SUNDAY OPEN – EXHIBITIONS

until 20.06. | #2724ARTatBerlin | Galerie Kornfeld shows from 1st May 2020 the exhibition  Licht/Blicke with new works by the Berlin Plein Air Painter Christopher Lehmpfuhl. “As a freelance and passionate plein-air painter, I currently paint a lot in my studio or at home. This is the result of the extraordinary situation that we all diversely experience in the time of corona… What always came naturally to me is suddenly no longer possible due to the limited freedom of movement. But the temporary retreat also brings with it a state of contemplation, the quality of which I much appreciate.” Christopher Lehmpfuhl Even in times like these, artists do what they always do: they pursue their calling, and they work. The quote from Christopher Lehmpfuhl, which we have prefaced our press release with, illustrates that this is also no different for a plein-air artist. Social distancing and the imposition to only leave the house in exceptional cases fuels creativity and represents a new challenge, which the artist is more than willing to face. Not only the artist, but also the gallerist does what he always does: he follows his calling, and he works. And it is also true for the gallerist […]

until 02.08. | #2730ARTatBerlin | König Galerie (Nave) presents from 16th May 2020 the exhibition SHORT STORY with works by Elmgreen & Dragset. For their first solo exhibition at KÖNIG GALERIE in Berlin, opening May 16th, Elmgreen & Dragset will present three new figurative sculptures within an immersive setting that transforms the visual appearance of the upper gallery, the NAVE, at St. Agnes. Short Story sets the stage for a match between two boys. When entering the gallery space visitors will encounter an almost full-size tennis court, slightly raised off the ground. A net in the middle divides the two players and creates a sort of horizontal diptych. The white lines painted onto the orange-brown ground surface not only indicate the set rules of the sport, but also visually remind us of the grid principles of Modernism and the road markings that regulate our behavioural patterns within public space. The white-painted figurative bronze sculptures of the boys are placed diagonally at opposing ends of the playing field, small and isolated on the large plane. The boys’ bodies and gazes are turned away from each other, the dialogue and play between them have come to an end. Rather than joy, a […]

until 03.07. | #2740ARTatBerlin | EFREMIDIS GALLERY presents the exhibition Reverie from 22 May 2020. At the same time Efremidis announces that Tenzing Barshee has joined the team as program director. With Reverie, his first exhibition for Efremidis, he revisits to the exhibition Revelry, which he curated in 2014 at Kunsthalle Bern. Participating artistis: Mathis Altmann, Ketuta Alexi-Meskhishvili, Juliette Blightman, Vittorio Brodmann, Ann Cotten, Monster Chetwynd, Robert Escalera, David Hominal, Luzie Meyer, Josip Novosel Puppies Puppies (Jade Kuriko Olivo), Pippin Wigglesworth & Jannis Paetzold In the year 1974 American artist Anne Truitt (b.1921) set herself the task of writing every morning when she woke up. There was no time limit to how long she would write, just for as long as she wanted or could around her responsibilities. She started writing as a year-long project because she felt there was little integration between herself and herself as an artist. In the journal, she is referring to the self that is responsible for the domestic chores of maintaining a household, being a mother, and herself as an artist. She goes on to say that as her sculptures began to gain recognition, she felt it was harder to see herself: “It slowly […]

until 11.07.| #2745ARTatBerlin | Galerie Thomas Schulte currently shows the exhibition Listen to a Heart Beat with works by Dieter Appelt, Angela de la Cruz, Paula Doepfner, Rebecca Horn, Alfredo Jaar, Maria Loboda, Michael Müller, Yoko Ono and Francesca Woodman. While the artists use different approaches and mediums, the works on display all share an atmosphere of reclusion, fragility, disorientation, timelessness and a search for sanity—sentiments we are all experiencing at the moment. Thus, the works complement Allan McCollum’s installation Everything is Going to be OK, with its theme of consolation, which is simultaneously on view in the gallery’s Corner Space. Rebecca Horn, The Lover’s Bed, 1990 2-Part Work, Iron Bed Frame, Butterfly Wings, Metal Constructions, Motors, Photo Bed: 116 x 191 x 121 cm | 45 2/3 x 75 1/4 x 47 2/3 in Photo, framed: 53.5 x 63.7 x 3 cm | 21 x 25 x 1 1/4 in Exhibition period: Saturday, 23rd May – Saturday, 11th July 2020 [maxbutton id=”8″]   Exhibition Listen to a heart beat – Galerie Thomas Schulte | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin

until 01.08. | #2750ARTatBerlin | PSM Gallery presents from 9th June 2020 the exhibition FREE WILL by the artist Eduardo Basualdo. PSM is pleased to announce the exhibition Free Will, the third show devoted to the Argentinian artist Eduardo Basualdo in its Gallery space. The exhibition’s title takes its inspiration from the kinetic installation Voluntad (Span.: ‘will’), which was displayed in 2019 in Les Abattoirs, Musée – Frac Occitanie Toulouse (France) and can now be seen and experienced for the first time in Germany. PSM has further commissioned an installation from the year 2013 to be re-produced for the Gallery’s window space; and, in addition, a small selection of Basualdo’s existing works has been made to interrelate with the two major works on show. The title Free Will also pays due tribute to the fact that both Gallery and artist are staging an exhibition although, owing to the restrictions imposed by the coronavirus crisis, the habitual requirements for a solo exhibition – the presentation of new, exhibition-specific works and the presence of the artist in person – cannot be met. In these especial circumstances, it is a matter of pressing concern to take human will or free will as the […]

until 25.07. | #2758ARTatBerlin | Esther Schipper is showing the exhibition PS81E from June 16, 2020, replacing her presence at the cancelled Art Basel. The gallery also draws attention to Festival!, a project by Esther Schipper and Mehdi Chouakri that begins on June 12, 2020. PS81E shows works by Stefan Bertalan, Martin Boyce, Matti Braun, AA Bronson and Reima Hirvonen, Angela Bulloch, Nathan Carter, Etienne Chambaud, Jean-Pascal Flavien, Ceal Floyer, Simon Fujiwara, Ryan Gander, General Idea, Francesco Gennari, Liam Gillick, Andrew Grassie, Ann Veronica Janssens, Gabriel Kuri, Jac Leirner, Ari Benjamin Meyers, Roman Ondak, Philippe Parreno, Ugo Rondinone, Christopher Roth, Anri Sala, Karin Sander, Julia Scher, Daniel Steegmann Mangrané and Tao Hui. Gallery Esther Schipper shares her thoughts on the current situation and this exhibiton with us: “In a normal year we would be at Art Basel right now. We curated an extraordinary booth for this year’s fair, selecting major works and producing many new ones. Crated and shipped from around the world, the booth installed in three full days, our team would be ready to greet you. As doors would open and visitors rush in, time would become elastic: a million short encounters compressed into these hours. Instead we […]

until 17.07. | #2759ARTatBerlin | Philipp Haverkampf Galerie presents from 12th June 2020 the exhibition GRUSSFORMELN PRIVATER KORRESPONDENZ by the artist Anna Grath. Anna Grath Soft Opening: Friday, 12th June 2020, 12:00 – 7:00 pm Exhibition period: Friday, 12th Juni – Friday, 17th July 2020 [maxbutton id=”276″ ]   Image caption: Courtesy of Philipp Haverkampf Galerie – Anna Grath Exhibition Anna Grath – Philipp Haverkampf Galerie | Contemporary Art – Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin – ART at Berlin

extended until 15.09. | #2763ARTatBerlin | drj art projects shows from 21st June 2020 the exhibition ÜBERTRAG with works by the artists Denise Winter and Hartmut Böhm. “Dear friends, dear audience! How do you announce an exhibition today that was planned for a different time? Not only regarding the date, but also the state of the world and its character? An exhibition that is now in a completely different situation than the one it was conceived for? It opens seven weeks later than planned. Its title is ÜBERTRAG [Transfer]. And still, this refers to the artistic works, their contents, methods, techniques and effects. To the basic artistic concepts as well as to the resulting works themselves. In the exhibition they are positioned in relation to each other, and major differences between them are apparent. On the other hand, it also becomes clear that they are very close to each other. In particular, they are representatives of the time in which they were created. The title ÜBERTRAG is thus directly related to the generations of the two artists Hartmut Böhm and Denise Winter. The exhibited works reveal how their authors relate to the issues of their time and the world around them: The […]

until 29.08.| #2792ARTatBerlin | Galerie Thomas Schulte presents from 24th July 2020 the solo show  “Unit” by the artist Jonas Weichsel and one artwork by the artist Fred Sandback in the corner space of the gallery. This summer, Galerie Thomas Schulte is very pleased to present German painter Jonas Weichsel’s first solo exhibition at the gallery, alongside a minimalist yarn sculpture by US-American artist Fred Sandback in the Corner Space. Jonas Weichsel, study, 2020 Jonas Weichsel presents in his exhibition Unit new works elaborating on his distinctive painting technique; including meticulously composed gradient paintings. Through the interplay of mechanical precision and the emotive ability of color, the works oscillate between definitude and haziness, material presence and dissolution. Here, Weichsel continues his ongoing pursuit—extending the possibilities of an autonomous painterly language, in dialogue with the media and aesthetics of the digital age. Fred Sandback, Untitled, (Sculptural Study, Broken Triangle, Lannan Foundation, Santa Fe), 1999/2014, black and orange acrylic yarn, dimensions variable From the late 1960s, Fred Sandback created an expansive oeuvre of linear sculptures, employing minimal means to achieve spatial effects that combine artwork, space, and the viewer’s perception. This work, using the form of a “broken” triangle and configured for […]

until 20.09. | #2808ARTatBerlin | König Galerie (Chapel) presents from 15th August 2020 the exhibition CATS AND GHOSTS with works by the artist and filmmaker Sarah Morris and by the filmmaker and writer Alexander Kluge When artist Sarah Morris met the legendary film director Alexander Kluge a few years ago, the circumstances were unusual. She was looking for a striking, Wizard-of-Oz-type male voice to record her screenplay. Curator Hans Ulrich Obrist introduced her to Alexander Kluge, and over the years that followed, their first project developed into a productive collaboration bridging New York, Munich and Berlin. For their latest collaboration at KÖNIG GALERIE, Kluge penned a series of short stories for Morris — The Mermaid, Cats in Space and Grief Work for Kittens — which she took to her studio in New York and recorded. She then produced three films based on them, which are now showing in Berlin. They are projected onto her work The Conversation, which Morris created specially for the joint show. A further work takes the two back to the beginning of their first encounter: the famous Sound Graphs series, which is now on show in Berlin. Here, Morris used the recordings she had originally invited […]

until 24.10. | #2815ARTatBerlin | Galerie Max Hetzler shows a comprehensive exhibition of the artist Bridget Riley from September 5, 2020. Gallery Max Hetzler is pleased to draw your attention to their comprehensive solo exhibition with works by the internationally renowned artist Bridget Riley in all three Berlin locations. This is the seventh solo exhibition of the artist with the gallery. Since the beginning of her career, Bridget Riley has constantly expanded the concept of abstraction and its possibilities for the painterly process. Aware of how individual and collective experiences influence the way we view the world, the artist creates works that liberate color and form from their illustrative potential and enable what the artist calls “pure seeing”. Riley conceives her paintings by condensing and combining specific forms. Vertical and horizontal stripes, circles, triangles and rhombuses, curved lines seem to move rhythmically across the canvas. The artist’s profound engagement with movement, light and color results in a complex oeuvre, which is based on a long-standing fascination with the physical process of perception. The exhibition at Galerie Max Hetzler Berlin includes new paintings and wall works from recent series as well as significant works from the past years that trace Riley’s […]

until 14.11. | #2856ARTatBerlin | drj art projects shows from September 27, 2020, the exhibition “Schraffuren” with works of the artist Anette Haas. The third show of the year 2020 at drj art projects is a solo exhibition of programme artist Anette Haas [b. 1961 in Salzgitter, Germany]. In her work Anette Haas has been concentrating on essential questions of image and space for a long time. Materiality and technique, which constitute a work of art, interest her just as much as time and perception, both of which determine the creation and vision of art. In this respect, she is intensively engaged with their basic phenomena, such as line and space, colour and its nuances, the relationship between figure and ground or geometry and proportion. Anette Haas‘ artistic approach oscillates between elementary poles such as contrast and consistency, densification and openness, boundary and field, and also explicitly their transitions. The investigations and developments derived from this can be seen in her various groups of works such as paintings, drawings and prints. Anette Haas, Linien I, Graphite on plaster, 29 x 25 x 2 cm, 2020 In the current exhibition, in specific juxtapositions, it is displayed how Anette Haas reflects on […]

until 14.11. | #2858ARTatBerlin | Bermel von Luxburg Gallery shows from 11th September 2020 the group show EQUILIBRIUM. The title comes from Latin and means “balance”. It is about the balance of three painters and three sculptors who are shown in dialogue: Works by Christo Daskaltsis, Philipp Haager, Masaya Hashimoto, Kosuke Kato, Nadège Mouyssinat and Robert Pan will be presented. Robert Pan, Gold Christo Daskaltsis, 0916-02, 2016, 80 x 120 cm, Oil on Aluminium It is also about a balance in unknown and unequal times. A balance in the post Covid-19 era, when the world was plunged into uncertain and unbalanced times. With this exhibition the gallery wants to set a sign of hope, stability and faith. Masaya Hashimoto, Narcissus tazetta var. chinensis, 33 x 17 x 7 cm, deer antler, 2019, Copyright Haruhi Okuyama, 2020 Kosuke Kato, Legato V Philipp Haager, Z2_Nahfeld Phase #15 4zu3 Asian Nebula, 2016, 170 x 260 cm, Indian ink, linen montiert In the cabinet, under the title SELECTIONS, selected works by Thomas Canto, Uli Fischer, Benjamin Herndon, Lev Khesin and Olaf Schirm are on display. Preview Days: Wednesday 9 September + Thursday 10 September 2020 from noon to 8 pm Vernissage: Friday, 11 September […]

until 18.12. | #2888ARTatBerlin | König Galerie (Nave) is showing the solo show At 30 Paces She Could Split A Playing Card with new works by the artist Katharina Grosse from 30 October 2020. It is the third solo show of the artist in the gallery. On show are large-format works on canvas and plywood, which were created in Berlin and New Zealand. Katharina Grosse’s painting maintains a position outside the categories of representation and abstraction: it operates in reality and on reality. To this end, it employs a directed haze of tiny droplets of paint so as to leave traces of paint and colour even over a distance and to move with ease across the borders of things. Grosse has stated that painting can precipitate everywhere and anywhere (in the real world) – on any surface and any object that sprayed paint can reach. Thus, places on which painting can be seen function as surfaces for deposits of colour that can also show up elsewhere: every work realized is a fragment. As fragments, the individual paintings establish a connection with yet more expansive painting that would potentially dissolve all the conventional subdivisions of the real world. This painting cannot […]

until 09.01. | #2897ARTatBerlin | Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi shows from 31st October 2020 the exhibition PUBLIC AFFAIRS by the artists Hannah Quinlan and Rosie Hastings. Vernissage: Saturday, 31st October 2020, noon to 8:00 pm Exhibiiton period: Saturday, 31st October 2020 – Saturday, 9th January 2021, by appointment for two persons at the same time, the gallery asks for an arrangement.     Image caption: Still, The Paradine Case, Alfred Hitchcock, 1947 Exhibition Hannah Quinlan + Rosie Hastings – Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin

until 27.11. | #2901ARTatBerlin | Esther Schipper shows from 1st November 2020 the exhibition Still Frame with new paintings by the artist Andrew Grassie. It is the first solo show of the artist with the gallery.  Entitled Still Frame the exhibition includes 24 new paintings. Both title and number of paintings obliquely acknowledge the conceptual affinity to cinematic story-telling that informs the new body of work. (24 frames per second is the standard ratio in film to create the illusion of seamless movement in human vision.) Known for small, precisely painted works—their ostensibly unassuming matter-of-factness sometimes masking the often elaborately staged preparation of past projects and their conceptual ambition—with Still Frame Andrew Grassie continues longstanding interests into the status of the image, the nature of memory and contemporary painting. Beginning as an experiment, Grassie chose motifs that had held his attention for reasons he could not always explain: snapshots associated with personal memories, tied to a specific place, a moment in time. Photos from his image archive, many decades old and exuding a vague awkwardness, became sources for these works. Thus, for instance, one painting depicts a bright meadow, but from the ground up: the head of an enormous daffodil […]

until 23.12.| #2916ARTatBerlin | Galerie Thomas Schulte shows from 14th November 2020 an exhibition with recent paintings by the artist Albrecht Schnider. Albrecht Schnider’s sixth solo exhibition with Galerie Thomas Schulte presents large-scale sprayed acrylic lacquer paintings alongside a selection of new works on raw canvas—contrasting textured and smooth surfaces and materializing shifts in the figure-ground relationship. In the interplay between images, what comes to the fore is the scope of constructive possibilities in Schnider’s work, emerging in parallel to the constancy of his distinctive visual language. Through processes of both intuition and analysis, Schnider constructs constellations of color fields that materialize images in a state of continual becoming. Forms and planes hover before our eyes, before the surface of the canvas, occupying a space entirely their own. Albrecht Schnider, Untitled 2020 Despite the clearly articulated edges of planes and the purposefulness of lines, to say Schnider produces his paintings with precision may be a strong understatement—if not entirely reductive. As the artist himself explains: “It’s not about realizing a thought or realizing a precise form you carry within yourself… It’s really just about being open-minded, being willing to say ‘yes’ when a form emerges.”[1] Schnider’s creative process typically begins with […]

until 30.01. | #2924ARTatBerlin | EFREMIDIS GALLERY presents from 28th November 2020 the exhibition ! with works by the artist Marte Eknæs. At [erp], the project space of the gallery, works by Gerry Bibby, Marte Eknæs and Emanuel Rossetti will be on show. The exhibition ! centers around a series of bollards alongside maintenance tools, insulation materials and inflatables. Erected throughout the city, the uniform short posts act as a stoppage: to limit traffic or obstruct passage. Marte Eknæs’ motley ensemble of bollards draws attention to their individual make-ups. Marte Eknæs manipulates her materials to different degrees. Over time, she assembles different elements as much as she takes them apart. In the process, the material picks up information, the works become adaptable and take on many roles: activator, connector, occupant, vessel, communicator, body and material. The installation is in itself a system; the system is more than a collection of objects. Like a pulled tooth, a displaced element refers to its place of origin and utility; there is a strong whiff of its intended purpose. The object’s past life is evident in marks and traces. But while it retains its original meaning, it lacks the context to realize its function. Marte Eknæs […]

until 16.01. | #2932ARTatBerlin | Esther Schipper shows from 6th December 2020 the exhibition false ruins and lost innocence with works by the artist Isa Melsheimer. It is the third solo show of the artist with the gallery. The exhibition entitled false ruins and lost innocence comprises three large-format ceramics, textile works and a series of gouaches. Isa Melsheimer is well known for her exploration of the history of architectural styles, her works reflect both her intensive research and form-based investigations. The artist, whose work is concerned with modernist, post-modern and brutalist aesthetics, has increasingly introduced organic elements into buildings in recent years – influenced by her reading of post-human theoretical debates as well as by her examination of metabolic architecture, a movement that has its origins in 1960s Japan. Isa Melsheimer’s works carry her far-reaching associations with ease: personal, literary, historical, philosophical, architectural references are dissolved in an intense materiality. Three large-format ceramics draw on existing buildings: the artist gives these groundbreaking structures an “inner” life that refers to theoretical debates in architectural discourse. For example, one of Le Corbusier’s works, “Villa Shobhan” (Ahmedabad, 1951-56), juxtaposes a horse’s head from the gable of the Greek Parthenon, ca. 438 BC, […]

until 28.02. | #2946ARTatBerlin | König Galerie (Nave) presents from 12th January 2021 the Solo Show I HOPE with new works by the artist Chiharu Shiota. It is the first solo show of the artist at the gallery. On display is a large-scale installation in the gallery’s Nave. Her spectacular installation in the Giardini at the 56th Venice Biennale has left an indelible mark in our memories as one of the most impressive works at the event. Filling the entire Japan Pavilion, The Key In The Hand was instrumental in the international breakthrough of the Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota, who has been based in Berlin for the last 20 years. On entering the space, there was immediately a strong sense that this was about something quintessential – all too quintessential, in fact – that concerned all of humanity, without exception. Overhead was a handwoven sky of bright red yarn from which hung 180,000 metal keys from all corners of the Earth, floating like stars of life almost close enough to touch. Beneath them, resting on beams like bodies, were two old wooden boats, which, proclaiming the absence of people, had forever fallen out of time. Rising out of the boats, […]

until April | #2965ARTatBerlin | Galerie Max Hetzler presents since 20 February 2021 a solo show with paintings by Jeff Elrod at Galerie Bleibtreustraße 15/16. This is the artist’s fourth solo presentation with Galerie Max Hetzler. The exhibition can be viewed through the large window front or by appointment. Since the late 1990s, Elrod has been creating abstract paintings that combine analogue and digital technologies and are based on the artist’s original drawings, photographs and scanned studio material by the artist. Elrod uses various techniques to reproduce graphic and painterly grid images on canvas. This is usually done by hand and using mechanical and electronic printing technologies. Industrially influenced methods such as screen printing, inkjet printing, the use of airbrush, spray paint and of stencils are central to the artist’s work. In this new group of works, Elrod uses an inkjet printer to create manipulated images on canvas. This creates complex layers of distorted abstract forms that reflect their own digital origins. In places, the pictorial elements seem to fade, giving the richly inked works ghostly features. Based on digital drawings, the artist creates a place where the individual planes and lines seem to float diffusely on the surface of […]

until 03.04. | #2986ARTatBerlin | EFREMIDIS GALLERY currently presents the group show From Almora to Amrum with artworks by 16 artists and in parallel the artist Mitchell Anderson at the [erp]. From Almora to Amrum shows works by Mitchell Anderson, Kamilla Bischof, Martin Disler, Hannah-Sophie Dunkelberg, Michaela Eichwald, Heike-Karin Föll, Nuria Fuster, Nikolas Gambaroff, Nico Ihlein, Shirley Jaffe, Tony Just, Arthur Laidlaw, Sophie Reinhold, Aura Rosenberg, Alexander Wolff and HP Zimmer. From Almora to Amrum is a trip that never happened: it is an invisible and impossible line between two paintings, Almora (1943) by Alice Rahon, that depicts the Himalayan city, and Amrum (1970), HP Zimmer’s aerial view of the island in the North Sea, as seen from a lighthouse. Rahon traveled to India in 1937, where she took inspiration from depictions of the Devi. Though her work often centers around femininity, she dodged easy categorization—when asked which school of art she belonged to, she replied, “I think I am a cave painter.” In the opening lines of one of her poems: “I file the bars of my invisible prison / I sigh like horses sigh,” she expresses her frustration with confinement. As is the case with much of Rahon’s […]

until 26.06.| #3019ARTatBerlin | Galerie Thomas Schulte presents from 28th April 2021 on the occasion of this year’s Gallery Weekend a solo show with works by the artist Rebecca Horn. Alongside current works, two of the artist’s best-known kinetic installations from the 1990s will be shown, Bee’s Planetary Map (1998) and Der Turm der Namenlosen (1994). Thomas Schulte’s first exhibition ever opened the gallery in April 1991 with Rebecca Horn’s installation Chor der Heuschrecken in Berlin-Charlottenburg. On the occasion of the gallery’s 30th anniversary and many joint projects later, the gallery continues its collaboration with one of the most important living German artists. In 1991, Rebecca Horn had created her work Chor der Heuschrecken I, II for Galerie Thomas Schulte. This was the first sculptural choreography that connected two rooms, later two places, in a landscape-like manner and became form-determining for her work. Insects with their love passions between life and death, their spatial sensations and their seismographic perception also became leitmotifs of her work from then on. Bees, with their art of transforming substances and building habitats, belong to this theme. Bee’s Planetary Map (1998) belongs to the group of works of site-specific but not site-bound spatial compositions. Just […]

until 23.06. | #3032ARTatBerlin | Galerie Kewenig Berlin presents from 28 April 2021, on the occasion of the Gallery Weekend, the solo exhibition Danach with the best-known works of the artist Christian Boltanski. Parallel to this, the solo exhibition “I (still) love the smell of oil colour in the morning” by the artist Cabrita will be shown in the gallery’s Warehouse. Christian Boltanski | KEWENIG Berlin After Christian Boltanski inaugurated the then newly occupied premises of the KEWENIG Gallery on Museum Island in 2013, “Afterwards” is the French artist’s second exhibition at this location. Boltanski has so far been associated with Berlin primarily through his commemorative plaques “The Missing House” (1990) in Große Hamburger Straße and his installation “Archive of German Members of Parliament” (1999) in the Reichstag building. With an exhibition conceived as a Gesamtkunstwerk, Boltanski now occupies the entire gallery building. Part of the staging are examples of his most famous groups of works, in which the core themes of his artistic work – the transience of the individual and remembering – are present. Boltanski’s iconic installation COEUR (2005) is the centrepiece of the exhibition: throbbing bass tones penetrate all rooms of the house via loudspeakers. The recording […]

until 12.08. | #3058ARTatBerlin | drj art projects presents from 19th May 2021 the group show UPSPACE with works in editions and series by 20 international artists. The exhibition UPSPACE sends a strong signal of the vitality and power of conceptual + minimal art in persistently difficult times. Works by 20 international artists show a broad spectrum of new and established approaches in the programme of edition ROTE INSEL. Accordingly, the artworks assembled in this presentation are all either editions or series of uniques of a specific artistic concept. They range from prints and paintings, to a multitude of works on and with paper, to three-dimensional light objects or sculptural works in ceramics or wire. Ausstellungsansicht UPSPACE drj art projects, Foto: via drj art projects Both as an exhibition composition as well as individual works, they emphatically underline the power of the small format, in which artistic ideas develop a very large presence in condensed form. At the same time, the selected works – corresponding to the approach of an edition exhibition – are attractively priced. All these aspects have been chosen very consciously by drj art projects and formulate important intentions of the exhibition: it invites both the return of the […]

until 22.08. | #3079ARTatBerlin | Esther Schipper presents from 3rd July 2021 the solo exhibition Inexistence by the artist Etienne Chambaud. It is the first exhibition of the artist with the gallery. The works included in the exhibition are a scent and a sound installation, a sculptural work generating a pattern of temperatures, three light installations, glass works, bronze sculptures and modified panel paintings. The first work encountered by the visitor is Multiplex, a scent installation invoking familiar spaces but also acting as a subtle disruption. It uses the chemical compounds present both in animal markings and in human environments to create a molecular link between tiger habitat and movie theatre. The work draws on the notion of involuntary memory: the often unconscious association of a place or an experience with a scent. The only light source in the exhibition space is provided by the three works from Chambaud’s series Models for Afar. Between a video screen, a lightbox and a lamp suspended from the ceiling, each work from the series emanates softly modulated light formations as it is programmed to simulate the atmospheric and meteorological light conditions of the sky at a specific time and place. Bathed in a […]

until 04.09. | #3103ARTatBerlin | Galerie Thomas Schulte currently shows the solo exhibition Listen to me, little pig! by the artist Maria Loboda. Maria Loboda’s exhibition Listen to me, little pig! at Galerie Thomas Schulte is dedicated to the failures, double interpretations and misinterpretations in the communication between humans and nature. With characteristic wit and irony, the artist transforms the space: a series of prints of pastoral landscape paintings bear hand-embossed titles of unexpected ambient soundtracks. The prints form the panoramic backdrop for Loboda’s fragmented garden landscape. Between fruit trees growing out of brutalist sculptures and candle-shaped overgrown metal trellises, the artist plants manipulated quotations from literature, music and art history, among which visitors mingle to be seduced. In the gallery’s Cornerspace, artist Lawrence Weiner’s exhibition Dried Earth & Scattered Ashes Or Dried Earth & Buried Gold Or will be presented at the same time. The gallery is delighted that Lawrence Weiner has accepted the invitation to show a work in the gallery’s Corner Space this summer. Weiner defines his work as sculpture. Sculpture consists of language and the material to which it refers. Here, language is the primary form in which the work exists. When the installation of the […]

until 11.12. | #3154ARTatBerlin | Galerie Max Hetzler presents from 2nd September 2021 at the Galerie Bleibtreustraße 15/16 the fourth solo exhibition by the artist Raphaela Simon with the gallery. On display will be four new works of the artist. In these new works, the evolution of Simon’s visual language over the past few years is made evident. Where the early paintings showed abstract representations developing out of simple, often geometric forms, the recent works take a more figurative approach—pointing not towards realism, but to the essence of her subjects. Concise titles provided in German, the artist’s mother tongue, invite personal associations while conveying the humorous undertones in Simon’s work. Where the titles in earlier works had a rather symbolic character, they now appear to have a more descriptive role. On view for the first time, the works presented include depictions of jewellery, a whip of cream and a mysterious Blauer Käfig (Blue Cage), 2020. The contrast between the glamorous and the ordinary, desire and unease, opens up an exciting perspective and demonstrates how Simon’s fascination with elements of everyday life does not aim for realism. Instead, the artist creates novel painterly translations of chosen motifs through an intensive examination of composition, […]

until 23.10. | #3147ARTatBerlin | Esther Schipper shows from 11th September 2021 the solo exhibition “International Architecture” by the artist Liu Ye. It is the artist’s first exhibition with the gallery. Esther Schipper is pleased to present Liu Ye’s Internationale Architektur, the artist’s first exhibition with the gallery. On view will be twelve recent paintings, created between 2017 and 2021. Among the motifs on which the exhibited works draw are the 1925 Bauhaus building complex by architect Walter Gropius in the German town Dessau, the Rietveld-Schroeder House designed in 1924 by the Netherlandish architect Gerrit Rietveld in Utrecht, and a 1968 equestrian estate built by the Mexican modernist architect Louis Barragán. Two works from 2021 depict figures wearing the iconic costumes the German artist Oskar Schlemmer designed for his experimental Triadic Ballet in the early 1920s, while another work, Prelude, also pictures a stage-like space, this one screened almost entirely by a red curtain from behind which a figure is looking out. Also on view are works from Liu Ye’s series of book paintings, depicting pages from the 1942 edition of Karl Blossfeldt’s Wunder in der Natur and the cover of the first publication from the so-called Bauhaus Bücher, Internationale […]

until 06.11. | #3164ARTatBerlin | Galerie Max Hetzler presents from 14th September 2021 the solo exhibition “After Ruby Ridge” with new works by the artist Matthew Barney in the Galerie Bleibtreustraße 15/16. The exhibition presents over 20 new drawings and 2 sculptures and is part of a series of projects that relate to Barney’s 2018 feature-length film Redoubt. All of the works draw on the visual language of the film, which is set in the remote Sawtooth Mountains of Idaho and explores such wide-ranging themes as cosmology, American frontier myths and the role of artistic production. The exhibition is named after Ruby Ridge, the site of a deadly confrontation between a separatist’s family and American Federal Police, an incident that caused a stir in North Idaho in the 1990s. The title transforms Barney’s statement that Redoubt is a portrait of a place, in all its complexity, its beauty and its ugliness. Barney works in clear series developed over several years, creating works that combine sculptural installations with performance, video, sculpture, printmaking and drawing. Drawing plays a major role in his oeuvre, with the medium functioning both preparatory, in the form of sketches in the planning phase of a film or […]

until 23.10. | #3186ARTatBerlin| Daniel Marzona currently shows the exhibition TRACES London – Berlin with works by the artist Axel Hütte. In the third solo exhibition by Axel Hütte (born 1951), two formally clearly distinct groups of works are juxtaposed. In the front room of the gallery we show a series of medium-format architectural photographs taken in London between 1982 and 1984, which reveal a supposed closeness to the work of Bernd and Hilla Becher, with whom Hütte studied at the Düsseldorf Academy. The photographs are all in black and white and are mostly taken in strict frontality. At second glance, however, the seemingly sober and objective approach proves to be ambiguous. The view into the street line of the Peabody Estate, for example, leaves both the façades to the right and left and the situation in the depths a little unclear. Similarly, the view between two buildings to a third one behind: The eye jumps from the foreground to the background and sideways again to a corner of a house that is only just cut. James Hammett House, London, 1982-84, s/w Print, 67 x 80 cm, Courtesy the artist and Daniel Marzona, Berlin In Great Suffolk Road, spatial orientation […]

until 24.10. | #3211ARTatBerlin | König Galerie (Nave) currently shows the solo exhibition UNEARTHED by the artist Daniel Arsham. This is the artist’s first solo exhibition in Berlin. With UNEARTHED, KÖNIG GALERIE presents Daniel Arsham‘s first solo exhibition in Berlin. The show combines two separate but interrelated bodies of work, that aim to create a scenario in which objects from ancient past, are contextualized in the future. Arsham transforms the nave of the former brutalist church of St. Agnes into a hall of antiquities surrounded by three painted landscapes of rocky grottos. Being the largest paintings that the artist has made to date, they were inspired by the enormity and unusual scale of St. Agnes. Arranged on pedestals, an array of hydrostone busts appear within the nave, as if the first collection of antiquities had just been opened to the public. In the past, reproductions were often used in such presentations. Arsham’s reinterpretations of works from classical antiquity are recasts in various geological materials, such as volcanic ash and quartz crystal. Busts of Apollo, Augustus Cesar, and Venus are all familiar figures from antiquity, which the artist has reimagined: broken, dilapidated, eroded. At the center of the exhibition stands the […]

THE VERBORGENE MUSEUM is a guest at the Berlinische Galerie and presents the first retrospective of the sculptor Louise Stomps (1900-1988). With around 90 sculptures, the exhibition provides an insight into the life’s work of this extraordinary artist. Her bronze figures “Pilger”, “Einsamer” and “Gilgamesh”, which are over three metres high and were donated to the Berlinische Galerie by Louise Stomps’ heirs, can also be seen in the staircase hall for the first time. Louise Stomps hat ein imposantes Werk hinterlassen, das nach ihrem Tod jedoch nur selten ausgestellt wurde. Menschliches Leid und die schutzlose Kreatur sind für die Berliner Bildhauerin ein Leben lang Inspiration. Sie stehen im Mittelpunkt ihres bildnerischen Schaffens, das zwischen den ausklingenden 1920er und den späten 1980er Jahren entstand. „BE OPEN TO THE NEW AND TAKE MODERN ART IN ITS INDESCRIBABLE FRESHNESS AND DETACHMENT AS A COMPASS FOR A NEW TIME.“ Louise Stomps Read the article further on DEEDS.NEWS.   Image caption: Photo: Anonymous, Louise Stomps and „Die Scheue“, Berlin 1946 © Louise Stomps Estate.  

until 29.01. | #3231ARTatBerlin | Galerie Max Hetzler shows from 4th November 2021 in the Window Gallery of Goethestraße 2/3 a group exhibition with works by the artists Albert Oehlen, Adam Pendleton, Pope.L and Amy Sillman. This group exhibition is accompanied by a solo exhibition by Adam Pendleton at Galerie Max Hetzler, Paris, which explores the repetitive processes of writing and gesture in the artist’s drawings. Oehlen, Pendleton, Pope.L, Sillman aims to highlight their specificities and divergences through a selection of paintings and drawings by four artists. These are works with a particular connection to the challenges of the painterly gesture and the dynamics of repetition. All the works shown here are not primarily about gestural expression, but about an area where the artistic signature is carried away by a process, a performance, a technology or some other advancement that transcends it. Albert Oehlen’s software presets and computer/painting mimesis; Adam Pendleton’s doubled brushwork, sprayed language and typographic fragments; Pope.L’s scaled, non-representational bastards on erasers; Amy Sillman’s grid of nonfgurative animation components: all are works in flux, in a state of constant making and reworking. While all present themselves in some sense as paintings or drawings, they simultaneously refer to the […]

until 05.02. | #3261ARTatBerlin | Galerie Thomas Schulte presents from 17th November 2021 the exhibition Noise Sphere by the artist Franka Hörnschemeyer in the Corner Space of the gallery and from 27th November the gallery exhibition Oblivion by the artist Iris Schomaker. Franka Hörnschemeyer has accepted the invitation to present her work at the gallery Thomas Schulte for the second time. This autumn’s exhibition divides the space into two spheres: on the ground of the Corner Space, the artist has erected one of her spatial sculptures made of rusty-red lattice walls. Her work Transponder 1121 hovers above the sculpture, suspended from the gallery’s nine-meter-high ceiling. The wooden sculpture Rho stands in the adjacent Window Space. Together, the three independent works form a triad, resonating and corresponding with each other, and altering the atmosphere of the space. Franka Hörnschemeyer, Transponder 121, installation at the Philara Foundation © 2021, VG Bild-Kunst, Photo: Kai Werner Schmidt  In the new exhibition Oblivion by Iris Schomaker at Galerie Thomas Schulte, the artist presents her most recent series of works on paper. Her unframed large-scale works depict landscapes, figures, and animals. The motifs serve to reproduce a specific atmosphere, for which Schomaker has developed her very […]

until 15.01. | #3269ARTatBerlin| Daniel Marzona currently shows an exhibition of sculptures and collages by the artist Bernd Lohaus. Lohaus’ third solo exhibition at the gallery brings together a two-part wooden sculpture, placed on the floor, a wall-related sculpture, as well as several collages and works on paper made between 1969 and the mid-80s. Historically anchored in Fluxus and Minimal Art, Lohaus’ sculptural works are somehow vulnerable. By embracing the wood’s found personality, without directly referencing it, his sculptures are charged with meaning through minimal intervention. Inscribed prepositions, names or fragments of sentences, sometimes adorn the ashen colored pieces’ extremely heavy presence giving hints about possible relationships and placing the works in a different realm. Although weighty and static, Lohaus’ arrangement of sculptural elements implies the potential for movement: wooden beams lean against a wall, or are placed in a way that proposes potential re- arrangement. Parts are not attached to each other but stacked, or loosely laid together, adding to their internal tension. Lohaus’ Untitled (1991) which consists of two carefully placed beams of azobe, the coarsely textured, dense and heavy wood known for its great strength and resilience and common in his sculpture, is indicative of Lohaus’ quintessential […]

until 19.03. | #3304ARTatBerlin | Bermel von Luxburg Gallery presents in cooperation with Kunstleben Berlin and Choi&Choi Gallery Köln/Seoul from 21st January 2022 the group show “Berlin meets Seoul – Being Human”. Berlin and Seoul – two fascinating metropolises and capitals with an attractive and vibrant art scene. Both cities have something in common due to the former and existing separation of the countries. And both cities have developed into the most important art scenes in the world. In cooperation with the galleries CHOI&CHOI in Seoul and Bermel von Luxburg in Berlin, Kunstleben Berlin continues its “Berlin meets … series”. Under the title “Menschsein / Being Human” Kunstleben Berlin Berlin meets Seoul in the gallery Bermel von Luxburg under the curatorial direction of Dr. Rania Sid Otmane presents eleven renowned artists from both countries: Armin Boehm, Peter Herrmann, Jinyoung Yu, Jaeho Jung, Wonkun Jun, Seahyun Lee, Kelvin Kyung Kun Park, David Lehmann, Nikolai Makarov, Robert Pan, Regina Sell. Armin Boehm, Ich werde dir etwas zeigen was du noch nie zuvor gesehen hast, 2014, Oil and fabrics on canvas, 230 x 260 cm, Foto: Courtesy the artist and CHOI&CHOI Gallery The exhibition will be opened on January 21 by business manager […]

until 09.04. | #3342ARTatBerlin | Galerie Thomas Schulte presents from 19th February the solo exhibition Interstellar by the artist Jonas Weichsel in the gallery’s Corner Space. In a multi-part installation conceived for Galerie Thomas Schulte’s Corner Space, Jonas Weichsel presents 30 new paintings from his Interstellar Paintings series. The series is the latest iteration of Weichsel’s intensive color explorations, in which he meticulously mixes, composes and arranges color to form complex relationships–­–here, resulting in a continuous, immersive spatial gradient. With Interstellar, Weichsel further develops his highly precise painting practice, building on formats and techniques introduced in previous series. Incorporating both analog and digital tools, techniques and aesthetics, Weichsel works to expand the potentials of the painting medium in the digital age, producing layered images that, upon close inspection, reveal a quiet complexity. Opening: Friday, 18th February 2022, 6:00 – 9:00 pm. Exhibition dates: Saturday, 19th February – Saturday, 9th April 2022     Image caption: Jonas Weichsel, Interstellar (Detail) 2022 © Photo: Jonas Weichsel Exhibition Jonas Weichsel – Interstellar – Galerie Thomas Schulte | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin

until 21.05. | #3351ARTatBerlin | Galerie Max Hetzler shows from 3rd March 2022 a solo exhibition  with works by the artist Thomas Struth at Bleibtreustraße 45 and Bleibtreustraße 15/16. Three central themes from Thomas Struth’s current oeuvre, which revolve around universal questions of our time with a focus on science, nature and portraiture, will be shown at the two gallery locations in Bleibtreustraße. The rooms on the first floor of Bleibtreustraße 45 are dedicated to photographers taken at CERN, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research. The world’s largest scientific facility near Geneva uses particle accelerators to research the origins of the universe. Struth’s interest in CERN is in the philosophical questions, the political dimensions and the pictorial possibilities inherent in cutting-edge technology. Do these highly complex conglomerations of cables and valves carry hope for a better future? The CERN cluster shown here is part of Struth’s body of work Nature and Politics, in which he has been investigating since 2007 how ambitions and human imagination become sculptural, spatial realities. Surrounded by the images of technology, the viewer encounters works that deal with nature. A central room is dedicated to a 220 x 450 cm winter landscape entitled Schlichter Weg, Feldberger […]

until 14.04. | #3374ARTatBerlin | Esther Schipper shows from 12th March 2022 the exhibition Us Horizon by the artist Jac Leirner. It is her first solo exhibition with the gallery. Us Horizon will include a new work from Leirner’s acclaimed series constructed from ensembles of plastic shopping bags, and a new installation made of found numbered markers. Jac Leirner, who joined the gallery in 2019, is best known for her series of works employing specific everyday materials, such as bank notes, cigarette packaging, airline paraphernalia, business cards, and more recently items purchased in hardware stores. Her conceptually rigorous and formally beautiful works draw on a wide array of art historical and formal influences, as well as embracing the transgressive legacies of Dada, Constructivism, Pop and Conceptual Art, Arte Povera, and Punk, among others. The exhibition’s central large-scale work, Us Horizon, consists of over 200 vintage shopping bags installed in a double row at eye-level across three walls in the main gallery space. Leirner began collecting the material for this body of work in 1985 and first presented collections of plastic shopping bags at the 1989 São Paulo Biennial and the following year at the 44. Biennale di Venezia. Initially exhibited […]

until 19.06. | #3418ARTatBerlin | König Galerie (Nave) presents from 29. April 2022 the exhibiton UNINTENDED BEAUTY by the artist Xenia Hausner. The GALERIE KÖNIG is also showing an exhibition by Ukrainian artist Zhanna Kadyrova in the Chapel of ST. AGNES. Fiction plays a significant role in the oeuvre of the artist. Her creative process is characterized by filmic and photographic methods. In preparation for her large-format paintings, Hausner builds elaborate spatial settings in her studio, which are then photographed to be used as models. These scenarios remain enigmatic and elude clear reading, like decontextualized film stills or fragments of a narrative. Xenia Hausner, With Love, Xenia, 2022, oil on paper on Dibond, 190 x 250 cm, , Photo: Bruno Klomfar, Courtesy of the artist and KÖNIG GALERIE Berlin | London | Seoul | Vienna, © Studio Xenia Hausner, VG Bild-Kunst Xenia Hausner’s settings are placed in a female counter-world in which vividly modelled figures represent universally valid circumstances and existential questions. Her themes and stories are primarily represented by strong, contradictory, and complex women. Standing for all gender identities, they oppose stereotypes and contrast the male gaze that has dominated art history for the longest time. In Vienna Studio, […]

until 18.06. | #3458ARTatBerlin | Galerie Max Hetzler shows from 29. April 2022 in the Goethestraße 2/3 the exhibition Djemy with works by the artist Jeremy Demester. In this exhibition, the artist addresses his culture as a Tzigane, specifcally of Kalderash Roma and Sinti origins. The term Tzigane will be used in the following text for clarity purposes; nevertheless, Tzigane people are not a homogeneous ethnic group. There are signifcant nuances in the traditions of each group and family, refected in particular in the wide variations in their respective languages. The artist and his family have written a few words in Kalderash Romanes to introduce the exhibition: To li yaka télé, « Roraves ko roramno pes ané lesko poaré », A djes o mai zuralo Kai rovel anglal savorende, Kanasi baro lanso konik nachtil poutreles, Papirocha vai douano akarel lé gras. Kana nai tou dan sumnakuné machti poutres o vudar Katar. Kana roves assoi vai tchorat ké na kel a nétché vouni ai tchorat kanaja langlé machtli avel pal palé, Chorav eksera ritchya te dikav tu mé. On the quest to explore his own roots, artist Jeremy Demester has followed the history of the Tzigane people, within Europe to Northern […]

until 16.07. | #3495ARTatBerlin | Esther Schipper shows from 10th June 2022 the exhibition “What you see is not what you get” (22 exhibitions) by the artist Karin Sander. It is the forth solo exhibtion by the artist in the gallery.  For this solo exhibition entitled “What you see is not what you get”, Karin Sander has brought together different works from her oeuvre and curated 22 exhibitions from them. Karin Sander has carefully packed these respective, individual selections into transport boxes and then closed them; they offer protection and sometimes contain instructions for action for the different, small and large-format artworks they contain. The exhibits are well kept in their transport crates, present in the gallery space but eluding visibility. Each transport box is its own size, bears its individual title, lists the materials used in the works and contains what belongs to the installation of the works and the respective exhibition. The tension between visibility and presence is also a motif of the new augmented reality (AR) exhibitions conceived by Karin Sander. Visitors can use VR glasses to virtually visit other exhibitions in the gallery. For this work, she had works 3D scanned and virtually installed on the […]

until 06.08. | #3505ARTatBerlin | Galerie Max Hetzler shows from 24. June 2022 in the Goethestraße 2/3 the exhibition with paintings by the artist Robert Holyhead. British painter Robert Holyhead is known for his abstract paintings in semi-translucent colours, that actively engage with how to paint in the present moment. Having previously worked on delicate, small-size formats, the artist has, in recent years, changed his approach towards painting on a larger scale. His original enquiry remains the same, but the diferent format allows him to innovate and to develop the vocabulary of his work in a new context. Holyhead spends many months preparing for the works. During this time, his studio practice transforms from the treatment and priming of the canvas surfaces, to drawing or painting in watercolours on paper, until he arrives at the point at which the paintings are ready to be made. During this lead-up, spatial decisions are rigorously tested, and ‘positive’ and ‘negative’ visual components meticulously balanced. The paintings are created in long single sessions, not unlike durational performances. Each work is produced in a specifc selection of slightly transparent colours, showing visible traces of brushstrokes that operate around precisely located shapes of immaculate white ground. […]

until 15.10. | #3567ARTatBerlin |Esther Schipper presents from 09. September 2022 the exhibition “Radiant Exposures” by the artist Rosa Barba. Esther Schipper is pleased to announce Radiant Exposures, Rosa Barba’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. On view will be films and works using film as sculptural and painterly medium. In Radiant Exposures the artist introduces an exhibition architecture with two angled walls that steers visitors through the space and also provides a structure in which Barba’s films are screened and the artist’s sculptural works installed in a carefully orchestrated setting. Yet, signaling the importance of both film and sound as major themes in Rosa Barba’s practice, visitors will encounter the first—or last—work, Wire Piece, 2022, in the vestibule created by the wall element. Wire Piece, 2022 consists of a drum string, tightly strung/held between ceiling and column, which is touched—played, really—by a strip of film stock looped by a modified projector. Creating a silvery tone, the piece of celluloid takes on an unexpected role: a medium on which light encodes information, it doubles as a mechanical instrument producing sound. Once inside the space, the sound complements the sonic ensemble created by exhibition’s films, sculptural and performative objects, and “cinematic […]

until 15.10. | #3616ARTatBerlin | Esther Schipper presents from 9. September 2022 the exhibition by the artists Jacques Douchez and Norberto Nicola. Esther Schipper is pleased to announce a special presentation with historical works by Jacques Douchez and Norberto Nicola, organized with Olivier Renaud-Clément. Jacques Douchez and Norberto Nicola operated a collective studio, Atelier Douchez-Nicola, from 1959-1980. Inspired by tapestry as a three-dimensional form that combines finely woven natural fibers with abstract sculptural forms, their collaborative and independent textile work marks a key chapter in Brazilian art history. Inspired by his extensive travels, Nicola’s work often combines techniques and materials of indigenous cultures with those of European handicraft. For his part, Douchez’s dedication to abstraction is evident in balanced geometric constructions. Central to Norberto Nicola’s textile practice are the qualities of flexibility, tension, and elasticity, which the artist sought to capture in his work, as well as the use of mixed media. In addition to drawing on his training as an abstract painter, works by Nicola demonstrate the importance of intuition and touch. Sourcing all materials from within Brazil, Nicola studied techniques and gathered natural fibers used by different indigenous communities throughout the country. He was a particularly passionate student […]

until 29.10. | #3622ARTatBerlin | Galerie Max Hetzler presents from 16. September 2022 at Bleibtreustraße 15/16 the exhibition “Works on Paper” by the artist Toby Ziegler. Galerie Max Hetzler presents Works on Paper, the second solo exhibition by William N. Copley at the gallery at Bleibtreustraße 15/16 in Berlin. Celebrated today for his unique contribution to post-war art, William N. Copley (1919–1996) arrived at his own practice through his friendships with artists from European Surrealism to American Pop Art. Bridging the gap but staying true to his own individual style, which was largely self-taught, the artist used flat colours, stark outlines and heavily simplified forms to create paintings rich in symbolism, allure and allegory. Not only a painter, but a writer, gallery-owner, collector, publisher and patron to the arts, his animated works abound with playful, baroque patterns and visual puns, combining politics, sex and satire under the signature CPLY. Throughout Copley’s work, his subjects and vocabulary remain consistent. The artist’s journey through life, gathering experiences, added increasing volume to flat forms, strengthening his line, and making the works more simple and direct. Themes of love and eroticism abound, with his open depiction of desire and sexuality in a repressed age, […]

bis 23.12. | #3683ARTatBerlin | Galerie Esther Schipper zeigt ab 28. Oktober 2022 die Ausstellung  der Künstlerin Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster Join us for the opening of Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster’s exhibition Panoramism and the Abstract Sector, the artist’s tenth solo exhibition with the gallery. On view is a captivating environment that includes a 30-meters long 180°-degree curved panorama, especially conceived for the exhibition, which draws on the history of Berlin in the 20th century. Its imagery spills over onto a custom-printed carpet with printed pillow books. Panoramism and the Abstract Sector continues the artist’s creation of an artistic, emotional and intellectual genealogy, begun at the Vienna Secession in 2021 and at the Serpentine Galleries this past summer. Exhibition view: Paul B. Preciado and Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Une Valise Transféministe, Esther Schipper, Berlin, 2022. © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2022. Photo © Andrea Rossetti Concurrent with the exhibition Esther Schipper is pleased to present Paul B. Preciado and Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster’s Une Valise Transféministe, first presented at the Centre Pompidou in Paris in 2019 in the context of Gonzalez-Foerster’s program Textodrome at the literature festival “Extra.” Une Valise Transféministe is an ensemble composed of different suitcases, books and a film. The film gathers photographic excerpts of feminist, lesbian, queer, anarcho-libertarian, and […]

until 23.12. | #3686ARTatBerlin | Galerie Max Hetzler shows from 04. November 2022 (Openning: 04.11) the exibition by the artist Darren Almond. We are pleased to present A Distant Silence, a solo exhibition of new works by Darren Almond at Galerie Max Hetzler, at Bleibtreustraße 45 in Berlin. The exhibition explores Almond’s longstanding fascination with abstract ideas such as time, space, history and memory, and plays with the relationships between these concepts. Inspired by the vastness of nature, the cosmos and the perpetual cycle of being, new paintings from the ‘Mono-Lith’ and ‘Counter’ series of works are on view, as well as one of Almond’s ‘Train Plates’. In the ‘Counter’ paintings, Almond uses numbers to represent space and time. In one work, for example, images of the night sky are abstracted into a multi-part composition in which fragmented numbers float on a dark, indigo ground. Here, the number zero – the only integer – has a special significance: it symbolises a celestial pole and functions as a focal point that is simultaneously empty and infinite as well as containing everything and nothing. Another painting in the series shows a golden frieze of six panels over which fragmented numerals in shades […]