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For Gallery Weekend 2024, the Contemporary Show Room CSR.ART presents from 25 April 2024 the solo exhibition RESTRISIKO with figurative paintings by the up-and-coming Leipzig painter Gustav Sonntag. The exhibition presents a haunting collection of works that deal with themes such as obsession, addiction, violence, resignation and homelessness. Gustav Sonntag shows himself to be an artist who does not look away, but looks closely with a remarkable emotional closeness and captures the dark sides of the human condition on canvas. RESTRISIKO is organised by CSR.ART, Berlin, in collaboration with Galerie Holger John, Dresden. The exhibition opens with a vernissage on 25 April at 7 pm at CSR.ART, followed by an after-show party (registration link below) at DEEDS.SALON from 10.30 pm in the basement of Galeries Lafayette.
Gustav Sonntag was born Felix Gustav Maximilian Steuer in Berlin in 1994. His artistic journey is rooted in a deep passion for art that originated in his family. With a potter for a mother and a painter for a father, as a child Gustav Sonntag walks through his studio on the third floor of the legendary “Tacheles” art gallery in Oranienburger Straße, a vacant department stores’ in Berlin-Mitte occupied at the time by artists from various disciplines, to prevent its demolition. As …
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Image above: Portrait Gustav Sonntag, Photo: Kai Späthe
