Programme Overview

In his first solo exhibition at Weserhalle, titled “Von Krokodilen und Löwinnen” (“Of Lionesses and Crocodiles”), Georg Haberler presents a series of new mixed-media works that construct worlds through impressive compositions that appear to be on the verge of collapse, but always maintain their balance.

Toninho Dingl describes SULO-Y, a smart bin designed to patrol the streets, coming to the consumer not the other way around, as a satire for the current capitalisation or development of new investment fields in the technology sector. The project is equipped with all the buzzwords of Industry 4.0—the idea of a fourth industrial revolution … Read more

Our first group show of 2023—Way Too Human—opens 13 January. Participating artists will be announced shortly. Signup below to get notified. Featured artwork by Tokyo Tommy.

Weserhalle is happy to present Viktor Mattsson’s first solo show in Germany; Thanks For Laughing. The exhibition features new works by the Swedish artist, focusing in on the topic of masculinity and its place in current society through his characteristically awkward style.

Exhibiting Artists: Albrecht/WilkeAnouk Lamm AnoukEmilia UrbanekFrancois ThevenetGeorg HaberlerRafał DominikRon DeFeliceTamara MalcherToninho Dingl Celebrating its fifth anniversary, Weserhalle presents Future Solos, a showcase of exciting artist positions that are yet to come. With a strong selection of works by local and international artists in the physical and digital realm, Weserhalle continues its program’s characteristic language, reflecting … Read more

Igi Lola Ayedun exhibits for the first time in Germany at WESERHALLE with her solo show “Woman of colour y otros clichés”. The Brazilian artist delves into her study of the colour blue with a new series of paintings recently produced in São Paulo. A digital retinal scan taken from Ayedun’s own eye has been … Read more

Preface: Steven is a fictional character created by the artist Stephan Dybus. Dybus is a Visual artist based in Berlin. He studied Visual Communication at Burg Giebichenstein – University of Art and Design Halle. His work flips the narrative of self image and self optimisation in our present day existence, working with themes that resonates … Read more

Andy Kassier has returned to Berlin. For four months, he avoided Germany’s long and cold winter. He set out on a spiritual journey into the light, stopping in Mexico and South Africa to meet with shamans in tents, sitting and breathing. At a time when cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum are emerging as new … Read more

For his first solo show at WESERHALLE, Berlin based artist Navot Miller presents Colourful, homo, great., a series inspired by the artist’s recent travels interwoven with the artist’s multilayered identity. Entering the exhibition the spectator is greeted by the large-scale, vibrant coloured canvases. The first impression is of electric compositions fueled by the flamboyant use … Read more

Welcome to the uncanny image world of Mona Broschár. Inhabited by sausages, bows, cupcakes, ice cream, floral dishes, and fake finger claw nails; the motto is, “Don’t take life so seriously—Let’s play!” Fun times abound here, and fetishes are lived out, while the boundaries of “good taste” are pushed to its limits. Instead, her world … Read more

Igor stands somewhat perplexed with his back leaning against the wall. He watches the fountain gushing out the water which runs over the edge of the pool, ruining his shoes. A cigarette butt floats in the murky scenery. The water colours the gravel at his feet dark grey. The tulips are too excitable, it is … Read more

WESERHALLE is pleased to present The Party, a solo exhibition by Cem A., the person behind the Instagram art meme page @freeze_magazine. His memes explore topics such as survival and alienation in the art world, often through a hyper-reflexive and self-deprecating lens. This practice naturally extends into the exhibition The Party. Wojak, the ever-morphing face … Read more

Weserhalle is pleased to present One In The Bush, a solo exhibition by the Berlin based artist Sascha Brylla. While Brylla’s work may appear abstract at a distance, a closer look reveals an entirely new –– and at the same time very familiar –– story. Each of the works show a male dog trapped in … Read more

“Make your Apartment into an Art Flat“, is the latest offering from Weserhalle’s current exhibition; Da Silva Brokers Art House (DSBAH), a multimedia art installation by Anton Steenbock. DSBAH offers landlords the opportunity to circumvent the Mietpreisbremse (rent brake) by furnishing their flats with Berlin’s capital asset, contemporary art, and earning up to 40% more return … Read more

“The flâneur wanders restlessly through the city like an untamed beast. He succumbs to the crowd like a wreck to the waves, letting himself be overcome by the liberating breath of anarchy.”– Federico Castigliano, Flâneur: The Art of Wandering The Streets of Paris As an ode to our beloved Neuköllner Weserkiez, we are excited to … Read more

Weserhalle is excited to be apart of the second Art & Antique fair in Potsdam this coming October; a mix of regional and supra-regional galleries will be presented with a diverse offering of contemporary art, antiques, paintings, graphics, glass, and furniture. Our purpose at this fair is to present a key selection of our current … Read more

For her first solo exhibition at Weserhalle, French artist Johanna Dumet presents ‘Geil, oder?’, a series of bold still life paintings rendered in swathes of bright colour. Painted in Denmark (the historic Fyrgården in Anholt) during the peak of Scandinavian summer, Dumet’s work is a testament to the endless light and vivid colours of the … Read more

Weserhalle presents the Not Cancelled Group Show; a selection of artists currently studying at Kunsthochschule Berlin. Due to the current pandemic, access of students to their workspaces has been strictly limited and commonly prohibited. Opportunities and platforms for students to exhibit their work have been postponed, cancelled, or forced online. We acknowledge that exhibiting work … Read more

Weserhalle and Open White Gallery present new works of painter Inna Levinson, In your face. The exhibition marks the second year that both galleries collaborate together during the 48 Stunden Neukölln festival. As we watch the world through the screen, the screen gazes back at us. It may notice our fingers sliding frenetically over the … Read more

Jesse Leroy Smith is an Artist in Residence at Burnt Sienna Art School, an independent fine arts academy and atelier in Neukölln, where he has produced a series of paintings leading up to his exhibition ‘The Inhabitants’ at Weserhalle (12 – 26 March). As part of an ongoing project, this collection of painted sketches explores … Read more

In the end you still are stuck in trafficAnd your watch still ticks at the same speed The artistic practice of Berlin-based artist Monty Richthofen is rooted in his interest in prose poetry and aphoristic language. For his first exhibition at Weserhalle, Richthofen draws on his attention to words, as well as his adjunct practice … Read more

For our first exhibition of 2020, we are pleased to present Beauty in techno-expressive times, an exhibition and interactive experience by Claudia Rafael and Moritz Tontsch in collaboration with Weserhalle, Vorspiel 2020 and CTM festival. With technology we can alter the digital appearance of our bodies, which enables us to develop more personal and abstract interpretations of our physical selves. … Read more

Stehen Sie mit nur einem Fuss und zwar auf demvorderen Ballen. Der Fuß befindet sich nun in der Mitte. Drei Prozent werden addiert und durch zwei geteilt. Bei einem Jungen werden dann noch sechs Zentimeter dazugerechnet, bei einem Mädchen werden sie abgezogen. Den Möglichkeiten sind kaum Grenzen gesetzt. Es sei denn, es treten schwere körperliche … Read more

Hola i chau is an artist duo (Hola and Chau). Their name plays with contrast and duality, referencing the binary greetings ‘hola’ (hi) and ‘chau’ (bye). In their artistic practice, Hola Mono maintains a focus on amalgamating fragments of the every day, embracing inconsistencies and visual discordance to celebrate the possibilities latent in the unexpected. … Read more

Weserhalle is pleased to present the first Berlin exhibition of Chilean-Peruvian artist, Ivana de Vivanco, ‘THE BIG NOSE: A Matter of Perspective or Perspective Matters’. Like much of her previous work, this collection transforms the gallery into a deliriously experimental theatre, where all actors take the stage. Hallucinatory, dark, decadently colourful, and utterly compelling, de … Read more

Robert Deutsch is a bold user of colour. Working as both a commercial illustrator and a fine art painter, his works can be characterised as fanciful and technicolour universes that merge the labyrinthine meccas of the psyche with the eccentricities of popular culture. In particular, Deutsch concerns himself with the visual language of comic strips, … Read more

The Exhibition “the Printer’s Prints” was born as a collaboration between Berlin-based studio Le Raclet, and Bangkok-based studio The Archivist.Two parallel realities at the opposite sides of the world, both female run and with many years of practice behind them, the two screen-print studios share a genuine passion for graphic arts, and represent, in their … Read more

For her second exhibition at Weserhalle, artist Jeong Hwa Min presents Houseplants, a series of poly- and monochromatic graphic illustrations that are both bold and minimal in composition. Working primarily with airbrush painting using self-cut stencils, Jeong Hwa combines these techniques in a practice to experiment with the synthesis of geometric and organic shapes. She cites … Read more

No Fish is an exhibition and artist’s book (Galerie 5b, 2019) by Berlin-based American artist Sarah Schneider, whose work draws from her experiences traveling between Switzerland, Italy, and Greece in the summer of 2016. Using an amalgam of found images to structure her painting, Schneider layers these references in a composite of history and personal … Read more

For her first exhibition at Weserhalle, Alexandra Müller (b. 1988, Rostock, Germany) presents OK COOL, a new body of work featuring a selection of vibrant multi-media wall hangings and knitted sculptures. Sitting somewhere between two- and three- dimensional art, OK COOL draws together Müller’s work as an illustrator with her interest in fibre arts and … Read more

Curated by OWGallery: The SOTHEBY’S SERIES was created after a month long stay in Los Angeles and Las Vegas – a place where the perception of time, space and value of money quickly becomes blurred. When passing by a Sotheby’s window in Santa Monica, California, the artist was surprised to find that the 1744 auction house … Read more

“It was possibly one of the oldest roads in the world. I found it hard to think of a time when there was no road there because the trees and the tall hills and the fine views of bogland had been arranged by wise hands for the pleasing picture they made when looked at from … Read more

The configuration is universally familiar: in the centre sits a figure, eyes downcast, arms open in the sturdy form of a triangle. To the left and right, many gesturing hands vie for attention, while the figures to which the hands belong are positioned along the far side of a long table, variously seated and standing … Read more

Brodie Kaman’s latest body of work, Fever Spiral, presents a small collection of screen and digital prints that focus on the interrelation between self reflection, fear and acceptance, a complex that has often motivated his work. For this series, Kaman combines a DIY aesthetic with doggedly abstract graphics to create bold and experimental visual planes. … Read more

Developments in modern medicine have facilitated a fusion of the body and the technological, such that our collective understanding of what it means to be human is now, more than ever, uncertain. Humans and machines are engaged in a complex symbiotic relationship, with biomedical science at the helm of human-technological development. Where once medical sciences … Read more

Paul Waak is happy to show you his work. Drawings, paintings and sculptures explore the radical bliss of today. Through a process of obsessive repetition, digital deformation and recombination Waak develops intuitive metaphors for existential truths. Fond memories and immediate intimacy, violence and innocence, the endless potential of what is yet to come. Does this … Read more

Now You See It, Now You Don’t brings together artists from Denmark, France, Israel and the UK in a group show where each selected artist presents a moment of critical reflection on the instability of the visible. Jazbo GrossVictoria KaldanGal LeshemLouise MadsenFreddie MasonJoseph WinterCamille Yvert A magic trick performed for a child. Now You See … Read more

For the last show of the year, Weserhalle invites Dutch multidisciplinary artist BEA1991 to present a mix of her visual works produced under the alias “Softly John” – the character she embodies in photography. A gentle ex-geography teacher, John is balding wildly. Hair peeps out from his nostrils and ear holes. His body moves along … Read more

So do’st the moments make each day, and in turn 365 days do they make’th a year, what shall ye do with th’ne? Proverb; are you ready to receive your new days? Soon, in the Weserhalle Gallery, polyvalent visual artists Adrienne Kammerer and Molly Dyson visualize the coming year (2019) in an exhibition and launch … Read more

Palettes – “a thin board with curved edges and a hole for the thumb, used by artists to mix and place their paints on while they are working“. Bright, bold and balanced colors play a big role in the creative process and in the works of the Berlin based chinese artist Ruohan Wang and the … Read more

Born in the French Riviera, Yoann Pisterman is a visual artist and multi-instrumentalist composer. He studied a Master of Fine Art and of Business management in 2009. Jardin (Garden) is a study of landscape architecture;A series of visions and reflections acted on small format, Ink on paper.A conversation taking place between floral elements and shades … Read more

Max Guther is a 26 year old artist and illustrator based in Berlin, Germany. By combining photography and 3D generated forms Guther creates collaged images, which push the boundaries of digital illustration. In his images he portrays everyday scenes with a special focus on architectural details, interiors and their inhabitants. Textured to close detail these … Read more

Joanna Szproch’s first solo exhibition in Berlin presents the culmination of her long-term project exploring the relationship with her muse, Patrycja. @smilefomedaddy combines a knowing wink at our overtly public era of instagram, selfies, and digital photography on our phones, with what actually amounts to an extremely personal and private look at female friendship, youth … Read more

The Empowering Pose 01: Rude Receptionist is the start of a series of sculptures using poses to empower humans through simple stances. We are in an entrance hall. We find the receptionist table. But the receptionist is missing. How to identify a receptionist table by three simple characteristics: 1. The height of 115cm.2. A small … Read more

Inspired by the Japanese tradition of Suminagashi, an ancient technique of Japanese marbling that originated in the 12th century, Murphy’s Underwater Paintings apply the chance effects of ‘floating ink’ in a bath of water to create marbled patterns on large- scale canvasses. The unique and highly visceral process of this method raises important questions regarding … Read more

Who am i?I am one painting a day.The rest is society.Process and persistence.From nowhere to nothing. The focus of this exhibition will be 365 paintings: an overload of daily impressions created over the span of 1 year, accompanied by recent related works. Stephan Dybus is a visual artist based in Berlin. Born 1987 in Magdeburg … Read more

The Arrangement is a selection of new paintings made in Berlin at the cross over of Winter into Spring. The works are composed with a focus on line, form and elements of architecture. The dedication to providing space on the canvas allows painted forms to continually arrange themselves like objects as each layer of paint … Read more

Alchemical Breakfast is Walker’s first video work, having worked for many years with photography and installation. It continues her interests in the nature of images, representations of gender and sexuality and the qualities of feminine accessories. The process of seeing and looking is central to this mischievous work, which simultaneously seduces and confuses its audience … Read more

Lasse, Born in Lübeck, Northern Germany, currently resides in Berlin as an illustrator, animator and comic artist. “There are no clear stories being told, no punchlines or cliffhangers, but the pictures can be read as something coherent, the reading experience being closer to that of a poem. The works are drawings in pencil and coloured … Read more

Octavio Garabello is constantly capturing moments in his sketchbook, whatever time, place or situation he encounters.He uses these drawings to trigger the emotions of the past, bringing this into the present with bold colours creating a new interpretation of a memory. In this series, he brings us a selection of his latest large scale paintings … Read more

Having presented in both group and duo exhibitions internationally, producing album covers and poster artwork for artists such as Jex Opolis, Rat & Co, Moodymann and Ge-ology New York based artist Elvis Barlow-Smith presents his first solo exhibition ‘Poolside’. ‘Poolside’ is a series of paintings that explore exaggerated shapes, postures, and shadows created by bare … Read more