Published 27 AUG 2024

Opening – 12 SEP 2024, 6-9 pm
11 SEP until 3 NOV 2024
@Pop-up Location, Potsdamer Str. 97, 10785 Berlin

Opening hours – TUE until SAT: 11am – 6pm

15 SEP 2024, 1-6 pm – Various performances and readings

In their duo exhibition, A new garden from old wounds, artists Ali Eyal (Iraq) and David Horvitz (USA) explore geographical and conceptual distances, delve into the intricate boundaries of memories and emotions, and investigate how fragmentary elements can come together to form a new enduring presence. The exhibition brings together new and existing works that interconnect with each other as separate fragments of a single unit. The title is derived from a line in Maria Sledmere’s poem ‘Deciduous‘.

Save the date: 15 September 2024
On Sunday, September 15th between 1-6 pm, the artists will be organizing a series of performances and readings.

Curated by Marco Scotini

Opening – 7 SEP 2024, 6-9 pm
7 SEP until 30 NOV 2024

Piero Gilardi (1942-2023, Italy) was a renowned Italian artist celebrated for his innovative use of polyurethane foam to create immersive sculptures. Beginning in the 1960s, Gilardi’s plush landscapes brought the wilderness indoors, inviting viewers to engage with nature through a distorted scale and highlighting details often overlooked. For the Berlin Art Week 2024, ChertLüdde presents a solo exhibition by this pioneering artist curated by Marco Scotini and organised in collaboration with Fondazione Centro Studi Piero Gilardi, Turin andGalleria Giraldi, Livorno. The show will include a selection of his iconic Tappeti Natura (Nature Carpets) that will cover the gallery’s walls and floor, along with archival material reflecting his ecological activism, political beliefs and commitment to social justice.

Opening – 7 SEP 2024, 6-9 pm
7 SEP until 30 NOV 2024

13 SEP, 8pm – Performance of poetic reading of ‘Letters to Omer’

Selma Selman (1991, Bosnia and Herzegovina) focuses her work on protecting and empowering female bodies, aiming for a collective self-emancipation of oppressed women through a cross-scalar approach. Her first exhibition at ChertLüdde, opening during Berlin Art Week, centers on this theme, bringing together new mixed-media paintings on scrap metal. By transforming the gallery into a junkyard of auto parts and unused household appliances, Selman addresses experiences of discrimination, violence, sexism and patriarchy through an autobiographical approach. In this setting, she once again takes on the title of “the most dangerous woman in the world.”

Save the date: 13 September 2024
On Friday, September 13th at 8 pm, Selma Selman will also be performing a poetic reading of ‘Letters to Omer’ in which she addresses her intimate feelings and desires to a fictional character named Omer.