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Pierre Klossowski's art acts and oscillates like "stopped pantomimes" in the permeable border areas between reality and fiction, the factual and the ghostly apparent. In the erotic game of homage and desire, signs, meaning, essence and transformed matter are mixed up, becoming an event for the body and the senses. Last but not least, the exhibition is an opportunity to explore the serious-cheerful universe of a great spirit that is now a classic.

Myriam El Haïk explores the topos of landscape in this exhibition. The artist approaches the subject through the sensations that a landscape evokes in her. The emotional space designed in this way in drawings and paintings is also reminiscent of the patterns of carpets, which the artist perceives as landscapes that are experienced physically as well as tangible. Her painterly works are supported by musical compositions in the exhibition.

In 2013, five years after the world was convulsed by a global financial crisis, Isaac Julien premiered his film Playtime to address an important question: can capital be rendered visible? The PalaisPopulaire and the Wemhöner Collection have joined forces to shed new light on Playtime from today’s perspective and to testify to the work’s continued relevance.

The Berlinische Galerie is showing Pınar Öğrenci’s film “Aşît / The Avalanche” (2022, 60 min.), produced for documenta fifteen. To make „Aşît“, Öğrenci returned to her father’s hometown Müküs (Bahçesaray in Turkish) in the region of Van, near the border between Türkiye and Iran. Öğrenci’s film shows traces of the different cultures that once lived in Müküs before parts of the population were murdered, displaced or forced to assimilate.

Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers are pleased to present Duotopia, a major exhibition by Cao Fei at Sprüth Magers, Berlin, which will transform all of the gallery's spaces and premiere several new works outside of China that delve into the metaverse, virtual reality and the interactions between human and machine consciousness.

With J+ 1, Jarmuschek + Partner presents a special exhibition concept: Each of the artists in the gallery program not only presents a current work of their own, but also a selected guest. Each of these constellations also reveals personal details about the inviting artists and opens up individual perspectives on their artistic positions. Mutual references can be observed just as much as shared artistic views or conducted discourses.

During the Cold War, some remarkable big buildings emerged in West Berlin as new locations for science, research and the arts. After years of neglect and now technically obsolete, most of these buildings are threatened with demolition. Ever since they appeared, these architectures have often been criticised as unsightly and inefficient. That view is being challenged today by a group of academics, cultural workers and politicians who appreciate them as achievements of modern Western technology.