Grisebach is pleased to present the exhibition "Nachtstücke" by Jagoda Bednarsky and Felix Kultau in cooperation with the Frankfurt gallery PHILIPP PFLUG CONTEMPORARY (27 April to 13 May 2022) for this year's Gallery Weekend Berlin.
Bednarsky and Kultau are presenting a total of 17 works together, with the majority of the works being exhibited for the first time and exclusively during the Gallery Weekend. The presentation of the works plays with the aesthetics and context of the architecture: each work seeks a counterpart in the U-shaped exhibition space and is figuratively reflected on a spatial level. The site-specificity is consciously integrated into the curatorial gesture - a motif of Romanticism shimmers through the supposed optical reflection of the artworks: a turn towards the uncanny and the numinous. The works of Bednarsky and Kultau meet on a level in which both subtly question the so-called present and imagine themselves in an escape from the world.
The exhibition title "Nachtstücke" also opens up a nostalgic view of the
epoch of Romanticism. In the visual arts, this term describes the depiction of a scenario in artificial light. E.T.A. Hoffmann borrowed the term for his literary work of the same title.
Felix Kultau
Born in 1984, the Berlin-based artist studied at the Offenbach Academy of Art and Design, the Düsseldorf Art Academy and the Städelschule, from which he graduated in 2015 as a master student of Monika Baer.
Jagoda Bednarsky
Jagoda Bednarsky (born 1988) studied fine art at the Kunsthochschule in Kassel and the HfBK Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main. She lives and works in Berlin.
Opening
Wednesday, 27 April 2022, 6 to 9 pm
Grisebach, Fasanenstraße 27
Exhibition
Until Friday, 13 May 2022
Monday to Friday 10 am to 6 pm, Saturday 11 am to 4 pm