CHRISTOPH DAHLHAUSEN
EDSON CHAGAS
point of view
26. January - 23. March, 2024
The exhibition shows works from the Bodies and Light series by Christoph Dahlhausen in dialogue with works from the Factory of Disposable Feelings photographic series by Edson Chagas.
Christoph Dahlhausen - Bodies, 2019, car paint on aluminium honeycomb panel, 100 x 45 x 5 cm
© Christoph Dahlhausen
Edson Chagas - Untitled, Irmãos Carneiro Factory, Cazenga, Luanda, Angola, 2017.
Factory of Disposable Feelings series; Archival inkjet print on satin paper, 80 x 120 cm © Edson Chagas
CAROLINA SERRANO
Closed fists, open wrists
27. October - 14. December, 2023
Closed fists, open wrists is Carolina Serrano's second solo exhibition at Galerie Alex Serra. Here, the rigidity of black, present in the sculptures of her first exhibition, gives way to the innocent purity of white without, however, losing the violence that is imbued in her work. The artist has been working on the concept of violence (present in her work through pointed shapes, thorns, spikes) concealed in white bodies, which are at first sight innocent and harmless. These bodies are disguised and polarized, weapon-bodies that both show purity and, at a second glance, repel us.
Magnolia, 2023. Paraffin and mixed media. 23 x 18 x 18 © Carolina Serrano
o.T. (Hauseingang), 2022, Series Erinnerungsraum.
Fotografie als Teil einer Arbeit aus Erinnerungsraum - 20 x 15 cm © Paulus Goerden
PAULUS GOERDEN
ob es sich ergibt
24. June - 05. August, 2023
Paulus Goerden's (born 2000) visual worlds are introduced by a pioneering sentence from Novalis: "We are close to waking when we dream that we dream." The apparent commonalities of life are deceiving. Framed realities hide their duplicity, which only gradually reveals itself.
Paulus Goerden places emphasis on imagination over imitation, shaping fantasy over imitative mimicry, with a lasting resonance on the viewer. The images invite us to question the familiar certainties of everyday life. - Michael Huthmann
JERRY HELLE
Les Fleurs Pour Demain
28. April - 03. June, 2023
Jerry Helle is a Cameroonian artist living and working in Cologne, Germany.
Growing up in Cameroon, West Africa, the few moments flowers were given to someone were once they passed. Therefore, the act of giving flowers always felt a little bittersweet.
Now living in Germany, I realized gifting flowers has a different meaning for people. It acts as a form of appreciation for a person, a celebration of someone’s accomplishments, or a simple gesture of love.~ Jerry Helle.
Detail of Lilies, 2023, 170 x 170 cm. Acrylic, spray and crayon on linen. © Jerry Helle
Detail of Untitled, 2022. Wood, bronze and mirror © Rui Sanches
RUI SANCHES
Fragments
September 02 - 12 November, 2022
"I think the fragment is the form that best reflects the constantly changing reality in which we live, and which we are. The fragment is not so much a seed as a straggly atom that can only be defined when situated relative to other atoms: it is nothing less than a relation."
Octavio Paz, in Alternating Current
© Galerie Alex Serra
ANA CAROLINA RODRIGUES
CAROLINA SERRANO
MÁRIO MACILAU
RENÉ TAVARES
With each other
Künstler der Galerie
July 19, 2022 - August 18, 2022
Group exhibition with four of the gallery artists, showcasing works of the collection of the gallery..
Untitled (Carvão), 2020 © Mário Macilau
MÁRIO MACILAU
The Price of Charcoal
May 29, 2022 - July 16, 2022
Macilau is a multi-disciplinary artist most known for his photography. He specialises in long-term projects that link to multiple sub-genres; identity, political issues, environmental conditions, and engagement with socially isolated groups. Taking portraiture as a point of departure, intimacy becomes the key to unlocking broader perspectives or narratives..
Detail of Care (from the Vale Escuro series), 2021 © Ana Carolina Rodrigues
ANA CAROLINA RODRIGUES
We Might Fiind It Hard to Be Human Without the Sustenance That We Are Lovable
April 24, 2022 - May 21, 2022
We might find it hard to be human without the sustenance that we are lovable is an expantion of Ana Carolina Rodrigues's exploration into issues related with love, physical disappearance and embodiment.
Left: detail © Katja Davar / Right: detail © Susanne S.D.Themlitz
KATJA DAVAR &
SUSANNE S. D. THEMLITZ
From the Forest Floor
January 23, 2022 - March 26, 2022
The artists translate imagery of the forest, stone, moss, vegetation, patterns and clouds, into drawings and objects which parallel other forms of landscapes. The landscape becomes a terrain of layers, fragments, aerial views and ground views, planes, perspectives and textures.
Through the differing vantage points from which their works are executed, both Katja Davar and Susanne S. D. Themlitz examine the relationship between landscape, perspective and pictorial representation.
Carolina Serrano, Blumen I, Paraffin, 2021, detail
CAROLINA SERRANO
What words to name
November 05, 2021 - January 08, 2022
Carolina Serrano (PT, 1994) lives and works between Cologne and Lisbon.
Serrano's work and research revolves around the temporal dimension of sculpture.
The artist's sculptural thinking collapses, recurrently, with the notions of light and shadow; with the ideas of destruction and appearance; and with the duality between interior and exterior and between full and empty space.
René Tavares, Coiffeur de rêve, mixed media on canvas, 150 x 140 cm, 2021
RENÉ TAVARES
Global Narratives of Southern Peoples
September 03 - October 30, 2021
René Tavares (ST, 1983) approaches Creole identity, the result of deep research into the dynamics of migration, the central theme of his work, through a need to search for an African identity in a colonized time by the Portuguese. At the same time as an affirmation of the mestizo reality itself, the artist is interested in deepening the influence of the boundaries between histories, languages and techniques and sharing this exploratory journey.