Press release: Be the best that you can be „Here he hands me a blob of gummy silicone. It’s too large for me to get my fingers around and has the texture of fine sand. ‚Then we put it back in. Point of the story is, you double the size of somebody’s testicles.‘“ [1] I
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Kathryn Andrews at KÖNIG GALERIE, Berlin
Press release: König Galerie is proud to announce Circus Empire, a large-scale installation of new sculptures and wallworks by Los Angeles-based artist Kathryn Andrews. Andrews’ work explores histories of dominance and ways in which latent or normalized social power structures influence culture. Her sculptures and 2-D works often incorporate the images and artifacts of hegemonic
Rémy Zaugg at Nordenhake, Berlin
Press release: For the first time since it was first exhibited 15 years ago, Rémy Zaugg’s comprehensive self-portrait “I, myself.” (2002/03, comprising 18 pale grey text-paintings in different sizes, will be on view again. Swiss artist Rémy Zaugg (1943–2005) is renowned for his works that merge the domains of image and language, engaging the viewer
Gianni Caravaggio at Rolando Anselmi, Berlin
Press release: Reine Empfindung (1) I’m interested in a certain issue related to abstraction. This early ‘900 issue can be brought back to the German Romanticism. For instance, if we think about the geometrical structure of “Die Zeiten” by Philip Otto Runge – in which the motion and the cyclicity of celestial bodies is visualized
“You Are” at Reinbeckhallen Foundation – Collection of Contemporary Art, Berlin
Press release: The Institution for Contemporary Art, Reinbeckhallen in collaboration with the artistic community of Schöneweide presents: You are -ontological positions around matter. The exhibition portrays how today contemporary artists place their work inside the philosophical debate of being and becoming, essence and existence, thinking and perceiving. The aim of the exhibition is to show
Paul Pfeiffer at Carlier Gebauer, Berlin
Press release: carlier | gebauer is pleased to present Incarnator, Paul Pfeiffer’s fifth solo exhibition with the gallery. Pfeiffer’s Incarnator series expands from the artist’s internationally acclaimed eponymous video, which is further brought to life through a series of life-sized sculptures. All sculptures were produced during the artist’s six-month residency at Bellas Artes Projects in
“A Fatal Attraction” at Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin
Press release: On Black Friday, 2011, at the onset of the sales season, the outdoor brand Patagonia runs an advertisement in the New York Times that apparently discourages its potential customers with the slogan: Don’t buy this Jacket. Showing one of their best-selling jackets – cut out against a clean, white background – next to
Fatma Shanan at Dittrich & Schlechtriem, Berlin
Press release: The garden, Michel Foucault once wrote, is a carpet on which a symbolic representation of the entire world is unfolding. And the carpet, for its part, is in a sense a movable piece of the world, a garden that can be unrolled as desired beneath our feet and our lives.[1] This multilayered object,
Helen Marten at König Galerie, Berlin
Press release: Helen Marten works across sculpture, painting and writing to create a body of work that questions the stability of the material world and our place within it. Alluding to language, systems and intentionality, her work across all media sets out to imagine the miraculous substructure beneath the veneer of our habitual lives. The
Spiros Hadjidjanos at Future Gallery, Berlin
Press release: Future Gallery is proud to present an exhibition of new works by Spiros Hadjidjanos. For his latest exhibition at the Future Gallery, Spiros Hadjidjanos explores the relationship between the collective acceleration of the cultural and technological evolutions. His experience of this shift in relation to his own trajectory and memory drives the investigation.
Hannah Black at Eden Eden, Berlin
Press release: Over the course of the show, a gallery worker will take handfuls of clay from Clay Aeter 2 and transfer them to Clay Aeter 1, until Clay Aeter 2 has no more clay, and then the process will continue in reverse from Clay Aeter 1 to Clay Aeter 2 “God made us so
Koo Jeong A at KÖNIG GALERIE, Berlin
Press release: The work of Koo Jeong A incorporates objects with the capacity for transformation,still and moving images, sound and scent. These disparate mediums are combined with elements such as wind, gravity, and site-specific reconfigurations and interventions into architectural space. Often using commonplace matter in order to conjure alternative realities, Koo Jeong A traces a
Tamara Henderson at KW – Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
Press release: The foundation for the exhibition Womb Life by Tamara Henderson is manifold. One strand can be traced back to an encounter at Gatwick Airport. At 10 am on Sunday, May 27, 2018, in a Tokyo-style hotel room capsule, the artist had an impromptu hypnotherapy session with the hypnotist Marcos Lutyens. The written account
David Hanes at Open Forum, Berlin
Press release: Ice was the nature of his game. Seen as leagues of corridor, mazes of shadow. Walls that flick away like supersonic butterflies made of shade. Beyond them, the illusion of infinite space. Black ice. Don’t think about it. Black ice. Too many stories; black ice. Frost that kills. Black ice. Illegal, but then
Alfredo Aceto at DITTRICH & SCHLECHTRIEM, Berlin
Press release: Turin is a city that trains your skill in looking at things from far away, things in movement. When workday routine and pressure begins clutching at your throat, you go down to the Po and stroll along its bank, watching it flow. There by the river, attempting to catch your breath, your eyes
Tony Cragg at Buchmann Galerie, Berlin
Press release: Buchmann Galerie is delighted to announce an exhibition featuring new sculptures and drawings by Tony Cragg. In the front exhibition space, a monumental sculpture from the new work group Skulls, measuring 240 x 227 x 172 cm, makes a powerful impression with its complex interlock of internal and external spaces. The entire volume
Alisa Baremboym at Konrad Fischer Galerie, Berlin
Press release: Alisa Baremboym’s first solo exhibition at Konrad Fischer Galerie, Between States, continues the investigation of themes long seen in her work. Focused on creating transitional moments of “becoming”, and applying a wide array of materials: ceramics, steel, gelling agents, silk, and cables, with unlikely partners such as vinyl, plastic, and crude-oil by-product, her