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SILENT REVELATIONS
AMIR H. FALLAH 14 Nov - 14 Dec 2024 PARIS In the classical sense, portraits show people's faces. They characterize their status, their social milieu, their mental state, their false ego, their lies and their truths. For many, the face is the most important asset. A measurable value that must be constantly compared in its currency through operations, likes, make-up... Read more -
SOFT TISSUE
CHRISTIANE PESCHEK 25 Oct - 23 Nov 2024 DÜSSELDORF OPENING RECEPTION: FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2024 6 TO 9 PM ‘By the late twentieth century, our time, a mythic time, we are all chimeras, theorised and fabricated hybrids of machine and organism—in short, cyborgs.’ —Donna Haraway, A Cyborg Manifesto Christiane Peschek was born in 1984, less than a year before... Read more -
INVITED - SPINNEREIRUNDGANG LEIPZIG
RAPHAEL BRUNK & FELIX KULTAU 13 - 15 Sep 2024 OTHERS OPENING RECEPTION: FIRDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2024 6 TO 9 PM REQUEST PREVIEW Read more -
READING THE LANGUAGE OF IMAGES
Jammie Holmes, Andrew Schoultz, Jake Troyli 30 Aug - 5 Oct 2024 DÜSSELDORF AS PART OF THE DC OPEN 'When we see, we are not just looking – we are reading the language of images.' (John Berger). The act of seeing is not a passive encounter but an active interpretation, shaped by our experiences, beliefs, and histories. To see is to engage with... Read more -
HELIX OF REALISM
SIMONE HAACK 29 Aug - 19 Oct 2024 PARIS With Helix of Realism, German painter Simone Haack presents both her paintings, a kind of capillary landscape, and, in an unprecedented way, her own dream notebooks. Since her early days at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts Paris in Pat Andrea's class, she has meticulously continued to record and reproduce... Read more -
DEIN SCHATTEN LIEBT DICH/TON OMBRE T'AIME
FELIX KULTAU 5 Jul - 10 Aug 2024 PARIS The poetic title Dein Schatten liebt dich / Ton ombre t'aime (Your shadow loves you), by German artist Felix Kultau, resonates with the Romantic art movement that is so dear to Kultau, just as our own shadow remains irremediably attached to our skin. In his installations and creations, the artist... Read more -
LEAVING EDEN
LENA VALENZUELA 7 Jun - 13 Jul 2024 DÜSSELDORF In the Christian and Jewish faith, the Garden of Eden is a paradisiacal place where God created the first humans - Adam and Eve. Even outside the religious context, Eden stands symbolically for happiness, idyll and innocence. According to the story, Eve destroyed this peaceful state by eating an apple... Read more -
ART IS A SERIOUS GAME
Group show 16 May - 15 Jun 2024 PARIS DURING PARIS GALLERY WEEKEND Here, walls have ears - be very careful what you say - heroes, a bit of belly, still lifes are reborn and illusions make sure they're clearly visible. Elsewhere, around 1483, Sandro Botticelli put the finishing touches to his Venus and Mars. The work, long and... Read more -
KPM+ TATJANA DOLL X GALERIE DROSTE: WINNICOTT
TATJANA DOLL 24 Apr - 25 May 2024 OTHERS The artistic starting point of the KPM+ artist edition entitled Winnicott is a painting by Berlin artist Tatjana Doll on her studio floor. To present it, the artist invites visitors to her 'studio' in the KPM Pavilion. The microscopic reproduction of her workplace, with the original floor, provides a concrete... Read more -
ZEITGEIST™
MOSES & TAPS™ 12 Apr - 18 May 2024 DÜSSELDORF Working in opposition to an expected structure that is intended to organize the course of everyday public life and the public gaze is one of the key conceptual foundations of the artist collective Moses & Taps™. In their second solo exhibition ZEITGEIST™ at Galerie Droste, this is concretized by using... Read more -
STAY
LARRY MADRIGAL & TIM SANDOW 9 Mar - 4 Apr 2024 Larry Madrigal & Tim Sandow begin by sharing hues that range from a dreamy orange to a specific bluish, enveloping scenes in a certain silence: even cries seem muffled, and noises seem cottony. Between sunsets and a soft, more or less pronounced strangeness, the two painters meet in their relationship... Read more -
CHERRY TALES
MONA BROSCHÁR 2 Feb - 23 Mar 2024 DÜSSELDORF In her first solo exhibition at Galerie Droste - Cherry Tales - Mona Broschár takes up the idea of the land of milk and honey: a world of abundance in which pleasure is a virtue and idleness is celebrated. She creates a universe of beauty and joie de vivre. This... Read more -
CANDIDI TIBI SOLES
Margaux Laurens-Neel 27 Jan - 27 Feb 2024 PARIS The Roman poet Catullus wrote the line 'fulsere quondam candidi tibi soles' (once, white suns shone for you), to express, although still very young, his despair due to a fallen love. With as much mischief as understanding, and above all a passion for ancient poetry, the just as young artist... Read more -
BIS ICH SCHLAFEN KANN/JUSQU'À CE QUE JE PUISSE DORMIR
Willehad Eilers 9 Dec 2023 - 16 Jan 2024 PARIS Willehad Eilers paints bodies overflowing with wine, desires and feelings. In the background, a little melancholy music resonates, palpable, not shrill, heard only on second reading. This new series by the artist, created for the exhibition Bis ich schlafen kann / Jusqu'à ce que je puisse dormir, is part of... Read more -
SERPENTINE SUNSET
ANDREW SCHOULTZ 17 Nov 2023 - 20 Jan 2024 DÜSSELDORF Andrew Schoultz is known to international audiences for his repetitive canvas works in which he approaches social and political issues in a painterly way. With his densely layered paintings, Schoultz represents an all-encompassing, historical position in which he explores recurring patterns of behaviour in history in relation to war, natural... Read more -
WILLEHAD EILERS X JAN KATH
15 - 18 Nov 2023 OTHERS Two selected paintings by the German artist Willehad Eilers have been transformed into large-format tapestries by the carpet manufacturer JAN KATH DESIGN. Eiler's painterly density is thus transcribed into a fabric intensity. The mood achieved by him is worked out in detail by Jan Kath in mostly Chinese silk. The... Read more -
CC
Tatjana Doll 20 Oct - 6 Dec 2023 PARIS DURING PARIS + PAR ART BASEL If you ask yourself what animal was painted most often in the history of art, then the horse will occupy a top place. Perhaps even the first. The horse has always fascinated man, and depending on the cultural epoch and individual perspective, the horse... Read more -
CHRONICLES 7
Group show @ KPM Berlin 13 - 17 Sep 2023 OTHERS GROUP EXHIBITION - CHRONICLES VOL 7 GALERIE DROSTE X KPM BERLIN WEGELYSTRASSE 1 10623 BERLIN, GERMANY WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2023, OPENING 7 TO 9 PM THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2023, 2 TO 7 PM FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2023, 2 TO 7 PM SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2023, 1 TO 5 PM SUNDAY,... Read more -
DIGITAL NAIV
Raphael Brunk & Arno Beck 9 Sep - 11 Oct 2023 PARIS Galerie Droste presents an exhibition of two artists, Raphael Brunk and Arno Beck, brought together here for their proximity to digital art. For this autumn exhibition, a sort of artistic chiasmus takes place, as well as a slight break with the gallery's figurative line: while Brunk, who comes from a... Read more -
POETRY OF THE EVIDENT
CONRAD RUIZ, CURTIS TALWST SANTIAGO, IVANA DE VIVANCO, TATJANA DOLL, UMAR RASHID 1 Sep - 4 Nov 2023 DÜSSELDORF How do we see our environment? How do we, as a person, as a society, shape realities? The group show Poetry of the Evident with works by Tatjana Doll, Curtis Tawlst Santiago, Ivana De Vivanco, Conrad Ruiz and Umar Rashid explores these questions. The artists are united by the desire... Read more -
ICEBERG THEORY
SOJEONG LEE 30 Jun - 5 Aug 2023 DÜSSELDORF The life we live, see, and experience around us is, according to Sigmund Freud, only the tip of the iceberg of consciousness. Our feelings, motives, and decisions are, in fact, influenced by the unconscious mind as the primary source of human behavior. Impossible to reach purposely and protected by various... Read more -
LOVE MAGIC
Lydia Maria Pfeffer 17 Jun - 12 Aug 2023 PARIS Lydia Maria Pfeffer re-imagines classic mythology, fables, and fairy tales through a contemporary and feminist lens, creating new worlds, that echo memories and familiarity. Self-realized and unapologetic characters fill the canvas and paper, which provide a place for healing, existing, and give a visual voice to the non-conforming and the... Read more -
NO TE ENCONTRABA Y TUVE QUE BUSCAR LA LUZ EN EL SOL / I COULDN'T FIND YOU AND HAD TO LOOK FOR THE LIGHT IN THE SUN
Javier Ruiz Pérez 19 May - 17 Jun 2023 DÜSSELDORF NO TE ENCONTRABA Y TUVE QUE BUSCAR LA LUZ EN EL SOL / I COULDN'T FIND YOU AND HAD TO LOOK FOR THE LIGHT IN THE SUN In his first solo exhibition with Galerie Droste, Javier Ruiz Pérez embarks on a search for humanity, tracing the radiant, light moments in... Read more -
MUSCLE MANIACS - no paint no gain
André Wendland 13 May - 12 Jun 2023 PARIS Color is the main theme in this first solo exhibition by André Wendland at Galerie Droste Paris. It prevails, but also leaves some room for the subject, here the skillful, malicious and ironic observation of “gym addicts”. The artist works by theme, in a serial way. It is not that... Read more -
WHAT WE DID WHEN THE SUN TURNED GREEN
Laust Højgaard 25 Mar - 6 May 2023 PARIS The title “What We Did when the Sun Turned Green“, chosen by Laust Højgaard immediately imposes a post-apocalyptic climate. Highly narrative, it invites us from the start to enter the spheres of a strange, changing, intriguing and strangely familiar world. This familiarity, perhaps, comes from the timeless material offered to... Read more -
TRUST ISSUES
Antonia Freisburger 24 Mar - 6 May 2023 DÜSSELDORF Antonia Freisburger creates surreal visual worlds that emanate from her fascination with everything unknown in our universe. With painterly condensations of multiple layers, free-flowing surfaces, and colorful, luminous, expanding forms, the artist attempts to approach the unspeakable with her sensitivity to the environment. Immersing us in a reality that seems... Read more -
CHRONICLES 6 HONG KONG
Group show 20 - 25 Mar 2023 OTHERS During this year's Art Basel Hong Kong, Galerie Droste presents the ongoing Chronicles group exhibition at the Upper House in the heart of Hong Kong. High above the clouds of the city, selected works by four of our artistic positions are curated, whose practices can be located in the fields... Read more -
PARAGONE
Eve Malherbe 18 Feb - 18 Mar 2023 PARIS The choice of the title Paragone (comparison in Italian) emanates from an observation: the one that often enjoins artists to choose, to define themselves by a unique medium and finally, to restrain an imagination that could only come out more fertile.. In echo to this sometimes unfortunate warning directed against,... Read more -
WESTERN PHILOSOPHIES
Julius Hofmann 3 Feb - 11 Mar 2023 DÜSSELDORF Exerpt from Saša Bogojev: Bogus cyber (de)mise-en-scènes To portray reality via only its polished surface and not its crumbling core can't be the best way to approach representational painting. Not, at least, in the 21st century, when we are keenly aware of the shipwreck that humanity has been steadily navigating... Read more -
ÉCHOS
Group show 26 Nov 2022 - 14 Jan 2023 PARIS ÉCHOS was born from the search for a name that could represent several ideas: a parallel to the Chronicles exhibitions organized in Germany, the twin nature and resonance of the two galleries in Düsseldorf and Paris, and the play on the notion of duo, response, binomial. This is how «... Read more -
P.S. MAYBE SEE YOU AT THE SEASIDE
Katharina Keller 18 Nov 2022 - 21 Jan 2023 DÜSSELDORF In her first solo exhibition P.S. MAYBE SEE YOU AT THE SEASIDE, the artist Katharina Keller brings together various works and fragments from her artistic oeuvre. Like her research process, the exhibition takes the encounter with the works and with fragments from her family archive as its starting point. In... Read more -
INSERT COIN
Raphael Brunk 16 Nov - 7 Dec 2022 OTHERS GALERIE DROSTE X JAN KATH VENLOER STR. 16, 50672 COLOGNE Raphael Brunk and Jan Kath are united by their approach of completely rethinking an old medium. They do not allow themselves to be restricted by what is already there, but use precisely this to revolutionise the way one deals with... Read more -
SODA CON VISTA
Tim Sandow 22 Oct - 21 Nov 2022 PARIS SODA CON VISTA is an exhibition that does not leave one indifferent: it makes the unspeakable sadnesses and the outrageous banalities speak. The two notions often come together in Tim Sandow's paintings, to give birth to a great fresco full of observations and questionings. The artist paints a daily life... Read more -
CHRONICLES 5
Group show 14 - 18 Sep 2022 OTHERS GALERIE DROSTE X KPM BERLIN WEGELYSTRASSE 1 10623 BERLIN, GERMANY During this year's Berlin Art Week, Galerie Droste presents the ongoing CHRONICLES group exhibition on the grounds of the Royal Porcelain-Manufactory in the heart of Berlin. Across various floors, selected works by international artistic positions are curated, whose practices can... Read more -
WAKE UP!
Denise Rudolf Frank 10 Sep - 15 Oct 2022 PARIS Wake up! - through this lightning raid of a title in form of an affirmative call to action, we are indeed invited to a collective enlightenment by the Viennese artist Denise Rudolf Frank. But, as tempting as this proposition seems, nothing is less certain than the place of awakening: carried... Read more -
SUGAR RUSH
Mira Makai 2 Sep - 22 Oct 2022 DÜSSELDORF In her first solo exhibition at Galerie Droste, titled SUGAR RUSH, the hungarian artist Mira Makai transports us into a cosmos full of possibilities, happy coincidents and nostalgia. This self-created universe is inspired by video games and virtual realities that seem equally familiar as they are populated by characters and... Read more -
THE GAME SHOW
Brian Robertson 8 Jul - 5 Aug 2022 DÜSSELDORF In his exhibition THE GAME SHOW, American artist Brian Robertson focusses on the rules we live by: 'I'm always trying to find the hidden drivers of everything and the more I look, the more I find rational explanations, often biological in nature. We are just animals after all and nature... Read more -
RUG BOMBS
Jan Kath 15 Jun - 25 Sep 2022 OTHERS ALTE BRÜDERKIRCHE RENTHOF 3 34117 KASSEL DURING DOCUMENTA 15 Rugs are like a mirror of their time. They have always reflected the lived realities of the people who design them. Jan Kath sees himself as continuing this tradition with his work for the RUG BOMBS exhibition. The son of a... Read more -
WHERE EAGLES DARE
Conrad Ruiz 14 May - 9 Jul 2022 PARIS That fearful sound of 'fire' and 'fire,' Let no man know is my Desire So goes a couplet in poet Anne Bradstreet’s 1666 poem, “Verses upon the Burning of our House.” We might read these lines as indicating the speaker’s hope for no other man or woman to know the... Read more -
CHRONICLES 4
Group show 28 Apr - 1 May 2022 OTHERS GALERIE DROSTE X KPM BERLIN WEGELYSTRASSE 1 10623 BERLIN, GERMANY DURING GALLERY WEEKEND During this year's Gallery Weekend in Berlin, Galerie Droste presents the ongoing CHRONICLES group exhibition on the grounds of the Royal Porcelain-Manufactory in the heart of Berlin. Across various floors, selected works by international artistic positions are... Read more -
THE LIVING PROOF
Tamara Malcher 2 Apr - 28 May 2022 DÜSSELDORF Expressive, nude paintings of voluminous female bodies mark the oeuvre of artist Tamara Malcher. Her lively figures are characterised by biomorphically shaped extremities that seem to soften and move without resistance. They are depicted in lively movements, pausing only for a moment on the canvas and then moving on. Thus... Read more -
GRAND OPENING
Group show 26 Mar - 7 May 2022 PARIS Galerie Droste is delighted to announce the inaugural exhibition in its new premises in Paris, France. The gallery with approximately 1800 square foot is located in one of the oldest buildings in the historical Marais at the border of 3rd and 4th arrondissements. The Grand Opening presents painterly and sculptural... Read more -
POTS
Julien Jaca 12 Mar - 9 Apr 2022 OTHERS GALERIE DROSTE PARIS 18 RUE DUSSOUBS 75002 PARIS, FRANCE Julien Jaca revilsits and hijack outsider art in his very own cathartic urge, paying no heed to aesthetic perfection. By colliding pop figures and naive illustrations with each other, the artist becomes a myth-maker. Using some archetypes for their immediate symbolism,... Read more -
LET'S MEET ON THE PLAYGROUND
Ákos Ezer 19 Feb - 26 Mar 2022 DÜSSELDORF Ákos Ezer navigates male, young protagonists with elongated and intertwined limbs into distinctive figure ensembles: a painterly symbiosis of captured moments from personal memories, reflecting the life of youth in his native Hungary and inviting associative continuation of the narrative. In his third solo exhibition at Galerie Droste, the artist... Read more -
LOVE BOAT
Willehad Eilers 13 Nov 2021 - 29 Jan 2022 DÜSSELDORF Suffering and love are probably closer together than anything else in this world. Willehad Eilers (1981), aka. Wayne Horse, processes this pleasurable - and painful - theme in the paintings of his third solo exhibition at Galerie Droste. In the oil paintings to which Eilers has devoted himself for several... Read more -
THROUGH THE FACADE
Super A 29 Oct - 6 Nov 2021 OTHERS GALERIE DROSTE X JMES TEMPELHOFER UFER 17 10963 BERLIN, GERMANY When Roy Lichtenstein exhibited his oil-painting Look Mickey at the Leo Castelli Gallery in New York in 1962, it marked not only the artist's international breakthrough, but also the official entry of comic adaptations into contemporary painting. Although other artists... Read more -
WILD HEART
Lydia Maria Pfeffer 23 Oct - 4 Dec 2021 OTHERS GALERIE DROSTE PARIS 18 RUE DUSSOUBS 75002 PARIS 'The collective unconscious does not develop individually but is inherited. It consists of preexistent forms, archetypes, which can only become secondarily conscious and give firmly delineated form to the contents of consciousness.'(C. G. Jung, The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious, Olten et... Read more -
UNIVERSES 4 BY SASHA BOGOJEV
Group show 16 - 30 Oct 2021 OTHERS GALERIE DROSTE X SASHA BOGOJEV 66 RUE CHARLOT 75003 PARIS, FRANCE During this year's Fiac International Contemporary Art Fair, Galerie Droste presents UNIVERSES 4, a group exhibition curated by Sasha Bogojev in the heart of Le Marais. After the initial Big Bang edition in Imola, Italy, back in 2018, follow-up... Read more -
CHRONICLES 3
Group show 15 - 19 Sep 2021 OTHERS During this year's Gallery Weekend *Discoveries and Art Week Berlin, Galerie Droste presents the ongoing CHRONICLES group exhibition on the grounds of the KPM Royal Porcelain-Manufactory in the heart of Berlin. Across various floors, selected works by thirty international artistic positions are curated, whose practices can be located in the... Read more -
... MAYBE IT'S JUST US.
Group show 4 Sep - 9 Oct 2021 OTHERS …MAYBE IT’S JUST US. ANDREW SCHOULTZ, ASAD FAULWELL, CONRAD RUIZ, UMAR RASHID GALERIE DROSTE PARIS 18 RUE DUSSOUBS 75002 PARIS […] 'And what about the monster?' Something strange happened to Percival. He yawned and stumbled, Jack grabbed him and shook him. 'Where does it lodge?' Percival slumped in Jack's hands.... Read more -
SEXY TOWN
Tim Sandow 3 Sep - 23 Oct 2021 DÜSSELDORF The summers are always hot here. Thirty degrees and more are no exception. But what does it matter? I'd rather sweat than be a shivering eel. In the morning I went to Pfeifer, the owner of the boxing stall, who was supposed to replace my jacket, which he had torn... Read more -
DAY OFF IDEAS
Ákos Ezer 26 Jun - 31 Jul 2021 OTHERS GALERIE DROSTE KATERNBERGER STRASSE 100 42115 WUPPERTAL Male, young persons with elongated and intertwined limbs, mark the canvas works of Hungarian artist Ákos Ezers and intertwine to form almost abstract paintings. The surreal depictions of the painterly bodies often take up the entire surface of the painting and, in their... Read more -
SOMETHING ABOUT THE WATER
Jody Paulsen 19 Jun - 24 Jul 2021 DÜSSELDORF With his vibrant felt collages, Cape Town artist Jody Paulsen translates contemporary icons, clichés, and slogans of consumerism into his own understanding of popular culture using visual cues. The striking juxtaposition of abstract dramaturgy and sensual lightness takes on a unique role: Wave-like patterns merge with narrative scenes that indulge... Read more -
BON VOYAGE
Group show 29 May - 26 Jun 2021 OTHERS GALERIE DROSTE 18 Rue Dussoubs 75002 Paris Galerie Droste is happy to present the group exhibition titled BON VOYAGE, which will open on Saturday, May 29 from 2 - 8 pm in the Galerie Droste, 18 rue Dussoubs, 75002 Paris. On display will be artworks on paper, canvases and sculptures... Read more -
DIE GEILE AUSSTELLUNG
Johanna Dumet 15 May - 19 Jun 2021 OTHERS GALERIE DROSTE KATERNBERGERSTRASSE 100 42115 WUPPERTAL Quickly placed brushstrokes that do not get lost in details but reinforce the pure forms of the objects, as well as a saturated choice of colors, convey an auspicious carefree attitude. It is her own narrative and an expressive response to her surroundings that... Read more -
CHEAT
Raphael Brunk 24 Apr - 5 Jun 2021 DÜSSELDORF With the solo exhibition CHEAT by Raphael Brunk, we are simultaneously opening our new premises in Düsseldorf. Raphael Brunk's works can be located in the digital context of photography. He himself speaks of algorithmic photography, since his works are based on visual constructions from common image processing programs. The algorithm... Read more -
DOUBLE U
Super A 20 Mar - 7 Apr 2021 OTHERS GALERIE DROSTE 18 RUE DUSSOUBS 75002 PARIS With his paintings and sculptures, Stefan Thelen, better known as Super A, moves along the sometimes fine line between fact and fiction and, as part of the 'Trapped' series, explores the reality behind the imaginative icons of pop culture by penetrating to their... Read more -
WATCHLIST 2
Group show 27 Feb - 27 Mar 2021 OTHERS GALERIE DROSTE KATERNBERGER STRAßE 100 42115 WUPPERTAL Let's finally start the new year in person again. Maybe even Vis à Vis, but in any case with our very own WATCHLIST. The first exhibition of the year takes place in our Wuppertal premises and includes works by five artists from the... Read more -
LA BLAGUE
Willehad Eilers 5 - 19 Dec 2020 OTHERS GALERIE DROSTE 18 RUE DUSSOUBS 75002 PARIS The central starting point of the oeuvre of Willehad Eilers (*1981), also known under the artist name Wayne Horse, is the critical but not humorless observation of the ambivalence of prosperity in the Western world - the 'wallowing of pigs in paradise,' according... Read more -
HOLDING PATTERN
Duo show 28 Nov - 9 Jan 2020 OTHERS GALERIE DROSTE KATERNBERGER STRAßE 100 42115 WUPPERTAL Galerie Droste is pleased to announce the duo exhibition of Los Angeles based artists Asad Faulwell and Andrew Schoultz. Schoultz, as a regular artist in the gallery's program, is already known to the gallery's long-time companions, but Asad Faulwell is exhibiting with the... Read more -
LIZARD BRAIN
Brian Robertson 22 Oct - 21 Nov 2020 OTHERS GALERIE DROSTE 18 RUE DUSSOUBS 75002 PARIS In his solo exhibition LIZARD BRAIN, the American artist Brain Robertson (*1978) continues his series of his symbolic self-portraits using objects and symbols that represent a psychological state of himself and comment on a social zeitgeist. The title of this exhibition alludes both... Read more -
HUMAN IS A FIVE LETTER WORD
Group show 12 Sep - 7 Nov 2020 OTHERS GALERIE DROSTE KATERNBERGER STRAßE 100 42115 WUPPERTAL The exhibition HUMAN IS A FIVE LETTER WORD brings together eleven figurative artists who, in their collective selection, reveal disharmonies in order to create complex perspectives and to rethink the nature of figuration. The title of this exhibition makes use of a contra-intuitive... Read more -
WATCHLIST
Group show 3 Sep - 17 Oct 2020 OTHERS GALERIE DROSTE 18 RUE DUSSOUBS 75002 PARIS 'A, it doesn't happen, and B, it doesn't happen as you think.' The joking German commentary describes an event that happens differently than planned. You could also say that life is full of surprises. Or in this case the year 2020, which we... Read more -
#918e80
Raphael Brunk 20 - 21 Jun 2020 OTHERS GALERIE DROSTE KATERNBERGER STRAßE 100 42115 WUPPERTAL Raphael Brunk's works can be located in the digital context of photography. He himself speaks of algorithmic photography, since his works are based on visual constructions from common image processing programs. The algorithm serves as a digital brush. The artistic power of action... Read more -
MEMORIES FROM THE FUTURE PARIS + ONLINE
Ákos Ezer 4 - 27 Jun 2020 OTHERS GALERIE DROSTE 18 RUE DUSSOUBS 75002 PARIS The main protagonists of the Hungarian artist characterize male persons with elongated limbs and bent postures, whose gestural movements remind of moments of falling. The different personalities, marked by contemporary and pop-cultural clothing, as well as the pastel colour palette used, offer a... Read more -
ART IS WHERE THE HEART IS VOL.7 PARIS/ ONLINE
Group show 2 - 25 Apr 2020 OTHERS Actually the exhibition AIWTHI Vol.7 would have taken place on April 02, 2020 in our new Parisian premises. Under the sad circumstances of today we now present the artworks as an online show. From 02. April 2020, 6pm you can view the artworks under the following links: Website: www.galeriedroste.de Facebook:... Read more -
CHRONICLES 2
Group show 22 Feb - 4 Apr 2020 OTHERS GALERIE DROSTE KATERNBERGER STRAßE 100 42115 WUPPERTAL “The fate of man is man.” Berthold Brecht The group exhibition CHRONICLES VOL.2 links eleven international artistic positions dealing with the complexity of everyday being. Fate, loneliness, dreams, humorous banalities, memories - the exhibition offers several artistic implementations of storytelling on canvases and... Read more -
INTERRAIL™
MOSES & TAPS™ 30 Nov 2019 - 18 Jan 2020 OTHERS GALERIE DROSTE KATERNBERGER STRAßE 100 42115 WUPPERTAL Since the beginning of the 20th century, artists have found their way into abstraction. Several avant-garde art movements built their existence on this, legitimizing their views in theoretical manifestos and thus often declaring counter-rotating art to be generally dead. Usually based on a... Read more -
ART IS WHERE THE HEART IS VOL. 6 PARIS
Group show 17 - 22 Oct 2019 OTHERS 7 rue des Gravilliers, 75003, Paris ART IS WHERE THE HEART IS VOL. 6 is an exhibition, curated by Galerie Droste. This time ART IS WHERE THE HEART IS VOL. 6 will take place in Paris. Line-up: Aleksandar Todorovic, Ayako Yonemitsu, César Piette, Kojiro Matsumoto, Libby Black, Michael Dotson, Philip... Read more -
BLUE NIGHT
JonOne 7 Sep - 23 Nov 2019 OTHERS John Perello is fully aware of his past. His artistic expression grows out of it and marks the heart of his oeuvre. The artist works with his memories, his roots, his emotions, his life in general, and applies his very own history as the most important artistic tool. That is... Read more -
ART IS WHERE THE HEART IS VOL. 5 PARIS
Group show 11 - 19 Jul 2019 OTHERS 48 rue Chapon, 75003 Paris ART IS WHERE THE HEART IS VOL. 5 is an exhibition, curated by Galerie Droste. This time ART IS WHERE THE HEART IS VOL. 5 will take place in Paris. Andy Dixon (1979, USA) Exploring themes of decadence, patronage, and the relationship between art and... Read more -
CONVERSION
Super A 17 Jun - 17 Aug 2019 OTHERS GALERIE DROSTE KATERNBERGER STRAßE 100 42115 WUPPERTAL With his paintings and sculptures Stefan Thelen, better known as Super A, walks the sometimes fine line between fact and fiction and within the context of his series “Trapped” delves into the truth behind the fanciful icons of pop culture by virtually getting... Read more -
CHRONICLES 1
Group show 6 Apr - 9 Jun 2019 OTHERS GALERIE DROSTE KATERNBERGER STRAßE 100 42115 WUPPERTAL “The fate of man is man.” Berthold Brecht The group exhibition CHRONICLES links seven international artistic positions dealing with the complexity of everyday being. Fate, loneliness, dreams, humorous banalities, memories - the exhibition offers several artistic implementations of storytelling on canvases and paperworks.... Read more -
ART IS WHERE THE HEART IS VOL. 4 AMSTERDAM
Group show 23 - 30 Mar 2019 OTHERS Kinkerstraat 12 AH, 1053 DT Amsterdam, The Netherlands ART IS WHERE THE HEART IS VOL.4 is an exhibition, curated by Galerie Droste. This time ART IS WHERE THE HEART IS VOL.4 will take place in Amsterdam. Line Up: Andrew Schoultz, Aaron Johnson, Wayne Horse, KC Ortiz, Philip Gerald, Paul Du... Read more -
WORDS BECOME THINGS
Heiko Zahlmann 2 Mar - 1 Apr 2019 OTHERS GALERIE DROSTE KATERNBERGER STRAßE 100 42115 WUPPERTAL During his artistic career of 30 years, the German artist Heiko Zahlmann (1973) underwent several artistic processes and dedicated himself to continual development. To signify the written word as source of his initial creativity is elementary for the understanding of his oeuvre. Moreover... Read more -
CALIFORNIA LOVE
Group show 22 Sep - 22 Dec 2018 OTHERS GALERIE DROSTE KATERNBERGER STRAßE 100 42115 WUPPERTAL On 22nd of September 2018 the group exhibition California Love, curated by Californian-based artist Andrew Schoultz, starts at Galerie Droste. The Golden State fascinates people for decades and stands for the American Dream as no other state in the USA. Nevertheless, in the... Read more -
ART IS WHERE THE HEART IS VOL. 3 - Nacht der Museen und Galerien Münster
Group show 1 Sep 2018 OTHERS WestLotto, Weseler Straße 108 – 112, 48151 Münster On the 1st of September, Galerie Droste will be presenting its third Art Is Where The Heart Is show in Münster during the Night of the museums and galleries in cooperation with WestLotto. For the second time, Germany’s largest lottery organizer opens... Read more -
BEAST OF BURDEN
Andrew Schoultz 9 Jun - 3 Aug 2018 OTHERS Growing up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Andrew Schoultz was part of a hard-working middle-class, who always felt the full force of political changes in the United States of America. His move to San Francisco within the 90’s was a game-changer for the artist, as he could break free of the conservative... Read more -
HAPPY HOLIDAYS FOREVER
Willehad Eilers 17 Mar - 19 May 2018 OTHERS Black colour lines, quickly, unclean and occasionally with solidly material density applied, branches to abstract forms by closer examination and only matures into more specific images with increasing distance. Although the scenery then can be deciphered clearer, it isn’t more tangible. Agglomerations of people, whose faces are distorted, seem to... Read more -
ART IS WHERE THE HEART IS VOL. 2 - Paris
Group show 15 - 27 Feb 2018 OTHERS The exhibition Art is where the heart is Vol. 2, in comparison to Vol.1, focuses on internationally well-known artists with a figurative mode of expression. The viewer is going to see artworks that deal with our everyday surroundings, ordinary objects and urban environment, with social and political topics or they... Read more
