David Claerbout
Hemispheres
www.estherschipper.com

Opening Friday April 29, 6–9pm as part of Gallery Weekend Berlin
On view through May 28, 2022
Extended opening hours on Saturday, April 30 and Sunday, May 1, 11am–7pm


Join us tomorrow, Friday April 29, 6–9pm, for Hemispheres, David Claerbout's first solo exhibition with the gallery, opening for Gallery Weekend Berlin.

On view are two large-scale video projections: The Close, 2022, and Aircraft (F.A.L.), 2015-21. The title of the exhibition refers to the two sides of the brain, which each process information differently, yet complement each other’s functions to create consciousness; likewise, the two works presented in the exhibition have disparate themes, but together represent reciprocal parts of Claerbout’s practice.

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Below you will find your Gallery Weekend Berlin guide, featuring concurrent exhibitions in Berlin and Germany, and a bespoke Google Map of exhibitions around the city.

Opera Opera. Allegro ma non troppo
With Rosa Barba
PalaisPopulaire
Unter den Linden 5
10117 Berlin
April 27 – August 22, 2022
www.palaispopulaire.db.com


With Opera Opera. Allegro ma non troppo, the PalaisPopulaire is showcasing an art form that is as controversial as it is beloved—and an elementary aspect of Italian culture. Opera, whose name derives from the Italian word for “work,” is a theatrical genre in constant flux that has always staged the process of creation, work, and doing through imagination and creativity. Opera reflects the drama of life and unites all kinds of disciplines, from music to poetry, from design to choreography, from painting to acting, film, and performance. Conceived by MAXXI, the National Museum of 21st Century Arts in Rome and featuring thirty protagonists of international art, the exhibition pays homage to opera from the perspective of contemporary visual art and architecture.

pain/t/hing - ausser Haus
With Karin Sander
HaL – Haus am Lützowplatz
Lützowplatz 9
10785 Berlin
April 28 – June 19, 2022
www.hal-berlin.de


The exhibition pain/t/hing - ausser Haus shows seven positions that can be located in the fluid terrain between painting, sculpture, object and installation. In the artistic working process, a hands-on approach is taken to materials and things, just as organic properties or physical conditions become the authors of the works.

at dawn
With Rosa Barba
Julia Stoschek Collection
Leipziger Str. 60
10117 Berlin
April 28 – December 4, 2022
www.jsc.art


The group exhibition at dawn draws connections between techniques of image production and the social and political work that goes into imagining alternatives to what the late Cuban American thinker José Esteban Muñoz called our “poisonous and insolvent” present. The show seeks to express a sense of art’s utopian horizon—a generative space of desire, experimentation, and queer relationality aligned with what he described as “ecstatic time.” Featuring thirty works ranging from an early performance video by Joan Jonas to Jacolby Satterwhite’s allegorical and animated worlds, the exhibition offers examples of how artists carve out spiritual, psychological, and physical enclaves that call for “something else, something better, something dawning.”

STRONG DUO
With Karin Sander
Haus Kunst Mitte
Heidestraße 54
10557 Berlin
April 29 – July 24, 2022
www.hauskunstmitte.de


Haus Kunst Mitte, an exhibition space for national and international contemporary art in the center of Berlin, will host Strong Duo. which brings together eight well-known women art professors together with their female students. The result is a cross-generational and medially diverse dialogue between established and emerging women artists. The concept of the exhibition is based on current questions in the world of art and its institutions about the gender inequality in representation, recognition and pay. Karin Sander's site specific work, located in the staircase of the institution, captures the traces left by one of the former residents of the building: Tao, a dog who in the course of his life shed innumerable hairs and left countless marks on the staircase.

Blanc de Blancs
With Ann Veronica Janssens, Isa Melsheimer and Karin Sander
Villa Schöningen
Berliner Str. 86
14467 Potsdam
Through May 8, 2022
www.villa-schoeningen.de


The wide-ranging group exhibition, Blanc de Blancs, curated by Sonia González and Gregor Hildebrandt brings together all-white works by 38 artists. As different as the works are, they all have one formal criterion in common: their examination of the color white. With an achromatic color that can mean not only reduction, but also diversity. The organizers want to emphasize white's multifaceted connotations: "A white book page as a new beginning, a white dove as a symbol of peace, Buddhist monks wearing white for mourning. Purity, innocence, infinity, perfection, silence, emptiness, coolness. Hardly any color has as much meaning as the color white." Pictured above is a still from Ann Veronica Janssens work Spray 1. Shot with an ultrahigh-speed camera, the video seemingly arrests time.

Collaborations
With Isa Melsheimer and Karin Sander
Guardini Foundation
Askischer Platz 4
10963 Berlin
Through May 11, 2022
www.guardini.de


Oliver Mark invited 61 artists to work on his photos. Anything could be done to them: cutting, scratching, twisting, framing, pasting, mounting, embroidering and painting beyond recognition. The interventions are as surprising as they are innovative. The format varied - as did the type of photographic paper. Sometimes the photo was glossy or matte, sometimes on baryta paper, Hahnemühle, or canvas, etc. It was up to each artists how to proceed. Two prints each were made, with one work remaining with each artist. For the pictured work, Isa Melsheimer contributed one of her embroidered Insecta masks which was integrated into a picture taken by Oliver Mark.

Friendship. Nature. Culture.
44 Years of the Mercedes-Benz Art Collection
Works of the Collection 1920–2021
With Karin Sander
Mercedes-Benz Contemporary
Haus Huth
Alte Potsdamer Straße 5
10785 Berlin
Through August 28, 2022
www.mercedes-benz.art


The anniversary exhibition Friendship. Nature. Culture. 44 Years of the Mercedes-Benz Art Collection looks back on the development of an internationally renowned corporate collection. From over 3,000 artworks in the collection, founded in 1977, about 100 works by ca. 70 artists have been selected. Relating, in a broad sense, to contemporary phenomena in the context of friendship, nature and culture, the artistic works from a period of 100 years form networks and explore the interplay between art and human coexistence. Curated by Renate Wiehager, the exhibition shows a cross-section of the collection’s history from its beginnings in the tradition of South German Modernism, through abstract-minimalist approaches, and further to a current focus on international photography and media art.

FLOWERS! Flowers in the Art of the 20th and 21st Century
With Hito Steyerl
Museum Ostwall
Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Dortmund
April 30 – September 29, 2022
www.dortmunder-u.de

Hängepartie. Kunst mit Offenem Ende
With Ceal Floyer
Museum Für Konkrete Kunst, Ingolstadt
Through May 1, 2022
www.mkk-ingolstadt.de

Julia Scher
Planet Greyhound
Kunsthalle Gießen
Through May 1, 2022
www.kunsthalle-giessen.de

Dip in the Past
With Matti Braun
Lenbachhaus, Munich
Through May 15, 2022
www.lenbachhaus.de

Fragile! Everything made of glass. Borderlands of the Sculptural
With Karin Sander and Isa Melsheimer
Kunsthalle Vogelmann, Heilbronn
Through May 15, 2022
www.museen.heilbronn.de

Director's Cut – Insights into the Growth of a Collection
With Karin Sander
Museum Pfalzgalerie, Kaiserslautern
Through May 15, 2022
www.mpk.de

Tino Sehgal
Museum of Fine Arts, Leipzig
Through July 27, 2022
www.mdbk.de

KölnSkulptur #10
With Karin Sander
Skulpturenpark Köln
Riehler Straße entrance, Cologne
Through July 31, 2022
www.skulpturenparkkoeln.de

Color as Program
With works by Rosa Barba, Angela Bulloch, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Hito Steyerl
Co-curated and exhibition architecture by Liam Gillick
Bundeskunsthalle Bonn
Through August 7, 2022
www.bundeskunsthalle.de

something new, something old, something desired
With Thomas Demand and Simon Fujiwara
Galerie der Gegenwart
Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg
Through February 18, 2024
www.hamburger-kunsthalle.de

Identity Not Proven
New Acquisitions for the Federal Art Collection of Germany
With Cemile Sahin
Bundeskunsthalle Bonn
May 7 – October 3, 2022
www.bundeskunsthalle.de

düsseldorf photo+
With Hito Steyerl
Selected venues, Düsseldorf
May 13 – June 19, 2022
www.duesseldorfphotoplus.de