GROUP SHOW #9 – Contemporary Positions in Dialogue
With the ninth edition of our group exhibition, we continue our ongoing engagement with contemporary art as a field of aesthetic research, a space of encounter, and a mirror of the present moment. This exhibition brings together a diverse selection of current artistic positions expressed through a wide range of media – from delicate works on paper and sculptural ceramics to expressive gestures on canvas. These works trace the fragile, the tactile, the powerful – each unfolding its own world.
At the core of the exhibition are conceptual presentations developed specifically for this occasion. Their diversity gives rise to a rich and layered dialogue – formal, thematic, intuitive, and intellectual. What emerges is a field of intersecting perspectives, a collection of fragmentary approaches to something elusive: the abstract.
Here, abstraction is not treated as a mere stylistic device but as a way of thinking. The works explore absence and intensity, rhythm and silence, structure and dissolution. Abstraction becomes a poetic resistance to the definitive – an invitation to dwell within ambiguity. Art, in this sense, opens a space for the unspeakable, the ungraspable, the deeply felt.
A particular highlight of the exhibition is the presentation of the finalists of this year’s Open Call. Their works, each with a distinct voice, integrate into the curatorial fabric while offering new perspectives. During the exhibition, the winner will be announced and subsequently honored with a solo presentation in Group Show #10 this coming June.
We warmly invite you to the opening and to explore this polyphonic space with us. This exhibition stands as a testament to the vitality of the contemporary art scene – experimental, discursive, and profoundly open. It is a celebration of art not as an answer, but as a question.
Ani Ba | Colby Currie | Jilli Darling | Dr.Yo | Stephanie Dudd | Malwin Faber | Maureen Golgata | Corina Hallatu | Jana Jacob | Simone Kaltenegger | Michael Kaul | Sun Ju Kim | Anastasiya Koshcheeva | Merlin Lentz | Felix Lies | Sam Linders | Olivia Longstaff | Sandra Moral | Navid Norouzi | Chris Ordinario | Simone Pick | Lars Plessentin | Vlad Popereka | Cassio Raabe | Oliver Otto Rednitz | Morten Saether | Tanja Schaub | Felix Schauwecker | Jaime Danielle Smith | Snyder | Meik Stamer | Dineke van Oosten | Petra von Kazinyan | Anja Weingärtner | Jonas Wohler
Opening: Thursday 24 April, 6 – 9 pm
Exhibition: 24 April – 22 May
Wed - Sat 2 - 6 pm and by appointment
Mollstraße 1, 10178 Berlin
Pia Danner
Instagrammable art goes real
Every five weeks, a new GROUP SHOW opens in the new New & Abstract Showroom in Berlin-Mitte and presents the most relevant works from the wealth of interesting positions shown on Instagram.
Between Alexanderplatz and Soho House - at New & Abstract at Mollstraße 1, visitors can immerse themselves in 100 square metres of art and meet the international artists in person at the exhibition openings. The Pop-up concept is inspired by Berlin's club culture and provides for future temporary presences at various exciting locations in the art metropolis.
Mollstraße 1 - creative vertical village
The New & Abstract Showroom is part of the exciting interim use project Mollstraße 1, which creatively utilises the former building of the ADN, the General German Intelligence Service of the former GDR, at the intersection of Mollstraße and Karl-Liebknecht-Straße (opposite Soho House) until its upcoming renovation. Covering 15,000 square metres and ten floors, the building is currently used by almost 110 people and companies from the creative industries.
