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until 05.09. | #4724ARTatBerlin | Crone Berlin shows from the 28th. June 2025 the exhibition The Principle of Chance by the artist Józef Jarema.
On view is a series of abstract works on paper created between the 1940s and 1960s which underline Jarema´s important role in the post war avantgarde scene.
Józef Jarema was a visionary, multinational figure—an artist, painter, playwright, actor, and cultural networker whose life and work transcended borders. Born in 1900 in Stary Sambor (then part of Austrian Galicia, now Ukraine) and passing away in 1974 in Munich, Jarema left behind a body of work that resonates with personal intensity and international scope.
Focusing on his postwar years in Rome, the exhibition The Principle of Chance explores Jarema’s intuitive, gestural approach to painting—a response to both the horrors of war and the desire to reconstruct meaning through artistic freedom. Deeply influenced by his friendship with Jean Arp and the Dadaist notion of “intentional coincidence,” his work embodies a poetic balance between control and chaos, between organic form and abstract composition.
Jarema was not only a prolific artist but also a cultural prime mover. As co-founder of the influential Art Club in Rome, he was a driving force in building a transnational network of avant-garde artists after the Second World War. His canvases—often intimate in scale yet expansive in vision—reflect a lifelong commitment to artistic freedom, experimentation, and collaboration.
“The Principle of Chance” invites visitors to rediscover an artist whose legacy is highly topical in times of cultural, political and national isolationist fantasies.
Opening: Friday, 27. June 2025, 7 – 9 pm.
Exhibition dates: Saturday, 28. June until Friday, 05. September 2025
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Title image caption: Józef Jarema, Courtesy of Crone Berlin
Exhibition Józef Jarema – Crone Berlin | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Ausstellungen Berlin Galerien | ART at Berlin
