Past
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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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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
