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Business Portrait - September 24

Stephen Burke - AUGUST 24

Stephen Burke is an Irish artist and curator working between Dublin and Glasgow, holding an MA in painting from the Glasgow School of Art. He founded Post Vandalism, a social media platform that examines the aesthetics of graffiti, protest, and resistance, and co-founded London’s curatorial collective Pigeon Park, which supports artists post-pandemic. His work explores the power dynamics of public space, portraying urban landscapes as contested sites.

The exhibition documents the ongoing competition for public space in urban areas. What was once conceived as a democratic space now more closely resembles a battlefield, with constant negotiations between citizens who want to leave their mark and authorities who seek to regulate and clean it up. At the heart of Burke’s exploration is the growing obsession of state institutions with security and control (a concept Michel Foucault famously termed the „disciplinary society“). A pervasive testament to this is the rise of so-called defensive architecture, which is primarily aimed at restricting the free movement of a city’s inhabitants. […] Text: Clemens Espenlaub

Business Portrait - juLI 24

Willem de Haan - junI 24

In June 2024, Dutch artist Willem de Haan and I explored the streets of Berlin to take some portraits in addition to his exhibition at @thegimp_importexport.

Artist Willem de Haan sits on a private chair in public.

Willem de Haan challenging the viewer’s attention.

Larissa Rosa Lackner - Mai 24

1 + 2 Larissa Rosa Lackner in front of the building in which her studio is located.

3 Larissa Rosa Lackner her studio.

Franziska Lutze - Mai 24

The artist and designer Franziska Lutze lives and works in Berlin.

For her works, she uses a historical, traditional dyeing technique, blue printing, as used by Einbecker Blaudruck, with whom Franziska Lutze collaborates. She reinterprets this dyeing technique, which was added to the Unesco World Heritage List in November 2018, in her own way.
In contrast to the traditional blue print patterns (floral, folkloristic), her work follows a clear, geometric design language. It is partly abstract-alchemical and mostly reduced.
Her artistic process is intuitive, handcrafted and designed. The individual pieces shine in UV-true (predominantly) primary colors.

1 + 2 The artist and designer Franziska Lutze presents her work. 3 + 4 Photo shoot with Franziska Lutze in her flat. 5 A fabric bag designed by Franziska Lutze. 6 +7 Artist and designer Franziska Lutze prepares the workspace in her Berlin Atelier for the next project. 8 + 9 The artist and designer Franziska Lutze presents her work. 10 Thoughtful …

Asako Shiroki - Evergreen - April 24

1. Asako Shiroki is based in Berlin and Tokyo.

2. Reminiscent of the size of the human heart, the glass bottle holds a distillation of pine needles gathered from both nations Japan and Korea, weighing precisely 21 grams—a figure mythically believed to be the weight of the human soul. The liquid releases the characteristic scent of pine trees, a scent that almost everyone associates with some memory or other.

3. Asako Shiroki is based in Berlin and Tokyo.

4. [...] Melting into color. This work features two photographs of pine trees from Korea and Japan. [...] The photographs are deliberately out of focus, transforming the pines into abstract patterns of color. By adjusting the camera’s lens to defocus, the finer details are obscured, yet paradoxically, this allows the intrinsic nature of the subjects to be perceived with greater clarity. As if the object’s very dissolution revealed the essence of its soul. [...] (Text: Clemens Espenlaub)

5. [...] The pivotal work Evergreen, hanging from the ceiling on a silver chain, is at the center of the room. The term „center“ however, is somewhat misleading here. Evergreen is not only a spatial object, which begins on the floor alluding to the coastline of Japan and Korea and ends in the air with a glass bottle reminiscent of the size of a human heart. [...] (Text: Clemens Espenlaub)

6. [...] The video installation Invisible yet still green was conceived amidst the distillation process of extracting pine scent. The focus, however, is less on the actual production and more on the abstract transitions between states of matter: Solid needles turn into liquid and ultimately into scent. In this work, too, boundaries are crossed, albeit in an even more radical sense: What is shown here is not only the dissolution of a spatial sculpture into scent (as in Evergreen), nor the dissolution of an object into pure color (as in Melting into color), but the dissolution of materiality itself, the detachment from any physical form, reminiscent of a soul's journey from one state (or embodiment or memory) to another. (Text: Clemens Espenlaub)

ASAKO SHIROKI
Evergreen

Apr 19 – May 4 2024, Opening hours Sat 1–6 pm, due to Gallery Weekend also Sun, Apr 28, 1–6 pm, Finissage May 4, 6 pm

the Gimp, Wilhelm-Kabus-Str. 28 / Haus 3.3, 10829 Berlin

BusinessPortrait-Shooting im Studio - Januar 24

Portraitshooting mit Friedrich Herz und Fotos von seiner Ausstellung im “Haus1” - Berlin, am Waterloo Ufer - Dezember 23

Geboren 1986 in Gera, studierte Friedrich Herz Malerei und Bildhauerei an der Kunsthochschule Weissensee in Berlin, wo er seit dem lebt und arbeitet. 2020 gründete er den Ausstellungs- und Projektraum the Gimp. Er nahm an Ausstellungen im Hamburger Bahnhof, den Kunstwerken (KW) und in der Neuen Nationalgalerie Berlin teil. Seine letzte Einzelausstellungen war im Haus1 am Halleschen Tor zu sehen. 

Portrait of Johanna - Oktober 2023

Portrait of Johanna. Johanna is a professional, Berlin based makeup artist.

Fotoshooting mit Dr. Ina Czyborra - Senatorin für Wissenschaft, Gesundheit und Pflege - August 2023

Fotoshooting für dieGesundheitsimmobilie dGhi GmbH - Mai 2023