In a group exhibition opening on Saturday 10 August, TIME IS NOW brings together paintings and drawings, photographs, a video work, objects and installations by a large number of the artists represented by Galerie Funke and forms a cross-section of the gallery’s programme.

Galerie Funke’s programme aims to cross different forms of artistic expression and to create works of art that expand the boundaries of the medium: painting and drawing transcend their two-dimensionality towards three-dimensional colour spaces and enter into a connection with architecture; figurative and abstract elements overlap; lines and colours enter into a dialogue; the visual corresponds with music, sound and rhythm.

The focus is on the innovative, novel approach in the respective artistic genre as well as the examination of art history. The works of all artists are characterised by their strong reference to current social issues, new media and urban life: TIME IS NOW.

TIME IS NOW reflects the reflection of art on the temporal moment in the sense of presence and in this way includes aspects of improvisation and the performative. With new works by Carola Bark, Doris Marten, Rita Rohlfing, Barbara Rosengarth and Marcelina Wellmer, the exhibition focuses on constructive, concrete and minimalist art. Judith Ganz, Valeria Heisenberg, Heike Kelter and Katja Pudor explore the concept of painting in their works. Moments of the magical, surreal and uncanny characterise the paintings of Kirstin Rogge and Sabine Wewer. Risk Hazekamp, Ins A Kromminga and Desiree Palmen raise questions about identities, visibility and transformation in their photographs, drawings and watercolours. Birgit Huebner, Silke Koch, Julia Lazarus, Agnes Lörincz and Julia Neuenhausen playfully and symbolically integrate motifs from everyday culture, dance, fashion and current affairs into their photographs, montages and collages.

TIME IS NOW: With this exhibition, Galerie Funke is bidding farewell to its traditional premises in Willibald-Alexis-Straße in Berlin Kreuzberg. Over a period of three years, it presented the works of 26 artists in 25 exhibitions here. A new organisation is planned for the future, also in further cooperation with the artists represented by the gallery, in the form of independent curatorial work and exhibition concepts at changing locations, art consulting, public relations and art education.

The exhibition TIME IS NOW ends with a FINISSAGE on Saturday, 7 September.

Claudia Funke, August 2013