Galerie Tanja Wagner

11/01/2021

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Since the lockdown here in Berlin is extended until the end of February, I decided to give you a little tour through our anniversary exhibition How to Human - Tanja*

01/01/2021

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We are closed for the winter break until January 6, 2021. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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During this time, you can visit our current exhibition HOW TO HUMAN via our online viewing room - link in bio*⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Due to current government regulations the gallery is temporarily open by appointment only. We look forward to staying in touch with you. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
To schedule a visit to the gallery please email [email protected]⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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#galerietanjawagner #loveandlight #2021

23/12/2020

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As we come to the end of the year, I would like to whish everyone who has journeyed with us through this rollercoaster of a year some peace and joy during these holidays.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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We are especially grateful to everyone who has purchased an edition created by our artists, as we were able to give back a generous sum of the proceeds to the Berlin women’s shelter Cocon who not only support women and children who affected by domestic violence but also invest in projects to create positive male role models for the children.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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We will continue to do support this project with 10% of the proceeds of every purchased edition in the future.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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If you linke to explore the editions, please check our link in the bio.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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#happyholidays

21/12/2020

Galerie Tanja Wagner | 2020 | art-in-berlin – Dem Menschsein auf den Grund gehen – Ein Besuch in der Galerie Tanja Wagner

Big thanks to Ferial Nadja Karrasch and artinberlin for this beautifully detailed article on our exhibition HOW TO HUMAN

"The question of How to human – how does it actually work, being human? – also functions as a bracket that binds together the artistic visions represented by Tanja Wagner. And it runs like a thread through the past ten years of gallery work as much as it points towards what is to come. 
Tanja Wagner, who opened her gallery when she was only 30, has focused from the beginning on art that points out injustices, questions social conditions, opens up new perspectives, and disrupts old hierarchies and narratives.
The question could not be more topical, because especially now, at a time when the climate crisis, extremely worrying social developments and the pandemic are wrenching us with all their different micro and macro effects, it is important to reflect on this question now and then.
But Wagner’s program is not only about challenging things; she is also concerned with “being held by an aesthetic, by the beauty that can emanate from a work,” she said in our conversation at her gallery."

Full article in German:
https://tanjawagner.com/2020-art-in-berlin-dem-menschsein-auf-den-grund-gehen-ein-besuch-in-der-galerie-tanja-wagner/

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20/12/2020

Happy Sunday! Today we're staying in bed with @linascheynius... ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Due to current government regulations, Galerie Tanja Wagner is temporarily open by appointment only.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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We will close for the Christmas break, from December 19, 2020 – January 7, 2021.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
During this time, you can view our current exhibition HOW TO HUMAN via our viewing room:⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
tanjawagner.com/viewing-room/how-to-human/ ***link in bio***⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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#galerietanjawagner #howtohuman #linascheynius #photography #mybed #stayathome #sunday

18/12/2020

Thanks @anothermagazine for featuring our exhibition HOW TO HUMAN and Lina Scheynius' Untitled ("My Bed"), 2020.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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For more Information about the exhibition visit our Online Viewing Room!⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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#galerietanjawagner #howtohuman #linascheynius #photography #mybed

17/12/2020

#tbt FROM THE ARCHIVES: Lina Scheynius's first exhibition at Galerie Tanja Wagner was the group show 'Male Nudes – Female Desires' together with Jen Davis, Nina Hoffmann and Paula Winkler in 2013! I really loved that show! ❤️
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How do today’s young women look at men, naked men? How does their desire look like? Is the female gaze different than the male gaze? Is there a different desire?
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Lina Scheynius is capturing daily scenes, travels and most of all friends and lovers. She portrays her life with a casualness and honesty that is both touching and beautiful. The series (2002–2006) was the first series in which she was documenting the relationship with her boy friend at the time. The photographs depict a joy- and lustful intimacy, a carefree and adventurous time between young lovers. At the same time they convey the bittersweet feeling of a long lasting summer love that is meant to end.

16/12/2020

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»My art helps me connect deeper with the world around me - to pay closer attention to it, and to really see the things that I could easily become blind to because they are so familiar to me. It helps me shine a light on moments that could just quietly pass me by. It also helps me to playfully and honestly interact with people I love. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
It is my hope that it also offers the viewer something similar. Especially today when a lot of us are so busy staring at screens and easily become oblivious to all the little wonders constantly going on around us.« — Lina Scheynius⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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HOW TO HUMAN - 10 years of Galerie Tanja Wagner - with works by Ulf Aminde, Annabel Daou, Šejla Kamerić, Kapwani Kiwanga, Laurel Nakadate, Grit Richter, Lina Scheynius, Angelika J. Trojnarski and Anna Witt.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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#galerietanjawagner #howtohuman #art #quote #quoteoftheday #anniversary #10years #newexhibition #contemporaryart

15/12/2020

100 WOMEN ARTISTS

In dem Sammelband "I Love Women in Art" stellen Frauen aus Kunst & Kultur je ein Werk von einer Künstlerin vor. Die Publikation wurde im Juni 2020 veröffentlicht - das 100. Jubiläum der Zulassung von Frauen an allen deutschen Kunstakademien - live talk:

15/12/2020

Galerie Tanja Wagner | 2020 | TAZ – Intuition und Kalkulation

Thank you for the thoughtful article Beate Scheder about our 10 year anniversary exhibition HOW TO HUMAN in taz Berlin Kultur!
https://tanjawagner.com/2020-taz-intuition-und-kalkulation/

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15/12/2020

Lina Scheynius, Untitled ("My Bed") series, 2018 – 2020 as part of our exhibition HOW TO HUMAN - 10 years of Galerie Tanja Wagner.
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Visit our Online Viewing Room for further informations:
https://tanjawagner.com/viewing-room/how-to-human/
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Spring 2020. After the initial shock of lockdown, when things started to settle down, I could not continue to post on social media as I had before. My world had gotten smaller. I started to post photos of my bed. Not all very current as I shoot film and my lab was closed, but that didn’t matter. They felt extremely current. This is what I was looking at every day. This is where my life was playing out. I was here. And as I posted these bed photos I also started to photograph the bed.
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Untitled („My Bed")
2018
Analogue C-Print
53 x 40 cm, 54,5 x 41,5 cm (framed) 3 + 2 AP (1/3)
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Untitled („My Bed“)
2019
Analogue C-Print
60 x 40 cm, 61,5 x 41,5 cm (framed) 3 + 2 AP (1/3)
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2018
Analogue C-Print
53 x 40 cm, 54,5 x 41,5 cm (framed) 3 + 2 AP (1/3)
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Untitled („My Bed“)
2020
Analogue C-Print
60 x 40 cm, 61,5 x 41,5 cm (framed) 3 + 2 AP (1/3)
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Untitled („My Bed“)
2020
Analogue C-Print
40 x 60 cm, 41,5 x 61,5 cm (framed) 3 + 2 AP (1/3)

12/12/2020

Angelika J Trojnarski is taking us back to sunnier times when she was a resident at CCA ANDRATX in Mallorca, Spain a few months ago!
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Past Oktober and November, Angelika J. Trojnarski spend her time researching, painting and getting inspired at her residency at CCA ANDRATX in Mallorca, Spain.
Seeing the beautiful Mallorcan nature and its recent destruction by wildfire deeply touched her and led her to develop a new technique, working with fire and burnt surfaces, thereby further developing her main topic, nature and its man made destruction.

Repost CCA Andratx
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We are very excited to introduce you to our current resident artist Angelika J. Trojnarski, who will stay in Studio Rojo through November. It is Angelika’s second time at our studios and we look forward to seeing the new works she is already working on.⁣
Crucial in her work are the complexities and correlations between the environment, the natural phenomena and the physical forces. Art and science are interlinked by the continuing search for a deeper understanding of the world and as a researcher she appreciates her studio as a laboratory.⁣

11/12/2020

Angelika J. Trojnarski's work 'Forest Bathing' (2020) featured in this month's @monopolmagazin which would have been on view @artcologne this year. We hope for spring of 2021!⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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#galerietanjawagner #angelikajtrojnarski #monopolmagazin #artwork #artist #howtohuman

10/12/2020

#tbt FROM THE ARCHIVES: Angelika J. Trojnarski's very first solo exhibition 'Observation of Nature' at Galerie Tanja Wagner in Summer 2011!
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In the exhibition, Angelika J Trojnarski’s paintings, installations and photography dealt with the remains of abandoned industrial sights, run-down amusement parks and abandoned exhibition spaces and habitats. The spaces showed human accomplishments in technology and civilisation; but also bore witness to their megalomaniacal hubris.

09/12/2020

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»Through my art I not only try to understand the world and its complexities, but to depict how I see and feel it. The viewers in front of my work should feel the same amazement and awe I sense standing in nature, the fascination overwhelming me in a science museum or while leafing through an encyclopedia in my studio. Ideally they are touched by empathy, compassion, and respect for our planet. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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HOW TO HUMAN - 10 years of Galerie Tanja Wagner - with works by Ulf Aminde, Annabel Daou, Šejla Kamerić, Kapwani Kiwanga, Laurel Nakadate, Grit Richter, Lina Scheynius, Angelika J. Trojnarski and Anna Witt.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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#galerietanjawagner #howtohuman #art #quote #quoteoftheday #anniversary #10years #newexhibition #contemporaryart

08/12/2020

ANGELIKA J. TROJNARSKI, Blast, 2020 and Melt 2020 as part of our exhibition HOW TO HUMAN - 10 years of Galerie Tanja Wagner.
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Angelika J Trojnarski’s work is about her love of nature and the sublime. It’s about the ability and strength of humankind, especially in today's times of struggle for becoming and passing, striving and failing, protecting and destroying to preserve nature and fight for it as our precious livelihood.
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Blast
2020
Paper, oil on canvas
100 x 80 cm
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Melt
2020
Paper, oil on canvas
150 x 115 cm
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HOW TO HUMAN - 10 years of Galerie Tanja Wagner is on view at the gallery until February 13.

06/12/2020

We're open today from 12–6 pm for SUNDAY OPEN, an initiative by INDEX Berlin
Come by to see our 10 year anniversary exhibition – HOW TO HUMAN!
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HOW TO HUMAN - 10 years of Galerie Tanja Wagner - with works by Ulf Aminde, Annabel Daou, Šejla Kamerić, Kapwani Kiwanga, Laurel Nakadate, Grit Richter, Lina Scheynius, Angelika J. Trojnarski and Anna Witt.

05/12/2020

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HOW TO HUMAN - 10 years of Galerie Tanja Wagner - with works by Ulf Aminde, Annabel Daou, Šejla Kamerić, Kapwani Kiwanga, Laurel Nakadate, Grit Richter, Lina Scheynius, Angelika J. Trojnarski and Anna Witt.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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04/12/2020

Annabel Daou's work 'mine' is currently on view in the exhibition 'On Celestial Bodies' at Arter Intanbul. Extended until August 1, 2021!
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On Celestial Bodies deals with questions around the possibility of reconceiving and reconstructing a vital terrain for living together in our present day. Including works by twenty-eight artists, the exhibition invites visitors to contemplate together the ways that beings come together and disperse, the manners through which they build relations, and their ways of distancing and converging with each other.
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Annabel Daou
mine
2014
Ink on mending tape on Islamic sunn hemp paper, vellum and handmade Japanese paper
132 × 190 cm
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On Celestial Bodies questions the possible effects that exhibitions and artworks may assume in imagining a politics of life. What are the potential ways of understanding art today as an act that cares for radical relationality, and one that affirms and defends life itself, in the context of the idea of justice, that makes living together possible?
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Annabel Daou
On Celestial Bodies
Group exhibition curated by Kevser Güler
Arter, Istanbul
September 10, 2020 - August 1, 2021

03/12/2020

#tbt FROM THE ARCHIVES: Annabel Daou's very first solo exhibition 'come back to the war' at Galerie Tanja Wagner early 2012!
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come back to the war: human beings appear driven to past events, to “come back” to places or situations that are often those of struggle. The title of the exhibition referred to the engagement with and attraction towards conflict, may it be a political conflict, a conflict between people and situations or even between the artist, viewer and the work itself. In pieces such as the lines are drawn (2011) and the fight is fixed (2011) the titles played between their literal meanings and the visual or conceptual possibilities opened by language. In no man’s land (2011), Daou explored the void between the written word and the act of writing, using a red quill to inscribe the surface of the paper while blowing the ink away at the same time.

from where to where (2010) was one of the central pieces of the exhibition. It is a project that had been completed over a period of two months spent between New York and Beirut—Daou’s first trip back to Lebanon after leaving her home country. It was composed out of the English and Arabic responses of strangers encountered during the travel to whom the questions were posed Where are you now? Where are you coming from? and Where are you going to? The title of the piece from where to where was a literal translation of an Arabic expression that idiomatically translates as “how dare you?” This question frames the work as an inquiry into the sense in which identity is asserted, undermined, and/or reconstructed through the ongoing exchange between location and state of mind.

02/12/2020

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»Maybe none of us are the same. While I often approach my work from the perspective of our shared voices and repetitive use of the same language/phrases, I find myself lately overwhelmed by the thought that we are all just different enough that each person may encounter things in ways that no other person can imagine.« — Annabel Daou⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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HOW TO HUMAN - 10 years of Galerie Tanja Wagner - with works by Ulf Aminde, Annabel Daou, Šejla Kamerić, Kapwani Kiwanga, Laurel Nakadate, Grit Richter, Lina Scheynius, Angelika J. Trojnarski and Anna Witt.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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#galerietanjawagner #howtohuman #art #quote #quoteoftheday #anniversary #10years #newexhibition #contemporaryart

01/12/2020

Annabel Daou, Action/Figure (Howl, Struggle, Kiss, Forget), 2020 as part of our exhibition HOW TO HUMAN - 10 years of Galerie Tanja Wagner.
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The words in this piece, approximately 260 in total, are all possible human actions. The language takes the form of a lace garment that serves to alternately conceal and expose. The title alludes to action figures, which have generally been marketed to boys and often represent physical traits of strength, toughness and heroism. The suspended words indicate the potential and chaotic possibility of action, while the form comes in and out of being, a floating figure that appears untethered and placeless. The structure of connecting lines also references computer generated images of the body. While the bare materiality of the top layer suggests a protective but permeable exterior or exoskeleton, the layer underneath evokes the interior life behind the words.
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Annabel Daou »Action/Figure (Howl, Struggle, Kiss, Forget)«, 2020
Ink on hand cut microfiber paper
195,5 x 81 cm, 203 x 88,5 cm (framed)
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More information in our Online Viewing Room - link in bio.
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HOW TO HUMAN - 10 years of Galerie Tanja Wagner is on view at the gallery until February 13.