The year is almost over and there is still so much to see: Art, art, art! If you manage to carve out a few free hours in these last weeks of December, you might find some inspiration or at least a few quiet moments to take a deep breath and clear your head during these last stressful days. This is particularly easy to do in Steph Kloss’ project space “Die Möglichkeit einer Insel” at the end of Inselstraße, just before the bridge, which feels like the real end of the world on a dark winter’s day in the middle of the city, where Jonas Brinker is showing his current exhibition “Echo Eclipse” until 14.01.2024. From the darkness to the Fichtebunker: in Ebensperger‘s new location, the thick walls alone make it easy to leave the rest of the world behind. “Lost Your Way” is the fitting name of Tim Etchell’s new solo exhibition there, with the eponymous neon work (of course) taking center stage, accompanied by works on paper and moving images. Moving images, albeit this time with a lot of humor, can also be found in John Bock’s current solo exhibition “Ex-Ego-Gynt” at Sprüth Magers in Mitte. It’s familiar wild, familiar fun, familiar Berlin.
If you are there and want to calm down from all the fun, a detour to the basement is well worthwhile: Pamela Rosenkranzprovides a strangely unearthly calming effect with blue pulsating light. In Charlottenburg, on the other hand, there’s a very worldly feel: Meyer Riegger is showing the first German solo exhibition of the late photographer Jimmy DeSana with sex, punk, fun and failure, a few celebrities, lots of amateurs and their bodies and no-budget underground aesthetics. Touching and relevant, DeSana, like so many others, died too young during the AIDS epidemic in New York in the 1980s. The exhibition of his work comes late and yet is as relevant as ever. Those who prefer to explore Berlin’s underground instead can do so at Schlachter 151 – the off-space of the publishing house/agency/anything-with-media store OOR, publisher of the Berlin Numéro among others, is currently showing the US-American jack-of-all-trades Bryant Giles in its space on Wilmersdorfer Straße. His painterly works focus on overconsumption and short attention spans. Happy Holidays!
Text: Hilka Dirks / Photos: Fotos: Sophie Doering at Schlachter 151 showing Bryant Giles / Credit: Tim Etchells, In The Trees, 2020, Ebensperger; Jimmy DeSana Trust Courtesy of the Jimmy DeSana Trust, P·P·O·W, New York, and Meyer Riegger, Berlin/Karlsruhe
Die Möglichkeit einer Insel, Inselstr.7, 10179 Berlin–Mitte; map
Echo Eclipse until 14.01.2024 Fri–Sun 16–19h and by appointment.
Ebenspergers, Fichtestr.6, 10967 Berlin–Kreuzberg; map
Lost Your Way until 03.02.2024 Tue–Sat 12–18h
Sprüth Magers, Oranienburger Str.18, 10178 Berlin–Mitte; map
Ex-Ego-Gynt until 27.01.2024 Tue–Sat 11–18h
Meyer Riegger, Schaperstr.14, 10719 Berlin–Wilmersdorf; map
Jimmy DeSana until 06.01.2024 Tue–Sat 11–18h
Schlachter 151, Wilmersdorfer Str.151, 10585 Berlin–Charlottenburg; map
Bryant Giles until 31.12.2023 Mon–Fri 12–18h. Sa & So by appointment.
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