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Stefan Kreide
DESSINER

September 19–21, 2025

Vernissage : 19 sept. 2025 : dès 17h
Espace d’Art Cully–Berlin
Rue de la Justice 4 : 1096 Cully

Stefan Kreide est né en Allemagne en 1973. Dans ses œuvres, de la poussière de pigments et des structures minuscules, d’une minutie étonnante, forment des surfaces qui ressemblent à des coupes tissulaires. Les chevauchements et l’impression de contours flous, créées par des techniques graphiques, transforment le regard en une recherche d’indices. De petites figures apparaissent, principalement grâce à la ferveur interprétative du cerveau du spectateur, et migrent vers des zones plus ou moins définies d’autres petites formes. Des schémas de base de l’histoire et de récits commencent à se dessiner. — Lisa Spalt

Stefan Kreide was born in Germany in 1973. In his works, pigment dust and astonishingly meticulous, tiny structures form surfaces that resemble tissue sections. Overlaps and the impression of blurred boundaries created by drawing techniques turn viewing into a search for clues. Small figures emerge, mainly through the interpretive fervor of the viewer’s brain, and migrate into more or less defined areas of other small forms. Basic patterns of history and stories begin to emerge. — Lisa Spalt

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Volker Thies
QUAI DE L’INDÉPENDANCE

August 22–24, 2025

L’artiste berlinois Volker Thies est né à Nienburg/Weser (Allemagne) en 1957 et a étudié à l’Académie des Beaux-Arts de Brunswick au début des années 1980. D’abord dessinateur et peintre, il a commencé à expérimenter la vidéo et le film Super-8 à la fin des années 1990. Depuis 25 ans, Thies se consacre principalement à la photographie.

Projection de films
Quai de l’Indépendance
2000, 2 films Super 8, couleur, 3 min chacun, double projection, en boucle
2025, numérisé 2K, projection bicanal

Deux films Super 8 projetés en parallèle présentent une vue panoramique du lac Léman en accéléré.

Les deux films ont été tournés à Cully en 2000, en mode image par image. Dans le premier film, les 3 600 images ont été exposées sur une période de deux jours, de minuit à minuit, la position de la caméra restant constante, soit une image toutes les 48 secondes.

La caméra a ensuite pivoté vers la droite pour atteindre la vue panoramique adjacente, et les 3 600 images du second film ont été prises, mais cette fois sur une seule journée, soit une image toutes les 24 secondes, toujours de minuit à minuit.

Présentés sous forme d’une double projection analogique infinie, les deux courts métrages constituaient une expérience à travers le temps et l’espace et, dès 2000, un hommage au médium Super-8, en voie de disparition. La seule copie fonctionnelle des films a été détruite dans un incendie à la galerie MIRE de Genève en 2000. En 2006, Kodak a fermé complètement son seul laboratoire Kodachrome restant à Lausanne, en Europe.

En 2025, les deux originaux ont été numérisés en 2K en Suisse et, après 25 ans, vivent aujourd’hui leur performance numérique initialement inattendue sur le lieu de leur création.

Berlin-based artist Volker Thies was born in Nienburg/Weser (Germany) in 1957 and studied at the Braunschweig Academy of Fine Arts in the early 1980s.
Initially working in drawing and painting, he began experimenting with video and Super 8 film in the late 1990s. For the past 25 years, Thies has worked primarily with photography.

Film Screening
Quai de l’Indépendance 
2000, two Super 8 films, color, 3 min. each, double projection, looped
2025 2K digitized, 2-channel projection

Two Super 8 films, projected in parallel, show a panoramic view of Lac Leman in time-lapse.

Both films were shot in Cully in 2000 in single-frame mode. In the first film, the total number of its 3,600 images was exposed over a period of two days from midnight to midnight, with the camera position remaining constant, i.e., a single frame was taken every 48 seconds.

The camera was then panned to the right into the adjacent panoramic view, and the 3,600 images of the second film were shot, but this time over a period of only one day, i.e., a single frame every 24 seconds, again from midnight to midnight.

Shown as an analog endless double projection, the two short films were an experiment across time and space and, as early as 2000, a homage to the dying medium of Super 8 film. The only working prints of the films were destroyed in a fire at the Geneva gallery MIRE in 2000. In 2006, Kodak shut down its only remaining European Kodachrome laboratory in Lausanne.

In 2025, both originals were digitized in 2K in Switzerland and are now, after 25 years, experiencing their originally unintended digital performance at the place of their creation.

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Gerard Janssen
NOUVEAUX DESSINS

June 20–22, 2025

Drawings, ink on paper 50 x 60 cm

Berlin-based Dutch artist Gerard Janssen uses pen and ink to add features to objects with the aim of expressing human emotions. Houses and trees often appear in his drawings and they can seem to be happy or sad, lonely or brooding. Gerard Janssen says: “In my art, I give objects their own history and a different behavior, so that a different order and new meanings emerge. In doing so, I want to increase our awareness of what is around us.”

Gerard Janssen was born in 1967 in Smallingerland, Netherlands. Today he lives in Berlin. He has studied, among other places, at the Minerva Art Academy in Groningen. When drawing, the artist sometimes experiences the same joy as when he was playing as a child, building his own world with its own rules and stories. Thus, his drawings seem like excerpts from longer narratives. The viewer senses that something happened before and something could happen after.

Galerie Blaue Stunde Berlin

The artist in front of the gallery

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Christopher Reitmeier
MOJAVE

May 30 – June 1, 2025

Wall object (plate) diameter 28 cm

All photographies 50 x 40 cm

Jewellery

Christopher Reitmaier (*1970 in Las Vegas) is a multi-disciplined artist, dedicated traveller, musician and visual storyteller who creates mixed media art and installations made primarily from found materials hand-culled in remote areas of the Mojave desert and dense urban centers, combining anthropology -the aesthetics and the spirituality of the indigenous people of the southwest of the US – and the history of desire in a celebration of life, beauty, freedom and joy.

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Alex & John Gailla
CORPUS

March 28, 2025

 

All Monotypes from the series “Horses” 40 x 30 cm

We are a visual artist duo based in Berlin and Switzerland, collaborating for over twenty years. Our work focuses on the image — its materiality, specifically, the notions of the body and the representation of form.

The photographic image is the starting point for all our research. We interrogate its meaning, exploring it as both a vehicle for ideas and a window into everyday life, as well as the realities and issues of contemporary societies. Our primary field of research and source material is the Internet. We photograph images from the web directly, through a computer screen. The distortions resulting from this “reappropriationist” process are integral to our creative practice.

These captured images then undergo extensive experimentation on paper through our “drip-printing” technique—a transfer process akin to monotype. Repeated hundreds of times, this method introduces elements of chance and unpredictability, deconstructing and fragmenting the prints. This procedure imbues them with a richer, multi-dimensional reading potential.

By treating photography as a material, we delve into its substance — its ink and the forms it shapes — breaking down its figurative elements to shift them toward abstraction. The resulting paintings, created entirely in ink, extend this dialogue between photography and painting, taking a distinctly painterly approach.

Photos by Alexine Chanel, Fanny Bovey and Jörg Hasheider

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Wil Pennycook & Michael Nolan
BOTH

October 4, 2024

 

Photographies by Michael Nolan · 60 x 80 cm


The Book
handmade by Wil Pennycook, photographies by Michel Nolan, poems by Wil Pennycook

In addition to making handmade books and writing poems, Wil Pennycook has also worked in the fields of photography and video/installation. Documentaries you find here:
https://www.wilpennycook.com


The exhibition


Acknowledgements

Our heartfelt thanks to Eddie Ephraums for his friendship and for the skill and professionalism he brought to this project. We couldn’t have done this without you.

Thank you also to Elizabeth McClair Roberts whose love and support has made all the difference.

We are also grateful to our family and friends whose presence in our lives enriches us.

Wil & Michael

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Karina Mosegård
NATURE MORTE

August 30, 2024

Nature Morte 1, Installation, 3 x Embroidery, nylon curtains, 220 x 180 cm

Nature Morte 2, 12 pieces, watercolour on plywood, 29.7 x 21 cm plus text

Automatic Drawings, graphit on paper, Canson Akvarel A3

” In 2021–2023 I have worked to explore the possibilities and challenges of line and drawing. I have experimented with “Automatic drawing”, as several surrealists also did. I continued working with the drawings and “sampled” them into new constellations. In the process, special universes are created, composed of abstractions and recognizable creatures.

Going on by transforming some of the drawings into watercolours and lithografic prints, I created a series of works for this exhibition.
The works are related to nature and the organic: pollution, climate change and sustainability are essential topics, as something that changes, transforms and destroys.

The strange abstractions and ambiguous fragments invite the viewer into a different landscape, a universe of its own.“

Under the surface 2 and 3, lithographic prints, ARCHES cotton paper, 50 x 65 cm

Pulp, watercolours on paper, Canson Akvarel, DIN A3

Nach einer unendlichen Wiederholung ist der Ursprung vergessen…….
Woodboxes with glasfront, drawings and screenprints, each 10 x 20 x 30 cm

Karina Mosegård lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark.
After studying at the Royal Danish Academy of Arts she graduated with a master degree in fine arts at the University of the Arts, Berlin.
She participated in more than 100 exhibitions in Europe, Japan and Canada.

The artist at work

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Alexine Chanel
TOUT EST FAUX

May 31, 2024

Cabane, L’ècume des jours de Boris Vian

Refléts voles

Tapis de Narcisses N230527

Trésor, 11 photographies and 11 mirrors installed opposite in the corridor

Cabane, Que ma joie demeure de Jean Giono installed at Lake Geneva,Cully

ALEXINE CHANEL (FR) works with photography, video, performance, installation, collage, and sculpture. The media is typically dictated by the nature of each project. What links these different forms of expression is a vibrant interest for collecting, describing, categorising, and documenting various structures, emotions, systems, and memories. Chanel calls attention to everyday occurrences, apparently mundane facts and widely accepted traditions or structures, reorganising these according to new, experimental systems, thus permitting a new reading of them.
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The central theme of this body of work is the relationship between societal structures (spanning from religion, cultural traditions, to industry, administration, institutional matters) and the individual, its emotions and idiosyncrasies. It is the occasional discordances between these different types of organisms that interest Chanel.

https://www.alexinechanel.space/

All photographies by the artist




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Marco P Schaefer
CUT A’STROPHE

May 3, 2024

(….)
While the new paper cuts remain geometrically abstract and are sometimes dominated by strong stripes reminiscent of Pop Art, Schaefer’s earlier wall collages show finer and curvier lines as well as inclusions of writing or figurative elements. The associations that his works evoke therefore span a wide range from Sonja Delaunay, Fernand Léger, Alexander Calder, Bauhaus to Pop Art, Op Art and Comics. But every viewer of Schaefer’s works feels one thing: rhythm. Music. And no matter whether delicate or powerful, there is hardly a negative tone to be found. “Despite the lack of messages, my works reflect my inner music, the rhythm, the `be easy, be happy´ that I try to maintain in good times and bad.”
(….)
Excerpt of the text by Gallery Kurt-Kurt-Berlin. The full text and a documentation of the exhibition you find here: https://kurt-kurt.de/projekte/marco-p-schaefer-2020/

Paper cuts made from painted paper, each 20cm X 30cm

Paper cuts made from painted paper, each 40cm X 60cm

All photographies by the artist

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Petrov Ahner
KOINZIDENZEN

October 28, 2023

All Photographies: Inkjet on Hahnemühlepaper, 40 cm x 40 cm

„Unobserved photography on public transport has a long tradition, from Walker Evans to Tom Wood; but Petrov Ahner’s digitally created series is […] coherent in itself and opens up a new dimension in the broad field of street photography, which seems to combine even the conceptual and the instinctive.
 
Formally, the focus is initially on indifferent reflections and reflections on the glass surfaces, and on shadowy, de-individualized figures on the other side. In the picture of this situation, the fogged up or graffiti- or tag-scratched panes of the suburban trains cause seemingly superficial injuries to the faces and bodies behind them, when they can be seen more closely, so much so that everything within the picture merges. The window pane is usually a transparent separating layer, a protection between inside and outside, but here it is often opaque due to extensive soiling, condensation or ice-flower-like freezing over and is therefore more comparable to a semi-transparent curtain […].
 
Some photographs are abstract, others remain realistic and yet puzzling because of the multiple layers of reality and images that overlap. Petrov Ahner visually freezes the everyday moments before the doors of trains open and the previously so shadowy is personalized for a moment, but can still hardly be grasped. He is interested in the fleeting and accidental encounters of unknown people, which in this form only a photographer or writer with a special eye can capture so excellently […].”

Extract of the text on Koinzidenzen (coincidences)
by Dr. Matthias Harder, curator Helmut Newton Foundation

Petrov Ahner, born in 1965, worked from 1994, after his assistantship in Munich and Miami, 15 years as a fashion and portrait photographer in Paris. With the documentary “Out of the dark” about illegal immigrants in Paris, he distanced himself from the fashion world and in 2009 moved to Berlin, where he devoted himself entirely to the production of artistic photo series. The series “Coincidences”, shown in excerpts in the exhibition, has been published as a limited edition book by Edition Carpentier.

https://petrovahner.de/

Photos by Petrov Ahner

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Marco Goldenstein
DAS IST DIE WAHRHEIT
& LOCKDOWN

June 9, 2023

Das ist die Wahrheit (This is the Truth) 140 of 500 pieces

Marco Goldenstein works on serial drawing projects over long periods of time. Wall-filling graphic installations are created. The drawings of the installation „This is the truth“ were created over 2 years while working in a call center. Hence there is a connection to the classic telephone drawings, fleeting scribbles lost in thought that could appear on a notepad during a business call. Drawn with blue ball pen and based on the form of the bubble, they together create an overwhelming variety of patterns and signs.

Also part of the exhibition are selected works from the serial „Lockdown“ which all in all comprises 120 pieces.

The designs here can be thought of as an imaginary spiritual refuge that has to be abandoned and reconstructed again and again. Manifestations of time created in a late-capitalist open-plan office, variations of self-localization removed from temporality, patterns, rituals, models, vanishing points, communication, ……
There ist still space between the lines.

Marco Goldenstein, born 1968 in Oldenburg, is a painter and draughtsman. He was
co-operator and curator of the project space “Hochparterre Berlin StudioSalon” in Berlin Kreuzberg from 2015-2020.

www.instagram.com/goldenstein_existenz, https//hochparterreberlin.blogspot.com and www.marcogoldenstein.de


The happiness of a soap bubble is short and glorious. Anyone who breathes life into it and sees a part of himself, freed from all heaviness, float away, hardly more than a round glimmer, but breath of his own breath, must feel a little bit like a god.

Marco Goldenstein’s graphic variations under the title “Das ist die Wahrheit” initially seem like a late reminiscence of this moment of happiness. In their crowdedness and multiplicity, his bubbles and spheres, circles and rings, which are continuously set in motion anew and condensed into fabrics, foams, streams or meshes, could seem like the result of a childlike, naïve creative joy and playfulness. The fact that this impression soon gives way to a growing uneasiness may be due to the fact that the truth, which according to the title is to be represented here, is composed of a large number of parts that differ widely in form and structure. In contrast to the sphere, which formally dominates the drawings, the A4 formats are arranged without distance in a wide band to form a grid.

This truth, whatever is hidden behind it, looks at the viewer as if from a cell with a hundred eyes. Nothing rounds out here; only through the structural violence of the arrangement do the drawings remain connected. One finds oneself surrounded by it and overwhelmed by beauty and apprehension in an almost sublime way, if one experiences sublimity according to Burke like a “delightful horror”.

It is all the more astonishing that this perception owes itself to the nervously meticulous drawing of a plain biros and hardly art-suspicious everyday utensils from a late capitalist open-plan office: it is probably no coincidence that the majority of the pictures were created in the call centre of an polling institute where Goldenstein earned his living.
Excerpt from a text by Emanuel Maess

From the series “Lockdown” pastel on paper 40 X 40 cm

The artist in conversation

Opening of the Art Space

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5th of May 2023

Espace d’art Cully–Berlin

With works by Jörg Hasheider:

Organic Shapes – Egg Shaped – Ancestry – Pretty Pressure Dance

Being busy providing Malaysian Satay with peanut sauce and drinks to our visitors, we missed taking pictures during the opening. So an exhibition view is what you get.

For more pictures and information about the works please scroll down to previous posts.

Ancestry 50 pieces, various sizes

From the series Organs and Machines 25 X 18 cm and 20 X 15 cm

Organic Shapes

Pretty Pressure Dance and Egg Shaped