CURRENT EXHIBITS [155]

Wie aus der Form geratene Tafelbilder hängen, hintereinander aufgereiht, zwei Gruppen gewölbter und in sich verdrehter Gummigebilde in einer Art Ständer. Aus verbogenen geometrischen, schwarzen und weißen Flächen zusammengesetzt, versprühen die einzelnen Formen (oder Anti-Formen) eine latent perverse Sinnlichkeit. Die nüchterne, fast pedantische Schlichtheit des „klassischen“ Formalismus wi...   [more]

Opening: April 26th   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Art and culture have in many ways become key motors of innovative and successful urban design and planning, without which the world’s metropoles would no longer be worthy of the name. The exhibition Culture:City encourages us to think consistently about the future of our cities from this perspective. The architectural exhibition curated by Matthias Sauerbruch for the Akademie der Künste takes a cri...   [more]

Opening: March 15th   11:00 AM - 8:00 PM

Music Section, Akademie der Künste  Has music has retreated into a cloud, which follows us wherever we go? It seems to be always available from the cloud. In the context of this exhibition, the "music in the cloud" project offers a broad spectrum of things that show how sound and urban space can interact on an artistic level. The program presents compositions specially created for eight cul...   [more]

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]

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 gallery alexander levy is pleased to be able to present three new workcomplexes from Julius von Bismarck from 26 April to 15 June 2013 in the exhibitUnfall am Mittelpunkt Deutschlands. Like "Punishment I" in the previous year, thesecond solo exhibit of Bismarck in the gallery is characterised by a confrontationof "nature" and "culture".A basswood tree was planted in February 1991 in the small co...   [more]

Opening: April 26th   6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

In 2011, Chinese artist Zhao Zhao (* 1982 in Xinjiang) created the expansive sculpture of a still image of a police officer that had fallen and broken into many pieces. The fictional ‘service number’ 201143 on the jacket of the uniform could be interpreted as an indication of the date of Ai Weiwei’s abduction; nonetheless the sculpture was exhibited in Beijing for weeks without problems. In...   [more]

Opening: April 26th   7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Die Künstlergruppe Mwangi Hutter ist 1975 in Nairobi und Ludwigshafen geboren, wo die Künstler Ingrid Mwangi and Robert Hutter auch arbeiten. Die Künstler selbst sprechen von einer Einheit, wodurch eine Summierung und Auflösung des Einen in den Anderen entsteht. Ihre Videos und Fotografien reflektieren kontinuierliche Ereignisse in Afrika wie auch die Beziehungen zwischen Schwarzen und Weißen, Fr...   [more]

Opening: April 26th   7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

The exhibition "Sip! Indonesian Art Today" and the accompanying publication results from ARNDT’s recent focus on Southeast Asian art and the new Asian and Pacific art markets. Over the past four years Matthias Arndt has worked in Indonesia and other parts of Southeast Asia. His research, the past shows of Southeast Asian artists and the opening of ARNDT Singapore, the Asian showroom and office of...   [more]

Opening: April 26th   6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

For Gallery Weekend Berlin, edition 2013, Aurel Scheibler will present Vorstoß ins Niemandsland (Advance into no man’s land), a concentrated group of works by Curt Stenvert (1920 – 1992), which as ‘Gesamtkunstwerk’ strongly evokes the extremely individual, committed and persuasive vein that distinguishes this oeuvre. The exhibition will run from April 27 until June 22 and will open on Fr...   [more]

Opening: April 26th   6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

ŻAK | BRANICKA is delighted to present Bilder der Berührung [Images of Contingence], an exhibition of works by VALIE EXPORT to be shown during the Gallery Weekend Berlin 2013. The exhibition highlights the artist’s groundbreaking expressions of physical contact and its implications in various media, including installation, drawing, photography, film and archival materials. The title of the ex...   [more]

Opening: April 26th   6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Written symbols are omnipresent in our culture. They open up the universe of the written word and give us directions in everyday life. But the distinct message inherent in their appearance is often only noticed subliminally. ‘ON–TYPE: Texts on Typography’ conveys the fascination of type design and shows classics from twentieth-century typographic history along with recent examples. The exhibition ga...   [more]

Opening: May 8th   10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Berlin was reinstated as the German capital when the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic reunited. The federal government, the parliament and almost all diplomatic missions moved to the country’s new political hub. Following a number of competitions for urban and architectural design, the districts of Mitte and Tiergarten became home to a new government district and so...   [more]

Opening: February 21st   10:00 AM - 6:00 PM

For more than half a century, the work of K. H. Hödicke has been firmly associated with Berlin. Born in Nuremberg in 1938, the artist later made his home in this city, where he began producing his versatile, multi-genre œuvre in 1957. The Berlinische Galerie holds a large and representative cross-section of his paintings, sculptures, objects and prints. These provide the basis for the first all-r...   [more]

Opening: February 22nd   10:00 AM - 6:00 PM

The Fred Thieler Prize for 2013 goes to Sergej Jensen. The artist, born in Maglegaard (Denmark) in 1973, receives the award for his innovative use of basic resources. Apart from conventional materials like linen and coarse cotton, Jensen paints on jute sacks and coloured fabric, which generate a distinctive flavour of their own. Traces of wear and even damage acquire as much importance as the pain...   [more]

Opening: March 18th   10:00 AM - 6:00 PM