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
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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
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
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
Julian Charrière at GASAG Kunstpreis 2018 – Berlinische Galerie, Berlin
Press release: To mark his receipt of the GASAG Art Prize 2018, Julian Charrière (1987) is exhibiting a multimedia spatial installation that takes visitors under water in the Pacific Ocean. Seventy years after the United States began testing nuclear weapons at Bikini Atoll, the artist set off on an expedition to an area rendered permanently
Vivian Greven at Aurel Scheibler, Berlin
Press release: For Vivian Greven, the story of Amor and Psyche is the starting point of her new works. It is the ancient tale about a unity destroyed by Psyche‘s desire to recognize the real figure of her lover: her mind demands to see the nature of Amor, for what we see is easier to
Andro Wekua at Sprüth Magers, Berlin
Press release: At the center of Andro Wekua’s new exhibition at Sprüth Magers is a life-size sculpture made of nickel silver – a silver-like alloy of copper, nickel and zinc – and a group of paintings. The untitled sculpture recalls Wekua’s earlier mannequin figures and continues their subtle formal vocabulary. The androgynous figure appears situated
Philip Poppek at Stadium, Berlin
Press release: The entire catalogue raisonné of the painter is scanned and an archive of all contained word paintings is created. The archive is subjected to an automated vectorization process. Painted images are photographed on film grain or chip, printed as a raster image in the catalogue, converted into vector graphics by an algorithmic process.
Louise Bourgeois at Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin
Press release: The Schinkel Pavilion is pleased to announce Louise Bourgeois: The Empty House. The solo exhibition dedicated to Bourgeois’ sack forms brings together a range of works in diverse media from the last two decades of her life. Bourgeois first explored the possibilities of the sack form in her writings from the the early