Following successes of previous years, Gallery Weekend Berlin is now aboutto stage its 13th edition – with various locations all around the city attracting an international flock of collectors, curators and art lovers to enjoy events and exhibitions at galleries, project spaces and art institutions. Started in 2004 as a private initiative of Berlin galleries, Gallery Weekend has established itself as one of the leading events for contemporary art in Germany.

Each year over a weekend in late spring the city turns into a hotspot for art fans and collectors . For two days and nights about 50 galleries throughout Berlin open their doors with special exhibitions.

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Aside well known and established galleries new and experimental  art spaces participate in the event. Presented artists are always a healthy and refreshing mix of big names and new talent all focusing on contemporary art in a broad range of various media.

Some of this years highlights are Guido W. Baudach Gallery presenting Juergen Klauke “Bewegtes Ich (Moving Self)” –  a selection of key works from 1972 to 2017. Juergen Klauke is a unique figure in the art world. His inventions are nowadays taken for granted, and have significantly influenced art over the last 40 years. He is a pioneer of multimedia and interdisciplinary artistic exploration, whose work fascinates and irritates in equal measure, oscillating between the poles of attraction and repulsion.

Mehdi Chouakri Gallery is showing the work of Charlotte Posenenske restating the artists consistent and intelligent approach to abstraction. One of her main ideas: the variability, by which objects of her œuvre – the reliefs, the tubes and the revolving vanes – may be presented in ever new installations. Posenenseke is best known for her square tubes of steel sheet or cardboard – the works for which she became famous – consisting of a few different elements which may be combined into numerous installations. An endless variety of configuration. They may stand upright like a column, be amorphous with twists and turns, resemble a ventilation pipe, or even be hung from the ceiling as the one presented on the occasion of Documenta 12.

Esther Schipper Gallery opens with a presentation of Angela Bulloch: “Heavy Metal Body”. Three new sculptures expand the body of work that Angela Bulloch has been developing since 2014. Each of the Stacks offers a distinct rhythm created by the variations in shape, size and color of its elements. The surface of the vertically assembled rhomboid shapes, painted in a combination of light, bright or dark colors, creates an optical illusion of pushing and pulling planes. Designed within a digital imaging program, each stacked rhombus appears distinct while at the same time relating to the others. From one side the irregular aspect dominates, while from another the impression of a certain totemic regularity prevails.

Eigen + Art Gallery shows Olaf Nicolai in a cooperation with !Mediengruppe Bitnik starting out from a text by the artist: “He could hardly remember how long he had been at this place already, yet somehow it now seemed enough. although it wasn’t so bad either … but somehow. at least after he had had another look round while walking about. of late all cars seemed to be painted only black, even the windows. not bad actually. but first of all get some sleep or read something. switch a few accounts to off and take it from there tomorrow.”

Images: Markus Oehlen (shown at Gerhardsen Gerner Gallery during Gallery Weekend 2017) //  Heavy Metal Body, Angela Bulloch (shown at Gerhardsen Gerner Gallery during Gallery Weekend 2017).

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