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April 20 – May 24, 2018 – „THE CABINET OF MARY MAGDALENE. MUTATIONS“
„The Cabinet of Mary Magdalene. Mutations“ GROUPSHOW Andrius Erminas and Nerijus Erminas In collaboration with (AV17) GALLERY, Vilnius OPENING: April 19th, 2018, 7–9pm DURATION: April 20th, 2018 – May 24th, 2018 ROCKELMANN& is proud to announce the group exhibition „The Cabinet of Mary Magdalene. Mutations“ in a second collaboration with (AV17) GALLERY from Vilnius. The two Lithuanian sculptors Nerijus Erminas and Andrius Erminas will present an installation, that refers to the title „The Cabinet of Mary Magdalene. Mutations“. Both artists in their works use references taken from culture, religion and everyday life. They transform it into imaginative, surreal story where the visitor is invited to read multipal…
February 22 – April 14, 2018 – TRACES
TRACES Curated by AK5 GROUPSHOW Yasmin Alt Nadja Schütt Leonard Traynor OPENING: February 22nd, 2018, 7–9pm DURATION: February 23rd, 2018 – April 14th, 2018 ROCKELMANN& is proud to announce a new group exhibition that will take patrons from the reality of physical realities and into a post-apocalyptic landscape. The digital revolution of contemporary technologies and social development have caused massive shifts in the way Western society interprets our sense of being and belonging. While social media and its advancements are more often than not viewed as the ultimate tool to globalize and link peoples across the planet, it has also led to an extreme sense of alienation. TRACES…
December 01, 2017 – February 17, 2018 – MY TETHER IS CLIPPED.
my tether is clipped. Curated by Kat Rickard GROUPSHOW Yasmin Alt Zachary Fabri Ben Harle OPENING: November 30th, 2017, 7–9pm DURATION: December 01st, 2017 – February 17th, 2018 ROCKELMANN& is pleased to announce the opening of my tether is clipped., a group show of international artists Yasmin Alt, Zachary Fabri and the inaugural European debut of exciting newcomer Ben Harle. This exhibition seeks to tackle and analyze contemporary anxieties surrounding death and the idea of memory. The question of identity comes into play once we begin to understand why and how we, as a society, are attempting to create content and justify our existence in the present.…
September 07 – November 04, 2017 – JUST LET ME BE
JUST LET ME BE Fred Fleisher Jeffrey Teuton OPENING: September 07th, 2017, 7–9pm DURATION: September 08th – November 04th, 2017 ROCKELMANN& is pleased to announce our return from our annual summer break with a bout of nostalgic pride, a two-man exhibition with the works of multidisciplinary artists Jeffrey Teuton and Fred Fleisher. JUST LET ME BE seeks to bring a new audience to archived pieces from our collection, ones that have been resting peacefully in storage but in light of current events, have taken on a new meaning and context in regards to American identity. Often the biographical works of Teuton and Fleisher deal with bouts of…
June 08 – June 24, 2017 – Carl Olof Berg
ANDROLOGY SHOWROOM Carl Olof Berg OPENING: June 08th, 2017, 7–9pm DURATION: June 09th – June 24th, 2017 To book your private performance please call (no texts) 0046 769 454444 ROCKELMANN& is pleased to announce our collaboration with multidisciplinary performance artist Carl Olof Berg. For the month of June, Berg will be based in Berlin providing the service of home visit performances, one variation of three will be selected by the patron, and the only price is a cup of coffee. From May 1st, 2017 patrons may book appointments directly with the artist by calling 0046 769 454444. The artist will also be available for drop in bookings…
March 16 – April 22, 2017 – Ben Peterson
NO SURVIVORS Ben Peterson OPENING: March 16th, 2017, 7–9pm DURATION: March 17th – April 22nd, 2017 ROCKELMANN& is proud to announce NO SURVIVORS, the first European solo exhibition by Philadelphia, PA based artist Ben Peterson. Borrowing its title from a video work of the same name, NO SURVIVORS seeks to dissect and discover intersectional threads between the themes of queer identity, sportsmanship and masculinity. Peterson uses his own history as a closeted gay man growing up in a socially conservative community in rural Michigan to create cathartic video works, sculptures and performance pieces. Using memories from his own adolescence, Peterson’s practice is often personally therapeutic and socially active. He creates…
November 25, 2016- January 28, 2017 – EXCHANGE
EXCHANGE Group Show Andrius Erminas Nerijus Erminas Rimantas Milkintas Rafal Piesliak OPENING: November 24th, 2016, 7–9pm DURATION: November 25th, 2016 – January 28th, 2017 ROCKELMANN & is proud to present the group show EXCHANGE in collaboration with (AV17) GALLERY. The exhibition brings together the work of four well-known Lithuanian sculptors and installation artists. Culturally, the exhibition is an exchange of ideas between (AV17) GALLERY in Vilnius and ROCKELMANN& in Berlin. Thematically, the artists’ works also embody crossing points: they enact a visual and referential exchange between formal sculpture and more everyday, quotidian objects or materials. Nerijus Erminas and Rafael Piesliak create compositions or inclusions of ornamental and often evocative…
September 09 – November 12, 2016 – TRIPTYCH
TRIPTYCH Group Show Yasmin Alt Sebastian Biskup Kai Franz OPENING: September 08th, 2016, 7–9pm DURATION: September 09th, 2016 – November 12th, 2016 Performance by artist Elana Katz: October 13th, 2016, 7pm Guided Tour: November 05th, 2016, 3pm ROCKELMANN & is proud to present the group show Triptych for its season opening. Triptych’s purpose is to explore the alternative uses of materials and functioning concepts we overlook or take for granted in our daily lives. Through traditional art practices, western culture often encourages us to stay on one steady path and not to stray from accepted practice. The artists Yasmin Alt, Sebastian Biskup and Kai Franz’s varying practices all…
July 29 – September 03, 2016 – WE’RE HAVING A GREAT TIME :) – Summer CAMP Project
SUMMER CAMP PROJECT WE’RE HAVING A GREAT TIME 🙂 OPENING: July 28, 2016, 6 – 9pm DURATION: July 29 – September 03, 2016 Group show curated by ::MK-DOS:: Featuring works by Marija Bozinovska Jones, Lea Collet, Simone Monsi, Eva Papamargariti, Marios Stamatis, Andrea Williamson ROCKELMANN& is pleased to announce the start of our new Summer CAMP program featuring the debut exhibition of London/Berlin based curatorial collective ::MK-DOS:: entitled We’re Having a Great Time. We’re Having a Great Time is a group exhibition of five new media works of varying mediums, produced by six London based-artists (Marija Bozinovska Jones, performance duo Lea Collet & Marios Stamatis, Simone Monsi, Eva Papamargariti and Andrea Williamson). The artists have each composed…
May 29 – July 16, 2016 – Leslie Thornton
REAPPEAR LESLIE THORNTON OPENING: May 28, 2016, 7 – 10pm DURATION: May 29 – July 16, 2016 ROCKELMANN & Winkleman Gallery, New York, are proud to present REAPPEAR, a solo exhibition by Leslie Thornton. Widely recognized as an innovative and highly influential filmmaker, Leslie Thornton is perhaps best known for her epic, 25-year serial work Peggy and Fred in Hell, which follows its title characters who, in Thornton’s words, are “raised by television” and live in a “post-apocalyptic splendor…adrift in the detritus of prior cultures.” Unknown to her during her own childhood, both Thornton’s father and grandfather worked as scientists on the Manhattan Project (which developed first…
March 25 – May 21, 2016 – UNEARTHED
UNEARTHED Co-curated by Geo Gonzalez and Dan Halm Opening: March 24, 2016, 7-10 pm Duration: March 25 – May 21, 2016 Group show: Tyler Beard, Marnie Bettridge, Sabine Bokelberg, Monika Grabuschnigg, Dan Halm, Anat Homm, Stephanie Imbeau, Florian Japp, Ben Peterson, Doug Reyes, Su-Ran Sichling, Madeline Stillwell, Megan Stroech, Katy Stubbs, Lucy Teasdale, Carolin Wachter, Undisclosed Artist UNEARTHED runs parallel to our digital era. We are constantly reminded of our concerns about concealing our identities and our personal information from systematic surveillance. UNEARTHED hacks into this system and leaves behind its traces in it. The viewer gets a glimpse of these traces through human effects on material. UNEARTHED is undoubtedly…
January 29 – March 12, 2016 – Kai Franz
THE PARTICLES FELL SILENT KAI FRANZ OPENING: January 28, 2016, 7-10 pm Duration: January 29 – March 12, 2016 Artist Talk: March 10, 7 – 9 pm ROCKELMANN& is proud to present ‘THE PARTICLES FELL SILENT’, an introduction to the practice of U.S.-based artist Kai Franz. It is the artist’s first solo presentation in Berlin. Conceptually, Franz’s work questions notions of authorship and subjectivity. In the making of his work, the artist sets up systems and builds machines that translate digital drawings and information into the nexus of matter and materiality. As a result of these processes, the work manifests as sculptures, paintings, drawings and etchings, which tie together the artist’s…
December 11, 2015 – January 23, 2016 – PAPER/WORK
PAPER/WORK Curated by Andy Holtin Opening: December 10, 2015, 7-10pm Duration: Dec. 11, 2015 – Jan. 23 2016 Artist Talk: Jan. 21, 2016, 7pm Group Show: Yasmin Alt, Maria Bajt, Sebastian Biskup, Stefanie Bühler, Andy Holtin, Matthew Kenyon, Galo Moncayo and Danielle Mysliwiec ROCKELMANN& is proud to present PAPER/WORK, a curated show by Andy Holtin. PAPER/WORK is an exhibition exploring the use and place of paper in the work of a group of artists with distinctly diverse practices. Eschewing the traditional “works on paper” approach, PAPER/WORK acknowledges that paper is first and foremost a material, one whose accessibility and malleability can render it simultaneously ubiquitous and invisible. The…