CURRENT EXHIBITS [120]

Vom 08. Februar bis zum 13. April zeigen wir „Fünf oder sechs einfache Sachen und Schule für Unsichtbarkeit“, die erste Einzelausstellung von Jochen Dehn in Deutschland. Der Künstler bietet in der Galerie Aanant & Zoo wöchentliche Übungen in Ambiguität und Diffusion an und zeigt Möglichkeiten, sich aufzulösen, ohne zu verschwinden. Die Performances sind Versuchsaufbauten zur Verrin...   [more]

Opening: February 8th   7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Walter Benjamin entwirft Bilder seiner Großstadtkindheit mit der Einsicht »in die notwendige gesellschaftliche Unwiederbringlichkeit des Vergangenen«. In Vitrinen und einem Computerterminal sind ein Pharus-Plan mit den wichtigsten Orten, Fotos und biografische Dokumente zu sehen, ferner Manuskripte, die den Weg von der »Berliner Chronik« zur »Berliner Kindheit« nachzeichnen: Berlin als Or...   [more]

Anhand von 25 ausgewählten Biografien erzählt die Ausstellung von der Rettungsaktion des mexikanischen Diplomaten Gilberto Bosques, vom Leben der Berliner Exilanten im fernen Mexiko und von ihrer Rückkehr in das zerstörte Nachkriegsdeutschland. Als Konsul in Marseille versorgte Bosques von 1940 bis 1942 unter dramatischen Umständen zahlreiche deutsche und österreichische Flüchtlinge, die na...   [more]

Opening: December 3rd, 2012   11:00 AM - 8:00 PM

Es ist nicht nur ein weitverbreitetes Gefühl, sondern eine Tatsache, dass sehr viel falsch läuft in unserer Welt. Grund genug, den globalen Problemen mit allen zur Verfügung stehenden Möglichkeiten Aufmerksamkeit zu verschaffen. Unter dem Motto „Mut zur Wut“ initiierte der Heidelberger Grafikdesigner Götz Gramlich zusammen mit Marcello Lucas einen Plakatwettbewerb. Eine internationale Ju...   [more]

Opening: January 17th   11:00 AM - 8:00 PM

The geopolitical change that took place in 1989 ushered in an era of worldwide biennales, whose geography bid farewell to Western Art, with its old contradiction between the centre and the periphery. The exhibition project Nothing to Declare? now documents these global developments. The heart of this exhibition is a panorama room as a media installation, which illustrates the passage of time and the g...   [more]

Opening: February 1st   11:00 AM - 8:00 PM

The Galerie alexander levy is very pleased to be able to present works from sixartists with the Group Show II exhibit.With the Group Show exhibit series, the Galerie alexander levy each year presentsyoung artists who have drawn attention due to their special positions.Benjamin Bronni (*1985 in Nürtingen) is distinguished by strongly structuredpaintings and sculptures that appear to follow a particul...   [more]

ARNDT freut sich mit Heinz Mack in Berlin - Werke von 1958-2012 die bisher umfangreichste Werkschau eines der bedeutendsten lebenden Deutschen Malers und Bildhauers im Berliner Kunsthandel zu präsentieren. Es ist dies auch die erste Berliner Einzelausstellung von Heinz Mack seit seiner Retrospektive im Pergamon Museum im Jahre 2006 und der offizielle Beginn der Zusammenarbeit zwischen Heinz Mack un...   [more]

Opening: October 25th, 2012   6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

In 1961, Gorgona fled from the then powerful communism into the irrational, the incomprehensible. The inactivity of Gorgona was noticeable. Several young people whose mutual affection was the decisive connective factor met occasionally. Gorgona did not have any messages! It was a particular type of activity, auto-ironic, affording a feeling of being unusual. Perhaps it brought something new; perha...   [more]

Opening: January 18th   6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Originally, Gertrud Arndt (1903-2000) had wanted to become an architect, but a regular course in architecture was not yet being offered at the Bauhaus. The master of form in the weaving workshop, Georg Muche, recognized her special talent in the field of textiles and entrusted her with creating a carpet to her own design as an introduction to it. Gertrud Arndt quickly became a specialist; her best-known wo...   [more]

Opening: January 30th   10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Entstanden aus dem Wunsch der befreundeten Künstler Lukas Hoffmann und Ulrich Riedel, ein gemeinsames Ausstellungsprojekt zu realisieren, zeigt die Ausstellung „eine Quersumme“ einzelne Werke ebenso wie Arbeiten, die deutlich aufeinander Bezug nehmen. Dabei geht es jedoch weniger um die inhaltliche und formale Addition einzelner Werke, als um das Kontrastieren oder Aufdecken der medialen Bes...   [more]

Hilde Weström (born on Oct. 31, 1912), together with Ilse Balg or Vera Meyer-Waldeck, is one of the few female architects who successfully participated in the reconstruction of Berlin after the war. One of the first women accepted into the Bund Deutscher Architekten in 1948, she founded her own firm in 1949. She then participated in numerous competitions together with colleagues such as Wils Ebert, We...   [more]

Artist Tue Greenfort, who was born in Holbæk (Denmark) in 1973 and works in Berlin, is to receive the GASAG Art Prize 2012. The jury argued its decision to honour the artist, who studied at art academy in Fünen, Denmark and the Städelschule in Frankfurt/Main with the following words:“Tue Greenfort (*1973) belongs to a younger generation of artists that is approaching ecological themes in a ne...   [more]

Opening: November 2nd, 2012   10:00 AM - 6:00 PM

Blain|Southern Berlin is delighted to present a new group of video works by Douglas Gordon during the 63rd Film Berlinale, 2013. Gordon is one of the most important and influential artists of his generation. In addition to films and video installations, his work embraces photography, the written word, sculpture and music. For Sharpening Fantasy, 2012 Gordon travelled to Tangier, where he filmed tr...   [more]

Tony Cragg (*1949) says that the objects that we produce in our society areusually made up of very basic geometric forms, such as areas, right angles,simple curves, circles. We use these to construct a utilitarian world that isdefined by its relative simplicity and lack of variety in shape. However, in thematerial we see “only the tip of the iceberg. We find ourselves between themoment where we...   [more]

Japanese artist Tatsuo Miyajima’s Life (Rhizome) exhibition is to present his eponymousgroup of works for the first time in Europe.In his work Tatsuo Miyajima (born 1957) concerns himself with time and space. Of centralimportance to him are three considerations: “Keep Changing”, “Connected with everything”and “Continue forever”. The technological raw materials are numeric displays of li...   [more]

Opening: February 8th   7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

"Working with the photographic image is my way of living. When I think about it and look at my pictures more closely, they are all – each in its own way – nothing but self-portraits, a part of my life.” Christer StrömholmChildren playing, intimate couples, celebrity artists, proud transsexuals, disfigured war victims – we always see ourselves in the portrait of the other. Our own weakness,...   [more]