TOP 5 OPENINGS FOR YOUR BERLIN ART WEEKEND

15.01 - 17.01.2015  

TOP 5 OPENINGS FOR YOUR BERLIN ART WEEKEND

Berlin’s best art openings (15th-17th Jan): Johann König, DUVE Berlin, Galerie Gebr. Lehmann, Delmes & Zander Berlin and Peres Projects

Vernissage / Johann König

Friday 16th January – 6pm until 9pm

Just Matherly’s rough, raw, monumental work makes for stunning and Surprising opening at Johann König. Bending modern materials to a timeless aesthetic investigation of entropy, decay, ruins and remains, Matherly’s work is quietly complex and overwhelming formally, to artistic riddle worth spending quite sometime Considering.

Johann König // Dessauer Strasse 6-7, 10963 Berlin

Vernissage / DUVE Berlin

Friday 16th January – 6pm until 9pm

On this hot weekend art Berlin, Berlin DUVE brings the heat with a group show featuring the moody, atmospheric paintings of Manor Grunewald alongside contemplative sculptures by Vera Kox. Both artists explore and transform the materiality of the objects we encounter in our daily lives, finding magic and mystery in the alchemical process of making.

DUVE Berlin // Gitschiner street 94 / 94a, 10969 Berlin

Vernissage / Galerie Gebr. Lehmann

Friday 16th January – 6pm until 9pm

Slawomir Elsner’s haunting, vacant works on paper evoke a devastating sensation of loss and isolation. With a delicate palette and a strong sense of composition, Elsner’s works whisper from the page, inviting you closer and daring you to confront the full emotional force of the work.

Galerie Gebr. Lehmann // Linde Strasse 35, 10969 Berlin 

Vernissage / Delmes & Zander Berlin

Friday 16th January – 6pm until 9pm

American singer-songwriter Wesley Willis which not only a seminal punk rocker with at iconic, in-your-face style, that is but an artist of uncommon empathy and charming, unpretentious honesty. Nearly 14 years after Willis ‚untimely death, Delmes & Zander Berlin’s exceptional survey of Willis‘ unique works on paper is a true delight.

Delmes & Zander Berlin // Rosa Luxembourg-Straße 37, 10178 Berlin

Vernissage / Peres Projects

Saturday 17th January – 6pm until 9pm

If you missed the 2014 Dorothy Iannone retrospective at Berlinische Gallery, now is your chance to spend some time with the giddy, soulful, gripping work of this iconic artist. Iannone’s lush configuration and strident, no-holds-barred style female empowerment bring to the fore and offer up a vision of beauty and power Both sweet and striking. 

Peres Projects // Karl-Marx-Allee 82, 10243 Berlin



Top Image Credit: Wesley Willis Courtesy of Delmes & Zander Berlin