If Not Now Then When, is a series of new paintings of still-lifes, chandeliers and poodles that explore the themes of fragility, mortality and urgency where delicate borders exist between sickness and health, cruelty and humanity, and life and death. Having initially trained as a sculptor, Woods’ understanding of sculptural forms have underpinned her pictorial work as she paints diverse subjects that encourage an understanding of what it means to live in a time of mass image consumption and in a world that treats banality and disaster in the same way.

The Buchmann Galerie is pleased to announce for the Gallery Weekend Berlin a new exhibition by Bettina Pousttchi in the Buchmann Box.

Bettina Pousttchi shows new sculptures from the workgroup Vertical Highways, which were presented for the first time in this year’s survey exhibition at the Berlinische Galerie – Museum of Modern Art. The new works in the Buchmann Box represent a further development of these sculptures and consist of crash barriers from the street, which regulate movement and traffic flow in public spaces and yet often go unnoticed. Using an industrial press, the artist deforms the individual elements and assembles them into upright sculptures, which immediately attract attention with their unusual coloring. Even in their altered form, the crash barriers remain recognizable and give an idea of the forces that have affected the steel – the anthropomorphic character and the monochrome coloration fuse the individual parts into a coherent new form. The vertical alignment of the crash barriers, which are normally installed horizontally, changes the spatial perception when viewing the sculptures and gives them an architectural reference. For several years, Bettina Pousttchi has realized sculptures from urban space objects, such as street bollards, crowd barriers, bike racks, and tree protection barriers, which regulate movement in public space. The sequential use of the original object is a conceptual connection to Minimal Art and also a reference to Duchamp’s Readymades. 

In the sequential use of the starting object lies a conceptual connection to Minimal Art as well as a reference to Duchamp’s readymades. Pousttchi works with sculpture and photography, often on an architectural scale. Her site-specific photo installations occupy entire buildings, such as the recent installation Berlin Window on the façade of the Berlinische Galerie.