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until 07.03. | #4912ARTatBerlin | Galerie EIGEN + ART Berlin shows from Thursday, 15. January 2026 the exhibition Lemmata by the artist Maja Behrmann.
In her artistic practice, which spans painting, installation, object art, and textile art, Maja Behrmann forms schemata and formal structures into expansive ensembles. Color-intensive wooden sculptures, fluid knitted works, and collaged tableaux enter into a dynamic interplay between object, space, and viewer.
The repertoire of formal fragments and elaborate characters is fed by a bureaucratic-seeming practice of collecting and organizing drawn outlines of exhibits from a wide variety of disciplines—including crafts, geology, architecture, design, and everyday objects—and is constantly expanding. Relationships between forms, transitions, and overlaps, as well as material-related conditions, continually generate new constellations and inventions. Each change of perspective opens up further overlaps and cutouts, relates elements to one another, and forges new connections.
Sharpening tools, grinding. Changing the blade. Changing position. Changing my position. Threading, stringing together. Not new; transformed. Balancing, regrouping. (Against) the desire to categorize. Rotating to orient oneself in the gap in explanation. A set piece is movable and can be transferred, i.e., integrated from an existing context into a new one. Mobility, reuse, correction. Fill cavities with other material to create a stable base.
Oxford Languages says: “In lexicography and linguistics, the lemma is the basic form of a word, i.e., the word form under which a term is found in a reference work.” Similarly: “Auxiliary proposition. A generally smaller, proven statement used to prove a larger statement. […]
Maja Behrmann
Opening: Thursday, 15. January 2026, 5–8 pm
Exhibition dates: Thursday, 15. January until Saturday, 7. March 2026
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Title image: Maja Behrmann, Ohne Titel (Bifra), 2023. Holz, Lack, Metall. 181 x 130 x 38 cm (© der Künstler / Courtesy Galerie EIGEN + ART Berlin)
Exhibition Maja Behrmann – Galerie EIGEN + ART | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin
