Past Exhibitions

09.09.2023 - 01.10.2023 - Marie 10

Manfred Holtfrerich - You don't have to understand everything

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In his exhibition: "You don't have to understand everything", the Hamburg artist Manfred Holtfrerich, known for his "Leaves" series, shows large-format black, white and grey pictures with images of dust, stains and fabric, which he juxtaposes with works from his "Leaves" series, leaves from Berlin collections and more recent ones from the last two years.

The "Leaves", found autumn leaves painted in watercolour in natural size, are extremely realistic portraits of nature. They have the dual character of something real and, as an appearance of art, something that goes beyond it, something about something. They thrive on the tension between image and object.

The starting point for the large pictures, pigment prints in the format 180 x 125-270 cm, are sections, remnants, samples that have been put aside in the studio to be utilised at some point.

The artist has selected from this material, enlarged it and aesthetically cleaned it, so to speak, so that it loses its casualness, objectifies itself as a picture and asserts itself as a work.

The pictures confront the viewer with the expression of something accidental, but accidentally correct, just like the leaves as a thing of nature. M.H. "It is as it is".

Both groups of pictures ask what a picture actually is beyond its content as an artistic structure, what makes it a work.

Marie 10 is a temporary non-commercial art project initiated and curated by Kira Marina von Bismarck, Julian Heynen, Jörg Johnen, and Brigitte Kölle.

17.09.2022 - 22.10.2022 - Marie 10

Gianni Caravaggio - Only the Heart Remains Young

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Italy poses riddles for us in many ways. Especially in contemporary art. Some Italian artists, like Monica Bonvicini and Maurizio Cattelan, have managed to gain international attention with provocative and powerful works. But there are also somewhat younger artists who have developed a very quiet and poetic aesthetic. Among them is Gianni Caravaggio. His criticism of the world is based in the stillness of his works and their rejection of rapid legibility. Radical anti-Pop. Caravaggio achieves this with unusual and enigmatic materials and combinations of materials. With titles that don’t explain, but open up potentials for imagination. With a minimalist and artisanally challenging pictorial world. In their pointed enigmatic character, his works are comparable to almost nothing one currently sees in galleries, biennials, or museums. They are as removed from time as possible and seek to place visitors in a realm of moods and sensual stimuli that lie beyond our everyday world.

The exhibition is curated by Jörg Johnen.

Marie 10 is a temporary non-commercial art project initiated and curated by Kira Marina von Bismarck, Julian Heynen, Jörg Johnen, and Brigitte Kölle.

24.06.2022 - 06.08.2022 - Marie 10

Ayse Erkmen - Hochstapler

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“Is this already the exhibition or is it still being prepared? Ayşe Erkmen has conceived an installation for Marie 10 that could not be simpler and at the same time gets to the heart of an important starting point for any initiative for contemporary art: the space itself, its shape, its quality. In it, a single element rises up, takes measure and connects floor and ceiling. What might appear to be an archetype of a column is, however, nothing but a large roll of bubble wrap, sealed and tightened to the space by adhesive tape. Everyday packing materials of the art business have, as it were, “taken on a life of their own” and morphed into sculpture and installation.” (Julian Heynen)

Marie 10 is a temporary non-commercial art project initiated and curated by Kira Marina von Bismarck, Julian Heynen, Jörg Johnen, and Brigitte Kölle.

II/2017

Room - Klaus Lehmann and Olaf Holzapfel

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Klaus Lehmann was born in 1927 in Berlin and died in 2016 in Erbach. As he turned seventy – just around the time when one millenium was tipping over into another – he discovered a new freedom as an artist. It led him to a form of ceramics where the objects stand alone, withdrawing from any kind of decorative function and confronting the viewer with a profound austerity whose attraction lies in the enigma of its concentrated intensity. Lehmann is still little known except by connoisseurs, and this exhibition, for the first time, provides a retrospective of his later work in his native city, Berlin. His estate is administered by the Galerie Angelika Metzger.
 

Olaf Holzapfel was born in Görlitz in 1969 and now lives and works in Berlin. He exhibited at this year's Documenta in Athens and Kassel with two installations. His six-metre long painting, "Lauf" (an ambiguous, complex word in German which here can perhaps best be translated as “progression” or “subsequence”) stands out with its highly complex abstract construction. It features monochrome surfaces, sequences of curves, seemingly three-dimensional cuboid shapes, fine lines, vertical and horizontal compositions of diagonal lines, connectivity and fracturing.

II/2017

Roof - Cat and Bird in Peace

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with works by David Claerbout (the author of the video that gives this exhibition its name), Martin Creed, H.P.Feldmann, Katharina Fritsch, Francesco Gennari, Piero Golia, Beate Kuhn, Cornelius Quabeck, Wiebke Siem
 

In the heritage-listed attic space, a zoo is opening, an opportunity to marvel at animals in a variety of artistic contexts. This menagerie includes works with a metaphysical and metaphorical dimension, but also works that reveal a striking humour or are emotionally attractive.