1 May - 26 June 2025

Wed April 30, 18-21h @rene_schmitt_editions Opening Bernhard Martin: Ballroom Extra
Solo Presentation @bernhardmartinstudio 
The show features new large-scale pigment prints with sculptural elements, alongside drawings and a historical sculpture.
Exhibition Hours during Gallery Weekend:
Fri, May 2 – Sat, May 3 | 12–6 PM
Sun, May 4 | 11–4 PM

Wed, 30 Apr 18-21h at Galerie Georg Nothelfer Opening of INK with Andrey Klassen, Britta Lumer, Toni Mauersberg, Walter Menne, Henri Michaux, Walter Stöhrer, Oliver Thie

Galerie Nothelfer is delighted to be showing seven cross-generational positions on the subject of ink. Classic works of post-war expressionism from the 1960s will be presented alongside contemporary works. The ink drawing puts big ideas on paper with just a few strokes and has held its place in art for thousands of years. As a universal technique, it is particularly topical - as an individual commitment to the immediate artistic process that asserts itself independently and confidently. If the possibilities of the drawing pen are inexhaustible, from sketches to detailed fine drawing, the brush also allows countless variations of expression - from naturalistic depiction to expressive, pure drawing character.

Juno Rothaug's paintings develop from the field of tension between figurative reference and painterly coding. The starting point is often a figurative idea, a fragment, a pose or an art-historical motif, which is increasingly shifted, fragmented and superimposed in the painting process. Lines blur, areas of colour start to move, forms dissolve. Legibility is subverted in favour of a pictorial language that oscillates between figuration and abstraction. Rothaug is interested in the ambivalence of the image - in what is visible and what is simultaneously withdrawn. For her, encryption is not a game of hide-and-seek, but a productive moment of irritation. What is depicted always remains precarious. The painting process is characterised by an interplay of revealing and concealing, tension and relaxation, distance and closeness. The pictures are not created according to a clear preliminary drawing, but grow in an open dynamic in which touch, movement and painterly intuition become central.

Juno Rothaug (*1999) lives and works in Hamburg. She is studying painting in Anselm Reyle's class at the HFBK Hamburg.

Thu, 1 May 18-21h at POSITIONS BERLIN—ART FAIR paper positions berlin 
Ronewa Art Projects is presenting new works on paper by two Moroccan-French artists: Amina Benbouchta and Myriam El Haïk.
@benbouchta.a @myriamelhaik
The two artists employ juxtaposing modes of representation, each with a distinct and personal vernacular of recurring motifs. Benbouchta draws from mythology, allegory, and everyday symbols to create her evocative imagery. El Haïk's work as a composer informs her visual art practice, in which she uses a minimalist language of rhythmic repetition and abstract forms.

Booth 63

with Aleksandra Szafiejew, Andrew J Burford, Annika Unterburg, Bernardita Bennett, Brody Polinsky, Catherine Rose Evans, Claire Laude, Dana Engfer, Fabrizia Vanetta, Jakob Urban, Janne Höltermann, Kathrin Ganser, Kathryn Garcia, Liz Dawson, Martin Blake, Merel Maan Galama, Nam Nguyen, Niels Poiz, Nina Maria Küchler, Rodrigo Vega Rodríguez, Verena Issel, Witte Wartena Weekend 

Didnt find anything you like during Gallery Weekend? Join this art auction and support local artists. 

FRI 14-18 • SAT 14-18

What Becomes a Legend Most is the first exhibition at Sauers by Berlin-based artist Jill Winnie (*1998 in Winterthur, Switzerland). On view is a series of large-format oil paintings in which shiny leather, silky fabric, fur, or hair appear on velvety-toned surfaces—motifs that could have come from luxury advertising, reduced to close-ups and surfaces intended to evoke desire. However, in Winnie's work, this aesthetic is not simply quoted but transformed with delicate embroidery, roses, animal motifs, or glittering ornaments. Her paintings are opulent pictorial spaces in which desire, memory, and personal gesture intersect.

Berlin-based artist Anna Niedhart’s multidisciplinary practice interrogates the psychological complexities inherent in our digital age through painting, drawing, and object making. Her work, distilled from acute personal observations, manifests as hybrid forms that challenge the boundaries between human and animal. These chimeric beings serve as potent metaphors for the fractured sense of self and the adaptive strategies required in our rapidly evolving world.

Herma Auguste Wittstock, former student of Marina Abramovic presents a three pieces performance during the Gallery Weekend.

Gallery Weekend:
Herma Auguste Wittstock, former student of Marina Abramovic, presents a three pieces performance during the Gallery Weekend on Friday, May 2nd, 6pm/ Saturday, May 3rd, 4pm /Sunday, May 4th, 4pm

Ko Sin Tung (*1987, Hong Kong) has been long creating project-based, site-resonant artworks that systematically deal with social, architectural, and quotidian themes. Her first solo show in Europe, entitled “The clumsy response”, blends in the classicist- brutalist late-GDR architecture of “Die Möglichkeit einer Insel” with an installation of newly produced works. Each series responds to local and universal material cultures, on the semantic and semiotic dimensions of objects that cocoon daily life.

What is the matrix of beauty, and how can it be overcome? Hamburg based conceptual photographer Corinna Holthusen has been exploring this question for decades. The creation of her portraits has always been characterized by the interplay of digital and analogue work processes. And now, with the inclusion of AI-generated image elements, she reaches a new level of complexity.

In All the Charm of a Rotting Gum, her first solo exhibition at DITTRICH & SCHLECHTRIEM, Czebatul presents a work that exemplifies these preoccupations. By subjecting the Pergamon Altar to conceptual reinterpretation, she creates a temporary discursive space that extends far beyond the original’s historical and iconographic significance. The altar itself will be hidden from public view until 2027 at the earliest due to comprehensive renovation works at the Pergamon Museum. Czebatul uses the opportunity to renegotiate the object: not merely as a symbol of imperial power, but as a platform for reflections on cultural heritage, processes of political appropriation and exploitation, and a history that figures prominently in Germany and that is mythologized in turn.

In a dialogue with a second monumental work, a relief blending police riot  gear with the geometry of Christian sacred geometry , the exhibition sheds light on the articulation and representation of state power in history and the present.

Recently, the Kunstverein moved into a former Plattenbau at Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz—a site shaped by layers of utopian ambition and political change. Artists Mark Fridvalszki and Marko Tadić transform the space into a fragmented, immersive archive of broken dreams and enduring hopes. With wall works, prints, drawings, models, and archival objects—including a major piece from the Utopie und Alltag collection in Eisenhüttenstadt—they explore how the remains of failed utopias still inform our imagination. A soundscape by Àbáse and Ziggy Zeitgeist, who will also perform live at the opening, adds a resonant, interstellar dimension.  

Fri 2 May at Aktionshaus BÉTON BRUT, MARIA ADER 
@mariaader DJ TAPES @tapes_dj AKTIONS HAUS @aktionshaus_
7PM START (please be on time) with edible sculpture experience (first come first serve) by Maria Ader and music by DJ Tapes (UK).
Maria Ader presents a one-off evening of architectural edible forms that emphasizes texture, materiality, and construction. Deconstructing dessert into minimalist forms, “Béton brut” serves to expose structural fabrics and offer up its surfaces for an audience to explore and consume. Join us for an edible sculpture experience at AktionsHaus! After party music and dancing supplied by DJ Tapes (UK)
This event is supported by Cultural Endowment of Estonia.

with Anaïs Fontanges, Arash Nassiri, Ash Love, Kim Petras Paintings: Maggie Lee, Marius Meyer-Jens, Thomas Cap de Ville

The liminal state of adolescence lingers in a bedroom. Encapsulating the intricate emotions of a confusing time, here, the formation of an identity manifests itself. A place that is later often remembered with mixed feelings of nostalgia and relief, when confronted with the memory of a shameless exposure of our intimacy. A place where our social and political beings have taken shape, conforming to our environment, or rather, rebelling against it.

2 May-25 May 2025

Katsutoshi Yuasa's work transcends the conventional role of print as mere reproduction, elevating it to a distinct image medium. He challenges the relative lack of critical discourse around print compared to photography and painting, suggesting this stems from its perceived absence of inherent philosophy. For Yuasa, printmaking is not simply a technical skill or tradition; it is a unique way of visualising and symbolising the world, akin to creating a printing plate from reality itself. This perspective emphasises the medium's capacity to engage with sight, perception, and memory, mirroring the brain's processes of input and output.

Yuasa's meticulous woodcut technique confronts the immediacy of contemporary photography, transforming captured moments into meticulously crafted, static images. His prints, deceptively photographic at first glance, are the product of an intensely laborious and "reversed engineering" process. This deliberate slowing of image creation invites contemplation on our relationship with time and nature, and the deluge of digital and physical imagery that saturates our world.

 

with Felicithas Arndt, Hetang Kongyi, Gabriele Künne, Sunbin Lim,  Zhao Lin, Joke Noordstrand, Song Zhifeng

The concept for this exhibition emerged in Jingdezhen in 2024 when, during her residency at Jingdezhen Ceramic University (JCU), Gabriele Künne encountered the work of numerous international artists, each exploring ceramics and porcelain in their own unique way. She selected the artists who have very different connections to Germany and China. Gabriele Künne employs abstract forms and systems of objects to question our perceptions. The traditions of European and Chinese art serve as the backdrop to this exhibition, with the contemporary artworks referencing, transforming, and deconstructing elements from them.

Sat May 3rd 14h at Galerie Georg Nothelfer Artist Talk INK with Andrey Klassen, Britta Lumer, Toni Mauersberg, Walter Menne, Henri Michaux, Walter Stöhrer, Oliver Thie

Ronewa Art Projects presents Road to Nowhere — a continuation of a joint project by Swiss artists Tashi Brauen and Chris Bünter. The duo’s ongoing collaboration merges their distinct practices into an artistic exchange that embraces an unpredictable process and produces vivid and playful works on paper.

The latest iteration of the collaboration follows a method that recalls the Surrealist game 'Exquisite Corpse.’Brauen begins by creating monochromatic prints — reminiscent of Rorschach test ink blots — upon pages of Du magazine. Bünter then responds with cut-out interventions, whereby the circular cut-outs are rotated, offset, or exchanged with cut-outs from other Du works. 

Both artists will be present at the opening. This occasion doubles as the Berlin launch of Tashi Brauen’s book Hold On — a catalog of his artistic work from the last 15 years.

12 Apr-24 May 2025

Order seems to be urgently needed at a time when many things seem to have fallen into disarray. Values and norms are getting mixed up in the face of recent wars and crises, our living environment is characterized by permanent processes of change and adaptation, reactionary and totalitarian ideas of compulsion are confronted with rationality and science. And supposedly there is only a choice between order and chaos.  A feeling of disorientation prevails. The events of the world are now not only happening simultaneously – as they always have – they have also become simultaneously tangible today. The exhibition „Total Recall“ attempts to find images for this complexity. Do we still have any chance of making self-determined and dignified decisions? Algorithms that are programmed with the erratic visions of the future of our “make-everything-bigger-friends”? Do we still have any chance of collectively becoming aware of this and developing an optimistic and social vision of the future for humanity? The works in the exhibition „Total Recall“ cannot answer this question, they can perhaps only point the way to the right questions.

part of SELLERIE WEEKEND: 2.3.4. of MAY

SATZ is a show that looks at how contemporary artists are using language forms to inflect contemporary Art. The written word has long found a place within visual arts but in the last century this often came to mean something with a particular look-and-feel, a weighty conceptualism. In recent years, however, artists have looked for inspiration beyond the legacies of conceptual art and are rather imbibing the influence of graffiti, social politics, anime, graphic novels and online spaces to find new ways to include the written word within visual forms.  

27 April 2025 - 25 May 2025 and 15 June 2025 - 14 July 2025

wirwir OPEN CALL TWINGO -THE GEMINI* SHOW *you must be born under the zodiac sign of Gemini to apply - deadline: 30 April
Open call for TWINGO,the 3rd annual Gemini Show*,

at WIRWIR

Exhibition dates: 6 - 8 June 2025

Applicants must be born under the zodiac sign of Gemini (21 May to 20 June) to apply.

 

The theme of this year's Gemini show is replication. We invite the participating artists to revisit a work of their own and remake it. We would like the participating artists to submit two works to the exhibition. Essentially the concept is "same, same, but different".

*Please note, the budget does not allow for shipping to and/or from WIRWIR but there will be a big birthday cake!

The residency aims to provide space for artists and artist collectives across all disciplines who are based in Berlin and struggling with space constraints. Especially in light of the current developments in Berlin’s cultural politics and budgetary cuts, which disproportionately affect freelance artists and initiatives, we are convinced that self-organization and making accessible spaces for artistic production available can be essential counterforces. Whether you need a calm, spacious studio to embark on a new project, complete an existing piece, or prepare for an upcoming show, soft power wants to support you with the space you need to begin or continue your work.

The residency offers you a 137m² space free of charge, as well as informal exchange with the soft power team as you wish and require. Please note that unfortunately we cannot provide you with accommodation or a monthly stipend.
Residency period 30.6.–27.7.2025


Application deadline 30.4.2025

Announcement date 15.5.2025

more information here