Gallery Weekend Berlin

 View of “My eyes like shovels.” Courtesy: the artists and Hua International, Berlin

View of “My eyes like shovels.” Courtesy: the artists and Hua International, Berlin

Spike editor Isabella Zamboni picks the six most vibrant shows from Gallery Weekend Berlin 2023. Home ghosts, Kurdish ropes, watery half animals, too-blue eyes, Neapolitan satyrs, hysterical bureaucrats: Indulge in the capital’s most spirited visions.

On Thursday 27 April at Spike Berlin, our third panel with Tezos on art and new digital technologies unpacks Web3 as an economic structure, a sphere of knowledge, and a mode of governance.

 Matthias Groebel, L1095 , 1995. Acrylic on canvas, 95 x 95 cm

Matthias Groebel, L1095, 1995. Acrylic on canvas, 95 x 95 cm

The solo show of computer-robotic-assisted paintings by Cologne artist Matthias Groebel at Schiefe Zähne, Berlin 

 Leila Hekmat, Glory Ad Undulating Undies, 2021, Digital collage printed on silk/ viscose velvet, 405 x 132 cm

Leila Hekmat, Glory Ad Undulating Undies, 2021. Digital collage printed on silk/viscose velvet, 405 x 132 cm

A group show at Eden Eden in Berlin, with Renate Bertlmann, Ellen Cantor, Vaginal Davis, Meret Oppenheim, Gina Pane, Carol Rama, among others. 

 Sanya Kantarovsky,  Spirits , 2022. Oil on canvas, 200.4 x 260.3 cm

Sanya Kantarovsky, Spirits, 2022. Oil on canvas, 200.4 x 260.3 cm

The solo show by Sanya Kantarovsky at Capitain Petzel, Berlin

 Exhibition view

Exhibition view, Galerie Buchholz, Berlin, 2022

The first installment of Spike’s new criticitism format Five-Star Review is a roundup of Gallery Weekend Berlin 2022. Here we judge Trisha Donnelly at Galerie Buchholz. 

 Exhibition view; Photo by Mizuki Tachibana

View of Joan Jonas, ”Past Thought Revised”, Heidi Gallery, Berlin, 2022.
Photo: Mizuki Tachibana

The first installment of Spike’s new criticitism format Five-Star Review is a roundup of Gallery Weekend Berlin 2022. Here we judge Joan Joans at Heidi Gallery. 

 Win McCarthy, Folded Set , 2021. Shoebox, folded ruler, worktable, photographs, 99 × 58 × 20 cm. Courtesy: the artist and Galerie Neu, Berlin. Photo: Stefan Korte

Win McCarthy, Folded Set, 2021. Shoebox, folded ruler, worktable, photographs, 99 × 58 × 20 cm. Courtesy: the artist and Galerie Neu, Berlin. Photo: Stefan Korte

A weekend so nice, they held it twice. This year, Berlin’s galleries rallied for a second, autumnal edition of the exhibition series, with several outposts sharing a thematic focus on new discoveries. Spike editor Isabella Zamboni, a newly-minted Berlin transplant by way of Milan, honed her sense of direction by exploring Gallery Weekend 2021. 

(1 ) Cemile Sahin, "Bad People, Bad News", 2021 (Photo by Andrea Rossetti, Courtesy the artist and Esther Schipper, Berlin; (2) Cudelice Brazelton IV, "Incomplete Burglar", 2020 (Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin); (3) Daniel Hölzl, "ZEITFENSTER, cycle no. four", 2020 (Courtesy the artist); (4) Nuri Koerfer, "Thron", 2020 (Courtesy the artist); (5) Mara Wohnhaas, "Rekommandeur (work in progress)" (BQ, Berlin); (6) Jonas Roßmeißl, "Widerstandsreduzierter Körper in Polierstufe 8" (Credit: Paul Razlaf)

 Jana Euler,  Under this perspective, 1 , 2015 Oil on canvas, 190 x 150 cm Photo: Stefan Korte. Courtesy the artist and Galerie Neu, Berlin

Jana Euler, Under this perspective, 1, 2015
Oil on canvas, 190 x 150 cm
Photo: Stefan Korte. Courtesy the artist and Galerie Neu, Berlin

Swiss curators Tenzing Barshee and Fabrice Stroun talk about the ideological implications of Jana Eulers work and the unique place it occupies within the field of figurative painting.

 Christopher Williams, "Model-Nr.: 1740, Rotznasen - Kinder Model Agentur, Liesegangstr. 7A, 40211 Düsseldorf, Studio Rhein Verlag, Düsseldorf, January 28, 2016", 2016 © Christopher Williams, Courtesy Capitain Petzel, Berlin & Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne

Christopher Williams, Model-Nr.: 1740, Rotznasen - Kinder Model Agentur, Liesegangstr. 7A, 40211 Düsseldorf, Studio Rhein Verlag, Düsseldorf, January 28, 2016, 2016 © Christopher Williams, Courtesy Capitain Petzel, Berlin & Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne

A walk around Berlin galleries by Alexander Scrimgeour