ON DEATH AND DREAMING
Ambra Durante
04. July – 30. August 2025
This is the third solo exhibition of artist Ambra Durante (born in 2000) at Galerie Friese. Its title, rendered in the artist’s own spelling, is: “On death and Dreaming”.
LEISE ÄHNLICHKEIT
Dieter Krieg, William N. Copley, Peter Dreher
03. May – 28. June 2025
On the occasion of Gallery Weekend Berlin we are opening the exhibition “Leise Ähnlichkeit” (“Quiet Resemblance”), dedicated to the artists Dieter Krieg (1937-2005), William N. Copley (1919-1996) and Peter Dreher (1932-2020).
The exhibition focuses on the work of Dieter Krieg. His art, drawing on all the power of painting, is a constant exploration of literature, visual art, everyday life, life and death. Dieter Krieg was a reader, and his painting is characterised by an affinity for the literature of his century, for Sartre and Beckett, Schmidt and Flaubert, Musil and Jellinek, to name but a few.
SOULVA
Anna Leonhardt
08. February – 03. April 2025
We are used to reading a succession, a temporal sequence in pictures, just as we experience it in life. In Anna Leonhardt's work, one might initially think: there is a background to the picture, which is the foil for the appearance of shiny, shimmering colour forms. An event of painting takes place on the surfaces of the background, which says a lot about Anna Leonhardt's understanding of art.
CORNELIUS VÖLKER - VON A BIS Z
18. January – 01. February 2025
‘For me, the motifs are something like coefficients of resistance that painting has to test itself against,’ says Cornelius Völker. For more than 25 years, he has devoted himself to the objects and situations of our everyday lives and transformed them into his pictorial world. Völker's pictures are instantly recognisable - playfully light and supported by the tradition of art history, he has shaped his own form of still life painting, both stylistically and thematically. And yet the pictures could not be more different; he continuously explores the possibilities that painting can offer.
WALTER STÖHRER-GRAFIK-PREIS 2024
Ronja Look
Eleni Manolopoulos
recognition awards
Miro Boehm
Abner Braig
18. January – 01. February 2025
Since 2012, the Walter Stöhrer Foundation has been awarding the Walter Stöhrer-Preis für Grafik alternating annually between students at the Stuttgart Academy of Fine Arts and the Berlin University of the Arts.
„NEOROMANTIK“ – An exhibition by Simon Strauß
Nigin Beck, Lars Eidinger, Slawomir Elsner, Erika Hegewisch, Ralph Mecke, Benyamin Reich, Simon Strauß, Charlotte Streicher
16. November 2024 – 11. January 2025
Again and again, the nagging question arises: what do we do with our feelings? In a world of numbers and twitches, of fakes and mistakes, of agitation and hopelessness – why dig deeper inside and perhaps find a world that makes us even more vulnerable?
GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHT
Willi Baumeister, William N. Copley, Asana Fujikawa, Karin Kneffel, Thomas Müller, Hartmut Neumann, Claire de Santa Coloma, Cornelius Völker
14. September – 26. October 2024
William N. Copley's painting ‘Garden of Earthly Delight’ marks the starting point of the group exhibition of the same name at the Friese Gallery. Painted in 1960, Copley (1919-1996), who worked in the circle of Max Ernst, Man Ray and Marcel Duchamp, quotes Hieronymus Bosch's ‘Garden of Earthly Delight’.
Freely associating the theme of earthly pleasure, the exhibition presents works by Willi Baumeister, Asana Fujikawa, Karin Kneffel, Thomas Müller, Hartmut Neumann, Claire de Santa Coloma and Cornelius Völker. Exuberant bouquets of flowers, surreal plant worlds, fairy-tale figures and swimmers lying in the sun tell of the joy of tradition, sensual experience and the power of the artistic creation of mysterious worlds.
29. June – 31. August 2024
Schad's works combine two forms of design: Drawing and sculpture. The drawings are an elementary expression of the artist's thoughts, ideas and abstraction. At the centre of the work is the line - as man's original form of expression to abstract nature and connect it with human existence. His sculptures embody the movement from the drawings as a sculptural line in space and make it tangible. Schad also conceptualises this dynamic as a force in the social and cultural space that his sculptures occupy.
NEUE ARBEITEN
Franziska Holstein
27. April – 19. June 2024
We are delighted to be opening the third solo exhibition of Leipzig-based painter Franziska Holstein (*1978) at the gallery as part of Gallery Weekend Berlin. Following her extensive solo exhibition at the Von der Heydt-Museum Wuppertal last year, the artist has been working on a complex of new canvases, wall paintings and wall works made of wood, which she will be exhibiting in her exhibition "New Works" at Galerie Friese from 27 April.
ENCOUNTER OF TWO ARTISTS IN THE 1950S
Willi Baumeister & Georg Karl Pfahler
10. February – 13. April 2024
Willi Baumeister's (1889-1955) work reflects the history of European art in the first half of the 20th century: from abstraction - in Baumeister's work based on the human figure - through a non-objective, organic period, to the exploration of a formation of form that takes place within the work and constantly explores the boundaries of the figurative anew.
At the Stuttgart Art Academy, Georg Karl Pfahler (1926–2002) met Baumeister and studied in his class until 1954. Pfahler's early works show the influence of his teacher and his late work featuring black floating forms. But Pfahler soon found his own cosmos.
SO SWEET, SO DEAD
Cornelius Völker
04. November – 03. February 2024
Painting today must above all prove its consistency. There is a common thread in Völker's work that, from his early works to the present day, repeatedly poses the question and answers it in a breathtaking way: How can art become, how can pictures be, what does that tell us, especially today?
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 Coloma's sculptures made from found wood or wood given to her question the central themes of sculpture and the creative means on which it is based. She deliberately alludes to the vocabulary of 20th century abstract sculpture - as a kind of archetype of the "sculpture" genre. Her new works display a figurativeness that is new for the artist; they are reminiscent of bodies, cult and fetish objects, or suggest - following a reverse logic - a "negative space" for the body.
FIGUR
Horst Antes, Willi Baumeister, Karl H. Hödicke, Karin Kneffel, Walter Stöhrer, Cornelius Völker
30. June – 31. August 2023
Figur – that is the name we have given to our exhibition featuring works by Horst Antes, Willi Baumeister, Karl H. Hödicke, Karin Kneffel, Walter Stöhrer und Cornelius Völker
From Aru by Willi Baumeister, the perfect synthesis of the concept jumps out: An abstract figure is initially a black surface - and with every glance its weighting shifts. Sometimes we think we are witnessing a pipe shaft test, then a face appears, an almost violent gestural movement, and suddenly the surface rests completely in itself. And it is in this emergence of constantly changing levels of meaning that the face of the exhibition is realised.
29. April – 17. June 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.
HOLY SHIT - I HEAR VOICES
Achim Duchow
29. April – 17. June 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.
ENFANT TERRIBLE
William N. Copley, Ambra Durante
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VOTIVPFERDE
13. March – 15. April 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
Romane Holderried Kaesdorf
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.
17. September – 29. October 2022
THOMAS MÜLLER & WALTER STÖHRER
18. June – 31. August 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
29. April – 07. May 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«.
ES WAR EINMAL...
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.
DEKADENZ I (2021-22)
Daniel Topka
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.
RAUM FASSEN - RAUM LASSEN WERKE 1954–1984
Norbert Kricke
EINMAL FIELEN WEISSE TROPFEN AUS DEINER BRUSTWARZE AUF MEINEN STÖCKELSCHUH, WEISST DU NOCH?
Asana Fujikawa
MIES IN MIND
Willi Baumeister, Klaus Heinrich, Franziska Holstein, Claire de Santa Coloma und Daniel Topka
FEED-BACK BEWEISTS, FEED-BACK IST GESETZ
Walter Stöhrer
HELMUT NEWTON | WILLIAM N. COPLEY
In collaboration with Kicken Berlin and Meyer Riegger
31. October 2020 – 16. January 2021
STILL LEBEN
Joseph Beuys, Anna und Bernhard Blume, Asana Fujikawa, Karin Kneffel, Dieter Krieg, Heinrich Kühn, Ferdinand Küss, Via Lewandowsky, Hartmut Neumann, Walter Peterhans, Norbert Prangenberg, Emilie Preyer, Dieter Roth, Thomas Schütte, Kurt Schwitters, Norbert Schwontkowski, Saul Steinberg, Josef Sudek, Cornelius Völker
ON PAPER ONLY
Cornelius Völker
MALEREI AUF PAPIER
Franziska Holstein
ALLEN MALERN HERZLICHEN DANK
Dieter Krieg
SPIRIT OF REALITY
Georg Karl Pfahler
AUS EINER PRIVATSAMMLUNG
Felix Droese
WERKE 1973–2017
Matti Kujasalo
GEDANKEN ZUR ZEIT | READY-MADES UND BILDER
Achim Duchow
CLOSE
Cornelius Völker
ARBEITEN AUF PAPIER
Karl Bohrmann
17. March – 17. May 2017
IN DEN KABINETTEN: VON BLECHEN BIS VOLTERRANO - ZEICHNUNGEN AUS DEM 16. UND 19. JAHRHUNDERT
In collaboration with Martin Grässle Kunsthandel
01. – 29. Mai 2016
GALERIEERÖFFNUNG
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
12. May – 07. July 2015
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