Jan Tichy Czech Republic, b. 1974

KORNFELD Galerie Berlin is delighted to unveil Jan Tichy and Jay Gard first joint venture, "Ornament als Versprechen”. Jan Tichy's delicate small-format cyanotypes meet Jay Gard's sculptures and with paintings, creating a visual tapestry reminiscent of a shared artistic journey. The two celebrate the enchanting allure of ornament, transforming their individual expressions into a poetic symphony of form and texture.

Tammam Azzam, Elvira Bach, Stéphane Couturier, Nick Dawes, Paris Giachoustidis, Hubertus Hamm, Natela Iankoshvili, Rusudan Khizanishvili, Franziska Klotz, Tamara Kvesitadze, Christopher Lehmpfuhl, David Meskhi, Susanne Roewer, Hubert Scheibl, Martin Spengler, Jan Tichy, Ivana de Vivanco
Galerie Kornfeld is delighted to announce it's ten year anniversary exhibition, wich will feature the artists that have come along with us through the decade. The anniversary exhibition will reveal touching glimpses of the past and the future, sensitive and exciting exchanges between first artistic attempts and more mature works. The works on show hint at inner struggle and transformation, the eternal search for what is hidden behind the visible.

The exhibition Thin Lines is a contemplation on a contemporary social space resonating with local century old ideas and beliefs. Our worlds, like our palms, are filled with thin lines. A line implicates a meaning. A thin line questions the possibility of a balance. Line divides a space.
Furthermore,Thin Lines brings together century old spiritual and scientific materials and ideas with contemporary work in various light-based media, allowing them to collide with our current social and political reality.

Faheem Majeed, Alfonso and Gillion Carrara, Kate Conlon and Boyang Hou, Shawn Decker, Frances Lightbound, David Rueter and Marissa Lee Benedict, and Helen Maria Nugent.
Curated by Jan Tichy.
For the occasion of the Bauhaus Centennial, Chicago-based artist and educator Jan Tichy organized a group exhibition for the project space 68projects. The exhibition is a continuation of previous engagements with the history of Bauhaus. Education as a creative dialogue between students and instructors was a crucial element, and Tichy has been developing this practice over the last decade at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Chicago Grid brings together artists and educators that previously collaborated with Tichy, coming from both sides of the educational interchange. The exhibition questions the grid itself in its many forms and meanings, a nod to the Berlin Bauhauslers fascinated by the Chicago street grid.

Inge Dick, Shirine Gill, Hubertus Hamm, Stefan Heyne, Marta Hoepffner, Joseph Minek, Regine Schumann and Jan Tichy
More Light! Contemporary Positions of Abstract Photography
The history of photography is founded on a mythical basis: as in the Gospel of John, it seems as if, around the mid-19th century, the light shone in the darkness and, once again, the latter failed to seize the former. On 6 January 1839, the French newspaper “Gazette de France” reported on an invention that would “put to shame all theories about light and optics”. A few weeks before, the French painter Louis Daguerre had, by way of a “camera obscura”, succeeded in capturing sun light on a light-sensitive surface: one of the great revolutions of modernity. Henceforth, it was possible to materialize that which, on closer inspection, was in fact invisible: natural sunlight. It seemed as if all ideas about time, space, the world and reality had to be re-evaluated.

Weight of Glass is the first solo exhibition of Chicago based artist Jan Tichy with Galerie Kornfeld in Berlin and will open concurrently with Jan Tichy: Installation Nr. 29 (Neues Rathaus), the first institutional solo exhibition of the artist in Germany at the Kunsthalle Osnabrück. The two exhibitions will both feature a new real-time neon work entitled German Nature, 2016 that uses light as a way of registering the new languages introduced to the German landscape with the arrival of over one million refugees. Kunsthalle Osnabruck will publish an accompanying catalog with texts by Prof. Dr. Barbara Kaesbohrer and Dr. Robin Schuldenfrei.

Maliheh Afnan, Robert Fry, Hubertus Hamm, Franziska Klotz, Tamara Kvesitadze, Alexander Polzin, Susanne Roewer, Hubert Scheibl, Leonardo Silaghi, Jan Tichy, Sonny Sanjay Vadgama
The exhibition “Paper Plains” will show a wide spectrum of techniques to working on paper, including etchings, prints, photographs, drawings and paintings. It brings together established artists with young emerging producers, tracing the significance of this simultaneously ancient and contemporary medium.
In a rapidly digitalising (art)world with the means to print perfect 3D sculptures, generate slick flawless imagery on photoshop and immaterial artworks making their way into galleries, it is curious to witness the return of paper as an important medium for artists.