galerie burster

14/10/2022

Ellen Antico
SHOT#SIX (entangled)
– 15 Oct 2022
at galerie burster Berlin

Ellen Antico’s work is inspired by Renaissance paintings and the work of Rubens; her motives primarily celebrate the female body in all shapes and sizes: Large fleshy figures, entwined with one another, confident with their body and sexuality. Painted with oil and charcoal on canvas, these intimate moments capture the climax of physical and emotional connection between the subjects. The interaction of the creatures in strong dynamic next to each other mirrors our deepest wishes and longings. Even when the subjet seems to be a forgotten one, Ellen Antico’s images act in a contemporary moment following no rules of straight lines as they are dedicated to the most human element – the body.

Ellen Antico (b. 1989 in Sydney, Australia, lives in Berlin) completed her art studies in 2019 at the University of the Art London, UK. Her work has been shown at Every Woman Biennial London, UK, and Weserhalle Berlin, among others.

Photo: Silke Briel

04/10/2022

COMING UP:

Ellen Antico
SHOT#SIX (entangled)
7 – 15 Oct 2022
at galerie burster Berlin

Opening Fri 7 Oct 2022 6 – 9 pm

We are thrilled to announce the sixth edition of SHOT# – a series of short exhibitions that provide a platform for experimental formats. Ellen Antico’s work is inspired by Renaissance paintings and the work of Rubens; her motives primarily celebrate the female body in all shapes and sizes: Large fleshy figures, entwined with one another, confident with their body and sexuality. Painted with oil and charcoal on canvas, these intimate moments capture the climax of physical and emotional connection between the subjects. The interaction of the creatures in strong dynamic next to each other mirrors our deepest wishes and longings. Even when the subjet seems to be a forgotten one, Ellen Antico’s images act in a contemporary moment following no rules of straight lines as they are dedicated to the most human element – the body.

Ellen Antico (b. 1989 in Sydney, Australia, lives in Berlin) completed her art studies in 2019 at the University of the Art London, UK. Her work has been shown at Every Woman Biennial London, UK, and Weserhalle Berlin, among others.

Image: Ellen Antico I hope you don't realise how much I love you 2022 oil, soft pastel, charcoal on canvas 210 x 150 cm

30/09/2022

Alex Feuerstein
Streitende #1
2022
Oil, resin, pigments on wood
133 x 112 cm

Tomorrow, Saturday 1 Oct 2022, will be the last chance to view Feuerstein’s solo show Rauchzeichen at galerie burster Berlin, stop by!

21/09/2022

Alex Feuerstein
Rauchzeichen
— 1 Oct 2022
on view at galerie burster Berlin

We look forward to your visit!

Photo: Silke Brie

14/09/2022

Alex Feuerstein
Rauchzeichen
14 Sept – 1 Oct 2022 | galerie burster Berlin

Opening TONIGHT, 14 Sept 2022, 6 – 9 pm

We are pleased to present Rauchzeichen, Alex Feuerstein's third solo exhibition at galerie burster Berlin. The exhibition shows new figurative motifs and small-format works from Feuerstein's series Vulkan, which combine art-historical references and contemporary perspectives on landscape painting in a strong, earthy colour palette. The compositions in Feuerstein's paintings show abstract scenes that oscillate between fiction and reality. Banal perspectives change into dream-like sequences that are left so wide open and alienated that they can neither be clearly assigned in time nor in space: Is it the sun that shines there or perhaps the moon instead? Are the bizarrely billowing creatures really wisps of smoke? In his collage and camouflage-like compositions, in which subjects and objects, foreground and background seem to merge, Feuerstein invites us to participate in his games of interpretation, which inevitably immerse us in his intimate, bizarre and obstinate world.

Opening hours during Berlin Art Week 14 – 18 Sept 2022: 12 – 6 pm

Image: Alex Feuerstein Badende #3 2022 oil, resin, pigment on wood 122 x 133 cm courtesy galerie burster

19/08/2022

See you in Copenhagen!

We look forward to our participation at Enter Art Fair 25 – 28 Aug 2022 – you’ll find us at booth 73 presenting works by Bram Braam, Maria Schumacher and Gary Schlingheider.

Image:

Maria Schumacher
Tender Nights, 2021
Egg tempera on canvas
150 x 100 cm

13/07/2022

Hannover: 100 Kunst-Performances an 100 Tagen

Simon Pfeffel
100 Days of Performances
on occasion of the Hannes Malte Mahler it is art Award Feinkunst e.V.
in collaboration with Sprengel Museum Hannover

Simon Pfeffel greift mit seinen Aktionen in den Alltag ein, Ausgang ungewiss. Am Kröpcke startet seine erste Performance.

06/07/2022

Christian Bär

always like 2022
Oil on canvas
160 x 120 cm

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compliments 2022
Oil on canvas
160 x 120 cm

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politicans 2021
Oil on canvas
60 x 50 cm

will be on view art KARLSRUHE
7 – 10 July 2022

You will find us in Hall 1 Booth 27 – we look forward to seeing you!

Including works by:

Christian August
Christian Bär
Bram Braam
Alex Feuerstein
Hirofumi Fujiwara
Nina Laaf
Gary Schlingheider
Markus F. Strieder

Sculpture area H1/B28 & outdoor — Gary Schlingheider 10 MULTI PART PIECES

Curated show of graphic prints — Maria Schumacher CASTA DIVA

Bär's works are further on view at his solo show NOWADAYS
at galerie burster Karlsruhe
– 13 August 2022

06/07/2022

art KARLSRUHE
7 – 10 July 2022

You will find us in Hall 1 Booth 27 – we look forward to seeing you!

Including works by:

Christian August
Christian Bär
Bram Braam
Alex Feuerstein
Hirofumi Fujiwara
Nina Laaf
Gary Schlingheider
Markus F. Strieder

Sculpture area H1/B28 & outdoor — Gary Schlingheider 10 MULTI PART PIECES

Curated show of graphic prints — Maria Schumacher CASTA DIVA

Image: Gary Schlingheider 10 MULTI PART PIECES 2021 powder-coated aluminium 380 x 190 x 190 cm ©Matthias Schmalsch

25/06/2022

We’re excited to share some views of our current show:

Hirofumi Fujiwara
Edge of Fantasies
– 16 July 2022
at galerie burster Berlin

Fuijwara's Neutopians are hybrid beings in several senses. They bear references to the Japanese as well as the European-Western cultural sphere, and beyond that they do not allow themselves to be firmly attributions. During the process of creation, memory and serendipity play an important role for Fujiwara. He is inspired by the character traits and attributes of individuals from his personal environment, without, however, striving for a detailed reproduction. Thus, his hybrid beings move between fantasy and concrete moments of memory and are also emblematic of our increasingly present fluid realities, in which memory and future, digital and analog, fake and real merge with each other. Although, or precisely because, as androgynous, ageless-looking human/non-human beings, they defy all stereotypes, his figures, in their peculiarity as a projection surface, act like a reset button that reminds us viewers each time anew of just being. Fujiwara's Neutopians are silent, immanent companions that allow our ever- searching gaze, our mind always focused on impulses and stimuli, to come to rest and remain in the moment.

Hirofumi Fujiwara (*1984 in Hiroshima, Japan) graduated in 2015 as a master student of Prof. Stephan Balkenhol at Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Karlsruhe. He lives and works in Hamburg.

Photo: Cami Lakonic

15/06/2022

OPENING FRIDAY:

Hirofumi Fujiwara
Edge of Fantasies
17 June – 16 July 2022
at galerie burster Berlin

We are pleased to present Edge of Fantasies, Hirofumi Fujiwara's first solo exhibition at galerie burster Berlin. Fujiwara's figures, pre-modeled from clay and cast in plastic, rest within themselves. In contemplative poses, his sculptures, each one unique, stand, sit or lie in space, sometimes surrounded by transparent acrylic glass panes, their gaze directed into the indefinite. The reduced coloring of their skin, hair, and clothing leaves the materiality and physicality of his figures even more attention.

Fuijwara's Neutopians are hybrid beings in several senses. They bear references to the Japanese as well as the European-Western cultural sphere, and beyond that they do not allow themselves to be firmly attributions. During the process of creation, memory and serendipity play an important role for Fujiwara. He is inspired by the character traits and attributes of individuals from his personal environment, without, however, striving for a detailed reproduction. Thus, his hybrid beings move between fantasy and concrete moments of memory and are also emblematic of our increasingly present fluid realities, in which memory and future, digital and analog, fake and real merge with each other.

See you this Friday, 17 June 2022, 6 – 9 pm!

Image: Hirofumi Fujiwara Neutopian (Edge of Fantasies) 2022 plastic, wood 70 x 30 x 40 cm

10/06/2022

CURRENT SHOW:

Benjamin Appel & Carolina Pérez Pallares
SHOT#FIVE (Das Quadrat ist nicht rund genug)
– 11 June 2022
at galerie burster Berlin

Photos: Silke Briel

27/05/2022

The Artist Mwangi Hutter Reflects on the Human Condition

Mwangi Hutter featured in C& Magazine | interview by Leonie Döpper and Theresa Sigmund.

For centuries Black cultural production has been coming out of countries where German is spoken, and it has been as diverse and distinct as the various regions themselves. In this series, we highlight cross-generational artists with strong ties to these geo-cultural territories. This time, the artis

25/05/2022

Maria Schumacher: LINGERING LINES – KubaParis

https://kubaparis.com/maria-schumacher-lingering-lines/ 🖤

galerie burster Berlin is pleased to present LINGERING LINES, the second solo show by Leipzig-based artist Maria Schumacher, which focuses on an investigation of the reciprocal relationship between line and colour. Her latest group of works, which appear as monotypes and paintings, consists of one l...

25/05/2022

Please feel warmly invited to join us for the closing reception & catalogue release of Maria Schumacher's current solo show LINGERING LINES at galerie burster Berlin this week Saturday, 28 May 2022 4 – 9 pm!

We look forward to seeing you.

Portrait Maria Schumacher: Studio kela-mo | KubaParis

21/05/2022

SAVE THE DATE:

Christian Bär
NOWADAYS
28 May – 13 August 2022
at galerie burster Karlsruhe

Opening next week Saturday, 28 May 2022, 6 – 9 pm

We look forward to welcoming you!

For digital natives of the first hour, some of Christian Bär's paintings are likely to evoke a nostalgic longing. Especially those in which strokes – or more precisely: certain stroke patterns – can be seen that are immediately reminiscent of early computer graphics programmes such as Microsoft Paint. The uniqueness of the early digital strokes was that they were unintentionally scribbly, individual lines were interrupted for no reason, indeed they looked like the first attempts at a drawing that would never become one but would remain at the intersection of art and procrastination.

Digital natives stand before a painting like Neo-Cowboy by Christian Bär thus like Caspar David Friedrich's monk in front of the sea: gazing longingly into an expanse believed lost. If the 90s aesthetics of digital line work refers to anything, it is to a time when cyberspace was still unfounded and largely unsettled; when its use still opened up possibilities and utopias and was associated with a democratic hope. — Annekathrin Kohout, 2021

Christian Bär Park 2021 oil on canvas 180 x 120 cm

18/05/2022

WOHNDESIGN Magazin MARIA SCHUMACHER

Maria Schumacher currently featured in WohnDesign magazine.

Her solo show LINGERING LINES is still on view at galerie burster Berlin – 28 May 2022, stop by!

Die Arbeiten der in Bukarest geborenen Künstlerin mit Atelier in Leipzig bewegen sich zwischen abstrakter Malerei und figurativer Abstraktion.

29/04/2022

CURRENT GROUP SHOW:

Don’t miss OOO [Out of Office], a collaboration between

Galerie Judith Andreae
galerie burster
Evelyn Drewes Galerie

– May 1, 2022
at Charlottenstr. 2, 10969 Berlin

Opening hours during Gallery Weekend Berlin:
Friday 29 April, 11 – 9 pm
Saturday 30 April, 11 – 9 pm
Sunday 1 May, 11 – 6 pm and by appointment

Including works by

Volo Bevza
Bram Braam
Lukas Glinkowski
Lev Khesin
Victoria Pidust
Achim Riethmann
Gary Schlingheider
Alexander Schulz
Maria Schumacher

We look forward to seeing you!

Photo: Silke Briel

28/04/2022

CURRENT SHOW:

Maria Schumacher
LINGERING LINES
– 28 May 2022
at galerie burster Berlin

Opening hours during Gallery Weekend Berlin:

Friday 29 April, 11 – 9 pm
Saturday 30 April, 11 – 7 pm
Sunday 1 May, 11 – 6 pm and by appointment

Although she shares her intense preoccupation with the line with abstract modernist painters, Maria Schumacher reverses the role of colour as a subordinate pictorial medium. A relationship of dependence develops between colour and line. The preoccupation with the line became an independent and dominant practice in modernist painting, but Schumacher effects the visibility of the line through coloured surfaces. It is only through the constitution of the spaces in between that the lines themselves take shape. The saturated colour becomes a self-conscious appearance, making the line an object of investigation. The line becomes dependent on the bodies of colour that are supposed to form it. It becomes a negative.

Through the artistic preoccupation with line and colour, she de-hierarchises the properties of the painterly means and places them on an equal footing. Each work evokes an intense subjective experience within us. We experience her monotypes on a material level, which allows us to grasp specific and powerful gestures.

LINGERING LINES means: to echo, to remain, to last. We see lines that are the echo of the colours and their graphic compositions. — Defne Kizilöz

20/04/2022

SAVE THE DATE:

Maria Schumacher
LINGERING LINES
22 April – 28 May 2022
at galerie burster Berlin

Opening this week Friday, 22 April 2022, 6 – 9 pm

We look forward to seeing you!

galerie burster Berlin is pleased to present LINGERING LINES, the second solo show by Leipzig-based artist Maria Schumacher, which focuses on an investigation of the reciprocal relationship between line and colour. Her latest group of works, which appear as monotypes and paintings, consists of one large format and several medium formats. The exploration of the visibility of the hidden, which was part of the theme in her first solo exhibition SYSTEMS OF EVASION at galerie burster Berlin 2020, remains, but is expanded by several components. — Defne Kizilöz

Image: Maria Schumacher All Structures are Unstable 2021 linol ink on paper / canvas 165 x 117 cm