Galerie Kai Erdmann

22/01/2025

Save the Date!

Simon Hehemann
windy room

Opening 1.2.2025, 5 – 9 pm

Simon Hehemann lives and works in Hamburg, and it is here that he is currently presenting his largest sculpture to date, which houses an entire exhibition and serves as a kaleidoscope of his work from recent years.

The exhibition cube Spacewalks, on display until February 2, 2025, at The Space // (Fuhlentwiete 3, 20355 Hamburg), measures approximately 43 x 16 x 4.50 meters. It is a closed yet walkable corpus that hosts various staged rooms or planets, accessible via corridors and ramps. In Hehemann’s unmistakable signature style, visitors are immersed in his diverse media: poppies, cable cars, projections, light sources, paper works, object images, glass sculptures, and more.

His characteristic white, evenly perforated wooden panels form the architecture for the dense and multilayered interior. One feels as though they are navigating a labyrinth of knowledge about a science they think they understand. The frequently reused materials, particularly the frames of the object images, appear as if they have already been closely examined and held by thousands of curious hands. Bettina Hain aptly described it with the headline of her article: The Habitat of Hehemann.

At this point, the exhibition review in the current issue of ART Magazine and a visit to the Hamburg exhibition are highly recommended. The show was realized with the great collaboration of esteemed gallery colleague Ralf Krüger and The Space //.

As for the exhibition windy room in Berlin, a small teaser can be shared: it will be similarly dense but drafty, featuring fields of paper swaying in the air and seemingly flocks of birds in a room-within-a-room installation with humming transport systems.

This marks the artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery.

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drunk monk nr. 5
Glass, engine oil, distilled water, photo, wire, beverage tokens
38 x 30 x 8 cm · 2024

19/01/2025

Slowly getting ready for the next exhibition

Simon Hehemann
windy room

Opening: 1.2.2025, 5 – 9 pm

Worn picture frames, fragments of thoughts, proximity and distance in blur, traces and paths made visible in infinite repetition, retraced. Everything is always connected, everything is always in motion – the wind can rustle, rage, caress; the wind can sweep, subside, whisper, turn, and endlessly return. Simon Hehemann describes the starting point of this abstraction as the moment in an open field when the inner and the outer are free to roam.

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In a small-format series reminiscent of Fluxus artist Robert Filliou, for example, a set of sticky notes becomes the focus. The artist stored the block of notes in his motorcycle case during rides, and through vibrations and metallic abrasion, they darkened, creating a kind of seismographic vibration drawing that captures and holds the movement itself. Other works amalgamate with extreme precision the most delicate structures made from glass, crumpled paper marbles, or plant seeds – all held, connected, and pursued through threads, wires, and mirrors.

For the exhibition windy room at Galerie Kai Erdmann, Simon Hehemann constructed a space-within-a-space using a well-tested system of perforated panels. A series of fans reverses the accustomed order of interior and exterior, carrying the wind into the exhibition space, where it is directed into precise pathways to set various elements swaying and rising and falling. Approximately 500 thin steel pins, tipped with small paper spheres crafted from drawings, evoke a field swaying in the wind. A projection of a flock of birds scattering in sync with the wind connects digital and analog means – creating a cycle of movement, repetition, continuation, light and shadow, noise, and silence that persists uninterrupted.

Rosa Windt

For the full text and german translation, please click the link in bio.

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Mohnplantage
Poppies, brass bells, thread, wire, flying seed and oxidized copper mesh
101 x 81 x 12 cm · 2024

09/01/2025

Finissage this Saturday til 8 pm.

🍾🍄😍

Lena Schramm
Molecule Beach

Sporefly Painkiller!

For exhibition text please click link in bio.

Schweidnitzer Str 17 · 10709 Berlin / Charlottenburg

Opening hours:
Wed – Sat: 12 – 6 pm

Images here:

Oil on camvas · 40 x 29,5 cm, artistframed · 2024

08/01/2025

Last days of:

Lena Schramm
Molecule Beach

Inventing mushrooms!

Finissage: 11.1.25, 5 – 8 pm

For exhibition text please click link in bio.

Schweidnitzer Str 17 · 10709 Berlin / Charlottenburg

Opening hours:
Wed – Sat: 12 – 6 pm

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Publication
Science Fiction. Lexikon der Pilze, Band III
Softcover, 24 x 17 cm, 62 pages, edited by Kai Erdmann,
published by: SSV, Spontaner Selbstverlag, Hoffnungsthal 2024

03/01/2025

Happy new year to everyone.

Were back open on 8.1.25 and its the last days of:

Lena Schramm
Molecule Beach

🏖️ 🍸 🍄

Duration til 11.1.25

Thereby some mushrooms on holidays relaxed through not knowing!
Get your self a drink

For exhibition text please click link in bio.

Schweidnitzer Str 17 · 10709 Berlin / Charlottenburg

Opening hours:
Wed – Sat: 12 – 6 pm

Images here:

Freude durch Nichtwissen
Oil and hard wheat on canvas
150 x 125 cm, artistframed · 2024

Fernerholungsgebiet
Oil and hard wheat on canvas
150 x 125 cm, artistframed · 2024

30/12/2024

Season’s greetings and x spore confetti.

Best wishes for the New Year.
Looking forward to welcoming you back, healthy and safe, to Berlin, in 2025.

Special thanks to all the great artists who joined us this year and all the friends that help us setting up our new gallery in Berlin.
It was a pleasure and I am looking forward to all the things in 2025.

Til 11.1.25 there is Lena Schramm on display.
Feel free and come by.

Thereby the exhibitions til now and already looking straight forward to the upcoming show „windy room“ by starting 1.2.2005.

Martin Neumaier
My name is Martin Neumaier
Duration: 6.7. – 29.9.24

Vladimír Houdek
Universum
Duration: 5.10. – 16.11.24

27/12/2024

Were open today and tomorrow from 12 – 6 pm.

Thereby some dark spore confetti by:

Lena Schramm
Molecule Beach

🎊 🖤 🍄

Duration til 11.1.25

Opening hours:
Wed – Sat: 12 – 6 pm

For exhibition text please click link in bio.

Schweidnitzer Str 17 · 10709 Berlin / Charlottenburg

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Fluchtsporenflug
Oil and hard wheat on canvas · 150 x 125 cm, artistframed · 2024

20/12/2024

Current exhibition:

Lena Schramm
Molecule Beach

Duration til 11.1.25

Feel free and come by.

Opening hours:
Wed – Sat: 12 – 6 pm

For exhibition text please click link in bio.

Schweidnitzer Str 17 · 10709 Berlin / Charlottenburg

Sculpture here:

Parasol 2
Sunshade, oil & acrylic · 173 x 150 x 91 cm · 2024

13/12/2024

Currently on display:

Lena Schramm
Molecule Beach

„NO GODS NO MASTERS“

Duration til 11.1.25

Feel free and come by.

Opening hours:
Wed – Sat: 12 – 6 pm

For exhibition text please click link in bio.

Schweidnitzer Str 17 · 10709 Berlin / Charlottenburg

Images here:

Doppelte Verneinung
Oil and hard wheat on canvas
150 x 125 cm · 2024

04/12/2024

Save the date!

Sunday 8.12. Feuergangenbowle, 4 pm.

At the exhibition

Lena Schramm
Molecule Beach

and next door.

Perfect match

Feel free and come by.

Shrooms here:

Freude durch Nichtwissen*
Oil and hard wheat on canvas
150 x 125 cm, artistframed · 2024
*Pleassure through not knowing

01/12/2024

Looking for a shroomy advent drink?

🍄🍹

Feel free and come by.

Lena Schramm
Molecule Beach

Cheers.

On display till 11.1.25

Fungal spore cocktails & recipients here:

Old Fashioned (c)
Oil on canvas · 39,5 x 29,5 cm, artist framed · 2024

Zilp 1
Oil on canvas · 35,5 x 28,5 cm, artist framed · 2024

Lime Royal (f)
Oil on canvas · 39 x 29,5 cm, artist framed · 2024

Skinny Bitch (e)
Oil on canvas · 39,5 x 29,5 cm, artist framed · 2024

Painkiller (d)
Oil on canvas · 40 x 29,5 cm, artist framed · 2024

Zilp 2
Oil on canvas · 35,5 x 28,5 cm · 2024

Pink Rose Fizz (a)
Oil on canvas · 41 x 29,5 cm, artist framed · 2024

Limoncello Spritz (g)
Oil on canvas · 39 x 29,5 cm, artist framed · 2024

Mexican Sunset (b)
Oil on canvas · 40,5 x 29,5cm, artist framed · 2024

Schweidnitzer Str 17 · 10709 Berlin







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25/11/2024

23/11/2024

Opening today from 7 - 9 pm

Lena Schramm
Molecule Beach

🍄 🏖️ 🍹

Feel free and come by.

For exhibition text please click link in bio.

Images here:

Parasol 1
Parasol, oil, concrete, ratchet · 213 x 113 x 159 cm · 2024

Parasol 3
Parasol, oil, concrete, ratchet · 169 x ø 83 cm · 2024

Doppelte Verneinung*
Oil and hard wheat on canvas · 150 x 125 cm · 2024
*double negative

Zilp 2
Oil on canvas · 35,5 x 28,5 cm · 2024

Schweidnitzer Str 17 · 10709 Berlin / Charlottenburg

17/11/2024

Getting ready for the upcoming exhibition:

Lena Schramm
Molecule Beach

Save the date: 23.11.24

🍄 🏖️ 🍹

For exhibition text please click link in bio.

Thereby some atelier shots two works:

Pink Rose Fizz (a)
Oil on canvas, artist framed · 42 x 30 cm · 2024

Doppelte Verneinung*
Oil and hard wheat on canvas · 150 x 125 cm · 2024
*double negative

Schweidnitzer Str 17 · 10709 Berlin / Charlottenburg

15/11/2024

Last days of:

Vladimir Houdek
Universum

Opening hours:
Wed – Sat, 12 – 6 pm

On display til 16.11.24

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Untitled
2023/24 · Acrylic and wax pastel on board · 100 x 70 cm

Untitled
2015/23/24 · Acrylic and wax pastel on canvas · 60 x 70 cm

Untitled
2018/23/24 · Acrylic and wax pastel on canvas · 40 x 30 cm

Untitled
2018/23/24 · Acrylic and wax pastel on canvas · 40 x 30 cm

14/11/2024

Last days of:

Vladimir Houdek
Universum

Opening hours:
Wed – Sat, 12 – 6 pm

On display til 16.11.24

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Untitled
2023/24 · Acrylic and wax pastel on board · 120 x 80 cm

Untitled
2017/23/24 · Acrylic and wax pastel on canvas · 60 x 50 cm

With his third solo exhibition at the Kai Erdmann Gallery, Czech artist Vladimír Houdek thematically returns to geometry and presents his new body of work for the first time in Germany. A key aspect of the series, which consists of paintings in small to medium formats, draws on Van Gogh’s sunflowers, showcasing a yellow color palette that, combined with dark horizon lines, creates a spatial background for multifaceted geometric shapes.

Geometry, with fundamental shapes such as circles, triangles, and quadrilaterals, as well as derived rhombuses, ellipses, loops, or fans, serves as a central starting point in the artist‘s work and is continuously subjected to new aspects in the medium of painting, in drawings, gouaches, films, and collages. In the process of creating the paintings, layers of color in a semi-dried state are repeatedly scraped off the edge of the canvas using a squeegee, ultimately forming a kind of corona beyond the edge of the picture. Particularly in the smaller works, this creates a strong object-like and processual character, in marked contrast to a picture object that often appears sublimely.

Additionally, drawn grids, color edges peeled off by tape markings, or perforated mementos with a compass point, emphasize a process of becoming and discarding, as well as the act of seeing itself. Optical illusions, flickers, movements, forms that are both static and throning against dark night skies, in the cosmos – in the universe. Houdek’s paintings create a silence and detachment that seeks reduction as well as expressiveness in their form. In this regard, Houdek also understands geometry as a metaphor for the universe itself, as a place of constant reflection, and as a paradox between matter and infinity, between purity and destruction.

Rosa Windt
Hamburg 2024

07/11/2024

Anna Ley with a forward-looking and sarcastic commentary on current times.
In all this confusion, we should not lose our vision or humor.
Peace.

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Anna Ley

This way to fun
Acrylic on canvas · 100 x 135 cm · 2020

Litro-Pinte
Acrylic on canvas · 130 x 95 cm · 2021

Die Gewalt
Acrylic on canvas · 35 x 25 cm · 2024

Erster Band
Acrylic on canvas · 25 x 20 cm · 2023



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