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until 02.08. | #4686ARTatBerlin | Galerie Barbara Wien shows from the 3rd. May 2025 (Opening: 02.05.) the exhibition “Art and science are the same thing” by the artist Jimmie Durham.
This year, Galerie Barbara Wien is presenting a solo exhibition in honour of the artist and writer Jimmie Durham (1940-2021) on the subject of art and scientific thinking. In dmss The title of the exhibition is a quote from Durham: ‘Art and science are one and the same.’ We are showing major works from the 1980s to 2010s such as The Aharonov-Bohm Effect (1989), Heisenberg’s Principle (1989), Various Shapes and Materials (2009) and the wall installation Electric (1995), as well as drawings.
The idea for this exhibition, which Jimmie Durham conceived together with Barbara Wien during his lifetime, came about while working on Durham’s poetry collection Particle/Word Theory, which was published in 2020 by Wiens Verlag, Berlin, and Edition Hansjörg Mayer, London. In this book, Durham quotes studies and articles from scientific publications such as nature, he writes about brain research and new findings in pain therapy. Questions and discoveries from biology, geology, archaeology and quantum mechanics serve as important points of reference, which Durham develops artistically in his works. For Durham, scientific thinking was never separate from his work as an artist. In a conversation with Dirk Snauwaert, Durham said: ‘I don’t want art to be separated from other parts of life, and I don’t want science to be separated from other parts of life either.’
Opening: Friday, 02. May 2025, 6 – 9 pm.
Exhibition dates: Saturday, 03. May 2025 until Saturday, 02. August 2025
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Title image caption: Jimmie Durham, Various Shapes and Materials, 2009, courtesy Galerie Barbara Wien.
Exhibition Jimmie Durham – Galerie Barbara Wien | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Ausstellungen Berlin Galerien | ART at Berlin
