After the first day of Gallery Weekend, your health app should show at least 25,000 steps walked, otherwise you’re doing something wrong. To make sure your pedometer (not to mention your creative mind) is happy with your tour through the city, let’s start at ChertLüdde in Schöneberg. Artist Patrizio di Massimo paints his friends, family and often himself in oil on canvas. Enriched with theatrical gestures and mythical creatures, he creates urban fantasies that don’t always invite you to dream. His notebooks, in the tradition of surrealist “automatic writing”, can now be viewed for the first time in Schöneberg. Also at ChertLüdde, Álvaro Urbano takes us outside, to Tiergarten. Inspired by Foucault’s concept of heterotopia, he explores spaces that follow their own rules — such as the cruising area around the Löwenbrücke. While Patrizio di Massimo and Álvaro Urbano raise questions about masculinity and desire, Šejla Kamerić places women at the center. At Tanja Wagner, she combines handcrafted black crochet objects made by women in Sarajevo with analog instant prints.
Questions of gender and sexuality are also central to the work of Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo, better known as Puppies Puppies. Kuriki-Olivo adopted the pseudonym in 2018 to create a persona detached from gender, age and origin. In her latest works, Puppies Puppies plays with pop-cultural references at Trautwein Herleth, building a world somewhere between Pop Art and Grindr profiles. At Noah Klink, Sebastian Jefford, an artist fluent in a wide range of media, is exhibiting. His first solo show at the gallery brings together sculptures and drawings that merge comic influences with contemporary imagery. Diane Severin Nguyen, known for her disturbingly beautiful visual worlds, is presenting new photographs and video works at Molitor. Video is also a medium mastered by Cyprien Gaillard. Sprüth Magers in Mitte is exhibiting Gaillard’s “Retinal Rivalry”, a cinematic 3D journey through Germany — from Saxony to Munich’s Theresienwiese. Wrap up the gallery marathon on Sunday from 8:30 pm at the finissage of Laure Prouvost at Kraftwerk Berlin. The installation, made possible by the LAS Art Foundation, ends on a grand note: Kukii, who composed Prouvost’s soundscape, and her artistic partner Howie Lee invite you to a music ceremony with a brass ensemble and choir.
Text: Laura Storfner / Credits: Agustin Farias; Álvaro Urbano, Studio details, Berlin, 2025, Photo: Marjorie Brunet Plaza; Andrea Rossetti; Diane Severin Nguyen, Victory, 2025, Courtesy the artist and Galerie Molitor, Berlin; Diane Severin Nguyen, Drain the Whole Sea, 2025, Courtesy the artist and Galerie Molitor, Berlin; Sebastian Jefford, all images courtesy of the artist, Gianni Manhattan and Galerie Noah Klink; Laure Prouvost; Šejla Kamerić, Thorn (bitch), 2021-2025, Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Tanja Wagner, Berlin; Puppies Puppies (Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo), Body Fuid (Blood), Courtesy of the artist and Trautwein Herleth, Berlin.
Gallery Weekend Berlin
02.–04.05.2025. Find the full program here.
ChertLüdde, Hauptstr.18, 10827 Berlin–Schöneberg; map
Álvaro Urbano: September and the Lions 02.05.–26.07.2025
Patrizio di Massimo: Son of a Witch 02.05.–26.07.2025
Galerie Tanja Wagner, Pohlstr.64, 10785 Berlin–Tiergarten; map
Šejla Kamerić: In the Darkened Rooms 02.05.–12.06.2025
Trautwein Herleth, Kohlfurter Str.41/43, 10999 Berlin–Kreuzberg; map
Puppies Puppies (Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo): Degenerate Art (Transsexual) 03.05.–07.06.2025
Galerie Noah Klink, Kulmer Str.17, 10783 Berlin–Schöneberg; map
Sebastian Jefford: Toy 02.05.–31.05.2025
Galerie Molitor, Kurfürstenstr.143 (Eingang Frobenstr.), 10785 Berlin–Schöneberg; map
Diane Severin Nguyen: Spring Snow 03.05.–07.06.2025
Sprüth Magers, Oranienburger Str.18, 10178 Berlin–Mitte; map
Cyprien Gaillard: Retinal Rivalry 03.05.–26.07.2025
Kraftwerk Berlin, Köpenicker Str.70, 10179 Berlin–Mitte; map
Laure Prouvost: We Felt A Star Dying
Finissage Performance by Kukii & Howie Lee 04.05.2025 ab 20h30. The ticket entitles the holder to visit the performance and the installation. The event has a limited capacity.
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