Group Show – Popcorn and Pickles

Opening: Thursday, April 30, 2026 | 6–9 pm

Gallery Weekend Berlin Hours:

Friday, May 1 | 11 am–9 pm

Saturday, May 2 | 11 am–7 pm

Sunday, May 3 | 11 am–6 pm

On view by appointment through June 20, 2026

With the exhibition "Popcorn and Pickles," 69salon by KORNFELD presents four

international female artists who engage in diverse and profound ways with the act of

seeing and being seen in our image-saturated world.

The title deliberately plays with a contrast: "Popcorn" symbolizes the sweet allure of the

mainstream and the spectacle of grand cinema, while "pickles" represent a different,

more uncomfortable perspective—a cinema beyond Hollywood, perhaps one that is

Eastern European, peripheral, and resistant. The works of Eugénie Didier, Roxana Halls,

Christine Brey, and Viktoriia Oreshko navigate this very tension between attraction and

irritation, proximity and distance.

Their paintings and drawings combine painterly precision with a captivating cinematic

atmosphere. The works feel like scenes from films that are never fully narrated, thus

opening a vast space for individual interpretation. At their core is a fundamental

question: How does our gaze change in a world defined by the permanent visibility of

social media and a new economy of attention?