The New & Abstract Pop-up Showroom, the only art space in Berlin dedicated to Instagram artists, presents GROUP SHOW #2 from 22 August to 19 September.
Group Show #2
Tobias Degel
Kevin Driscoll
Silvia Hollweg
Zsuzsa Klemm
Oliver Lanz
Aitor Láupe
Jutta Siebert
Opening hours
22 August - 19 September
Wed - Sat 14 - 19 PM and by appointment
Mollstraße 1, 10178 Berlin
More about the artists:
Tobias Degel was born in Saarbrücken, Germany in 1989. Since 2017, he has lived in Wiesbaden. His studio is located in an attached garage of a shared studio space with various creative minds. He studied graphic design in Trier, which exposed him to a wide range of design and art topics. Thanks to his parents, he was introduced early on to Braun design and renowned artists such as Keith Haring. He is also heavily inspired by Basquiat and Kline, as well as by acquaintances and people he meets daily.
Kevin Driscoll (b.1987) is an artist originally from Boston, Massachusetts, who currently lives and works in Berlin, Germany. Driscoll’s practice focuses on the intersection of construction techniques, architectural concepts, and contemporary societal commentary. His work often seeks to challenge perceptions of functionality and value within our built environment through the use of common materials and familiar forms.
Rooted in his background in architecture and construction, his works often contain objects and surfaces reminiscent of another material - becoming a new object, not belonging to the original source anymore. The work acknowledges the emotional history embedded within materials and the unique associations they present for each viewer.
By using common materials familiar to all viewers, Driscoll questions the morals of art and the importance placed on seemingly useless objects compared to their functional counterparts often seen throughout our built world. Through this exploration, he seeks to highlight various details that are both essential and absurd in our built environment.
For the GRUOP SHOW #2 at N&A art space, Kevin will create a new series of sculptures from his "Permanent Relics" series.
Silvia Hollweg (founder of Kaleida creations) is a Venezuelan/German artist born in Caracas (Venezuela), who has developed a unique sculptural language of organic minimalism: she has created a personal and innovative folding technique. A new interpretation of Kinetic-Art (Cinetismo).
Silvia Hollweg has a BA in Art, Art History, and Sociology from Tufts University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She also has other degrees and certificates in the fields of stand architecture design and construction, interior design, digital and cultural event management. She has exhibited internationally in Europe, the United States and Latin America.
The artist Silvia Hollweg creates abstract, organic, geometric, and three-dimensional sculptural paintings that illustrate topographies found in nature and minimalist architecture, such as mysterious landscapes and/or architectural buildings.
Her creations are characterized by the introduction of scientific technology: kinetic, parametric and moiré effect movements, and are distinguished by their delicate balance of structure and spontaneity, expressed through a visual language of linear and modular forms.
Zsuzsa Klemm was born 1967 in Novi Sad, former Yugoslavia and is raised multi-cultural. Zsuzsa on her works: "In these three works, I thematize the essence of being by using powerful, gestural brushstrokes that are characterized by spontaneity and speed. The deliberately restrained color palette is broken up by targeted accents that serve as counterpoints to the dominant shades of grey and black nuances. These color interventions break through the tonal restraint and create an inner tension that is transferred to the viewer."
These accents function as visual metaphors for the potential energy that lies dormant in silence, but is ready to unfold and find expression in a new form. The brushstrokes themselves bear traces of the creative process and are symbolic of the transitions and inner transformations that characterize human existence.
The works require the viewer to engage introspectively with their own inner processes and invite them to recognize and reflect on moments of personal growth and transformation. In this respect, it is less about telling a story and more about inviting the viewer to enter into a dialog with their own feelings.
Oliver Lanz uses imagery from the surplus of everyday images to create a colorful, poetic ambience within his paintings. He appropriates film-stills, found imagery and computer generated graphics to create rich abstractions that combine mechanical and organic structures. This engenders the work with a dynamic between the figurative and abstracted elements, with each painting presenting itself as an imaginary and spherical universe of sorts across which the artist traverses with his audience.
Aitor Láupe was born 1972 in Vitoria -Gasteiz, Basque Country, Spain. The work of this painter immerses the spectator in a world of subtlety, he stands out for his skill in the handling of colour through layer after layer of paint, he achieves gradients in the painting that invite the spectator to approach the work and establish a connection between the artist, the work and whoever contemplates it.
Aitor about his work: “I have a marked interest in color and the perception that can affect the viewer. Basically, I work on different supports, this opens up the possibility of expression for me. My field of work when I work on canvas consists of adding very diluted layers of paint in different shades, obtaining gradients in color. I am particularly interested in preserving the texture of the fabric itself in this process.”
Jutta Siebert was born in Schweinfurt, Germany in 1951 and now lives and works in the Uckermark. She studied art at the Freie Akademie ARTEFACT in Bonn and is a member of various artists' groups.
Jutta's artistic work is determined by the desire to constantly experience something new, to disrupt her own viewing habits, to be surprised as often as possible and also to surprise and irritate others.
In terms of content, she is concerned with the networking of different levels of consciousness. The interaction between the present, the possibly distorted or fragmented memory and the stored experiences happens outside of one's own perception. This knowledge of not knowing is a constant game at the edges of reality and always accompanies her.
More and more often, the desire for reduction and the search for the essence arises, and in the creatures she has been creating for the past year, the aim of her artistic work is to concentrate on the essential beyond the limits of the recognizable. She begins her work without a goal or intention, as this develops from within. A dynamic way of working and strong contrasts give rise to expressiveness. The viewer receives no further information from her, but rather space for the most diverse perceptions, which ultimately complete her work.
Photos by Ludger Paffrath (@ludgerpaffrath)
