Everything is more enjoyable when the sun shines – when we are more open to recognizing the beauty around us. It’s the same with art. Here are a few recommendations for the next few weeks, before everything switches back to Gallery Weekend madness. A sensitive, painterly late work can be viewed in the small exhibition by Ull Hohn at Haus am Waldsee in Zehlendorf, titled Revisions. Works by Richter’s student, who died far too early of HIV, are on display here. His blurred embryos and brilliantly washed-out landscapes vividly show what painting (and only painting) can trigger in us and how Bob Ross’ aesthetic can be turned into a clever concept. Zehlendorf is too far away, but want a bit of fresh air and art? Take a stroll along the Landwehr Canal and stop by the Kreuzbergers from Trautwein-Herleth until 17.04.2025. Devotion is the group exhibition there, which almost has the impetus of a small institutional show. Monika Baer, Klossowski and anonymous soft figurative sculptures are a few of the exhibits. At the back of the office hangs a small Paul P. and like Hohn’s, it leaves us in awe of so much painted beauty in such a small format.
There will be even more painting tomorrow evening (28.03.) at Pol Taburet in the Schinkel Pavillon, where his exhibition The Burden of Papa Tonnerre opens. Expect to see good art and lots of people in crazy fashion. One of the city’s most exciting cultural venues, but one that usually slips under the radar, is the Bärenzwinger in Mitte. If my Neighbour is ok, I’m ok is the name of the group exhibition there and everyone will be more than ok after viewing it. Incidentally, the municipal galleries in the districts have come into their own in recent years. On Friday (04.04.), another small group exhibition opens at one of these newest venues, the Kunstbrücke am Wildenbruch. Why not pay it a visit? There’s still a little way to go, but you can take note of the openings of Yoko Ono at the Gropius Bau and Tobias Spichtig at Contemporary Fine Arts. And then? Yes, then it’s May again.
Text: Hilka Dirks / Credits: Pol Taburet, The Burden of Papa Tonnerre; Trautwein Herleth, Devotion; Ull Hohn, Untitled, 1994. Oil on Canvas. Courtesy Nachlass Ull Hohn and Galerie Neu, Berlin
Haus am Waldsee, Argentinische Allee 30, 14163 Berlin–Zehlendorf; map
Ull Hohn “Revisions” until 11.05.2025
Trautwein Herleth, Kohlfurter Str.41/43, 10999 Berlin–Kreuzberg; map
“Devotion” until 15.04.2025
Schinkel Pavillon, Oberwallstr.32, 10117 Berlin–Mitte; map
Pol Taburet “The Burden of Papa Tonnerre” Opening 28.03.2025 from 18h, until 13.07.2025
Bärenzwinger, Im Köllnischen Park, Rungestr.30, 10179 Berlin–Mitte; map
“If my Neighbour is ok, I’m ok” until 04.05.2025
Kunstbrücke am Wildenbruch, Wildenbruchbrücke Ecke, Weigandufer, Berlin–Neukölln; map
“Cosmopolitics” Opening 04.04.25 from 18h, until 01.06.2025
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