A group exhibition at Gallery EIGEN + ART, an exhibition featuring Marc Chagall at Museum Berggruen; Austin Lee’s first solo exhibition in Berlin. This all makes this week an interesting time for the art lovers in Berlin. Blouin ArtInfo curates a list of the must-visit shows in the coming week for its readers.“Stephen Willats: Endless” at Galerie Thomas SchulteRunning through March 10, 2018This exhibition presents works by conceptual artist Stephen Willats (b. 1943, London). On view are works ranging from 1977 until today including films, collages and drawings, in which the artist addresses how we interact with the objects and symbols in our immediate environment, how we relate to them, appropriate, transform and reinterpret them.www.galeriethomasschulte.de“GUILLAUME LEBLON: Still wave” at carlier | gebauerRunning through March 3, 2018carlier | gebauer presents “Still wave”, a solo exhibition by Guillaume Leblon (b. 1971). Guillaume Leblon’s work is filled with references evoking nature, the domestic environment or the artist studio. In “Still wave”, Leblon presents four large scale paintings of the sea. Based on black and white photographs of the sea side in Normandy, the works depict a wave on a still and calm sea. The artist wanted to use “artificial” palettes without imitating the true colors of the landscape and chose tones of green, grey, pink and blue which differ in each painting and leave us to wonder on how real the scenery is.www.carliergebauer.comAndré Butzer at Galerie Max HetzlerRunning through March 3, 2018Galerie Max Hetzler presents exhibitions with works by the German painter André Butzer (b. 1973, Stuttgart, Germany) in two locations of the gallery, Bleibtreustrasse 45 and Goethestrasse 2/3. The gallery space at Bleibtreustrasse displays recent paintings from 2016 and 2017 as well as a new artist book, created in collaboration with Hans Werner Holzwarth (Holzwarth Publications). The space at Goethestrasse offers an insight into the early work of the artist with paintings from 1999 to 2008, selected from private collections.www.maxhetzler.com“Asier Mendizabal: Kopf, Faust, Baum” at Galerie NordenhakeRunning through March 3, 2018Galerie Nordenhake presents the first solo exhibition of Asier Mendizabal (b. 1973) in Berlin, in collaboration with Anthony Reynolds, London. The artist’s practice has always revolved around the relationship between form and processes of signification. Mendizabal thoroughly explores the legacies of radical sculptural languages and their multilayered political implications. For this exhibition, the artist brings together a group of works with different references and materials such as wood and concrete, as well as printed matter and a cut-out from a woodblock print appropriated from another artist.www.nordenhake.com“Austin Lee: Tomato Can” at Peres ProjectsRunning through March 2, 2018Peres Projects presents “Tomato Can,” the first solo exhibition in Berlin of American artist Austin Lee (b.1983). In this show, the artist focuses on paintings which are executed based on digital sketches and painted on canvas with an airbrush. The works follow basic compositional forms, and are heavy on primary colors, which is a specialty of Lee’s digital sketching process.www.peresprojects.com“Georg Baselitz: Drawings to the Beach Pictures” at Galerie Michael HaasRunning through February 18, 2018This exhibition presents artworks by German painter Georg Baselitz (b. 1938). The show features works from the artist’s “Beach Pictures” series. There are 38 drawings in pencil, black chalk and blue ink which were created and added by the artist in 1981 to the painting series of “beach pictures” will be displayed in this exhibition.www.galeriemichaelhaas.deMarc Chagall’s ‘The Modernity of Decorativeness’ at Museum BerggruenRunning through March 31, 2018The exhibition is a one-room show with works by Marc Chagall (1887-1985) from the National Gallery’s collection. Chagall used a design principle that was groundwork for the art of modernity, as Henri Matisse, among others, developed it. The exhibition showcases photographs of paintings by Chagall, captured by the photographer Ulrike Kolb who visited places where Chagall’s paintings decorate both private and public spaces.www.smb.museum“Take Five” at Gallery EIGEN + ARTRunning through February 10, 2018Gallery EIGEN + ART is hosting a group exhibition featuring artists Tom Anholt, Mirjam Völker, Titus Schade, Ross Chisholm, and Kristina Schuldt.www.eigen-art.com‘Guy Bourdin. Image Maker / Helmut Newton. A Gun for Hire / Angelo Marino. Another Story’ at Museum für FotografieRunning through May 13, 2018Helmut Newton Foundation presents its new exhibition showcasing the works by two fashion photographers, Guy Bourdin and Helmut Newton, to celebrate their visionary artistic contribution and their legacy. Bourdin revolutionized fashion photography in the late 20th century, similar to Helmut Newton. Both were the star photographers of Vogue Paris and produced some of the most famous images of that era working for the top international fashion houses. The exhibition also displays works by Helmut Newton’s former assistant Angelo Marino. Complementing the works of Bourdin and Newton, Marino presents under the title “Another Story” an eclectic view of his immediate environment, which he photographed on the way from his home in Cannes to his workplace in Monte Carlo.www.smb.museum‘Beyond Compare: Art from Africa’ at Bode-MuseumOpened October 27, 2017This exhibition introduces works of art from Africa from the Ethnologisches Museum into the sculpture collection of the Bode-Museum. The experimental juxtaposition of works from Africa and Europe reveals possible correlations on various levels, including historic contemporaneity, iconographic and technological similarities, and artistic strategies.www.smb.museum‘Between royal tombs and pawnshop - Max Ohnefalsch-Richter (1850-1917) and the archeology of Cyprus’ at New MuseumRunning through March 4, 2018The exhibition pays homage to German archaeologist Max Hermann Ohnefalsch-Richter, for the 100th year of passing. Alongside the famed archeologist Heinrich Schliemann, Ohnefalsch-Richter is one of the biggest contributors of Cypriot finds from the Mediterranean island, but failed to achieve much happiness and wealth in his lifetime, and died amid poverty and illness in February 1917. Although not a trained scientist, Ohnefalsch-Richter carried out important archaeological excavations while researching the archeology of Cyprus.http://www.smb.museum/museen-und-einrichtungen/neues-museum/home.html‘New Bauhaus Chicago: Experiment Photography’ at Bauhaus ArchiveRunning through March 5, 2018Bauhaus Archive presents a selection of photographs, films, publications and documents from the New Bauhaus in Chicago, on the 80th anniversary of the institute’s inception by László Moholy-Nagy. The show’s guest curator Dr Kristina Lowis identified works to be loaned from archives, museums and galleries during her research trips to Chicago, and prepared this exhibition with collection curator Dr Sibylle Hoiman.https://www.bauhaus.de/Click on the slideshow for a sneak peek at the exhibitions.
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