September 16 – October 28, 2023
Displayed in the first two rooms of the gallery, Anna Leonhardt’s paintings explore color, materiality, and space. By sculpting and layering the paint with a palette knife, the artist creates polychromatic, vividly rendered color fields with strong textures and spatial depth that form the background to floating abstract blocks of color. The gradual transformation of color, shape, space, and light creates a charged relationship between figure and ground.
Leonhardt’s earlier representational and figurative compositions have steadily dissolved into clashing fields of color over time, culminating in a consistently abstract style of painting that emphasizes the working process.
September 16 – October 28, 2023
Claire de Santa Colomas Skulpturen aus gefundenen oder ihr zugetragenen Hölzern befragen zentrale Themen der Skulptur sowie die ihr zugrunde liegenden gestalterischen Mittel. Gezielt spielt sie auf das Vokabular der abstrakten Skulptur des 20. Jahrhunderts an – als eine Art Archetyp der Gattung „Skulptur“. Ihre neuen Werke weisen eine für die Künstlerin neuartige Figürlichkeit auf; sie erinnern an Körper, Kult- und Fetischobjekte, oder suggerieren – einer Umkehrlogik folgend – einen „Negativraum“ für den Körper.
Horst Antes, Willi Baumeister, Karl H. Hödicke, Karin Kneffel, Walter Stöhrer, Cornelius Völker
June 30 — August 31, 2023
Figur – so nennen wir unsere Ausstellung mit Werken von Horst Antes, Willi Baumeister, Karl Horst Hödicke, Karin Kneffel, Walter Stöhrer und Cornelius Völker.
Aus dem Aru von Willi Baumeister springt uns die vollendete Synthese des Begriffs an: Eine abstrakte Figur ist zunächst eine schwarze Fläche – und mit jedem Blick verschiebt sich ihre Gewichtung. Mal meint man, einem Rohrschachtest beizuwohnen, dann taucht ein Gesicht auf, eine fast heftige gestische Bewegung, plötzlich ruht die Fläche ganz in sich. Und in diesem Auftauchen von sich stetig wandelnden Bedeutungsebenen vollzieht sich das Gesicht der Ausstellung.
April 29 – June 17, 2023
As part of Gallery Weekend 2023, we open our second solo exhibition of artist Thomas Müller (*1959). Müller’s pictorial worlds are complex abstract arrangements that quite naturally elude common pattern of interpretation. His compositions are comprised of crystalline, woven, undulating, planar, taut and floating creations.
April 29 – June 17, 2023
As part of Gallery Weekend 2023, we open our second solo exhibition of artist Achim Duchow (1948-1993). The exhibition Holy Shit – I Hear Voices was conceptualized on the occasion of the new publication of his catalog of works and comprises 18 large-scale paintings on canvas and paper, created between 1980 and 1992.
March 13 – April 15, 2023
William N. Copley and Ambra Durante, one born in 1919, the other in 2000, are two artists, who belong to the group of Self-Taught-Artists, who draw their pictorial themes directly from their own (experienced) lives with the highest level of artistry. Parallel in cooperation with International Wardrobe Berlin a herd of Votive Horses from Poshina in the Indian state of Gujarat.
DIE WELT VOM SECHSTEN SCHÖPFUNGSTAG
Peter Dreher (1932–2020), Amalie Kärcher (1819–1887), Karin Kneffel (*1957), Dieter Krieg (1937–2005), Ferdinand Küss (1800–1886), Emilie Preyer (1849–1930), Johann Wilhelm Preyer (1803–1889), Thomas Schütte (*1954), Adolf Senff (1785–1863), Cornelius Völker (*1965)
In Matti Kujasalo’s second solo exhibition at Galerie Friese the focus is on the paintings he has created in recent years and on his current work, in which color always plays a central role.
STRANGE, I'VE SEEN THAT FACE BEFORE
ZEICHNEREI DES DRINGENDEN MOTIVS
The exhibition, created in collaboration with the estate, brings together paintings and drawings from four decades, in which an idiosyncratic yet highly accessible world of recurring figures and objects unfolds.
September 17 – October 29, 2022
THOMAS MÜLLER & WALTER STÖHRER
June 18 - August 31, 2022
We bring together two artistic temperaments in this exhibition, whose work we represent with great enthusiasm. |
As part of Gallery Weekend 2022 we open our first solo exhibition of the artist, Horst Antes (*1936).
In his exhibition 7 Häuser Antes shows seven monumental, partly multi-piece paintings, which depict the dark, reduced houses typical for Antes. The works, including newly created ones, can be seen for the first time in the synopsis curated by the artist himself.
STOP KITTEN PRODUCTION & DEKADENZ I
Daniel Topka
New vases and ceramics at the Salon Friese
Part of Gallery Weekend Berlin 2022
April 29 - May 7, 2022
Parallel to our current exhibition with the works of Horst Antes in our gallery spaces, we are showing at the Salon Friese from April 29 to May 7, 2022 new works by Daniel Topka: a series of nine hand-blown glass vases with the title “Stop Kitten Production” as well as ceramics from the series »Dekadenz I«.
Edouard Baribeaud
The German-French artist, Edouard Baribeaud (*1984 in Versailles, lives in Berlin), stages myths, stories and pictorial traditions on the stage of art in his works on paper.
Parallel to our solo exhibition with the works of Edouard Baribeaud we present paintings and drawings by Willi Baumeister from the 1940s and 1950s.
Parallel to our current solo exhibition with the works of Edouard Baribeaud we present a new series of ten glazed ceramics with the title "Dekadenz I", made by Daniel Topka 2021-22.
William N. Copley, Felix Droese, Asana Fujikawa, Franziska Holstein, Karin Kneffel, Dieter Krieg, Via Lewandowsky, Claire de Santa Coloma, Walter Stöhrer, Daniel Topka, Cornelius Völker, Michael Wutz
EINMAL FIELEN WEISSE TROPFEN AUS DEINER BRUSTWARZE AUF MEINEN STÖCKELSCHUH, WEISST DU NOCH?
HELMUT NEWTON | WILLIAM N. COPLEY
In collaboration with Kicken Berlin and Meyer Riegger
October 31, 2020 - January 16, 2021
Klaus Heinrich
IN DEN KABINETTEN: VON BLECHEN BIS VOLTERRANO - ZEICHNUNGEN AUS DEM 16. UND 19. JAHRHUNDERT
In collaboration with Martin Grässle Kunsthandel
May 1 - May 29, 2016
Willi Baumeister
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In den Kabinetten: Michael Wutz, Cornelius Völker, Walter Stöhrer, Saul Steinberg, Dieter Krieg, Karin Kneffel und William N. Copley
May 12 - July 7, 2015
