Genres

In the spring of 2023, the Haus am Waldsee presents the first comprehensive retrospective of Berlin-based artist Margaret Raspé (b. 1933 in Breslau), who created a significant body of artistic work in the immediate vicinity of the Haus am Waldsee over the past five decades. In her practice, Raspé developed an ideosyncratic artistic language that considers life and art and their everyday conditions in unison.

Part of EMOP. Manfred Paul's photography deals with the existential questions of the human condition. These images become parables and serve to understand the passing of all things in life. In this exhibition, Manfred Paul shows photographs taken during stays abroad in Romania (1978), Paris (1988) and India (1989). This is the first time that these works are on view in Berlin.  Manfred Paul is considered one of the most renowned East German photographers.

Hyperstition refers to ideas whose expression releases such vibrations that they ultimately realise themselves, similar to a self-fulfilling prophecy. The term was first coined in the 1990s by the interdisciplinary collective Cybernetic Culture Research Unit (CCRU) in the UK, whose members published their findings mainly on blogs on the internet.

Jakob Kupfer's light pictures are snapshots of light in the space between us and things. They make the light visible on its way from the reflecting object to the perceiving subject. The multiform traces of colour and light form resonance spaces in which we can experience what happens to our perception as soon as we let ourselves in on the pure flow of light without explanatory contours.

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.

Zineb Sedira's Dreams Have No Titles marks the international debut of the artist's project for the French Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale, which is being shown at Hamburger Bahnhof for the first time in Germany. Mixing film, sculpture, photography, and performance, the French-Algerian artist weaves together parts of her own biography with the history of cinemato-graphic co-productions and activist films within the context of France, Algeria and Italy.

Working with young art is on of JRGallerys most important concerns. In the upcoming summer exhibition we proudly present newest works by established artists of the gallery, as well as young positions that hopefully will not cease to surprise.

The exhibition Arno Fischer: Eine Reise will offer insight into Arno Fischer’s photographic practice and the various roles he played—photographer, mediator, and teacher—during his career. With over one hundred black and white and colour photographs taken between the early 1950s and late 2000s, some of which are shown for the first time, the exhibition will highlight the important place Fischer holds in the history of German photography.

Julius von Bismarck (*1983) explores in his art how people define their place within their immediate environment and how society negotiates the concept of nature. He frequently uses deconstruction as a tool to question how, as a society, we evaluate nature as landscape and who asserts the right of interpretation.  For his show at the Berlinische Galerie, von Bismarck adopts a biographical approach for the first time, delving into his family history.

The Israeli Holocaust remembrance centre Yad Vashem is showing its much admired exhibition Flashes of Memory,which was first displayed in January 2018 in Jerusalem. It presents a critical account of visual documentation – both photographs and films ­– created during the Holocaust by German and Jewish photographers, as well as by members of the Allied forces during liberation.

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.

Water, too much of it and too little, is the focus of the new work by Nora Bibel, who has photographed the consequences of climate change in Indonesia, Namibia and Germany. In photographs of almost abstract-looking landscapes, people in their surroundings and objects connected to water management, the photographer impressively shows that water in the spectrum between flooding and drought is a globally connected and mutually influencing system.

From August 26, 2023 CAMERA WORK Gallery presents an exhibition of works by photographic artist Martin Schoeller. He gained worldwide fame through his longstanding and still ongoing series »Close Up,« which is subject to the artistic concept of presenting his models – regardless of different social and cultural backgrounds – on an equal footing.

Challenging both the art world and society at large, General Idea remain a lastingly influential artist group whose groundbreaking practice spans 25 years. In the most comprehensive retrospective on the trio ever produced, the Gropius Bau presents more than 200 works from the late 1960s to the early 1990s.