2 MAY until 6 JUN 2025
Opening – 2 MAY 2025, 6-9 pm

At Nagel Draxler Meseberg
Meseberger Dorfstrasse 16
16775 Gransee / OT Meseberg

Anna Fasshauer (*1975 in Cologne) forms the material with her own physical strength into large sculptures, painted in color. Precisely expressed, she transforms material into forms that she places in space. She does not design or draw, does not commission the production. The artist produces herself, expending energy bending and flexing and reworking the large, heavy works. She improvises, the works ‚emerge in the making‘. The tension between light and heavy, solid and provisional, form and expression is unique. Yet works emerge that echo the tradition of abstract modernism as if it were a continuum.

Fasshauer graduated from the Chelsea School of Art and Design in London in 2001. She has exhibited her work in group and solo shows around the world, including venues such as Pilane, Sweden, the Jardin des Tuileries in Paris, Kunstverein Offenburg and Kunstverein Arnsberg in Germany, and the Goethe Institute in Beirut.

2 MAY until 6 JUN 2025
Opening – 2 MAY 2025, 6-9 pm

At Nagel Draxler Kabinett
Rosa-Luxemburg-Straße 33
10178 Berlin

In her series “Rights of Passage”, shot with a toy camera, Martha Rosler captures the anonymous spaces of her commute between Brooklyn and New Jersey. Bridges, overpasses, and vehicles form dreamscapes unique to our era, reflecting an economic system that binds us as transient participants. For Rosler, the road symbolizes not freedom but the stasis of modern life—epitomized by the traffic jam.

Martha Rosler is one of the most influential political artists of her generation. Known since the 1960s for her ground-breaking (political) conceptual art positions, the artist works in video, photo-text, installation and performance, and writes critically. Her early series of photomontages are iconic works of anti-war and feminist art history. When Rosler moved to California in 1968, the Women‘s Movement was in full swing and became hugely influential to her activism and artistic practice.

2 MAY until 6 JUN 2025
Opening – 2 MAY 2025, 6-9 pm

At Galerie Nagel Draxler
Weydingerstraße 2/4
10178 Berlin

Nadya Tolokonnikova (*1989 in Norilsk, Russia), artist and founder of the feminist collective Pussy Riot, is persecuted in Russia for her conceptual performances and her artistic protest against the Putin regime. Her performance Punk Prayer in the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow, which was named one of the most important works of art of the 21st century by The Guardian, ended with her and her colleagues being imprisoned for “hooliganism motivated by religious hatred”.

Tolokonnikova’s work includes objects as well as installations and performative works in which she processes her traumatic experiences during her life under Putin’s regime. Her haunting works deal with themes such as resistance, oppression and patriarchy. From a state of fear and oppression, she developed a visual language that rebels against moral and political realities: anarchistic, radical and at the same time touching.

With irony, subversion and provocation, she undermines the prevailing control and defense mechanisms of the authoritarian state in which she grew up.

At the center of the exhibition is an expansive installation around Tolokonnikova’s “Prison Letters” and notes from her imprisonment in Russian penal camps in 2012-13.

In an exchange of letters (Comradely Greetings: The Prison Letters of Nadya and Slavoj, Verso Books, 2014), for example, she discussed artistic subversion, political activism and the future of democracy with the Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek based on the ideas of Hegel, Deleuze, Nietzsche and others.

In the performance work Putin’s Ashes (2022), together with twelve women from Ukraine, Belarus and Russia, she burned a portrait of Vladimir Putin in the desert and collected his ashes in small bottles.  

The painting series PUNK’S NOT DEAD repeats the iconic phrase over and over again in calligraphy.                        

Nadya Tolokonnikova is the mother of a daughter (*2008) and studied philosophy at Moscow’s Lomonosov University.

On May 1, a discussion with Nadya Tolokonnikova, Anne Imhof and Klaus Biesenbach will take place at Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz (opposite Nagel Draxler).