10 Gallery Weekend Berlin Openings

Berlin Gallery Weekend kicks off with more than 50 galleries and some 1,000 national and international guests. Since it was founded in 2004, the Gallery Weekend has established itself as one of the leading German events for contemporary art as well as the biggest selling event in the local art market. Here are 10 recommended openings exhibitions in Berlin this coming weekend.

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24 Apr, 2013

Valie Export: Bilder der Berührung [Images of Contingence]
at 呕ak Branicka
Berlin, Germany
Apr 26, 13 - Jun 15, 13

呕AK | BRANICKA is delighted to present Bilder der Berührung [Images of Contingence], an exhibition of works by VALIE EXPORT to be shown during the Gallery Weekend Berlin 2013. The exhibition highlights the artist’s groundbreaking expressions of physical contact and its implications in various media, including installation, drawing, photography, film and archival materials. The title of the exhibition is rooted in VALIE EXPORT’s installation work Fragmente der Bilder einer Berührung [Fragments of Images of Contingence] of 1994, in which pole- and wire-hung light bulbs are rhythmically immersed into cylinders filled with milk, used oil, or water. read more...

Paul McDevitt: A Life Without Shame
at Sommer & Kohl
Berlin, Germany
Apr 27, 13 - Jun 07, 13

The exhibition title is a quotation from Adam Smith and pertains to an anxious human desire for novelty and status symbols, to live “a life without shame”. To meet this need we have expanded credit and debt, so in effect these aspirations have been the engine of economic growth. Smith wrote his defining text on global capitalism, The Wealth of Nations, in the Scottish town of Kirkcaldy, where McDevitt has spent some time over the past couple of years. read more...

A Group of Six Artists
at Aanant & Zoo
Berlin, Germany
Apr 26, 13 - Jun 15, 13

works by Luis Camnitzer, Michael Dreyer, Channa Horwitz, Vlado Martek, Max Schaffer, Geerten Verheus read more...

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at Galerie Michael Janssen, Berlin
Berlin, Germany
Apr 27, 13 - Jun 01, 13

On Friday, April 26, Galerie Michael Janssen will be presenting its second exhibition by English artist Rose Wylie (b. 1934) entitled "Works on paper" parallel to her first major solo museum exhibition at Tate Britain. On view is a selection of her drawings, collages and watercolours from the last ten years. read more...

Curt Stenvert
at Galerie Aurel Scheibler
Berlin, Germany
Apr 27, 13 - Jun 22, 13

For Gallery Weekend Berlin, edition 2013, Aurel Scheibler will present Vorstoß ins Niemandsland (Advance into no man’s land), a concentrated group of works by Curt Stenvert (1920 – 1992), which as ‘Gesamtkunstwerk’ strongly evokes the extremely individual, committed and persuasive vein that distinguishes this oeuvre.m. read more...

Maria Lassnig
at Capitain Petzel
Berlin, Germany
Apr 26, 13 - Jun 18, 13

Capitain Petzel is delighted to announce the first solo-exhibition by Maria Lassnig at the gallery in Berlin. Maria Lassnig counts as one of the most important artists of the present and has set new standards for generations of artists in both her subject-matter and her radical presentation of it, in drawing and painting as well as film and video. The artist achieved international recognition through her participation in the 1980 Venice Biennale, the documenta 1982 and the documenta 1997. read more...

Scott Reeder: Paintings of Things
at Kavi Gupta Gallery, Berlin
Berlin, Germany
Apr 27, 13 - Jun 09, 13

Kavi Gupta BERLIN is proud to present "Paintings Of Things," a solo exhibition by American artist Scott Reeder. The exhibition marks reeder's first solo exhibition in the German capital; he will exhibit a selection of his recent pasta paintings alongside two new neon works - "Ancient Jazz" and "Shhhhhhhhh" (both works 2013). read more...

Itten – Klee: Cosmos of Colour
at Martin-Gropius-Bau
Kreuzberg - Berlin, Germany
Apr 25, 13 - Jul 29, 13

Johannes Itten and Paul Klee made their mark in the history of 20th century art with theories of colour that were as important as they were conspicuous. Both proceeded from the assumption that the order of colours was logically structured as a self-contained cosmos. read more...

Alicja Kwade: “Nach Osten“ (Facing East)
at Johann König
Mitte - Berlin, Germany
Apr 27, 13 - May 26, 13

Presented by Johann König, Berlin, Alicja Kwade turns the monumental church space of ST. AGNES into a vast light and sound installation based on the principle of the Foucault Pendulum. On March 31st 1851, French physicist J.B. Léon Foucault suspended a metal bob with a long wire from the dome of the Pantheon in Paris, and let it swing in the air. His aim was to make the crowd of onlookers visualize that the Earth actually spins. read more...