Galerie Michael Haas

09/09/2020

'One Minute, One Question' with Sandra Vásquez de la Horra

'Sandra Vásquez de la Horra, how important are religious myths?'

We are very happy to show new works on paper by Sandra Vasquez de la Horra @sandravasquezdelahorra from September 11 until October 17, 2020⁠.
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Due to the ongoing situation regarding Covid-19 we unfortunately have to refrain from an opening event of the exhibition. Nevertheless, we are offering extended opening hours during the concurrent @galleryweekendberlin which is taking place on the weekend of September 11th - 13th. We cordially invite you to visit our gallery!⁠⠀
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In our column "One Minute, One Question" we ask artists of our gallery to give us an insight into their work process. Each time an individual question is answered in one minute.
We visit the artist in his studio, see an exhibition with them or spend time together in another way in order to get to know them a little better.

09/09/2020

Distance 3: Paper
@ Kunst Lager Haas

17/06/2020

tip Berlin English

The world's most prestigious art fair lands in Berlin this week! 32 galleries will open their doors to critics, curators and collectors for #BaselByBerlin — the analogue counterpart to Art Basel's new digital platform — today and tomorrow (17th + 18th June) from 11am to 6pm. ⁠
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A selection of artworks originally intended for Art Basel 2020 will be shown simultaneously in the participating galleries and the Online Viewing Rooms of @artbasel. ⁠
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Galleries taking part include Galerie Thomas Schulte, Barbara Wien, PERES PROJECTS, Esther Schipper, Galerie Michael Haas, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Berlin and Galerie Mehdi Chouakri. 💃⁠
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More info at: www.artbasel.com/events⁠
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📸: Galerie Thomas Schulte / Installation view Idris Khan, Quartet, 2019

11/06/2020

In the first series of our catalogue titled Distance, we delved into the gallery's stock for you, highlighting works primarily from the classical, modern and post-war period.⁠
As we emerge from lockdown and return to a certain normalcy, it is still necessary to keep our distance. ⁠
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With this in mind, in episode two of our catalogue series Distance, we devote ourselves to the present moment by presenting a compilation of works from the 1970s to the present day.⁠
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A selection of these works can be seen in the Galerie Haas and the Kunst Lager Haas.⁠
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Visit our website https://gallerymichaelhaas.com and take a look at the publication. There is a lot to discover!

10/06/2020

Art Basel’s Online Viewing Rooms will open with a VIP Preview from June 17 followed by Public days through June 26 2020.

Photo via Art Basel

10/06/2020

We are delighted to announce our participation in Art Basel’s second iteration of Online Viewing Rooms, a digital platform designed to connect galleries and collectors from around the world.⁠
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Our Viewing Room will feature a variety of different artists, including A.R. Penck, Günther Förg, Victor Vasarely, Ferdinand Hodler, Joan Miró and many more.⁠
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Art Basell’s Online Viewing Rooms will open with a VIP Preview from June 17, 1pm CET to June 19, 1pm CET, followed by public days through June 26, 1pm CET.

06/05/2020

In order to fight the coronavirus pandemic, precautions have been taken to protect the public all over the world. Museums have been closed. Fairs have been cancelled. The Berlin Gallery Weekend as well as the Paper Positions have been postponed until September. Our three exhibitions, which included works by Ernst Wilhelm Nay, Martha Jungwirth and Jakob Mattner, have been put on hold, until further notice.

It is time to take a step back.
However, this does not mean withdrawing from experiencing art. Distancing gives space to think and we have made use of this time to reflect on our inventory. This catalogue “Distance“ is the fruit of this process and now available on our website.

Artists, art historians and friends of the gallery have all contributed to the catalogue. We display paintings from the late 19th century up to the early 1990s, which are available to view at both the Gallery and the Kunst Lager Haas.

16/04/2020

Galerie Michael Haas's cover photo

16/04/2020

Vielen Dank an den Landesverband Berliner Galerien (lvbg) für das Feature!

#zugast bei @galeriemichaelhaas:

Die Galerie Michael Haas wurde 1976 in Berlin gegründet. In monatlich wechselnden Ausstellungen präsentiert das Team rund um Michael Haas Künstlerinnen und Künstler der Klassischen Moderne und der deutschen und internationalen Kunst nach 1945. Außerdem werden zeitgenössische Positionen vorgestellt. Die Galerie Michael Haas nimmt regelmäßig ab internationalen Kunstmessen teil.

Momentan zeigt die Galerie Arbeiten des italienischen Pop Art Künstlers Valerio Adami aus den 1960er Jahren. Ein Besuch der Ausstellungsräume ist nach vorheriger Anmeldung per Telefon oder E-Mail jederzeit möglich.

Während der Zeit des Lock Downs hat die Galerie Michael Haas ihre Künstlerinnen und Künstler gebeten, Einblicke in ihren aktuellen Arbeitsprozess unter der Quarantäne zu gewähren. Unter dem Hashtag #hifromquarantine sind die bisherigen Einsendungen gesammelt. Alle Kunstschaffenden, nicht nur die der Galerie, werden dazu ermutigt sich zu beteiligen und den Hashtag zu verwenden.

Galerie Michael Haas
Niehbuhrstraße 5
10629 Berlin
Öffnungszeiten: nach Vereinbarung

Fotos: Galerie Michael Haas
#galeriemichaelhaas #valerioadami #globalartexhibition #lvbg #berlinergalerien #contemporaryart #exhibition #berlin @ Galerie Michael Haas

31/03/2020

HOLLOW SEED by Nicole Bianchet.

A musical #hifromquarantine

30/03/2020

René Wirths says #hifromquarantine with this studio view:
“I am very happy in these times that it is not my main task to keep a company running so that I can concentrate on my inner sources as an artist.”

25/03/2020

"It is appropriate at this time, an Apocalyptic Madonna…"⁠
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Carolein Smit works on two projects. „A Madonna with child is sitting in the kiln and just this morning I was thinking about a new Madonna with child; but this time both as skeletons, on which the beautiful clothes would look completely different...“
The artist is also working on a lamb, „it does not have a head yet but already has a lot of hair. The working process is very tedious and it will still take some time until it is finished.⁠“

19/02/2020

Valerio Adami
Autosuggestione II, 1964
acrylic on canvas
167 x 206 cm

09/01/2020

Galerie Michael Haas's cover photo

19/12/2019

Our year in 12 pictures. Every month was special and all were exciting and filled with great art. Which exhibition did you like best this year, or what was your favourite moment in our gallery? Let us know in the comments!

30/11/2019

Galerie Michael Haas's cover photo

14/11/2019

'One Minute, One Question' with Dimitris Tzamouranis

Today at 7pm, the festival AthenSYN I will open its doors with the exhibition Athen SYN I - Homemade Exotica, curated by Sotirios Bahtsetzis, at Freiraum in der Box, Boxhagener Str. 96, Berlin Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg. 16 contemporary Greek artists will present their positions and discuss questions that the documenta14 left open to further evaluation.

Among the participating artists will be Dimitris Tzamouranis presenting his Polyptychon Melancholia for the first time in Berlin. A couple of weeks ago we visited the painter in his studio to talk about freedom:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efQRhNjEYgo

'Dimitris Tzamouranis, what does freedom mean to you?' In our column "One Minute, One Question" we ask artists of our gallery to give us an insight into thei...

30/08/2019

It’s almost September, which means not only is the new art season about to begin, but there are many events coming up as well!

In September we will present the ‘Wochenschau’ (Weekly Show) in our temporary space right next to our premises at Niebuhrstraße. We will host weekly changing exhibitions throughout the month. Stay tuned for more information, we are looking forward for what’s to come!

04/07/2019

Do you already follow us on Instagram? Check out @galeriemichaelhaas for daily art, interesting stories, in-depth information about artists and exhibitions, and more!

https://www.instagram.com/galeriemichaelhaas/?hl=en

26/06/2019

Werner Heldt (1904-1954) began as an autodidact. In 1922 he created his first works with scenes from old Berlin and religious themes. From 1925 to 1930 he studied at the Hochschule für die bildenden Künste in Charlottenburg. The motifs typical of his other works already appeared here: city views, window pictures, church towers, firewalls and Berlin houses.⠀
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Werner Heldt⠀
Häusergruppe am Berg (Stadt) (Group of houses on the mountain (town)), 1929⠀
charcoal on hand made paper⠀
48 x 62.8 cm

17/06/2019

Galerie Michael Haas's cover photo

17/06/2019

From Berlin to Basel and around the world, Eva and Adele can be found wherever there’s great art! Art Basel

14/06/2019

Picabia Alert #14: In Basel, Many Sides of the Artist Are on View -

Thanks a lot for the mention ARTnews!

http://www.artnews.com/2019/06/12/picabia-alert-14-art-basel-2019/

The offerings include a bounty of works at the fair and a big-league loan to a local museum. Read More

12/06/2019

50 years later: Markus Lüpertz in front of his painting “Idylle” from 1969 at Art Basel
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Markus Lüpertz
Idylle , 1969
distemper on canvas
275 x 201 cm

11/06/2019

The calm before the storm Art Basel.
Come visit us in hall 2.0, booth F4!

11/06/2019

Kicking off this year’s Art Basel with the traditional Artists Brunch.

Thankful for everyone supporting us every year, like our chief restorer Bodo Buczynski. We are looking forward to an exiting week!

05/06/2019

Konrad Klapheck is one of the icons of the German postwar avant-garde. Shoes, typewriters, sewing machines, or telephones are the motifs of his pictures, for which he is known today. The banal objects often take on human traits, express feelings and create strange associations. They speak of a certain scepticism towards the general technical euphoria of the 1950s, which goes hand in hand with human self-alienation. Contrary to what is often prematurely established, the monumentalized representations do not emerge in the atmosphere of Pop Art. Instead, aspects of New Objectivity and a surrealism that is imprisoned in reality echo. ⠀⠀
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Konrad Klapheck⠀⠀
Das Lächeln der Auguren, 1968⠀⠀
Öl auf Leinwand⠀⠀
68 x 79.5 cm

28/05/2019

What was not really known for a long time: Like his friends Pierre Bonnard and Henri Matisse, Maurice Denis was also fascinated by East Asian art. He was also an important protagonist of the Nabis, and he also had a considerable collection of Japanese woodcuts. For a long time, Far Eastern art exerted a strong influence on Denis's work; from the beginning of the 20th century, all quotations disappeared without a trace; in publications, Denis covered up any significance of Japanese models.⠀⠀
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Maurice Denis⠀⠀
Conversation sacrée (devant la mer, à contre-jour), ca. 1909⠀⠀
oil on canvas⠀⠀
92 x 65.5 cm

27/05/2019

After he had made his way as a clown, tramp, cult founder and alternative practitioner, Friedrich Schröder-Sonnenstern (1892 – 1982) did not really start drawing until he was well over 50 years old. His works, which often focus on bizarre beings between humans and animals, raise questions because they are a colorful, chaotic mixture of banal, everyday and emotional, dreamy, real, and absurd. From his pictures, whose aesthetics are unfamiliar to us, speaks something cheerful, mysterious and abysmal - they are mirrors of an agonizing, searching, emotional life, which above all with a lot of humour has stood up against all norms and social limitations.⠀⠀
Schröder-Sonnenstern is considered one of the most important representatives of Art Brut or Outsider Art.⠀⠀
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Friedrich Schröder-Sonnenstern⠀⠀
DiE MORALiSChE SChWANENBESChWÖRUNG, 1956⠀⠀
crayon and pencil on carton⠀⠀
49 x 70,5 cm

02/05/2019

Leiko Ikemura ⁣⠀
Sansui-ga, 2012⁣⠀
pigment on canvas⁣⠀
160 x 120 cm⁣⠀

22/03/2019

Art Spotlight: Markus Lüpertz (3/3)⁣⠀
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Around 1980 Markus Lüpertz created his first sculptures, whereby painting always had priority. In 1982 he began his work with monumental individual figures, which continues to this day. Lüpertz constantly rethinks classical themes, especially antique sculpture, and appropriates them artistically. While the relative concept of beauty is of central importance for antique sculpture, Lüpertz's injured, almost deformed bodies are a detached, ironic way of dealing with it. And yet, and this is his great achievement, the "grace" (Lüpertz) always remains. Also the mostly very colorful painting of the sculptures contributes elementarily to the detachment from the usual representation. Throughout his œuvre, Lüpertz has repeatedly cast a glance back into the past. Lüpertz's examination of the art of the most diverse authors and epochs, their paraphrasing or persiflage, is an opportunity to enter into a competition and, above all, to create something completely new. The overarching concept of abstraction also plays a role, as does the avoidance of any ambiguity.⁣
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Markus Lüpertz⁣⠀
Odysseus II, 2014⁣⠀
bronze, painted⁣⠀
232 x 86 x 140 cm

21/03/2019

Art Spotlight: Markus Lüpertz (2/3)⁣⠀
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Markus Lüpertz, born in 1941 in Reichenberg in Bohemia, fled with his family to Rheydt in the Rhineland in 1948. He began a five-year course of study at the Werkkunstschule Krefeld at the age of only 15. Study visits to Maria Laach Monastery, Paris and Düsseldorf completed his education. He was expelled from the renowned Düsseldorf Academy on the basis of a "physical confrontation"; he later became the director of the school from 1988 to 2009. ⠀
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After leaving school, Lüpertz began working as a freelance artist and shortly afterwards, in 1962, moved to West Berlin to avoid military service after deserting from the French Foreign Legion. The art scene in Berlin was vibrant at the time, but the outsider Lüpertz did not feel a part of the West Berlin Bohemian lifestyle. In 1964, together with other artists, he founded the temporary artist-run gallery Großgörschen 35 in Berlin-Schöneberg.⁣⠀
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Markus Lüpertz⁣⠀
Hector's Head, 2014⁣⠀
bronze, painted⁣⠀
145 x 92 x 75 cm⁣

20/03/2019

Art Spotlight: Markus Lüpertz (1/3)⁣
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Markus Lüpertz is regarded as one of Germany's internationally acclaimed painting stars. However, his multi-faceted oeuvre includes not only painting, but also sculpture, drawing, graphics, poetry and music. Starting in the 1960s, Lüpertz developed a canon of forms and motifs over decades, mostly based on groups of works, that unmistakably stands for his œuvre. It is pure, free painting, whether on canvas or right up to its transformation into sculpture, that is his central concern. It presents itself as a "Lüpertz Cosmos" in its own right, which gets by completely without the current socio-political reality and finds its content in itself and its history.⁣
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Markus Lüpertz⁣
Aphrodite's Head, 2000⁣
bronze, painted⁣
123 x 54 x 45 cm⁣

18/03/2019

In the early 1950s Eva Aeppli met Jean Tinguely and Daniel Spoerri. Together they travelled to Paris and Aeplli became Tinguely's first wife until she was to give way to Niki de Saint Phalle in 1960, who was a close friend before and even remained one afterwards. Aeppli worked in the environment of the Nouveaux Réalistes around her husband Tinguely, Aman and Yves Klein, without herself belonging to this group. Her run-down studio in the Impasse Ronsin in Paris was close to Constantin's Brâncușis workspace, who she had a love-hate relationship with. Aeppli began her artistic career with charcoal drawings and knitted pictures.⁣⠀
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A joint work by Eva Aeplli and Jean Tinguely can currently be seen in our exhibition Wondrous Worlds at Kunstlager Haas!⁣⠀
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Eva Aeppli⁣⠀
Célestine II - Aspekte Saturn und Venus, 2001⁣⠀
bronze⁣⠀
32 x 18.5 x 23.5 cm⁣

13/03/2019

After the opening is before the opening!⁣⠀
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After the amazing opening night of our group show Wondrous Worlds, reparations for the upcoming Gallery Weekend Berlin are already in full swing. ⁣⠀
Galerie Michael Haas is pleased to present new works by Abraham David Christian on this occasion. Do not miss it!⁣