EXHIBITIONS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

ART IS WHERE THE HEART IS VOL. 1 - Paris

Group show 2 - 13 Feb 2018 OTHERS Written signatures, or tags, are the central element of the graffiti culture, and the most widely practiced form of public art. Today, however, graffiti in art and in its perception, is strongly influenced by an illustrative character. The original graffiti is about writing. The modern graffiti was created in close... Read more

ROOTS & REALITY

Christoph Stohead Häßler 18 Nov 2017 - 21 Jan 2018 OTHERS The current show at Galerie Droste is the end of an eventful year for Christoph Häßler, known as Stohead, on which he can look back upon solo exhibitions in Berlin and Paris as well as the participation in the collaborative art project The House; painting the body of a McLaren... Read more

SCHÖPFERISCHE ZERSTÖRUNG

MOSES & TAPS™ 2 Sep - 4 Nov 2017 OTHERS The bricked-up door of a city train in April 2015 caused commuters and passer-by in Hamburg to be astonished and animated; only later a published video revealed the authorship and the whole action became kind of a performance. Moses & Taps , who are known internationally for their conceptual approach... Read more

UNIDENTICALS AND REVERSE PAINTINGS

Niels Shoe Meulman 20 May - 15 Jul 2017 OTHERS First tagging his soon to be hallmark and middle name Shoe in the age of twelve Niels Meulman, born in 1967 in Amsterdam, became acquainted with New York graffiti legends such as Dondi White, Rammellzee and Keith Haring in the 1980s and quickly became a legend himself strongly influencing the... Read more

TREASURES

Hendrik Beikirch 18 Mar - 7 May 2017 OTHERS Today, known for his black and white portraits covering whole buildings Hendrik Beikirch was born in 1974 in Kassel and started to do graffiti in 1989 under the synonym ecb. The intensity of the foreign faces’ power to call up familiarity can be experienced in places all over the world.... Read more

FORTHRIGHT

Sascha Kraus 3 - 12 Mar 2017 OTHERS To stand up against inequality and social shortcomings. That is what all the 43 artists, who Sascha Kraus portrayed for his book FORTHRIGHT “Stronger than a weapon” have in common. Over the past six years he travelled thirteen countries to find out that rap music can be seen as a... Read more

Raphael Brunk Boris Tellegen Heiko Zahlmann

Group show 26 Nov 2016 - 20 Jan 2017 OTHERS GALERIE DROSTE KATERNBERGER STRAßE 100 42115 WUPPERTAL The preoccupation with constructed spatiality structured, opened and limited by architectonic elements – this defines the essential link between the works of Boris Tellegen, Heiko Zahlmann and Raphael Brunk. Already during their activity within the graffiti scene Tellegen and Zahlmann dealt with built-up... Read more