ALEKSANDAR PERTEMOV und PAUL GRAVES kollaborieren bereits seit 15 Jahren weltweit und bewegen sich dabei als Grenzgänger zwischen unterschiedlichen Kunstformen. Mit Malerei, Zeichnung, Fotografie und performativ-installativen Arbeiten gestalten sie visuelle Welten und situieren sich dabei in zahlreichen Darstellungsfeldern.

Für das WoMA filtert das Künstlerkombo Alltägliches und gestaltet daraus eine utopische Landschaft, die in der Arte-Povera verwurzelt ist. In der Analyse des Banalen und der darin liegenden Schönheit sezieren sie das Triviale in ihrer eigenen ästhetischen Sprache aus Humor und Konflikt.

KRAUT IS GOOD platziert hausgemachtes Sauerkraut und einen Kohlkopf-Teddy in einer Landschaft aus Fotografien, Zeichnungen und Collagen in Vintage-Rahmungen. Die Spannung ist ausgewogen, die dominante Farbe ist grün. In ihrer direkten Herangehensweise mit einfachsten Mitteln, wirkt die Bildlandschaft gebastelt und entrückt den Betrachter in einen kindlichen, fast terrorisierenden Verwirrungs-Zustand, der neu sehen, erfahren und entdecken lässt.

Otto Oscar Hernández Ruiz 1976 was born and raised in Havana (CUB). After receiving his diploma in 1999 in Architecture at the University of Havana, he worked in his learned profession until 2002 when he moved to Germany. From 2004 Otto studied fine arts with Prof. Liz Bachhuber at the Bauhaus University Weimar.

Otto Oscar Hernández Ruiz works within three art mediums: painting, drawing and performance and through this explores the construction and deconstruction of one’s own perception of an environment. His works repeatedly deal with the design of landscape. In his site-specific performance he articulates on an audio-visual level – always interacting with the audience, music and location.Otto Oscar Hernandez Ruiz

Leif Low-Beer’s work uses elements of photography, sculpture, and found objects to reorient the viewer’s relationship to the familiar elements of his or her lived environment.

In his maximalist installations, an environment of seeming chaos resolves into a coherent

composition when seen from a specific vantage point. These complex scenes invest otherwise inert objects with rich fictional narratives which become animated as the viewer moves through the space.

In photographic collage works, these scenes then become subject to further manipulation, building ever-receding layers of representation that present an expanded field of meaning for the viewer to navigate, adding his or her own perspective to those already represented.

@MariaVolokhova will show a very special selection of her ceramics and in combination with @PARSPralinen will present their precious and delicious handmade chocolates.

Luftraum

"Luftraum" (airspace) ist a new format installation of urban places in Berlin from studioolivervogt. Luftraum is a conceptual artistic intervention that spreads as a poster campaign or a street signs in urban spaces.

The Edward Snowden Luftraum will be attached to the famous advertising pillars "Litfaßsäule" which are supposed to be deconstructed soon.

As a street sign it will be installed in the Rosa-Luxemburg-Straße and from 17 May on it will be shown as an exhibition at WoMA.

Fett von Gestern

The artist Kristiane Kegelmann addresses the bipolar relationship between man and nature with her work as in the two sculptures.

Nature appears as something infinitely flexible, fluid, growing, transient. For humans, the idea of ​​transience often involves a vague, intangible momentum, often accompanied by fear. So humans begin to conserve, to straighten nature, to bind, to direct and to make demands.

The artist intervenes precisely in this distortion and reflects the viewer the absurdity of his endeavor. For the time being, areas of grease will fit in authoritative straightforward presets on the surface of the steel frame, only to transform themselves without any imposed force being able to put a stop to this process. The fat spreads out on the suction surface and blurs in organic forms on the outer casing of the sculptures, which previously served as a working sheet for the artist. Just let it be and see, allow change. Just let go - right?

MODESTIA is a three-edition-series of paintings, oil on canvas.

The works contain several portraits of gorillas on a black background and focus on the act of exchanging glances.

Each of them represents an indiscreet border crossing, especially in terms of going beyond the borders of our own species confronting the eye of an animal.

Cris, a stop-motion director and paper-craft artist, and Lacy, a set & interior designer specializing in paper arts, decided to join forces to tackle larger, more diversified projects. They've been making props / stop-motion studio under the self-titled name Crizilla & Delasey (Cris Wiegandt & Lacy Barry) in Berlin, Germany.

And in the first year together the dynamic duo have produced works for Coca-Cola, Adobe, Adidas Maker Lab and features for Fast Forward Festival & IDEAT Magazine. Imagining a world where lizard monsters and fancy cats team up to fight monotony with a color spectrum of lightening bolts, for Crizilla & Delasey the future is sparkling.

The Sex Issue

Fukt is an annual magazine for contemporary drawing, established in Trondheim, Norway in 1999 and based in Berlin since 2001.

Founded by editor Björn Hegardt, the magazine has featured the likes of David Shrigley, Keith Haring, Tracey Emin, Raymond Pettibon, Louise Bourgeois and William Kentridge alongside new and exciting artists over its span of 16 issues. Ariane Spanier has been taking care about the design since 2006. She constantly pushed the aesthetic in a new direction.

Issue 16 entitled The Sex Issue, features the work of 23 artistic positions focusing on erotic contemporary drawing.

FUKT

One third of Germany is covered by forest. 
A landscape of longing since German romanticism, a place for recreation and leisure,
but also a site full of legends and gloomy beings. 
The forest is a real place, still its true greatness is found in its symbolism. 
An inner place whose mysticism affects the subconscious of the beholder.

The photo and video artist Stini Röhrs will show a selection of her forest series "Waldungen" in four episodes (March 22 - May 3rd):

Episode #1: March 22nd - 28th
Episode #2: March 29th - April 4th
Episode #3: April 5th -25th
Episode #4: April 26th - May 3rd // April 26th: Get-together Finissage with Waldmeister drink

The new chapter in Volokhova's porcelain series "Still Life Stories".

The installation of different multifunctional food cases "The Golden Spittle" plays on the inconsistency, transitory and ephemeral nature of food and explores the impact of decay. Serving plates, bowls and cups take the shape of lively animals and cadavers at the same time. The vessels however show organic and abstract forms of the inner body. 

It is an experimental dinner party where the guests are nobody less than porcelain animals!

Challenging traditional practices, Maria Volokhova’s porcelain sits at the borderline between art and design as well as on the frontier between the functional and the figurative. Volokhova Porcelain has been based in Berlin since 2010.

Pakhom is showing a four-edition-series of multi-part paintings on wooden panels. The paintings contain a combination of text and image referring to old Russian traditions using signs in an expressionistic, chaotic and seemingly nonsense way.

Pakhom (real name Sergei Pakhomov) is a well-known blogger, TV and cinema actor and media artist in Russia and is one of the new upcoming European artists in the contemporary art heaven.

Federico Testa is an Italian visual artist, born 1982 in Bologna, based in Berlin since 10 years. He studied photography and raised a fascination with light, color and surrealism.Â

He now reflects this enthusiasm in his works by playing with various media such as painting and photography.

At WoMA he presented a selection of his works: acrylic on marble as a high res photographic print and acrylic on paper as original paintings.

Testa Federico

Nadja Schütt

Jan Poppenhagen provides an effective setting of the rough language of German rap culture. The pictures are taken at night after hip hop concerts. The black image playground directs the entire attention of the viewer while putting strong emphasis on performance of the protagonists: young people staging themselves in an authentic way. The perspective on the young people are always respectful, never condemning - rather descriptive.

Jan Poppenhagen