Gallery Alte Schule Adlershof
8 May until 27 June 2015
Dörpfeldstraße 54, 12489 Berlin

Arno Bojak , Reinhard Bojak / Marc Gröszer, Clemens Gröszer / Matthias Heidenreich Herta Heidenreich / Julia Neuenhausen, Siegfried Neuenhausen / Holger John, Joachim John / Lea Asja Pagenkemper, Katja Ka, Otto Herbert Hajek / Georg Polke, Sigmar Polke / Moritz Schleime, Cornelia Schleime / Kata Unger, Heinrich Bethke

With the kind support of the Senate Chancellery for Cultural Affairs – Exhibition Fund for Municipal Galleries Berlin

The exhibition Internal Phenomena is dedicated to the artistic work of two generations of artists with a family background. Nine constellations are selected from the immediate environment and their respective positions are presented. The perspective encompasses the simultaneously present representatives of the generations of a now historical period of art. The predecessors of the artist friends and colleagues present here are now among the fixed points of the art coordinate system, radiant like 1P/Halley and deeply dormant like serpentine.

It is well known that there are idealistic family connections between artists through the ages. We then speak of spiritual or elective affinity. Familial concepts are an integral part of the history of art.

The question is whether there is a connection of an internal artistic nature beyond the artists’ workshops of past times, apart from the almost outdated master principle and the imprints of school master apprenticeships.

… Could it be that artists who grow up away from art as children need at least a talent or an initial spark to enter the painting stream of ‘art’, while the children of artists already have the foundation and only need to continue it to break through into a new or unique format?

In neighbouring sciences, building on what has gone before is part of the substance of what exists today. In art, however, there seem to be occasional interruptions of entire developments and their protagonists, which can later be rediscovered and called upon as key witnesses.the light conditions of the perception of simultaneous phenomena of art of one or two periods always encompass the entire spectrum and signify the division into visible and invisible.internal phenomena directs the view to the connecting factors of close and distant relatives.

Curated by Kata Unger + Frank Diersch / German Tatami Projekte