5 Exhibitions – 2x Berlin

„Berlin’s coat of arms may feature a bear, but everybody knows Germany’s capital is really a city of dogs. Like it or not, Berliner must co-exist with the city’s four-legged friends, sharing parks, pavements, even bars.“

https://www.frieze.com/article/five-exhibitions-see-europe-spring

Galerie Noah Klink. Kulmer Str. 17. 10783 Berlin.

KW Institute for Contemporary Art. Auguststr. 69. 10117 Berlin.

https://opensea.io/KeepYourDreamJustGiveMeTheMoney

Everybody knows (different)

https://spruethmagers.com/artists/jenny-holzer/

Jenny Holzer, American artist, 1950 born in Ohio, came to New York in 1976. She creates aesthetic experiences between denunciation and assurance, incarnation and meditation, and succeeds in nothing less than transforming the simple process of reading. Inviting the viewer. 

Holzer’s works are most famously known for displayed or scrolling on LED displays, also projected on (famous) buildings, carved into stone, written on skin. Some are rather ironical, some sincere. Often, to share a current event with the viewer, thereby he is animated to leave his passive point of view,

encouraging him to dig deeper, think clearer, observe in a curious way, building an opinion

.. and feeling joy, demand, optimism, fear, disgust, hate, love, everything!
„There are cartoony reactions, and then there are ones that are angry.“ (http://evenmagazine.com/jenny-holzer/)


https://spruethmagers.com/artists/jenny-holzer/

I wanted to be a painter; I failed at being one because, among other things, I was impatient.

Jenny Holzer

Holzer is well-known for her thought-provoking and powerful project „Lustmord“, too. Lustmord, which she created as a response to rape and murder of women during the Bosnian War: To draw people’s attention to such brutal acts, where females were experiencing torture, and men were performing crimes.
These works by Holzer were created in the years 1993/94. The poems that retold the sex crimes are depicted as the perspective of the victim, the perpetrator and the observer. The viewer, forced, to closely examine in which way are women are treated and society responds regarding victim shaming and rape culture. (https://publicdelivery.org/jenny-holzer-lustmord/)

Have it All!

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/03/24/gilbert-and-george-opening-london-art-centre

Gilbert and George are one artist. The two men met, more than 55 years ago, at St. Martin’s school of Art in London. Their art is based upon intellect and feeling, and shows their journey through their life. 

The modern world is shown as forcefully and reveals the mass-technological,

multi-faith,

multi-cultural,

multi-sexual urban world which is

new and old,

slow and fast,

poor and rich, and

dull and unpredictable.

The two believe that through the art, through each picture and each exhibition, the world and the viewer can be changed in some way. 

So, have it all!

Repräsentierende Galerien: Sprüth Magers. Und andere.

Go (Go) Girls

& visit Düsseldorf


Jenny Holzer *1950 is an American artist, well- and best-known for her provoking use of text in different media. Her main focus is delivering her ideas and word in public spaces. She belongs to a generation of artists that around 1980 emerged as the feminist branch. Holzer is based in Hoosick / New York.

Life will be a awfully big adventure.

J.M. Barrie. peter pan.

the so-called american dream

Es gibt Leute, die ziehen ihre Blicke mehr auf sich als andere, weil sie etwas Besonderes sind.

Philip-Lorca diCorcia


Philip-Lorca diCorcia*1951 / Connecticut, is an Amercian photographer, well-known for his works of fiction and documentary. He studied at a University near Boston. His early works featured his family and friends in daily scenes which evoke a huge amount of emotions – from humour to melancholy, from contemplation to sad- and loneliness. 
The artist with subtle interventions of his works, invites the viewer to „dive“ deeper into each subject within it. 
His photographs, often, kind of explore a tension between fated and candid scenarios, surveying the so-called American Dream and depict the gap between its idea and reality.

Photos: https://www.moma.org/collection/works/50276?artist_id=7027&page=1&sov_referrer=artist

The artist is presented by the galleries: David Zwirner (New York, London, Paris, Hong Kong) and Sprüth Magers (Berlin, London, Los Angeles, New York)