Exhibitions

Dieter Jung – Life of Colors

15 Jan - 28 Feb 2026 KORNFELD Galerie KORNFELD Galerie Berlin presents Life of Colors, a focused solo exhibition by artist Dieter Jung (*1941), one of the pioneering figures in artistic holography. The show brings together works from four decades, highlighting Jung’s exploration of color as living light and as an energetic phenomenon.
Since the 1960s, Jung’s practice has investigated the interplay of light, movement, and perception. Using optical interference, spectral refractions, and precisely constructed color fields, he creates immaterial visual spaces that respond to the viewer’s position and invite an active, meditative form of seeing. His holokinetic works and paintings merge into an expanded understanding of vision—one that reveals the invisible within the visible.
International exhibitions have significantly shaped Jung’s career, particularly in Brazil, with presentations at MASP São Paulo and MAM Rio de Janeiro. A key biographical milestone was his Rockefeller Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at MIT (1985/86).
Works by Dieter Jung are held in numerous renowned museums worldwide, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, the ZKM Karlsruhe, and the Berlinische Galerie. A major museum exhibition at the Vasarely Museum in Budapest is being prepared for his 85th birthday in 2026. Read more

Stéphane Couturier – E-1027+123

31 Oct - 20 Dec 2025 KORNFELD Galerie With E-1027+123, French photographer Stéphane Couturier turns his lens to Eileen Gray's iconic Villa E-1027 - a milestone of modern architecture and a symbol of female architectural utopia. In his multilayered double exposures, Gray's precise geometries encounter Le Corbusier's expressive wall paintings. The result is a series of vibrant visual spaces that reveal architecture as both a poetic and political medium.

The exhibition presents works that drew wide attention at the 2025 Rencontres d'Arles - now on view in Berlin for the first time. Read more

Christopher Lehmpfuhl – Mehr Licht

10 Sep - 25 Oct 2025 KORNFELD Galerie The exhibition Mehr Licht, conceived for KORNFELD Galerie Berlin, presents new oil paintings, watercolours and a light installation by Christopher Lehmpfuhl — an artist whose practice is grounded in the immediacy of experience and a deep engagement with place, history, and light. Working en plein air, Lehmpfuhl captures Berlin’s ever-shifting atmospheres in thick, physical brushstrokes, transforming fleeting moments into luminous, tactile images. At the heart of the exhibition is Last Supper, a large-scale glass work shown for the first time in Berlin
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Tamara Kvesitadze, Shunxiang Hu – Under Shadows

14 Jun - 23 Aug 2025 KORNFELD Galerie The exhibition Under Shadows conceived for KORNFELD Galerie Berlin brings together new and recent works by Tamara Kvesitadze and Shunxiang Hu — two female artists whose lives and practices are shaped by profound social and political pressures. Each has lived under shadow — political, cultural, personal — and through their work, each steps out of it.
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Tammam Azzam – Aftermath

30 Apr - 7 Jun 2025 KORNFELD Galerie Tammam Azzam’s solo exhibition Aftermath features a new series of watercolors that explore destruction and its lasting traces. The artist's work focuses on urban landscapes that have been disfigured by war and violence. His cityscapes appear as fragile skeletons, ruins of once-vibrant places. With delicate lines and striking color accents, he creates compelling compositions that reflect not only Syria but also the universal consequences of armed conflict. Balancing documentary precision with painterly abstraction, his works reveal the scars of destruction and the silence that follows.
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Trust Issues – Groupshow

1 Mar - 17 Apr 2025 KORNFELD Galerie Our times put trust in both physical and mental freedom to the test. Fake news has turned truth into a precious resource, raising the urgent question: Can we unquestioningly trust algorithms, templates, or AI-generated content? How do we recognize pre-programmed distortions and resist their influence?

Saelia Aparicio, a London-based multidisciplinary artist, Gonzalo García, a painter living in Mexico, and Rusudan Khizanishvili, based in Tbilisi, explore themes of vulnerability, trust, and power in their works—each with a distinct visual language.

The exhibition is curated by Nina Chkareuli-Mdivani, a Georgian curator based in New York, who focuses on contemporary art and social issues. Read more

Ecocycle – Groupshow

24 Jan - 22 Feb 2025 KORNFELD Galerie KORNFELD Galerie Berlin and the Korean gallery SEOJUNG ART present the group exhibition Ecocycle from January 24 to February 22, 2025, at KORNFELD and its project space, 68projects. Featuring seven artists from Germany, China, and Korea, the exhibition explores universal themes of ecology, humanity, and cultural interconnectedness. Ecocycle unites contrasting elements—light and darkness, city and nature, water and earth, rationality and irrationality—through harmonious artistic expressions. The selected artists, spanning generations and cultural influences, combine traditional and modern techniques to reexamine our shared world.

This collaboration reflects the commitment of KORNFELD and SEOJUNG ART to fostering intercultural dialogue and creating a cyclical exchange of artistic perspectives. The exhibition serves as a platform for Korean and international artists to transcend boundaries and engage in meaningful discourse. The featured artists are Jungwon Phee (1993), Gee Song (1980), Chounhwan Lee (1956), Yeonhwa Hur (1988), Nanan Kang (1979), Jay Gard (1984), and Rao Fu (*1978). The exhibition’s title, Ecocycle, is a blend of "eco" (ecology) and "cycle," referring not only to bionomics and environmental science but also basic human needs. Read more

Johanna Reich – Linguphoria

31 Oct 2024 - 18 Jan 2025 KORNFELD Galerie KORNFELD Galerie Berlin is pleased to present the exhibition Linguphoria by Johanna Reich. The exhibition offers fascinating insights into the interfaces between humans, machine and language.
Johanna Reich, who has been working intensively with language models and neural networks since 2018, dedicates this exhibition to the question of how images can be translated into spoken and written language - and vice versa, how language can be translated into visual forms. The Linguphoria exhibition shows how Reich has used the possibilities of artificial intelligence (AI) to develop a new kind of visual language based on her personal synaesthesia. Read more

Christopher Lehmpfuhl – London

12 Sep - 25 Oct 2024 KORNFELD Galerie We are delighted to announce our upcoming exhibition Christopher Lehmpfuhl: London featuring the Berlin-based Plein-air painter who ventured into the streets of London, tracing the steps of the Impressionists. Accompanied by Mamuka Bliadze and Patrick Bence-Trower from KORNFELD Galerie Berlin, Lehmpfuhl's journey has resulted in a collection of new paintings and watercolours that capture the essence of London, blending tradition with his unique sensory style. Read more

Franziska Klotz, Jan Muche – Das jüngste Gerücht

21 Jun - 24 Aug 2024 KORNFELD Galerie We are proud to present two Berlin-based artists in a joint exhibition for the first time. Entitled 'Das jüngste Gerücht' (The Latest Rumour), the exhibition draws inspiration from a cabaret program by Wolfgang Neuss from 1963.

Both artists are inspired by images that catch their eye. These vary from documentation to images of historical events, to works of art, and digital or analog images illustrating current events. Their works are figurative, but both often work with structures that make their paintings and sculptures appear almost abstract.

Artist Talk: Friday, July 12 2024, 6:30pm
Asja Wolf in conversation with Franziska Klotz and Jan Muche Read more

Rao Fu – Dynamische Stille: Gewalt und Lebendigkeit der Farben

26 Apr - 14 Jun 2024 KORNFELD Galerie We are excited to present the first solo exhibition of new paintings by Rao Fu, titled "Dynamische Stille: Gewalt und Lebendigkeit der Farben" (Dynamic Stillness: Violence and Vibrancy of Colours). Inhabited by creatures that are both human and yet entirely the product of the artist's imagination, the works of the renowned Chinese artist provide insights into dreamlike scenes that often tilt into the nightmarish.

Artist Talk: June 6, 6:30 pm
Rao Fu in conversation with Dr. Gisbert Porstmann,
Director Museen der Stadt Dresden and Städtische Galerie
The talk will be held in German. Read more

Jay Gard, Jan Tichy – Ornament als Versprechen

1 Mar - 20 Apr 2024 KORNFELD Galerie 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. Read more

Dieter Jung – The Light Behind

13 Jan - 24 Feb 2024 KORNFELD Galerie The exhibition "The Light Behind" offers a rare opportunity to see a selection of Dieter Jung’s groundbreaking holographic art in Berlin. The concept of the exhibition centres around the hologram, Dieter Jung’s passion and prowess which earned him his worldwide reputation, particularly his work "Pendulum und sein Schatten" and the holograms, accompanied by paintings, drawings and graphics from the last few decades. Read more

Tammam Azzam – Temporary Title

18 Nov 2023 - 6 Jan 2024 KORNFELD Galerie We are pleased to present new works by Syrian artist Tammam Azzam, Berlin-based, in the exhibition “Temporary Title”. Guided by a universal humanity, his pictorial collages find artistic expression for the unrelenting suffering that people experience through unexpected attacks or wars by tyrannical rulers in the past, present and future. Creativity in the midst of fragmentation. The English expression “temporary title”, with which the artist titled his exhibition, is one meaning of the Arabic expression “al-‘unwan al-mu’aqqat”. The phrase also translates to “temporary address“, referring to the homelessness experienced by people who have been forced to leave their homes due to terror, war or famine. Read more

Martin Spengler – Creatio Ex Aliquo

14 Sep - 11 Nov 2023 KORNFELD Galerie Martin Spengler's exhibition Creatio Ex Aliquo shows his new reliefs and sculptures shaped from corrugated cardboard blocks using his distinctive technique in which he paints with gesso, and then emphasizes the cut edges with graphite. His works invite us to reflect on the changes and ambivalences of German society over time and to engage with current issues of our coexistence. Read more

Paris Giachoustidis – Paris in Wonderland

29 Jun - 19 Aug 2023 KORNFELD Galerie In the surrealist poem Life is but a Dream by Lewis Carroll, the protagonist finds herself in a kind of dream. Much better known, however, is book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, in which the girl follows a white rabbit and dives into a wondrous world via a hole. Psychoanalysis, dream interpretation and hallucinogenic drug experiences were read in the work. The first solo exhibition of Paris Giachoustidis at KORNFELD GALERIE BERLIN shows new works from a series that deals specifically with dreams. Read more

Body Language – Groupshow

28 Apr - 24 Jun 2023 KORNFELD Galerie Five artists, five nations, three artistic mediums, and one goal: The Body Language exhibition reveals the different ways we relate to our bodies. It is about strength, alienation, suffering and identity. Physicality becomes (again) perceptible as a human quality in a time in which digital experience and artificial intelligence are becoming more prevalent. Ultimately, Body Language refers to the perception of one's materiality both as a physically tangible aspect and as the sensations associated with our corporeality. Read more

David Meskhi – Allow

4 Mar - 19 Apr 2023 KORNFELD Galerie Allow is an exhibition of Georgian artist David Meskhi. Within this newest body of works, Meskhi aims to capture the idealised moment of human gesture and sublime beauty. Religious ecstasy, homoerotic connotations and the gender fluidity of the male body in its transformative years brings us to a combination of heavenly and earthly states of being. The bodies, not yet ingrained with social definitions of gender, fall into a more natural setting of finer tones of masculine and feminine energies. Universal bodies who in turn reach out to the cosmos to assert their presence. The subject matter becomes the most important - not narrowly gender related, but rather humanistic as the work delivers a strong juxtaposition of defiance verses compliance.
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Hubertus Hamm – vi-ew

14 Jan - 25 Feb 2023 KORNFELD Galerie Kornfeld Gallery is very pleased to present the exhibition vi - ew with new works by the Munich-based artist Hubertus Hamm.
With his art he creates something magical and lively. Under the umbrella term "vi - ew" Hubertus Hamm gathers objects from twelve different groups of works. All of them are about the fleeting image. A work of art can only come into being when it is looked at. Man becomes part of his art by entering into an interaction between the objects and himself. Read more

Rusudan Khizanishvili – Beauty and the Beast

5 Nov 2022 - 7 Jan 2023 KORNFELD Galerie Galerie Kornfeld is more than pleased to introduce the solo exhibition “Beauty and the Beast” by Georgian artist Rusudan Khizanishvili.
In this mesmerising exhibition the renowned artist invites us through her dreamlike portals into a world where figures intertwine with nature escaping from reality and time.
A colourful journey that combines femininity, mythicism, nature and identity through tranquil and almost meditative compositions that share a passionate yet melancholic intensity.
Experimenting with perception and dimensions her symbolism sometimes hidden, challenges the viewer to observe carefully. Her creations are subjective to each individual viewer. The rich colours, the ancient connection towards nature, the intuitively crafted compositions, the theatricality and the innate individuality yet interconnectedness as human beings are what moves us and brings us in these other-worldly portals. Read more

Tammam Azzam, Jonas Englert – Fragments

10 Sep - 29 Oct 2022 KORNFELD Galerie Galerie Kornfeld is pleased to present the works of Tammam Azzam and Jonas Englert in the duo exhibition “Fragments”. Both artists dwell on the rebuild or the re-contextualisation of political moments through history.
The exhibition challenges the way political decisions are made and the outcome of them. How these settlements, arrangements, threats, treaties and agreements take place and how they are definitive in the change of history, how they impact not only the current population but generations to come, and to question the authenticity of the diplomatic gestures that lead to defining moments in our times.
Through both artists exhibited we can sense how society deals with political agreements, disagreements and decisions being done. In Englert’s work we see this through fragments of video compositions showcasing the diplomacy of political gestures whereas in Azzam’s work we see this through large-scale paper collages that depict the broken end result of a conflict or dispute. Read more

Looking Back Ahead – Groupshow

2 Jul - 3 Sep 2022 KORNFELD Galerie 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. Read more

Bruce McLean – Black Gardens, Minimal Interiors and Some Ceramics

28 Apr - 25 Jun 2022 KORNFELD Galerie Featuring new work by Scottish artist Bruce McLean, the "Black Gardens, Minimal Interiors and Some Ceramics" exhibition focuses on his experiences over the past year. The paintings and sculptures celebrate the colors of spring and a return to nature. Read more

Susa Templin – Berlin Layers

5 Mar - 23 Apr 2022 KORNFELD Galerie Susa Templin’s first exhibition at Galerie Kornfeld is the result of our close collaboration with Galerie Anita Beckers in Frankfurt.
Susa Templin’s work moves between media and transcends boundaries. The trained painter found her medium in analog photography, yet, like a sculptress, she uses photos of architectural structures to create spatial installations and three-dimensional objects by layering two-dimensional images, which emerge from the wall like sculptures in space and time. Read more

Franziska Klotz

15 Jan - 26 Feb 2022 KORNFELD Galerie Inspired by her observations, thoughts, and feelings, Berlin painter Franziska Klotz distills contemporary history paintings from today’s flood of media images, interrogating the motif, confronting existential questions, and exploring the means of painting itself. These works are based on opposites: dark versus light, cold versus warm, form versus color, the defined versus the amorphous-chaotic.
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Nick Dawes – Between Boundaries

6 Nov 2021 - 8 Jan 2022 KORNFELD Galerie In his colourfield canvases, the artist strives for a new quality of painterly abstraction. His ability to control complex tonal arrangements and the juxtaposition of irregular shapes give his works their unique and striking appeal. The unified flatness of his paintings also contrive to present us with various possibilities of space – of proximity and distance. Each point sends us shuttling to another area of colour, which in turn persuades us to examine yet a third, and so on. Every painting Nick Dawes creates represents the time it was made in, how he felt and what his influences were in this particular moment. The impossibility of ever recreating this exact emotional state makes each work unique. Read more

Christopher Lehmpfuhl – Berliner Freiluft

16 Sep - 30 Oct 2021 KORNFELD Galerie It can be a privilege to breathe freely, and at the present time this is even truer than ever. For the Berlin artist Christopher Lehmpfuhl, the air outdoors plays a large role in his inspiration. For his next exhibition, "Berliner Freiluft", the artist was drawn to the Beelitz-Heilstätten - a former sanatorium for the treatment of lung diseases just outside Berlin. His new oil and watercolour paintings will be exhibited there for the first time before then moving to Galerie Kornfeld in Berlin-Charlottenburg. Read more

Daniel Canogar – Reverberations

7 Aug - 9 Sep 2021 KORNFELD Galerie The tactile relationship between the “real” and “virtual” is what Canogar is most interested in. Canogar's work thus captures how we interact with technology, and vice versa, how technology modifies our sense of the world around us and the social fabric of communication and connection. His background in photography has informed his present highly visual artworks, creating seemingly unescapable worlds of his own creation, driven and sourced from data from the “real” world. For Canogar the digital sphere is not a static space to explore, but an ever-changing field, from the physicality of VHS tapes, DVD's, smart phones and hard drives, to the more fluid landscape of the electronic realm. Read more

Natela Iankoshvili, Alexander Adams – The Day I Never Met You

26 Jun - 31 Jul 2021 KORNFELD Galerie The two-artist exhibition: "The Day I Never Met You" at Galerie Kornfeld, Berlin brings together landscapes in spectacular colour and pinpoint detail. The explosive colour and dramatic brushwork of Georgian painter Natela Iankoshvili and the painstaking detail and anti-natural black and white of British artist Alexander Adams form a startling complementary pairing for the first time at the gallery. Bringing together two artists who have never had a chance to meet in person but over the years have continued to communicate through their work. Read more

Tammam Azzam – Bilder ohne Namen

29 Apr - 19 Jun 2021 KORNFELD Galerie An aesthetic experience is not an appeal, and a picture is not political agitation. But l’art pour l’art, art just for art’s sake, is not enough for Tammam Azzam. His works inspire usto think about ourselves and about the world in which we live. They pose questions, but they don’t give any answers. What we think, see, feel is left upto us. Those who find references to the situation in Tammam Azzam’s homecountry are free to do so. Tammam Azzam himself sees the events in Syria since 2011 as symbolic for the state of our world at the beginning of thetwenty-first century. He uses art to address the urgent questions of our times, such as war, violence, migration, destruction, and construction; finding images that aim directly at our emotions and burn themselves into our memory. Read more

Hubertus Hamm, Susanne Roewer – Make It Your Own Story

6 Mar - 17 Apr 2021 KORNFELD Galerie “Make it your own story” – the title of the exhibition is a call for participation. A work of art can only unfold its power and affect the viewer as long as it is perceived, thus becoming part of one’s own story.
Susanne Roewer and Hubertus Hamm are highly interested in materials and their distinctive properties. Deliberate yet playful, they consciously shape the different materials, putting the latter’s specific traits at the service of their art. Read more

David Meskhi – All Saints

16 Jan - 27 Feb 2021 KORNFELD Galerie All Saints is an exhibition of Georgian artist David Meskhi. Within this newest body of works, Meskhi aims to capture the idealised moment of human gesture and sublime beauty. Religious ecstasy, homoerotic connotations and the gender fluidity of the male body in its transformative years brings us to a combination of heavenly and earthly states of being.
The bodies, not yet ingrained with social definitions of gender, fall into a more natural setting of finer tones of masculine and feminine energies. Universal bodies who in turn reach out to the cosmos to assert their presence. The subject matter becomes the most important - not narrowly gender related, but rather humanistic as the work delivers a strong juxtaposition of defiance verses compliance. Read more

Martin Spengler – Auto-Splash

7 Nov 2020 - 9 Jan 2021 KORNFELD Galerie This is Martin Spengler’s first solo exhibition in Berlin, featuring sculptures and picture reliefs made of corrugated cardboard.
Martin Spengler finds the motifs for his works – contemporary cityscapes, skyscrapers, facades, towers and Gothic cathedrals – in image files and sketches that serve as models for detailed preliminary drawings. According to the artist, as soon as this “preliminary sketch” is completed, “the work is finished in the mind”. For him, the work of art is the “proof that it works”, produced from corrugated cardboard, glue and gesso (a chalky white paint) during a long creative process that may take weeks or months. Read more

Tamara Kvesitadze – The Passage

11 Sep - 31 Oct 2020 KORNFELD Galerie Hoards of black birds, eerie and haunting, roam in the seeming chaos yet are controlled by an invisible force, driving them like prey into the trap of the human head that swallows them. What are those birds – nightmares, soul-destroying doubts, erratic thoughts, suffering of love, bitterness of loss or hallucinations?
This is “The Passage” – by the celebrated Georgian artist Tamara Kvesitadze, which she created as the world went into a lockdown. Tamara is known for her kinetic sculptures combining art and engineering. Yet this time the installation is not moving, but the story unfolds as the viewer navigates through it. Read more

Robert Fry – Disintegration

27 Jun - 29 Aug 2020 KORNFELD Galerie Disintegration brings together an amalgamation of different parts of British artist Robert Fry's practice: painting, etching and collage – the new works come together in a hybrid of applied oil paint, ink, collage and etchings on prints, as a new synergy is formed, the ambiguity of the definition of the work between multiple and unique, plays on the viewers mind. Continuing his investigation into the individual and the other, the mind and the body. Robert Fry strives to question the same in people, what makes them unique and what are the ways in which they reflect, represent and imitate each other, or perhaps, exist only as so called non-distinguishable multiples of one-another. Read more

Christopher Lehmpfuhl – Licht / Blicke

1 May - 20 Jun 2020 KORNFELD Galerie Christopher Lehmpfuhl carries the tradition of plein-air painting into our present day. As the impressionists did more than 100 years ago, he takes his colours and his canvases and goes where his subject is. In Christopher Lehmpfuhl's practice, painting becomes a performative act that includes sight as well as touch, hearing and smell. His paintings are the result of an intense dialogue with the world through all the impressions that find their way onto the canvas through the painter's eyes, arms, hands and his colours. Read more

Franziska Klotz & Patricia Ayres

24 Jan - 18 Apr 2020 KORNFELD Galerie This is an exhibition of two artists: Franziska Klotz and Patricia Ayres. Franziska Klotz paints landscapes, figures or structures that she observes in real life. The scrutiny of reality and existential questions of being are just as critical to her as the means of painting per se: Composition, colour, form and individual expression. Patricia Ayres makes sculptures out of fabric and other soft materials that evoke deformed archetypes of femininity. The vulnerability of the body becomes apparent, and also the striving of the soul for unconditional freedom. Read more

Stéphane Couturier – Les nouveaux Constructeurs

22 Nov 2019 - 18 Jan 2020 KORNFELD Galerie “Les Nouveaux Constructeurs” will present, for the first time in Germany, photographer Stéphane Couturier’s work that resulted from his involvement with French painter Fernand Léger’s œuvre. Upon the invitation of Julie Gutierrez, curator of the Fernand Léger Museum in Biot, Stéphane Couturier worked intensely with the oeuvre of Fernand Léger, one of the masters of modern painting in early 20th-century France. Léger was particularly attentive to the radical transitions of his time. The central focus of his work was the changes people and cities went through due to machines and mass production. Drawing from the form experiments of the cubists, his body of work found its particular artistic expression, which merged the cubist avantgarde with communist engagement. Read more

Hubert Scheibl & David Meshki – Paintings, Photographs

6 Sep - 16 Nov 2019 KORNFELD Galerie Within the works of both artists the viewer is entering into a representation of reality in which boundaries of time are blurred and the subjects of the works are roaming free within indefinable spaces. For both Scheibl and Meskhi, the subject matter is often frozen between action and reaction, ignorant for that moment of its movement through the passage of time, providing an evocative melding of past and present and a sense of the fragility of memory. Movement plays a central role as Meskhi's subjects are swimming in space and Scheibl's brushstrokes create deliberate gestural-abstractions of motion. Read more

Pack den Badeanzug ein – Groupshow

27 Jun - 31 Aug 2019 KORNFELD Galerie 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? Read more

Nick Dawes & Susanne Roewer

25 Apr - 22 Jun 2019 KORNFELD Galerie Nick Dawes creates complex colour arrangements with fluid forms and thus pursues a new quality of painterly abstraction. The ostensibly impulsive painterly gestures of his paintings are, however, achieved by an exact plan that leaves almost nothing to chance. The artist distils abstract forms from the formal particularities of road signs or other sign-like quotidian objects, which he then captures as pencil drawings and transfers to the canvas with thinned poured oil paint. In Susanne Roewer’s works, glass joins silver-plated bronze to such an extent that the transparent glass corpus adapts to the solid metal and thus reflects on its own process of formation. The glass is blown in temperatures over 1000 °C and shaped on the bronze corpus, and in its amorphous structure adjusts to the metal. Read more

Jan Tichy – Thin Lines

17 Jan - 12 Apr 2019 KORNFELD Galerie 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. Read more

Lebensguss – Groupshow

24 Nov 2018 - 12 Jan 2019 KORNFELD Galerie Theo Balden, Fritz Cremer, Elmgreen & Dragset, Sonja Eschefeld, Wieland Förster, Katharina Gerold, Clemens Gröszer, Sabina Grzimek, Michael Jastram, Siegfried Krepp, Tamara Kvesitadze, Will Lammert, Johannes Lauter, Jeanne Mammen, Margret Middell, Emerita Pansowová, Alexander Polzin, Susanne Rast, Susanne Roewer, Father Raphael Statt, Rolf Szymanski, Evelyn Weinzierl, Trak Wendisch, Berndt Wilde, Dirk Wunderlich
The objects of the exhibition Lebensguss ("Life Casting") | Marc Krepp were created without exception in the studio of Marc Krepp. The studio was founded by Krepp in the early 1980s in Berlin-Weissensee, and he continues to lead it to this day, exemplifying ceaseless creativity. Following a family tradition which emanates from his father Siegfried Krepp, a Berlin based sculptor, and which is also currently being furthered by his daughter Michéle. Read more

Samuel Bassett – From Wood and Leather Boots

24 Oct - 17 Nov 2018 KORNFELD Galerie Developing a distinctive voice by diving head first into auto-biography, Bassett's works catalogue his day to day life with honesty, humour and pathos. This auto-biographic approach to painting leads Bassett to work in a figurative manner, making the figures in his painting an allegory to his life. Further themes in Bassett's art are of boats and fisherman as a reference to the traditions of his home town, St. Ives, as well as to his family background, and to contemporary leisure life. Questions about how our world is changing and how we place ourselves in-between the past and the future are raised. Read more

Tammam Azzam

14 Sep - 29 Oct 2018 KORNFELD Galerie Tammam Azzam first gained attention in 2013 when he was forced to leave his studio in Syria and began making digital photomontages in his new home in Dubai. These works take an unromantic look at the conflict within art making in the face of war and violence, directly addressing the on-going conflict in his home country. One of these works shows an image of Gustav Klimt’s “The Kiss” superimposed on a bombed Syrian building . This work went viral on Social Media, and even today is among the most well known works of the artist.
Following these experiences, Tammam Azzam found his way back to painting, but in a different register. With “Storeys”, a series of monumental acrylic paintings depicting the magnitude of devastation in his home country through expressionist compositions of destroyed cityscapes, the artist chronicles the current state of his country in a cathartic exercise of reconstruction, storey by storey. Read more

Berlin Calling, Works on Paper – Groupshow

2 Aug - 8 Sep 2018 KORNFELD Galerie Tom Anholt, Samuel Bassett, Armin Boehm, Fritz Bornstück, Hannah Dougherty, Farshad Farzankia, Robert Fry, Philip Grözinger, Michelle Jezierski, Franziska Klotz, Clemens Krauss, Manfred Peckl, Andrew Salgado, Sebastiaan Schlicher, Tina Schwarz, Joachim Stracke, Kristian Touborg
The exhibition Berlin Calling: Works on Paper, a selection of works with and on paper. In close collaboration with the Berlin artist Philip Grözinger, 16 contemporary artists – invited by Grözinger – will show works that express the diversity and variety of the medium of paper in striking fashion.
This involves drawing, painting and watercolouring, folding, gluing and collaging. Figuration is juxtaposed with abstraction, expression with introspection, plenitude with emptiness, image with text, fleeting sketches with pictorial compositions. Small formats are contrasted with larger works that branch out into room installations. Recourse to the medium’s centuries-old tradition is supplemented by artistic concepts that elicit completely new facets from paper. Read more

Jurgen Draeger – Querelle-Zyklus

22 Jun - 28 Jul 2018 KORNFELD Galerie These are works by German artist and actor Jürgen Draeger. On display are drawings, both masterly and sensual, created during the filming of Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s spectacular last film “Querelle”. In every drawing, one senses the intensity of a state of creative emergency. They are documents of an almost manic creative process, in front of and behind the camera, even during phases of exhaustion and absent- minded contemplation. Thus, the “Querelle”-cycle offers a fascinating glimpse behind the scenes of a now legendary production: meticulously observed gestures and mental states, psychogrammes that illuminate people in all their facets, beyond simple representation. Read more

Christopher Lehmpfuhl & Natela Iankoshvili – Reise nach Georgien

26 Apr - 17 Jun 2018 KORNFELD Galerie Galerie Kornfeld is pleased to present a two-person exhibition of paintings from Natela Iankoshvili and Christopher Lehmpfuhl. This exhibition looks at Georgia as a site of inspiration for two strong artists coming from radically different positions: a contemporary male painter who was born and still lives in Berlin, Germany, works on the spot in a country he has never visited before, and paints there with his hands, en plein air. And a strong woman, who was born and lived in Georgia from 1918 to 2007, and who can be regarded as the most notable Georgian female artist of the 20th century, paints the landscapes of her home country in her own, unique style, with powerful brushstrokes set on a dark background. Read more

Franziska Klotz – Memories of Tomorrow

10 Mar - 21 Apr 2018 KORNFELD Galerie After venturing to the limits of abstraction in recent years, and occasionally even exceeding them, Franziska Klotz returns to a style of painting more oriented on the object in her current works. At the center of our exhibition is a group of nine paintings that invariably depict faces of women who convey to their audience an air of seriousness and dignity, but above all self-confidence. Wholly motif – and at the same time wholly painting; strange and yet familiar, close yet remote.
A closer look reveals the specific features of these faces: the models of Franziska Klotz’s paintings are not girls and women sitting face-to-face with the artist, but portraits of women painted on thin wooden panels, who have not been amongst the living for nearly two thousand years. Read more

Mehr Licht – Groupshow

18 Jan - 24 Feb 2018 KORNFELD Galerie 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. Read more

Christopher Lehmpfuhl – Berlin in Mind

9 Sep - 4 Nov 2017 KORNFELD Galerie Christopher Lehmpfuhl’s expressive paintings chronicle the ecstasy of an immediate experience of reality, the act of seeing, as well as the transformation of the seen within painting. The artist always paints in front of his subject matter: some people might have already seen him go back and forth – highly focussed, with paint-spattered clothes – between canvass, paint bucket and palette, zooming in on his subject, before stepping back to bare handedly apply the paint to the canvas with precise movements. He thus creates three-dimensional colour reliefs with a strong haptic quality. Read more

Robert Fry & Tina Schwarz

23 Jun - 5 Aug 2017 KORNFELD Galerie For the first time, our gallery juxtaposes the works of two painters, Tina Schwarz and Robert Fry, who treat the body as a bearer of general human emotions and feelings. Notwithstanding the differences in theme, motivation and artistic expression, their respective works are characterized by the combination of abstract and figurative forms, as well as the use of different techniques in one and the same painting. The viewers are invited to enter the artists’ imaginary associative spaces, in which a variety of themes resonate and where unambiguous statements are consciously eschewed in favour of a staged polysemy. Read more

Stéphane Couturier – So Far so Close

27 Apr - 17 Jun 2017 KORNFELD Galerie During his first visit to “Climat de France”, Stéphane Couturier instantly realized that his work would have to involve the people, who today inhabit and transform Pouillon’s ideal architectures according to their own needs and desires. Thus his repertoire of themes and motifs expanded: in addition to the large-scale, captivatingly composed, almost painterly photographs of buildings or architectural structures, he created pictures that document the people and their everyday life, capturing them in iconic images. Video portraits, which formally occupy a space between image and film, and three-dimensional photo installations touch the very limits of the medium of “photography” and extend its spectrum. Read more

Hubertus Hamm – Narziss und Goldgrund

11 Mar - 19 Apr 2017 KORNFELD Galerie The work of Hubertus Hamm is characterized by its intense exploration of the medium of portrait photography, culminating in the installation Portrait IV. As a consistent expansion of the principle of “photography”, which the artist calls “Dimensioning Photography”, Hubertus Hamm’s works engage the viewer in a dialogue, encouraging self-reflection and self-questioning. Read more

Supper Club – Groupshow

14 Jan - 4 Mar 2017 KORNFELD Galerie Stéphane Couturier, Hubertus Hamm, Bertram Hasenauer, Natela Iankoshvili, Franziska Klotz, Tamara Kvesitadze, Christopher Lempfuhl, Olivia Mc Gilchrist, Anne Pantillon, Sandeep Mukherjee, Alexander Polzin, Susanne Roewer, Sonny Sanjay Vadgama
At a “Supper Club”, people who have generally never met before, get together in their host’s private rooms, where they are wined and dined with a self-prepared culinary menu. The idea of different people and cultures coming together through a shared interest is the inspiration for the group exhibition “Supper Club” that kick-starts the year 2017 at Galerie Kornfeld. We invited gallery artists, as well as exciting guest artists, to bring along one or two works as gifts for this exhibition, which unites a variety of artistic forms under one thematic framework. Read more

Jan Tichy – Weight of Glass

12 Nov 2016 - 7 Jan 2017 KORNFELD Galerie 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. Read more

Alexander Polzin – Was bleibet aber , stiften die Dichter

10 Sep - 5 Nov 2016 KORNFELD Galerie To celebrate the unveiling of the sculpture “Hommage à Paul Celan” during a festive ceremony in the Anne Frank Garden in Paris, Galerie Kornfeld will show a selection of Alexander Polzin's sculptures, paintings and works on paper, all of which explore the art of poetry and its authors, the great writers of Western and European culture. This intensive exploration of literary and philosophical texts and ideas forms the essence of his work. Alexander Polzin has close personal and intellectual ties with many writers, philosophers and scientists: Thomas Brasch was a close friend and renowned authors such as Péter Nádas, Durs Grünbein, Péter Esterházy and Hungarian Nobel Prize winner Imre Kertész have all written illuminatingly and poetically on the artist and his work. Read more

Hubert Scheibl – The End of Flags

11 - 23 Jun 2016 KORNFELD Galerie Hubert Scheibl is one of the most important contemporary Austrian painters. His oil paintings and drawings are always non-representational, renouncing subject matter in favour of emotions, the artist’s own, as well as those of his spectators.
His art is defined by dichotomies and antinomies. Certain works reveal an infinite variety of colour in the cracks in the uppermost, bright monochrome layer of paint. Others depend on the contrast within spaces of light, reminiscent of the Old Masters, countered by grand painterly gestures, executed in one controlled movement. Others in turn open new vistas on imaginary landscapes of colour and light, behind mist-like veils of colour. All of Hubert Scheibl’s paintings, however, seem suffused by an inner radiance. Read more

Tamara Kvesitadze – Any Direction

23 Apr - 4 Jun 2016 KORNFELD Galerie Featuring new sculptures, a large-scale, wall-based installation and recent water colours, Tamara Kvesitadze’s solo show "Any Direction" continues ongoing investigation into human relationships.
Kvesitadze’s artistic practice focuses on the tension between the human and its world, with the body always being at the centre of her exploration. Her way of understanding the body is ambiguous and always in flux. Seeing it as a constantly moving and transformative entity, her sculptures – often kinetic – are dynamic with a deliberately unfinished quality to them. Bordering on the grotesque, they reference classical sculptures and allude to playful games between the subconscious and conscious worlds. Read more

Franziska Klotz

12 Mar - 16 Apr 2016 KORNFELD Galerie In Franziska Klotz’s work, reflections on the self and the other lead to an exploration of images from her own family history. “Heimat” and “Heimat 2”, one of which was created while the artist was still living in Berlin, the other shortly after her arrival in Istanbul, are based on a theme, which for the artist is connected to a multiplicity of personal memories. The fabric’s Orientalizing ornaments seem like an anticipation of what might lie in store for her in the foreign country. Her study of Ottoman art, which neglects illustrative figuration in favour of the ornament, enabled Franziska Klotz to tell the stories of the images that underlie her paintings by the mere use of colour and form: a focus on textures, a rejection of the compositional structures of Western painting and an image build-up that largely relinquishes any spatial-illusory depth effect. Read more

Hubertus Hamm – Time Modelling

30 Jan - 5 Mar 2016 KORNFELD Galerie In the exhibition Time Modelling the artist continues his exploration of space and time by photographic means. A photograph always shows a brief moment that has been wrested from the infinite flow of time and captured in the image for eternity. Every photo is therefore a historic document and, as such, connected to the memory of past things. Here the artist achieves to re-connect the image with its actual place, space and time through an exact labelling of his works: the title includes the place, the date and the time of day. Read more

Paper Plains – Groupshow

27 Nov 2015 - 23 Jan 2016 KORNFELD Galerie 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. Read more

Stéphane Couturier – Alger - Climat de France

24 Oct - 25 Nov 2015 KORNFELD Galerie In this series, Stéphane Couturier explores, which was created over more than three years, in highly aesthetic and, at the same time, socially ambitious photos and videos, the “Climat de France” housing project – today called Oued Koriche – in Algier. Built-in the International Style in the 1950s and based on a design by French architect Fernand Pouillon, the ambitious project is now the centre of the Bab-El-Oued district. Today the housing project is a city within a city, forgotten by politicians and avoided by the police. Read more

Leonardo Silaghi

12 Sep - 17 Oct 2015 KORNFELD Galerie Seemingly abandoned factories and obsolete machinery have always been pivotal themes in Leonardo Silaghi’s paintings. His complex canvases depict industrial and visceral backgrounds in grey that are interspersed with jubilant sweeps of colour. His latest work has moved away from the immediacy of figurative into more abstract renderings, preserving the feeling of dense metallic structures and industrial remains, though not depicted in a figurative manner. Observing and photographing the omnipresence of structures, devices or tools in his environment, Silaghi explores the correlation of objects and illusion of space, as well as the boundaries of paint as a medium. Read more

Robert Fry – Partners

25 Apr - 20 Jun 2015 KORNFELD Galerie Continuing his investigation into the individual and the other, the mind and the body, Robert Fry strives towards a new figurative abstraction in this series of paintings.
Starting out as an aerial view of a man and a woman in Partners Study 1, as the series progresses, gender, as well as the lines of interior and exterior, become blurred. The two bodies are seen wrestling, embracing or pulling apart. They move from two curled up balls on opposite sides of the canvas in Study 1 to an embracing unit in Study 9. Each Study opens up a different psychological space, some are visceral and almost violent, evident in the roughness of the brushstrokes and the flesh-like colours. Others are mysterious and ominous, calm and sombre, where the thick layers of oil paint take on an almost velvety quality. Read more

Body | Not for Sale – Groupshow

24 Jan - 7 Mar 2015 KORNFELD Galerie Gerd Bonfert, Rona Kobel, Leiko Ikemura, Nikolaus List, Anna Marie von Matt, Christian Pilz, Alina Szapocznikow, Miroslav Tichy and WOLS Under the title Body – Not For Sale, Leiko Ikemura, artist and professor at the University of Arts in Berlin, curates an exhibition of artistic positions from different generations and... Read more

Hubertus Hamm – Untitled

15 Nov 2014 - 17 Jan 2015 KORNFELD Galerie By means of cutting and layering multiple photographs, Hubertus Hamm transforms the two-dimensional medium of photography into works that extend into three-dimensional space.
Our exhibition presents a new series of photographic layerings. The point of departure for these works are images of snow-covered branches. By layering multiple identical photographs congruently and then tearing away the upper layers, Hubertus Hamm reveals previously hidden layers. This creates a three-dimensional, relief-like structure, drawing attention to the materiality of the medium paper, whilst at the same time mirroring the motif – the layers of snow-covered branches – in an almost mimetic manner. Read more

Maliheh Afnan – Tonight the door towards words will be opened

6 Sep - 8 Nov 2014 KORNFELD Galerie Maliheh Afnan (b. 1935) is a poet of lines, of earthen colors and iconic signs. In her often small-scale works, the artist creates dreamlike scenes of a perfect language; delicate palimpsests that evoke lost childhood memories and stir up the unexposed. The artist creates an écriture automatique beyond legibility. She writes her paintings, right or left-aligned, as contemporary pictorial quotes of an Antiquity that can no longer be found in any language. Her works are hieroglyphic ruins of ancient landscapes, faces of exile, a visual poetry in the tradition of Persian and Arabic calligraphy reflecting an immense, magical beauty that resists the withdrawal of this tradition.
Maliheh Afnan’s works evoke Paul Klee’s poetic miniature works of paper and are reminiscent of the work of Mark Tobey, to whom the artist felt closely related. Read more

Franziska Klotz – H3PO4

21 Jun - 9 Aug 2014 KORNFELD Galerie Her most recent works are primarily based on historical photographs of the destruction of Dresden in 1945. The artist’s examination of this theme originates from her personal relationship to the events in her home town. Through her extensive research in the Dresden archives, the artist found a variety of formally impressive motifs of the ruined city, which she connects with motifs from other historical contexts, such as pictures of the burning oil fields in Kuwait, creating impressive compositions.
The title “H3PO4” – the chemical formula for phosphoric acid – opens another mental space, by alluding to the myth of the bombing of Dresden with phosphorus bombs: The boundary between experienced reality, imagination and myth-making is removed, resulting in a new, visual reality that moves away from the concrete event. Read more

Claudia Chaseling – Mutative Perspective Painting

3 - 28 May 2014 KORNFELD Galerie We are thrilled to announce MUTATIVE PER–SPECTIVE PAINTINGS, an exhibition of works by Claudia Chaseling inaugurating the opening of the brand new yet still under renovation Galerie Kornfeld PROJECTSPACE.
For the occasion, conventional canvases are conceived along with ‘installation paintings’ that seem to extend loosely over walls and floor escaping their traditional frames. This juxtaposition disperses the gaze of the spectator into different and competing points of view. Read more

Hubert Scheibl – Babylon

26 Apr - 14 Jun 2014 KORNFELD Galerie At long last an exhibition of Austrian painter Hubert Scheibl is shown at Galerie Kornfeld in Berlin. For the occasion a selection of works encompassing oil paintings, works on paper and sculptural elements suggestive of the artist’s multifaceted practice is presented.
Hubert Scheibl (b. 1952 in Gmunden, Austria) uses coating knives, palet-knives and other tools to design his large scale abstract paintings. On a visual level, his works are characterized by the distinctive, touching chromatic universe, yet on an emotional grade, pathos is perceived through a complex dynamism of the spatial structure. The composition seems to be breached through by an intimate light that floods the plane alluding to a deeper space, sublime source of emo¬tional engagement for the viewer. Read more

Les Euronautes – Groupshow

16 Apr - 20 Dec 2014 KORNFELD Galerie Stéphane Couturier, Camilla Douraghy, Ralf Peters, Benyamin Reich
The Other Europe is the theme for The 6th European Month of Photography Berlin in 2014. Our exhibition presents four photographers searching for Europe’s intrinsic identity.
The 21st century with its open borders and world wide connectivity is putting the old structures of an already heterogeneous Europe into question. Is there, or was there ever a united European idea? Is there such a thing as a European identity? Who today is actually European?
None of the artists in the exhibition explicitly address these topics, yet the question of a possible European identity can be perceived in all works featured in the exhibition. Read more

Alexander Polzin

28 Feb - 19 Apr 2014 KORNFELD Galerie The sculptures, paintings and drawings by Alexander Polzin are linked to an intensive dialogue with music, theater, contemporary and historical literature, as well as art history. Alexander Polzin seeks close artistic exchange with contemporary composers, writers and other greats of intellectual life. Even in the 21st Century, he takes the risk of creating new works based on the human figure, which negotiate politically and socially relevant issues. A central part of his work is an engagement with the question of guilt and atonement, and the tense relationship between perpetrator and victim. Read more

Drawings and Etchings — Groupshow

25 Jan - 22 Feb 2014 KORNFELD Galerie Robert Fry, Voldemars Johansons, Franziska Klotz, Christian Pilz, Alexander Polzin, Susanne Roewer and Michael Wutz
Drawing, as the origin of all graphic arts, is one of the oldest cultural techniques of humanity. The drawing, which can be implemented with simple technical means, is still the medium that gives the most direct expression to the ideas of artists. As a sketch, a study or preliminary drawing, it helps both in the transformation of what has been seen into an aesthetic form, as well as in the development of ambitious compositions. Etching and other graphic reproduction techniques developed over the centuries, and were initially intended to reproduce the ideas held in a drawing in order to share them with fellow artists and an ever-growing circle of interested people. Read more

Robert Fry

7 Sep - 16 Nov 2013 KORNFELD Galerie The nude male body is often in the centre of the paintings and etchings by Robert Fry. However, Fry does not stop at the reflection of his gender but raises the matter on a meta-level: Gender relations and the intensely dynamic relationship between the individual and his counterpart are investigated. For example, the subject of ‘manliness ‘is further developed in his new series ‘Related’: A series of paintings deals with the inevitable complexity of the father-son relationship and examines and deconstructs the physical and emotional subtleties of this particular connection. Read more

Tamara Kvesitadze – Red

25 May - 10 Aug 2013 KORNFELD Galerie Tamara Kvesitadze’s work includes kinetic sculptures and paintings, wherein the human being plays an essential role. The tension in the relationship between genders is a main focus of her œuvre. Its roots lie in antiquity and mythology as well as in surrealism. Violence and sexuality are intertwined. Faces, masks and fragmented bodies symbolize the internal conflict of modern individuals, their emotions, their strive for happiness and fulfillment, their fears and hopes. Questions about individuality are raised, and the relationships between the individual and society and fellow humans are examined. Read more

Franziska Klotz

13 Apr - 18 May 2013 KORNFELD Galerie The powerful and intense paintings by Franziska Klotz bring the ancient medium of painting to life in a new way. Her contemporary historical paintings compress a variety of very personal impressions into autonomous painterly compositions. Areas where the paint is applied so thickly that its almost relief-like qualities stand in contrast with glaze-like, flowing sections. Fullness is next to emptiness, lightness alongside heaviness, the painterly next to the graphic, definition alongside deliquescence, representational next to the abstract. The unfinished and preliminary is part of the paintings, with elaborate detail set alongside vaguely sketched sections, where chaos continuously breaks into the deliberate ordering of the image field. Read more

Ralf Peters

1 Mar - 6 Apr 2013 KORNFELD Galerie In an era in which the digitally designed, virtual worlds of cinema, video games and advertising are commonplace and appear much more real than reality itself, the German artist Ralf Peters cleverly plays with our expectations of the medium of photography.
Ralf Peters, who was born in 1960 in Lüneburg, works with a wide range of different subjects, motifs and techniques. All of his works are based on observations and motifs from everyday life. Like a classical photographer, the artist finds his pictures through the close observation of his environment. Yet the motif is only a first step on the way to an image that is less a statement about reality, but much more a reflection on photography and its relationship to visible reality. Read more

Leonardo Silaghi – Noise Distorted Perspective

18 Jan - 23 Feb 2013 KORNFELD Galerie The figurative paintings by Leonardo Silaghi unite seemingly unfinished, gestural-expressive sections with elaborately detailed areas. Heavy gray machines are placed within the picture in a unique way. Colored accents appear in contrast to a broad pallet of different gray tones.
Leonardo Silaghi finds his motifs in his immediate vicinity and on the World Wide Web. In a first step, the artist digitally processes images that he has found or photographed himself of abandoned, mostly ruinous industrial plants or complex machinery and equipment. In a second step, he transfers these digital collages onto a canvas on which he has already created an abstract, colorful composition. The figurative motif, which he presents in a variety of shades of gray, is subjected to multiple transformations in the process of painting. In this way, the finished painting becomes different from the original collage. Read more

Susanne Roewer – I am Busy Catching Falling Stars

1 Dec 2012 - 12 Jan 2013 KORNFELD Galerie Susanne Roewer's sculptures and paintings play with representational motifs and combine a variety of different materials. The artist borrows from the natural sciences to give material expression to her ideas and thoughts.
The dark time at the end of the year, decorated with special lights, is a time for review. What was the flood of images and experiences that washed up over the year? What was swept away, and what was destroyed? Some things glow more than before in the darkness, but closer inspection also reveals cracks, dents, holes. Read more

Jose Manuel Ciria

23 Nov 2012 - 8 Feb 2013 KORNFELD Galerie The solo exhibition “Over/Under the Raw” will present works on the deliberate return to abstraction of the artist José Manuel Ciria. These bodies of works arise in the context of a complicated personal scenario, marked by the conclusion of a seven years-long staying in New York, followed by José’s return to Madrid and the imminent move to London. This convoluted period has inspired three new series, defining the artist’s evolved approach towards the 'pictorial spot ‘ as a 'raw ‘ element onto which the visual construction is built up. Read more

Stéphane Couturier

20 Oct - 30 Nov 2012 KORNFELD Galerie The large-scale photographs by the contemporary photographer Stéphane Couturier are never committed to representing the purely factual. They also create a new, image-immanent order of things: Through the superposition of two different images of the same place, the artist creates intensely colored to almost abstract works. His works, which have more in common with the definition of contemporary painting as color, line and surface than with traditional notions of photography as a document, are characterized by dynamic verticals and horizontals, elegantly curving lines and brilliant effects of light and color. Read more

Sonny Sanjay Vadgama

14 Sep - 13 Oct 2012 KORNFELD Galerie Sonny Sanjay Vadgama’s works are frequently based on digitally manipulated found material, are characterized by formal and aesthetic perfection. They deal with the political and cultural interests of the artist.

The focus of his work is the artistic approach to the “space between” order and chaos, war and peace, creation and destruction. The spectrum of his work ranges from intensely experienced personal moments to highly political positions – the narrative approach always sways between seemingly dichotomous systems. It explores those transformative moments in which order threatens to tilt into chaos, referring to the fragility of perceived safety and the existing order. Read more