by Patrick Fetherstonhaugh
For five days starting September 10, Berlin Art Week brings together some of the city’s best and most interesting galleries, with special exhibitions, performances, screenings, and talks across the city.
We’ve partnered with BAW to produce a print map of galleries, as well as routes on the app to help guide you around.
Read on for our pick of must-see exhibitions to visit.
Lee Bae: Syzygy
@ Esther Schipper
from 11 Sep
sculptures, paintings, and a monumental site-specific work covering the walls and floor of the space in Lee Bae’s first solo exhibition with the gallery
Katharina Grosse: HIGH NOON LUMEN
@ Galerie Max Hetzler, Bleibtreustraße 45
from 11 Sep
new paintings see the renowned artist working with an uncharacteristically limited range of colours - “Grosse seemingly drives a wedge between what appears on the surface of her paintings and the physical support beneath them” - Colin Lang
SPACE I: Thomas Zipp: Profondeville, SPACE II: Carrie Mae Weems: Painting the Townfrom 12 Sep
Anselm Kiefer: Wasserfarben
@ Galerie Bastian
from 12 Sep
an exhibition of watercolors by the internationally renowned artist
Clayfrom 12 Sep
an exhibition of works by Morten Lobner Espersen, Guido Geelen, and Heidi Kippenberg - three ceramicists who build vases using the timeless material
Christelle Oyiri: Heaven’s worth, Hell on earth
@ Galerie Buchholz
from 11 Sep
“This work gathers both paradise and purgatory, / How heavy are memories when casted in metal to survive ? / What is holiness without a lick of transgression ? / What is paradise if not built in the threat of fire ?”
Robert Colescott: Imagine! Going to Egypt
@ Galerie Buchholz
from 11 Sep
focussing on paintings he made shortly before, during, and just after his early 1960s first stay in Cairo, this is Colescott’s first exhibition at the gallery
Ross Bleckner: It Used To Be
@ Capitain Petzel
from 11 Sep
a dense display of both monumental and intimate canvases - “almost like a space for meditation, allowing the viewer to immerse themselves in luminous fields and reflective surfaces”
Tauba Auerbach: Clepsydra
@ Esther Schipper
from 11 Sep
in Auerbach’s first exhibition with the gallery, new finely detailed paintings “that capture fleeting moments in coordinated fluid flow”
Hans Josephsohn and Günther Förg – A Dialogue
@ Galerie Max Hetzler, Potsdamer Straße
until 25 Oct
the first joint exhibition to examine the connections between the two artists presents Josephsohn’s sculptures alongside Förg’s grid paintings, as well as reliefs by both artists
Sub Limine - The Power Of Creation
@ Luisa Catucci Gallery
until 11 Oct
curated by Nicoletta Castellaneta and Roberto Borghi - “the dialogue between Mastrovito’s and Cecchini’s works generates a reflection on the body and nature, as well as the interaction between the organic and inorganic, the living and the artificial”
Grace Weaver: Mothers
@ Galerie Max Hetzler, Goethestraße 2/3
from 11 Sep
Weaver’s first solo exhibition at the gallery in Berlin presents her archetypal motifs including mother and child and the female nude on monumental square canvases
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