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Kajetan Berlin

Contemporary art gallery for viewing and reflecting in Berlin.

Artists: Bettina Blohm, Carla Guagliardi, Marc Nagtzaam, Erich Reusch, Haleh Redjaian, Trine Søndergaard, Elisabeth Vary, Claude Viallat, Jan Wawrzyniak

16/06/2026

Claude ViallatMalereien IIIGalerie kajetanMay 2 – June 25, 2026

The French artist group Supports/Surfaces, of which Claude Viallat was a co-founder, was formed in 1970 and was dedicated to investigating the fundamental conditions of painting. Its focus lay on the support and the surface, whose material and structural properties were understood as constitutive elements of the work.

The works thus point to the conditions of their own making, laying bare how they are constructed: through a process that sensitively yet forcefully brings together found material, color, and painterly intervention, thereby subverting traditional conceptions of the image and destabilizing the boundary between painting and object.

Claude Viallat | Malereien III | Ausstellungsansicht / Exhibition view 2026 | Courtesy Claude Viallat & Galerie kajetan | Photo: Gunter Lepkowski

13/06/2026

Claude Viallat
Malereien III
2 May – 25 June 2026

Viallat’s characteristic recurring form thus does not function as a motif in the classical sense. Its effect arises in relation to the support, which asserts itself as an autonomous, imagegenerating element with its own material history. Repetition does not produce uniformity; rather, it reveals — at times in contrast, at times in integration — the specific qualities of each textile. At the same time, the relationship between figure and ground shifts. While the applied form structures the support, the support itself visually asserts its presence, so that foreground and background — and with them the hierarchy between painting and support — appear to dissolve. (Eliza Grabarek )

Claude Viallat | 488 / 2025 | 2025 | Acryl auf Gewebe / Acrylic on fabric | 134 x 67 cm / 52,8 x 26,4 in | Ausstellungsansicht / Exhibition View 2026 | Courtesy Claude Viallat & Galerie kajetan | Photo: Gunter Lepkowski

08/06/2026

In 374/2024, Viallat similarly establishes the ground — a beige fabric with a floral pattern — as an equal agent within the pictorial structure. The form, repeated in blue, is applied with heavily diluted paint that bleeds at the edges, seeps into the fabric, and appears as speckled traces across the surface. The form here emerges less as a clearly defined signthan as a sensitive imprint embedded within the material. Viallat deliberately disrupts the serial arrangement through two additional interventions: a white-edged, downwardpointingfield of color cuts into the pictorial space from the upper left, while a signal-red form at the lower right acts as a visual counterweight, almost halting the movement. What emerges is a dynamic interplay of repetition, materiality, and painterly intervention.
(Eliza Grabarek )

Claude ViallatMalereien IIIGalerie kajetanMay 2 – June 25, 2026

Claude Viallat | 374 / 2024 | 2024 | Acryl auf Gewebe / Acrylic on fabric | 190 x 149 cm / 74,8 x 58,7 in | Ausstellungsansicht / Exhibition View 2026 | Courtesy Claude Viallat & Galerie kajetan | Photo: Gunter Lepkowski

26/05/2026

Claude Viallat
Malereien III
until 25 June 2026

Exhibition view 2026 | Courtesy Claude Viallat & Galerie kajetan | Photo: Gunter Lepkowski

13/05/2026

At the beginning of Viallat’s working process lies the material itself. The fabrics — often donations, discarded domestic textiles, or remnants from industrial production — are collected and stored unsorted in the artist’s studio. Their specific qualities, density, structure, and patterns, as well as tangible resistances such as seams or hems, determine how and with what intensity he applies paint.

Viallat applies acrylic paint to the fabric using a stencil, sponge, or brush — at times impasto, at others translucent — responding directly to the material’s properties. The recurring form is generally distributed evenly across the entire support, giving rise to a net-like all-over structure that calls into question the conventions of classical composition: perspective, pictorial center, and internal hierarchies recede.
(Eliza Grabarek )

Claude Viallat | Malereien III | Ausstellungsansicht / Exhibition view 2026 | Courtesy Claude Viallat & Galerie kajetan | Photo: Gunter Lepkowski

06/05/2026

kajetan is pleased to present the third solo exhibition of the artist Claude Viallat (b. 1936 in Nîmes, where he lives and works).
Viallat is considered one of the key innovators of painting, also in the context of the French Supports/Surfaces movement*, of which he was a co-founder.

The exhibition brings together works from 2024 and 2025 in which the radical redefinition of painting that Viallat has pursued since the late 1960s becomes particularly evident: the separation of the support from the stretcher, the turn towards found, used, or discarded industrial textiles, and the consistent use of a serial form that is neither clearly organic nor geometric, and which has become his hallmark.

Claude ViallatMalereien IIIMay 2 – June 25, 2026

Ausstellungsansicht / Exhibition View 2026 | Courtesy Claude Viallat & Galerie kajetan | Photo: Gunter Lepkowski

29/04/2026

To mark this year’s Gallery Weekend Berlin, kajetan is exhibiting magnificent new works by the painter Claude Viallat, who is now almost 90 years old.

As a former co-founder of the French Supports/Surfaces movement, Claude Viallat has been one of the leading figures on the contemporary art scene for the past fifty years.
He represented France at the Venice Biennale in 1988 and has had numerous international exhibitions and group shows, including at the Musée National d’Art Moderne – Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; MOMA, New York; Museum of Modern Art Ludwig Foundation, Vienna; Musée des Beaux Arts, Montreal; and the National Museum of Art, Osaka.

You are cordially invited to the opening on Friday, 1 May 2026, 6 pm.

15/04/2026

Izabel Angererproof of existence14 February – 18 April 2026SPECIAL OPENING HOURS: Galerierundgang Charlottenwalk: Friday...

10/03/2026

04/03/2026

Izabel Angerer
proof of existence
14 February – 18 April 2026
SPECIAL OPENING HOURS: Galerierundgang Charlottenwalk: Friday, 13 March 2026, 12–9 pm and Saturday, 14 March 2026, 12–6 pm

Izabel Angerers theoretical point of reference is the thought of the pre-Socratic philosopher Heraclitus. His central notion that all being is in constant flux serves Angerer as a conceptual model. For her, a work does not exist as a timeless object, but as a carrier of actions that have passed, inscribed firmly in the material. Line, color, and perforation do not serve as representation but as markers of a temporal process— they refer to individual moments fixed in the work, resisting change.

Izabel Angerer | proof of existence | Exhibition view 2026 | Courtesy the artist & Galerie kajetan | Photo: Gunter Lepkowski

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Freitag	12:00 - 18:00
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