exhibitions

“For me, it is always about figuration, not only in my work.”
Tamara K.E.

EXHIBITION DURATION: 07 September - 30 October 2024
With ouch, behncke gallery, Munich, presents a solo exhibition by the internationally acclaimed artist Tamara K.E., showing works from three series from 2014-2024.

Tamara K.E. has made her mark with radical, socio-critical paintings. In the later works, she frequently combined traditional oil paint with printed, digitally manipulated images, eventually replacing the canvas with transparent filmscreen. The exploration of visual characteristics and the expanded possibilities offered by new technologies allowed her to continuously evolve her unique visual language and the formal conditions of her work.

The exhibition ‘Living On My Own’ addresses the perception of our identity, which is constantly being challenged by new types of media and artificial intelligence.

Marco Schuler presents new works that immediately confront the visitor with all kinds of beings, figures and scenarios of all genres and genres, all of which seem to have sprung from the personal and social subconscious. The visitor is greeted by the steel sculpture "Radix", a disarmingly cheerful goblin, which with its pointed spikes also has a potential for danger and points explosively in all directions to Schuler's universe of almost 30 pictures. This armada, this panopticon, "those figures of the game of life", open up the whole spectrum of human expression, feeling and imagination between life and death with fantasy, joie de vivre, humour and profundity.

In her exhibition A calculus of the nervous system at behncke gallery, Amélie Esterházy (born 1982, lives in Berlin) presents a series of new works that explore the connection between art and science. Esterházy combines the mathematical and biological with the ephemeral and poetic, thus arriving at (un)scientific findings that she translates into sculptures and reliefs - as the title quote from Ada Lovelace A calculus of the nervous system expresses.

The internationally known photo artist Dieter Blum (*1936, lives and works in Düsseldorf) worked for DAIMLER, Porsche, Shell, ABB, Bilfinger, Festo or Jaeger-LeCoultre and photographed for the MARLBORO advertising campaign between 1992 and 2004. His outstanding photographs were found in magazines such as STERN, SPIEGEL, TIME, Vanity Fair, GEO, National Geographic. He dedicated a large part of his work to the topics of music, dance and art. The exhibition MEN shows a common thread in the entire work of Dieter Blum, namely the ambition to shape visually a contemporary image of men. Blum explored this topos in two areas, both challenging for the photographer: dance and cowboy.

Since the beginning of industrialization, nothing has changed our lives more radically than the digital revolution. In his work, Florian Auer (b. 1984, lives and works in Berlin) draws a central axis between these two radical "social upheavals" of the 19th and 21st centuries. In his work, he examines the influence of mechanisation, automation and digitization on our individual everyday lives. In the exhibition [Ray::reTrace] he shows three-dimensional, computer-generated folds, based on scenes from Adolph Menzel's (1815-1905) famous painting "Eisenwalzwerk" (1872-1875).

What does the future hold for us? Group exhibition of a Berlin scholarship program with a wide variety of contemporary themes and media varieties.

Duo-Show by the Munich painters of the Karin Kneffel class, Janka Zöller (master student Karin Kneffel) and Elisa Breyer, with resurgent femininity in realism.

Solo-show by the Viennese artist Judith Fegerl. The title LIVE WIRE refers to the rapid changes in energy technologies and presents an exhibition that shows how electricity determines our lives.