The artist Stephanie Imbeau seeks to understand how people build connections, find refuge, and form networks. She investigates these connections as an artist in residence at Bärenzwinger. Every Thursday afternoon during her residency, she invites visitors to open Sewing Sessions: together, they will work on a single piece of art that will adorn the exhibition space like a second skin. It will be attached to scaffolding designed by Imbeau, which is part of the parallel exhibition “Roaming Winters.” In the show, she and fellow artist and resident Sujatro Ghosh aim to render communities and collective efforts visible in performance-based installations. While her current sewing project is about collaborative design and experimenting with fabric, smaller pieces will also be created in the process. “I hope that these times can be both productive and cozy,” says Stephanie Imbeau, “at least in the way of sewing circles, offering a time to work with others, while sharing stories, ideas, and presence. Anyone and everyone are welcome at her sessions – anyone who wishes is welcome to bring their own sewing machine; for everyone else, Imbeau keeps a needle and thread handy.

Text: Laura Storfner / Photos: Juan Saez

Bärenzwinger, Rungestr.30, 10179 Berlin–Mitte; map

Sewing Sessions with Stephanie Imbeau, Thursdays in January and February, 15–18h, no sign-up necessary. Roaming Winters until 26.02.2023.

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He is an artist who is sorely missed. Martin Kippenberger – the artist of the century (not to mention wisecracker, rascal, and joker) – would have turned 70 on February 25. The eighties and nineties were his playgrounds; he also worked and performed outside museums, galleries, and studios. Looking back on his life, which ended in 1997 at only 44, it seems as if he had never slept: But sleep must also have seemed negligible to someone who worked, drew, and painted tirelessly. Along the way, he helped run SO36 in Kreuzberg, played in a band, acted, and was part owner of a restaurant in Los Angeles and owner of a gas station in Brazil. In Berlin, he could be found in Paris Bar with blood sausage and wine. The galleries Max Hetzler and Capitain Petze l both dedicated exhibitions to him on his milestone birthday, commemorating various phases of his work. While Capitain Petzel will present his room-sized installation “Heavy Burschi,” which caused a sensation at the Cologne Kunstverein in 1991, starting next Friday, Hetzler will ring in the birthday celebration tomorrow. Photographs by Wilhelm Schürmann and Andrea Stappert frame Kippenberger’s works here: they show him in the studio, on the street, and in everyday life.

Text: Laura Storfner / Photos: Simon Vogel / Credit: Martin Kippenberger, heute denken – morgen fertig, 1983, Privatsammlung & Courtesy Estate of Martin Kippenberger, Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne

Max Hetzler, Goethestr.2/3, 10623 Berlin–Charlottenburg; map
Heute denken – morgen fertig, Works from private collections from the 80s and 90s. Photographs by Wilhelm Schürmann and Andrea Stappert, 13.01.–25.02.2023 Tue–Sat 11–18h

Capitain Petzel, Karl-Marx-Allee 45, 10178 Berlin–Mitte; map
Martin Kippenberger Heavy Burschi, 21.01.–18.02.2023 Tue–Sat 11–18h

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