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07/09/2026

MUKENGE/SCHELLHAMMER
Awards Ceremony and Celebration
Kunstpreis des Landes Brandenburg 2026,
BLMK Dieselkraftwerk, Cottbus
Sunday, 6.9.2026

The Minister of Culture’s Young Artists Award goes to the Congolese-German artist duo Lydia Schellhammer and Christ Mukenge. Congratulations!

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04/08/2026

Do not miss this mindblowing show by Bjørn Melhus: LOST IN FINITY is woven into a larger, dreamlike narrative composed of short video loops: a constantly shifting composition of figures, fragments of monologue and dialogue, snatches of sound, landscapes, planets, and projections of outer space that guides visitors through the exhibition. At the same time, the exhibition space becomes a journey through the core concerns of an artistic practice that has spent three decades engaging with media representations of war, religion, capitalism, and lost utopias.

17 July – 23 August 2026
Silent Green, Berlin
🔗silent-green.net

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25/07/2026

Save the date
CARRIE MAE WEEMS
Gallery Show
Opening:
Friday, 11 September 2026, 6–9 pm
part of Berlin Art Week

🔗bthumm.de

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23/07/2026

SAVE THE DATE
Fiona Banner aka The Vanity Press
Poems for Helicopter Blades
Gallery exhibition
Opening: Friday, 11 September 2026, 6–9 pm
during Berlin Art Week

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17/07/2026

Upcoming
MUKENGE/SCHELLHAMMER
Elima – Nobody Giessen
Solo-Exhibition
Opening: 14 August 2026, 7 pm 14 August – 1 November 2026
Curated by Dr Nadia Ismail

With Elima – NoBody, the transnational artist duo Christ Mukenge and Lydia Schellhammer present an exhibition that foregrounds questions of authorship, corporeality, and collective existence. The first chapter, presented at the Musée d’Art Contemporain et Multimédia in Kinshasa, explores the duo’s artistic ancestors and painterly references within the Democratic Republic of the Congo. At Kunsthalle Giessen, the narrative continues: the exhibition symbolically brings Mukenge/Schellhammer to life, tracing the duo’s initiation through a intrinsic visual mythology. The transnational duo conceives of painting as a site of friction and negotiation between cultural systems, visual regimes, and bodies. This formal approach, grounded in an expanded post-digital understanding of painting, extends beyond the canvas to encompass digital media, including augmented and virtual reality.

Goethe-Institut Kinshasa
KUNSTHALLE GIESSEN

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12/07/2026

On view 27 June – 1 August 2026
HELCIO BARROS
Em torno do Aleph

[1]
HELCIO BARROS
Untitled (1985)
Oil stick and pencil on paper
18 x 16 cm

[2]
Helcio Barros
Untitled (1985)
Oil stick and pencil on paper
21 x 20,5 cm

[3]
Helcio Barros
Untitled (1985)
Oil stick and pencil on paper
19 x 14 cm

[4]
Helcio Barros
Untitled (1985)
Oil stick and pencil on paper
18 x 14 cm

[5]
Helcio Barros
Untitled (1985)
Oil stick and pencil on paper
17,5 x 18,5

More details about this exhibition on 🔗bthumm.de

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12/07/2026

[1]
HELCIO BARROS
Superalephonte 27 (2023-2025)
Acrylic paint and oil stick on cardboard cutout
87 x 48 cm

[2]
HELCIO BARROS
Superalephonte 50 (2023-2025)
Acrylic paint and oil stick on cardboard cutout
77 x 55 cm

[3]
HELCIO BARROS
Superalephonte 48 (2023-2025)
Acrylic paint and oil stick on cardboard cutout
87 x 48 cm

[4]
HELCIO BARROS
Superalephonte 46 (2023-2025)
Acrylic paint and oil stick on cardboard cutout
86 x 55 cm

[5]
HELCIO BARROS
Superalephonte 53 (2023-2025)
Acrylic paint and oil stick on cardboard cutout
72 x 55 cm

Now on view
HELCIO BARROS
Em torno do Aleph
On view 27 June – 1 August 2026

🔗bthumm.de

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30/06/2026

Lettre International magazine issue 153, summer 2026
Artworks by Kenyan artist Kaloki Nyamai

KALOKI NYAMAI
The canvas as image, object and archive
Kaloki Nyamai explores the relationship between memory, material and collective experience. Through multi-layered surfaces of paint, transferred newspaper, collages, threads, ropes and yarn, his works navigate the space between figuration and abstraction, creating visual spaces in which personal narratives intersect with historical realities. The materiality of his media carries emotional and symbolic significance: each canvas functions as an image, an object and an archive.

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KALOKI NYAMAI
Die Leinwand als Bild, Objekt und Archiv
Kaloki Nyamai untersucht die Beziehung zwischen Erinnerung, Material und kollektiver Erfahrung. Durch vielschichtige Oberflächen aus Farbe, übertragenem Zeitungspapier, Collagen, Fäden, Seilen und Garn bewegen sich seine Werke zwischen Figuration und Abstraktion und schaffen visuelle Räume, in denen sich persönliche Erzählungen mit historischen Realitäten überschneiden. Die Materialität seiner Werkstoffe trägt emotionale und symbolische Bedeutung in sich: Jede Leinwand fungiert als Bild, Objekt und Archiv.

🔗lettre.de

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Kaloki Nyamai

27/06/2026

HELCIO BARROS
Em torno do Aleph
On view 27 June – 1 August 2026

Visual artist and writer Helcio Barros‘ artistic trajectory began in the early 1980s, a moment marked by the democratization of Brazil as well as the international paradigm of painting as an expressive medium. In that field, the former civil servant engaged in drawing and studied film at the university. His path for the arts was continuous, even when not perceived by the artistic scene, he began producing small drawings in between work and has participated in solo and group exhibitions.

Four decades separates that moment from the year of 2026, when in the context of the 36th Bienal de São Paulo, his work was part of a tribute proposed by the collective Vilanismo, who paid homage to his mastery and dedication as an act of historical repair to an artist who inspires them.
Em torno do Aleph (Around Aleph) is the first show in Germany and the title refers to Jorge Luis Borges’s iconic 1945 Spanish short story „El Aleph“ (The Aleph), this mysterious device that contains all other points in the universe at once, allowing the viewer to see everything on Earth from every angle simultaneously; a kind of version of the continuous and massive practice Barros produced so far.

Around the Aleph there is Sankofa. Around the fear that nothing would remain capable of generating surprise or joy, is the act of returning to get what you forgot, or was misplaced. Around the impression of a returning that would never leave or the impossibility to be free of all things seen, the bird of Sankofa continued to whisper “remember, remember”.

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Helcio Barros, *1956, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
lives and works in São Paulo, Brazil

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27/06/2026

We are delighted to present now the first solo exhibition by Helcio Barros in Germany.

Helcio Barros is a visual artist and writer born in 1956 in Rio de Janeiro and currently living in São Paulo. His artistic trajectory began in the early 1980s, a moment marked by the democratization of Brazil as well as the international paradigm of painting as an expressive medium. In that field, the former civil servant engaged in drawing and studied film at the university. His path for the arts was continuous, even when not perceived by the artistic scene, he began producing small drawings in between work and has participated in solo and group exhibitions.

Four decades separates that moment from the year of 2026, when in the context of the 36th Bienal de São Paulo, his work was part of a tribute proposed by the collective Vilanismo, who paid homage to his mastery and dedication as an act of historical repair to an artist who inspires them.
Em torno do Aleph (Around Aleph) is the first show in Germany and the title refers to Jorge Luis Borges’s iconic 1945 Spanish short story „El Aleph“ (The Aleph), this mysterious device that contains all other points in the universe at once, allowing the viewer to see everything on Earth from every angle simultaneously; a kind of version of the continuous and massive practice Barros produced so far.

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HELCIO BARROS
Em torno do Aleph
On view 27 June – 1 August 2026

Helcio Barros, *1956, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil lives and works in São Paulo, Brazil

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