https://atelier.florian-hunter.de/en/reviews/ Reviews of exhibitions, museums, trade fairs and festivals, written by Florian Jäger. en Florian Jäger https://atelier.florian-hunter.de/en/reviews/grace-weaver-parataxis-soy-capitan-berlin-2026/ https://atelier.florian-hunter.de/en/reviews/grace-weaver-parataxis-soy-capitan-berlin-2026/ Sun, 13 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT At Soy Capitán, Grace Weaver builds one stage from a lamp, an amphora and a striped wall, and puts a different figure on it each time. "Parataxis" works because of that repetition, which turns everyday life into ritual. Florian Jäger https://atelier.florian-hunter.de/en/reviews/pawel-ksiazek-rhizome-persons-projects-berlin-2026/ https://atelier.florian-hunter.de/en/reviews/pawel-ksiazek-rhizome-persons-projects-berlin-2026/ Sun, 13 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT At Persons Projects the same eye motif appears as a painting, a drawing and a red fragment of a face. Hair, flame and water in "Rhizome" share no subject, only the lack of a fixed outline, and the hang turns that into a method. Florian Jäger https://atelier.florian-hunter.de/en/reviews/vladimir-sorokin-schneesturm-taiga-gallery-berlin-2026/ https://atelier.florian-hunter.de/en/reviews/vladimir-sorokin-schneesturm-taiga-gallery-berlin-2026/ Sun, 13 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT At Taiga Gallery, Sorokin's large canvases tell the story of "Der Schneesturm" while the small sheets call on Pushkin. Two series, same size, same technique, and on some sheets "help me" has been overwritten with "save us". Florian Jäger https://atelier.florian-hunter.de/en/reviews/trace-metals-galerie-burster-berlin-2026/ https://atelier.florian-hunter.de/en/reviews/trace-metals-galerie-burster-berlin-2026/ Sun, 13 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT Perforated metal, concrete, foil and glazed ceramic: at galerie burster, eight artists show surfaces that might have peeled off city facades. Strong on material, but palette and method are so uniform that eight names barely add up to eight voices in the room. Florian Jäger https://atelier.florian-hunter.de/en/reviews/bel-etage-backspace-berlin-2026/ https://atelier.florian-hunter.de/en/reviews/bel-etage-backspace-berlin-2026/ Sun, 13 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT Three galleries and nine names shared a hall in a light-industrial yard for three days. "BEL ÉTAGE" at BACKSPACE was more sampler than argument, and at its best where the works mocked the business that hung them. Florian Jäger https://atelier.florian-hunter.de/en/reviews/izabella-gustowska-homes-shadows-kvost-berlin-2026/ https://atelier.florian-hunter.de/en/reviews/izabella-gustowska-homes-shadows-kvost-berlin-2026/ Sun, 13 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT At KVOST, Izabella Gustowska projects archive footage onto an antique oval table and mounts seaside snapshots on pointed ovals. The new work is dense and exact, and the earlier pieces the handout also lists recede behind it. Florian Jäger https://atelier.florian-hunter.de/en/reviews/rundgang-drei-raeume-ohne-namen-berlin-2026/ https://atelier.florian-hunter.de/en/reviews/rundgang-drei-raeume-ohne-namen-berlin-2026/ Sun, 13 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT Three rooms on Lindenstraße, Rudi-Dutschke-Straße and Leipziger Straße were among the more interesting on the last day of Berlin Art Week. The first gives the most, because mirrors, glass and a window's shadow all work together. Florian Jäger https://atelier.florian-hunter.de/en/reviews/martin-margiela-alan-charlton-konrad-fischer-galerie-berlin-2026/ https://atelier.florian-hunter.de/en/reviews/martin-margiela-alan-charlton-konrad-fischer-galerie-berlin-2026/ Sun, 13 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT Konrad Fischer Galerie shows Martin Margiela and Alan Charlton in a building with green steel stairs and a Bewag high-voltage sign. The hall, where round panels and architecture come together, is the strongest part. The rest is spread across side rooms, an office and a landing. Florian Jäger https://atelier.florian-hunter.de/en/reviews/rebecca-brodskis-koenig-galerie-berlin-2026/ https://atelier.florian-hunter.de/en/reviews/rebecca-brodskis-koenig-galerie-berlin-2026/ Sat, 12 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT In the Vault at St. Agnes, Rebecca Brodskis shows paintings of close friends from her Berlin years. The heads almost touch, yet no gaze meets another, and that is what makes the series work. Florian Jäger https://atelier.florian-hunter.de/en/reviews/landschaftsmalerei-koenig-galerie-st-agnes-berlin-2026/ https://atelier.florian-hunter.de/en/reviews/landschaftsmalerei-koenig-galerie-st-agnes-berlin-2026/ Sat, 12 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT Christian Achenbach's densely outlined landscapes and interiors hang against rough render in the tall hall of St. Agnes at KÖNIG GALERIE. The room makes the paintings look stronger. The interiors are the best of them, where a vase and an orange stay objects while everything around them turns to pattern. Florian Jäger https://atelier.florian-hunter.de/en/reviews/hallen-07-wilhelm-hallen-berlin-2026/ https://atelier.florian-hunter.de/en/reviews/hallen-07-wilhelm-hallen-berlin-2026/ Fri, 11 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT HALLEN 07 puts more than 50 artists into a former iron foundry in Reinickendorf. The building is louder than most of what hangs in it, and only a handful of works stand up to it. Florian Jäger https://atelier.florian-hunter.de/en/reviews/ifa-berlin-2026-roboter-ki/ https://atelier.florian-hunter.de/en/reviews/ifa-berlin-2026-roboter-ki/ Mon, 07 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT At IFA 2026 in Berlin, AI is printed on everything from glasses to detergent dosing. The robots are shown off as tricks and pets while the robot vacuum does the work. There is no stand for the real shift. Florian Jäger https://atelier.florian-hunter.de/en/reviews/niu-lai-tennis-bar-berlin-2026/ https://atelier.florian-hunter.de/en/reviews/niu-lai-tennis-bar-berlin-2026/ Wed, 02 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT At Tennis Bar in Neukölln, "Niu Lai" plays as a YouTube stream, complete with window bar, Chinese screening licence and the wrong aspect ratio. For a film two people built over five years in an architecture program, that is the most honest format going, and the place is full. Florian Jäger https://atelier.florian-hunter.de/en/reviews/gewaechshausgarten-expo-kulturpark-shanghai-2026/ https://atelier.florian-hunter.de/en/reviews/gewaechshausgarten-expo-kulturpark-shanghai-2026/ Wed, 26 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT In Shanghai's Expo Culture Park, three glass houses stand inside the truss of an old steelworks hall. The clash of old and new geometry does the building good, and makes it more honest than the artificial hill next door. Florian Jäger https://atelier.florian-hunter.de/en/reviews/shanghai-museum-east-pudong-2026/ https://atelier.florian-hunter.de/en/reviews/shanghai-museum-east-pudong-2026/ Wed, 26 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT The Shanghai Museum's new building in Pudong sorts millennia of Chinese art neatly by genre. Its finest moment is the roof terrace, where the city from an 1871 map in the galleries has no visible end. Florian Jäger https://atelier.florian-hunter.de/en/reviews/china-art-museum-shanghai-2026/ https://atelier.florian-hunter.de/en/reviews/china-art-museum-shanghai-2026/ Wed, 26 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT China's Expo 2010 pavilion is now an art museum too big for what it shows. Go anyway, for a 2024 painting by Xie Wenjin that is more precise than the entire building. Florian Jäger https://atelier.florian-hunter.de/en/reviews/tfeld-flughafen-tempelhof-berlin-2026/ https://atelier.florian-hunter.de/en/reviews/tfeld-flughafen-tempelhof-berlin-2026/ Sat, 22 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT The first TFELD, on the apron at Tempelhof, builds its Berlin out of replicas, from the Watergate club to the Kreuzberg lettering. The site handles that with ease, but the festival has yet to find a face of its own. Florian Jäger https://atelier.florian-hunter.de/en/reviews/lustra-centrum-nauki-kopernik-warschau-2026/ https://atelier.florian-hunter.de/en/reviews/lustra-centrum-nauki-kopernik-warschau-2026/ Sun, 24 May 2026 09:00:00 GMT At Warsaw's Copernicus Science Centre the mirror is not a motif but an experiment you walk through. Oskar Zięta's steel objects, added for Warsaw, take the show over the line into art. Florian Jäger https://atelier.florian-hunter.de/en/reviews/lina-lapelyte-we-make-years-out-of-hours-hamburger-bahnhof-2026/ https://atelier.florian-hunter.de/en/reviews/lina-lapelyte-we-make-years-out-of-hours-hamburger-bahnhof-2026/ Fri, 01 May 2026 09:00:00 GMT At Hamburger Bahnhof, singing performers rebuild 400,000 wooden cubes. Lina Lapelytė's CHANEL Commission is a smart answer to a huge hall, though any one visit catches only one day's version. Florian Jäger https://atelier.florian-hunter.de/en/reviews/vom-anfangen-eroeffnungskonzert-2026/ https://atelier.florian-hunter.de/en/reviews/vom-anfangen-eroeffnungskonzert-2026/ Sat, 14 Feb 2026 09:00:00 GMT The opening concert of VOM ANFANGEN at the Konzerthaus Berlin set Mahler's Fourth beside new pieces by Cymin Samawatie, played by three ensembles. Neither was translated into the other, and one premiere lasted about as long as Mahler. Florian Jäger https://atelier.florian-hunter.de/en/reviews/graciela-iturbide-retrospektive-berlin-2026/ https://atelier.florian-hunter.de/en/reviews/graciela-iturbide-retrospektive-berlin-2026/ Wed, 11 Feb 2026 09:00:00 GMT C/O Berlin hung Graciela Iturbide's first major Berlin retrospective series by series, the right call for a photographer who keeps going back. The contact sheets gave most away. Florian Jäger https://atelier.florian-hunter.de/en/reviews/close-enough-after-nature-prize-co-berlin-2026/ https://atelier.florian-hunter.de/en/reviews/close-enough-after-nature-prize-co-berlin-2026/ Fri, 23 Jan 2026 09:00:00 GMT At C/O Berlin's 25th anniversary, 12 Magnum photographers put Robert Capa's line to the test, several asking who controls a picture. The After Nature Prize laureates went further, towards perception that isn't human. Florian Jäger https://atelier.florian-hunter.de/en/reviews/guillermo-lorca-esplendor-de-la-noche-moco-barcelona-2025/ https://atelier.florian-hunter.de/en/reviews/guillermo-lorca-esplendor-de-la-noche-moco-barcelona-2025/ Fri, 01 Aug 2025 09:00:00 GMT At the Moco Museum Barcelona, Guillermo Lorca's six old-master-style paintings were more interesting than the famous names in the collection. They need time, and the place does little to make anyone take it. Florian Jäger https://atelier.florian-hunter.de/en/reviews/museu-picasso-barcelona-2025/ https://atelier.florian-hunter.de/en/reviews/museu-picasso-barcelona-2025/ Fri, 01 Aug 2025 09:00:00 GMT Barcelona's Museu Picasso is about Picasso's beginnings rather than his fame, and more interesting for it than the greatest-hits museums. In one display case stand the 41 ceramics Jacqueline Roque gave the city in 1982. Florian Jäger