SKARLET HORIZON
16. December –10. January 2026
Salon am Moritzplatz, Berlin
The Ambrozia Project (Igor Kanivets & Margarita Sherstiuk), Apl315, Norman Behrendt, Yulia Beliaeva, Anatoliy Belov, Nazar Bilyk, David Chichkan (1986-2025), Sasha Dolgyi, Ossian Fraser, Sofia Holubeva, Fabian Knecht, Tetiana Malinovska, Maria Matiashova & Dima Tolkachov, Roman Mykhailov, Oleksandr Nasanchuk, Masha Pryven, Vitalii Shupliak, Yuriy Sivirin, Tamara Turliun, Artem Volokitin, Vova Vorotniov, Oleksii Zolotar
In a time marked by war, fragmentation, distrust, and geopolitical disorientation, Scarlet Horizon takes shape at the fault lines of a world undergoing profound rupture. Rooted in the ongoing war in Ukraine and the shifting architecture of global security, the exhibition reflects a wider erosion of political structures and shared truths.
For centuries, the sky has operated as a cultural and philosophical symbol of transcendence, permanence, and orientation. Yet the twenty-first century has destabilized this symbolic register more radically than ever before. No longer a source of metaphysical reassurance, the sky has become a militarized domain: a terrain of surveillance, disintegration, and existential risk. Contemporary warfare unfolds across this vertical expanse in the visible choreography of drones, laser tracers, intercepted rockets, and the lingering glow of airstrikes.
Linking Kyiv and Berlin- cities bound by a century of artistic exchange- Scarlet Horizon gathers artists whose practices navigate rupture, displacement, and the search for new atmospheres of solidarity.
SKARLET HORIZON
16. December –10. January 2026
Salon am Moritzplatz, Berlin
The Ambrozia Project (Igor Kanivets & Margarita Sherstiuk), Apl315, Norman Behrendt, Yulia Beliaeva, Anatoliy Belov, Nazar Bilyk, David Chichkan (1986-2025), Sasha Dolgyi, Ossian Fraser, Sofia Holubeva, Fabian Knecht, Tetiana Malinovska, Maria Matiashova & Dima Tolkachov, Roman Mykhailov, Oleksandr Nasanchuk, Masha Pryven, Vitalii Shupliak, Yuriy Sivirin, Tamara Turliun, Artem Volokitin, Vova Vorotniov, Oleksii Zolotar
In a time marked by war, fragmentation, distrust, and geopolitical disorientation, Scarlet Horizon takes shape at the fault lines of a world undergoing profound rupture. Rooted in the ongoing war in Ukraine and the shifting architecture of global security, the exhibition reflects a wider erosion of political structures and shared truths.
For centuries, the sky has operated as a cultural and philosophical symbol of transcendence, permanence, and orientation. Yet the twenty-first century has destabilized this symbolic register more radically than ever before. No longer a source of metaphysical reassurance, the sky has become a militarized domain: a terrain of surveillance, disintegration, and existential risk. Contemporary warfare unfolds across this vertical expanse in the visible choreography of drones, laser tracers, intercepted rockets, and the lingering glow of airstrikes.
Linking Kyiv and Berlin- cities bound by a century of artistic exchange- Scarlet Horizon gathers artists whose practices navigate rupture, displacement, and the search for new atmospheres of solidarity.
Selected past Exhibitions
Ausgewählte frühere Ausstellungen
TOO SOON TO SAY - THE UNCONFERENCE
8.–11. May 2025
Saturday, May 10th, 4:30pm
VARIOUS OTHERS MUNICH
Intervention by Ossian Fraser on the roof terrace of the Hotel Bayerischer Hof
In his site-specific installation, Ossian Fraser responds to the historical and architectural context of the Bayerischer Hof and subtly disrupts the viewer’s familiar perception. He activates the building and its rooftop terrace with a large, floating balloon that marks the airspace above the hotel and reclaims the sky as a temporary artistic site.
At the same time, the work references the balloon’s historical functions – from meteorological observation to surveillance – and draws a fine connection to the site’s transformation into a highly protected zone during the Munich Security Conference.
SCHLOSSANEIGNUNG
10. Oktober 2024, 19:00
For the open call “Schlossaneignung” ("Reappropriating the Palace"), artists, architects, and designers from sixteen countries submitted 152 works, revealing a wide conceptual and aesthetic range of ideas for interventions on the façade of the Berlin Palace. From these submissions, jurors Julia Grosse, Annette Maechtel, and Hito Steyerl selected 21 works, which will be publicly presented by their authors at the nGbK. Following the presentations, attendees are invited to discuss the proposals (moderated by Anh-Linh Ngo).
nGbK am Alex
Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 11/13
10178 Berlin
Mehr zur Initiative Schlossaneignung auf:
www.schlossaneignung.de/
DISSOLVING ACTS
24 February - 27 April 2024
Gallery Nouveaux Deuxdeux, Munich
Ossian Fraser (solo)
Quiet observations and unusual settings, poetic remapping and divergent perspectives, attitude and restraint. These underlying principles are also at the core of Ossian Fraser’s conception of the exhibition at nouveaux deuxdeux. In this way, Fraser succeeds in bringing various antagonistic levels of meaning to resonate (silently) with each other. Uncovering these layers requires a slow understanding, a dialogical decoding, to circumscribe the areas of our existence that are not easy to verbalize — this darned contradictory human condition.
Text excerpt by Christain Ganzenberg
nouveaux deuxdeux
Amalienstrasse 22
80333 Munich
BOOK LAUNCH
Berlin, 16 September, 6 - 9pm, Salon am Moritzplatz
Munich, 22 September, 7 - 10pm, Galeriestraße 6A
DISSOLVING ACTS
Ossian Fraser & The Critic, The Naturalist, The Architects, The Mountaineer
The book is the first to offer comprehensive insight into Fraser’s artistic practice. Series of pictures showcasing his
conceptual and poetic pieces alternate with conversations that not only demarcate the framework in which his art operates, but also touch on the great issues of our time.
Editors: Christian Ganzenberg, Lydia Korndörfer
Authors: Laura Helena Wurth, Andreas Merkl, Ilze and Heinrich Wolff, Jean Troillet
Design: PARAT.cc, München
Publisher: DCV, Berlin
THE NOTION OF SILENCE
Kunsthaus Erfurt
Opening: 03 November 2023, 6pm
Nevin Aladag, Lena Marie Emrich, Ossian Fraser, Lena von Goedeke, Jan Jelinek, Jeewi Lee, Mischa Leinkauf, Nik Nowak, Christina Wunderlich
The exhibition “The Notion of Silence” explores the idea of silence—an intellectual construct that, in its purest form, can never truly exist and would be unbearable for humans. Yet, under the guise of pause, introspection, mindfulness, and closeness to nature, silence is increasingly romanticized today. Noise-cancelling headphones, meditation and yoga, the move to the countryside, and travel to the most remote places on earth are among the means and methods that promise access to this rare commodity in frenetic times.
The selected works by Nevin Aladağ, Lena Marie Emrich, Ossian Fraser, Lena von Goedeke, Jan Jelinek, Jeewi Lee, Mischa Leinkauf, Nik Nowak, and Christina Wunderlich navigate the spectrum of poles that define silence. They testify to the absence of sound—or to its presence where it would not be expected. Pauses in conversational flow come into focus. The traces of pop music materialize. Thunderclouds are made to sound. The frequencies of a mountain panorama become audible—tones humans could not perceive without technology. Uncharted spaces within megacities come into view.
STANDARD CANVAS
Niklas Binzberger, Benvenuta Bosetto, Daniel Burkhardt, Markus Draper, Ossian Fraser, Vincent Grunwald, Elana Katz, Yuni Kim, Kanta Kimura, Natalia Korotyeva, Lilia Kovka, David Kroell, Pegasus Produkt, Linus Rauch, Alessandro Rauschmann, Marie Rief, Alexander Skorobagatov, Adam Slowik, Juliane Tübke, Luca Vanello, Tilman Wendland, Lisa Wilkens
Lusvardi Art is pleased to present the group exhibition “Standard Canvas”. The exhibition title implies an object, a material used for art. The main venue for painting for centuries: Painting is done on it. How do contampary artists react to a canvas (a standard canvas: sold by a large art supply store, produced in China, standard size 30x40 cm, mass-produced...) when they approach the object critically and use it as the starting material for a new work?
The exhibition gathers 22 artists who translate the question into different artistic concepts. 22 artistic positions that have created a completely independent and de-contextualized work from an identical material; a standard canvas.
At A Moment in Time
18 January – 28 March, 2021
Kunstverein Arnsberg
Arnsberg
Mit Albrecht/Wilke, Solweig de Barry, Kristina Berning, Brad Downey, Ossian Fraser, Lena von Goedeke, Henri Haake, Aneta Kajzer, Lucia Kempkes, Matthieu Martin, Ana Lessing Menjibar, Ariel Reichman, Maximilian Rödel, Jan Vormann und Felix Kiessling
An extraordinary year is drawing to a close. Despite the exceptional circumstances, we are very pleased to look back on a vibrant program that repeatedly attracted national attention. With Brad Downey, Lucia Kempkes, Ossian Fraser, Kristina Berning, Ana Lessing Menjibar, and Ariel Reichman, the Kunstverein once again presented exciting and emerging artistic positions this year, offering some of the artists a larger, institutional appearance in Germany for the very first time.
Due to the current pandemic regulations requiring all art and cultural institutions to remain closed, we unfortunately have to postpone our annual edition exhibition—traditionally held during the pre-Christmas season—until January 2021.
Mount Analogue
28 June – 30 August, 2020
Kunstverein Arnsberg
Arnsberg
A duo show with Lucia Kempkes & Ossian Fraser
Arnsberg in the Alps? In a time in which dreaming proves itself to be an essential survival strategy, the duo exhibition Mount Analogue invites us to imaginary journeys. The works shown by Lucia Kempkes and Ossian Fraser were developed independently of one another but share a common theme: they focus on the mountain. Since centuries, it has been shaped by explorers and romantics to a metaphor for freedom and adventure, for profound encounters with nature, the world, and perhaps foremost with the self. The artists demonstrate: This vision of the mountains lives in our heads and homes until today.
Residency 2735
July 2019
Artist Residency, Cabane de l'A Neuve
Swiss Alps, CH
The mountain hut of the A Neuve was built in 1927 thanks to a donation from Édouard Dufour, architect, explorer of the Trient region and honorary member of the Diablerets Section. For many years, the hut served as a layover before reaching the peaks of the surrounding mountains. In the historical continuity of the hut, composed of architectural and cultural heritage, the section des Diablerets of the Swiss Alpine Club organizes an artist residency with the aim of broadening the mountain-experience of all visitors.
On Saturday, July 27 2019, an opening will take place at the hut (Cabane de l'A Neuve), to present the work, which will be visible throughout the season.
Last dance
9 -11 March, 2018
Autocenter zu Gast im Kindl - Zentrum für Zeitgenössische Kunst
Berlin
Taslima Ahmed, Tamina Amadyar, Alisa Berger, Niklas Binzberger, Franz Burkardt, Hadassa Emmerich, Antje Engelmann, Isabelle Fein, Flame, Ossian Fraser, Isabella Fürnkäs, Paris Giachoustidis, Manor Grunewald, Tilman Hornig, Sofia Hulten, David Jablonowski, Maria Kremeti, Felix Kultau, Paul Laffoley, Simon Laureyns, Jeewi Lee, Robert Lucander, Florian Meisenberg, Mohamed Namou, Marie Reinert, Marie Rief, Maik Schierloh, Frederic Spreckelmeyer, Stephanie Stein, Hiroki Tsukuda, Sandra Vaka, Eva Vuillemin, Shira Wachsmann, Michael White
When the artists Joep van Liefland and Maik Schierloh opened Autocenter in June 2001, they created one of Berlin’s most exciting artist-run spaces. Alongside a club on Simplonstraße, the two organized exhibitions that each lasted only a single weekend. Autocenter quietly closed in 2015. Over fourteen years, and with virtually no institutional support, Autocenter produced no fewer than 200 exhibitions featuring 800 artists.
Following exactly the same principles that shaped Autocenter’s original concept, the final exhibition at the KINDL – Centre for Contemporary Art takes place over just one weekend. The organizers could have chosen to present the history of their space as a kind of “best-of” compilation—like the albums Madonna or U2 release before Christmas. But true to their initial philosophy, van Liefland and Schierloh decided instead to exhibit around thirty artists who have never shown at Autocenter before. Because Berlin’s art scene has changed; because younger artists are struggling to find affordable studios and exhibition spaces; because Berlin’s true treasure lies in the creative minds who live in the city and produce their art here.
curated by Joep van Liefland und Maik Schierloh
Social Geometrism
29 April - 7 May 2017
Reinbeckhallen
Berlin
A group show with Sophie Erlund, Felix Kiessling, Ignacio Uriarte, Raul Walch, Stephen Kent, Vanessa Enriquez, Ossian Fraser, Gonzalo Reyes Araos, Jennifer Oellerich, Florian Schmidt, Nadine Fecht, Francisco Rozas, Juan Varela and Panagiotis Margaritis
‘Social Geometrism’ housed in Reinbeckhallen – a renovated transformer plant in Schöneweide- a new entry for Berlin's contemporary art scene supported by Stiftung Schauhallen: Sammlung für Gegenwartkunst and Kunst Am Spreeknie. The title of the exhibition, is an extension of ‘Social Geometry’, a term introduced by the American sociologist Donald Black in an effort to measure social morphology, as it had been developed within postmodern society.
Black’s model was a cluster, composed by geometrical lines and shapes, designed to convey the real space where people live, while also standing as a new type of geography. The group show of international, Berlin-based artists aims to explore and highlight new spatiotemporal formations. This exhibition brings together lines, solids, surfaces and more complex polyhedral figures that present themselves as sociological models.
Anderland
20 November – 17 Januar 2016
Kunstverein Arnsberg
Arnsberg
Clara Bausch, Kristina Berning, Kerstin Brätsch, Marco Bruzzone, Eric Ellingsen, Ossian Fraser, Knut Henrik Henriksen, Timo Klöppel, Tanaz Modabber, Siamak Nejadnourifar, Dennis Rudolph, Santiago Sierra, Fiete Stolte, Yukihiro Taguchi, Tyra Tingleff
The exhibition “Anderland” offers a retrospective of the year’s program, bringing all artistic positions together and presenting them in new relationships to one another. For the first time, the Kunstverein is also showing works by the young artists Clara Bausch, Kristina Berning, Ossian Fraser, Tanaz Modabber, and Tyra Tingleff. There is also great anticipation for the screening of the award-winning film “I fought for freedom” by the Iranian filmmaker Siamak Nejadnourifar. Siamak arrived in Arnsberg just a few weeks ago as a refugee. Water, the sea, and the desire to escape everyday life are also indirect themes of the exhibition “Maria Aspera” by Timo Klöppel, which can be seen in the Lichthaus Arnsberg until the end of the year.
The title “Anderland” allows for various interpretations; within the exhibition, however, it is understood less as a “land” and more as a cause, reason, or principle. The longing for change is a central theme for many artists who, through physical or conceptual boundary-crossing, evoke new works and new sensations. Anderland begins where boundaries are crossed. This exhibition is therefore dedicated to the unknown in art, which only unfolds after such a crossing.
curtated by Vlado Velkov
Schlüssel zur Stadt
28 March – 05 April 2015
Leipziger Straße 60
Berlin
Willem Besselink, Ossian Fraser, Karsten Konrad, Adam Kraft, Marta Kryszkiewicz, Jeewi Lee, Julian Rosefeldt, Raul Walch, Matthias Wermke & Mischa Leinkauf, Sinta Werner
The exhibition presents eleven artists who work in constant dialogue with the city, with most of the works maintaining a direct connection to Berlin. For them, the urban space functions as an external studio or a reservoir of materials and forms
Eine Ausstellung von Jeewi Lee, Lydia Korndörfer und Raul Walch.
The City as Detail
7 - 28 February 2015
Salon am Moritzplatz, Berlin
Heidi Specker, Tilo Schulz, Ulrike Kuschel, Bettina Nürnberg, Adam Raymont, Philipp Simon, Olivier Guesselè-Garai, Lena Inken Schaefer, Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs, Dirk Peuker, Ossian Fraser
In "The Principle of Hope," Ernst Bloch describes architecture as "an attempt to produce a humanitarian homeland" (Heimat). From a postmodern perspective it was therefore important to liberate the architecture from the muteness of its "pure forms". Worlds of experience should shape objects and buildings, manifest themselves in color, material and form, and inscribe themselves into the reflex of memory.
The exhibition takes place in the former office of the architect Otto Steidle and shows architectural fictions in their concrete appearance.
curated by Dirk Peuker
Berlin Masters
6 – 13 September 2014
ARNDT Contemporary Art
Berlin
Paul Darius, Thea Drechsel, Ossian Fraser, Felix Kiessling, Fabian Knecht, EunHee Lee, Jeewi Lee, Johannes Regin, Verena Schmidt, Marc von der Hocht
ARNDT is pleased to present BERLIN MASTERS 2014 from September 6 to 13, 2014. It is the second edition of the exhibition series which was successfully established in 2013 by Matthias Arndt, Lydia Korndörfer and Lisa Polten.
The group show brings the annual student exhibitions, the ‘Rundgänge’, of the two Berlin art schools back to mind: Works of promising master students of the Universität der Künste and the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee will be presented.
Contentual intersections evolve through the common artistical treatment of motifs like the window and the grid, whereby the emphasis lies on concepts of space and time. Some pieces are designed especially for BERLIN MASTERS 2014 and refer to general conditions as the duration of the exhibition or the gallery space, if not approaching space as an abstraction, as an immeasurable entity.
The show is curated by Lydia Korndörfer and Lisa Polten.
EN HIVER
OPENING Thursday, 4 December | 6—9 pm
EXHIBITION 5 December 2025 — 7 February 2026
Ludwig Dressler, Ossian Fraser, Sophie Schweighart
The exhibition EN HIVER reflects on the weight and transience inherent in human experience. The works explore fragility, impermanence, and the subtle tensions between presence and absence. A space is created where time seems to pause, memory shifts, and perception becomes fluid, trapping us in our own awareness, suspended between past and present. The balance between the tangible and the fleeting, between physical presence and the traces left in memory, is revealed, creating a quiet intensity where fragility becomes both visible and felt.
SKARLET HORIZON
16. December –10. January 2026
Salon am Moritzplatz, Berlin
The Ambrozia Project (Igor Kanivets & Margarita Sherstiuk), Apl315, Norman Behrendt, Yulia Beliaeva, Anatoliy Belov, Nazar Bilyk, David Chichkan (1986-2025), Sasha Dolgyi, Ossian Fraser, Sofia Holubeva, Fabian Knecht, Tetiana Malinovska, Maria Matiashova & Dima Tolkachov, Roman Mykhailov, Oleksandr Nasanchuk, Masha Pryven, Vitalii Shupliak, Yuriy Sivirin, Tamara Turliun, Artem Volokitin, Vova Vorotniov, Oleksii Zolotar
In a time marked by war, fragmentation, distrust, and geopolitical disorientation, Scarlet Horizon takes shape at the fault lines of a world undergoing profound rupture. Rooted in the ongoing war in Ukraine and the shifting architecture of global security, the exhibition reflects a wider erosion of political structures and shared truths.
For centuries, the sky has operated as a cultural and philosophical symbol of transcendence, permanence, and orientation. Yet the twenty-first century has destabilized this symbolic register more radically than ever before. No longer a source of metaphysical reassurance, the sky has become a militarized domain: a terrain of surveillance, disintegration, and existential risk. Contemporary warfare unfolds across this vertical expanse in the visible choreography of drones, laser tracers, intercepted rockets, and the lingering glow of airstrikes.
Linking Kyiv and Berlin- cities bound by a century of artistic exchange- Scarlet Horizon gathers artists whose practices navigate rupture, displacement, and the search for new atmospheres of solidarity.
Selected past Exhibitions
Ausgewählte frühere Ausstellungen
TOO SOON TO SAY - THE UNCONFERENCE
8.–11. May 2025
Saturday, May 10th, 4:30pm
VARIOUS OTHERS MUNICH
Intervention by Ossian Fraser on the roof terrace of the Hotel Bayerischer Hof
In his site-specific installation, Ossian Fraser responds to the historical and architectural context of the Bayerischer Hof and subtly disrupts the viewer’s familiar perception. He activates the building and its rooftop terrace with a large, floating balloon that marks the airspace above the hotel and reclaims the sky as a temporary artistic site.
At the same time, the work references the balloon’s historical functions – from meteorological observation to surveillance – and draws a fine connection to the site’s transformation into a highly protected zone during the Munich Security Conference.
SCHLOSSANEIGNUNG
10. Oktober 2024, 19:00
For the open call “Schlossaneignung” ("Reappropriating the Palace"), artists, architects, and designers from sixteen countries submitted 152 works, revealing a wide conceptual and aesthetic range of ideas for interventions on the façade of the Berlin Palace. From these submissions, jurors Julia Grosse, Annette Maechtel, and Hito Steyerl selected 21 works, which will be publicly presented by their authors at the nGbK. Following the presentations, attendees are invited to discuss the proposals (moderated by Anh-Linh Ngo).
nGbK am Alex
Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 11/13
10178 Berlin
Mehr zur Initiative Schlossaneignung auf:
www.schlossaneignung.de/
DISSOLVING ACTS
24 February - 27 April 2024
Gallery Nouveaux Deuxdeux, Munich
Ossian Fraser (solo)
Quiet observations and unusual settings, poetic remapping and divergent perspectives, attitude and restraint. These underlying principles are also at the core of Ossian Fraser’s conception of the exhibition at nouveaux deuxdeux. In this way, Fraser succeeds in bringing various antagonistic levels of meaning to resonate (silently) with each other. Uncovering these layers requires a slow understanding, a dialogical decoding, to circumscribe the areas of our existence that are not easy to verbalize — this darned contradictory human condition.
Text excerpt by Christain Ganzenberg
nouveaux deuxdeux
Amalienstrasse 22
80333 Munich
BOOK LAUNCH
Berlin, 16 September, 6 - 9pm, Salon am Moritzplatz
Munich, 22 September, 7 - 10pm, Galeriestraße 6A
DISSOLVING ACTS
Ossian Fraser & The Critic, The Naturalist, The Architects, The Mountaineer
The book is the first to offer comprehensive insight into Fraser’s artistic practice. Series of pictures showcasing his
conceptual and poetic pieces alternate with conversations that not only demarcate the framework in which his art operates, but also touch on the great issues of our time.
Editors: Christian Ganzenberg, Lydia Korndörfer
Authors: Laura Helena Wurth, Andreas Merkl, Ilze and Heinrich Wolff, Jean Troillet
Design: PARAT.cc, München
Publisher: DCV, Berlin
THE NOTION OF SILENCE
Kunsthaus Erfurt
Opening: 03 November 2023, 6pm
Nevin Aladag, Lena Marie Emrich, Ossian Fraser, Lena von Goedeke, Jan Jelinek, Jeewi Lee, Mischa Leinkauf, Nik Nowak, Christina Wunderlich
The exhibition “The Notion of Silence” explores the idea of silence—an intellectual construct that, in its purest form, can never truly exist and would be unbearable for humans. Yet, under the guise of pause, introspection, mindfulness, and closeness to nature, silence is increasingly romanticized today. Noise-cancelling headphones, meditation and yoga, the move to the countryside, and travel to the most remote places on earth are among the means and methods that promise access to this rare commodity in frenetic times.
The selected works by Nevin Aladağ, Lena Marie Emrich, Ossian Fraser, Lena von Goedeke, Jan Jelinek, Jeewi Lee, Mischa Leinkauf, Nik Nowak, and Christina Wunderlich navigate the spectrum of poles that define silence. They testify to the absence of sound—or to its presence where it would not be expected. Pauses in conversational flow come into focus. The traces of pop music materialize. Thunderclouds are made to sound. The frequencies of a mountain panorama become audible—tones humans could not perceive without technology. Uncharted spaces within megacities come into view.
STANDARD CANVAS
Niklas Binzberger, Benvenuta Bosetto, Daniel Burkhardt, Markus Draper, Ossian Fraser, Vincent Grunwald, Elana Katz, Yuni Kim, Kanta Kimura, Natalia Korotyeva, Lilia Kovka, David Kroell, Pegasus Produkt, Linus Rauch, Alessandro Rauschmann, Marie Rief, Alexander Skorobagatov, Adam Slowik, Juliane Tübke, Luca Vanello, Tilman Wendland, Lisa Wilkens
Lusvardi Art is pleased to present the group exhibition “Standard Canvas”. The exhibition title implies an object, a material used for art. The main venue for painting for centuries: Painting is done on it. How do contampary artists react to a canvas (a standard canvas: sold by a large art supply store, produced in China, standard size 30x40 cm, mass-produced...) when they approach the object critically and use it as the starting material for a new work?
The exhibition gathers 22 artists who translate the question into different artistic concepts. 22 artistic positions that have created a completely independent and de-contextualized work from an identical material; a standard canvas.
At A Moment in Time
18. Januar – 28. März, 2021
Kunstverein Arnsberg
Arnsberg
Mit Albrecht/Wilke, Solweig de Barry, Kristina Berning, Brad Downey, Ossian Fraser, Lena von Goedeke, Henri Haake, Aneta Kajzer, Lucia Kempkes, Matthieu Martin, Ana Lessing Menjibar, Ariel Reichman, Maximilian Rödel, Jan Vormann und Felix Kiessling
An extraordinary year is drawing to a close. Despite the exceptional circumstances, we are very pleased to look back on a vibrant program that repeatedly attracted national attention. With Brad Downey, Lucia Kempkes, Ossian Fraser, Kristina Berning, Ana Lessing Menjibar, and Ariel Reichman, the Kunstverein once again presented exciting and emerging artistic positions this year, offering some of the artists a larger, institutional appearance in Germany for the very first time.
Due to the current pandemic regulations requiring all art and cultural institutions to remain closed, we unfortunately have to postpone our annual edition exhibition—traditionally held during the pre-Christmas season—until January 2021.
Mount Analogue
28 June – 30 August, 2020
Kunstverein Arnsberg
Arnsberg
A duo show with Lucia Kempkes & Ossian Fraser
Arnsberg in the Alps? In a time in which dreaming proves itself to be an essential survival strategy, the duo exhibition Mount Analogue invites us to imaginary journeys. The works shown by Lucia Kempkes and Ossian Fraser were developed independently of one another but share a common theme: they focus on the mountain. Since centuries, it has been shaped by explorers and romantics to a metaphor for freedom and adventure, for profound encounters with nature, the world, and perhaps foremost with the self. The artists demonstrate: This vision of the mountains lives in our heads and homes until today.
Residency 2735
July 2019
Artist Residency, Cabane de l'A Neuve
Swiss Alps, CH
The mountain hut of the A Neuve was built in 1927 thanks to a donation from Édouard Dufour, architect, explorer of the Trient region and honorary member of the Diablerets Section. For many years, the hut served as a layover before reaching the peaks of the surrounding mountains. In the historical continuity of the hut, composed of architectural and cultural heritage, the section des Diablerets of the Swiss Alpine Club organizes an artist residency with the aim of broadening the mountain-experience of all visitors.
On Saturday, July 27 2019, an opening will take place at the hut (Cabane de l'A Neuve), to present the work, which will be visible throughout the season.
Last dance
9 -11 März, 2018
Autocenter zu Gast im Kindl - Zentrum für Zeitgenössische Kunst
Berlin
Taslima Ahmed, Tamina Amadyar, Alisa Berger, Niklas Binzberger, Franz Burkardt, Hadassa Emmerich, Antje Engelmann, Isabelle Fein, Flame, Ossian Fraser, Isabella Fürnkäs, Paris Giachoustidis, Manor Grunewald, Tilman Hornig, Sofia Hulten, David Jablonowski, Maria Kremeti, Felix Kultau, Paul Laffoley, Simon Laureyns, Jeewi Lee, Robert Lucander, Florian Meisenberg, Mohamed Namou, Marie Reinert, Marie Rief, Maik Schierloh, Frederic Spreckelmeyer, Stephanie Stein, Hiroki Tsukuda, Sandra Vaka, Eva Vuillemin, Shira Wachsmann, Michael White
When the artists Joep van Liefland and Maik Schierloh opened Autocenter in June 2001, they created one of Berlin’s most exciting artist-run spaces. Alongside a club on Simplonstraße, the two organized exhibitions that each lasted only a single weekend. Autocenter quietly closed in 2015. Over fourteen years, and with virtually no institutional support, Autocenter produced no fewer than 200 exhibitions featuring 800 artists.
Following exactly the same principles that shaped Autocenter’s original concept, the final exhibition at the KINDL – Centre for Contemporary Art takes place over just one weekend. The organizers could have chosen to present the history of their space as a kind of “best-of” compilation—like the albums Madonna or U2 release before Christmas. But true to their initial philosophy, van Liefland and Schierloh decided instead to exhibit around thirty artists who have never shown at Autocenter before. Because Berlin’s art scene has changed; because younger artists are struggling to find affordable studios and exhibition spaces; because Berlin’s true treasure lies in the creative minds who live in the city and produce their art here.
curated by Joep van Liefland und Maik Schierloh
Social Geometrism
29 April - 7 May 2017
Reinbeckhallen
Berlin
A group show with Sophie Erlund, Felix Kiessling, Ignacio Uriarte, Raul Walch, Stephen Kent, Vanessa Enriquez, Ossian Fraser, Gonzalo Reyes Araos, Jennifer Oellerich, Florian Schmidt, Nadine Fecht, Francisco Rozas, Juan Varela and Panagiotis Margaritis
‘Social Geometrism’ housed in Reinbeckhallen – a renovated transformer plant in Schöneweide- a new entry for Berlin's contemporary art scene supported by Stiftung Schauhallen: Sammlung für Gegenwartkunst and Kunst Am Spreeknie. The title of the exhibition, is an extension of ‘Social Geometry’, a term introduced by the American sociologist Donald Black in an effort to measure social morphology, as it had been developed within postmodern society.
Black’s model was a cluster, composed by geometrical lines and shapes, designed to convey the real space where people live, while also standing as a new type of geography. The group show of international, Berlin-based artists aims to explore and highlight new spatiotemporal formations. This exhibition brings together lines, solids, surfaces and more complex polyhedral figures that present themselves as sociological models.
Anderland
20 November – 17 Januar 2016
Kunstverein Arnsberg
Arnsberg
Clara Bausch, Kristina Berning, Kerstin Brätsch, Marco Bruzzone, Eric Ellingsen, Ossian Fraser, Knut Henrik Henriksen, Timo Klöppel, Tanaz Modabber, Siamak Nejadnourifar, Dennis Rudolph, Santiago Sierra, Fiete Stolte, Yukihiro Taguchi, Tyra Tingleff
The exhibition “Anderland” offers a retrospective of the year’s program, bringing all artistic positions together and presenting them in new relationships to one another. For the first time, the Kunstverein is also showing works by the young artists Clara Bausch, Kristina Berning, Ossian Fraser, Tanaz Modabber, and Tyra Tingleff. There is also great anticipation for the screening of the award-winning film “I fought for freedom” by the Iranian filmmaker Siamak Nejadnourifar. Siamak arrived in Arnsberg just a few weeks ago as a refugee. Water, the sea, and the desire to escape everyday life are also indirect themes of the exhibition “Maria Aspera” by Timo Klöppel, which can be seen in the Lichthaus Arnsberg until the end of the year.
The title “Anderland” allows for various interpretations; within the exhibition, however, it is understood less as a “land” and more as a cause, reason, or principle. The longing for change is a central theme for many artists who, through physical or conceptual boundary-crossing, evoke new works and new sensations. Anderland begins where boundaries are crossed. This exhibition is therefore dedicated to the unknown in art, which only unfolds after such a crossing.
curtated by Vlado Velkov
Schlüssel zur Stadt
28 März – 05 April 2015
Leipziger Straße 60
Berlin
Willem Besselink, Ossian Fraser, Karsten Konrad, Adam Kraft, Marta Kryszkiewicz, Jeewi Lee, Julian Rosefeldt, Raul Walch, Matthias Wermke & Mischa Leinkauf, Sinta Werner
The exhibition presents eleven artists who work in constant dialogue with the city, with most of the works maintaining a direct connection to Berlin. For them, the urban space functions as an external studio or a reservoir of materials and forms
Eine Ausstellung von Jeewi Lee, Lydia Korndörfer und Raul Walch.
The City as Detail
7 - 28 February 2015
Salon am Moritzplatz, Berlin
Heidi Specker, Tilo Schulz, Ulrike Kuschel, Bettina Nürnberg, Adam Raymont, Philipp Simon, Olivier Guesselè-Garai, Lena Inken Schaefer, Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs, Dirk Peuker, Ossian Fraser
In "The Principle of Hope," Ernst Bloch describes architecture as "an attempt to produce a humanitarian homeland" (Heimat). From a postmodern perspective it was therefore important to liberate the architecture from the muteness of its "pure forms". Worlds of experience should shape objects and buildings, manifest themselves in color, material and form, and inscribe themselves into the reflex of memory.
The exhibition takes place in the former office of the architect Otto Steidle and shows architectural fictions in their concrete appearance.
curated by Dirk Peuker
Berlin Masters
6 – 13 September 2014
ARNDT Contemporary Art
Berlin
Paul Darius, Thea Drechsel, Ossian Fraser, Felix Kiessling, Fabian Knecht, EunHee Lee, Jeewi Lee, Johannes Regin, Verena Schmidt, Marc von der Hocht
ARNDT is pleased to present BERLIN MASTERS 2014 from September 6 to 13, 2014. It is the second edition of the exhibition series which was successfully established in 2013 by Matthias Arndt, Lydia Korndörfer and Lisa Polten.
The group show brings the annual student exhibitions, the ‘Rundgänge’, of the two Berlin art schools back to mind: Works of promising master students of the Universität der Künste and the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee will be presented.
Contentual intersections evolve through the common artistical treatment of motifs like the window and the grid, whereby the emphasis lies on concepts of space and time. Some pieces are designed especially for BERLIN MASTERS 2014 and refer to general conditions as the duration of the exhibition or the gallery space, if not approaching space as an abstraction, as an immeasurable entity.
The show is curated by Lydia Korndörfer and Lisa Polten.