CURRENT EXHIBITS [133]

Collage entered the modern era in the early 20th century, and in the 1920s DADA gave it a particular Berlin flavour. We have been observing for some time how contemporary artists are finding new ways to use collague techniques in order to express their personal perceptions of reality in a fitting manner. They might adopt the classical approach – glueing, overpainting and alienating existing images –...   [more]

Opening: May 23rd, 2012   10:00 AM - 6:00 PM

In cooperation with the Berlinische Galerie, the Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst (NGBK) is showing the first retrospective exhibition in Germany of the internationally acclaimed artist Alfredo Jaar (* 1956 / Santiago de Chile). The artist, who lives in New York, received a grant from the DAAD and spent some time in Berlin 20 years ago(1991). He made a name for himself in Germany with some spec...   [more]

Opening: June 15th, 2012   10:00 AM - 6:00 PM

Opening: June 26th, 2012   7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Adolescent beauty, sexuality and drug-induced action – Larry Clark radically and realistically documents the everyday life of US teenagers, transgressing bourgeois moral concepts. From the drug scene in his hometown of Tulsa in the early 1960s to contemporary skaters in Los Angeles his works capture extremely intimate moments. The authenticity of Clarke’s images expose the consequences of a dy...   [more]

Opening: May 25th, 2012   7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

"Was ist die Großstadt gegen die Freunde, bei Finsterwalde leben noch drei. Halten sich wacker auf dem Parkplatz und sehen den Autos Richtung Süden nach. Hinter dem Feld nach dem Spiel gehört der Abend den Gardinen. Und der Wald schweigt sich aus und dann ist irgendwann Ruhe."Aus dem Song "Finsterwalde" von Jacques Palminger & ErobiqueDer Südosten Brandenburgs. Einst eine bedeutende Industrieregi...   [more]

Opening: July 13th, 2012   7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

In the context of the 4th Berlin - Paris gallery exchange, Nina Koidl and Henning Weidemann are pleased to present the video work Parque do Flamengo by the Brussels based artist Sophie Nys represented by Galerie Emmanuel Hervé, Paris.The subject of this film project, Parque do Flamengo in Rio de Janeiro, was designed by Roberto Burle Marx between 1954 and 1959 and finally completed in 1965. Burle M...   [more]

Opening: June 29th, 2012   4:00 PM - 9:00 PM

with the collaboration of Marcelle Alix, Parisat the occasion of the Berlin-Paris galleries exchange   [more]

!Saturdays only! We are glad to invite you to join us for our summer program: "Skalitzer. 68" invites artists, editors, performers for a series of lectures, presentations, exhibitions and events which will take over the spaces of Chert, Motto and Silberkuppe each Saturday, between July 21 and August 25. Schedule: 21st July Margaret Harrison - talk and screening, starts at 7 pm Convolution Journal/Pe...   [more]

Auf immer neuen Wegen, erfinderisch in jedem Moment, befindet sich der gebürtige Franzose und Wahl-Berliner Jaybo auf einer konstanten Reise. Er erkundet mit seinem Erinnerungsladen die Welt und zeichnet eine emotionale Topographie seines Lebens, bestehend aus visuellen, halb versteckten Stücken der Erinnerungen, die verräterisch und zu gleich zeitlos sind.Er ist ein Maler am Ende der Malerei, in...   [more]

Opening: June 21st, 2012   7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Summer exhibition by Petra Lindholm, Ina Sangenstedt, Regina Nieke, Edith Kollath, Thomas Judisch   [more]

Opening: June 22nd, 2012   7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Contemporary Fine Arts is pleased to present its first solo show of paintings by Julian Schnabel (*1951). It is the artist’s first major solo exhibition in Germany since his sensational museum retrospective at the Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt 2004. Julian Schnabel began making a name for himself in the early 1980s, in particular with his “plate paintings”, works in which broken pieces of...   [more]

Opening: April 27th, 2012   6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

The first exhibition in the 'Minimalism Germany 1960 series in 2010 comprehensively showed major trends in reduced, abstract 1960s art in Germany from the Daimler Art Collection. The second part concentrates on a small number of protagonists who essentially represent a specifically German aspect of Minimalism as an international trend in the 1960s with large-scale work, serial picture objects and ac...   [more]

Opening: March 31st, 2012   11:00 AM - 6:00 PM

Comprising thousands of items of detritus the artist has gathered at two sites—a playing field near his home in New York and a protected coastal biosphere in Baja California Sur, Mexico, that is also the repository for flows of industrial and commercial waste from across the Pacific Ocean. One component, Sandstars, responds to the unique environment encountered in Isla Arena, Mexico, a wil...   [more]

Opening: July 6th, 2012   10:00 AM - 8:00 PM

Wir, die Künstlerinnen und Künstler des Deutschen Künstlerbundes, diskutieren die Terminologie des Urheberrechts.   [more]