We are delighted to present the works of New & Abstract artists and the winner and finalists of our first OPEN CALL New Talents! We are totally impressed and excited by the large number of submissions and their high quality. We received submissions from 58 countries and are presenting the top 19 in the exhibition.
GROUP SHOW #4
Alina Braun
Katarina Ekelund
Pamir Kargin
Lilian Mühlenkamp
Petra Penz
Stefanie Schairer
Johanna Marika Thoms
Finalists Open Call
Yulia Ani | Kristian Askelund | Renaldo Bern | Marica Borbás-Tóth | Marc Bowditch | Anke Buchmann | Steve Cuennet | Mina Gospavić | Franco Hüller | Kim Knoll | Alan Long | Kim Migliore | Philipp Pusch | Anne Pruy | Tim Romanowsky | Susanne Schwieter | Amy Stone | Christoph Vieweg | Cate Wind
Opening hours
1 - 28 November
Wednesdays to Saturdays 2 - 6 pm and by appointment
New & Abstract Showroom | Mollstraße 1, Berlin
Alina Braun
Dr. Alina Braun is a design psychologist, entrepreneur, and contemporary painter. While she is a perfectionist in her work, she believes that “True creation begins where control ends.” As a painter, she is fascinated by the unpredictable, intentionally embracing chaos, breaking through boundaries, and finding freedom beyond limitation.
Katarina Ekelund
Katarina Ekelund, born and raised on the west coast of Sweden. Educated at Konstfack in Stockholm. Katarinas paintings are poetry, visual poetry. They spring from her inner self., all her experience she have accumulated over the years. Try to create the unreachable beyond the completely understandable. An image to contemplate over. Understand something but at the same time wonder, why, what does it mean, get new thoughts. Simply poetry!
Pamir Kargin
Pamir Kargin is a contemporary abstract artist based in Istanbul, Turkey. She paint to examine multiple dimensions of playfulness, particularly how it relates to public and private self-representation over the years. Her abstractions mirror the interplay of past and present, imagined and tangible, that which is lost and what remains of one's self-projection, rather in a dynamical, whimsical manner.
Petra Penz
Petra Penz uses the whole span of tonal values and develops a colorful and achromatic language. Vast oceans and streams, whole worlds are formed – bonded in small, formal flats and free lakes of color. A seamless dialogue of counterparts opens up issues of the time and unfurls in pictural answers. From there, freedom results enabling the artist to seize new possibilities of painting without given concepts.
Stefanie Schairer
Stefanie Schairer lives and works in in Berlin, Germany. She works mainly in painting, installation and interactive/immersive happenings/performances in public spaces. In her abstract, playful paintings she uses color as an initial starting point. Her observations and explorations of the relationships and interactions of the different materials and the relationships between people are the source for her creativity work. She uses mixed media and paint and experiments with different shapes, forms and textures in her work.
Johanna Marika Thoms
Johanna Marika Thoms is a german artist who’s deeply fallen in love with neon orange. Working with bright colours, charcoal and pastels on raw canvas, she creates contemporary artworks which combine spontaneous and intuitive explosions of colour with compositional harmony and have the power to open up worlds of imagination.
OPEN CALL “New Talents“
Winner Lilian Mühlenkamp
Lilian Mühlenkamps abstract works on self-framed large sized canvases explore controlled free-flow by using a vibrant technique of color application. In her creative process tension between aleatory (randomly) and openly forming moments of inviting randomness and precise guidance of the material is omnipresent. To only let the paint and water flow, wouldn’t be challenging enough. To create something out of it, to shape, frame it and “communicate” with it is the most interesting part of the act of painting
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The following artists from our OPEN CALL "New Talents" will be presented on the mixed wall.
Yulia Ani
Kristian Askelund
Renaldo Bern
Marica Borbás-Tóth
Marc Bowditch
Anke Buchmann
Steve Cuennet
Mina Gospavić
Franco Hüller
Kim Knoll
Philipp Pusch
Susanne Schwieter
Amy Stone
Christoph Vieweg
Cate Wind
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Instagrammable art goes real
Every five weeks, a new GROUP SHOW opens in the new New & Abstract Pop-up 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 Pop-up 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.
