the age of only 35, Michel Majer

2021/05/21

At the age of only 35, Michel Majerus (1967-2002) died in a plane crash.

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(Duncan Ballantyne-Way). Michel Majerus EstateKnaackstr. Without doubt, Apartment No. Painting, spraying and glueing over other peoples urban artworks is a red flag among street artists. For Max Liebermann, the Netherlands and especially the little village of Noordwijk were places of bliss where he could capture real life, away from the art world. Pauline Curnier Jardin, winner of the 2019 National Gallery Prize, focuses on a Schneberg cinema run by women, the Luna-Lichtspiele, which even survived World War II. Fittingly for the opening of Documenta in Kassel on June 18, Galerie Thomas Schulte is exhibiting a work that Rebecca Horn already presented at the major 1982 exhibition: a kinetic sculpture in which beauty and danger are united, the Peacock Machine. On Fasanenstrae, close to the Literaturhaus and Grisebach auction house, the Kornfeld Gallery is celebrating its tenth birthday. In her Berlin gallery, however, works on Korean paper now come to the fore. The freshly done-up Neue Nationalgalerie is presenting works from its collection dating from 1900 to 1945 under the title The Art of Society. Painted rice jute sacks are characteristic of Sys work. Find out whats new, whats worth seeing and where you absolutely have to go before its too late. 11-18, 29.4. The shrill images alternate with cool, elegant photographs. Clemens Wolf gilded a parachute and Via Lewandwosky made a broom that could have been Scrooge Mcducks. | #3534ARTatBerlin | EBENSPERGER BERLIN currently presents the exhibition "Not Enough" by the artist Jens Pecho. Billy Childish is a musician, poet and painter. But exceptions prove the rule, which is why the artist duo Layer Cake invited 13 international colleagues to paint over each others works on a canvas, one might add. For her current exhibition And They Whispered Softly, the Bulgarian-born artist has transformed the gallery walls into green screens on which hang paintings of strange creatures. | #3533ARTatBerlin | Galerie Horst Dietrich currently presents the exhibition Ocean Stories by the artistAlbrecht Genin. For the anniversary, the gallery is showing an overview of works by artists it represents, including Nick Dawes from Johannesburg/London, here with 17th, 2022, in oil on canvas. Get our full review of At Dawn from the Julia Stoschek Collection here! The Neue Nationalgalerie is showing around 50 works by Wiederhold, who became a bookseller under the Nazi dictatorship, when art became too risky. There will be a celebration for the parks reopening on June 26, featuring a talk from Georg von Gayl, the landscape and garden architect behind the restoration. As usual, Helmut Newton is the star attraction in the Museum fr Fotografie but special exhibitions also celebrate the interiors photography of Candida Hfer and special photos for children: See Top Special Exhibitions in the Museum of Photography in Berlin in 2022 for more details. Who would choose this path, given the obstacles? The woodcut is the oldest printmaking technique, and this show starts at the beginning, with early works dating from the 15th century. Note: Most Berlin museums and similar sights are open in 2022. There are no proud soldiers in uniform, no explosions or circling warplanes. The contributions are international, and the above photo was taken by Clifford Maika Elan in Vietnam. Prfe nun Deinen Posteingang oder Spam-Ordner, um Dein Abonnement des ARTLETTER zu besttigen. Spread across six different venues, this years edition will even set up a project space on Wilhelmstrae, at the site of the Berlin Conference. The Kenyan artists world of images draws on the stories of the Kamba people that his grandmother told him and explores how history and identity are intertwined. After seeing pictures of Berlins famous Hansaviertel, she discovered that kitchens were often hidden behind curtains. Nature and technology also collide in some of her video works, made in collaboration with Robin Watkins. Berlin-based artist Nina Canell has a new show at Berlinische Galerie. Andreas Fux has been known to a wider audience at least [], until 12.11. There he has founded art centres and contributed to the visibility of African art outside the continent by way of international exhibitions. It should feel like a ruin from an alternative future, says curator Adriano Rosselli about the ambitious artwork which forms the centre point of this 8 week long show at Kraftwerk. The accompanying music program can be found here. Dancing with my Camera is the title of Singhs exhibition at the Gropius Bau, and indeed, the Indian artist is taking photos with her Hasselblad pressed to her stomach, using her bellybutton as a tripod. In an interview with Exberliner, curator Kader Attia said that the Biennale will focus on four blind spots of Western thinking with regard to its colonial history: the links between colonialism and fascism, environmental destruction, questions of restitution and feminism from the colonial perspective. 12, Prenzlauer Berg, 28.4. March 29, 2022 by Henk Bekker in Berlin, Germany. Hollywood divas, angry rebels, androgynous trans people. The gallery also shows a selection of their generative and computative works, pre NFT era. The team at the Georg-Kolbe-Museum presents works by two couples under the title Artificial Biotopes. It works as a kind of visual diary, from the search for a venue to the honeymoon. The new special exhibition aims to provide answers through biographies and more. Accordingly, one work in this show is simply a room filled with seven tonnes of mollusc shells laid out on the floor. Itkonen has been traveling in Greenland for 20 years she has an insight into the island like few other Western European artists. Following Schliemanns success in business, he retired to become a full-time archeologist and devoted himself to finding the remains of the mythical city of Troy, mentioned in Homers Iliad. The private museum, founded by entrepreneurs Annette Berr and Ul Vohrer, opened last year and is dedicated exclusively to paper art. He quickly learned Russian and Greek (he claimed it took him just six weeks to learn a language) and used his skills to conduct more trade internationally. Here in 1884 at the official residence of Otto von Bismark, representatives of Europes colonial powers carved up Africa between them. Sandra Mujinga October 2022 Spring 2023, Broken Music Reloaded November 2022 Summer 2023, Helmut Newton: Legacy 31 October 2021 22 May 2022, Helmut Newton: Hollywood 3 June 19 November 2022, Candida Hfer 24 March 28 August 2022, Birds-Eye View Worms-Eye View. Theres plenty to find, so visitors should come ready to explore the halls of this former power plant. In the appropriately urban setting of a converted petrol station off Blowstrasse, Das kleine Grosz Museum (The little Grosz Museum) opens on May 13. Book Berlin Tours and Activities at Get Your Guide: Amsterdam GVB Public Transportation Multi-Day Ticket online, Day Trip Transportation from Paris to the Palace of Versailles, See Da Vinci and Rembrandt Paintings in the Czartoryski Museum in Krakow, Transportation by Train, Bus or Airport Shuttle from Schiphol to Amsterdam, Save with an Amsterdam Public Transportation Travel Card Ticket Pass, Save with the I Amsterdam City Card Pass on Transportation and Sightseeing, Paul Gauguin Why Are You Angry? Kaloki Nyamais pictures dont come about quickly and you can see that at a glance. | #3531ARTatBerlin | Migrant Bird Space presents in cooperation with the Jian Teahouse in Berlin from 30. | #3534ARTatBerlin | EBENSPERGER BERLIN currently presents the exhibition Not Enough by the artist Jens Pecho. Albrecht Genin, Fischfnger, 55 x 90 cm, 2002, Fischer, 80 x 70 cm, 2001, wood print monotypes on canvas, Fischtrger, painted steel, 36 x 40 x [], until 03.09. The show marks the end of the Anthropocene series at HKW, along with the tenure of long-time director Bernd Scherer.

2014 Build by TheAgency.Berlin Copyright by AK. But there is plenty more to see in this immersive exhibition. This new body of work is inspired by the life and writing of the German liberal [], until 21.08.

What do you do when the air raid sirens wake you up? Galerie Barbara Thumm Markgrafenstr. The Museum Europischer Kulturen is presenting the war diary of the Ukrainian photographer Mila Teshaieva in the exhibition Splinters of Life. A welcome occasion for a subway ride to Dahlem: which is also worth a trip for beer gardens, bookstores at the university, parks and the Domne Dahlem agricultural museum a short distance from the MEK. The kitchen objects from Lena Henkes latest exhibition manage to look both boring and magical. Karin Sander, Michael Mller and Antje Blumenstein will also take part. July 20 marks the 175th anniversary of the Berlin painters birthday. With just two paintings, the show is small, but that makes it all the easier to indulge in slow contemplation. Oops! A difficult relationship with her father and a deep love for her mother inspired Louise Bourgeois great artistic output.

Finally, the Museum of European Cultures (MEK) strikes again with a major exhibition. The collective negotiate, together with other Russian thinkers over what to do in the face of war in their latest video work, which they present next to drawings by Istvan Kantor. The article has been added to your favorites. The exhibition Earth Indices is based on the findings of a group of international scientists who researched the practices and instruments that leave geological traces. Thank you for subscribing! 838 in the Corbusierhaus, a heritage-listed residential high-rise between the Olympiastadion and Grunewald, is one of the most special art destinations in Berlin. Many of the exhibition participants come from the underground scene, but since being featured have won major clients such as Gucci or Vogue. From the black and white microcosm of the Bavarian Forest to the green-grey macrocosm of Berlin. Platform Germany. DEEDS | The Art Newspaper by ART@Berlin online, To the map | Embassies, Cultural Institutions, Albrecht Genin | Ocean Stories | Galerie Horst Dietrich | 20.07.18.08.2022, Sophie von Hellermann | From Things to Come | WENTRUP | 23.07.03.09.2022, Jens Pecho | Not Enough | EBENSPERGER BERLIN | 01.07.21.08.2022, Kuan Yun | You are the spring I will never look back at | Migrant Bird Space | 30.07.-10.09.2022, Antti Pussinen & Joonas Toivonen | Improbable Iterations | Luisa Catucci Gallery | 02.09.-01.10.2022, Andreas Fux | innocence | Semjon Contemporary | 23.07.-06.08.2022, Rmulo Celdrn | Digital Tenebrism | BBA Gallery | 14.09.-12.11.2022, Eric Mangen + Artjom Chepovetskyy | LAYERS | Jarmuschek + Partner | 23.07.-27.08.2022, Summer 22 | Group Exhibition | Esther Schipper | 21.07.-27.08.2022, Patricia Waller | Paradise Lost | Galerie Deschler | 21.07.-24.09.2022. The Tenebrists are known for their dramatic chiaroscuro painting.

by Olaf Holzapfel, a participant in Documenta five years ago. Juergen Teller is a fashion, music, advertising, magazine and trend photographer, as well as a professor at the Academy of Art in Nuremberg and husband of Dovile Drizyte. The exhibition POSTOST: / Ukraine shows artworks by Ukrainian artists with themes ranging from everyday life under threat and stories about identification, cohesion and belonging. The various museums and institutions of the Kulturforum in Berlin will host the following special exhibitions in 2022: See Top Temporary Exhibitions in the Kulturforum Berlin in 2022 for more details. July 2022 (Opening: 22.07.) Throughout his life, the philosopher Herbert Marcuse described as reification the endeavor of consumer society to generate ever new, ever more complex desires. Here, the artist Anne de Vries has recreated the former Tresor nightclub with sand on a 1:1 scale, accompanied by an audio tour that lets you hear stories from the clubs legendary history. Max Liebermann in Noordwijk taking us back to those summers between 1905 and 1913 and showing us oil paintings and pastels. On display will be over 200 (partly) unpublished snapshots featuring some of her colour travel photography taken post 1989. The defining motif of the DHM exhibition is to highlight the ambivalences in his work. Parallel to Sibylle Bergemanns major retrospective at the Berlinische Galerie, Galerie Kicken Berlin is showing a selection of photographs by the Berlin photographer, who died in 2010. The list of names is long, and ranges from the late actress and director Chantal Akerman, to the photographer Gundula Schulze Eldowy, to Helena Amiradibi. 70, tickets and times. Summer 22 brings together artistic approaches which, though employing a variety of media, share an impulse to transform [], until 24.09. Great care is taken in writing these articles but no responsibility is taken for errors or omissions. Photography for Children 8 October 2022 19 February 2023. The museums of Berlins Museumsinsel have fantastic collections of art, antiquities, and artifacts with wonderful permanent displays often enhanced by temporary exhibitions. It was also our art editors pick of the month. Works From the Marx Collection and the Nationalgalerie Spring 2022 Spring 2023, Under Construction.

These are arranged, not according to art styles, but to social and political themes. Marx, for example, condemned the bloodlust of counter-revolutionaries but approved of the potential violence of communards from the working class. The exhibition will be shown in the Uhlandstrae. The wide horizon, the sea, the beach, the bathers. July 2022 the group exhibition Summer 22 by the artists Sarah Buckner, Ann Veronica Janssens, Sojourner Truth Parsons, Cemile Sahin, Julia Scher, Sun Yitian and Tao Hui. Read our full article here. Sometimes the oversized paintings are dreamy and luminously light, sometimes graphically expressive and mysterious in any case they draw you in. 25 March 10 July 2022 in the Alte Nationalgalerie, Johann Gottfried Schadow. How does an Eastern European country shape its national identity today? Canvases sewn together, on which color, photographs, threads are superimposed and intertwined layer by layer. A remnant of the culture festival 48 hours Neuklln at the end of June, Galerie im Saalbau is exhibiting the works of five artists and art groups about the thawing of Siberia. Contact service providers directly before making any arrangements. Blood flows again in the only film, 2022. The exhibition, until 03.09. the exhibition Improbable Iterations with NFT by Finnish artists Antti Pussinen & Joonas Toivonen AKA Toiminto. A new exhibition at James-Simon-Galerie revisits his disputed legacy. Strangely, for someone who so defined an era, hes not had a dedicated museum until now.

These include rarely seen pieces such as the still portrait of the timelessly melancholic Benedite Leuwerda (1994) or Frieda, New York from 1991.

The best of which can be seen in 1975 Berlin-Kreuzberg, an der Friedrichstrae. from Berliners Christopher Lehmpfuhl, Tammam Azzam and Franziska Klotz), the group show is as diverse as it is stunning. Its also about ice and bears, but above all about the consequences of ice loss for the local population. He worked for the Associated Press, was seriously injured in a bomb attack in Paris in 1983, and traveled to Central Asia. Prussia and Egyptology 184245 2 September 2022 7 March 2023 in the Neues Museum, Anna Dorothea Therbusch A Berlin Woman Artist of the Age of Enlightenment 3 December 2021 10 April 2022 in the, Donatello. The 12th Berlin Biennale kicks off on June 11, featuring 77 international artists and collectives.

The second couple is the architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and the sculptor Georg Kolbe, whose former studio building in western Charlottenburg is the museums headquarters. All Hands On: Weaving presents masterpieces of art, craft and design, anonymous pieces made of straw and bark as well as the new work The Woven Garden (photo.) Itkonen will occupy the ground floor of the Persons Projects gallery, while Ilkka Halso, Sanna Kannisto, Sandra Kantanen and Mikko Rikala will be exhibiting photographs on the subject of ecosystems on the first floor. 18:00-21:00, 30.4./1.5. Equally seductive is Christiane Fesers paper art, which cleverly combines photography and cutting techniques into illusory images. In 1844, at the age of 22, Heinrich Schliemann took a job in an import-export firm and was sent to St Petersburg to conduct business. Marx in the Deutsches Historisches Museum: heres what the curator says. The predominantly female artists create, scrape, cut and thus unfold the sculptural potential of this everyday and at the same time multifaceted material. How can artistic interaction turn the public space of Wedding, a district in Berlin, into a safer space for all people? This is the question posed by Movement Research: Across, a new multidisciplinary event being held at Galerie Wedding until July 30. Time and again, the utopian potential of art is evoked as a space in which something new can emerge through experimentation. The exhibition is part of the Sheroes of Photography series, with which the gallery pays tribute to female artists. By developing processes out of [], until 06.08. Yanina Boldyreva, Chto Delat, Mayana Nasybullova, Aleksandr Nikolsky and presidiomodel deal with questions of survival in embroidered, painted, filmed, built contributions that could hardly be shown in Russia. He mixed pop culture and art history, extended painting from the canvas to space, and was one of the first to use digital tools. shortly after the military escalation, the native Ukrainian published her impressions in photographs and personal texts on the website dekoder. Elegance and Crime 28 October 2022 2 April 2023, Balancing Act.

Artists Books and Editions 10 February 29 May 2022, Barbara Kruger 22 April 28 August 2022, Monica Bonvicini. Albena Baeva uses machine learning and virtual realities for her works, exploring the relationship between the artificial and her own world of imagination. In Germany he photographed immigrants from Turkey, drove with them to coal mines in the Ruhr area, photographed them on the assembly line at Ford Cologne as well as during the turbulence of German unification in 1990. Kraftwerk Berlin Kpenicker Str. Alongside five sculptures, including two figures artfully woven from bells and metal rings, Yang is showing collages that quote East Asian shamanic rituals. The creative potential of artificial intelligence is a current trend in art and a great playing ground for artists. At Schulte, the sculpture is accompanied by the works of US sculptor Fred Sandback, who died in 2003 and created three-dimensional bodies in empty spaces with acrylic yarn. The major event in late summer 2022 is the full opening of the Ethnological and Asian Art museums but several special exhibitions will be staged in other Museums Island museums in 2022: See Top Temporary Exhibitions on Museum Island in Berlin in 2022 for more details. On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of his death, his work is being honoured with the exhibition seriesMichel Majerus 2022in several Berlin art venues.

On engineering work trips abroad, he photographed the cities, the surrounding areas and the industries he saw, just as he did at home in both East and West Berlin.

And this is only where his story begins. His work On the Jewish Question was anti-semitic, but at the same time hostility towards Jews was not essential to his work. Architectural photographs by Bernd and Hilla Becher enter into a dialogue with Stephen Shores subjective, documentary-style photographs of people and cities in a material and psychological downward spiral. From this work, 18 large-format examples can now be seen in a chronologically sorted tour, showing everyday life in times of terror. This novel exhibition takes place in the Gemldegalerie, on Museum Island, in the Museum of European Cultures and Kpenick Palace and is the brainchild of the Museum of Islamic Art, where many guards from Syria work. The exhibition based on this book is now on display at Kreuzbergs Fotoraum F3, featuring works by 15 artists. Some of them have been living in Berlin for a long time, like the great photographer Boris Mikhailov, others like musician Maria Kebu have only been here for a few weeks, and some are in Ukraine, like Sasha Kurmaz, most recently a scholarship holder at the Akademie der Knste Berlin. Marx was a man of contradictions. But paper, canvases and house walls also serve as backdrops for his paintings, in which people, animals and symbols form a unity. Read our full previewhere. For more general information on the Berlin State Museums: More Museums Reviews and Museum Specific Information: Filed Under: Berlin, Germany Tagged With: 2022, Berlin, J2022, Museums, SMB.

The artist often works with patriarchal legacies that lie hidden in modern culture. The second exhibition at Chert Lddes new location also deals with the surroundings of the gallery. All that glitters is not gold, but should silence be golden? Eerie and fascinating.

Berlinische Galerie is paying tribute to the Berlin photographer Sibylle Bergemann with a retrospective running until October. Tickets are available from GetYourGuide that seem to have timeslots available when SMB has already sold out many passes or multi-museum tickets are again available. Berlin artist Anne Duk Hee Jordan arranges her installations of water and plants next to filigree sculptures by the sculptor Wilhelm Lehmbruck, who died in 1919. Baeva has painted what a self-learning network had generated from hundreds of images she had previously gathered on the Internet in months of research. Claudia Wahjudi and Ina Hildebrandt provide art tips and pick the best current exhibitions in Berlin. The Liebermann-Villa is celebrating this anniversary with the exhibition Coast in Sight. The gallery also presents the book Andreas Fux innocence in collaboration with Salzgeber Buchverlage. What's going on in the art world and which Berlin exhibitions should you check out this week? 11-19, otherwise Sat 11-18, until 18.3.23. It focuses on 81 painters who shaped contemporary painting in Germany, but whose names are not necessarily known to everyone. Something went wrong, try again later. When the sculpture park behind the Zehlendorf Villa reopens to the public on June 26, the trees, bushes, lawns, paths and lake outside and Thomas Florschuetzs photos inside will both complement and contradict each other perfectly. Being pulled in so many directions doesnt always work out, but it does for this multi-talented Brit. Influenced by this, he now works primarily in the field of abstract painting.

Berlins art world is always on the move. The garden was reconstructed in the English style of the early 1920s, while, inside, Florschuetz depicts scenes of modernism, architecture, still lifes and even portraits of plants from politically charged buildings that recall both the progress and dislocation of modern times, like the old Ethnological Museum in Dahlem shortly before its exhibits were moved to the Humboldt Forum (pictured). August 2022 the exhibition Digital Tenebrism by the artist Rmulo Celdrn. Top special exhibitions in the Berlin State Museums in 2022 are as diverse as David Hockney, Paul Gauguin, Schadow, Drer, and Donatello. If you continue to use this site, you consent to our use of cookies. September 2022 (Opening: 01.09.) Interestingly, social research even ascribes subversive potential to the youth subculture of horse girls. Deeply impressed by the paintings of the seventeenth century, Celdrn [], until 27.08. The exhibition You are the spring I will never look back at by the artist Kuan Yun. Its a wonderfully quirky urban inquiry that uses labor-saving home appliances to subtly examine ingrained power relations. The artists Armin Linke and Giulia Bruno accompanied the Anthropocene Working Group and provide comment and elaboration on their work throughout the exhibition. A book presenting traditional paper techniques in Japan and Korea will be published to accompany the exhibition. Online tickets are skip-the-line go directly to the gallery entrance to scan the code. 97, Mitte, ThuSat 11:00.18:00, until 30.7. Sonderborg. As in the Innocent exhibition, Waller, with her latest series of works entitled Victims, once again takes a hard look at various forms of worldwide violence against children, the weakest and most []. Every Day at the Museum showcases the favourite artworks of 30 guards who work across Berlins museum network, featuring the likes of Azzad Ismail Dhif (pictured here) next to the bust of King Akhenaten in the Neues Museum. From the so-called fifth continent comes Songlines Seven Sisters Create Australia, an exhibition with around 300 paintings, films and objects supervised by Margo Neale, Senior Indigenous Curator at the National Museum, and an Indigenous Board of Trustees. Bass guitar, drums, piano: instruments from pop and classical music make up the inventory of Catherine Lorents exhibitions. Kuanyunis the name chosen by Zhang Mingfang [], until 01.10. The unsettling works of South African artist Deborah Poynton are painted in exquisite detail. Dense branches and sun-drenched deciduous forests alternate on 2 x 1.5 metre sheets of paper. This years event is curated by the French artist (and part-time Berliner) Kader Attia and takes as its focus the dark legacy of colonialism. The first weeks of June will see a unique performance, dance and music programme organised by XO Curatorial Projects. Individual museum ticket prices range from 6 to 14. The Museum Europischer Kulturen honors aatay in a retrospective with more than 100 Recordings, a media installation and a magazine with articles by the writer Dilek Gngr and the photographer Candida Hfer. The exhibition shows paintings and sculptures by the artist. Film installations from Arthur Jaffa and Robecca Salvadori play on the bottom floor, while visitors can check out materials from the clubs history or browse the Hard Wax record store on the upper level. At the same time, visitors can view the newly acquired multimedia and interactive installation, Pia, Why is the Sky Blue? Stephanie Comilang and Simon Speiser have created an AI work through interviews with activists and healers in the Philippines and Ecuador. Beyond well-known images from pop culture and scientific classifications, artists approach the subject of horse girl in this exhibition of the same name with fine drawings and ambivalent sculptures. It is not about paper as a mere image carrier. | #3530ARTatBerlin | Luisa Catucci Gallery presents in collaboration with fx(hash) from 2. Vielen Dank fr Dein Interesse! Throughout his life, th. Time-slot reservation tickets are currently essential to visit top museums in Berlin buy tickets online in advance from Tiqets, Get Your Guide, or SMB.