Exhibitions

Rhythm and Soul – Group Show

15 Jan - 28 Feb 2026 68projects Rhythm & Soul – Brazilian Contemporary Art, conceived for 68projects by KORNFELD, brings together Brazilian artists whose works capture the pulse of the country’s cultural, political, and emotional landscapes. Situated in the heart of Berlin—a city celebrated for its rich musical heritage and socio-political engagement—the exhibition examines how rhythm, both literal and metaphorical, renders visible the soul of a nation in transition. Read more

MADE IN PARIS – Groupshow

31 Oct - 20 Dec 2025 68projects Paris is back in the spotlight—and Made in Paris celebrates the city’s vibrant, diverse art scene through twelve contemporary positions. Curated by KUNSTFORUM author Heinz-Norbert Jocks, the exhibition runs parallel to the magazine's special issue and brings together painting, photography, ceramics, video, and installation by artists currently living and working in Paris, most of them exhibiting in Germany for the first time.
Talk (in german): Wednesday, 12 November 2025, 6:30 pm
Heinz-Norbert Jocks stellt im Gespräch mit Thomas Huber den neuen KUNSTFORUM-Band
Made in Paris vor.
Stéphane Couturier
Thomas Buswell
Edi Dubien
Emile Degorce-Dumas
Kenny Dunkan
Liang Fu
Marina Gadonneix
Augustin Lignier
Viktoriia Oreshko
Alireza Shojaian
Vincent Voillat
Jiechang Yang
Curated by Heinz-Norbert Jocks Read more

Edgar Arceneaux – Shards

10 Sep - 25 Oct 2025 68projects Berlin Art Week 68projects by KORNFELD is proud to present SHARDS, a solo exhibition by acclaimed American artist Edgar Arceneaux (*1972, Los Angeles), opening on September 10, 2025, as part of Berlin Art Week. The exhibition marks Arceneaux’s debut with the gallery and is the culmination of his summer residency at 68projects, organised in collaboration with Villa Aurora & Thomas Mann House. From early June through July, Arceneaux immersed himself in Berlin’s art scene, creating new work that will be presented in SHARDS.
At the vernissage on Wednesday, September 10, at 8 PM, a performance by Edgar Arceneaux will take place, followed by a second performance on Friday, September 12, at 7 PM.
Photos by Andrea Katheder Read more

Simin Jalilian – Simin Jalilian

14 Jun - 23 Aug 2025 68projects 68projects by KORNFELD presents the first-ever showing of new paintings by Hamburg-based Iranian artist Simin Jalilian – works that are simultaneously biographical and political, expressive and poetic. Her painting is a powerful and urgent plea for freedom – in both life and art.
Tereza de Arruda, art historian and curator, in conversation with the artists Tamara Kvesitadze, Shunxiang Hu, and Simin Jalilian
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Shanee Roe – Clinging Knots

30 Apr - 7 Jun 2025 68projects Stripping away idealisation to reveal the raw, unfiltered human experience, in this exhibition Shanee Roe guides us through the complexities of intimacy. Playful yet unsettling, her figures exist in states of vulnerability—exposed, clumsy, fragmented. The body is neither glorified nor concealed but presented in its most honest fleshy form, inviting a confrontation with our own perceptions of beauty, desire, and discomfort. Through ambiguity and tension, Roe challenges the romanticised narratives we construct around intimacy, opening space for questions about how we experience sexual desire and connection. In these moments of softness and disruption, we are asked to see, to feel, and to acknowledge the messy, tender reality of being human.
Photos by Andrea Katheder Read more

Yasaman Nozari – A Small Ocean Swallowed

1 Mar - 17 Apr 2025 68projects Inspired by Belgium's cultural diversity, Yasaman Nozari merges her Iranian roots with modern European influences. This fusion gives rise to an abstract visual language that, through a powerful color palette—magenta, orange, vibrant green, and blue—creates an emotional and spiritual impact.
Nozari’s works transcend cultural boundaries, resonating on multiple levels by blending shapes, colors, and lines into an almost meditative aesthetic. Read more

Valentina Murabito – La Donna del Mare

31 Oct 2024 - 18 Jan 2025 68projects Valentina Murabito’s latest exhibition, La donna del mare, invites viewers to explore the deep connections between mythology, nature, and the human condition through her intricate photo-sculptures. Inspired by Henrik Ibsen’s play The Lady from the Sea, Murabito reinterprets themes of freedom, longing, and instinct, blending them with Greek mythology and political philosophy. Her innovative analog photography technique creates three-dimensional, surreal artworks that blur the line between fiction and reality. What role do ancient myths play in our understanding of modern existence? Read more

Pablo Benzo – Reciting from Memory

12 Sep - 25 Oct 2024 68projects Pablo Benzo's new series, to be showcased in our September exhibition, focuses on surreal and cubist three-dimensional "picture within a picture" constructions. This technique allows him to depict objects and landscapes in a multi-layered and profound manner. Born in 1985 in Santiago, Chile, Benzo studied graphic design at the University of Chile until 2009. After graduating, he moved to Berlin in 2013, where he has since lived and worked. His works, known for merging surrealism and cubism, have been exhibited internationally. Benzo uses automatism (Écriture Automatique) to create intuitively by incorporating everything he has seen, experienced, and read into his art. In his world, people can transform into furniture and vice versa, giving his works a distinctive surreal quality. He prefers the colors green and pink, inspired by the hues of his childhood.
Special opening hours for Berlin Art Week
Friday, 13 September, 11am – 9pm
Saturday, 14 September, 11am – 7pm
Sunday, 15 September, 12am – 6pm
Artist Talk
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Berlin on my Mind. Celebrating 10 Years of Artistic Residency at 68projects by KORNFELD – Groupshow

21 Jun - 24 Aug 2024 68projects 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

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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
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Youjin Yi – Unprompted

26 Apr - 14 Jun 2024 68projects 68projects by KORNFELD Galerie is pleased to present the exhibition ‘Unprompted’ by Munich based Korean artist Youjin Yi. Her first solo exhibition in Berlin showcasing paintings on canvas as well as on Hanji paper mounted on canvas. Youjin Yi came to Germany aged twenty. This move and the ensuing experiences have brought an awareness to Youjin Yi enabling her to recognise what is innately hers, culture, identity - through the recognition of what is not.
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Seong Joon Hong – [Study layers]

1 Mar - 20 Apr 2024 68projects Under the title "[Study layers]," 68projects by KORNFELD is pleased to present works by the Korean artist Seong Joon Hong, created during his summer 2023 residency in Berlin. In his pieces, the artist updates the legacy of Hanji, traditional Korean paper. Tradition and innovation merge in his images, forming a narrative about the intricate aspects of life. Seong Joon Hong's art serves as an intense reflection of our own complex layers and vibrant colors.
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Kyungmi Shin – Fly to India for Gold, Ransack the Ocean for Orient Pearl

13 Jan - 24 Feb 2024 68projects In the work presented in the exhibiton "Fly to India for Gold, Ransack the Ocean for Orient Pearl", Kyungmi Shin delves into a captivating exploration of interconnected narratives, seamlessly intertwining the histories of Germany and Asia. At the core of her artistic endeavor is a meticulous layering of diverse elements, drawing inspiration from the rich tapestry of cultural exchanges. In an age of discussions over cultural appropriation Shin’s work is exemplary of cultural appreciation. She is able to sensitively and creatively create meaningful dialogue on intercultural exchange reflecting much older global intercultural interactions. Read more

Phillip Grözinger & Stefan Rinck – Die Handtasche muss lebendig sein

18 Nov 2023 - 6 Jan 2024 68projects Curated by Peter Ungeheuer, the exhibition "Die Handtasche muss lebendig sein" (in English: The handbag must be alive) brings together for the first time Philip Grözinger’s paintings of colourful imaginary worlds populated by extraordinary figures and creatures in dialogue with Rinck’s humorous stone sculptures that become mythical creatures, monsters and grimacing animals. The first joint exhibition by Stefan Rinck and Philip Grözinger is a collaboration in the truest sense of the word, as the majority of the works on display are created for this exhibition, including the joint work ’Lonely tunes’ pictured above.
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Lena Keller – Watching My Own Rotation

14 Sep - 11 Nov 2023 68projects In Lena Keller's landscape paintings, a melancholy mood drifts across the canvas like a gentle breeze, almost lovingly wiping away any brush marks that might suggest a personal touch. Keller utilizes computer-manipulated digital images as templates and virtual filters to exaggerate colors, contrast lights, smooth and flatten details. This is a reference to the tools everyone carries in their pockets, on Instagram, or in image editing apps. Now digitally produced by humans, landscapes have become a contemporary expression of mood rather than a representation of nature.
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Fritz Bornstück — Buschfunk

29 Jun - 19 Aug 2023 68projects You think you know them, these places, these compositions of old things, of rubbish, of idyllic vegetation. You don't discover them by strolling, rarely by walking. To get here, you have to roam around, follow an urban explorer's instinct, leave paths, look for hiding places. Children and young people are best at this, but so are homeless people or graffiti sprayers. And then they appear, the traces of the heavy objects, the technical legacies from past decades. Like a whispering bag from the 1920s, musical instruments, fire extinguishers, drawers full of stuff vendor's tray from the cinema or a Converse Chuck shoe. Ambitiously piled high, romantically dropped down or burning warmth in a fireplace. Together they act like fertilizer, through them weeds blossom paradisiacally. After a few moments of contemplation, it finally becomes clear that Fritz Bornstück's pictures do not show real places, they only seem that way at first glance. They are un-places, exposed in hidden places and relocated in a fictitious map of the world. Larissa Kikol Read more

Igor Simic – FEEEEELINGS

28 Apr - 24 Jun 2023 68projects We proudly present the first solo exhibition with Serbian-American artist Igor Simic. The artist explores a variety of topics involving: politics, climate change as well as the change of our world through digitalization, in a serious yet simultaneously ironic way through story telling. Some stories are told as video, some as a computer game or a song, and all combine to form a grand narrative about the 21st century, which is presented in our exhibition in the form of two video works with sound, three neon works, two video games and a large as well as a multitude of A4-sized drawings. The exhibition will be shown during the Gallery Weekend Berlin. Read more

Amparo Sard – I Thought I Could Change the World

4 Mar - 19 Apr 2023 68projects 68projects is pleased to present our first solo exhibition with renowned Spanish artist Amparo Sard.
Amparo Sard introduces us to a series of art pieces that vary from paper works, sculptures and an NFT. Coming together in her unique delicate and poetic yet insightful and powerful sense of aesthetic that is so intensely connected to human emotion in a profoundly meditative way. Read more

Agnes Lammert & Sebastian Maas – Distant Belongings

14 Jan - 25 Feb 2023 68projects 68projects starts 2023 with a duo exhibition between Agnes Lammert (1984, Dresden) and Sebastian Maas (1984, Aachen) titled: "Distant Belongings". Both artists will be exhibiting in this space for the first time.
The artworks in the exhibition possess a certain mystery to them, that welcome the viewer to take a step closer to see what unravels behind the plastic looking sculptures by Agnes and the collage-like compositions by Sebastian. Read more

Johanna Reich – Before the Storm

5 Nov 2022 - 7 Jan 2023 68projects Johanna Reich Before the Storm Read more

Ivana de Vivanco – Temple of Inversion

10 Sep - 29 Oct 2022 68projects The exhibition "Temple of Inversion" is the first solo exhibition of the Chilean-Peruvian artist Ivana de Vivanco in 68projects Berlin.
"In the exhibition I will transform the gallery into a ‘temple of inversion’, in which controversial authority fgures of our society fall down and the hitherto oppressed rise up," says Ivana de Vivanco, describing her motivation for the exhibition: "The exhibition space will be changed in such a way that visitors forget they are in a gallery.”
In her works, the artist questions preconceived notions of gender, Western history and colonialism as well as questions of power and powerlessness. Her works are scenic representations in small, concentrated spaces, visually appealing but uncomfortable oddities that evoke an eerie atmosphere full of metaphors and socio-political references. The expansion of the image with sculptural and installative elements adds an additional dimension to the works and invites the audience to become part of their bizarre pantomimes. Read more

Giorgio Celin – Graduation

2 Jul - 3 Sep 2022 68projects 68projects is more than pleased to announce Colombian artist Giorgio Celin's first solo exhibition in Berlin titled “Graduation“.
Born in Barranquilla, Colombia in 1986, and currently lives in Barcelona. In his works Giorgio explores themes including migration, belonging, relationships and nostalgia. Celin’s work is influenced by his experience as a Colombian migrant who has lived in several European cities. He examines issues surrounding displacement and what it means to feel as though you don’t belong in any one geographical location. Read more

Liat Yossifor – the gray feather a thrush lost

28 Apr - 25 Jun 2022 68projects 68projects is pleased to present the first solo exhibition of Los Angeles-based Israeli artist Liat Yossifor in Berlin. The exhibition will coincide with the artist's Berlin Fellowship at the renowned Villa Aurora & Thomas Mann House e. V. Read more

Dominika Bednarsky – Bitten by a Love Bug

5 Mar - 23 Apr 2022 68projects 68projects is pleased to present the works of Dominika Bednarsky and Paris Giachoustidis in the duo exhibition "Bitten by a Love Bug”. The exhibition challenges the mainstream portrayal of men and women, confronting the stereotypes, limitations, and ideals imposed on the disputed images of the sexes in society. Read more

Chunqing Huang – Painter’s Portrait II

15 Jan - 26 Feb 2022 68projects Chunqing Huang’s “Painter’s Portraits” are abstract. There are similarities and affinities among the works, but no two paintings are alike. The titles indicate which painter is portrayed: Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne or Marcel Duchamp, to name just a few. Chunqing Huang thus probes the very nature of painting, deciphering the DNA inherent in the works of the painters she portrays, condensing it into a single image. Read more

Kota Ezawa – Opus III

6 Nov 2021 - 8 Jan 2022 68projects OPUS is an exhibition project by German/Japanese/American artist Kota Ezawa with stops in New York, Frankfurt, and Berlin. His works in OPUS III, installations, video projections, watercolours, light boxes, and wall-mounted spatial installations reflect, on isolation and participation, loneliness and separation, as well as on war and peace and their direct and indirect effects on people, buildings, and spaces. Read more

You Jin – Metaphor

15 Sep - 30 Oct 2021 68projects In his works, You Jin pursues a method of observation which melds together philosophical theories of both Eastern and Western thought. Collocating the perspective relationship between Chinese and Western painting as a means of dialogue and understanding of universal energies. His dynamic images thus reflect on our shared contemporary lives, affected by ongoing changes in circumstances, ideals and situations which often require a systematic update in self-reflection and expression. Applying elements of traditional Chinese culture and icons; from the scholarly writings of The Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove, to Taoism, Buddhism and the symbolic importance of bamboo and water. Read more

Christiane Feser – Coded Echoes

7 Aug - 9 Sep 2021 68projects Christiane Feser graduated in 2006 from the Hochschule für Gestaltung, Offenbach. Currently she lives and works in Frankfurt. Trained as an artist focussing on photography as a medium, Feser’s strength lies in her command of light and shadow. After creating compositions out of folded paper, she uses a variety of light sources to add specific shadows to the folded forms which go through another stage of being photographed. The resulting print is then cut up and folded, and at times pins are meticulously placed or thread is woven into the composition, resulting in re-sculpted dizzying networks of geometric landscapes and panoramas. Read more

Walter Schels – Trans*

26 Jun - 31 Jul 2021 68projects The series includes portraits of 27 transgender people. The youngest participant was 11 years old at the time of the first photo, the oldest is now 23. The sitters decide for themselves how they want to be presented and at what moment. Stages of bodily transformation only become an issue if the sitter expressly wants it. More important than physical appearance are questions of identity, consciousness and personality. “What is the core of a person’s being?", the photos ask, “why are they like this and not different? What possibilities do they have? Where are their limits?” Read more

Ivana de Vivanco, Sally Kindberg, Paris Giachoustidis – Error Explanation

29 Apr - 31 Jul 2021 68projects “Error Explanation” with works by Ivana de Vivanco, Sally Kindberg and Paris Giachoustidis. Experimenting with contemporary figurative painting in different ways, each artist provokes a discourse about the history of humanity and the absurdity of our times. Through “Error Explanation” the artists explore societal “errors” in an attempt to better understand and redirect our collective notion of the world today and of history. In doing so, they tackle issues of gender conformity, high and low brow culture, capitalism as well as colonial pasts. Read more

Böhler & Orendt – The Wild, the Furless and the Spirit of the B . U . D

6 Mar - 17 Apr 2021 68projects In the course of their artistic collaboration, Matthias Böhler and Christian Orendt are increasingly concerned with the tragic, comic or absurd political and ecological consequences of mankind’s influence on the fate of its environment. The exhibition “The Wild, the Furless and the Spirit of the B.U.D.” circles around a narration about a fictitious supernatural vessel, the “Benevolent Utopization Device” (B.U.D.). The story was originally invented for a large eponymous installation commissioned by the Neues Museum Nuremberg for a group show in early 2020. The current exhibition further advances this fiction with further works. Read more

Paris Giachoustidis – Urlaub in Deutschland

16 Jan - 17 Feb 2021 68projects For this solo exhibition he has created a series entitled Urlaub in Deutschland (Vacation in Germany). Using photographic images from postcards, he realistically renders holiday scenes in bright acrylic colours on paper. Using references to art history, as well as productive disturbances in the form of targeted artistic interventions, Paris Giachoustidis’ Urlaub in Deutschland succeeds in unsettling viewers, forcing them to reflect on what they have seen. He thus creates highly topical, socially relevant works that sharpen our perception and potentially impact our everyday life, provoking a more critical attitude when dealing with images and pictures in general. Read more

Rusudan Khizanishvili – Rooms & Beings

7 Nov 2020 - 9 Jan 2021 68projects Rusudan Khizanishvili (1979) lives and paints in Tbilisi, Georgia. She has received her two BFAs in Painting from J.Nikoladze Art School and from Tbilisi State Academy of Art. The fantastical beings on view in this exhibition are all part of these inner domains, partially invisible, yet always present. Deeply influenced by the duality of mind and spirit expressed in medieval art, her paintings on view create a cathedral that has dynamic tension deriving from the artistic imagination. Questions of self, connections to biology, cultural memory and myths, and the female body are all the subjects of an ongoing investigation for Khizanishvili, who shows maturity of purpose and mastery of colour.
Curated by Nina Mdivani Read more

She comes in colors everywhere – Groupshow

11 Sep - 31 Oct 2020 68projects Pierre Descamps, Schirin Kretschmann, Cyrill Lachauer, Gerold Miller, Yorgos Stamkopoulos, Stephanie Stein, Lisa Tiemann.
Curated by Alexandra Alexopoulou
The group exhibition: ''She Comes in Colours Everywhere'' curated by Alexandra Alexopoulou on the occasion of Berlin Art Week 2020. The exhibition is a homage to our Berlin. The title, a quote from the Rolling Stones song "She's Like a Rainbow", refers to the personified city and its vibrant influence on artistic creativity. The Covid-19 crisis has led many artists to turn even more to their immediate surroundings and to explore various aspects of the city and their life here. Although the artists are actively exhibited in other places, they have yet to be granted much visibility in their own city. Read more

Annegret Soltau & Elvira Bach – Input / Output

27 Jun - 8 Aug 2020 68projects In cooperation with Galerie Anita Beckers (Frankfurt). The world is turning at a different pace. New paths and possibilities open up through communication and exchange. Not only in the fields of economy and computer science. This process will be realised by encounters of artists presented by both galleries as a cumulation of force and energy: Different ways of life, art genres and positions. Uniting forces, creating synergies, opening new spaces. Read more

Ab- und Zusagen | Gedanken eines Galeristen – Groupshow

1 May - 20 Jun 2020 68projects Hiba Alansari, Tammam Azzam, Stéphane Couturier, Nick Dawes, Farshad Farzankia, Hubertus Hamm, Rusudan Khizanishvili, Vera Pagava
Shutdown. Lockdown. Confirmations. Cancellations.
That might happen from time to time, the gallerist thinks. Occasionally an artist or a collector might cancel. This time, however, it's a collective, worldwide cancellation. And he tries to understand current events, just as the friends of art seek to read and interpret images. And the gallerist thinks. Cancel? Confirm? He thinks: These extraordinary times offer us the opportunity to pause momentarily, to reflect on what really matters, to feel what is taking place and to become aware of the consequences. At least from time to time. Read more

Oliver Westerbarkey – Die Landschaft fängt an, wo der Mensch aufhört

24 Jan - 18 Apr 2020 68projects Artists are the spokespeople of our times and can play a crucial role in provoking conversations and challenging the status quo. Oliver Westerbarkey communicates within his work that nature can exist without humankind, and it is in fact humans who cannot exist without a relation to their surroundings. The preservation of the plant parts stand in contrast to the fact that nature indeed never really stands still. The work is neither a true representation of nature nor even a complete falsification. Westerbarkey's works thus both preserve and imitate nature at the same time. They highlight all these little objects in nature we easily overlook, and thus let us meditate on the ecological system at large. Read more

Chris Hood – Split Pictures

22 Nov 2019 - 18 Jan 2020 68projects In American artist Chis Hood's series: ''Split Pictures'' he continues to investigate artist's ongoing interests in cultural entropy and reconfiguration. Combining traditional techniques with the languages of digital territories, his work often features images culled from counterculture, art history, and mass media rendered abstract by translation. Focused on themes of identity, memory and loss, Hood explores within his works the wider role of images and contemporary painting reflected through a unique understanding of abstraction in which personal and social imagery collide in the 21st century. Read more

Story as a Woven Carpet – Groupshow

6 Sep - 16 Nov 2019 68projects Andro Eradze, Levan Chelidze, Salome Chigilashvili, Tezi Gabunia, Nino Kvrivishvili, Tamar Nadiradze, Giorgi Qochiashvili. Curated By Irena Popiashvili
Story as a Woven Carpet is a group exhibition of seven Georgian artists currently living and working in Tbilisi. Georgia has always been somewhat exoticised throughout the history starting from Ancient Greeks and up to the 20th century travelers’ accounts. What others have said and opined about the country is collected in Georgian textbooks and was taught over generations. The artists presented in this exhibition are telling stories from their own perspective. They represent the generation that may have started the process of creating and telling their own stories. Read more

Michael John Kelly & Rachel Eulena Williams

27 Jun - 29 Aug 2019 68projects 68projects is pleased to present a duo presentation featuring Los Angeles artist Michael John Kelly and New York artist Rachel Eulena Williams. Kelly's large-scale paintings and drawings as well as William's object-like works were all created during their stay in Berlin as part of our residency program. The exhibition provides an insight into the artists' practices and a unique reflection on the influences their stay in Berlin had on their work. Read more

Cristina BanBan – I’ve got nothing to Lose

25 Apr - 22 Jun 2019 68projects The exhibition: 'I've got nothing to lose', includes several large-scale dynamic paintings and drawings, including works made in Berlin last October during BanBan's 68projects residency. Women are the stars in BanBan's work. Ballooning to envelop the entirety of the canvas, the figures in her paintings unapologetically take up space with their flesh. Their shapely forms reclaim the traditional authority of the male gaze and reorient the significance of the female figure. Her women take on an active role in their presence, controlling the gaze of the viewer and addressing it in various positions of repose, erotic pleasure, and dominance. Read more

Chicago Grid – Groupshow

17 Jan - 22 Jun 2019 68projects 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. Read more

Yevgeniya Baras – Clocks deep in us

24 Oct - 17 Nov 2018 68projects The fantasy world often serves as an escape from reality, its limitations, and its many social, economic, and corporeal restrictions. Reality, in turn, is often desired amidst the delusions of the fantastic. However, the two are not always separate. The artist pulls from a diverse set of references: from Shiva Lingam paintings that are seen as symbols of energy, then to the abstract physicality of Elizabeth Murray's work, to the delicate and decorative from Florine Stettheimer and the Early American Modernist Visionary works of Forrest Bess – Baras's works are physical, archaeological and gritty. Her work takes abstraction to its most tactile moment and then folds in cryptic codes on the surface of the paintings that the viewer is invited to decode. Read more

Moments of Intimacy – Groupshow

14 Sep - 19 Oct 2018 68projects Kyle Coniglio, Anthony Cudahy, Doron Langberg Moments of Intimacy Groupshow Read more

Cat Scan – Groupshow

2 Aug - 8 Sep 2018 68projects Jillian Mayer, Rodrigue Mouchez, Michael Sailstorfer
The artists in Cat Scan, all multidisciplinary in practice, will present an array of sculptural works that are conceptually layered and formally engaging. Mechanically and technically speaking, a Cat Scan is a computer-processed combination of x-ray measurements taken from many different angles to produce cross-sectional images; in effect, a Cat Scan is a way to get inside of something without cutting it open.
This is an approach that each of the artists in Cat Scan uses. They engage familiar contemporary cultural references to make their works accessible to their viewers; they give a visual, conceptual, or physical hook to get into their pieces from many different angles. Read more

Michelle Jezierski – Shifter

22 Jun - 28 Jul 2018 68projects Michelle Jezierski’s work, infused with restless and spirited energy and free from established conventions and outdated formalisms, conjures whirling scenarios of juxtaposing images where light reverberates through vivid, gripping colors. Informing her work is a sensorial idea of fragmented space — simultaneously synchronic and deferred — with the landscape as a catalyst where the limitations of two-dimensionality are explored through the introduction of geometric lines and fixed frames that disrupt the picture plane. This idea creates an optical illusion that seemingly encompasses multiple dimensions within one flat surface. Read more

Dawit Abebe – Liminal in the age of Mobile-Ty

26 Apr - 16 Jun 2018 68projects Based in his hometown Addis Ababa, Dawit Abebe is a seasoned traveller who draws inspiration from the countries and places he visits. His critical observations force him to try and make sense of contemporary everyday life both at local and global levels. Liminal in the age of mobile-ty consists of seven paintings on canvas. The artist uses the smartphone and social media images and symbols as a starting point to explore the intricacy of human communication aided by advanced technology. He is concerned with what happens in the space in-between when the interaction is erratic and fragmentations and disconnections occur, be it in history, knowledge, time and space. This body of work follows Dawit Abebe’s X-Privacy series from 2012, in which he critically examines the themes of power and individual and collective freedom. Read more

Levan Songulashvili & Christian Awe – Black | Sea

16 Mar - 21 Apr 2018 68projects The exhibition 'Black I Sea' presented in 68projects feautures works by the German painter Christian Awe and Georgian painter Levan Songulashvili. The show combines powerful, life-affirming color compositions by Awe with the black and white philosophical approach to painting by Songulashvili.
The motives and emotional mediums presented are: water, energy, depth and intangibility, fire, and colors. The elixir of life that, like the air, we breathe, is fleeting and unfathomable, yet unlike air – leaves no more than a wet glow upon the skin. Water that is colourless and yet reflects all colors. Water that creates fertility and quenches thirst, and the fire that purifies, carries and floods us, stands still or flows to the sea, which is never the same when we dive in it. It is part of the myth of life and the hereafter that erases the memory and stores all memory as it flows through layers of rock. Read more

Elvira Bach – Zwei Tage in violetten Gummistiefeln | Frühere Werke 1978 - 1990

19 Jan - 10 Mar 2018 68projects With the exhibition Frühe Werke 1979-1990. Zwei Tage in violetten Gummistiefeln, 68projects presents the early works of Berlin painter Elvira Bach between 1978 and 1990 and delves into Bach’s artistic beginnings, a painter whose work has made an impression on generations up to the present day. From the start, Bach’s creative works focused on women in all their human facets, in their power and strength, and vulnerability and fragility; but always and foremost, as autonomous and independent individuals. Elvira Bach put women centre stage, gave them broad shoulders and large hands, adorning them with sensuality and strength. Her paintings are beacons of feminine power. Read more

Kimia Ferdowsi Kline & Farshad Farzankia – Soul Mate

10 Nov 2017 - 13 Jan 2018 68projects 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. Read more

Sandeep Mukherjee – Molting the Fractured

9 Sep - 4 Nov 2017 68projects For over a decade, Sandeep Mukherjee’s work has been exploring the concept of abstracting as a means to image, carve or slice a particular aspect of flowing matter. The artist’s work in painting, drawing and installation is process-oriented and improvisational. Following multiple paths of inquiry, such as translating the performing body, subtracting the material body and folding the architectural body, the work explores the relationship between process, affect and image. Read more

Der Kühle Glanz der Sehnsucht gegen den Flüchtigen Moment der Zeit – Groupshow

23 Jun - 5 Aug 2017 68projects "Der Kühle glanz der Sehnsucht gegen den flüchtigen Moment der Zeit" features works by Tony Cragg, Anna Freeman Bentley, Michelle Jezierski and Alfons Pressnitz. Michelle Jezierski’s paintings create a new image of landscape: overlapping structures, fragments of diverse origin, combined with lines, grids and planes that complement, penetrate and dissolve each other. In contrast to Jezierki’s vast space, Anna Freeman Bentley’s inner space is dense. Alfons Pressnitz confronts the idyll of landscape with its counterpart, consciously settling a score with the romantic notion of landscape. The works of Tony Cragg add a sculptural component to the exhibition. Countless organic units merge into one big whole.
Tony Cragg, Anna Freeman Bentley, Michelle Jezierski And Alfons Pressnitz
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We might not have a planet left soon – Groupshow

27 Apr - 5 Aug 2017 68projects 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.“ Read more

Nick Dawes – Lean and prop

11 Mar - 19 Apr 2017 68projects To lean and to prop are the two behaviour patterns that Dawes allows, indeed welcomes to the canvas in his working process. His painting process is usually a lengthy one, which involves a gradual distillation of everything that makes a scene memorable: mood and atmosphere, feeling and emotions, bodily sensation and state of mind. In Dawes’s case, succession is signified physically by various means: by then overlay of one colour on another, by the orchestration and direction of the poured lines and shapes, by the implied sequential movements of the painter’s hand. Read more

Architecture and Abstraction – Groupshow

14 Jan - 4 Mar 2017 68projects Andrea Grützner, Friederike Von Rauch, Tanja Rochelmeyer, Maximilian Schubert
The main focus of the exhibition “Architecture and Abstraction” is on geometric-constructive works, whose primary source of inspiration is architecture. Common to all artistic positions on display is creating certain forms that simultaneously dispense with any documentary or representational characteristics.
If one were to look for similarities between Constructivism, Suprematism, Concrete Art, Hard-edge painting and Minimal Art, one would find them in abstraction. The shared aim is to break free from any reference to the object, combined with a shift towards a pictorial reality, constituted through colours and shapes, light and shade. However, the “new abstraction” of the 21st century gets by without a programmatic reference to the discourse of historical modernism. For instance, it doesn’t pursue a purely rationalistic or objective creation of form, like Concrete Art. While it certainly draws from these sources, it finds its own agile, independent character through a more subjective, individual stance. Read more

Me, Myself and I – Groupshow

12 Nov 2016 - 7 Jan 2017 68projects Cassils, Colette, Mariana Hahn, Jürgen Klauke, Hendrina Krawinkel, Miriam Lenk, Ming Wong, Hansa Wißkirchen
Her performances in the New York of the 1920s were legendary: clad in fantastical costumes and posing in bizarre tableaux vivants, Florence Foster Jenkins belted out operatic arias with unbridled enthusiasm, rarely hitting the right note. She is considered the worst opera singer of all time, despite being convinced, throughout her life, of her exceptional artistic ability, pursuing her career with outstanding tenacity and seriousness. Owing to this combination of eccentric hubris with an extraordinary lack of talent, she nonchalantly transcended gender roles and social class. She thus became a cult figure, admired to this day.
The group exhibition “Me, Myself and I” will show artworks tackling self-dramatisation and identity issues. A spirit of extravagance, a technique of hyperbolic representation all unite the artists and that they are radical, relentless, uncompromising and passionate when it comes to their work. Precisely like the self-styled prima donna, and early camp representative, in the first half of the twentieth century. Read more

Panos Tsagiris – Studies in Symbology

10 Sep - 22 Oct 2016 68projects Following an invitation by 68projects, Tsagaris spent the summer working in Berlin. His art revolves around timeless themes, such as humanity, the search for meaning and the sublime. Tsagaris’ mostly abstract collages, paintings and films are always grounded in the medium of photography, revealing an intense fascination with occultism, spirituality and mystic teachings. Following mythological tradition, such as the story of Narcissus, who drowns in his reflection, the mirror in Tsagaris’ work symbolizes the fall of the soul from the divine to the physical realm, from higher consciousness to the profane, while simultaneously exemplifying the purification of collective being. Read more

William Bradley – Mark me

11 Jun - 23 Jul 2016 68projects Following an invitation by 68projects, Bradley worked in Berlin for three months during the early summer of 2016, where he created a cycle of abstract, luminous drawings and paintings.
Bradley explores the formal language and historical roots of abstract expressionism, toying with references from the history of art and artists such as John Hoyland, Sandra Blow and Eduardo Chilida. Against this historical background, he strives to create a formal pictorial language that is accessible and timely. However, in Bradley’s work, it is not the artist’s world that occupies the centre of attention but rather the viewer’s imagination. In his creative process, Bradley turns away from the original, fundamental idea behind abstract art, portraying an “inner world“: he scans his watercolour studies, digitally edits them on his computer, and uses these “digital sketches” as the basis for his paintings. Here artistic style and intuition take a back seat, and chance is abolished, resulting in perfectly planned paintings, which captivate the viewer through their seeming lightness and spontaneity. Read more

Papier! Von Klee bis Baselitz - Klassische Moderne und Gegenwart im Dialog – Groupshow

23 Apr - 4 Jun 2016 68projects Tom Anholt, Georg Baselitz, Marc Brandenburg, André Butzer, Ulla von Brandenburg, Peter Doig, Marlene Dumas, Marcel van Eeden, Lyonel Feininger, Anthony Goicolea, Karl Hofer, Alexej von Jawlensky, Paul Klee, Mitja Konic, Bettina Krieg, Franz Marc, Oskar Moll, Thomas Müller, Edvard Munch, Emil Nolde, Friederike von Rauch, Christian Rohlfs, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Miroslav Tichy, Jorinde Voigt, Andy Warhol, Lisa Wilkens, Paul Wolf & Alfred Tritschler
A group show by 68projects and Thole Rotermund Kunsthandel. The astonishing versatility of paper never ceases to amaze. The medium offers unique opportunities for artists to experiment, explore and surprise – taking as an example Thomas Müller’s monumental ballpoint pen drawings, or the richly glowing watercolours of Emil Nolde, the delicate pencil drawings of Karl Hofer, the diffuse 'light drawings' of photographer Friederike von Rauch and the photographic images of the collaborative duo Wolff & Tritschler. The immediacy of paper is undeniable. It possesses a highly subtle aesthetic that works its charm in a variety of ways. All of the works in this exhibition demonstrate paper’s role as the vehicle through which the artist’s presence is most directly and palpably expressed. Read more

Los Angeles. Berlin - L.A. Trilogy III – Groupshow

12 Mar - 16 Apr 2016 68projects Marcel Buehler, Hans Diernberger, Veronika Kellndorfer, Anna Mccarthy, Hans-Christian Schink And David Zink-Yi
The group exhibition “Los Angeles”, the third part of our Berlin-L.A. trilogy, featuring Marcel Buehler, Hans Diernberger, Veronika Kellndorfer, Anna McCarthy, Hans-Christian Schink and David Zink-Yi. All artists either stayed at the Villa Aurora or participated in the MAK Schindler Artists-in-Residence Program in Los Angeles. Berlin and Los Angeles, Los Angeles and Berlin – both cities, according to Oliver Zybok’s recently published article “California Dreaming”, are amongst the most important art capitals in the world, with an almost incredible artistic potential. Zybok argues that they are distinguished by a maximum of creative freedom and an almost unheard-of level of openness and cosmopolitanism, connected through a long tradition of reciprocal cultural exchange across the Atlantic. The fact that a stay in a foreign country can also be a moment of introspection and self-examination is illustrated by Marcel Buehler’s collages: “Die halbe Reise” is a look back, consisting of over two hundred pages of collages – a reflection and a look ahead, a container of ideas and a form of self-examination, as well as a commentary on one’s own work. Read more

Michael John Kelly – Language. Berlin - L.A Trilogie II

30 Jan - 5 Mar 2016 68projects This exhibition: “Language”, by painter Michael John Kelly, is the second part of our Berlin-L.A. trilogy and the artist’s first solo exhibition in Europe. Michael John Kelly’s work is characterized by many different influences and “languages”: his images combine painting, print, photography, drawing and collage. In terms of content, they contain elements from new media and abstract expressionism, graffiti and cartoons, and science fiction movies and the world of hip-hop and punk rock. Kelly, however, continually emphasizes the equal importance of all of his materials and sources of inspiration. Read more

Chris Engman – Landscapes. Berlin - L.A Trilogie I

27 Nov 2015 - 23 Jan 2016 68projects “Landscapes” is an exhibition by photographer Chris Engman, who is based in LA, and the first part of our Berlin – LA trilogy. Following an invitation by 68projects, Engman worked in Berlin for two months during the summer of 2015. The result is an impressive series of photos, which again questions the connection between image and reality and thus exposes our conventional seeing habits. The works from his Berlin studio are juxtaposed with photos taken on the West coast of the US, many of them in the desert.
At the origin of Chris Engman’s work, there is an idea, a concept and in-depth research. Themes immanent to photography, such as time, transience, light and the question of reproducing reality, are central to his work. Here the artist primarily works with deception, illusion and the irritation of the spectator. Read more

MONA – Groupshow

12 Sep - 21 Nov 2015 68projects Tom Anholt, Wolfgang Beltracchi, Matt Chambers, Tomory Dodge, Bertram Hasenauer, Iris Yirei Hu, Leiko Ikemura, Elmira Iravanizad, Michael John Kelly, Genti Korini, Evan Nesbit, Jon Pestoni, Les Rogers, Ena Swansea and Gloria von Thurn und Taxis
In our most ambitious effort to date, 68projects commissioned new work by international contemporary artists by providing each participating artist with a similar wood panel used by da Vinci. They cut to the exact dimensions of the painting. With no requirement to reference da Vinci or portraiture or even to keep the wood in one piece, each artist was asked to make a work in their style and manner, one that would give beloved Mona a partner-in-crime…a partner-in-time. Read more

Queertopia: It Takes a Village – Groupshow

27 Jun - 5 Sep 2015 68projects Alexandra Baumgartner, Norbert Bisky, Beka Bolkvadze, Carina Brandes, Kelli Jean Drinkwater, Antonio Da Silva, Anita Dube, Nils Dunkel, EVA & ADELE, Arlene Gottfried, Bertram Hasenauer, Roey Heifetz, Yousef Iskandar, Rajkamal Kahlon, Jürgen Klauke, Rona Kobel, Friedrich Kunath, Cabrita Moreno, Kieran Moore, Onorato&Krebs, Jack Pierson, Benyamin Reich, Michael Rockel, Jehoshua Rozenman, Christian Schad, Elizabeth Schmirl u.a.
In our society, everyone is classified as either male or female. This binary conception results in a system of pre-defined desires, needs, and roles tailor-made for men, women, and the heterosexual relationship between the two sexes. “Queertopia” offers a space where we no longer regard gender roles and relations as fixed but as continual attempts to experience ourselves as active subjects within society. It reflects playfully, humorously and critically on the ideal of perfect love, free from social constraints and gender norms. With its diverse selection of works by queer, homo- and heterosexual artists, 68projects wants to render visible and inspire queer life-worlds in the domain of art. Read more

WHEN I DIE. . . . – Groupshow

25 Apr - 20 Jun 2015 68projects Daniel Chluba, Nils Dunkel, Chris Engman, Devin Farrand, Sten Gutglück, Anna K.E., Iwajla Klinke, Roman Liska, Max Machaidze, Florian Meisenberg, Robert Seidel, Pietro Spirito, Rosi Steinbach, Michael Wutz, Sahar Zukerman
“When I Die” is a tongue­ and­ cheek conceit with a serious challenge. Individual wooden crates used in the actual transport of artworks internationally were assigned to each participating artist. The crate’s dimensions determine the overall limit and size of the work by assembling a roster of emerging and established artists. They are mainly in Berlin but also in New York City, Tbilisi, Copenhagen and Los Angeles. They make paintings, photographs, conceptual art, audio work, installation art and sculpture.
The exhibition captures an international spectrum of traditional and experimental art forms. Installed across all three exhibition spaces at 68, these special commissions are presented in their crates. They resemble coffins, refrigerators, medicine cabinets ­ and, in the case of the most miniature crates, a box of cigars or a wooden gift box for wine. Read more

You don’t bring me flowers ( + Mistress Project ) – Groupshow

24 Jan - 11 Apr 2015 68projects Tom Anholt, Kevin Baker, Donald Baechler, Amy Bessone, Maya Bloch, Matt Bollinger, Ann Craven, Jared Deery, Baris Gokturk, MacGregor Harp, Vera Iliatova, Max Janson, Egill Kalevi, Doron Langberg, Alissa McKendrick, Aliza Nisenbaum, Giacinto Occhionero, Nadia Haji Omar, Jennifer Packer, Jennifer Steinkamp etc.
68projects opens our third exhibition in frigid, wintry temperatures with three interlinked exhibitions devoted to flowers and love.
Exhibition 1: Much like still life paintings or individual portraits, flowers might appear too antique as a possible subject for art, especially during a period when art is generated from any idea or the absence of an idea.
Exhibition 2: The Garden of Eden represents innocence, a time before our existence and is lodged deep into the western cultural consciousness. It is also a confusing, mythical place.
Exhibition 3: A mistress is a complicated figure. At first glimpse, she seems pathetic or delusional with the constant longing, undying patience and commitment to an unavailable man who schedules and habitually cancels visits. Society is too quick to judge a mistress, and it is easy to take a high moral stance regarding other people’s affairs. Read more

Persons, place or thing | Works on paper from 51 Artists – Groupshow

15 Nov 2014 - 10 Jan 2015 68projects Frederic Amat, Eleanna Anagnos, Tom Anholt, Pau Atela, Robert Barry, Christopher Beckman, Amy Bessone, James Bloom, William Bradley, Mary Beth Brooker, Michael Bühler-Rose, Jesse Farber, Gaby Collins-Fernandez, Luis Frangella, Max Frintrop, Luc Fuller, Chitra Ganesh, Baris Gokturk, Joanne Greenbaum, Keith Haring, Ona Jaan, Jasmine Justice, Tamara K.E., Emma Kohlmann, Mitja Konic, Alexander Kroll, Micha Laury, Luciana Levinton, Matt Lifson, Brooke Werhane Maples, Roy McDowell, Mira O’Brien, Christian Pilz, Richard Prince, Jon Pylypchuk, Marco Reichert, Allison Schulnik, Tim Schwartz, Lui Shtini, Brian Sharp, Smash 137/ Adrian Falkner, Peter Stankiewicz, Karl-Fredrik Stenhaug, Ryan Blair Sullivan, Kev Tobin, Feodor Voronov, Kandis Williams, Michael Wutz
“Person, Place or Thing “is an exhibition of works on paper by emerging and established artists selected by Quang Bao, the new artistic director for 68projects in Berlin. Using paper as the basis for the group exhibition allows for a diverse range of artworks and participating artists, tightened by asking each artist to make a work that falls into one of the three categories in a standard guessing-game prompt. Most of the artworks are presented as finished works on paper through a few illustrate the artistic practices of sculptors, film/video makers and performance artists.
“I have always loved the intimacy, evident handiwork and reinvention contained on a single sheet of paper,” Bao said. “I wanted to celebrate the generative power of human imagination.” Read more