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Sailing with Gregor Hildebrandt
Stern und schwärzliche Fahrt (Wentrup VENEZIA) 21 - 22 Sep 2024 We extend our thanks to everyone who joined Gregor Hildebrandt's sailing event in Venice last weekend. For those unable to attend, we're delighted to share a video of the occasion. The artist created sails from woven audiotapes, which were hoisted on a sailboat. This offered a unique opportunity for a... Read more -
Gregor Hildebrandt – Stern und schwärzliche Fahrt
Wentrup VENEZIA 30 Aug - 19 Oct 2024 Wentrup VENEZIA Wentrup is pleased to present „Stern und schwärzliche Fahrt“ (Star and Blackish Journey), the first solo exhibition of Berlin artist Gregor Hildebrandt at its Venetian location; it is the tenth exhibition in total with the gallery, which is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. In April, Wentrup Venezia opened parallel... Read more -
Thomas Wachholz – Tempo Primo
28 Jun - 24 Aug 2024 Wentrup "Tempo Primo" is Thomas Wachholz's second solo show with WENTRUP. The artist presents shaped canvases in the form of flames. These are painted monochromatically with red phosphorus and subsequently "activated" in a performative act by igniting matches on the surface. Additionally, new bronze sculptures depict enlarged, burnt, and merged matches. Read more -
Nevin Aladağ – Vibrating Images
26 Apr - 22 Jun 2024 Wentrup Nevin Aladağ is presenting her new series of works, 'Vibrating Images,' at WENTRUP. This is her seventh solo exhibition with the gallery. Read more -
Capriccio
19 Apr - 3 Aug 2024 Wentrup VENEZIA We are inaugurating our new venue in Venice featuring the group show 'Capriccio.' The newly renovated space features the works of three female artists — Mary Ramsden, Anastasia Samoylova, and Marion Verboom. Their works engage in a dialogue with Italian artist Enzo Cucchi, a key figure in the historic Italian... Read more -
Jan-Ole Schiemann – Knirsch
14 Mar - 13 Apr 2024 Wentrup Jan-Ole Schiemann's exhibition 'KNIRSCH' is his third solo show at WENTRUP. Following his last fall's institutional solo exhibition at Neue Galerie Gladbeck, it features new paintings that mark an exciting evolution in his most recent series of works. Read more -
Sophie von Hellermann – Monumental
26 Jan - 9 Mar 2024 Wentrup 'Monumental' is a term commonly associated with impressive buildings such as monuments, which serve to commemorate specific individuals or events. However, monuments go beyond their commemorative function and convey overarching messages, often propagating the prevailing ideas of influential figures from specific historical periods. They have a significant socio-political impact, portraying... Read more -
Hicham Berrada – Remains
15 Dec 2023 - 20 Jan 2024 Wentrup Hicham Berrada's work is influenced by his knowledge of natural science. He uses his insight into the complex properties of the materials that make up the realities of life to create fantastic images of potential landscapes. He plays with the laws of nature and reveals to us what is often... Read more -
Sally von Rosen – At Odds
15 Dec 2023 - 20 Jan 2024 Wentrup II Read more -
Marion Verboom – Megaron
27 Oct - 2 Dec 2023 Wentrup Marion Verboom's practice is rooted in an intimate understanding of materials. Navigating through a diverse spectrum from wood to resin, plaster to acetate, and more recently glass, over the years her composite sculptures have marshaled a wide exploration of texture, transparency, resistance and color. The artist’s practice revolves around a... Read more -
Sally Kindberg – Saga
27 Oct - 2 Dec 2023 Wentrup II Wentrup is proud to present 'Saga”, Sally Kindberg’s first exhibition with the gallery. Step into the mesmerizing world, where the canvas becomes an enigmatic tapestry of interconnected tales and unexpected discoveries. Kindberg seamlessly blends intuition and meticulous exploration to breathe life into fragments of found images, sketches, and snapshots. In... Read more -
Phoebe Boswell – Liminal Beach
15 Sep - 21 Oct 2023 Wentrup Wentrup is pleased to present 'Liminal Beach', the first solo exhibition by London-based artist Phoebe Boswell in Germany. Read more -
Axel Geis – Kult und Amore
1 Jul - 2 Sep 2023 Wentrup Wentrup Gallery presents 'Kult und Amore,' the seventh solo exhibition by Berlin-based artist Axel Geis. In his latest paintings, the human figure takes center stage. Geis does not use a systematic approach to selecting motifs, instead appearing to choose them randomly, without consideration of their artistic or film-historical value. The... Read more -
Britta Thie – Scene
28 Apr - 10 Jun 2023 Wentrup Wentrup ist pleased to present Britta Thie's first solo exhibition at the gallery. Britta Thie’s “Scene” is a study of repetition and reproduction, emotional and mechanical. Paintings of lights, rigs, and gear that inhabit the sidelines of film sets form character studies for a universe in which the machinery has... Read more -
Anastasia Samoylova & Olaf Metzel
31 Mar - 10 Jun 2023 Wentrup am Feenteich We are pleased to announce a double exhibition by photographer Anastasia Samoylova and sculptor Olaf Metzel. In their works, both Samoylova and Metzel negotiate current political issues and provoke reflection on socio-cultural questions. Read more -
John McAllister – sometimes symphony clatter calm
3 Mar - 15 Apr 2023 Wentrup “Sometimes symphony clatter calm”, the title of John McAllister’s third solo exhibition at Wentrup, is a portal channeling this energetic feeling. As viewers we find ourselves in front of landscapes in near-psychedelic tonalities. Our eyes wander over violet mountains sloping gently downward, meeting orange-chartreuse fields that burst with impressionistic punctuations... Read more -
PAPIER.SALON III – Feenteich Edition
21 Jan - 5 Feb 2023 Wentrup am Feenteich Wentrup is excited to present Papiersalon in the gallery at Feenteich for the first time. On view are works by Phoebe Boswell, Jenny Brosinski, André Butzer, Axel Geis, Karl Haendel, Bettina Krieg, A. R. Penck, Grit Richter, Jan-Ole Schiemann, and Grace Weaver. Read more -
Jenny Brosinski – As Long as I Get Somewhere
28 Oct - 3 Dec 2022 Wentrup II, Wentrup WENTRUP is pleased to present 'As Long as I Get Somewhere,' the first solo exhibition by Jenny Brosinski in both gallery spaces. Jenny Brosinski’s paintings negotiate relationships to emptiness. They know that like silence, blankness can be deafening, but can also open up into something expansive, approximating freedom. Brosinski works... Read more -
Jan-Ole Schiemann – By Golly!
17 Sep - 22 Oct 2022 Wentrup II WENTRUP is pleased to present Jan-Ole Schiemann's second solo exhibition 'By Golly!', at the gallery. Read more -
Karl Haendel – Praise Berlin
17 Sep - 22 Oct 2022 Wentrup WENTRUP is pleased to present 'Praise Berlin,' our third solo exhibition with Los Angeles based artist Karl Haendel. This new body of work focuses on contemporary religious diversity and practice in Berlin and is following the project “Praise New York” which took place in spring at Mitchell-Innes & Nash Gallery... Read more -
Vierte Hängung
27 Aug - 26 Nov 2022 Wentrup am Feenteich We are pleased to present the forth group exhibition at WENTRUP am Feenteich, featuring works by Nevin Aladag, Hicham Berrada, Miriam Böhm, Jenny Brosinski, Gregor Hildebrandt, Wyatt Kahn, and Britta Thie. Read more -
New Forms of Portrait
27 Aug - 26 Nov 2022 Wentrup am Feenteich The group exhibition 'New Forms of Portrait' showcases artists Shannon Bono, Phoebe Boswell, Mary Ramsden, and Zanele Muholi. These artists share a common approach: they capture the essence of their subjects, offering viewers a glimpse into deeply personal worlds. Read more -
Sophie von Hellermann – Von kommenden Dingen
22 Jul - 3 Sep 2022 Wentrup WENTRUP is pleased to present 'From Things to Come,' our second solo exhibition with the German-British artist Sophie von Hellermann. This new body of work is inspired by the life and writing of the German liberal politician, writer, and industrialist Walther Rathenau. Alongside this gallery exhibition, von Hellermann has created... Read more -
Mary Ramsden – For newness of the night
10 Jun - 16 Jul 2022 Wentrup Mary Ramsden has become primarily known for her abstract paintings, from which her latest works are markedly different. In an experimentally abstract way, Ramsden creates spaces that spring from her memory - sometimes with thick brushstrokes and areas of paint, sometimes in a sketchy manner, and in this way develops... Read more -
Gerold Miller
29 Apr - 4 Jun 2022 Wentrup In his first solo exhibition at Wentrup, Berlin-based artist Gerold Miller shows new works from various work series. The enactment of art as place and reality plays a vital role in the artist's oeuvre. It is about the viewer's perspective on himself and how he locates himself in space in... Read more -
Dritte Hängung
26 Mar - 14 Aug 2022 Wentrup am Feenteich Wentrup is pleased to present the third group exhibition at WENTRUP am Feenteich, featuring works by Nevin Aladag, Jenny Brosinski, Anna Fasshauer, Günther Förg, Gregor Hildebrandt, Olaf Metzel, Gerold Miller, Peles Empire, Mary Ramsden, David Renggli, Pamela Rosenkranz, and Britta Thie. Read more -
Gregor Hildebrandt – Ein Wimpernschlag und hinter uns die Stunden
24 Feb - 14 Apr 2022 Wentrup II, Wentrup Read more -
David Renggli & Thomas Wachholz – Let's Get Lit
6 Nov 2021 - 7 Jan 2022 Wentrup II, Wentrup “Let’s Get Lit” is the second part of the double exhibition of new works by David Renggli (*1974, lives in Zurich) and Thomas Wachholz (*1984, lives in Cologne), organized in collaboration with Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles. Read more -
Zweite Hängung
1 Nov 2021 - 28 Jan 2022 Wentrup am Feenteich WENTRUP is pleased to present the second Group-Exhibition at WENTRUP am Feenteich with works by Hicham Berrada, Jenny Brosinski, Mariechen Danz, Axel Geis, Karl Haendel, Gregor Hildebrandt, Peles Empire, Mary Ramsden, and Sophie von Hellermann. Read more -
Mary Ramsden – Blunt Instrument
15 Sep - 16 Oct 2021 Wentrup II In March 2020, Mary Ramsden (b. 1984, based in London) began a new series of abstract portraits. These were motivated by the impressions of the first lockdown in the context of the Corona Pandemic. The lack of proximity to the people around her and the only ‘fragmentary’ communication via video... Read more -
Nevin Aladag – Body Instruments
10 Sep - 16 Oct 2021 Wentrup WENTRUP is pleased to present Nevin Aladağ’s fifth solo show at the gallery. An unexpected appearance of sound is characteristic of Nevin Aladağ’s works. In the current exhibition, everyday situations are put to the test for their sonorous potential. Read more -
Wentrup am Feenteich
22 Aug - 31 Oct 2021 Wentrup am Feenteich Housed in a three-storey mansion with an outdoor sculpture garden, Wentrup am Feenteich will be a unique destination for art collectors, professionals and enthusiasts from across the world that fosters interdisciplinary exchange and dialogue in a sophisticated yet welcoming setting. On view are works by Nevin Aladag, Thomas Grünfeld, Gregor... Read more -
Axel Geis – Grace, beauty, and seduction (with many modern details)
7 Aug - 4 Sep 2021 Wentrup The overarching theme in Axel Geis oeuvre is painting. Painting not only as a medium but primarily in the form of the technique, i.e., the application of wet colors by brush on a painting surface in all its possibilities. The artist is especially interested in the – almost unconscious –... Read more -
Natalie Ball – Deer Woman gets enrolled on October 30, 2013
21 May - 23 Jul 2021 Wentrup Read more -
Abstrakt
28 Apr - 15 May 2021 Wentrup Wentrup is pleased to present the group exhibition ABSTRAKT during Berlin’s Gallery Weekend. The group exhibition ABSTRAKT is featuring nine artists, whose works offer different approaches to abstraction. The formal qualities of abstract artworks are significant not in themselves but as part of the work’s expressive message. Artists work by... Read more -
Miriam Böhm – e e e B n n N n
5 Mar - 17 Apr 2021 Wentrup Wentrup is pleased to present the third solo exhibition of Berlin-based photographer Miriam Böhm at the gallery. Read more -
Olaf Metzel – Berliner Kindheit
12 Dec 2020 - 27 Feb 2021 Wentrup Wentrup is pleased to present the forth solo exhibition of Munich based sculptor Olaf Metzel (*1952 in Berlin, Germany) in the gallery. Read more -
John McAllister – adrift gleaming serenest rustling air
23 Oct - 5 Dec 2020 Wentrup Read more -
Jan-Ole Schiemann – Mantis Mannequins
9 Sep - 17 Oct 2020 Wentrup On the occasion of this year’s Gallery Weekend Berlin, Wentrup is pleased to present the first solo show by Jan-Ole Schiemann at the gallery: Mantis Mannequins. Based on a visual vocabulary of complex forms and surreal body fragments, Jan-Ole Schiemann’s works oscillate between abstract painting and anthropomorphic figuration. His pictorial... Read more -
Tell Me a Tale
9 - 13 Sep 2020 Wentrup II 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... Read more -
David Renggli – SUV Paintings
24 Jul - 29 Aug 2020 Wentrup Wentrup is pleased to present the sixth solo show by the Swiss artist David Renggli at the gallery. Under the title SUV Paintings, the artist shows his eponymous latest series of paintings that was just presented to the public for the first time at the museum Villa Merkel in Esslingen. Read more -
Zoom In Zoom Out
7 May - 18 Jul 2020 Wentrup Nevin Aladag, Hicham Berrada, Miriam Böhm, Louisa Clement, Mariechen Danz, Axel Geis, Thomas Grünfeld, Karl Haendel, Gregor Hildebrandt, John McAllister, Florian Meisenberg, Olaf Metzel, Peles Empire, David Renggli, Wawrzyniec Tokarski, Sophie von Hellermann, Read more -
Gregor Hildebrandt – Fliegen weit vom Ufer fort
6 Mar - 25 Apr 2020 Wentrup Fliegen weit vom Ufer fort, the title of Gregor Hildebrandt’s eighth solo show at Wentrup, is a line from the rather moving sailor’s song Die großen weißen Vögel that Ingrid Carven sang in 1979. The celebrated German actress, chanson singer, diseuse, and diva sings in her distinctive voice with its... Read more -
Hicham Berrada – Enclosed Natures
19 Dec 2019 - 25 Jan 2020 Wentrup To have shapes and forms emerge and appear instead of exhibiting them – that is the principle of Enclosed Natures, Hicham Berrada’s second solo show at Wentrup. We get to see activated nature in a studio state: shapes that are not represented, but generated. Read more -
Thomas Gründfeld – jene
26 Oct - 7 Dec 2019 Wentrup Wentrup is pleased to announce the inaugural exhibition at the gallery of Cologne-based artist Thomas Grünfeld. The artists' sculptural oeuvre is characterized by the use of unusual materials and a complexity rich in allusions and references. Since 2004, Grünfeld has been professor of sculpture at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. For the exhibition,... Read more -
Sophie von Hellermann – Swirls and Circles
10 Sep - 19 Oct 2019 Wentrup Wentrup is pleased to present the first exhibition from Sophie von Hellermann in the gallery. Under the title Swirls and Circles the artist is showing new paintings. Sophie von Hellermann (born 1975 in Munich) lives and works in London and Margate. Read more -
Florian Meisenberg & David Renggli
27 Apr - 7 Jun 2019 Wentrup For Gallery Weekend Berlin 2019 Wentrup presents a duo show of New York-based artist Florian Meisenberg (born 1980 in Berlin) and Zurich-based artist David Renngli (born in 1974 in Zurich) in the new gallery space in Berlin Charlottenburg. The background is brought to the fore, the foundation of all paintings... Read more -
Olaf Metzel
16 Mar - 13 Apr 2019 Wentrup Galerie Wentrup is pleased to inaugurate its new gallery space in Berlin-Charlottenburg with an exhibition of works by the sculptor Olaf Metzel. The gallery has moved to a listed brick building, constructed in 1928 in the style of New Objectivity; the space was formerly occupied by the post office. Read more -
Karl Haendel – Doppelgänger
17 Nov - 22 Dec 2018 Wentrup Wentrup Gallery is pleased to present Karl Haendel’s second solo exhibition with the gallery, titled Doppelgänger, opening on November 16, 2018. Since the start of his career Haendel (b.1976) has used drawing to discover connections between seemingly disparate nodes of cultural data, drawing attention to the overlaps between the social,... Read more -
Gregor Hildebrandt – Ein Zimmer im Raum
15 Sep - 3 Nov 2018 Wentrup Galerie Wentrup is pleased to present Ein Zimmer im Raum, its 7th solo show by Gregor Hildebrandt (born 1974 in Bad Homburg, Germany), who lives and works in Berlin and also teaches as professor of painting at Munich’s Akademie der Künste. His minimalist oeuvre, which Galerie Wentrup has been presenting... Read more -
Mariechen Danz – Ore Oral Orientation
23 Jun - 28 Jul 2018 Wentrup Wentrup is pleased to present the first solo exhibition by Mariechen Danz at the gallery. With sculptures, drawings, costumes and installations, Danz examines the history of knowledge transfer, placing the body and language at the center of her process-based practice. Read more -
Nevin Aladag – Muster
28 Apr - 16 Jun 2018 Wentrup Read more -
Louisa Clement – Fractures
27 Apr - 28 Jul 2018 WNTRP At this year’s Gallery Weekend Berlin, WNTRP presents a collaboration between Louisa Clement & Studio Miessen. Read more -
PAPIER.SALON
16 Jan - 23 Feb 2018 Wentrup The group exhibition Papier.Salon. combines a selected variety of drawings with modern furniture, featuring works by Sol Calero, Jean Cocteau, William Copley, Mariechen Danz, Peter Doig, Marcel van Eeden, Debo Eilers, Günther Förg, Tim Gardner, Axel Geis, George Grosz, Karl Haendel, Lothar Hempel, Gregor Hildebrandt, Alex Katz, Martin Kippenberger, and... Read more -
David Renggli – Mullholland Melody
7 Nov - 22 Dec 2017 Wentrup WENTRUP is pleased to present David Renggli’s fourth solo exhibition at the gallery. The artist is showing new sculptures and paintings. Read more -
Late Checkout (West Berlin)
4 Nov - 22 Dec 2017 WNTRP WNTRP is pleased to present the first collaborative exhibition of Anna K.E. and Florian Meisenberg in Berlin: Late Checkout (West Berlin). The six video works of the series Late Checkout are presented in a site-specific installation. The two artists started collaborating when they traveled together, working in the waiting spaces... Read more -
Louisa Clement – Des Tänzers Weg der Seele
16 Sep - 28 Oct 2017 Wentrup In her first solo show at WENTRUP, Louisa Clement is showing the new series Gliedermenschen. In 27 large-format photographs, we see sections of black manikins before a dark background, their screws and joints in shining gold. Some manikins have their arms folded, others assume anatomically impossible poses, and over time,... Read more -
Debo Eilers – No pushing, no stealing
16 Sep - 28 Oct 2017 WNTRP WNTRP is pleased to present 'No pushing, no stealing,' a solo exhibition by Debo Eilers. Debo Eilers (born 1974 in Texas) lives and works in New York. In addition to his solo work, Eilers involves artists and others as collaborators in joint projects (e.g. Nic Xedro 2006-2009, Professor Eilers 2009-2012).... Read more -
L’été plus vaste que l'empire
1 Jul - 5 Aug 2017 Wentrup Björn Braun, Günther Förg, Mary Heilmann, Gregor Hildebrandt, Barbara Kasten, Friedrich Kunath, John McAllister, Florian Meisenberg, Oliver Osborne, David Renggli, Daniel Richter, Kathleen Ryan, Wilhelm Sasnal, Kathrin Sonntag, He Xiangyu 'The Summer vaster than the Empire hangs over the tables of space several terraces of climate. The earth huge on... Read more -
Olaf Metzel – Plattenbau
29 Apr - 17 Jun 2017 Wentrup Olaf Metzel’s second solo exhibition in the Wentrup gallery presents new works under the title Plattenbau [prefabricated apartment building usually made of concrete slabs]. For Metzel, the “Platte” (‘pre-fab’; literally: slab) is not only an architectural construction practice and material culture of the former East Bloc, but also a promise... Read more -
Zanele Muholi – Somnyama Ngonyama
28 Apr - 17 Jun 2017 WNTRP Zanele Muholi sees her artistic practice as “visual activism”, thereby ascribing to her images explicit and causal power to effect change. She has become known worldwide with Faces and Phases, her portrait photography of South Africa’s LGBTI scene. Faces and Phases has been prominently featured in venues such as the... Read more -
Miriam Böhm – wie fast
18 Feb - 13 Apr 2017 WNTRP WNTRP is pleased to present 'wie fast', the first solo exhibition by photographer and cunceptual artist Miriam Böhm. Read more -
John McAllister – Chorus Clamors Sultry
29 Oct - 31 Dec 2016 Wentrup Within John McAllister's canvases we find bushes, trees, leaves and grasses in motifs reflective of the California vegetation which form the origin of his work. His color palette features a certain peculiarity: heaven and earth are kept in dark violet and blue, the flower stems, petals, and tree trunks in... Read more -
Hicham Berrada – Les Fleurs
17 Sep - 30 Oct 2016 WNTRP Hicham Berrada's videos, installations and objects often make the phenomena of nature as their own, or they form processes from natural scientific experiments. Berrada imitates, in the spaces he designs, conditions of nature and then moves them from their original context into the exhibition space. The conceptual art strategy of... Read more -
Florian Meisenberg – Um, nice guy, good hospitality, but.. y'know (...)
10 Sep - 19 Oct 2016 Wentrup Florian Meisenberg's paintings often function as membranes or portals. His canvases and videos are thresholds between analog worldliness on the one hand, and conduits that facilitate transmission and exchange of the here and now through virtual simulations on the other. In his third solo exhibition with WENTRUP, Meisenberg shows new... Read more -
Peles Empire – 1 Eye 2 Eyes
30 Apr - 16 Jun 2016 Wentrup For their second solo show at WENTRUP, Peles Empire has designed a large-scale installation which is based on their many years of exploring the relationship between original and copy, and whose concrete starting point is the ensemble of spaces in the gallery on Tempelhofer Ufer. Strategies of optical flattening out... Read more -
Karl Haendel – Unwinding Unboxing, Unbending Uncocking
27 Feb - 16 Apr 2016 Wentrup Karl Haendel’s figures bend their arms and legs, curl and uncurl their backs, tense muscles and stretch resistance bands, sitting, lying down or standing. His new life-size graphite drawings show young people in training outfits, midriffs often exposed, and, apropos the medium, in black and white. Haendel’s drawing is meticulous... Read more -
Hicham Berrada – Caverne
30 Oct 2015 - 16 Jan 2016 Wentrup Read more -
Why we expect more from technology and less from each other
11 Sep - 21 Oct 2015 Wentrup The exhibition’s title references the book by the American sociologist and MIT professor Sherry Turkle: “Alone together. Why we expect more from technology and less from each other” (Basic Books, 2011). At WENTRUP, works by the artists Verena Dengler, Florian Meisenberg, David Renggli and Gabriele de Santis address various aspects... Read more -
Nevin Aladag – Traces
6 Jun - 30 Jul 2015 Wentrup Traces, Nevin Aladag’s latest solo show at WENTRUP, is named for her new 3-channel video work, which is also on view concurrently at the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart. On three separate projection surfaces, Aladag creates a large-scale sound-and-image portrait of the city of Stuttgart. Here we encounter, for instance, an accordion that... Read more -
Gregor Hildebrandt – Auf Wasser schlafend rauscht das Meer
2 - 30 May 2015 Wentrup A full-length dressing room mirror as a portal to Hades. Orpheus touches the mirror’s surface. Concentric circles ripple out from his finger, the glass liquefies, and he slips through a quicksilver sea to the other side. Jean Cocteau adapted the tale of Orpheus, the tragic bard from Greek mythology who... Read more -
Miriam Böhm – ON AT
9 Mar - 18 Apr 2015 Wentrup When is a photograph a photograph? Isn’t a sun-bleached patch of lawn actually also the result of a photographic process? When does a photo transpire? When a lens has opened and shut? Or at the moment an image first materializes in the developer? Possible ways of defining what a photo... Read more -
Accrochage
31 - 26 Jan 2015 Wentrup Read more -
Peles Empire – DUO
28 Nov 2014 - 17 Jan 2015 Wentrup Read more -
Hicham Berrada & Felix Kiessling – Equilibres / Ausgleich
28 Oct - 21 Nov 2014 Wentrup This exhibition is an ode to the poetry of our everyday lives, an invitation to go back to the substance. A moment of pause, to focus on our senses, and let our brain slow down and stop focusing on discourses and extra ordinary events so that we can finally observe... Read more -
Cevdet Erek – jahrundtagundtag
18 Sep - 18 Oct 2014 Read more -
Timm Ulrichs – 8 ½ Meisterwerke
8 Sep - 18 Oct 2014 Wentrup Timm Ulrich’s solo exhibition brings together works of the last five decades that deal with fathoming and measuring, that call numbers into question, and that highlight addition, filling after emptying and displacing as artistic strategies. As such Ulrichs chisels a through out of block of sandstone to fill it with... Read more -
Axel Geis – Chandelier
28 Jun - 2 Aug 2014 Wentrup The approach is at once both personal and richly referential. First Axel Geis photographs his own chandelier from seven different angles, then he creates paintings based on the photos — all at the same time and under the time pressure that he finds productive for his work (“otherwise it becomes... Read more -
Florian Meisenberg – Somewhere sideways, down, at an angle, but very close
3 May - 21 Jun 2014 Wentrup Just below the ceiling of the exhibition space, printers spit out sheets of paper at irregular intervals. They fall down before walls with a white-and-gray grid, whose pattern is based on Photoshop’s transparency grid. Florian Meisenberg invited friends, artists, authors, and curators to send tweets and posts to these printers... Read more -
Olaf Metzel – Gelbes Mauerstück
11 Mar - 19 Apr 2014 Wentrup Read more -
Zanele Muholi's selected "Faces & Phases" and "Beulahs"
21 Jan - 28 Feb 2014 Wentrup “We live in fear,” Muholi said. “And what are we doing about it? You have to document. You are forced to document.” Art as a means to effect political and social change constantly raises the question as to what role the artist can play. Zanele Muholi is a South African... Read more -
David Renggli – Two Melons and 1 Banana
5 Nov 2013 - 11 Jan 2014 Wentrup We are pleased to announce the exhibition Two Melons and 1 Banana with David Renggli, which will open on 2 November at the gallery. The artist presents an expansive installation – from a work cycle comprising 2000 paper works by now – which previously has been shown at Museum Bellpark... Read more -
Gregor Hildebrandt – In Jade stände eine Stadt
17 Sep - 17 Oct 2013 Wentrup Read more -
Wawrzyniec Tokarski – In Regress
21 Jun - 26 Jul 2013 Wentrup We are pleased to announce the exhibition In Regress by Wawrzyniec Tokarski, which will open at the gallery on 21 June. Tokarski is showing new works on muslin, fabric, and PVC, where he assembles individual pieces into a picture, or what he calls a virtual picture. The works selected for... Read more -
Nevin Aladag – Session
26 Apr - 8 Jun 2013 Wentrup We are pleased to announce the exhibition „Session“ with Nevin Aladağ, which will open on 26 April at Wentrup as part of Gallery Weekend Berlin. The artist will show works in the media sculpture, photography, and film. All works address the social structure of society and the interpreting gaze of... Read more -
Timm Ulrichs
15 Sep - 31 Oct 2012 Wentrup Read more -
David Renggli – Drums, please!
27 Apr - 8 Jun 2012 Wentrup We are pleased to announce the exhibition ‘Drums, Please!’ with works by David Renggli, which will open on 27 April for the Gallery Weekend. The exhibition brings together two areas of David Renggli’s oeuvre: painting and sculpture. Read more -
Florian Meisenberg – MAGIC MOMENTS of homeopathy vol 2 (the drama of creative man)
16 Mar - 20 Apr 2012 Wentrup First of all, we look into a lot of pretty grotesque faces. But soon we see some pastel patchwork rugs here, some grease spots there, left by the oil paint on the untreated canvas, from which now arms, legs, and heads seem to grow; elsewhere, thin strips of paint, squeezed... Read more -
Matthew Hale – The Welcome Stranger
10 Feb - 7 Mar 2012 Wentrup THE WELCOME STRANGER: a, b, c. a) ‘Between the ages of 3 ½ and 6 ½ I lived with my mother and sister in a small village in England called Kimpton. It was there that I first went to Kindergarten and then on to School; it was the place where... Read more -
Snapshots of a Generation
18 Nov - 30 Dec 2011 Wentrup Angela Strassheim, Hannah Starkey, Mohamed Bourouissa, Ryan McGinley, Anna Gaskell, Zanele Muholi The exhibition Snapshots of a Generation aims to show various photographers who choose their generation as the subject of their photographs. In the work of Ryan McGinley, Anna Gaskell, Hannah Starkey, and Angela Strassheim, timeless, almost dream-like sequences... Read more -
Nevin Aladag – Pattern Matching
13 Nov - 22 Dec 2011 Wentrup Read more -
Gregor Hildebrandt – Für kommende Morgen
8 Oct - 12 Nov 2011 Wentrup We are pleased to announce the exhibition FÜR KOMMENDE MORGEN with Gregor Hildebrandt, which will open at the gallery on 7 October. This solo exhibition, Hildebrandt’s fourth at the gallery, makes above all an artistic statement. The spatial installation brings together two fields of Hildebrandt’s extensive oeuvre: painting and installation. Read more -
Nevin Aladag – Rallye
3 Sep - 1 Oct 2011 Wentrup Read more -
Miriam Böhm – Display
30 Apr - 16 Jun 2011 Wentrup Read more -
Axel Geis – L'infinito
22 Mar - 20 Apr 2011 Wentrup Read more -
Wawrzyniec Tokarski – The Advantage of the Unfortunate
10 Sep - 30 Oct 2010 Wentrup Read more -
Timm Ulrichs – Den Blitz auf sich lenken
11 Jun - 11 Jul 2010 Wentrup Read more -
Matthew Hale – Wacht Schatz
30 Apr - 5 Jun 2010 Wentrup Read more -
Crosstown Traffic
12 Feb - 10 Apr 2010 Wentrup A group show featuring Cristian Andersen, David Renggli, Amanda Ross-Ho, Ed Ruscha, Kaz Oshiro, Ken Price, Lothar Hempel, Richard Artschwager, Steven Shearer. Read more -
Axel Geis – Die Wildgänse kommen
14 Nov - 23 Dec 2009 Wentrup Read more -
David Renggli – Dichte Fichten Dichten Dich
25 Sep - 17 Nov 2009 Wentrup Read more -
Gregor Hildebrandt – Dass dieser Mai nie ende
1 Apr - 13 May 2009 Wentrup Read more -
BERLIN – PARIS
9 - 31 Jan 2009 Wentrup As part of Paris-Berlin, the Gallery kamel mennour presents 5 of their artists at the Jan Wentrup Gallery: Camille Henrot, Claude Lévêque, Marie Bovo, Pierre Malphettes, Christine Rebet Read more -
Reinvented: Study & Play
21 Nov - 31 Dec 2008 Wentrup With works by Cristian Andersen, Nathan Carter, Philippe Decrauzat, Gregor Hildebrandt, Ian Kiaer, Germaine Kruip, Alicja Kwade, Scott Myles, and John Tremblay. Read more -
Thomas Kiesewetter
3 May - 14 Jun 2008 Wentrup Read more -
Wawrzyniec Tokarski – bitteschoen
25 May - 24 Jun 2007 Wentrup Read more -
Gregor Hildebrandt – Dunkle Fahrt zu hellem Tag
10 - 20 Mar 2007 Wentrup Read more -
Axel Geis – Modena
24 Oct - 23 Nov 2006 Wentrup We take pleasure in announcing the second exhibition of works by Axel Geis at Galerie Jan Wentrup, which will open on September 30, 2006. On this occasion, the first catalog about the artist will be published.
Since his first exhibition at the end of 2004, Geis has been able to establish himself successfully, and his paintings have attracted considerable art-critical attention. His works are today not only in important international private collections, but also in the public collections of the Saarland Museum in Saarbrücken and the Kunsthalle Mannheim. Furthermore, until October 22, the Kunsthalle Mannheim is also hosting a special exhibition of Geis’ works as part of the show Full House—Gesichter einer Sammlung.
In November, paintings by Geis will be on view at Fondazione Mudime in Milano. In his oil paintings, Axel Geis (born 1970) addresses the human figure. In undefined or only sparingly equipped visual spaces, these figures have a presence that is difficult to determine. His paintings are characterized by an atmosphere somewhere between familiar and strange. The portraits of individual people or, recently, also groups of people, seem strangely removed or, when they look directly at the beholder, focused only on themselves.
In the catalog, the Berlin art historian Sven Beckstette writes: „Obviously, for Geis the human figure is at the centre of his work. But the point for him is not copying a model. The pictures are always painted on the basis of reproductions. Apart from family photographs or photographs staged by himself, it is also film stills that can serve as a point of departure for the paintings. A systematic procedure behind the selection of what is to be painted cannot be assumed. Geis, for example, does not search through a filmic canon or specific genres, rather, his subjects are based on accidental finds, without any attention to their artistic or film historical value. [...]
So even if Geis takes film images as points of departure for some of his paintings, he nonetheless does not belong to those artists who since the 1970s have been working on topics related to the cinema, its aesthetics and mechanisms. Star cult, optics, production methods, and the iconography of film do not interest him, that much is certain. The images of the cinema offer the immediate occasion for the painting, but are not a reason for an intense engagement with the cinema itself. If we look more closely at Geis’ treatment of his models, regardless of whether they come from films or photographs, then it becomes clear that through the transfer into painting a process of abstraction takes place in which the sources are disguised.“ Read more -
Gregor Hildebrandt – Von den Steinen zu den Sternen
24 Jun - 27 Jul 2006 Wentrup The art of Gregor Hildebrandt (born 1974) can best be described by the concept of
conceptual image creation, although this too opens up a conceptual pigeonhole
in which the artist is difficult to categorize.
Since 1999, Gregor Hildebrandt has been working with cassette tape and since 2003 with
video tape as his preferred material. In closely adjacent strips, canvases are
completely or partially covered, paper works and sculptures are created, or even
entire house walls and rooms are draped. The coated surface of the tapes
creates a reflection of light and the surrounding space, which never makes the image
appear the same. The austerity of Hildebrandt's works only seemingly evokes
associations with formal reductions known since the 1960s. The minimal in Hildebrandt's work never appears value-free, but is instead poetically charged. In the painting "The Carny N.C. (San Michele)" (274 x 447 cm, 2004), for example, the silhouette of the cemetery island San Michele of Venice is outlined in the lower third. While in this area the raw canvas is visible and the island with surrounding water is imagined, Hildebrandt has covered the upper part of the sky completely with cassette tape. The tape here, as always in the works of Gregor Hildebrandt, is not merely a material, but also a carrier of meaning insofar as the tapes are always carriers of music. In this case, it is the song "The Carny" by the Australian singer Nick Cave. The immateriality of the music intertwines in its meaning with the subject of the canvas painting.
The conceptual in Hildebrandt's work is evident precisely in this questioning of visibility. The idea takes the place of concrete realization, of pure illustration.
The viewer is no longer fixed on mere perception, but finds themselves challenged to reflect on the open form according to their own ideas. This individual appropriation in Hildebrandt's work, however, never leads to a dissolution of the materiality of the work, but ties it back to the form of the panel painting. Read more -
Axel Geis – Die Übergabe
19 Nov 2004 - 8 Jan 2005 Wentrup In his oil-paintings of small and medium format Axel Geis (born 1970) deals with the human figure in a constantly undefined and entirely pictorial space. Because of this, the figure gets a presence difficult to characterize. The paintings are accompanied by a silence tipping between intimacy and strangeness. The people shown in entire or half-figure portraits seem to be in a state of rapture and even if they are looking at the viewer they always remain introspective.
Figurative painting, which makes use of magazine pictures, is in opposition to the concept of using a private, intimate pictorial repertoire. Family slides and fotos serve as models for Geis’ work in many cases. A man in an army-parka is the artist’s father during his military service as a mountain infantryman, a clown in a harlequin cotume is his brother dressed up for carnival in the early 1970’s. Due to their missing pictorial context the people shown surpass the private sphere and reach a more general view of humaninty. In his works, closely related to traditional painting, Axel Geis continues the genre of portraiture and its interelationship of inside and outside.
Geis turns to the individual’s role in contemporary art. The painted figure and its face get caught up in the maelstrom of a imbalanced perception - reason for Baudrillard to talk about the “fraktale Subjekt”. Besides figures, which refer to photographic models, the artist also shows invented figures. These paintings emphazise less the portrait’s role as physionomical and psychological image, but turn to the perception, function and individuality of pictures in a basic, fundamental way. Read more