We had the pleasure of attending a few exhibitions during Berlin Gallery Weekend a couple weeks ago. We didn’t have enough time to visit everything but we did get to the following exhibitions/galleries. All are worth a visit if you find yourself wandering around Berlin anytime soon.
“During the Second World War, numerous cultural assets were either displaced or destroyed. Many art treasures remain lost today. Swiss artist Uwe Wittwer takes up this still incomplete chapter of recent history in the framework of his fourth solo show at Galerie Judin, showing around 100 new works.”
Kuckei + Kuckei : Oliver den Berg
“Part of the utopia of endless progress is the idea of an almost superhumanly perfect high technology: a myth that Oliver van den Berg dismantles with often complex means and sly questions. In the imitation and new invention of futuristic-technoid objects, the Berlin artist follows the traces of the perfidies and idiosyncrasies that are always inherent in products made by people.”
Esther Schipper : Tomás Saraceno
Blain | Southern : Harland Miller
“Tonight We Make History (P.S. I Can’t Be There) is Harland Miller’s first solo exhibition in Germany. Departing from his use of appropriated imagery, the exhibition comprises many new large-scale paintings that incorporate his own designs, which is a first for the artist. He takes formal and conceptual inspiration from the abstract geometrical covers of popular psychology books of the 60s and 70s, an era when positive messaging often masked societal neurosis.”
