The exhibition reflects the experiences of this past year while simultaneously opening up new horizons. Guest curations have brought fresh perspectives on contemporary and abstract art, which now enter into dialogue with our own curatorial approaches. At the heart of the show lies the dynamic tension between abstraction and figuration, which we aim to explore in depth.
We are excited to introduce new artistic positions whom we discovered through formats such as Come by and Apply, studio visits, and the UdK open studios.
New & Abstract artists:
• Mareike Böhmer
• Chrissi Eklemes
• Katja Knoblich
• Friederike Meier
• Annette Nolte
• Heike Ratfisch
• Eileen Schulze
New Perspective Section:
• Marina Kniazeva
• Gerald Meilicke
• Sophia Muriel
• Paul Schönfelder
• Margarethe Ucinski
• Pascal Wild
• Sophia Wilm
A special highlight is the presentation of our new artist Friederike Meier, whose work we already showcased successfully at KUNST/MITTE in Magdeburg. Her pieces combine classical portrait painting with augmented reality technologies and artificial intelligence – a fascinating symbiosis of tradition and future.
GROUP SHOW #13
2 October – 30 October
Wed - Sat 2 - 6 pm and by appointment
Mollstraße 1, Berlin
More about the artists:
Mareike Böhmer
Mareike Böhmer is a German artist whose creative focus lies in abstract art and nature photography. Her artistic journey began in 2012 with vibrant, geometric digital graphics, which gradually evolved under the influence of numerous travels through Scandinavia. These encounters with Nordic landscapes shaped her visual language, leading to works that are softer, more organic, and more subtle in their use of colour. Over the past year and a half, Böhmer has expanded her practice to include large-scale paintings on canvas, moving beyond paper to explore new depth and materiality in her abstract compositions.
Chrissi Eklemes
Chrissi Eklemes is a contemporary artist whose work explores the dialogue between color, texture and emotion. Her paintings are characterized by expressive brushstrokes, layered surfaces, and a vibrant interplay of contrasts. By applying thin, translucent layers of paint – similar to watercolor – she creates compositions that radiate lightness while evoking both tension and harmony. Inspired by nature and personal experience, her technique transforms fleeting feelings into visual narratives.
Katja Knoblich
Katja Knoblich’s paintings are rooted in the search for her “inner ocean” and the invisible currents that connect all things. Much like the movements of the sea, her creative process is guided by inner impulses that shape her work organically. In her paintings, colours and textures merge fluidly, evoking the interplay of connection and transformation. The sea, which fascinates her both as a surfer and as an artist, serves as a profound metaphor: like the human inner world, it holds depths, constant change, and vast, unexplored territories.
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Friederike Meier
Friederike Meier (born 1992) is a German painter based in Berlin. She combines artificialintelligence with traditional painting to challenge perceptions of femininity. Using AI, she creates photorealistic portraits of women that question beauty ideals andgender norms. Her figures are complex—fragile yet strong—and exist beyond binarycategories. Each is captured in a charged moment: something has happened, a word wasspoken, a glance exchanged. Their emotions—anger, sadness, determination—overlap in asingle “snapshot” created with AI.
Annette Nolte
Annette Nolte is a German-born abstract painter based in Essen, in the Ruhr area. She studied Fine Arts at the University of Essen and the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and is also a trained yoga and meditation teacher. This dual background shapes her artistic practice, where both art and yoga serve as pathways to self-exploration and awareness. Guided by intuition, feeling, and colour, Nolte’s paintings transcend the limits of rational thought to embrace the expansiveness of the present moment. None of her works are preconceived; instead, the creative process requires her to repeatedly let go of initial ideas in favour of what emerges from within.
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Heike Ratfisch
Heike Ratfisch is a German artist whose practice engages with contemporary approaches to abstraction and materiality. Living and working in [Ort einsetzen], she explores themes of transformation, perception and emotion through painting, objects and spatial interventions. Her works invite viewers to reflect on subtle tensions between form, colour and surface, opening a dialogue between inner states and external reality.
Eileen Schulze
"In my work, I combine geometric shapes with free painting and explore the interplay between social norms and individual expression. The visual language is characterized by mid-century influences and organic forms. Between structure and freedom, images emerge that form their own harmonious whole."
Marina Kniazeva
Marina Kniazeva is a Berlin-based artist currently studying Fine Arts at the Universität der Künste Berlin. Her practice explores the intersections of materiality, perception and space, creating works that move between abstraction and figuration. Drawing on both personal and collective experience, she develops visual languages that invite reflection on fragility, transformation and the unseen connections that shape human existence.
Gerald Meilicke
Gerald Meilicke explores human physical and mental processes through an experimental approach. Working across painting, installation and digital media, he combines scientific and pop-cultural references to provide accessible entry points to complex questions. His works may at times appear unsettling or paradoxical, yet they simultaneously convey a distinctive sense of harmony.
Sophia Muriel
Sophia Muriel works with everyday objects and textiles, particularly worn clothing, which she transforms into sculptures and installations. Her works often appear fragile, yet belie the underlying solidity of both the materials and the themes they embody. Drawing on her own biography, Muriel explores notions of vulnerability, resilience, transience and mortality. By using familiar, everyday materials, she creates accessible points of connection that invite viewers to reflect on personal experiences.
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Paul Schönfelder
Paul Schönfelder (born 1995) is a Berlin-based painter and student of Fine Arts at the Universität der Künste Berlin. Working with acrylic, charcoal and oil, he creates canvases shaped by contrasts, ruptures and transitions. His practice engages with ambivalent behaviours, inner tensions and the opposites that define human thought and action.
Margarethe Ucinski
The work of Margarethe Ucinski engages the canvas as an active structure, exploring edges, grids, and latent geometries. The practice reveals forms within limits, where paint, tension, and material resistance generate presence rather than representation. Through a dynamic play of proximity and distance, the paintings challenge the traditional hierarchy between figure and ground, embracing transformation, transition, and spatial logic as integral forces.
Pascal Wil
Pascal Wild (born 1991 in Darmstadt, lives and works in Berlin) is a self-taught painter working with oil, acrylic, spray paint and pastel. His imagery combines Pop-inspired colours, cartoon-like figures and a consciously childlike aesthetic. Behind this playful surface, however, lies a tension where humour and unease, lightness and gravity intersect.
Sophia Wilm
Sophia Wilm works with the soak-stain technique, allowing diluted paint to seep into untreated canvas and build up in translucent layers. Her recent series introduces relief-like, slightly distorted stuffed figures that seem to emerge from the canvas. Inspired by dance, Wilm seeks to capture its dreamlike atmosphere and powerful sense of immersion.
GROUP SHOW #13
2 October – 30 October
Wed - Sat 2 - 6 pm and by appointment
Mollstraße 1, Berlin
