This present was chosen as a part of Berlin Oomph powered by Hallen 05—a curated roundup of the very best up to date artwork exhibitions and occasions held by galleries, museums, and establishments on the town throughout Hallen 05, September 2024.

“chemical,” Matthias Groebel’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. This exhibition marks the debut presentation of a uncommon physique of labor made within the late Nineteen Eighties, main as much as his extensively acclaimed machine-assisted work.

Throughout his signature sq. canvases, Groebel combines home made photograph emulsion strategies with gestural oil portray. With the proliferation of pocked-sized point-and-shoot cameras within the Nineteen Eighties, Groebel started documenting his immanent environment, capturing the mundanity of an economically affluent but culturally repressed and divided nation, in addition to its brewing subcultural undercurrents.

Groebels imagery, depicting city landscapes, nameless passers-by, a riled-up viewers at a punk live performance or intimate moments amongst buddies, encapsulates the period’s postmodern ennui. Attuned to the trend and tenderness intertwined in ecstatic our bodies, the works painting an understanding of different areas as data methods that circumvent official establishments. These images, taken on the point of the knowledge age, reveal Groebel’s creating sensitivity to the collective psychology of an period, a theme that will later crystallise in his famend TV work.

Groebel’s alchemical processes and DIY method to media are evident in his use of home made emulsion liquids, which switch photographic paperwork onto canvas with a definite, virtually painterly, hue and grain. The photographic doc is obscured or embellished by gestural brushstrokes, the place thick layers of oil distinction in opposition to sepia tones, accentuating the spatial and auratic undertones of his compositions. These early works provide vital perception into Groebel’s evolving apply, tracing the conceptual and technical developments which have come to outline his oeuvre.

at Schiefe Zähne, Berlin
till October 25, 2024