Exhibition: Berlin >> Brooklyn
440 Gallery in Brooklyn and ep.contemporary in Berlin are kind of sister galleries, not only both with blue facades with a central door, but also in the way both are organized and the quality and range of their local artists. Both spaces spice up the artists’ solo shows with group exhibitions and, on special occasions, unique shows like this:
Berlin >> Brooklyn, the show of the artist-run gallery ep.contemporary, founded 2016 in Berlin, is featuring its members’ diverse work across the Atlantic, in Brooklyn, for the first time. The 12 European artists are presenting an exceptional selection of their works of painting, drawing, printmaking, photography and installation. They will also present the Edition Box #1, a collection with works and prints by ten artists in a limited edition of eight.
Four ep.contemporary artists will also join the opening and artist talk at 440 Gallery in Park Slope, Brooklyn.
Albert Coers is a Berlin-based artist, born in Lauingen, Germany.
He has studied among others at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich, and in Carrara, Italy. The focus of his artistic work are installations with found objects and language-related material, artist's publications and works in public space.
Celia Mehnert is a Berlin-based artist and teacher.
In her collages and monotypes, she traces her own and foreign memories and narration. Architectural fragments assembled in drawings form a spatial structure that explores memories and then plays with them. The space, the reference system in which our perception is first constituted, opens up and shifts its boundaries from narrative to narrative and from drawing to drawing.
Ophelia Beckmann is a Berlin-based artist.
The multidisciplinary working method is her key to expand the boundaries in art. Using photography, painting, digital works and objects, she approaches nature in its relation to people. Especially in times of war and climate change, her focus is on camouflage and decay.
Uschi Krempel is a Berlin-based fine art printmaker.
She focuses artistically mostly on etching and screen printing. Her works are experimental and process-driven. Her abstract work reminds one of imaginary landscapes and spaces — it is all about color and structure.
Sabine Wild is a Berlin-based photo artist.
She is highly interested in architecture and urban spaces in megacities. She processes her photographs digitally so that they depict the gigantic dimensions of these living spaces in an abstract form. For some time now, she has been weaving her photographs by hand to create unique pieces.
georgia Krawiec is a Berlin-based photo artist with Polish-German roots.
She works experimentally, using archaic photographic media such as pinhole cameras and photograms. She focuses not only on the result but also crucially on the manual process of creating the work. Since 2012, georgia Krawiec has been working on a multi-part project exploring the relationship between people and nature.
Angela Bröhan is a Berlin-based photo artist, born in Hamburg.
With her master’s degree in Photography at the Bavarian State Institute for Photography in Munich, she often deals with urban space in her work — especially found situations and architecture. Lately she has also been exploring still lifes, composed mainly from ordinary things and materials. Her works, Orte (Places) and Here, There and Everywhere, are published by Peperoni Books.
Matthias Hagemann is a New York–based photo artist, with strong ties to his former hometown, Berlin.
He mainly works analog in black and white, often with pinhole cameras. He focuses his time-driven photography on themes like patience, history, memory and urban spaces.
Dorothea Schutsch is a Berlin-born painter.
Her oil paintings, often in larger formats, are developed from years-long projects transforming themes like windows, revolving doors, stairs or cafés into colorful abstract compositions with a refined sense of layering, transparencies and reflections.
Martina Reichelt is a Braunschweig-based artist and architecture teacher with strong ties to Berlin.
She works conceptually, combining drawing and painting, media art and performance. The movement of the human body in its environment is central to her artistic pursuit.
Bodo Rott is a Berlin-based artist.
His paintings and drawings create a hypnotic and kaleidoscopic spatiality dealing with the themes of identity, memory and transformation. Some of his anarchic pictorial works break the boundaries of classical canvases. They are painting installations that explode into real space.
Jens Schünemann is a Berlin-based photo artist.
His work, focused on image details, often segments the overall view into individual sections in order to break the view with a rhythm. His approach is always accompanied by a humorous wink.
