Kimia Ferdowsi Kline USA, b. 1984

ARTISTS

Dawit Abebe, Olasunkanmi Akomolehin, Cristina BanBan, Yevgeniya Baras, William Bradley, Giorgio Celin, Chris Engman, Kimia Ferdowsi Kline, Seong Joon Hong, Chris Hood, Michael John Kelly, Alexander Kroll, Doron Langberg, Sandeep Mukherjee, Jennifer Packer, Adrianne Rubenstein, Kyungmi Shin, Levan Songulashvili, Panos Tsagaris, Rachel Eulena Williams & Liat Yossifor

INFORMATION


On 21 June, we will showcase 21 works by the 21 artists who have been our guests as artists-in-residence over the past 10 years of 68projects by KORNFELD – with ‘Berlin on My Mind’. We are celebrating our 10 years with 68projects by KORNFELD and the 10 years of our artist-in-residence program, but also our future, which we hope to keep creating in Berlin. In Berlin, international artists look for new perspectives, a place where ideas mingle
Opening: June 21 2024, 6 pm
Exhibition: June 21 – August 24 2024, Tue – Sat, 11 am – 6 pm
68projects by KORNFELD, Fasanenstr. 68, 10719 Berlin

Including works by Alicia Adamerovich, Elvira Bach, Carlo D'Anselmi, Monika Kim Garza, Stefanie Gutheil, Erik Hanson, Kimia Ferdowsi Kline, Ella Kruglyanskaya, Tamara Kvesitadze, Clemencia Labin, Kat Lyons, Christian Perdix, Logan T. Sibrel, James Ulmer and others
Few songs have managed to capture the lightheartedness and exuberance of summer in the way that the German hit song “Pack die Badehose ein” (“Pack Your Swimsuit”) did in the early 1950s. The teen star Conny sings about the small burdens of everyday life, which can be removed simply by jumping into the cold water of the Wannsee lake.
We are pleased to present the exhibition “Pack den Badeanzug ein” , a refreshing look at both emerging and established positions in contemporary painting. Featuring a broad selection of artistic methods, we push the boundaries of what painting can be in the 21st century. What is the state of arts oldest medium in today's hyper-digitized world? What can the analogue image do that the digital cannot, and how do the two media influence each other?

Soul Mate is a two-person exhibition of Kimia Ferdowsi Kline and Farshad Farzankia. Both artists are Iranian, while Ferdowski lives and works in Brooklyn, N.Y., USA, and Farshad lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark. Though the artists' approaches differ, they are both concerned with questions of abstraction, figuration, and the iconographic body’s experience from intimate and graphic perspectives. 68projects is excited to participate in this conversation about how figurative painting holds resonance across social and personal contexts. They create a dialogue about how the personal becomes political through charged emotional tensions between two figures in an embrace and two figures across the table in a discussion. Both painters remind us that the conversation between me and the other power is never out of the question in this dialectic of intimacy and negotiation.

Yevgeniya Baras, Gina Beavers, Katherine Bradford, Kimia Ferdowsi Kline, Jackie Gendel, Pam Glick, Joanne Greenbaum, Maia Ruth Lee, Dona Nelson
Following an invitation by 68projects, the American artist, curator and director of CANADA gallery Adrianne Rubenstein selected nine ambiguous artists for the art exhibition. We might not have a planet left soon that we are showing during Gallery Weekend. The collection is a soliloquy about painting. The time it takes to make something. Colour and form. Dedication. As the planet unravels, which it’s always been doing at every stage, you plant a flower, and it is beautiful. The more beautiful, the more, in contrast, it is with its background. A flower in outer space or a flower growing out of a broken brick wall.“