New Year, New Perspectives – GROUP SHOW #15 until 12 February

Emerging Artists in Focus: GROUP SHOP #14 on view until 18 Dec. Reading New Year, New Perspectives – GROUP SHOW #15 until 12 February 5 minutes Next New Perspectives Section | guest curation by Maja Neuhaus

Tags

Past

With GROUP SHOW #15, we open the new year by presenting the winners of our Open Call. The exhibition brings together an exceptional range of contemporary positions within the field of abstract art, highlighting the diversity of current artistic expressions.

Artists:
Christian Hellmich
Kata Kukla
Kim Köster
Martz do Nascimento
Malte Hagen Olbertz
LATESS
Ines Thora

In addition, as part of the New Perspectives section, we present a guest curation by Maja Neuhaus, who introduces her project Macro Art Dot (MAD) and opens up new curatorial viewpoints.

New Perspectives – Artists:

GROUP SHOW #15
22 January – 12 February
Wed - Sat 2 - 6 pm and by appointment
Mollstraße 1, Berlin

Christian Hellmich

Christian Hellmich is a Berlin-based painter whose work unfolds between intuition and control. Beginning from abstract, gestural structures, his paintings slowly build toward representation without fixed narration, leaving space for ambiguity and personal interpretation. Architectural fragments, ornaments, and everyday details drawn from a broad image archive serve as material rather than motifs, activated through painterly logic.

–> more

Kata Kukla

Kata Kukla is a multidisciplinary artist based in Dublin, born in Poland. Her recent work forms as a dynamic organism, built through palimpsestic layers where unsettling myth, folklore and lived reality meet. Surreal landscapes collide with stark urban geometries, with surfaces shaped by repetition, decay, disturbance and vandal-like marks. Through fragmented imagery, her work reflects on post-industrial conditions, reinterpreting the forms that shape her everyday environments. She has exhibited across Europe and the USA.

–> more

Kim Köster

Kim Köster was born and raised in the north German village of Worpswede. Growing up in this artists’ colony, surrounded by the dark woods and moorland, fed into his artistic ambitions and inspired his interest in melancholic, dark or eerie themes. He entered the global urban arts area at a young age, traveling across Europe, Australia, Canada, and South America, gradually making a name for himself through his work in derelict buildings, painting characters that seemingly interact with the dilapidated environment around them, blending art with architectural elements.

–> more

Martz do Nascimento

Martz do Nascimento (1997, Bilbao) is a visual artist trained in muralism and holds a Master’s degree in Painting from the University of the Basque Country. His work investigates the tension between image and matter through a process that moves fluidly between drawing, digital experimentation, and painting.

–> more

Malte Hagen Olbertz

Malte Hagen (born 1967, lives in Berlin) combines objects, figures, and spaces to create ambivalent scenarios in large-format images that are strangely attractive yet repulsive. He uses light effects and surfaces to transport the depicted into a mythical distance. Despite allusions to mythology and art history, Hagen's images are completely contemporary. Bulky waste and plastic junk are on a par with golden helmets and classical poses. Hagen “oscillates between sweetness and jelly” (Christoph Tannert). What at first glance appears ironic is rather suggestive and always remains ambiguous.

–> more

LATESS

LATESS is an artist and designer working across objects, painting and installation. Her recent practice has focused on ceramic sculptures that often appear in dialogue with everyday furniture and daily objects. She is interested in testing the limits of materials, exploring how ceramics can be understood and experienced on a larger scale. Experimenting with forms and surface treatments, her work develops an organic, natural and fluid style that connects functional design with artistic expression.

–> more

New Perspectives – Artists:

–> more

GROUP SHOW #15
22 January – 12 February
Wed - Sat 2 - 6 pm and by appointment
Mollstraße 1, Berlin

Instagrammable art goes real
Every six weeks, a new GROUP SHOW opens in the nNew & Abstract Gallery in Berlin-Mitte and presents the most relevant works from the wealth of interesting positions shown on Instagram.

Between Alexanderplatz and Soho House - at New & Abstract at Mollstraße 1, visitors can immerse themselves in 100 square metres of art and meet the international artists in person at the exhibition openings. The Pop-up concept is inspired by Berlin's club culture and provides for future temporary presences at various exciting locations in the art metropolis.

Mollstraße 1 - creative vertical village
The New & Abstract Showroom is part of the exciting interim use project Mollstraße 1, which creatively utilises the former building of the ADN (Allgemeiner Deutscher Nachrichtendienst), the news agency of the former GDR, at the intersection of Mollstraße and Karl-Liebknecht-Straße (opposite Soho House) until its upcoming renovation. Covering 15,000 square metres and ten floors, the building is currently used by almost 110 people and companies from the creative industries.