Exhibition held at Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart - Berlin
A painting by Katharina Grosse can appear anywhere. Her large-scale works are multi-dimensional pictorial worlds in which splendid color sweeps across walls, ceilings, objects, and even entire buildings and landscapes. Read more
KÖNIG TOKIO presents an exhibition of new works by Matthias Weischer, on view from September 23rd through November 15th, 2020. This is Weischer’s third solo show with the gallery.The recent paintings of Leipzig-based artist Matthias Weischer unpack like rooms within rooms. In these works, the edges of a painting act like artificial boundaries within which any number of possibilities can be realized. Read more
KÖNIG TOKIO / The gradual disintegration of a given order is best observed from a distance. Norbert Bisky’s astute analyses of changing social conditions often point to the crumbling of modern myths and how easily certainties are overthrown by unforeseeable events.Read more
KÖNIG GALERIE presents GROWING PAINS, the first solo exhibition of the American artist Trey Abdella in Germany. On display are six new large-format works. Read more
Sensitive Euro Man, 15 August – 18 October 2020Friedrich KunathFriedrich Kunath has no belief in Romanticism, yet artistically he remains under its aegis. From the writings of Schlegel, he learned about irony as a fundamental aesthetic principle of Romanticism. Romantic irony is the conceptual abyss to this subjectivist art form: its meta-level or double floor – or both. Read more.
Cats and Ghosts, 15 August – 20 September 2020Sarah MorrisAlexander KlugeWhen artist Sarah Morris met the legendary film director Alexander Kluge a few years ago, the circumstances were unusual. She was looking for a striking, Wizard-of-Oz-type male voice to record her screenplay. Read more.
Open Call, 15 August – 19 September 2020Group ExhibitionAs physical distance transformed our means of seeing and discovering new works, KÖNIG GALERIE has invited artists to participate in digital discussions online, bridging the gap of separation and expanding horizons of engagement. Read more.
Peter Halley | Anselm Reyle, 11 September – 13 September 2020Peter HalleyAnselm ReyleHalley and Reyle have exchanged pictures and exhibited together in the past. United by a fascination with formal elements such as day-glo colours and relief-type surface structures, the two nonetheless pursue very different artistic strategies, evocative of the traditional categories of classical and romantic art. Read more.
Objects are not mere functional things. They are cultural signifiers and embodiments of codified meaning. When shown in museums, they even represent history and, being metonymies of the past, act as materialized traces. Read more
33 : König Galerie, 27 August – 30 August 2020Group ExhibitionEnter Art Fair is a new and ambitious international art fair in the Nordics. Read more.
As an artist working across a variety of media, Rinus Van de Velde has made a career of exposing the limits and potentials of art’s seeming unreality. Van de Velde’s work suggests that the fictitious quality of art relates to its distance from the particulars of everyday life. Read more
In this new exhibition TRANCELUCENSE Martin Eder explores the invisibility of dreams. The word game TRANCE-LUCENSE means for Martin Eder either disappearing or merging into a bodyless reality such as in dreams or in digital virtual worlds. Read more
KÖNIG LONDON
Selected Facets and Translation, 20 March – 23 May 2020
Selected Facets and Translation is a presentation of a range of works created by Jeremy Shaw that can be conceived as physical manifestations of his recent immersive and cinematic installations. Read more
The works in The Real Extent, which include a new series of suspended works and recent works on paper, continue the artist’s investigations related to the process of perception. Read more
Nothing is as it appears exhibits sculptural objects that bring viewers closer to themselves, to their environment, and to each other. The exhibition relates to the same-titled book which invites people to discover the subtle connection between yoga and Hein‘s art. Read more
Exhibition for Enter Art Fair, 29 August - 01 September 2019