until 01.03. | #4559ARTatBerlin | Galerie Thomas Schulte (Potsdamer Straße) presents from 18th January 2025 (Vernissage 17.01.) the exhibition (ex)urban futures of the recent past by the artist Gordon Matta-Clark. Galerie Thomas Schulte presents (Ex)Urban Futures of the Recent Past, an exhibition of films and photographs by Gordon Matta-Clark, at the gallery’s space in Mercator Höfe. Curated by David Hartt, the exhibition engages with critical histories of and experimental approaches to urban space, from a period defined by sweeping transformations that continue to structure the built environment today. Vernissage: Friday, January 17, 2025, 6 to 9 p.m. Exhibition dates: Saturday, January 18 to Saturday, March 01, 2025 Location: new space in the Mercator Höfe on Potsdamer Strasse     Image Caption : Gordon Matta-Clark, “Walls”, 1972, Gelatin silver print, Image size: 47.9 x 60.6 cm | 18 7/8 x 23 7/8 in, Framed dimensions: 55.9 x 71.1 x 3.8 cm | 22 x 28 x 1 1/2 in, Courtesy of the Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark Exhibition Gordon Matta-Clark – Galerie Thomas Schulte | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Ausstellungen Berlin Galerien | ART at Berlin

until 07.03. | #4557ARTatBerlin | Galerie Barbara Thumm shows from 18th January 2025 (opening: 17th January) the exhibition Dudoute_Toaster_Absolu (AMVK 1981-2025) by the artist Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven. Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven (AMVK, *1951 in Antwerp, Belgium) has blazed a distinctive trail in contemporary art, renowned for her iconic collages, drawings, and mixed-media works that fuse art and technology. Her works often juxtapose seemingly random motifs, materials, and temporal references, yet a closer look reveals an underlying logic that ties them together. She has spoken of employing self-made systems of order—logical yet enigmatic, even to her, as they reflect the workings of her unconscious. Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, Optimal Performance, digital image printed on PVC, prints on paper, acrylic paints, 2024, Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Barbara Thumm The retrospective “Dudoute_Toaster_Absolu (AMVK 1981–2025)” exemplifies this approach, originating from AMVK’s desire to revisit and recontextualize her earlier works. At its heart lies the video “A-X+B=12”, a digital animation that brings to life a series of her drawings, collages, and installations from 1981 onward. This “coming of age” piece traces the journey of an entity entering the world and becoming an artist, mirroring AMVK’s own trajectory. To create the animation, she methodically selected works […]

until 22.02. | #4553ARTatBerlin | ChertLüdde (Potsdamer Str.) shows from 11. January 2025 the exhibitions „In the end something begins with us“ by the artist Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt and „Controlling Chaos“ by the artist Vincent Trasov. ChertLüdde presents a dialogue between Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt (1932, Wurzen – 2024, Berlin, Germany) and Vincent Trasov (1947, Edmonton, Canada). These exhibitions celebrate the dynamic and avant-garde spirit of Berlin, even during the geopolitical division of the city. Both artists were closely connected to their respective artistic communities and contributed to a vibrant network of collaboration and innovation. Together, their exhibitions tell the story of Berlin as a centre of artistic experimentation and international exchange, linked by the Mail Art movement. Among the like-minded is Anna Banana (1940-2024, Victoria, Canada), whose mail art correspondence is also shown as a bridge between the two exhibitions. The responses to the gallery’s Mail Art Open Call, inspired by Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt’s Divided Planet (1970), will also be on display in the gallery’s bookshop for the duration of the exhibitions. Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt – In the end something begins with us Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt in her atelier in Zitherstrasse, Berlin, circa. 1978 ChertLüdde presents In the end something begins with us, an exhibition […]

until 22.02. | #4550ARTatBerlin | Galerie Max Hetzler ( Bleibtreustraße 15/16) shows from Friday, 17. January 2025 the solo exhibition by the artist Rinus Van de Velde. In a practice spanning drawing, installation, sculpture and video work, Rinus Van de Velde creates a fictional autobiography, drawing on imagined memories of a life never lived. In his pictorial world, the possibilities of reality have no limits. Due to their unusually large format, Van de Velde’s drawings are reminiscent of paintings, giving the medium an autonomous character. While he initially worked exclusively with charcoal on paper, in recent years the artist began to introduce colour to his works, creating larger oil pastels, alongside small pencil drawings. In the works on paper, handwritten texts can be found underneath the pictures, testifying to fears, wishes and longings, among other things. The words anchor the drawings in a larger narrative and determine their place within it. The video works and sculptures, which are often props for the artist’s films or depict scenes in miniature, are also part of this construct. Here the textual element can be found again in the extensive titles. In addition to Van de Velde’s latest video work, the current exhibition also […]

until 01.03. | #4547ARTatBerlin | Galerie Martin Mertens shows from 18. January 2025 the exhibition Remnant by the artist Daniel Bodner. The American painter Daniel Bodner, whose work Galerie Martin Merte has been following since 2013 and is now presenting in a fifth solo exhibition, is treading completely new formal paths with his new group of works. On closer inspection, however, it becomes clear that even in his figurative paintings, which are based on urban landscapes or the human figure, his main interest lay in exploring the relationship between painting and photography and their respective ways of depicting light. The abstract paintings in this new exhibition intensify this interest. By moving on to images that he generates unconsciously, Bodner explores the simultaneous creation and destruction of images that can occur in the analogue photographic process with its pitfalls of overexposure and underexposure, unintended chemical reactions and the physicality of technology. When looking at “photographs”, the transition from analogue to digital image production can seem insignificant. However, as digital image creation replaces the analogue photographic process, its invisible, instantaneous mechanism erases the drama of an image’s creation. By moving from scenes drawn from the world around us to an unconscious approach […]

until 17.01. | #4544ARTatBerlin | Galerie Esther Schipper currently shows the exhibition Europe Endless by the artist Christopher Roth. Esther Schipper is pleased to announce Europe Endless, a presentation by Christopher Roth with Materials, Trailers, Out-Takes. Christopher Roth’s presentation takes place on occasion of his forthcoming trilogy of films exploring the history of geographical and philosophical borderlands, family and friendship and the future. Setting the scene with sculptures of over dimensional bags of French Fries and a colorized edition of English PEL chairs (redesigned by Jasper Morrison for TYP) as a make-shift cinema, the presentation addresses Europe as a constantly moving target. The daytime opening in the gallery will feature a reading by Lukas Kubina from his new novel Boludo, followed in the evening by a concert by Macedoniasintetica (Carlo Camerin, Mattia Rigon, Simone Carraro) and a screening of Metagoon 24h by Matteo Stocco and Matteo Primiterra. At the gallery a selection of materials and out-takes from the films will be screened. Roth’s trilogy—The Spectre of Eurocommunism, Infinite Histories, Look! We have come through! —is in the tradition of the essay film, weaving found footage, documentary and interviews to construct competing histories of Europe through personal stories, political ideas and […]

until 15.02. | #4541ARTatBerlin | Galerie Inga Kondeyne shows from 14. December 2024 two exhibitions by the artists Christiane Schlosser and Beate Terfloth. Christiane Schlosser ‘…For Christiane Schlosser, drawing is similar to composing music. For her, the meaning of her drawings is to be sought in a similar way as the meaning of music would be sought. What sound do the drawings have? How does the composition build up? What rhythm does it set? How does it affect the bodies that listen to the drawing…’ ‘…What would happen if the movement, the rhythm and the surprise, the overwhelmingness of the phenomenon described found their way into the language, if the formation of the sentences happened in the moment of overflow, and the rivers spread across the riverbed, but also beyond it, flowing in side arms & strands unpredictably. If the movements that grammar directs, predetermines and organises into paths were overridden, and instead of being linear, the sentences could be connected from several sides (at the expense of the grammar that enables the flow of understanding through the sentence). What if the errors in grammar – which cause a sentence to fall apart in the middle, or parts in a […]

until (follows) | #4538ARTatBerlin | RASCHE RIPKEN is currently showing the group exhibition SALON 24 II. As a meeting place for free spirits, SALON 24 II brings together works by the gallery’s artists that have not yet or rarely been shown. Jan Ros, courtesy Rasche Ripken Ralph Merschmann, courtesy Rasche Ripken Hein Spellmann, courtesy Rasche Ripken Rita Kanne, courtesy Rasche Ripken Martin Brüger, courtesy Rasche Ripken Exhibition dates: until mid-January 2025     Title image caption: Herbert Lammers, courtesy Rasche Ripken Exhibition SALON 24 II –  Rasche Ripken | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin

until 08.12. | #4535ARTatBerlin | EIGENHEIM Weimar/Berlin presents from 30. November 2024 (Opening: 29.11.) the exhibition “LODGER Berlin – Raum für Kunst” by the artists Anna Bittersohl, Enrico Freitag, Konstantin Bayer, Lars Wild, Frederik Foert, Nina Röder and with many more of the gallery’s in-house artists. The exhibition takes place in the studio, flat and showroom of the artist Frederik Foert. At the end of the year, Galerie EIGENHEIM Weimar/Berlin is adding a special highlight: LODGER Berlin – Raum für Kunst @ Studio Frederik Foert is opening its extraordinary location for the in-house artists of Galerie EIGENHEIM. From 29 November to 8 December 2024, the studio, flat and showroom in the old Berlin flat in the heart of Friedrichshain will become a melting pot for selected works by artists such as Anna Bittersohl, Konstantin Bayer, Timo Herbst, Enrico Freitag, Nina Röder, Gökcen Dilek Acay, Lars Wild, Stefan Schiek and Benedikt Braun. The name LODGER (meaning ‘lodger’ or ‘guest’) emphasises the concept of presenting works of art in a private, intimate space and thus making the exhibition space a living space. In true Foertian style, the name also pays homage to iconic works from film and music, which are subtly incorporated […]

until 25.01. | #4532ARTatBerlin | Peres Projects presents from Freitag, 29. November 2024 the Solo exhibition Act Normal of the artist Ziping Wang. Peres Projects Berlin presents the opening of Act Normal, a solo exhibition by Ziping Wang, on Friday, 29 November, from 6 to 9 pm. This is Wang’s first solo exhibition in Berlin and her third with Peres Projects. Through a series of new large-scale oil paintings, Act Normal explores the overwhelming flood of visual information in the digital age, creating vibrant, collage-like compositions that reflect our fragmented attention. By mixing symbols of consumer culture, elements of street signage and references to traditional art forms such as ancient Roman frescoes, Wang creates kaleidoscopic realities that challenge perception and meaning. Vernissage: Friday, 29. November 2024, 18:00 – 21:00 pm Exhibition dates : Friday, 29. November – Saturday, 25. January 2025     Image caption: Ziping Wang, Courtesy of Peres Projects. Exhibition Ziping Wang – Peres Projects  | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Ausstellungen Berlin Galerien | ART at Berlin

until 18.01. | #4529ARTatBerlin | WENTRUP shows from Saturday, 23. November 2024 the exhibition New works by the artist Gerold Miller. Gerold Miller is renowned for his minimalist and geometric works that explore the intersections of space, form, and perception. His works are characterized by precise execution and clean lines, often employing industrial materials like aluminum and lacquer. Miller’s sculptures and wall objects blur the boundaries between painting and sculpture, challenging traditional categorizations and engaging viewers in a dialogue about the nature of visual experience. Exhibition view: Gerold Miller, New Works, 2024, Wentrup, Berlin. Photo: Matthias Kolb In his second exhibition at Wentrup, titled “New Works,” Miller unveils two new series to the public for the first time. The first series, known as the ‘corner’ works, builds upon “Set”—Miller’s most extensive and successful group of works, which occupies a central position in his oeuvre. In this remarkable development, Miller shifts focus within the series, concentrating on the corner as a key design element. He employs a striking diagonal to define a prominent triangle, transforming the remaining rectangular surface into an asymmetrical pentagon. This use of the diagonal as a core element creates dynamic tension, inviting viewers to explore the interplay […]

until 25.01 | #4526ARTatBerlin | Haverkampf Leistenschneider show from 06. December 2024 the exhibition A CLOSER LOOK of the artists Katherine Bradford, Anne Buckwalter, Madeline Donahue, Aubrey Levinthal, Laila Tara H, Sophie Treppendahl, Maximilian Kirmse, Fabian Treiber and Evian Wenyi Zhang. Of course, it is always worth taking a closer look when looking at art. But some works demand it more than others. The exhibition aims to take a closer look at precisely such works, works that – as the title suggests – require a sharper gaze than others, pictures that ‘hide’ details that are only visible to the viewer if they get closer, linger longer, zoom in or look from a new perspective. These details can be obscured by reduction, fragmentation, distortion or other distortions. They can be revealed by reflections in mirrors and by narratives unfolding in the background of the ‘main plot’ or simply by small objects scattered on tables, desks or beds that may hold a key to new interpretations. But why do artists incorporate these subtle or less visible motifs into their works and draw the viewer closer, as if they wanted to whisper something in their ear? Is it a matter of exploring scale and proportion, […]

until 01.11. | #4523ARTatBerlin | ARTES Berlin presents from 23. November 2024 the exhibition ECHOES OF WINTER. Spuren des Lichts. ARTES Berlin presents the group exhibition ECHOES OF WINTER. Traces of Light, which will be on view from November 23, 2024 to February 1, 2025. The exhibition takes visitors on a poetic journey through the quiet magic of winter, exploring the subtle beauty and mesmerizing moments of light and shadow of this special time of year. At a time when light and darkness merge in a unique interplay, the works of selected artists present the quiet tones of the cold season. ECHOES OF WINTER rediscover winter in all its quiet beauty Beauty, be it in frosty landscapes or in shimmering reflections of light, the reflections of light that permeate the room. ECHOES OF WINTER makes it possible to rediscover winter in all its quiet beauty, be it in frosty landscapes or in shimmering reflections of light that permeate the room. Marc Chagall, a master of dream worlds, is also part of the exhibition. His works create an atmosphere of nostalgia and magic in the winter season and allow visitors to experience winter through his magical, symbolic landscapes. Also represented is […]

until 18.01. | #4520ARTatBerlin | Galerie Nordenhake Berlin shows from 23. November 2024 the exhibition Hängepartie of the artist Meuser. ‘Things are traditionally rather under- than overstated in the Ruhrpott,’ says Meuser about the language of his origin. In line with this, the artist presents the solo exhibition Hängepartie (adjournment), his sixth at Galerie Nordenhake Berlin and tenth with Galerie Nordenhake. The industrial background of the material, which shapes his work, is reflected both in his laconic visual language and in the humorously subtle tone of his titles, visible in this exhibition through sculptures spanning the years 1970 to 2024. After the intellectual excess of his studies with Beuys from 1968 left him with endless knowledge but little direction, Meuser drew a line under it in 1975 with the encouragement of Imi Knoebel: ‘It’s fine now, just do it.’ This prompted the artist to head to the scrapyard, ‘out of necessity,’ where he found his beginnings. ‘I really immersed myself emotionally. Whether it stunk, was broken, greasy or dirty, I was able to abstract from that.’ Meuser works with scrap metal finds, beginning the process by letting his gaze wander over places of discarded objects. Contrary to the familiar artistic […]

until 21.12. | #4517ARTatBerlin | Galerie Georg Nothelfer shows from 23. November 2024 (Vernissage: 22.11.) the ehxibition with works by the next generation of artists from the Valérie Favre class (UdK Berlin). plot twist Nora Awad / Jamila Barakat / Linus Beckmann / Leo Beddermann / Momo Bera / Calman / Geli Derzapf / Lea Deutscher / Antonia Döß / Hannah-Sophia Eckart / Theo Goldbach / Max Gröger / Vero Haas / Florine Kirby / Luca Kramer / Minh Kha Le / Pia Maier / Kanni Oh / Philipp Schwinning / Martin Sieron / Laura Suryani Thedja / Wei Xia / Yiyi Wang Galerie Georg Nothelfer is showing works by the next generation of artists from the class of Valérie Favre (UdK Berlin) in the upcoming group exhibition. Statement by the artists: Colour becomes surface, forms an image, becomes tangible and ends in multi-perspective narrative moments. In the exhibition plot twist, 23 artists from the Favre class provide insights into their works. Different narratives come together and demonstrate the mutability of painting. The medium is revealed in all its complexity, creating contrasts that range from whispering to roaring tension. The artists form and curate their own as well as borrowed […]

until 01.02. | #4514ARTatBerlin | Galerie Barbara Wien presents from 30. November 2024 (Vernissage: 29.11.) the exhibition Vùjá de – Paper Thresholds of the artist Mariana Castillo Deball. Statement by the artist As I often work with documents that have been altered, destroyed or stored in distant and inaccessible libraries and museums, I frequently deal with printed copies, facsimiles and digital reproductions. From a Western, art-historical perspective, these copies are seen as mere additions to the original object, without any intrinsic value. However, it was the devastation and looting during colonization that prompted us to make such copies in the first place – as a means of preserving and protecting documents so that if something is lost, other versions of it exist. I would therefore like to see this genealogy of copies as a dissonant polyphony, as a collective, anonymous heritage. We can understand these documents as objects that have experienced the same trauma as those who preserve their memory. The Nahua term ixiptla reflects this complexity. Ixiptla can be translated as “representation”, “embodiment” or “replacement” and thus encompasses all versions, representations and echoes as part of the original – even if such an original no longer exists. Crocodile Skin […]

until 05.12. | #4510ARTatBerlin | LCG ARTLAB (Allerstraße) presents from 21. November 2024 the exhibition Beneath the black sand of time, I resist of the artist Auriane Kolodziej. Auriane Kołodziej (b. 1993, Paris) is an artist whose work delves into themes of memory, presence, and fragility. Educated in graphic design at ECV Creative School & Community and in semiology at Sorbonne Paris Descartes, Kołodziej transforms mirrors and resin blocks into poetic reflections on human impermanence. Her use of black-painted resin and fragmented imagery evokes a sense of decay, with mirrors acting as haunting canvases that hold light and fleeting memories. Blurring the line between presence and disappearance, her work invites introspection and a confrontation with the ephemeral nature of identity. MIROIR MIROIR 78 odalisque à la lune Beneath the black sand of time, I resist Does the mirror mourn the ghosts it holds, or does it remain indifferent to the countless faces that have flickered across its surface? Both fragile and resilient, suspended between presence and disappearance, the mirror is a beholder, but not a vessel for memory. It does not record or recollect. Instead, it bears witness to the passage of things, and the passage of time. There’s a […]

until 11.01. | #4508ARTatBerlin | PSM Gallery show from Friday, 15. November 2024 the exhibition Lost in Transmission of the artist Lena Göbe. Lena Göbel (born 1983 in Ried im Innkreis, Austria) works on the basis of the traditional printing techniques of woodcut and drypoint in combination with painting and collage techniques. However, she does not transfer her motifs into soft, non-fraying wood in the traditional way, but uses found wood or historical wooden objects, whose history is often decisive for the resulting motifs. For her exhibition Lost in Transmission, Göbel uses discarded everyday objects from her mother’s side of the family. In addition to cider barrels from the family wine press, a former door from her grandfather’s locksmith’s workshop, behind which all the machines were centrally driven via a transmission, a belt drive, was used as the basis for a printing block. For the artist, the element of propulsion symbolizes movement and the passage of time. In the technical and visual transformation of the historical objects into print templates in her own visual language, she carefully and powerfully approaches her own family history and transmits it into the present. Vernissage: Friday, 15 November 2024, 18:00 – 21:00 Exhibition dates: Friday, […]

until 21.12. | #4503ARTatBerlin | ChertLüdde (Potsdamer Str.) shows from 16. November 2024 the group exhibition A soft edge to break a sword. With works by: Monia Ben Hamouda,Stephanie Comilang,Patrizio di Massimo,Kasia Fudakowski,Petrit Halilaj,Heike Kabisch,Wilhelm Klotzek,Zora Mann,Beatriz Morales,SofíaSalazar Rosales,Young-jun Tak,Tyra Tingleff,Álvaro Urbano,Zhibo Wang and Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt Hosted at the gallery’s temporary location on Potsdamer Straße97, the exhibition showcases a broad range of artistic approaches—spanning etching,weaving, painting, and welding—unified by their exploration of the subversive powerof softness and vulnerability. At the entrance of the space is Sofía Salazar Rosales’s striking fiberglass beam,which bends under the weight of the artist’s personal talismans from her home. Symbolsof protection, the artist’s string of red beads appear deceptively heavy, causing thesturdy reproduction of the IPN beam to curve. This theme of material transformationcontinues in Tyra Tingleff ’s abstract oil paintings, where her expansive fields of colormelt and swirl into marbled surfaces, evoking a seemingly periment fluidity. MoniaBen Hamouda also expands on this notion with her abstract, calligraphic drawing.Smudged with medicinal spices, the artwork is part of her growing practice of blendingEuropean figuration with the Islamic tradition of aniconism to askew their differences. Sofía Salazar Rosales, Installation view of “Des lignes de désir – Félicités 2023”, […]

until 27.01. | #4499ARTatBerlin | Michaela Helfrich Galerie shows from Friday, 29. November 2024 the Solo exhibition On the edge by the artist Gerard Waskievitz. Opening: Friday, 29. November 2024, from 8 until 9 pm Exhibition dates: Friday, 29. November- Monday, 27. January 2024     Title image caption: courtesy of Michaela Helfrich Galerie Exhibition Gerard Waskievitz – Michaela Helfrich Galerie | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Ausstellungen Berlin Galerien | ART at Berlin

until 25.01. | #4496ARTatBerlin | Galerie kajetan Berlin presents from 07. Dezember 2024 (Vernissage: 06.12.) the exhibition of the artist Sara Sizer. Sara Sizer’s Raft, a project for Kajetan Galerie, opens on December 6, 2024. For this exhibition, Sizer presents a series of paintings on cotton/silk fabric. As is characteristic of her work, the choice of substrate—whether velvet, bleached raw linen, or wood—shapes the narrative language of each piece. When ink interacts with silk, certain effects occur naturally. Sizer harnesses and manipulates these organic processes to construct her compositions. While her work may be described as „abstract,“ metaphors emerge through the arrangement, color, and texture of the painted blocks. Sara Sizer | REMIND | 2024 | Bemaltes Seidenbaumwollgewebe | Painted cotton / silk | 100 x 80 cm | Courtesy the artist, Gallery Sofie Van de Velde & Galerie kajetan | Photo: Marcus Schneider Silk, a natural fibre with a rich tradition, which in our western culture is used less in the fine arts than in handicrafts, becomes the decisive carrier of the artistic statement in Sara Sizer’s works. The artist uses the capillary effect of the material to allow colours to fuse together organically, creating dynamic fields of colour and association. […]

until 15.02. | #4490ARTatBerlin | Crone Berlin present from 16. November 2024 (Vernissage: 15.11.) the exhibition Knallzart with the works of the aritsts Emmanuel Bornstein, Clemens Krauss and Robert Muntean. The opening of the exhibition ‘Knallzart’ by Emmanuel Bornstein, Clemens Krauss and Robert Muntean will take place on 15 November 2024 at Crone Berlin. On display are new paintings that explore the themes of identity, intimacy and physicality. Bornstein, Krauss, and Muntean studied painting at German art academies in the 2000s, but each has followed a stylistically distinct path. Bornstein sees himself in the tradition of a figurative-deconstructivist expressionism, influenced by Francis Bacon. Krauss is known for his thick, impastoed layers of paint, often several centimeters deep, while Robert Muntean captivates with a very even, harmonious brushstroke that follows musical rhythms. Though their approaches may appear vastly different at first glance, their works and artistic practices are deeply intertwined. The three artists are not only close friends and all based in Berlin, but they also share a common affinity for figuration and a focus on similar themes in their practice: Bornstein, Krauss, and Muntean’s works consistently reflect a preoccupation with societal processes, addressing aspects such as loneliness, isolation, massification, and […]

until 01.02. | #4488ARTatBerlin | neugerriemschneider (Linienstraße) shows from 23. November 2024 (Vernissage: 22.11.) the exhibition Project for an Exhibition, Part 1: Time Takes (Scenario for a Conversation) by the artist Simon Starling. In Project for an Exhibition, Part 1: Time Takes (Scenario for a Conversation), Simon Starling’s eighth solo exhibition with neugerriemschneider, the artist dedicates a series of sculptural portraits to the integral role that collaboration plays in his body of work. A group of minimal, abstracted figures presents key accomplices from throughout the artist’s career – architect and astronomer Mike Davies, marine biologist Sam Bowser, playwright and director Graham Eatough, pianolist Rex Lawson, designer Fulvio Ferrari, conservator Sherry Phillips and artist Rasmus Nielsen – standing as tributes to the diverging apprehensions of time that each embodies, and to the cross-disciplinary expertise embedded within Starling’s research-intensive projects. Surveying an artistic approach of over three decades, the likenesses find their counterparts in a collection of photographs and sculptures that stems from the contributions of those depicted. The cultivated ethos of collaboration has indelibly marked Starling’s practice, forming and informing it since its inception. As a trained photographer and artist whose far-reaching complexes of historical and cultural inquiry often pull from […]

until 17.01. | #4485ARTatBerlin | Meyer Riegger presents from 6. November 2024 three exhibitions by the artists John Miller. The exhibitions are on show at Meyer Riegger in Berlin and Karlsruhe, as well as at Trautwein Herleth in Berlin. Many people have written about John Miller’s work as an artist, musician, writer, teacher and friend, and most of them know that no one can do it as pointedly as he does himself: “Inscribed within the demand to produce is the inexorable demand to consume. The political economy consigns the labor of consumption, however, to so-called leisure or ‘free’ time. Nevertheless, how free is free?” In Cavalcade of Brown at Trautwein Herleth, viewers encounter a cavalcade of paintings, sculptures and prints that are less grandiose and solemn than disturbing. John Miller’s signature brown (which has earned him the reputation of being the “Yves Klein of brown”),gives rise to infantile, fecal mind games with the repulsive, even the abject, while simultaneously referencing the earthiness of Land Art and the grandeur of artistic subjectivity in the sprawling impasto brushstrokes of Abstract Expressionism. Instead of being reminiscent of a painterly flex, Miller’s brushstrokes are more cartoon-like and, at the same time, “real”. Once an […]

until 21.12. | #4482ARTatBerlin | BBA Gallery shows from 31. October 2024 the exhibitions “Domestic Demise” by photographer Patty Carroll and “Paradox” by painter László Máthé. BBA Gallery presents two extraordinary solo exhibitions of the winners of the BBA Artist Award and the BBA Photography Award 2023: Painter László Máthé and photographer Patty Carroll. The exhibitions Paradox by Máthé and Domestic Demise by Carroll are dedicated to the exploration of identity, psychology and social expectations through different artistic media. László Máthé’s exhibition ‘Paradox’ deals with the complexity of human existence. To this end, he explores the psychological causes that characterise our lives. Based on his Romanian origins and his experiences in Germany, Máthé depicts the tension between pain and transformation. The result is a deeply personal and universally valid visual narrative. Patty Carroll, Mad Mauve, 2018, Archival Digital Inkjet Print In ‘Domestic Demise’, Patty Carroll explores the complex relationship between a woman’s identity and her domestic environment. In her colourful and complex stage designs, Carroll criticises social expectations of women. These are humorously mixed with visually appealing social commentary. The common thread running through these two exhibitions is a profound reflection on human experience. Thus, the BBA Gallery presents two […]

until 19.12. | #4479ARTatBerlin | Galerie Barbara Thumm shows from 07. November 2024 (Vernissage: 06.11.) the exhibition Veiled Woman on a Beachfront by the artist Theo Eshetu. Please join us for the opening of our inaugural exhibition with Theo Eshetu. The show Veiled Woman on a Beachfront opens at Galerie Barbara Thumm on Wednesday, 06 November, 6–9 p.m. Theo Eshetu, Veiled Woman on a Beachfront, Galerie Barbara Thumm 2024, Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Barbara Thumm The exhibition Veiled Woman on a Beachfront at Galerie Barbara Thumm consists of excerpts from The Lamu Project, a multimedia collection of artworks created during a one-month stay on the Islamic island of Lamu, Kenya, in 2011. By finding points of contact, the project aims to create a meaningful dialogue between two cultures with often diverging views on the role of images in forming and representing a culture. The exhibition’s title stems from one of the video installations from the project with the same name, originally presented at the 54th Venice Biennale’s Italian Pavilion in 2011. Vernissage: Wednesday, 06. November,  2024, 6 to 9 pm Exhibition period: Thursday, 07. November – Thursday, 19. December 2024     Image caption: Theo Eshetu, Veiled Woman on a Beachfront, Galerie Barbara Thumm 2024, […]

until 07.12. | #4476ARTatBerlin | Galerie Inga Kondeyne shows from 25. Oktober 2024 the exhibition Vision of the artist Marlies Appel in the backstage of the gallery. From sheet to sheet, Marlies Appel curiously expands her new series of drawings from recent years, entitled ‘fold and snow, the Jungfrau’, which can be seen in this exhibition. Looking at the mountain massif with its many crevices, she was overwhelmed by the different incidence of light and the dominant shadow furrows. In her drawings, deliberately created free colour fields, characterised by this natural impression that is so important to her, are now combined with simply structured networks of lines. Viewers sense the underlying experience of nature absorbed by the artist. The masses of snow on the mountain, the birds flying in formations, the play of clouds – everything is lyrically connected in the flow of the drawing. Marlies Appel, (Dongen, 1945) lives and works in Overveen (NL); studied at the Rietveld Academy; she taught from 1979-1996 at the AKI, Enschede The Netherlands and from 1986-2006 at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam The Netherlands. Since 1978 she has had many exhibitions in the Netherlands and Germany. She exhibited at Gallery Apunto, Amsterdam; Gallery […]

until 07.12. | #4473ARTatBerlin | AOA;87 contemporary presents from 25. Oktober 2024 (Vernissage: 24.10.) the exhibition MARCKS SPIELSALON of the artist MARCK. A coin and three or more matching symbols, often in the form of numbers or fruit, and a little luck lead to a win. The payout is a clinking, clashing metal – the sound of joy. Or does it fail to materialize? MARCKS SPIELSALON, Außenansicht AOA;87 Berlin Confronted with the typical urban, pop-culture aesthetics of gaming arcades, the visitor gazes at a shop window that is closed off from view by a heavy red velvet curtain. In front of it are flickering LED illuminated lettering, an outdated but excitingly designed slot machine and the lettering: MARCKS SPIELESALON. Such places of entertainment seem familiar to us, and yet there is something unsettling about them. We are in Sophienstraße, an area with the typical old town charm of the Spandau suburb. In the shop window is a slot machine that is not decorated with the symbols and lettering we are familiar with. ‘INVEST IN ART’ is written on it. An invitation that does not seem absurd in the context of a gallery exhibition, but here it has a very decisive […]

until 23.11. | #4470ARTatBerlin | Galerie Schindler in Potsdam shows from 17. October 2024 the exhibition PAST PRESENT FUTURE for the fifth anniversary of the gallery. The Schindler Gallery has had more than 30 exhibitions and 25 artists have shown their work in solo exhibitions since its founding in October 2019. The Schindler Gallery is celebrating this first impressive anniversary with a large group exhibition. Andreas Hildebrandt, 2021, Crystal linoleum print on canvas, 65 x 50 cm, courtesy Galerie Schindler Alvar Beyer, Goldstücke, 2024, Copper on canvas, 30 x 30 cm, courtesy Galerie Schindler Anna-Lisa Unkuri, Do you want to know, 2023, oil and pastel on canvas, 70 x 50 cm, courtesy Galerie Schindler The following artists will be shown: Hannah Becher Alvar Beyer Birgit Borggrebe Rosanna Burford Frauke Bohge Isabelle Dutoit Sue Hayward Andreas Hildebrandt Florentine Joop Birgit Klerch Berit Mücke Jeanette Niebelschütz Anja Nürnberg Susanne Ramolla Kathrin Rank Constantin Schroeder Bettina Sellmann Tanja Selzer Karen Simon Jill Tegan Doherty Anna-Lisa Unkuri Su Weiss Simone Westphal Sabine Wewer Brigitte Yoshiko Pruchnow Vernissage: Thursday, 17. October 2024, from 7 pm Exhibition period: Thursday, 17. October until Saturday 23. November 2024     Image caption: Anja Nürnberg, Ruhe am Morgen (2024), […]

until 21.11. | #4467ARTatBerlin | Galerie Martin Mertens shows from 19. Oktober 2024 the exhibition Fragments of the artist Pius Fox. With the exhibition title “Fragments”, Fox refers to the fact that the fragmentary and unfinished, the detail or the fragment are generally recurring themes in his work. In his paintings, for example, he has taken up an antique torso, details from historical paintings or photographs, sign-like forms or pictorial structures that explore the tension between three-dimensionality and flatness. The new canvas paintings and pastels are complemented by works on glass, more precisely on fragments of glass plates. Fox is thus building on his reverse glass paintings, which he has been working on from time to time since 2015. With the glass fragments, attention is drawn more strongly to form and color than with a classic rectangular picture format. The result is an “object” somewhere between a panel painting and a wall sculpture. The glass fragments perhaps shed light once again on the artist’s fundamental search for the definition of a picture itself. Throughout his entire oeuvre, there are pictures that thematize edges, frames, windows, doors or transitions to something else. In many of his paintings of recent years, a […]

until 16.11. | #4464ARTatBerlin | Q Gallery presents from 18th October 2024 the exhibition “THREE PEARLS. AND A LAKE. UZBEKISTAN – in painting and photography”. In this double exhibition, artist Inge H. Schmidt and photographer Krzysztof Płaza will be showing their works created during their trip to Uzbekistan. Fascinated by the history of the ancient Silk Road, Krzysztof Płaza and Inge H. Schmidt have been travelling through Central Asia for almost two decades. Usually on arduous routes, packed with rucksacks, cameras and painting utensils, they try to visualise traces of this route artistically. In 2023 they travelled through Uzbekistan. They created works about the three pearls, Samarkand, Bukhara and Xiva, probably one of the most important stops on the historic Silk Road and reminiscent of the fairy tales from ‘One Thousand and One Nights’. But the two of them also ‘went’ to the north, to a region that is becoming increasingly devastated and desolate, to a place where the once mighty Aral Sea is wasting away and whose history makes you shudder. However, it is precisely this contrast that inspires the two artists immensely. Their works, including some from earlier years, are on display at the Q Gallery Berlin. Alte […]

until 23.11. | #4461ARTatBerlin | CAMERA WORK presents from 12. October 2024 the exhibition from the artist David Yarrow. The majority of these works were created in 2024 and will be on display worldwide for the first time. Iconic animal portraits by the artist and a further development of his works influenced by classic Hollywood films are particularly represented in the exhibition. ComposiZons that are reminiscent of film shots are decisive for David Yarrow’s work. This is particularly evident in the way he uses light and shadows to create tension. These techniques are reminiscent of the visual language of classic Hollywood films and reinforce the dramatic effect of his photographs. His animal portraits look og like stills from an epic adventure film in which nature plays the leading role. In addition, Yarrow’s work reveals the influence of film directors such as Sergio Leone and Anthony Minghella. The monumentality and vastness of his scenery, as well as the use of perspecZve and proximity, create a narrative depth that gives the viewer the feeling of being part of a larger story. Through these cineasZc influences, Yarrow succeeds in detaching his photographs from the purely documentary framework and elevating them to iconic works […]

until 05.10. | #4453ARTatBerlin | CAMERA WORK presents from 24. September 2024 the Group exhibition PORTRAITS OF POWER – U.S. PRESIDENTS IN PHOTOGRAPHY of the artists Cornell Capa, Elliott Erwitt, Jacques Lowe, Steve Schapiro and Mark Shaw. To mark the 60th presidential election in the USA, the CAMERA WORK gallery is presenting the exhibition Portraits of Power: U.S. Presidents in Photography from 24 September. It comprises a compilation of more than 40 photographs, some of them world-famous, in which portraits were taken of the majority of US presidents of the 20th and 21st centuries before, during and after their time in office – including Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Bill Clinton, John F. Kennedy, Dwight D. Eisenhower and Theodore Roosevelt. The works from 120 years of US Politics provide insights into the lives of US presidents, both in the political and public sphere and in private moments. In contrast to Europe, the photographic staging of US presidents and presidential candidates has played a more central role in the USA since the Kennedy election campaign in the early 1960s. The collaboration with renowned photographers such as Yousuf Karsh, Albert Watson, Patrick Demarchelier, Martin Schoeller, Michel Comte, Nadav Kander and Elliott Erwitt has […]

until 19.10. | #4450ARTatBerlin | Galerie Esther Schipper is currently showing the exhibition When you understand my secret, it becomes a ghost by the artist Hyunsun Jeon. Esther Schipper shows Hyunsun Jeon’s first solo presentation with the gallery: When you understand my secret, it becomes a ghost. On view will be 10 new paintings by Jeon whose representation was announced in February of this year. Hyunsun Jeon has developed a distinct iconography that combines figurative elements, such as trees, fruits, and objects from everyday life, with abstract forms, color planes and, increasingly since 2014, sets of classic geometric shapes. Jeon’s forms are engaged in a constant shift between dimensions and associations—a cone, for example, may occur as a triangle, rendered with color gradients to suggest depth, or in the form of volcanoes, mountains or hats. Jeon’s project has an all-encompassing, even world-building quality: quoting different styles as motifs, a work might simultaneously include painterly passages, pointillist sections or simulated brushstrokes, and motifs that have the linear quality of digital renderings or pixelation. Installed in a loose grouping across three walls, Jeon’s constellation makes the paintings appear to shift across the space. Echoing the overlapping and superimposition of motifs in the […]

until 26.10. | #4447ARTatBerlin | carlier | gebauer show from 13. September 2024 the exhibition Not knowing is a good place to start of the artist Dor Guez. Dor Guez Munayer’s works deal with traces and scars. By interrogating personal experiences and memories alongside official narratives of the past, he raises questions about the role of contemporary art in telling unwritten histories and recontextualising visual and written archives. Guez’s solo exhibition Not knowing is a good place to start uses archival material from public and private sources to uncover the multiple facets between first-hand accounts and dominant cultural narratives. Guez was born in Jerusalem to a Palestinian mother and father from a family of Arab-Jewish immigrants from North Africa. The exhibition emphasises the artist’s interest in German history and his ongoing engagement with the history of his family and his communities in Jaffa, Lydda, Jerusalem and Gaza. The exhibition was put together last year, during which the artist and his family experienced an unprecedented war in their homeland. Guez’s ongoing photographic series of suitcases of immigrants and refugees refers to the exile of his father’s (Guez) family from Tunisia after the Nazi occupation and the expulsion of his mother’s (al […]

until 12.10. | #4444ARTatBerlin | Kuckei + Kuckei currently presents the exhibition My Fingers Against The Glass by the artist Jenny Brillhart. Jenny Brillhart finds the motifs for her exquisitely executed paintings in unexpected and often overlooked places, materials and scenes from everyday life that catch her attention. The everyday is photographed and assembled into collages or moulded into three-dimensional arrangements in the studio and thus becomes the subject of her sparse, elegant compositions. Painted in mostly muted tones with deliberate colour accents, light and shadow play a dominant role and lend her works an atmosphere of calm and tranquillity. The influence of Shaker design and craftsmanship is deeply rooted, as is that of Charles Sheeler’s precise painting. Her masterful mark-making defines form, space and gravity. Brillhart received her BFA from Smith College, Northampton, MA, and her MFA in painting from the New York Academy of Art, with additional studies at the Art Students League, New York, NY. Her work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Emerson Dorsch Gallery, Miami, Florida, and numerous other solo and group exhibitions in Maine, Florida, Germany and Spain. In 2019 Brillhart’s work was included in the New England Biennial Exhibition at the […]

until 19.10. | #4442ARTatBerlin | REITER shows from Thursday 12. September, 2024 the Solo Exhibition FLOWERS of the artist Sebastian Schrader. Vernissage: Thursday, 12. September from 5:00 until 9:00 pm Exhibition Period: Thursday, 12. September until Thursday, 19. October 2024 Special opening hours Berlin Art Week 2024: Friday, 13. September, 12 – 9 pm | Saturday/ Sunday, 14./ 15. September, 12 – 6 pm     Image Caption: Sebastian Schrader, ohne Titel, 2024. Öl auf Leinwand, 50 x 60 cm – Courtesy of reitergalleries Exhibition Sebastian Schrader – Reiter | Berlin prospect | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin

until 09.11. | #4438ARTatBerlin | Galerie Deschler presents from 12. September 2024 the exhibition SALOMÉ 70 of the artist Salomé. On the occasion of Salomé’s 70th birthday, Galerie Deschler is presenting an exhibition celebrating the groundbreaking work of this extraordinary artist. Salomé, born Wolfgang Ludwig Cihlarz, is considered one of the most important pioneers of a free-spirited and diverse generation that significantly characterised the wild West Berlin of the 1970s and 80s. His works reflect the energetic and rebellious punk atmosphere that characterised Berlin at the time. His art and his courageous commitment to freedom and tolerance have contributed significantly to shaping the Berlin of today – a Berlin that is known worldwide for its openness and diversity. Vernissage: Thursday, 12 September 2024, 7 – 10 pm Exhibition dates: Thursday, 12 September – Saturday, 9 November 2024     Caption title: Salomé, NY-Selbstporträt, 1978, Kunstharz auf Nessel / Resin on nettle, 120 x 100 cm Exhibtion Salomé – SALOMÉ 70 – Galerie Deschler | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galerien | ART at Berlin

until 02.11. | #4435ARTatBerlin | Persons Projects shows from 10. September 2024 (Vernissage: 13.09.) the Solo Exhibition So Little Changed, So Little Remained of the artist Mikko Rikala. Persons Projects is proud to present Mikko Rikala’s solo exhibition So Little Changed, So Little Remained. The title refers to the poetry of T.S. Eliot and attempts to strike a balance between the fleeting, crucial moments we experience in daily life and the overall importance of memory in forming our identity. He refers to how German Romanticism utilized nature as a way to absorb the human experience within it. Throughout his career, Rikala has focused on different conceptual ways of visualizing the passage of time. In Rikala’s Lethe / Mnemosyne series, he utilizes collected objects both natural and man-made from his childhood that carry a memory for him. The photographs depicting his hands touching this assortment of objects is symbolic for the act of releasing the memories embedded in their history. They all play a part in Rikala’s relationship with his approach to humanity and the natural order within the world we coexist with. “I have been collecting small items from both the natural and man-made worlds since I was a child. Each of these objects has […]

until 02.11. | #4433ARTatBerlin | Galerie Thomas Fischer shows from Friday, 13. September 2024 (Vernissage: 12.09.) the exhibition of the artist Brian O’Doherty. The new exhibition by Irish-American artist and author Brian O’Doherty (1928-2022) centres on his conceptual drawings from the 1960s and 1970s. In addition to their intellectual rigour, they are characterised above all by the fact that they undermine it at the perceptual level: through language, irony, aesthetic stimuli and physical-sensual experiences. Lecture on Brian O’Doherty – Kupferstichkabinett Berlin The Kupferstichkabinett Berlin will host a lecture on Brian O’Doherty’s ‘White Cube’, which has established itself as a global term for the neutral, objective exhibition space, regardless of whether it is a private gallery or a public institution. Conversation with: Dr Astrid Mania, independent art critic and Professor of Art Criticism and Modern Art History at the University of Fine Arts Hamburg. Dr Marie-France Rafael, Professor of ‘Art in Context’ at the Zurich University of the Arts Moderator: Dr Georg Imdahl, independent art critic and Professor of Art and the Public at the Münster Academy of Fine Arts. Vernissage: Thursday, 12 September, 6 – 9 pm Exhibition dates: Friday, 13 September – Saturday, 02 November 2024     Caption Title: […]

until 26.10. | #4429ARTatBerlin | alexander levy shows from 11. September 2024 the exhibition Ontology of the Void by the artist Ella Littwit. Vernissage: Wednesday, 11. September 2024, 6 – 9 pm Exhibition perdiod: Wednesday, 11. September – Saturday, 26. October 2024     Image caption: Ella Littwitz, Ontology of the Void, 2024, courtesy of the artists and alexander levy Exhibition Ella Littwitz – Galerie alexander levy | Contemporary Art – Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin – Exhibitions Berlin Galleries – ART at Berlin

until 19.10. | #4422ARTatBerlin | Sexauer Gallery shows from 07. September 2024 the exhibition Blütenlese by the artist Louis Wessendorff. Louis Wessendorff has called his first exhibition at Sexauer “Blütenlese”. Wessendorff’s works have something anthological about them. Although not always recognisable at first glance, as the works are mainly based on painting and rarely on writing, the works nevertheless have a linguistic, i.e. communicative level. Wessendorff works with symbols, pictograms, ideograms and the most diverse linguistic forms of expression, without these forms of communication being immediately recognisable as such. He rarely uses words directly, occasionally also letters from an alphabet he developed himself. Linguistic communication takes place not only between pictures and viewers, but also between the pictures themselves. Mutual references between the pictures create a metatext that contributes to the understanding of each individual picture Opening: Saturday, 07. September 2024 Exhibition dates: Saturday, 07. September until Saturday, 19. October 2024 Opening dates Berlin Art Week: Saturday 14-Sunday 15, 2024: 3 pm.     Title image caption: Louis Wessendorff, courtesy of Sexauer Gallery Ehibition Louis Wessendorff – Sexauer Gallery | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Ausstellungen Berlin Galerien | ART at Berlin

until 26.10. | #4423ARTatBerlin | Galerie Max Hetzler (Bleibtreustraße) shows from Saturday, 07. September 2024 the exhibition Haven by the artist Danielle Mckinney. Galerie Max Hetzler presents the first solo-exhibition by Danielle Mckinney in Bleibtreustraße 45 and 15/16 in Berlin. Mckinney’s interior scenes capture moments of human introspection with painterly lyricism. Depicted in darkly lit domestic interiors, the artist’s exclusively Black and female protagonists sleep, read, smoke, or lounge languidly across sumptuous furniture, wholly immersed in their inner worlds. It is here that Mckinney’s figures find refuge – a state of being that permeates the fifteen new works on view. The titular painting, Haven, acts as a central work. A woman lounges on her golden bed as light filters in through the curtains to illuminate a small painting of a resting unicorn enclosed by a fence. The artist here imagines a mythological corollary to her protagonist, who finds a place of repose – a haven –amidst a turbulent world. Trained as a photographer, Mckinney arranges her subjects cinematographically, with an astute awareness of space, atmosphere and mood. The compositions are built from an all-black canvas, creating scenes which seem to emerge from darkness, echoing both the chiaroscuro of Spanish Golden Age painting and the evolution […]

until 02.11. | #4419ARTatBerlin | Galerie Société shows from 13. September 2024 the exhibition Drowning by the artist Conny Maier. Water and liquids are central motifs in the artist’s work, appearing in scenes in which they gush from human bodies, flow from urns or serve as a backdrop for enigmatic bathing scenes. Maier’s latest paintings take an even more pronounced aquatic turn, treating the notion of drowning – which evokes associations with the subconscious, the loss of control and the dissolution of the self – as an immersion into the deep, primal aspects of the psyche. For Maier, the metaphor of drowning symbolises the overwhelming nature of catastrophe, be it personal, political or ecological. But in this turmoil, she also finds the potential for renewal: the possibility of emerging from the depths reborn, purified and transformed Opening: Thursday, 12. September 2024, 6-9 pm.  Exhibition dates: Friday, 13. September until Saturday, 2. November 2024     Title image caption: Conny Maier, courtesy of Galerie Société Exhibition Conny Maier – Galerie Société | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Ausstellungen Berlin Galerien | ART at Berlin

until 16.11. | #4416ARTatBerlin | Galerie Bastian presents from Friday, 13. September 2024 the exhibition Freitag den 13. by the artist Andreas Mühe. In his first solo exhibition at Bastian Gallery, Andreas Mühe presents new works created in recent months. The artist continues his exploration of modern and recent German history in his intense photographs. He confronts us with scenes of spaces where the starting and ending points of radical political actions and acts of violence by the RAF and NSU took place. Alongside the exhibition, Mühe’s series ›Bunker. Realer Raum der Geschichte‹ is on display at the nearby Museum Kunsthaus Dahlem. Vernissage: Friday, 13. September 2024, noon to 10 pm Exhibition period: Friday, 13. September until Saturday, 16. November 2024     Image caption: Andreas Mühe, Freitag den 13., Courtesy Galerie Bastian Exhibition Andreas Mühe – Galerie Bastian | Contemporary Art – Kunst in Berlin | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries – ART at Berlin

until 22.11. | #4413ARTatBerlin | Galerie Gilla Lörcher shows from Friday, 11. October 2024 the exhibition I feel you feeling me by the artist Joanna Jones. Over the last four decades, Joanna Jones (born 1945) has developed a very unique visual language that is probably most closely related to Abstract Expressionism. And yet Jones’ approach is completely different, more radical and immediate. Her pictorial language is very energetic and expressive and she allows the viewer to share in her incredible sense of colour and colour tone. The painter uses only her body to apply the paint, whereby it is not about frottage but rather about a dancing, flowing movement in the paint and an immediate expression of her inner self, her thoughts and feelings. Joanna Jones places the often large-format canvases on the floor of her studio and goes into the paint in a kind of blind flight; she then interrupts the process again and again, stands up and looks at what she has created almost blindly, and then decides which colour, which consistency of paint or which movement she will use to continue her composition. The depth effect achieved by her paintings, painted with egg tempera in many layers […]

until 16.11. | #4410ARTatBerlin | Galerie kajetan Berlin presents from 14. September 2024 (Vernissage: 13.09.) the exhibition onde está o tempo que eu deixei nesse espaço?/where is the time I left in this space? by the artist Carla Guagliardi. Galerie kajetan presents the second solo exhibition by Brazilian artist Carla Guagliardi (*1956) entitled Onde está o tempo que eu deixei nesse espaço? / where is the time I left in this space? Carla Guagliardi | onde está o tempo que eu deixei nesse espaço? / where is the time I left in this space?  | Exhibition view 2024 Courtesy Carla Guagliardi & Galerie kajetan | Photo: Marcus Schneider For her minimalist installations and assemblages, the artist uses industrial materials such as concrete, copper, rubber, iron, wood and glass, which she combines with ephemeral elements such as air and water. The concept of time plays a decisive role here, which the artist makes visible as an active, formative material – as in her most recent in-situ works. Her works are characterized by stable and fragile moments, visible and hidden elements and a precarious balance. Whether a rope stretched to the maximum, latex balloons filled with air or a large glass ball full of water […]

until 02.11. | #4406ARTatBerlin | Sprüth Magers Berlin shows from 14. September 2024 the exhibition Ahmedabad 1992 by the artist John Baldessari. Throughout John Baldessari’s prolific and impactful career, he consistently examined and defied the expectations that influence our perception of art. His unique methodology in the realms of painting, photography, source materials, and text redefined and challenged conventional art historical limitations, making him a pioneer of American Conceptualism. Drawing from a wide range of sources – advertising, film culture, Marcel Duchamp, and Ludwig Wittgenstein – he created absurdist, complex yet accessible juxtapositions. Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers are pleased to present the second iteration of Ahmedabad 1992, a solo exhibition of an alluring series of mixed media assemblages Baldessari produced during his residency in India. For the first time in decades, a selection from this unique period in the artist’s oeuvre was initially shown during summer 2024 at the London gallery. Introducing the body of work to Berlin viewers, Ahmedabad 1992 will travel to the gallery’s German space for Berlin Art Week. Exhibition dates: Saturday, 14. September until Saturday, 02. November 2024 Additional Opening Hours during Berlin Art Week: Saturday, 14. September 2024, 11-6 pm. Sunday, 15 September, 2024, 11-6 pm.     […]

until 09.11. | #4403ARTatBerlin | Galerie Georg Nothelfer shows from 11. September 2024 (Vernissage 13.09.) the exhibition In Limbo by the artist Elmira Iravanizad. Galerie Georg Nothelfer presents the first solo exhibition of new works by Iranian artist Elmira Iravanizad (*1987). The artist’s work includes small and large-format paintings in oil on canvas, sculptures made of ceramic, metal and wood and collages, which she assembles from drawings, cut-outs, paste-overs and overpaintings. She archives, arranges and reuses the remnants of her artistic work in the form of cut-outs and scraps of material. Elmira Iravanizad I Image no. 28 I 2022 I Collage/pen I 100 x 70 cm. I Photo: Friedhelm Hoffmann The resulting forms move from oil painting to softly folded or playfully symbolic wall sculpture to collage and into the archive collection. Her working method combines the different genres in which she works: Layer by layer, she cuts the objects in her paintings out of the coloured background by applying black paint; layer by layer, she loosely assembles shapes cut out of paper in her collages or sticks transparent foil over drawings and colour imprints; layer by layer, she works the surface of her ceramic or wooden sculptures with pencil […]

until 16.11. | #4400ARTatBerlin | ARTES Berlin shows from 13. September 2024 the group exhibition BEYOND SYMBOLS. The exhibition “Beyond Symbols” takes Pablo Picasso’s iconic series “Pigeon” from 1943 as its starting point. In this series, Picasso dismantled the pigeon in a cubist manner and reassembled it as a dove of peace in 1949. How do symbols change over time and how can they be reinterpreted today? These questions are at the centre of the exhibition. Among the assembled names are Christian Awe, Georges Braque, Luciano Castelli, Doppeldenk, Marion Eichmann, Lutz Friedel, Erich Heckel, Albert Hien, Thomas Jastram, Nari Jo, Helge Leihberg, Markus Lüpertz, Jon-athan Meese, Cathleen Meyer, Heiner Meyer, Ju-lian Opie, A.R. Penck, Pablo Picasso, Otto Piene, Jochen Plogsties, Michael Ramsauer, Gerhard Richter, Janos Schaab, Cornelia Schleime, Winnie Seifert, Stefan Szczesny, Lars Teich- mann, Günther Uecker, Dagmar Vogt, Bernd Zimmer and many more … Programme for Berlin Art Week Friday, 13 September 2024 – from 6 pm, reception and vernissage – 7 pm, Florian Illies / The journalist, art historian and bestselling author talks about the value of art – from 8 pm, social evening with flying food in the gallery courtyard Saturday, 14 September 2024 – from 4 […]

until 19.10. | #4397ARTatBerlin | Galerie aKonzept shows from 11. September 2024 a duo exhibition by the artists Arnulf Rainer and Dieter Roth. Galerie aKonzept opens their new exhibition on 13 September 2024 from 5 pm. On display are six works by Arnulf Rainer and two joint works by Arnulf Rainer and Dieter Roth. Vernissage: Friday, 13. September 2024 from 5 pm Exhibition period: Wednesday, 11. September until Saturday, 19. October 2024       Image caption: Arnulf Rainer und Dieter Roth, © 2024 Galerie aKonzept Exhibition Arnulf Rainer + Dieter Roth – Galerie aKonzept | Zeitgenössische Kunst | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin

until 12.10. | #4394ARTatBerlin | Galerie Martin Mertens shows from 07. September 2024 the exhibition When everything`s made to be broken by the artist Tomoyuki Ueno. Galerie Martin Mertens presents the third solo exhibition of Japanese artist Tomoyuki Ueno at the gallery. In this exhibition, Ueno combines three groups of works. The first group comprises a further development of his Sky Sculptures, in which he combines the structures of marble slabs with structures of cloud formations in the form of photographs. He has now merged the two slabs (marble and photograph), which were previously arranged next to each other, by inserting the photograph into an opening in the marble slab. This creates an even closer connection between the two elements. The second group comprises works from the “Forest” series, in which Ueno collects y-shaped branches in Berlin forests and connects them with metal rings to form transparent curtains or reliefs. An element shaped by nature is arranged in series, creating new geometric forms. The third group of works is a premiere in the gallery, as this is the first time that Ueno is showing the results of his exploration of ceramic art, which is very important and respected in Japan. […]

until 15.09. | #4455ARTatBerlin | aquabitArt Galerie shows from Tuesday, 10. September 2024 the exhibition Free Horses by the artist Luigi Pirastu. The exhibition “Free Horses” by Luigi Pirastu will be shown at aquabitArt Gallery Berlin from September 11 to 15, during the 13th edition of Berlin Art Week. The Italian architect and sculptor Luigi Pirastu is an artist who combines tradition with innovation. His training at the Istituto Universitario di Architettura in Venice and his international experience have enriched his artistic approach and enabled him to develop his new position in art. Pirastu began his career as an interior designer in prestigious buildings such as the Corderie dell’Arsenale in Venice and the Italian Trade Center in London and also collaborated with the well-known Catalan artist Antoni Miralda for the Spanish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Luigi-Pirastu_Dipping-in-the-sea_14x10x-150cm_2023_1080x608 In recent years, Pirastu has concentrated primarily on sculpture, developing two different themes. On the one hand, he creates abstract horse figures made of stone, malachite, turquoise or blue krista, and on the other, fish made of composite materials. His most recent sculptural project, which is now being shown in Berlin, is called “Free Horses”. Luigi Pirastu’s depictions of horses are archaic, stylized […]

until 16.10. | #4386ARTatBerlin | Galerie Inga Kondeyne shows from 07. September 2024 the exhibition Strichhaltige Gründe by the artist Kazuki Nakahara. Anyone who has ever encountered exhibits by the illustrator Kazuki Nakahara at Inga Kondeyne’s once or even several times will probably be able to activate vivid reminiscences of mostly large-format sheets covered with almost infinitely variable line formations and line breaks: atmospheric areas that emit the breath of an airy lightness. The fleetingness of appearances is always preserved in the new sheets; however, a different mood prevails in them. As before, the view is unobstructed of Nakahara’s line-by-line accumulation of the most diverse drawing abbreviations with the character of empty signifiers, whereby each line at the same time provides deliberate recesses, which in turn function as blank lineatures of the sheet ground in the overall view. All of this is organized into an abstract configuration that now has a more expressive/dramatic connotation. Strokes, lines and line breaks interlock to form tense counter-rotations or superimpositions, orchestrate interspersed agglomerations, swirls and distortions or end abruptly at vertical/diagonal ‘through-radiations’ of the sheet ground. Pronounced, sometimes rapid ‘impulses of movement’ come into play, flowing through the artist’s most recent series of drawings. […]

until 12.10. | #4388ARTatBerlin | Luisa Catucci Gallery (Brunnenstraße) shows from 06. September 2024 the solo-exhibition MORE AND MORE GODDESSES by the artist Elisabeth Masé. The retrospective, curated by Luisa Catucci, offers an overview of Masé’s artistic career, with a particular focus on her ongoing series “New Goddesses”. This exhibition also celebrates the publication of her latest book, which offers a deeper insight into her profound exploration of spirituality, femininity and cultural anthropology through a wide range of media, including painting, drawing, photography, video and object art. Opening: Thursday, 05. September, 6-9 pm. Exhibition dates: Friday, 06. September – Saturday, 12. October 2024     Title image caption: Elisabeth Masé – NEW GODDESS (The Steadfast) 140 x 100cm oil on canvas Exhibition Elisabeth Masé – Luisa Catucci Gallery | Zeitgenössische Kunst Berlin – Contemporary Art – Ausstellungen Berlin Galerien | ART at Berlin

until 19.10. | #4384ARTatBerlin | Robert Morat Galerie shows from 07. September 2024 the exhibition “Plates I-XXXI” by the artist Lia Darjes. For her new series Plates I-XXXI, Lia Darjes arranges an experiment on the subject of still lifes. While she sets the ‘stage’ for these pictures, the main aspect is chance:  Plate V, 2023, Pigment print, 40 x 50 cm ‘For my new work, I invite myself to eat and drink in the gardens and on the terraces of my friends. The place settings on the garden table become the basis of a still life through my intervention. After I leave, a camera remains behind as a passive observer for a few hours or whole days. It is triggered by movement when birds or wild animals visit the table. In this way, images are created where it is not clear whether it is a documented scene or an arranged still life. I find it fascinating to combine the staged and the accidental in one picture. Plates is a semi-documentary still life study dedicated to the grey area between the habitats of humans and wild animals,’ explains the artist. Opening: Friday, 06. September 2024, 6 pm. Exhibition dates: Saturday, 07. September until […]

until 12.10. | #4382ARTatBerlin | ChertLüdde (Potsdamer Str.) shows from 11. September 2024 the duo-exhibition by the artists David Horvitz and Ali Eyal. On the occasion of Berlin Art Week 2024, ChertLüdde will open the reception of the double exhibition by David Horvitz and Ali Eyal in the pop-up location ChertLüdde Potsdamer Straße (formerly Edition Klosterfelde) on Wednesday, September 12th. On Sunday afternoon, September 15th, a poetry event will take place in the exhibition. In their two-person exhibition A new garden from old wounds (a line in Maria Sledmere’s poem ‘Deciduous’), artists David Horvitz and Ali Eyal explore geographic and conceptual distances. Held in the gallery’s temporary exhibition space on Potsdamer Strasse, the show delves into the boundaries of memories and emotions to investigate how fragmentary elements can come together to form a new reality. In one of David Horvitz’s newest artworks in the exhibition, he continues his exploration of time by presenting a series of recycled glass vases made in memory of his grandmother, Irma. Irma was born in one of Berlin’s historically Jewish neighborhoods before emigrating to the United States on a steamship in 1913. The glass shards encased within these vases originate from the very street where […]

until 10.2024 | #4377ARTatBerlin | Semjon Contemporary shows from 06. September 2024 (Vernissage: 05.09.) the exhibition Transition I Of Decoys. Elegies and Tenebrae by the artist Colin Ardley. Semjon Contemporary shows from 06. September 2024 (Vernissage: 05.09.) the exhibition Transition I Of Decoys. Elegies and Tenebrae by the artist Colin Ardley. This exhibition will be extended with Transition II at the Werkstättengalerie der Deutschen Werkstä ten in Hellerau (Dresden) from November 7, 2024 – February 28, 2025. Opening is on November 6. Monument,  2023/24, 41 x 43 x 30 cm, Depafit, lackiert   Depafit, lacquered Interview on Radio Arty On Sunday, September 1, 4 pm Colin Ardley as a guest on Radio Arty To listen to again: Monday, September 2 Vernissage: Thursday, 05. September 2024, 7 – 9:30 pm Exhibition period: Friday, 06. September – Saturday, 12. October 2024     Image caption: Diagonal Decoy, 2017-23, 41,5 x 46 x 26,5 cm, Karton, Wellpappe, Holz, Acrylglas, Gitterblech, Kunststoff  |  cardboard, corrugated cardboard, wood, acrylic glass, grid plate, plastic, Photos: Colin Ardley Exhibition Colin Ardley – Semjon Contemporary | Zeitgenössische Kunst | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin

until 19.10. | #4378ARTatBerlin | AOA;87 contemporary shows from 13. September 2024 the group exhibition The glittering field curated by Onomeh Ekeh. The exhibition The glittering field, curated by Onome Ekeh, will be shown during Berlin Art Week, in which 20 international artists explore the concept of “transmission”. Parallel to the gallery programme, AOA;87 presents a satellite programme in the alternative art space MaHalla, which complements the themes of the exhibition with an additional installation and performances curated by the Mexican artist Nahum. Marcia Harvey Isaksson, Kiruna to Kimberley, bark cloth, crocheted copper thread, 182 x 276 cm (Photocredit: Hilla Aspman) What is transmission? In general terms it is the act of relaying a signal from one site to another; a nerve impulse across synapsis; the passing of gnosis from guru to accolyte… This relay is as imperceptible as it is ubiquitous, thus this assemblage of artists and thinkers set about the task of tracking the invisible shimmering realm. The Glittering Field explores these rites of osmosis and communion through subtly dynamic investigations of tech, text and textiles. About the curator Onome Ekeh wields a unique interdisciplinary perspective. Born and raised on both sides of the Atlantic, OE started out […]

until 19.10. | #4374ARTatBerlin | BBA Gallery Shows from 06. September 2024 the Group exhibition Echoes of tomorrow. yes, today! by the artists Verena Bachl, Rhys Himsworth, Chirag Jindal, Sven Windszus and WHYIXD . The exhibition “echoes of tomorrow. yes today!” reflects upon the rapid changes in the latest technological developments and the continuously evolving media landscape, highlighting how we are often in pursuit of the newest trends. This pursuit sometimes leads to dressing up these trends in new forms and labelling them as “art,” while often forgetting the deeper, fundamental questions about the art presented in galleries—its purpose and existence. Following what’s currently popular has little to do with the essence of contemporary art. Many artists are curious about new technologies and media, experimenting with them to achieve creative outcomes. However, the challenge lies in creating something sustainable that goes beyond mere conceptualisation or the thrill of technology. Art is also judged by its ability to endure beyond the short lifespan of a particular hype. The artists showcased in the BBA Gallery Berlin resist these “trends” by questioning our relationship with ourselves and nature. Imagination and memory are fundamental aspects of human perception, cognition and language which are influenced by technology and […]

until 19.10. | #4371ARTatBerlin | neugerriemschneider (Linienstraße) presents from 7. September 2024 the exhibition NowJustPassedBy by the artists Cevdet Erek, Mario García Torres, Shilpa Gupta Renata Lucas, Mike Nelson and Rirkrit Tiravanija. In NowJustPassedBy, a group exhibition featuring works by Cevdet Erek, Mario García Torres, Shilpa Gupta, Renata Lucas, Mike Nelson and Rirkrit Tiravanija, divergent notions of time and its structure reveal a multivalent capacity to mold our experience of the present. Linear, circular or hypothetical temporal models collide with the instantaneous and the spatial, shaping interfaces that prompt reimagination of chronology’s persistent forward momentum, materializing its intangible potential as sculptural manifestations. Shilpa Gupta’s wall-mounted, neon-lit work NowJustPassedBy (2023) serves as the point of departure for this presentation, both in title and concept. The eponymous phrase, authored by the artist, centers “now” as an ever- shifting, uniquely individuated moment, while the work’s mirrored image emphasizes the close link between movement, perspective and interpretation. The present is likewise at the core of Cevdet Erek’s Ruler 100 Years 2023 (with Calendar and Alphabet Revolution) and Ruler 100 Years 2023 (both 2023): paired rulers whose abilities to measure space are supplanted by the capacity to enumerate time. With their shared year of conception […]

until 19.10. | #4368ARTatBerlin | Galerie Esther Schipper shows from 13. September 2024 the exhibition the alphabet of my mothers and fathers by the artist Ugo Rondinone. We are nothing without food. The spread of farming led to food surpluses, which spared some of us the daily chore of hunting and gathering. Trades and professions emerged as agriculture grew more efficient with the use of tools, further shrinking the number of people tasked with food production. Farmers, cooks and their tools made us sedentary, enabled cities and empires to arise, encouraged the standardisation of alphabets and numerical systems, and facilitated the proliferation of knowledge and art. Today, in the industrialised world, the workers needed to supply us with food is a tiny, single-digit percentage of the population while farming’s old tools have all but vanished. Ugo Rondinone’s the alphabet of my mothers and fathers, 2022, consists of twenty-six sets of gilded farm tools, one per letter of the alphabet. Hand-made by their users for countless generations, these were the implements of traditional farming and food preparation. By applying them with gold leaf and mounting them on white squares, Rondinone transforms the tools into regal hieroglyphs of ingenuity and skill. Exhibition view: […]

until 12.10. | #4366ARTatBerlin | Galerie Kremers shows from 13. September 2024 the exhibition Freischwimmer by the artist Tinka Bechert. Originally from Berlin, Tinka Bechert (b. 1975) lives between Ireland and Berlin. Bechert completed her studies with a Masters in Visual Arts Practice at the Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology in Dublin. She received the prestigious VAI Paris Centre Culturel Irlandais Residency Award in 2020 and has exhibited widely in Ireland, Germany, Canada and the USA. Her work is represented in many public and private collections both in Ireland and internationally, including the Office of Public Works, the Arts Council Collection, the Victoria & Albert Museum and Tate Britain. While originally working with figurative painting that referenced her own biography and her Berlin artists family Lepsius’ history, Tinka Bechert has since developed an increasingly unique, abstract visual language. Elements form an independent rhythm that simultaneously sets the composition in motion while also binding it together. Colours and forms springing from the artist’s unique own language tempt the viewer to decipher the sometimes familiar, sometimes surprising juxtapositions of colour, tones and compositions for themselves. In “Constellations”, for example, a massive accumulation of bold colours and organic forms hovers […]

until 31.12. | #4364ARTatBerlin | Galerie Brockstedt shows from 19. September 2024 the exhibition “Von anderer Wirklichkeit” by the artist Pit Morell. Why commit myself to peat cutters, ploughing farmers. That’s only part of what I intend to process. What moved me? I used this and that from my life and my way of looking at things. I went through the events. Went through the anterooms, main rooms, side rooms, penetrated the tarmac surface of the streets in and around Worpswede, which again let the brick lattices emerge in places, as they do every spring. Worked my way through half of Jark’s thatched roof, through the milk churns. Stopped at the edge of the path. Looked back at a buzzard flying up. The man sharpening his scythe at the edge of the meadow made me think for a moment. Happy again about everything that had happened, I watched him doing the work he had to do at this time of year. He had done the same thing 365 days earlier and I had thought the same thing. It was as if it had only been yesterday. Seeing him meant happiness. He was standing there, in the meadow that belonged to […]

until 31.08. | #4361ARTatBerlin | Galerie SCHMALFUSS BERLIN shows from 03. August 2024 the exhibition “Poetische Malerei versus expressive Bildhauerkunst” with paintings by Michel Meyer und Hans Scheib. MICHEL MEYER wrote about the content of his painting in 1999: “My painting is not just a game with colors, pencils and material to obtain heads, figures and their fragments and relationships. […] Through the ongoing process of painting, all thoughts disposed of in the picture disappear and transform themselves caterpillar-like into beautiful and humorous things. Into stories with an open ending.” Experiences full of emotional emotion are reflected in HANS SCHEIB’s legendary sculptures. His wooden sculptures in particular, with their rugged surface treatment, represent snapshots of extreme excitement – from moments of shock to self-awareness. For health reasons, HANS SCHEIB has been unable to work with wood since 2023. His work now focuses on bronzes. MICHEL MEYER, Die große Kurve | Acryl auf Leinwand, 100 x 100 cm, 2020 The exhibition MICHEL MEYER | HANS SCHEIB once again offers a range of bronze and wood sculptures by the sculptor HANS SCHEIB, who was influenced by Berlin Realism and German Expressionism and is much sought-after by collectors. Opening: Saturday, 03. August 2024, […]

until 30.08. | #4457ARTatBerlin | Michaela Helfrich Galerie shows from Friday, 9. August 2024 the exhibition Summer of Love. On show are works by the artists Simon Czapla, Peter Dzogaba, Kennet Lekko, Armin Paul and Alan Rankle. Vernissage: Friday, 9. August 2024, 7 pm Exhibition period: Friday, 9. August – Friday, 30. August 2024     Bildunterschrift Titelbild: Courtesy to Galerie Michaela Helfrich Exhibition Summer of Love – Michaela Helfrich Galerie | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin

until 17.08. | #4357ARTatBerlin | CAMERA WORK shows from 20. July 2024 an art presentation of 15 selected works from Thomas Hoepker’s oeuvre. With the death of Thomas Hoepker, the gallery has lost one of the most important German photographers in history, but above all Hoepker the man, whom it represented for more than 20 years and presented at exhibitions and art fairs. It comprises 15 selected works by the photographer. In addition to his portraits of boxing legend Muhammad Ali, photographs by Andy Warhol and works from Hoepker’s “Berlin Wall Children” series will also be on display. Thomas Hoepker (1936-2024) gained his first experience with the medium of photography at the age of 14. He received two Photokina awards during his studies and from 1959 worked regularly as an advertising photographer for magazines and book publications. He devoted himself to photojournalism and later also became interested in the moving image, shooting films and working as a cameraman. In 1974, he was the first accredited photographer to go to East Berlin for Stern magazine, where he worked temporarily as art director. In 1989, Thomas Hoepker became the first German photographer to become a full member of the Magnum Photos agency […]