GROUP SHOW #9 – Contemporary Positions in Dialogue
With the ninth edition of our group exhibition, we continue our ongoing engagement with contemporary art as a field of aesthetic research, a space of encounter, and a mirror of the present moment. This exhibition brings together a diverse selection of current artistic positions expressed through a wide range of media – from delicate works on paper and sculptural ceramics to expressive gestures on canvas. These works trace the fragile, the tactile, the powerful – each unfolding its own world.
At the core of the exhibition are conceptual presentations developed specifically for this occasion. Their diversity gives rise to a rich and layered dialogue – formal, thematic, intuitive, and intellectual. What emerges is a field of intersecting perspectives, a collection of fragmentary approaches to something elusive: the abstract.
Here, abstraction is not treated as a mere stylistic device but as a way of thinking. The works explore absence and intensity, rhythm and silence, structure and dissolution. Abstraction becomes a poetic resistance to the definitive – an invitation to dwell within ambiguity. Art, in this sense, opens a space for the unspeakable, the ungraspable, the deeply felt.
A particular highlight of the exhibition is the presentation of the finalists of this year’s Open Call. Their works, each with a distinct voice, integrate into the curatorial fabric while offering new perspectives.
We warmly invite you to explore this polyphonic space with us. This exhibition stands as a testament to the vitality of the contemporary art scene – experimental, discursive, and profoundly open. It is a celebration of art not as an answer, but as a question.
Pia Danner
Pia Danner combines a deliberate artistic lack of planning with influences from her graphic and architectural work. Her paintings are characterized by bold black outlines and an intuitive juxtaposition of entities that resist clear categorization. These hybrid forms—a fusion of architecture, flora, fauna, human, and mechanical elements—embody a naïve abstraction that oscillates between the narrative of hypermodern urbanity and subjective experience.
Eva Hjelte
Anna Kalinitschenko
Yulia Lavrova
Gabriele Utech
Toni Vallance
New Perspectives SectionAni Ba | Colby Currie | Jilli Darling | Dr.Yo | Stephanie Dudd | Malwin Faber | Maureen Golgata | Corina Hallatu | Jana Jacob | Simone Kaltenegger | Michael Kaul | Sun Ju Kim | Anastasiya Koshcheeva | Merlin Lentz | Felix Lies | Sam Linders | Olivia Longstaff | Sandra Moral | Navid Norouzi | Chris Ordinario | Simone Pick | Lars Plessentin | Vlad Popereka | Cassio Raabe | Oliver Otto Rednitz | Morten Saether | Tanja Schaub | Felix Schauwecker | Jaime Danielle Smith | Snyder | Meik Stamer | Dineke van Oosten | Petra von Kazinyan | Anja Weingärtner | Jonas Wohler
Opening hours:
24 April – 22 May
Wed - Sat 2 - 6 pm and by appointment
New & Abstract Showroom | Mollstraße 1 | 10178 Berlin
