Where once tires and oil were changed, there is now art on display. The group exhibition “Full Stop” takes us into a former garage. Architect and curator Inga Krumme brings together 26 artists for a pit stop: The works tell a nuanced and cross-media story of what moves the present on a large and small scale. Like splinters of the present, they come together to reveal a snippet of our world where things that were once broken have been made whole again. Paintings, sculptures and video works can be discovered in combination with the industrial flair of the rooms. Krumme juxtaposes well-known names such as Burkhard Held, who works as a professor at Berlin’s Universität der Künste, with newer artists. Among the exhibitors are many of Held’s former master students – including Shen Han, whose fragmentary color landscapes draw you deep into the surface.
Anna Nero’s candy-colored forms, which nestle together on the canvases, and Aline Schwörer’s fictional archaeological finds from a distant future can be physically experienced. Ulrike Bull’s wall objects shine like psychedelic comets, while Jinhee Kim’s figures gaze coolly out of backdrops into the distance. Together with the artists, Krumme constructs a show that always comes back to one question: What is the engine that drives the painterly?
Text: Laura Storfner / Credit: Julius Bobke & Ulrike Buhl
Full Stop at Art Kreuzberg e.V., Prinzessinnenstr.21, 10969 Berlin–Kreuzberg; map
11.–26.11.2023 Sat 16–22h & Sun 14–19h. Opening 10.11.2023 19h.
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