A series of small-format watercolours and large oil paintings created in Berlin since last year are shown in the exhibition Wir Inseln (We Islands). Here, Bernd Koberling has created intense, explorative paintings, neither figurative nor entirely abstract, whose ideas are not only derived from his perceptual experiences of his stays in Iceland, but more from the direct confrontation of paper with watercolour, canvas with paint and the unexpected transpiring results. As different as the techniques and formats may be, they are linked by the powerful overlapping of layers of paint, which oscillates between delicacy and pastiness and draws the visitor of the exhibition into a process of contemplation. This is a process that the artist has also gone through and which wants to lead the viewer’s gaze through a multitude of traces, surfaces, heights and abysses in order to discover what was not visible before.

ith Memory of Glaciers, an expansive video installation, Angelika Markul tells of a myth that contemplates the formation, evolution and life cycles of humanity, starting from a comet that may contain the secret of the origin of the world. The work shows with impressive images the melting of a glacier in southern Patagonia. These images, which can be seen several places on Earth and show a dramatic change in the climate and our habitat, are of tragic beauty. In the organic matter of the Earth and in the ice of the glaciers, genesis and decay, birth and death are equally preserved. Angelika Markul approaches these mysteries that they hold without revealing them, through images imbued with enigma.

Angelika Markul was born in Szczecin, Poland, in 1977; she lives and works in Paris, France.