Tanja Selzer - Gib mir dein Rot (Give Me Your Red) exhibition catalogue - LINK
The janinebeangallery present new works by Tanja Selzer from September 4th to October 16th 2010.
Tanja Selzer draws her motifs from the daily media-related flood of images as components of human seceneries, figures in wild natural spectacles or single persons and animals infront of or inside a natural background. She changes these images by composition, shift of colour and an ease of paint application, so they appear in the guise of a pretended, mostly idyllic scene.
In the works of the exhibition „Gib mir dein Rot“ („Give me your red“) Selzer additionally emphasizes the dynamics of her nature-bound protagonists and spectacles to the point of fight-like confrontations and compositions. The idyllic backgrounds remain perceptible as bearings for the image as a whole but are not only contrasted by the drastic actions in the foreground but also are stirred up and involved into it. The alternating depiction of humans and animals or also their interactions are an expression of their mirror-symmetric anima. Selzer stages this without psychologic abstractions but with the genuine intensity of a direct line to the source of fables and tempers.
The title „Gib mir dein Rot“ is like the sources of motifs for Tanja Selzer a citation, taken from the daily media stream. The demanded red is meant here alongside all associative potential as an immediate entity and force of color.
The janinebeangallery presents in its next annual summer exhibition seven young artists from Switzerland, Germany, South Korea and the USA.
Donata Benker's portrayal of landscape is universal, it covers presence and absence of persons, animals, objects, natural and created things. Repeatedly seemingly known places and objects emerge in her images to provide the perspector with an associative access to her imagery at first sight. Yet when reflected the components of this pictorial universe dissolve from its conventional and expected associations to create a new landscape of its very own rules.
In contrast are the picturesque drawings by Julia Bulik. They playfully explore their medium, on canvas or paper, with pens and paints she creates new worlds that dive into each other. Her artworks are characterized by a lightness which exists even with the use of much darker colors or crayons.
In Christopher Eymann's work he creates a harmony that is both ambiguous and deceptive like the wonderful light before a storm. Inspired by landscapes, somewhat reminiscent of those of the 18th Century, dark and almost gloomy moods pay a heavy contribution to his worlds.
The figures of the Swiss Simone Isenegger are embedded in a sea of color and light, they appear veiled, as if they would not divulge a secret.
Hyuna Kim's artistic work is characterized not only by her sense of the composition and pictorial skills, but also her constant engagement, her enthusiasm and curiosity reveal, from what vast repertoire of ideas the artist draws her motifs. What appears non-binding at first glance is being brought to the point by the deep humor of the artist.
For the first time the gallery presents emerging talent Peggy Schoenegge with her three small-format portraits.
As a special guest, the gallery will also present the dark and sultry work of the U.S. artist Zachary Thornton with his first showing in Berlin.
The janinebeangallery present on this years Scope Basel Anna Borowy and Tanja Selzer.June 16th - June 19th 2010 You can find us at the Kaserne, Klybeckstr. 1b, BoothNr. D05. Scope Basel Homepage
Anna Borowy and Marco Reichert
June 5th to July 3rd 2010
Opening Reception June 4th, 6 - 10 pm
The janinebeangallery present new works of the berlin based artists Anna Borowy and Marco Reichert. Both artists are graduates of the Berlin Weissensee School of Art.
Anna Borowy’s motifs are primarily human characters and moments, depicted portrait-style and manifesting particular events. The reduced appliance of outlines and forms connects the figures with the backgrounds and accompanied diaphane images of animals. The apparent youth and grace of the potrayed are distorted by flawy structures and sinister traits.
The works of Marco Reichert are playing with the contradiction of our view which is influenced by modern media. Attributes like beautiful and nasty, cheap and valuable and the themes of low and high culture are questioned.
The janinebeangallery shows new works of the artist Iva Vacheva.
The theme „sectio“ of the upcoming solo show of Iva Vacheva is mirrored geographically, socially and quite physically in the featured works of the artist. There are paintings literally fragmented and arranged like cullets, which are connected by the scheme of Berlin as a town, though they are grouped not only segmentary but also contrary. The motif of separation is continued in other works, showing single or missing body parts as a drastic physical language. On the on hand those single members concentrate the symbolism on them, on the other does their abscence on a torso speak similarly for itself.
Iva Vacheva (born 1981 in Plovdiv, Bulgaria) moved in 2004 from Sofia to Berlin, to successfully accomplish her artistic education at the Universität der Künste in the Master Class of Robert Lucander and Wolfgang Petrick.
For 'Open Weekend 2010' - Two Window Project and janinebeangallery present in and in front of the current gallery exhibitions areas at Torstrasse 154, the performance „Blond Dame mit Berliner Pfannkucken" by the infamous drag Queen Chicago Rose. The theme of this performance is Berlin - the topic is also the focus of the painters in each gallery. It is Berlin presented from 3 very different perspectives. Look forward to an interesting evening with „Blonde Dame mit Berliner Pfannkuchen", Marlene Dietrich and naturally Chicago Rose!
The janinebeangallery presents mixed media of the German native artist Mario Wagner, based on magazines of the 50ies and 70ies. The other half of the group show features objects and installations of the Swiss artist Thomas Stüssi.
janinebeangallery Hall 4 (DM Arena) Berlin Block Booth No: M 03.7 one artist show - Hyuna Kim - painting and drawing
El color del aire February 6th to March 13th 2010 opening reception: Februar 5th 6-10 pm The Thomas Punzmann Gallery Marbella and the janinebeangallery present works by the spanish artist Eduardo Vega de Seoane
In Eduardo Vega de Seoane's paintings we can't point out clearly the different grounds or territories where his stains or drawings happen, sometimes between what seems to reign in different levels appears a shadow of uncertainty, whose deepness goes beyond what we thought we had seen, or a sign floats destroying our need to classify everything we see and sugesting again the simultaneity of everything that happens, a world's perception far from the apparent rationality of our more accepted codes: space and time. Everything is here and now, everything is always.Eduardo Vega de Seoane could be painting a mind`s visions in a complete state of concentration, a meditative mind, that observes everything with the same attention, light, colour, shadow, distance,closeness or word.Above all everything is always, everything has the same value, everything is important, or what is the same nothing has value, nothing is more beautiful or urgent than other thing, there is no center.That`s why Eduardo Vega de Seoane paintings enjoy an harmonic composition, without tensions between the elements that inhabit the canvass, they occupy the true place where they should be. text by Bárbara Aranguren
At the same time the janinebeangallery present paintings of german artist Anna Borowy at the showroom of the gallery.(back rooms)
showroom - Anna Borowy
February 6th to March 6th 2010 opening reception: Februar 5th 6-10 pm
"Mynokle" 180 x 200 cm oil on canvas
current exhibition:
„Winter Wonderland / Whiteout“
painting, photography and video featuring the artists:
Christopher Eymann, Paula Gehrmann, Vanessa von Heydebreck, Marco Reichert, Iva Vacheva, Mara Wagenführ and Anna-Maria Sommer
special guests: Juan Béjar - PDF and Nina Nolte - PDF
opening reception: December 4th, 6-10 pm - Impressionen by Jan Sobottka - LINK
The exhibition's title does not refer primarily to the famous Christmas carol, but rather to an experience of the curator (Janine Bean) in New York in 2004. The showcases of the big streets of the city during the advent season were very opulently decorated, overwhelmingly bright and omnipresent. Facing this abundance one could become dizzy and the general illusiveness condensed in a kind of "Whiteout" as a feeling of emptiness.
As an ironic homage to this annual western "Winter Wonderland" the janinebeangallery presents a selection of works of various genres. Horses from Istanbul shot by the photo-artist Paula Gehrmann meet morbidly beautiful stills from the performance "Atlantis" by the artist Anna-Maria Sommer. Landscapes by Christopher Eymann inspired by 18th Century paintings encounter the neo-seventies, mixed media works by Mara Wagenfuehr. Vanessa von Heydebreck in turn tells with her concentrated drawings little stories like aphorisms of tragedies and felicity whereas the Spanish artist Juan Bejar shows chubby children in the baroque style of infantes. Nina Nolte moves the radiant splendor of the Spanish Mediterranean coast into twilight by letting rich women casually smoke a cigarette in their pool and Iva Vacheva shows the human grotesque all unmasked. Marco Reichert's work pays a weird tribute to the Christmas mood putting Master Yoda in the role of Santa Claus.
The janinebeangallery dedicated the title for the upcoming exhibition „Money Didn’t Matter Yesterday“ to the symptoms of the financial crisis. The title recalling a song by the artist Prince is no accident. Facing the current existential hardships, factual and felt ones, essences unveil that were imminent though not operant before. Where money superficially was not so important yesterday, its absence is today in the background controlling and decisive. This is socially, (art-)economically as well as very individually bitter and sobering, though it may also be perceived “purgatoric” especially on an individual level. This finding may not ease the acute monetary needs, but it can offer new chances and ways.
New impressions are offered by the janinebeangallery in its new exhibition „Money Didn’t Matter Yesterday” presenting selected works by So Young Park and Mara Wagenfuehr. These two young artists have studied at the UdK in Berlin, where they now live and work.
Park uses her own digitalized photographies respectively computer-generated drafts for her pictorial concepts which she transfers into her large-sized paintings.
Mara Wagenfuehr carefully considers her neo 70ties aesthetics. Skillfully her self-dramatizations play with art history and psychoanalysis, with ethnic kitsch and the tales of H.C. Andersen and the brothers Grimm
Please contact the gallery for more informations.
"I double the ante, honey!"
Iva Vacheva and Christopher Eymann
July 25th to August 29th 2009
Opening Reception: July 24th, 6 - 10 pm
with a performance by Anna-Maria Sommer
The janinebeangallery presents works of Iva Vacheva and Christopher Eymanngallery in the exhibition „Ich verdopple, Schätzchen!“ („I double the ante, honey!“). The title of the show arouses associations with gambling and similar to such find the artists Vacheva and Eymann their existences to be precarious and risky. In this regard the artworks depict autobiographical approaches brought on a common denominator.
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DAVID O'BRIEN -Curiosity- und LORI FIELD -Small Saints- special guest: NINA NOLTE
The janinebeangallery presents the first solo show of the German-Canadian artist Vanessa von Heydebreck. Vanessa von Heydebreck’s work is characterised by the playful and cautious handling of her fine lines, as well as by straightforward and concise structures. Her works show shorter stories, like aphorisms of tragedies and of joy. The tender figures of her drawings seem so easy to grasp, only to leave the observer caught within the puzzling depth of the work’s signals.
The observer is confronted with a superficial naivety, which uses its simple structures to create a particular clarity and directness of form. In a strange rather than contradictory way, these structures result in transparent but also cryptic and complex metaphors. Von Heydebreck’s metaphorical language is readable – and challenging - but it is not always resolvable. The works easily pull the observer in with their charm and connections: they capture you with their simultaneous meaningfulness and meaninglessness.
Mari Lou, Aleksandra Chaberek, JB - female signs - Lebewelt und andere Malaisen
JB, Aleksandra Chaberek, Mari Lou, Christin Lutze, Moni Mey, Eva Räder, Corinna Weiner - female signs - Naturbeobachtungen im Jagdrevier
2005
Marek Brodecki, Brendan Harrington, Mari Lou, Erik Tannhäuser - pop art art pop
JB, Karsten Krause, Erik Tannhäuser, Corinna Weiner - Zeitkontakt JB, Pavel Forman, Sebastian Heiner, Karsten Krause, Mikos Meininger, Erik Tannhäuser, Mirko Tzotschew, Corinna Weiner, Scott Weiner - Gedankenreise at Berlin/Moskau
"Ride" 140 x 180 cm oil and acrylic on canvas 
