2 MAY until 14 JUN 2025
Opening – 2 MAY 2025, 6-9 pm

At Charlottenstrasse 24,
10117 Berlin

Lena Henke shows two new sculptures at Galerie Thomas Schulte for Gallery Weekend Berlin 2025. In a site-specific treatment of the Corner Space, a towering horse hoof has set its footprint down on the floors of what was once the earliest fashion department store in Berlin. 

Synthesizing an archaic formal language with contemporary production techniques, Henke probes the genealogies of sculptural history, mining the haptic and experiential. She confronts traditional sculptural conventions—from the Renaissance figure to the designed readymade—critically examining the patriarchal structures embedded within them.

Resisting sculptural stolidity, the hoof meets the ground, ready for ambulation. Stood heavy on the ground, connected to it as if a pedestal in itself. Finished with the granulated rubber, a material used in urban infrastructure, such as the building blocks of a children’s playgrounds, activate the gallery space as a “substitute for a public square”, in Rosalind Krauss’ words (Sculpture in the Expanded field, 1979).

The second sculpture occupies the architecture in the opposite way. A piece of cast aluminum horizontally installed to float midair, renders an amorphous body merging the human and the animalistic. Henke’s sculptures return again and again to horses, whether in connection with changing urban infrastructures, psychograms, or fetishes. Individual animal body parts, equestrian accessories, or sex toys are morphed with human forms or things of the environment, their social dimensions reshaped and condensed into surreal landscapes and motifs.

2 MAY until 14 JUN 2025
Opening – 2 MAY 2025, 6-9 pm

At Charlottenstrasse 24
10117 Berlin

Galerie Thomas Schulte is pleased to present Sekunde, a new solo exhibition by Jonas Weichsel. Building on his analytical painting practice of the past 15 years, Weichsel takes an innovative approach that intertwines analog and digital processes. Through scanning, collaging, and digital manipulation, he transforms color studies, watercolors, and printed materials into complex compositions. Weichsel’s deliberate combination of traditional painting techniques with digital methods results in dynamic interactions where elements overlap, comment on, and challenge each other. His works play with sharpness and blur, microscopic details, and gestural expressions, opening new spaces of perception.

2 MAY until 14 JUN 2025
Opening – 2 MAY 2025, 6-9 pm

At Potsdamer Strasse 81B,
2nd floor,
10785 Berlin

Marina Adams’ second solo exhibition with Galerie Thomas Schulte is titled ‘The Art of Living Slowly’, a subtle nod to examine the speed and direction of our internet present. She considers how slowing down can offer another sense of time and space, opening room for clarity, and like deep breathing can bring an expansion of heart and a gain in empathy.

The exhibition will offer both medium to smaller scaled paintings as well as works on paper. Surrounded by the trees in her Long Island studio, her focus on paper has returned to tree drawings, which have entered her practice at various other times in her career. In the making of these works she says, “I’m not interested in ‘abstracting’ something. Instead, I’m trying to conjure up the energy of a tree, the energy of a line, the energy of a space”. This transference of energy connects the figurative and non-figurative as there is life force in everything.