Capitain Petzel, Karl-Marx-Allee 45, 10178 Berlin
The second solo exhibition by Sarah Morris at Capitain Petzel, Berlin, Cloak and Dagger, sees a new and recent films and paintings examine the fictional, internal and external architectural landscape inhabited by Fritz Lang who directed the film noir classic, Cloak and Dagger, from which the exhibition gets its title.
Sprüth Magers, Oranienburger Straße 18, 10178 Berlin
The Swiss artist Pamela Rosenkranz is interested in the invisible phenomena that affect the material world. Behind a sensual aesthetic, her work is subtly subversive. Rosenkranz often draws from consumer research, notably the effect of toxoplasmosis, a parasite said to infect 30% of the world population and researched for influencing a series of human behaviours, including fear, spending habits, physical attraction and most relevant to the concept of her inaugural solo exhibition at Sprüth Magers Berlin, human fondness for cats. Review by Anaïs Castro
ACUD Gallery, Veteranenstraße 21, 10119 Berlin Mitte, Berlin
For her first solo exhibition in Germany at ACUD Gallery in Berlin, Monira Al Qadiri presents a simple combination of sculptures and video works created in the past five years. Review by Anaïs Castro
Decad, Gneisenaustraße 52, 10961 Berlin, Germany
Novelist and filmmaker Christopher Petit presents ‘In What’s Missing, Is Where Love Has Gone’. Using a pixelated image of the late David Bowie as a stimulus, the four works presented are an examination of a quiet voyeurism that speaks to internal, often inexpressible observations surrounding popular, repetitive images. Review by Candice Nembhard
Haus der Kulturen der Welt, John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10, 10557 Berlin
The exhibition 'alien matter' aims to examine new relationships between man and machine through the work of thirty artists brought together around four thematic focal points: artificial intelligence, plastics, infrastructure and the internet of things. Review by Anaïs Castro.
Tanya Leighton, Kurfürstenstraße 156 & 24/25, 10785 Berlin
Borna Sammak’s unique approach to mining contemporary culture – translated into video, sculpture and painting – often amounts to an overwhelming, nearly illegible accumulation of the stuff that surrounds us. If contemporary life feels cluttered, Sammak asks just how much overstimulation we are willing to slog through to find meaning that makes sense to us.
Galerie Barbara Thumm, Markgrafenstrasse 68, D-10969 Berlin
The ingenuity of Banner’s work is that extreme violence and banal – even crude – humour are invoked within a single moment, creating an ambiguous and often uncomfortable tension. Review by Siobhan Leddy
Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Chausseestrasse 128/129, 10115 Berlin
In light of European defence against immigrants, Halil Altındere proposes - at some ironic distance - to use the cosmic space as a haven for refugees. This vision of a life in space for the refugees is illustrated with specially designed spacesuits from a fictitious “Palmyra”-space mission, a planetary rover and a virtual reality video.
House of Egorn, Schöneberger, Ufer 51 10785 Berlin | House of Egorn 13-19 Herald St London, E2 6JT
This two-part show is sufficiently complex and self aware to acknowledge its complicity without being curtailed by it. The exhibition takes its name from Hito Steyerl’s performative lecture ‘Is the Museum a Battleground’, delivered at the 2009 Istanbul Biennial, in which Steyerl seeks to makes visible the ties which connect the art world to violent conflict via global capital. Review by Laura Purseglove
Future Gallery, Schöneberger Ufer 59, 10785 Berlin
'Inflected Objects' proposes an understanding of art objects as transient things, assemblages of materials whose destinies remain unknown, and as propositions for assimilation and disintegration. At a time in which the extraction of value from every available asset seems the dominant imperative, the artworks here display forms of waste, non-use and degradation.
Eden Eden, Bülowstraße 74, Ecke Blumenthalstraße, 10783 Berlin
Here is a prosecution of the tale of dispossessed property and unknown exodus. We begin with two locations disparate in geography and climate. Within these coordinates are two communities, and still more impossibilities abound in just that.
Sprüth Magers, Oranienburger Straße 18, D-10178 Berlin
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Bringing together the practice of thirteen international artists, the exhibition 'Dreaming Mirrors Dreaming Screens' appeals to the intuitive mind and creativity beyond referential thinking. Departing from the artists´ production, it navigates through narratives in the realm of surrealist animation, abstraction and subjects of 'New Materialism' embracing the logic of the internet.
KÖNIG GALERIE, 121, Alexandrinenstraße 118, 10969 Berlin, Germany
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For her second exhibition at KÖNIG GALERIE, Tatiana Trouvé presents a new body of work which investigates ways to connect to the world and the things and symbols that populate it, by granting them new modes of existence and new regimes of intensity.
Campagne Premiére, Chausseestrasse 116, D-10115 Berlin
Marco Poloni's practice spans cinema, photography, text and installation. Poloni's most recent set of works, 'Codename: Osvaldo' is comprised of several different case studies, two of which are currently juxtaposed in Galerie Campagne Première to form a large-scale installation.
