At the Gallery Weekend Berlin fifty shows are opening the same night: a time saving list is required!

 

The 10th edition of the Gallery Weekend Berlin is starting next Friday, and those who need a break from art fairs’ booths should take this opportunity. Most of the 50 galleries are in fact presenting new exhibitions, many of these dedicated to a single artist. Is this format better than an art fair? From a certain point of view we think so, and we would like to see more events of this kind in the art calendar. Looking artworks at an art fair is fine if you already know the artist, however it is generally hard to make new discoveries: the pieces on display are always too much and the time to process information never enough. Hence, when at a fair, the beholder tends to follow what he already knows.

 

On the contrary, a gallery exhibition gives you all the elements required to grasp the artist’s poetic in depth, and it works even better when time and space divide a show from another, as it happens in a big city. Moreover, from the point of view of the art dealers, having a solo at home means that you have more money for the production. Of course more money doesn’t always mean better artworks, but in some cases it may help, especially if you are not a top gallery yet.

 

It follows that all the exhibitions opening during the Gallery Weekend Berlin deserves to be visited. But if you don’t have enough time, or if you rarely are in Berlin and you don’t want to miss a visit to the Neues or to the Gemaldegalerie you could follow our tips.

 

Katja Novitskova‘s solo show is opening at Ziedler Kraupa-Tuskany. Title: Spirit, Curiosity, and Opportunity. Considering that she is going to have a solo booth at Art Basel Statement next June this is to be considered a crucial period in the artist career.

 

Cory Nilsen will present a new series of works by Hugh Scott-Douglas. Recently the prices on the secondary market have grown a lot, and auction houses are now hungry for his pieces. Will Hugh’s star shine more brightly after this show, or will it start to eclipse?

 

Emerging Christian Rosa is at Contemporary Fine Art, with a solo show titled “Love’s gonna save the day”. A catalogue will be published for the occasion. Texts are by Linda Yablonsky and Roberto Ohrt, but from the brief extract available on the gallery’s web site we would call Rosa’s practice information free art.

 

Works by Harold Ancart will be at Carlier | Gebauer along with pieces by Aaron Aujla, Neil Beloufa, Jonathan Binet, François Curlet, Michel François, Zak Kitnick, Ajay Kurian, Caroline Mesquita, Valerie Snobeck, Jessica Warboys, Emily Wardill. The title “Memory palaces” could mean that it is not going to be just another art salad with good ingredients.

 

Recently the artists’ works seem less effective than they used to be, but  David Ostrowski‘s solo at Peres Project is a perfect occasion to prove that he still has many things to say… about F, painting, or about himself.

 

Galerie Neu at Mehringdamm 72 is presenting Alex Hubbard. Any text is available yet, but this is the only show the 39-year-old artist from Toledo, New York, will have this year, hence it is a rare occasion to spot how his work is evolving. His next one will be at Eva Presenhuber in 2015.

September 22, 2014