find themselves surrounded with film lights, rigs, and gear, transported to a film set and cast as crew, even as protagonists, in a production of their own experience. The environment is informed by Thie’s time on set as an actor. When filming a television series she began to consider the objects that surrounded her while awaiting her scenes—objects that provide the crucial and crucially invisible infrastructure behind moving image production and popular entertainment. Over the course of the shoot, Thie came to find companionship in the machinery, which offered a familiar kind of kinship. These objects were not human, but each one had its own personality and mannerisms. The paradoxical “present absence” notable in these tools and their surroundings invites larger questions about the creation of narrative, about world-building and self-deception, and about the interaction of matter and mind. Thie depicts these instruments using the ostensibly old or “slow” medium of painting, in contrast to the rapid […]
Ab van Hanegem + Christian Pilz | Escaping the Dichotomy | Galerie Gilla Lörcher | 29.04.-01.07.2023


until 01.07. | #3898ARTatBerlin | Galerie Gilla Lörcher shows on 29. April 2023 (Opening: 28.04.) the exhibition „Escaping the Dichotomy“ by the artists Ab van Hanegem und Christian Pilz. Galerie Gilla Lörcher is delighted to enrich Gallery Weekend Berlin 2023 with the exhibition “Escaping the Dichotonomy”. The labyrinthine in the incredibly detailed, finely chiselled drawings of Christian Pilz and the complex architecturally constructed structures in the works of the painter Ab van Hanegem make this exhibition decidedly eventful. Encountering these two very different and at the same time obviously related formal languages in one exhibition is an inspiring challenge for the viewers, which they are best advised to actively meet. They will be able to wander endlessly through the works with their eyes. In her text on the work of the draughtsman Christian Pilz, Manuela O’Connell writes: “The abundance of detail challenges the viewer to look more closely. His works reveal a technical skill that does not suggest that the artist works with graphite in only one degree of hardness. With his precision, he opens up millennia of culture and history to the viewer as a shifting play of order and chaos that seems to continue into infinity in the drawing.” […]
Frieda Toranzo Jaeger | Heart Core | Galerie Barbara Weiss | 28.04.-03.06.2023


until 03.06. | #3897ARTatBerlin | Galerie Barbara Weiss shows from 28. April 2023 the exhibition Heart Core of the artist Frieda Toranzo Jaeger. Frieda Toranzo Jaeger interrogates the history of painting from a multitude of imagined futures, some utopian and others catastrophic. Not coincidentally, her investigation of history painting focuses on the the centuries which also saw colonial expansion and religious crusading. Toranzo Jaeger appropriates these painterly conventions and imagery—recasting their scenes to image queer and feminist freedom, decolonization and a renewed connection to nature in the face of looming climate disaster. Expanding the historical practice of alter painting to encompass new narratives, Toranzo Jaeger’s paintings are often fixed together with hinges to form modular, sculptural forms that are human in scale, mimicking architecture and automotive designs. By situating her works in physical space, Toranzo Jaeger makes painting a performative gesture, crafting tableaux that refuse to be understood from a single perspective. Many of her canvases are punctuated by embroidery. Her interweaving of craft into painting is an act of disobedience and a questioning of the placement of value in art history. The artist’s family works with her to embroider her paintings, incorporating both traditional and experimental stitching, which are juxtaposed alongside […]
HOPE. LOVE . POP | Group Exhibition | ARTES Berlin | 28.04.-29.06.2023


until 29.06. | #3896ARTatBerlin | ARTES Berlin presents ab 28. April 2023 the Group exhibition HOPE. LOVE. POP of the artists Andy Warhol, Robert Indiana, Alex Katz and Tom Wesselmann as well as contemporary positions with Marion Eichmann, Mr. Brainwash, CREN and many more. The reduction of motifs to two-dimensionality and the power of clear colour and strict contour lines are the stylistic devices of Pop Art. However, these formalities are just as much part of the canon of street and urban artists and are thus part of a collective memory and deeply rooted in advertising aesthetics. Opening: Friday, 28. April 2023, 5pm – 9pm Exhibition dates: Friday, 28. April until Saturday, 29. June 2023 Special opening hours for Gallery Weekend Berlin: Saturday, 29. and Sunday 30. April 2023, 12 noon – 7pm Image caption: Andy Warhol, Ingrid Bergman – With Hat, ( FS. II 315), 1983, Siebdruck, 96.5 x 96.5 cm Exhibition HOPE. LOVE. POP – ARTES Berlin | Zeitgenössische Kunst Berlin – Contemporary Art | Ausstellungen Galerien Berlin | ART at Berlin
Christine Streuli | Falling Apart | FeldbuschWiesnerRudolph | 28.04.-03.06.2023


until 28.05. | #3894ARTatBerlin | FeldbuschWiesnerRudolph (FWR) shows on 28. April 2023 the exhibition Falling Apart by the artist Christine Streuli. “At the moment, a lot of things feel like decay to me. But maybe afterwards people will say: That was in truth the rise to something completely new. Or: We were still doing comparatively well then. Who knows.” (Dietrich Brüggemann, director, screenwriter and musician in an interview with Marcus Klöckner on the occasion of his new novel “Materialermüdung”, 2022) For gallery weekend berlin at the end of April 2023, the artist CHRISTINE STREULI (CH, born 1975), newly represented by our gallery, will transform the exhibition spaces into an immersive experiential space with her delicate pictorial weavings and their all the more intense luminosity. Paint is sprayed, slapped off, and monuental stickers self-referentially quote painting on canvas and at the same time demonstratively banish it to the wall. As if to capture a moment before it disintegrates, falls apart, disappears … Welcome to the exhibition “Falling Apart (long version)” by Christine Streuli! The artist Christine Streuli knows about the special power of color, its intensity as well as expressivity and its beauty and uses it consciously – iconic as well […]
Marina Adams | Mother Tongue | Galerie Thomas Schulte | 28.04.-10.06.2023


until 10.06. | #3895ARTatBerlin | Galerie Thomas Schulte presents from 28. April 2023 the exhibition “Mother Tongue” of the artist Marina Adams. For Gallery Weekend Berlin 2023, Galerie Thomas Schulte is delighted to present Marina Adams’ recent paintings and drawings in the exhibition Mother Tongue, the artist’s first solo show in Germany. Marina Adams has developed a dynamic and abstract painterly practice of clear and powerful formal language that centers around exploring the possibilities of form and movement while displaying the structural power of color. Her vibrant works create space and motion by assembling organic, asymmetrical shapes into free-flowing, rhythmic patterns. As the curator Helga Christoffersen put it, Adams’ “work demands silence, enabling us to think and dream and create space”, while embracing gesturalism and improvisation. She reduces the work down to its essentials, allowing space for all the senses. Rather than a purely optical matter, the artist understands painting as the manifestation of intangibles such as temperament, sensibility, intellect, and research. “There’s something about color, it’s unlike everything else. I can break painting down and talk about drawing and scale, surface and touch, among other things, but there’s something about color that you can’t describe. When it’s powerful it holds the […]
Cao Fei | Duotopia | Sprüth Magers Berlin | 28.04.-19.08.2023


until 19.08. | #3893ARTatBerlin | Sprüth Magers Berlin presents from 28. April 2023 (Opening: 27.04.) the exhibition Duotopia of the artist Cao Fei. For over two decades, the work of Cao Fei has stood at the forefront of thinking around art, media, technology and futurity. Diverse in medium and approach, her projects explore facets of everyday existence mingled with the surreal and spectacular to tap into deep-seeded questions around what it means to be human in this ever-shifting twenty-first century. Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers are pleased to present Duotopia, a major exhibition by Cao Fei at Sprüth Magers, Berlin, which will transform all of the gallery’s spaces and premiere several new works outside of China that delve into the metaverse, virtual reality and the interactions between human and machine consciousness. Anchoring the exhibition in the downstairs galleries are a group of new videos that each look to the connective and creative possibilities of the metaverse. Viewers first encounter Meta-mentary (2022), in which everyday people are interviewed about their thoughts on the metaverse and the distant future. Adjacent vitrines and screens look back to the artist’s first virtual-reality construction, RMB City (2007–11), which housed her first avatar, China Tracy. Together, these projects illustrate Cao […]
Nanne Meyer | Pläne machen | Galerie Dittmar | 27.04.-14.06.2023


until 14.06. | #3892ARTatBerlin | Galerie Dittmar presents from 27. April 2023 the solo exhibition „Pläne machen“ (<Make plans) with works of the artist Nanne Meyer. “For about 20 years Nanne Meyer has been working with maps, atlas pages and city plans. In their function, meaning, and aesthetics, they form the foundation for the question of one’s own orientation in the world … The artist frees cartography, consisting of surfaces, lines, colors, signatures, and symbols, from its interpretation of content … Depending on the state of science and on political as well as social interests, maps of the country and the world have always been an attempt to grasp, explain, and divide the world order.” (Barbara Nierhoff-Wielk, in: Meyers Handatlas. Nanne Meyer in the Liebermann Studio, Walther König, Cologne 2018, unpag.) “Drawing is thereby coupled for her to a living process of seeing, experiencing and reflecting on experienced or imagined realities, which is reflected in thematically related groups of works. Thereby, at least indirectly, it is always also about the questioning and illustration of the ‘pictorial’ possibilities of drawing itself.” (Andreas Schalhorn, in: The More I Draw – Drawing as World Design, Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen, DuMont, Cologne 2010, p. […]
Jan Wawrzyniak | Das weiße Ballett | Galerie kajetan | 29.04.-01.07.2023


until 01.07. | #3891ARTatBerlin | Galerie kajetan Berlin shows on 29. April 2023 (Opening: 28.04.) the exhibition Das weiße Ballett by the artist Jan Wawrzyniak. “Is it necessary, then, to save the absence or the emptiness? Is it a matter of saving this nothingness at the heart of the image?” Jean Baudrillard (in: Why hasn’t everything already disappeared?) In his first solo exhibition at kajetan in 2019, the artist Jan Wawrzyniak presented almost oppressively emptied works under the title Forms of Aporia: They were predominantly large-format pictures, which in their impermeability to the viewer could hardly be called pictures and which remained largely indescribable. In his work, the image was just still an image, but no longer image enough to enable an experience of the image at all. Jan Wawrzyniak, Das weiße Ballett, Ausstellungsansicht / Exhibition view, Galerie kajetan 2023, Courtesy Jan Wawrzyniak & Galerie kajetan, Photo: Marcus Schneider Four years later, we are pleased to be able to show a second solo exhibition by the artist at kajetan, with which he emphatically confirms and sharpened this stance. Under the title Das weiße Ballett (The White Ballet), we present a series of unprocessed image carriers from 2022. In Jan Wawrzyniak’s […]
Christine Jackob-Marks | SOIL | Galerie feinart berlin | 27.04.-06.06.2023


until 06.06. | #3890ARTatBerlin | Galerie feinart berlin shows from 27. April 2023 the exhibition SOIL of the artist Christine Jackob-Marks. Under the title SOIL, the exhibition is dedicated to a multi-layered guiding genre of the painter Christine Jackob-Marks: the landscape in transition from the 1980s to today. Christine Jackob-Marks: O.T., Mixed media on canvas,, 130 x 120cm, 2000 © CJM The English word soil summarizes themes that characterize the entire creative path of Christine Jackob-Marks: the soil, the earth (world, planet), the ground (cause); to soil: to pollute, contaminate, sully. The exhibition focuses on one of the painter’s guiding genres, the landscape in transition from the 1980s to the current series of works. In particular, the assaulted, threatened landscape, where something is at stake, is representative of her exploration of the threats to the natural world that is our home and condition of life. In doing so, the artist demonstrates sensitivity to a special, contradictory beauty of nature, which unfolds incomparably fascinating, bizarre and imaginative color games not despite but precisely in processes of withering, withering and decay. After all, isn’t it in the abysmal and the ugly that the real igniting power for change and innovation lies, while […]
konkret-sinnlich | Group exhibition | Galerie SCHMALFUSS BERLIN | 29.04.-27.05.2023


until 27.05. | #3888ARTatBerlin | Galerie SCHMALFUSS BERLIN shows on 29. April 2023 the Group exhibition “konkret-sinnlich” by the artists Edgar Diehl, Christiane Grimm, Wolf Münninghoff, Otto Scherer, Robert Stend and Matthias Will. From 29 April to 27 May 2023, GALERIE SCHMALFUSS BERLIN presents for the first time in Berlin in a group exhibition the dazzling works of six artist personalities from southern Germany, which are full of countless haptic charms and unique in their way of making. EDGAR DIEHL, CHRISTIANE GRIMM, WOLF MÜNNINGHOFF, OTTO SCHERER, ROBERT STENG and MATTHIAS WILL are presenting their works in Berlin for the first time. Starting from the parameters of concrete art, the six artists set themselves the challenge of creating works of art that have neither symbolic nor real content. What drives them is curiosity, love and a willingness to experiment with material-specific properties and their combinations. They consciously integrate unpredictable external influences into their works as a creative principle. The results are works full of visual stimuli, haptic diversity and unfathomable magic. 6 artists, 6 highly individual creative processes and more than 6 x 6 materials. From acrylic glass and sheet aluminium to stainless steel, ceramics and cedar wood. Edgar Diehl, for […]
Jan Ros | Insight Out | Rasche Ripken | 28.04.-24.06.2023


until 24.06. | #3889ARTatBerlin | RASCHE RIPKEN presents on 28. April 2023 the exhibition „Insight Out “ of the artist Jan Ros. Jan Ros, Empty Kiosk, 2023, Oil on wood, 135 x 122 cm City, architecture, interior – these are the themes of the Dutch painter Jan Ros, who has been part of the gallery’s program for over ten years. Starting from photographic models, he transforms these motifs into a multifaceted painting, which is essentially oriented to space and object, but also produces abstract passages defined entirely by color. His repertoire includes above all urban landscapes as well as famous buildings of international modernism. That furthermore the interactions of inside and outside, of light and shadow also play an important role is shown by his window paintings, staircases, and interiors, which expand the viewer’s real space imaginatively by directing the gaze, for example, to an urban panorama. Jan Ros, Hansa Stairs, 2023, Oil on wood, 101 x 87 cm Opening: Friday, 28. April 2023, 6pm – 9pm. in the presence of the artist. Exhibition dates: Friday, 28. April bis Saturday, 24. Juni 2023 Opening hours during the GALLERY WEEKEND: Friday, 12:00 – 21:00 Uhr , Saturday and Sunday 11:00 – […]
Victoria Rosenman | I’LL GET THERE ON TIME | Hazegallery | 11.05-20.05.2023.


until 20.05.| #3887ARTatBerlin | HazeGallery shows from 11. May 2023 the exhibition I’LL GET THERE ON TIME of the artist Victoria Rosenman. The title “I will arrive there on time” suggests, not without irony, many possible (significant) destinations – Time plays an essential role for the artist. One of the works (Requiem-box I) reveals the fact that the artist herself does not know exactly where her arrival destination is / what it is, and yet dares to make a very self-righteous statement about her punctuality. To be punctual means to have time under control, which can be very valuable, but also carries an uncompromising character. The artist rejects one of the other longings of hers “to go along with time” by manifesting a contradictory statement (CA No. 3) “Time is not for saving”. Time is thereby devalued and VR sees it as an act of liberation from any determinant aspects in the creative process. At the same time, the artist allows the viewer to share in her memories, for the sake of her own dismantling, which opens up a better understanding of her personality. To be in the “now” is one of the artist’s longings. In order to be more […]
STRANGE HOLIDAYS | Gruppenausstellung | Hazegallery | 27.04-06.05.2023


until 06.05.| #3886ARTatBerlin | HazeGallery shows from 27. April 2023 the group exhibition STRANGE HOLIDAYS, curated by Irina Rusinovich. We’re all used to posting vacation photos on Instagram – bright, catchy and with a sunny smile. Most of us associate the word “vacation” with something pleasant and relaxing. But is that always the case? Modern culture and cliché thinking dictate strict rules for our presence on social media, and by following them, we create an illusory reality where there is only the appearance of vacation and widespread success. Being unsuccessful and unhappy is not accepted, is unpleasant for those around us, and destroys the myth of a happy life cultivated by consumer society. In “Strange Holidays” three artists – Irina Drozd, Ivan Plusch and Dmitry Shorin – offer the viewer their own interpretations of what a vacation can look like beyond glossy photos and hollowed-out images. All three authors have their own unique and recognizable artistic language, but what they have in common is a preference for combining hyperrealistic elements with surrealistic details, strange creatures and perspectives that would not be possible in real life. All the authors use bright colors, images, sharp and contrasting light and shadows in their […]
Lan Zhaoxing | Ein Ort, an dem ich noch nie war | Migrant Bird Space | 10.03-29.04.2023


until 29.04. | #3885ARTatBerlin | Migrant Bird Space shows from 10. March 2023 the Solo Exhibition “Ein Ort, an dem ich noch nie war” (<A place I have never been) of the artist Lan Zhaoxing. This series of works was created by Lan Zhaoxing in the summer of 2017-2019. The reason was that at that time, people in Moments posted many travel photos, all of which were places the artist had never been. These places are pictures of undulating planes, without people, quiet and strange, which will make people have a lot of associations and reveries about each place, so I chose some pictures from them, and there is no need to know and explore The names of their specific geographical locations, I only know that they have never been to and are far away. In addition, she also found a few places in the book that she likes but has never been. Lan Zhaoxing, who loves arranging lines, basically draws these works with point pens, gel pens and oil pastels, and the last four are oil paintings. Exhibition dates: Friday, 10. March 2023 until Saturday, 29. April 2023 Image Caption: Antonín Dvořák, 2016, Toner, colored pencils on paper, […]
Caroline Kryzecki | Kind of Blue | Sexauer Gallery | 21.04.-10.06.2023


until 10.06. | #3913ARTatBerlin | Sexauer Gallery shows from 21. April 2023 the Solo exhibition Kind of Blue of the artist Caroline Kryzecki. Caroline Kryzecki has become known in recent years for her ballpoint pen drawings consisting of thousands of lines drawn with a ruler. These drawings often have a textile feel because of the grids the lines create. Later on Kryzecki became intensively involved with weaving, which is based on a similar grid pattern. The interweaving of threads create dots of colour, which in turn produces an image. They remind us of pixels. And indeed, already at the beginning of the previous century, looms were controlled by punched cards, that means by digital data carriers. A few years ago, Kryzecki discovered old grid paper in a weaving mill. This so-called point paper was used by textile designers to design fabrics. For her works, in the exhibition Kind of Blue, Kryzecki screen-printed black grids on paper by hand. The fields of the grid are subdivided into smaller fields, some in 8 x 8 squares, others in 4 x 9 rectangles, which in turn form a square. In the grid, Kryzecki painted thousands of semicircular shapes on each sheet with gouache or […]
Donald Sultan | SCHWEBEND | Galerie aKonzept | 21.04.-31.07.2023


until 31.07. | #3884ARTatBerlin | Galerie aKonzept & Raphaël Levy shows from 21. April 2023 the exhibition “Schwebend – Waving” of the artist Donald Sultan. We are in 1986, the year that Halley’s comet passed. Margaret Thatcher and François Mitterrand announced the construction of the Channel Tunnel, while Arnold Schwarzenegger chose to marry Maria Shriver the same day as the disaster of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Gorbachev and Reagan meet in Reykjavík. The 1980s saw a return to figuration. Strengthened by the metamorphosis of the formal and conceptual language developed by abstract art, some artists go back to painting in a figurative way, while others, such as Donald Sultan, chose to develop an artistic position in-between, that opened up a space for questioning the history of art, the media and their techniques, the representations and the images produced by their time. He thus justifies his exploration of an emblematic genre of European Art History: “Here we are in 1986: I think doing still life is pretty funny and exhilarating! ” Excerpt from the text by Emmanuelle Rapin « The Pop Life of Lemon » From tomorrow 25.05 until 8 June inclusive, the multitasking artist Emmanuelle Rapin will be at […]
Kaloki Nyamai | Dining in Chaos | Galerie Barbara Thumm | 28.04.–24.06.2023


until 24.06. | #3883ARTatBerlin | Galerie Barbara Thumm shows on 28. April 2023 the exhibition Dining in Chaos by the artist Kaloki Nyamai. The paintings by Kaloki Nyamai are characterized by organic layers. While his figurative motifs are easily recognizable, each image is a unique marriage of storytelling and material. His compositions involve threaded layers; braiding, stitched rope, collage, and yarn. Overall, his use of unusual materials suffuses canvases with narrative and physical weight. His compositions, at times framed and others suspended or un-stretched, explore the historical tradition of painting. ‘Dining in Chaos’ presents an ensemble of five paintings. The quintet displays Nyamai’s ongoing vocabulary of mix-media and figurative portraiture. The diptych of ‘Twikale vaa gutavye kela kindo’ draws two lovers. In both paintings, a couple sits in the midst of protests and collective chanting. A third frame introduces a woman leaning on the ground. The title is ‘Mukomi’, the Kamba word for sleeper. Her repose, however, is ambiguous. The viewer does not know whether she is asleep or fallen on the streets. With skillful use of contrast, Nyamai provides enough detail to create distinguishable scenes while obfuscating particularity. His figures, more-so than individual portraits, are images of a society […]
Renaud Regnery | What Power Art Thou? | KLEMM’S Galerie | 28.04.-10.06.2023


bis 10.06. | #3882ARTatBerlin | KLEMM’S Galerie präsentiert ab 9th September 2016 the exhibition The Virtue of Balance by the artist Jan Groover. What Power Art Thou? is Renaud Regnery’s fifth solo exhibition at Klemm’s and is presented as part of Gallery Weekend Berlin 2023. For the first time in Regnery’s oeuvre, the large-scale and at times oversized paintings assembled in the exhibition dovetail almost classically oil-painted, pictorial elements with a painting ground that the artist himself commissioned and was then industrially produced. Regnery has sketch-like motifs, oversized details, pop references, and ‘image-material’ from tech-industry and advertising showing a beading effect collide with elements of a vernacular imagery: Witches, pigs and vampires populate the picture plane, rubbing shoulders, commenting and contrasting with their surroundings. Regnery shows us an amalgamated visual world—multifaceted, gestural and resolutely direct, bold, catchy and resistant all at once—that questions our understanding of the contemporary world, its pictorial representation and painting itself. Text by Laetitia Chauvin Opening: Friday, 28. April Exhibition period: Friday, 28. April – Saturday, 10. June 2023 Image caption: Renaud Regnery, Rock Basil, 2022. Courtesy of the artist and Klemm’s, Berlin Exhibition Renaud Regnery – KLEMM’S Galerie – Kunst in Berlin ART at Berlin
Ted Stamm | Series | Kewenig Berlin | 29.04.-08.07.2023


until 08.07. | #3881ARTatBerlin | Galerie Kewenig Berlin shows on 29. April 2023 (Opening: 28.04.) the exhibition Series by the artist Ted Stamm. Ted Stamm (1944–1984) is one of the most multifaceted representatives of the New York art scene of the 1970s and 1980s. The various series of works in his paintings, drawings, and photographically documented street art projects are interrelated in many ways. They are impressively presented in his first solo exhibition at KEWENIG, shedding light on his constant examination of the environment of his time and his tireless experimental approach.Ted Stamm (1944-1984) ist einer der vielseitigsten Vertreter der New Yorker Kunstszene der 1970er und 1980er Jahre. Die verschiedenen Werkserien seiner Gemälde, Zeichnungen und fotografisch dokumentierten Street-Art-Projekte sind in vielfältiger Weise miteinander verbunden. Sie werden in seiner ersten Einzelausstellung bei KEWENIG eindrucksvoll präsentiert und beleuchten seine ständige Auseinandersetzung mit dem Umfeld seiner Zeit und seinen unermüdlichen experimentellen Ansatz. Of outstanding importance in Stamm’s oeuvre is the ‘Wooster’ series; it was a continuation of earlier experiments with lines and forms. Inspired by the layout of a lot near his studio in SoHo, he developed a simple yet complex form in 1974: a square in conjunction with a triangle. Both basic […]
Astha Butail | On either Side of | Kewenig Berlin | 29.04.-08.07.2023


until 08.07. | #3880ARTatBerlin | Galerie Kewenig Berlin presents on 29. April 2023 the exhibition „On either Side of“ of the artist Astha Butail. For the first time, KEWENIG is dedicating a solo exhibition to the Indian artist Astha Butail (b. 1977) at Pied-à-terre. Her works are based on ideas that are shaped by the examination of traditions of sharing and passing on knowledge. It is about myths and philosophies of different cultures, about their history and transmission up to the present day. Butail’s research is the basis for artistic realisation in a remarkable range of different media: drawing, assemblage, object art and sculpture, performance and interactive installations. It is not unusual for Butail to conceive her works and projects in an interdisciplinary way. Her preferred formal visual language is geometry: it is used to understand how different composite elements of a unit relate to its whole. Wall installations often resemble a network of frames, “like doors and windows connected.” The metaphor of a house, referring to the levels of being enclosed, confined, but also open, forms a frequently recurring basic idea in Butail’s minimalist arrangements. One of the artist’s ongoing projects is Of Martand. Titled after the Sanskrit name […]
Thomas Müller | Zeichnungen | Galerie Friese | 29.04.-17.06.2023


until 17.06. | #3879ARTatBerlin | Galerie Friese shows on 29. April 2023 (Opening: 28.04.) the exhibition drawings by the artist Thomas Müller. As part of Gallery Weekend 2023, we are launching our second solo exhibition dedicated to the artist Thomas Müller (b. 1959). In his exhibition Zeichnungen (Drawings), Thomas Müller is presenting both large-format and A4-sized works. Drawing on paper, the artist uses not only pencil, chalk, ballpoint pen, and ink, but also acrylic, oil, and shellac. Lines and surfaces converge in complex non-objective compositions and color fields. All the exhibited works have been created in recent years. Müller has exhibited internationally. His works are held in prestigious collections, including at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, Städel Museum in Frankfurt, and Kunstpalast in Düsseldorf. The artist lives in Stuttgart. Müller’s pictorial worlds are complex, abstract aesthetic arrangements. Viewers experience the unfolding of a sensuous gaze in a very contemporary way; it’s a form of perception that stirs the senses. His compositions comprise crystalline, woven, wave-like, two-dimensional, taut and floating structures, and occasionally tender, ephemeral drawings. We often find underlying architectural references in form and color. He consistently elaborates on the tension between line and surface on the one hand, and structure and […]
Paloma Varga Weisz | Wilde Leute | Konrad Fischer Galerie | 28.04.-29.07.2023


until 29.07. | #3878ARTatBerlin | Konrad Fischer Galerie presents on 28. April 2023 the exhibition Wilde Leute of the artist Paloma Varga Weisz. The exhibition presents brand new sculptural works in bronze and wood, as well as a selection of watercolor drawings on paper. The Wild People are inspired by the medieval description of the “Wild People”, who were considered a symbol of the primitive state of man without social constraints and in harmony with nature in the Middle Ages. In the art of the 14th century, the “Wild People” were often depicted without hair on the face, hands and feet, while the rest of the body was covered with shaggy fur. Paloma Varga Weisz was born in 1966 in Mannheim, Germany. The artist lives and works in Düsseldorf. Her works have been shown in numerous exhibitions, including recent solo presentations at the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds (2020), Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht (2019), Castello di Rivoli, Turin, and Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg (both 2015). Paloma Varga Weisz’s works are in important museums and collections worldwide. Exhibition dates: Friday, 28. April – Saturday, 29. July 2023 Special opening for the Gallery Weekend Berlin: Friday, 28. April until Sunday, 30. April 2023 Image […]
Diamond Stingily | I’m Not Coming Back Here | Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi | 29.04.-01.07.2023


until 01.07. | #3877ARTatBerlin | Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi presents on 29. April 2023 the exhibition “I’m Not Coming Back Here” of the artist Diamond Stingily. Opening: Friday, 28. April 2023, 6 pm until 9 pm Exhibition dates: Saturday, 29. April – Sarurday, 01. July 2023 Image caption: Diamond Stingily, I’m Not Coming Back Here. Courtesy the artist and Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin Exhibition Diamond Stingily – Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Ausstellungen Berlin Galerien | ART at Berlin
Andreas Eriksson | year in, year out | neugerriemschneider | 29.04.-27.05.2023


until 27.05. | #3876ARTatBerlin | neugerriemschneider presents on 29. April 2023 (Opening on 28.04) the exhibition Year in, Year out of the artist Andreas Eriksson. Year in, Year out, Andreas Eriksson’s third solo exhibition with the gallery. This presentation stems from a year of reflective, focused near isolation and continued exploration of the artist’s own approaches—a unique initiative within his otherwise prolific practice. Retreating to his studio in rural Sweden, Eriksson freed himself from any self-imposed expectations, concrete endpoints or boundaries, allowing himself to further develop conceptual and practical approaches to artmaking in fluid, natural, unconstrained strides. The results of this 12-month process are on view here, including new paintings, silkscreen works and hand-woven textiles. Contrasting the thematic nature of his previous exhibitions at the gallery – the first of which featured works woven from a diverse archive of linens, followed by a suite of aerial, nighttime impressions in paint—the grouping currently on view takes process as its locus. In direct reference to the presentation’s title, itself an evocation of progress as a function of time’s continuous passage, Eriksson centers the value of time itself, which manifests here in varying in scales and media as acute, impassioned attention to detail, […]
Jorge Pardo | neugerriemschneider | 29.04.-19.08.2023


until 19.08. | #3875ARTatBerlin | neugerriemschneider presents on 29. April 2023 (Opening on 28.04) the exhibition of the artist Jorge Pardo. Neugerriemschneider presents Jorge Pardo’s 11th solo exhibition with the gallery, which sees the artist take as his point of departure iron window-covering bars found around Mérida, Mexico, where he lives and works. These constructions, in forms both abstract and physical, manifest here as monumental assemblages, intricate, vibrant paintings and brass-encased glass light sculptures. Building upon and departing from the window view as an art-historical trope, Pardo’s works are crucial developments within his practice-spanning exploration of the criteria by which a space is defined, and how it may be bridged to coexist with others. Originally intended as purely protective architectural elements, window grilles gradually morphed to suit and complement their contexts, taking on the sensibilities, and eventually becoming integral parts of local vernaculars. With dynamic ambiguity, their significance shifting in accordance with physical perspective, they stand as intermediaries between public and private, outdoor and indoor, and are exemplary of built environments’ capacity to adapt to life around them. This notion – practical concerns becoming aesthetic, conceptual and social ones – is closely tied to Pardo’s artistic approach, a key anchoring […]
Anne Duk Hee Jordan | Worlds Away | alexander levy | 29.04.-24.06.2023


until 24.06. | #3874ARTatBerlin | alexander levy shows on 29. April 2023 the exhibition Worlds Away by artist Anne Duk Hee Jordan. Exhibition dates: Saturday, 29. April – Saturday, 24. June 2023 Bildunterschrift Titelbild: Anne Duk Hee Jordan, Worlds Away, 2023, copyright Anne Duk Hee Jordan, courtesy of the artist. Exhibition Anne Duk Hee Jordan – Galerie alexander levy | Contemporary Art – Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin – Ausstellungen Berlin Galerien – ART at Berlin
Katharina Grosse | Spectrum without Traces | Galerie Max Hetzler | 17.03.-30.04.2023.


until 30.04. | #3873ARTatBerlin | Galerie Max Hetzler shows from 17. March 2023 the exhibition Spectrum without Traces of the artist Katharina Grosse. Galerie Max Hetzler is pleased to present Spectrum without Traces, a solo exhibition by Katharina Grosse showing a completely new body of work on canvas from the past year. In conjunction with the exhibition at Potsdamer Straße, the Window Gallery at Goethestraße 2/3 will display Grosse’s Untitled, 2023. This is the artist’s first presentation at the gallery. One of the most important painters of today, Katharina Grosse is internationally recognised for her bold, haptic paintings and saturated use of colour. Since the late 1990s, Grosse has employed a spraying technique to attack, redefine and subvert traditional notions of painting. Her kaleidoscopic vision spills into the physical world, sweeping across walls, floors, ceilings, everyday objects and sculptural structures. Through this radical inclusion of space as a field of action, the artist achieves a paradoxical clash of the expansion of colour with our material existence. Tracing the artist’s thought process or gaze, colour takes on a lifeforce of its own. Parallel to her in-situ works, the artist continues to pursue her studio paintings, of which the new body of work is […]
Malcom Morley | Sensations | Capitain Petzel | 28.04.-10.06.2023


until 10.06. | #3872ARTatBerlin | Capitain Petzel shows on 28. April 2023 the exhibition Sensations by the artist Malcom Morley. Opening: Friday, 28. April 2023, 6:00 pm Exhibition dates: Friday, 28. April – Saturday, 10. June 2023 Bildunterschrift: Malcolm Morley, Lifeguard, 1988, Courtesy of the Estate of Malcolm Morley, Foto: Jens Ziehe Exhibition Malcom Morley – Capitain Petzel – Kunst in Berlin ART at Berlin
Raphaela Simon | Nighthawks | Galerie Max Hetzler | 27.04.-10.06.2023.


until 10.06. | #3871ARTatBerlin | Galerie Max Hetzler shows on 27. April 2023 die Ausstellung Nighthawks of the artist Raphaela Simon. Location: Goethestraße 2/3, 10623 Berlin Opening : Donnerstag, 27. April 2023, 18:00 – 21:00 Uhr Exhibition dates: Freitag, 28. April – Samstag, 10. Juni 2023 Image capiton: Raphaela Simon, Vic, 2023. Oil on canvas, 190 x 170 cm.; 74 3/4 x 66 7/8 in. © Raphaela Simon, courtesy of the artist and Galerie Max Hetzler Berlin | Paris | London. Photo: def image Exhibition Raphaela Simon – Galerie Max Hetzler | Contemporary Art – Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin – Ausstellungen Berlin Galerien – ART at Berlin
Jason Martin | Buchmann Galerie | 28.04.-24.06.2023


bis 24.06. | #3869ARTatBerlin | Buchmann Galerie shows on 28. April 2023 the exhibition of the artist Jason Martin. Buchmann Galerie is pleased to announce an exhibition of new paintings by British painter Jason Martin on the occasion of the Gallery Weekend Berlin 2023. The new oil paintings are characterised by a heavy impasto that gives some of the works an almost sculptural expression. From a monochrome chromaticity of anthracite and black to a multicoloured palette of strong colours of yellow, blue and red, the paintings vibrate the whole space of the gallery with their emotional presence. Jason Martin’s work can be situated between minimalism and abstract expressionism. In various groups of works, Jason Martin uses every conceivable method to apply paint to address the fundamental question of painterly spatiality and the rhetoric of paint application. Painting for Jason Martin is also a performative act that leaves room for chance to create works that are lush, attractive, and full of power. Many of his works straddle the fine line between painting and sculpture, which the artist has repeatedly explored and differentiated in recent years in various groups of works. Jason Martin’s works constitute a consciously controlled aesthetic and a conceptual […]
In Defense of Symbolic Value | Gruppenausstellung | Galerie Max Hetzler | 27.04.-10.06.2023.


until 10.06. | #3870ARTatBerlin | Galerie Max Hetzler presents on 27. April 2023 the Group exhibition In Defense of Symbolic Value curated by Isabelle Graw of the artists Merlin Carpenter, Jutta Koether, Valentina Liernur, Kerry James Marshall, Albert Oehlen, Adam Pendleton, Avery Singer, SoiL Thornton and Rosemarie Trockel. Soundtrack by Jens–Uwe Beyer. In recent years, the art market has once again undergone a structural change. While, on the one hand, its actors have partly migrated into the digital realm, some mega-galleries, on the other hand, have opened their branches in analogue luxury resorts such as Aspen, Monaco or Menorca, where their wealthy clients may keep to themselves. I have coined the term ‘resortisation’ for these developments, which significantly influence the conditions of artistic production and reception.‘Resortisation’ means saying goodbye to the Habermasian 1 ideal of a critical public sphere, which is traditionally responsible for evaluating art.In contrast, the analogue luxury resort opens its gates 2 only to the economic elite who can afford the journey and the stay. Theoretically, everyone with an internet connection could participate in the events via social media. However, even there—on Instagram, for example—one remains in a resort-like bubble in which, according to Vera King, digital […]
Andrej Dúbravský | Anxiety of Subimago | DITTRICH & SCHLECHTRIEM | 28.04.–01.06.2023


until 01.06.| #3868ARTatBerlin | DITTRICH & SCHLECHTRIEM presents on 28. April 2023 the exhibition “Anxiety of Subimago” of the artist Andrej Dúbravský. Titled Anxiety of Subimago, the exhibition opens on the occasion of Gallery Weekend Berlin, Friday, April 28, 2023 and is on view through July 1, 2023. The exhibition is open for previews beginning on Wednesday, April 26, and continuing through Friday, April 28, from 11 AM to 6 PM. Dúbravský presents an empathetic yet critical study of the environment and its progressing devastation. The Anxiety of Subimago points to an unresolved tension between humankind and nature, resulting in frustrating restlessness akin to an adolescent subimago state—a winged preadult life stage of the delicate-looking mayfly. Over a layered wall, an installation of molted studio canvases, Dúbravský presents a series of new large-format acrylic paintings on canvas with sweaty renderings of huddled running bodies paired with deserted landscapes and small-format portraits of pollinating bees and insects in varying states of metamorphosis. “At his most painterly, his outlines bleed into body, and the borders between expression and accident blur. Some of his compositions teeter right on the precipice of falling apart, held together ‘just so’ by only the most lightly worn technique, and an […]
Alexandra Bircken | Musterung | BQ Berlin | 29.04.-01.07.2023


until 01.07. | #3867ARTatBerlin | BQ Berlin shows on 29. April 2023 (Opening: 28.04.) the exhibition Musterung by the artist Alexandra Bircken. Alexandra Bircken’s Musterung returns to the artist’s recurrent fixations, with insides and outsides, surfaces and volumes, bodies and machines. Her works enact transformations that are less clear-cut dichotomy than moments of transition or smudging overlap. Her imagination creates a mobius loop that links humans to their supportive machinery as entities that can never be neatly separated. Anthropomorphic and mechanical associations bear equal weight in these human-object cross pollinations. Each of Bircken’s works begins as an enquiry and aims to enact the smallest possible gesture to make an object’s flipside apparent. Surgical procedures such as amputations, transplants, biopsies and dermabrasions are applied to inanimate things. Motorcycle gas tanks, sanded down and flipped on their axes, are repurposed as armored torsos, both container and protective shield. Each work is, in a sense, a prototype, or Muster: a one-off proposal designed for an ambiguous purpose. A Muster or Musterung can also be a pattern, however, such as those appearing in the knitted wall-hangings displayed here. Their relentless chains of tanks, guns and missiles are signs of omnipresent preoccupations, as war fills […]
Cy Twombly | Forms and Shades | Galerie Bastian | 29.04.-17.06.2023


until 17.06. | #3866ARTatBerlin | Galerie Bastian presents on 29. April 2023 the exhibition Forms and Shades of the artist Cy Twombly. Ever since his first retrospective in 1979 at the Whitney Museum in New York and the subsequent exhibitions at the MoMA and in Berlin in 1994, the Venice Biennales, the museum solo shows in Zurich, London, St. Petersburg, and Paris, Cy Twombly’s works are considered to belong to the outstanding works of the second half of the twentieth century. Cy Twombly’s photographic oeuvre began already when he was a student at Black Mountain College; it was publicly exhibited for the first time in 1993. In recent years, it has found its way to a larger public: exhibitions in London, New York, and Los Angeles, Rome, and Munich, as well as several comprehensive publications, have familiarized us with these remarkable photographs. Landscapes and seascapes, studio scenes, still lifes, flowers and blossoms; testimony of moments when the conflict between nature and culture seems suspended, moments that transform a subject’s inconspicuous material physiognomy into a lyrical image. Twombly’s subject, the fragment, seems weightless. The artist enlarged his pictures of blurriness, taken with an instant camera, and printed them in an extraordinary dry print process on matte paper. Twombly’s still photographs […]
Robert Pan | Clinamen | Bermel von Luxburg Gallery | 27.04.-24.06.2023


until 01.10. | #3865ARTatBerlin | Bermel von Luxburg Gallery presents from 27. April 2023 the exhibition Clinanem by the artist Robert Pan. Bermel von Luxburg Gallery is honored to announce the second solo show entitled CLINAMEN of the Italian artist ROBERT PAN in Berlin. Robert Pan has an important place in the history and creation of Bermel von Luxburg Gallery as he was the first artist to be exhibited at the grand opening and at the beginnings of the gallery in 2018. For this occasion, Bermel von Luxburg Gallery will release its first hard cover catalogue in order to pay tribute to an established international artist, Robert Pan, and present the publication to the art world during the GALLERY WEEKEND BERLIN. This exhibition will also be the celebration of the 5th anniversary of Bermel von Luxburg Gallery. Opening: Thursday 27. April 2023, from 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm Exhibition dates: Thursday, 27. April 2023 until Saturday, 24. June 2023 Caption: courtesy of Bermel von Luxburg Gallery – Robert Pan Exhibition Clinamen – Bermel von Luxburg Gallery | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Ausstellungen Berlin Galerien | ART at Berlin
Clemen Parrocchetti | Handmade Militancy | ChertLüdde | 28.04.-26.08.2023


bis 26.08. | #3864ARTatBerlin | ChertLüdde presents from 28. April 2023 the exhibition Handmade Militancy by artist Clemen Parrocchetti. Handmade Militancy presents largely unknown works by Clemen Parrocchetti (1923-2016, Milan), created during the hottest years of Italian feminism in the 1970s. Parrocchetti found her visual grammar in the materials of domestic labour – needles, bobbins, lace, cooking utensils, medicines, textiles – which were transformed into subversive tools of denunciation and protest. Parrocchetti’s work speaks to women’s struggles for equal pay, divorce laws and the right to abortion, issues that remain at the heart of political debate after almost half a century. Handmade Militancy, the first exhibition of Parrocchetti’s work outside Italy since her death, includes tapestries, assemblages, sewn drawings, a video and archival material collected by the artist during her militant years. Parrocchetti was educated at Milan’s Brera Academy of Art while she was already the mother of five children. From the early 1970s, Parrocchetti expressed her burgeoning feminist voice in works she called “objects of feminine culture”, which she exhibited in alternative art spaces in Milan. In 1978, she joined the feminist Gruppo Immagine in Varese, which pioneered the combination of art and feminist militancy, and participated with them […]
Lucia Koch | Light Falls | carlier gebauer | 28.04.- 24.06.2023


until 24.06. | #3863ARTatBerlin | carlier gebauer presents on 28. April 2023 the exhibition Light Falls of the artist Lucia Koch. Lucia Koch’s immersive sculptural, photographic, and installative works shift and reimagine the spaces they inhabit by proposing new relations of scale, occupation, and materiality. Her practice has developed through a careful attention to the physical and social aspects of urban life and architecture, beginning with her early site-responsive interventions with the collective project Arte Construtora in the 1990s and extending to more recent installations that transform public spaces and exhibition venues through the use of large-scale images, translucent materials, perforated surfaces, fabrics, and color-correction filters. Light is one of the central materials in Lucia Koch’s practice, which she often modulates through interventions on ceilings, windows, and other architectural openings. Koch describes that when she installs a filter, or any surface with some degree of transparency, more than separating inside from outside, it operates as a communication device connecting two spaces and people standing next to it. For her first exhibition with carlier | gebauer, Koch has created articulated pieces that replicate the shape of the gallery’s windows into falling sculptures that unfold from the ceiling. She will also exhibit […]
Ernst Weil | Drawings + Graphics | Galerie Kremers | 22.04.-27.05.2023


until 27.05. | #3862ARTatBerlin | Galerie Kremers presents from 22 April 2023 an exhibition with drawings and graphics by the artist Ernst Weil. Ernst Weil, who is currently being honored by the large retrospective exhibition “Spontaneous and Constructive” in the Museum Giersch in his hometown of Frankfurt, not only created expressive oil paintings, but also beautiful drawings throughout all of his creative periods, some as studies for his paintings. The Museum exhibition is well worth seeing (see article in the German newspaper FAZ). Ernst Weil, o.T., 1952, Wachskreide auf Papier, 61 x 43 cm Galerie Kremers showing a fine selection of his idiosyncratic, humorous and poetic still lives from his early Munich period in the 1950s as well as the energetic figurative boxer drawings of his Paris period in the late fifties and early sixties. The artist also creates his typical form and imagery in his graphic works, where Ernst Weil once more shows his skills as a keen experimente on expression and compositional finesse. Opening: Saturday 22. April 2023 ,12 am – 6 pm Exhibition dates: Saturday 22. April until Saturday, 27. May 2023 Image caption : Ernst Weil, o.T., 1952, Wachskreide auf Papier, 62 x 53 […]
Britta Lumer | Der Moment | Galerie Georg Nothelfer – Showroom | 22.04.-10.06.2023


until 10.06. | #3861ARTatBerlin | Showroom of the galerie georg nothelfer shows from 22. April 2022 the exhibition Der Moment by the artist Britta Lumer. Galerie Georg Nothelfer is pleased to present the first solo exhibition of artist Britta Lumer in the showroom at Grolmanstraße 28. Over the past decades, Britta Lumer has developed a consistent body of work, most of which takes place on paper and yet cannot easily be understood as a drawing. For here nothing representational is grasped or met and captured or preserved in artistic representation. Instead, her works on paper – not infrequently monumental views of bodies, portraits, architecture and cityscapes – which play with the figurative, seem to drive their subjects to the edge of dissolution, of liquefaction. (Text extract: Daniel Marzona) In the exhibition “This Moment”, Britta Lumer shows current works on paper and turns to a new theme: the sculptural portrait. A booklet entitled “This Moment” with a text by Kristian Vistrup Madsen is published on the occasion of the exhibition. Opening: Saturday, 22 April, 4:00 pm – 8:00 pm Exhibition dates: Saturday, 22. April – Saturday, 10. June 2022 Special opening hours during Gallery Weekend: Friday, 28 April – Sunday, 30 […]
Thomas Ravens | City upon two hills | Laura Mars Gallery | 22.04.-27.05.2023


until 27.05.| #3860ARTatBerlin | Laura Mars Gallery shows on 22. April 2023 (Opening: 21.04.) the exhibition City upon two hills of the artist Thomas Ravens. Thomas Ravens, known for his complex symbolic landscapes on paper, will show some works on canvas, including the monumental painting “City upon two hills.” This was already shown in 2020 in the exhibition “Features” at the Museum Nikolaikirche, where due to the COVID lockdown it was, however, only rarely actually on view. The painting constitutes a brilliant design dealing with urbanism in contemporary Berlin. Ostensibly dystopian, it refers to Berlin’s eternal dual character: East and West, monarchy and society, city and state, etc. In a cityscape of the near future, two embankments can be seen. On each, a light box, a source of “utopian inflow.” One is dedicated to the (once again destroyed) Humboldt Building, a resurrected symbol of absolutism, the other to a laid-down facade of the demolished Palace of the Republic, which in a general sense stands for corporate concepts. Between the boxes grow point-blocks and volume studies dreamed up by the real estate industry. The Haus des Lehrers disappears in canyons, and “the city as a sociotope falls by the wayside.” (Christiane […]
Jorinde Voigt | Trade Area | Klosterfelde Edition | 28.04.-29.06.2023


until 29.06. | #3859ARTatBerlin | Klosterfelde Edition presents from 28. April 2023 the exhibition Trade Area of the artist Jorinde Voigt. “Trade Area” will center around a collection of original studies by Jorinde Voigt, dating from 2005-2010. These drawings, primarily created with ink and pencil on graph paper, will be showcased as a cohesive body of work for the very first time. They form the conceptual foundation of the artist’s practice. The exhibition will also feature a selection of Jorinde Voigt’s more recent work, providing a unique opportunity to witness the evolution of the artist’s oeuvre. Drawing possesses a fleeting quality. A liminal and unfixed space, it is always on the verge of becoming. While classical definitions of drawing align more with the notion of study or preparation, the philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy conceives of drawing as an end in itself, a perceptual attitude, describing it as the “opening of form.” Nancy understands opening in the sense of a beginning, departure, or origin and also as “an availability or inherent capacity.” This notion of opening, or departure, seems fitting for Jorinde Voigt’s exhibition Trade Area, which assembles approximately sixty works made between 2009 and 2020 that trace the development of her diagrammatic […]
Lydia Pettit | In Your Anger, I See Fear | Galerie Judin | 29.04.-08.06.2023


until 08.06. | #3858ARTatBerlin | Galerie Judin presents on 29. April 2023 the exhibition “In Your Anger, I See Fear” of the artist Lydia Pettit. Opening: Friday, 28. April 2023 – 6 pm until 9 pm Exhibition dates: Saturday, 29. April 2023 – Thursday, 08. June 2023 Image caption: Lydia Pettit, courtesy of Galerie Judin Exhibition Lydia Pettit – Galerie Judin | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Ausstellungen Berlin Galerien | ART at Berlin
Björn Dahlem | Something Secret about the Universe (I always wanted to tell you) | Galerie Guido W. Baudach | 29.04.-24.06.2023


until 24.06. | #3857ARTatBerlin | Galerie Guido W. Baudach presents on 29. April 2023 the exhibition “Something secret about the Universe (I always wanted to tell you)” of the artist Björn Dahlem. On the occasion of Gallery Weekend Berlin 2023, Galerie Guido W. Baudach is pleased to present its eighth solo exhibition with Björn Dahlem. Under the title Something Secret about the Universe (I always wanted to tell you), the artist, who lives in Potsdam, is showing a spatial installation in situ in which various new sculptures are embedded. Björn Dahlem in his work explores the connection between an aesthetic universe and scientific images of the world since the late 1990s. His installations, sculptures and objects are mostly made of emphatically simple materials that he transforms into precisely composed and visibly handmade forms incorporating selected objets trouvés. The structural complexity of his work is derived from the intricacy of the cosmological models and astrophysical theories from which he gleans his motifs. Dahlem uses subtle humor to link the scientific knowledge with the aesthetics of everyday life while questioning the suggestive power of the scientific construct of the world, whose fundamental relativity he allows to find its material equivalent in the fragility […]
Katzengold | Gruppenausstellung | Galerie Sievi | 22.04.-17.06.2023


until 17.06. | #3856ARTatBerlin | Galerie Sievi presents on 22. April 2023 the group exhibition Katzengold with works of the artists Süheyla Asçi, Nathalie Deshairs, Birgit Fechner, Norman Gebauer, Jeanne Fredac, Darko Lesjak, Cécile Luherne, Maria Maier, Olivier Messas, Franck Moëglen, Sabine Puschmann, Stefan Wehmeier and Berit-Kristina Weiss. The exhibition brings together 13 artists, from France, Germany, Slovenia and Vietnam, all friends of Sievi Gallery. This wild mix from abstract to figurative, from bold colors to monochrome, from oil to mixed media, from painting to sculpture, invites you to celebrate the diversity of life and the return of spring. Opening: Saturday, 22. April 2023 from 7 pm Exhibition Dates: Saturday, 22. April – Friday, 17. June 2023 Image caption: Jeanne Fredac Exhibition Katzengold – Galerie Sievi | Contemporary Art Berlin – Ausstellungen Berlin Galerien | ART at Berlin
Elsa Rouy and Emil Urbanek | Duo-Ausstellung | EIGEN + ART Lab | 20.04.- 03.06.2023


until 03.06. | #3855ARTatBerlin | EIGEN + ART Lab presents on 20. April 2023 the duo exhibition of the artist Elsa Rouy and Emil Urbanek. Elsa Rouy, courtesy of Brynley Odu Davies and Guts Gallery With Elsa Rouy and Emil Urbanek, EIGEN + ART Lab brings together two young and already strong positions for a joint exhibition. Both Rouy’s and Urbanek’s paintings deliberately evoke contradictory, curious and palpable emotions, albeit in different ways. There is no doubt that the new era of figurative painting is upon us—it is alive and open as never before. Elsa Rouy’s paintings suck the viewer in, plunging them into places dark and sensual, where bold figures bare their and our burden with bravery on the threshold of the ugly and the beautiful, exposing political and art-historical prejudices. Emil Urbanek’s subtle but undeniable boldness has an ephemerality and weight to it: The figures and forms fill the canvases, even the surrounding space is alive with shapes and shadows, and they demand time and attention in a way that only painting can do in the right hands. Extract from the exhibition text by Seda Mimaroğlu Opening: Thursday, 20. April 2023, 5 pm – 9 pm […]
Donald Vaccino | From NYC with Love – Part VIII | Galerie Friedmann-Hahn | 29.04.2023-03.06.2023


until 03.06. | #3854ARTatBerlin | Galerie Friedmann-Hahn presents on 29. April 2023 the exhibition From NYC with Love – Part VIII of New York artist Donald Vaccino. Die GALERIE FRIEDMANN-HAHN zeigt in der Ausstellung From NYC with Love – Part VIII neue Arbeiten des New Yorker Künstlers Donald Vaccino. Er nimmt uns auch in seinen neuen Arbeiten mit in lichtdurchflutete Interieure, wo die Dinge des Alltags zu Protagonisten werden, oder lässt uns durch die lebendige Farbigkeit seiner floralen Stillleben wandern. Mit leichtem und lässigem malerischen Gestus überträgt er seinen wachen Blick, mit dem er die Umwelt wahrnimmt, in Ölfarbe auf die Leinwand. Donald Vaccino, Oval Mirror – dots, 75 x 60 cm, Oil on canvas, 2022 There, the light of the evening casts a filigree play of shadows on the wall or makes the folds of a shirt thrown away glow – rarely can we experience the world around us in such colorful clarity! Donald Vaccino, Pink Shirt, 110 x 96 cm, Oil on canvas, 2022 About the artist: Donald Vaccino lives and works in New York, USA. He was born in New York City in 1951 and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Fine Art from Boston University and a master’s degree from Long Island University. The artist […]