Paloma Proudfoot's work “The Mannequins Reply” (2023) is part of Hayward Gallery Touring's show “Material Worlds: Contemporary Artists and Textiles”, which will travel around several venues in the UK from October 2024 – May 2026. Tour Venues: Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry (9 October 2024 - 15 December 2024) Djanogly Gallery, Lakeside Arts, Nottingham (May 2025 - July 2025) The Wilson Art Gallery and Museum, Cheltenham (September 2025 - January 2026) Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery, London (January 2026 - May 2026)
Klara Hobza's publication “On Slaughter" is out now! Published by Mark Pezinger books. Available at Zabriskie books in Berlin, or online.
Rachel Youn transforms discarded objects into dynamic kinetic sculptures, exploring themes of movement, failure, and human interaction. In this interview, Youn talks to Phillip Edward Spradley for FAD magazine about their latest works, detailing the creative process and the technical challenges of turning mundane items into compelling installations.
Soy Capitán is excited to announce its relocation to Lindenstr. 34 in Berlin-Kreuzberg. After 11 successful years at Prinzessinnenstr. 29, the gallery is starting a new chapter while remaining within the vibrant and emerging contemporary art scene of Kreuzberg. We want to extend our heartfelt thanks for the incredible support we've received over the past years and warmly invite everyone to visit us at our new premises!
Local graffiti artists are creating a tribute to Klara Hobza's long term endeavor Diving Through Europe for Tangente St. Poelten - a festival for contemporary culture in St. Pölten, Austria. You can find the large scale graffiti piece on Willi-Gruber-Brücke, which crosses the river Traisen from May 1 - October 6, 2024.
Out Now! We are delighted to present the new edition by Grace Weaver, available through Soy Capitán. Two-color lithograph on Büttenkarton BFK Rives, 250g/sqm; Size: 53 x 42 cm, Image size: 69 x 57 cm; Edition of 30 + 10 A.P. + 2 P.P.; Numbered and signed on the front.
Grace Weaver’s catalogue on the occasion of her exhibition “Steps” in 2020 in New York with text contributions by Susan Thompson is out now. Published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König.
The catalog titled "11 Women" with text contributions by Eric P.S. Degenhardt and Grace Weaver is available now. Published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König.
Paloma Proudfoot is featured in the publication “Boobs in the Arts: Fe:male Bodies in Pictorial History”. The book is a compendium of images spanning different eras, art movements, and discourses which bring together various artistic positions from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present in chronological order.
Rachel Youn is participating in the group exhibition “Petromelancholia” curated by Alexander Klose. The exhibition deals with the all-encompassing presence of petroleum and the enormous consequences of life after oil. “Petromelancholia” contemplates the legacy of the oil era and the new meaning that the past will undoubtedly acquire in the future. On view at BRUTUS, Rotterdam until November 19th, 2023
Klara Hobza was part of the group exhibition “love/love” at Künstlerhaus Dortmund. In the inclusive and participatory exhibition artists present paintings, chemigrams, videos, installations and performances on the theme of love, transforming the Künstlerhaus into a walk-in stage. 19.08.–01.10.2023
Klara Hobza's Animaloculomat was on view at the Bundeskunsthalle Bonn this summer, as part of the group show “INTERACTIONS”. Curated by Susanne Kleine, the exhibition invites interactive play, utilising visual languages, dance, music and sound as universal forms of communication. 30.04.–15.10.2023.
A new article on the work of Eli Cortiñas, written by Gillian Nicole Osborne for Berlin Art Link. Her work critiques assistive technologies that endorse and enforce regressive heteronormative standards of femininity, and dissects culture biases and gender tropes in Artificial Intelligence that dehumanize and disempower women.
Rachel Youn’s work is featured in a group exhibition at the Naughton Gallery at Queen's University in Belfast, one of Northern Ireland's leading contemporary art spaces. The exhibition, titled “NGXX”, marks the twentieth anniversary of the gallery. The show examines politics, the environment, race, sexuality, family and heritage via painting, photography, drawing, sculpture, illustration, tattoos and textiles. 13.10.22–29.01.23
Work by Rachel Youn is included in a group exhibition at The National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rome, curated by Gerardo Mosquera. The exhibition takes its title, “Hot Spot”, from a work of the same name by Mona Hatoum, a large installation in iron and neon depicting environmental catastrophe. 24.10.2022–26.02.2023
As we globalise and digitise, the physical spaces in which we work adapt. Featuring work by Eli Cortiñas, Julia Höner curates a group exhibition entitled “Landscapes of Labour”, examining the social, political and ecological shifts that occur as our work structures evolve. 25.08.2022–08.01.2023
Kunstverein Braunschweig presents Eli Cortiñas' extensive body of work in her first institutional solo show in Germany. The exhibition, curated by Nuno de Brito Rocha and Benedikt Johannes Seerieder, brings together major works from the last 10 years and presents installations newly conceived especially for the exhibition at Villa Salve Hospes. 02.07.–02.10.2022
Paloma Proudfoot will be part of the exhibition “off the beaten rack” curated by Nantje Wilke at KIT – Kunst im Tunnel in Dusseldorf. The exhibition shows sculptures and objects which explore the possibilities of extending and imitating the human body, for example by means of prostheses, instruments or tools. 25.06.–18.09.2022
After the pandemic brought about the demise of so many cultural events, the group exhibition K60 was created to highlight the importance of collaboration and support among galleries, to unify and bolster the Berlin art scene. Launched in 2020, by the galleries alexander levy, BQ, ChertLüdde, Klemm's, Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Plan B and PSM, we are delighted to participate this year for the third edition, banding together with so many wonderful galleries that make Berlin’s scene particularly strong and special! 10.09.–18.09.2022
Klara Hobza will be part of the group exhibition “Dem Wasser Folgen” at Kunsthalle Bielefeld. The exhibition with works by around fifty international artists and selected contemporary positions from the Kunsthalle's collection addresses current, cultural, political, economic and ecological aspects of water. 04.06.–16.10.2022
Paloma Proudfoot's commissioned work “Grief is recognised as a friend”, for this year's Bold Tendencies summer programme, includes glazed ceramic figures resting on a purple wooden structure - a form inspired by medieval cadaver monuments. 26.05.–17.09.2022
Grace Weaver is taking part in “How (Not) to Fit In – Metaphern der Adoleszenz”, a group show at Villa Merkel in Esslingen. The exhibition, curated by Benedikt Johannes Seerieder, brings together artistic contributions that open up intersectional perspectives on adolescence, as well as on adolescence as a metaphor, for social dynamics. 08.05.–17.07.2022
Klara Hobza is part of the exhibition “Identität nicht nachgewiesen” presenting new acquisitions of the Federal Collection of Contemporary Art, Germany at Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn. 07.05.–03.10.2022
Eli Cortiñas is participating in “Existing Otherwise – The Future of Coexistence” – an Exhibition and Reschooling Programme taking place at SCCA Tamale (Savannah Centre for Contemporary Art) in Ghana. Curated by Solvej Helweg Ovesen, Ibrahim Mahama and Isabel Lewis. 14.01.–30.04. 2022
We’re pleased to announce that works by Matthias Dornfeld and Klara Hobza have been acquired by The Federal Collection of Contemporary Art, Germany.
Klara Hobza is featured in Gregory Volk's online exhibition “Contact” as part of “What is Normal”, an online curatorial platform. “What is Normal” is a three-part collaboration between Radiator Gallery, New York, and Structura Gallery, Sofia. It takes place online while creating a unique curatorial platform for the exchange of ideas, presented in a series of exhibitions.
Klara Hobza and Eli Cortiñas are part of “Thinking like an Octopus, or: Tentacular Grasp”, a group exhibition curated by Julia Katharina Thiemann at the Wilhelm Hack Museum in Ludwigshafen. The exhibition takes up reflections to question the existing animal-human relationship. On view until 08.01.2022.