Artists

Haroon Mirza, Michael Sailstorfer, Lukas Heerich, Ju Young Kim, Rosanna Marie Pondorf, Mona Schulzek, Justin Urbach, Deva Schubert

Press release

The group exhibition SHELLS brings together artists Lukas Heerich, Ju Young Kim, Haroon Mirza, Rosanna Marie Pondorf, Michael Sailstorfer, Mona Schulzek, and Justin Urbach, whose works engage in diverse ways with the multilayered aspects of concealing, revealing, filtering, and reflecting. Deva Schubert will present a site-specific performance in this context.

The title SHELLS – that can literally be understood as protective, enclosing, or form-giving casings – refers here to both physical and metaphorical spaces: they can be empty or filled, permeable or armor-like, protective spaces or resonating chambers, projection surfaces or membrane-like connections to other spheres. With an interdisciplinary approach, the artists of the exhibition examine how shells function both as boundaries and as mediators: What is enclosed, what escapes? What remains hidden, what is revealed? Here, the concept of SHELLS becomes an open space for thought, one that refers not only to physical surfaces but also to metaphorical, digital, or sonic enclosures.

The exhibition architecture reflects these ideas by emphasizing visual axes, permeability and fragmentation. Grid modules divide the space into overlapping zones that separate and connect at the same time. They themselves become projection planes – shells that reflect light, sound and movement and create new resonance chambers.

Opening | Berlin
Friday 21 February
6 – 9 pm