CURRENT EXHIBITS [120]

“I love to take pictures very close. To show people in their unadorned, natural form. For me, something like beauty can be found in particular where someone has not been prettified.” Ulrich Seidl Sexuality, spirituality and physicality – three women in one family seek to satisfy their deepest longings in different ways. The mother as sex tourist, her sister as a missionary catholic and the d...   [more]

Vattenfall Photo Prize 2012 The winners Danger: High Voltage! Whether we encounter it in storms, thrillers, sports, games, electricity, conflict, or love—our lives are full of tension. Tensions arise in all forms and levels of intensity: they can tickle our nerves or engulf us in stress; sometimes they can even be deadly. Tension is invisible yet real and tangible, and it influences our dec...   [more]

Opening: January 24th   9:00 PM - 11:00 PM

Show us your picture of the Berlinale! It seems like an easy task but it’s harder than you might think. 14 young photographers were given the assignment of presenting their personal view of the 63rd Berlinale in all its diversity—the red carpet, glamorous film stars, audience impressions, or secrets. With a special accreditation, the participants had the opportunity to try out their skills as...   [more]

Christoph Girardet works primarily with found footage, mostly from the 1950s and 60s. It serves as source material for his visual research, in the course of which he initially dissembles and deconstructs scenes, before reassembling them in a way such that the actual structures and internal mechanisms of their content are rendered visible. Analysis of found footage thus engenders its own visual wo...   [more]

'. . . I must ask you to join me in the disorder of crates that have been wrenched open, the air saturated with the dust of wood, the floor covered with torn paper . . .' - Walter Benjamin, Unpacking My Library The Feverish Library (continued) is a group exhibition of 28 artists and, in part, a continuation of The Feverish Library, curated by Matthew Higgs and held at Petzel Gallery, New York in 201...   [more]

Opening: January 19th   6:00 PM - 8:30 PM

Whether the sky be clear or cloudy, it always seems to us to have the shape of an elliptic arch; far from having the form of a circular arch, it always seems flattened and depressed above our heads, and gradually to become farther removed toward the horizon. Our ancestors imagined that this blue vault was really what the eye would lead them to believe it to be; but, as Voltaire remarks, this is ab...   [more]

Opening: January 12th   7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

We are pleased to announce the exhibition ‘Every Friend of My Friend Is My Friend (Part 2)’ at Chert, Berlin, organised by Norma Mangione Gallery, Turin, as the second part of an exchange, which started in Turin in September (with the two-person show of Carla Scott Fullerton and Jérémie Gindre). A prerequisite of the project was that the artists represented by the Turin gallery owned at least...   [more]

Opening: March 2nd   7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

The ephemeral character of all life and the universe is undeniable. Everything created by nature dissolves with the same certainty as it has arrived. It' s just a question of time. Plants, water and earth,the animal world, whole solar systems and every human being are just there for a brief moment in the endless history of time. So it seems we all are simultaneously the audience and the actors of a bea...   [more]

Opening: January 19th   7:00 PM - 10:00 PM

It would surprise many to know that Bruce High Quality attended weekly Mass. Scourge of both the radical left and the religious right, it’s difficult to imagine the world’s greatest ironist as a true believer.Nonetheless, there He was, week after week, checking in with the man upstairs. And while we cannot presume to know His most sacred heart of hearts, it is clear now, some twelve years after Hi...   [more]

Opening: February 15th   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

For the seventh exhibition in the ‘Private/Corporate’ series, the Daimler Art Collection and collector Doron Sebbag are focusing on contemporary Israeli and international tendencies in art. Sebbag’s high calibre collection consists of over 1000 works and presents a varied, critically committed spectrum of contemporary Israeli and international art. The selection of around 40 works and about 23...   [more]

Opening: October 17th, 2012   11:00 AM - 6:00 PM

Portrait of the Photographer, Gallery Owner and Collector‘I wanted to get to know the people who reveal my inner life with their pictures.’ Anita Neugebauer (born in 1916 in Berlin) studied photography at the Contempora – Lehrateliers für neue Werkkunst in Berlin in the 1930s. She is among the avantgarde of photo gallery owners and her collection includes masterpieces classic 20th-century phot...   [more]

Opening: October 17th, 2012   7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

The Tour Bois le Prêtre exhibition shows the fascinating metamorphosis of a 1960s Parisian apartment block slated for demolition even as it was still fully inhabited. Instead, the building underwent a major renovation by architects Frédéric Druot and Lacaton & Vassal during which the tenants were able to remain in their homes. Apartments were enlarged and improved with winter gardens and balcon...   [more]

Opening: February 14th   7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

On the occasion of its 25th anniversary, the German Historical Museum is presenting paintings from its collection in their own exhibition for the first time. More than 100 selected works from the time between the 14th and 20th centuries are examples that represent the entire collection of more than 2,500 paintings, and thus stand for a successful policy of building up and expanding the collections of...   [more]

Opening: October 25th, 2012   10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

DITTRICH & SCHLECHTRIEM freut sich, mit HESTER in Deutschland die erste Einzelausstellung des in New York ansässigen Künstlers Asger Carlsen zu präsentieren (Eröffnung am Donnerstag, den 31. Januar, 18 – 20 Uhr). Carlsen wird eine Auswahl von Schwarz-Weiß-Fotografien aus der 23-teiligen Serie HESTER zeigen, die auf unheimliche Weise traditionell, in ihrer Technik jedoch eindeutig zeitgen...   [more]

Opening: January 31st   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

2013 begins at dr. julius | ap with a collaboration between galleries: starting February 7, five artists from Vienna's Galerie Lindner will be shown in Berlin.  In return, eights artists from the dr. julius | ap exhibition FutureShock OneTwo will be housed in the rooms of the Vienna gallery. The Berlin exhibition, in keeping with the programmatic focus of both galleries, brings together five arti...   [more]

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