Installation View: BERNAR VENET. 1961 – 2021 | Kunsthalle Berlin – Flughafen Tempelhof. Photo: Daniel Biskup, Courtesy: Stiftung für Kunst und Kultur Bonn. ©Bernar Venet, ADAGP 2022
Bernar Venet, 1961—2021. 60 Years of Sculpture, Painting & Performance at Kunsthalle Berlin, January 29 – May 30.
The exhibition with showcase the internationally-renowned French artist’s largest and most comprehensive retrospective in the world to date, spanning the entirety of his complex and widely diverse oeuvre as a sculptor, painter, performance artist – and radical conceptual artist. The exhibition will bring together over 150 works, reflecting the artist’s uncompromising approach and natural obsession for constantly shaping his environment through his art.
More info at stiftungkunst.de
Rolf von Bergmann, Elvira Bach, 1982, © Berlinische Galerie / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2022, Repro: Anja Elisabeth Witte.
Images in Fashion – Clothing in Art: Photography, Fine Arts, and Fashion since 1900 at Berlinische Galerie, Feb 18 – May 30.
Images in Fashion explores the role of fashion and art in social and cultural changes. It sees fashion as a means of expression and representation of a specific era; from the reform dress around 1900 and the Dada dandies of the 1920s to avant-garde clothing designs in contemporary art. Drawing from approximately 270 unique collections of fashion photographs from the 20th Century and selected items of clothing, the exhibition shed light on artists’ relationship to fashion. What role has fashion played in the painting, drawing, and photography of the past century? With what rules were clothing and costumes employed in fine art? How did artists dress and present themselves then and now? How is fashion used as a medium in contemporary art?
More info at berlinischegalerie.de
Hliðstæðar víddir – Parallel Dimensions I / II at The Embassy of Iceland in Berlin, Feb 10 – Mar 27.
The exhibition Parallel Dimensions I / II brings together 17 leading contemporary Icelandic artists and works that highlights the diversity of media and material. The focus is on artists who push and defy the boundaries of art, technology, and science. They support and promote systems, experiment with time and space, and invent new methods to utilise material. The results of such experiments are works that elicit different worlds which are for example based on calculations, measurability, and associated overlap between fields. Working on cross-disciplinary platforms, whether it is in science, geology, photography, design, or traditional art fabrication. Parallel Dimensions is a two-part exhibition, Part One opens in February 2022 and Part Two in January 2023. Organised by The Embassy of Iceland in Berlin, the exhibition is curated by Ásdís Spanó.
More info at nordischebotschaften.org
Barbara Kruger. Photo Courtesy of Neue Nationalgalerie.
Barbara Kruger at Neue Nationalgalerie, April 29 – August 28.
The American Concept Artist Barbara Kruger, best known for her big graphics, texts and sharp statements used to challenge social stereotypes from feminist and consumption-critical perspectives since the 70s, will create a site-specific text installation for her first-ever solo exhibition in Germany. The exhibition will occupy the exhibition hall and explore the political and social impacts of social media.
More info at smb.museum