Wentrup is pleased to present the group exhibition "Tell me a Tale" during Berlin’s Gallery Weekend in external rooms close to the gallery.
Taken from the eponymous 2012 track by British singer-songwriter Michael Kiwanuka, Tell me a Tale is the title and concept for the group exhibition, that features a selection of artists whose works depict processes of ‘telling tales’. Over the course of many centuries, artists have created works of art that tell stories –by presenting narratives from personal histories or other people’s lives and experiences; Artists’ have created and presented narrative in many endless ways, contextualizing or decontextualizing already existing material to form his or her own story – even by invention – inviting the viewer to imagine the narrative themselves.
Tell me a Tale demonstrates the many differing processes and notions the selected artists hold in the telling of stories in their art– from a composed clarity in directing the subjective narration; to themes of empowered, personal artistic responses: there are countless viewpoints and countless angles in which stories can (and indeed are) told.
With works by Nevin Aladağ, Natalie Ball, Jerrell Gibbs, Sophie von Hellermann, Caitlin Keogh, Florian Meisenberg, Devan Shimoyama, and Francis Upritchard.
