Neue Grünstraße. Landscapes in a High Hall

Saturday 12 September 2026, Neue Grünstraße in Mitte, a ten-minute walk from St. Agnes. The building was once a switching station of the municipal electricity works, a listed structure from the nineteen-twenties now used as an exhibition space. The hall is the first thing you notice, and here that counts as praise. Very high, with roughly thrown sand-coloured render on the walls that returns the light dull and flat, a continuous band of light below the ceiling and above that a wooden slat ceiling with mounted spots. The floor is polished screed with a hatch set into it. Two visitors stand in front of the end wall and give the room its scale: that wall carries a single wide horizontal canvas and reads not as empty but as calm.

What is shown is painting, and very dense painting at that. In the picture on the end wall a pink sky sits above tiered mountains, with a green plain in front and a tree at its centre, all laid in with contour lines — every mountain flank, every branch, every fold of meadow outlined separately, so that the surface flickers. Along the side walls hang smaller formats in the same manner: a river landscape looping through the picture under a yellow sky, between hills built up like contour lines; a tree in yellow blossom against night blue with a pale moon; a column of cloud descending as a bundle of rays. Between them, interiors: a curtain in red, a floor in a diamond pattern, vases of white flowers on blue table tops, an orange beside them.

What connects the paintings is not the subject but the method. Landscape and living room are treated alike, both broken into lines and reassembled, both without aerial perspective. The rough render works along with this: it swallows the reflections, the pictures stand with their colours alone against a matt wall, and every format looks larger than it is.

About the exhibition itself I can say nothing reliable. No title hung in the hall, no label beside the paintings, and a search through the week's programme turns up no exhibition that matches these paintings. So this text leaves open who paints here — it will be added as soon as it is certain.

Photographs: Florian Jäger, 12 September 2026.