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  • Spring Concert at ArtEast Gallery

    Spring Concert at ArtEast Gallery

    We warmly invite you to our Spring concert on Friday, April 28th at 7 p.m. to enjoy the artistic performance of Natalia Skrycka (mezzo soprano) and Lorenzo Di Toro (pianist) who are permanent ensemble members of the State Opera.
    The program will include melodies by Bizet, Saint-Saëns, Glück & Monteverdi...We hope that by then, the sun will have decided to show up again and that we will be able to share a drink in the garden!
    Please send us your reservation at: contact@arteastgallery-bk.com or +49 1520 5826249
    Entry fee: 25 €
  • Women!, from March 8 to April 30, 2023, Group exhibition of Ukrainian painters

    Women!, from March 8 to April 30, 2023

    Group exhibition of Ukrainian painters

    For the first time, ArtEast Gallery presents paintings by Ukrainian artists from private collections, spanning almost fifty years from the 1970s to 2021.

    The purpose of this exhibition is to represent Ukrainian women in society over the past fifty years. Artists capture female protagonists in various emotional states, ranging from false contentment or melancholia to anguish. All these representations immerse the viewer in a mysterious, fragile, and incredibly multifaceted female universe. The works gathered here also depict the traditional female environment in Ukraine and how it has changed over the past fifty years. The contrast between the male and the female perspectives of the artists also highlights discrepancies in the representation of women in society.

     

    The exhibition features works by prolific artists including Yuriy Yegorov, a prominent member of the Odesa art movement, Oleksii Apolonov called the "Ukrainian Picasso", Yevhen Rakhmanin and Mykolaiv Lukin, as well as Olena Pryduvalova, Iryna Yurova and Katia Soloveva.

  • Group exhibition of Ukrainian contemporary art 'The Time Has Come', February 24 – March 24

    Group exhibition of Ukrainian contemporary art "The Time Has Come"

    February 24 – March 24

    On the occasion of the one-year anniversary of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Open Society Foundations and  the ArtEast Gallery  have the honor to invite you to the exhibition of contemporary Ukrainian art.

     

    The Time Has Come

    February 24 - March 24, 2023

    Mo-Fr: 9. a.m. - 5 p.m.

    Jägerstraße 54-55, 10117 Berlin

    Free admission and no registration.

     

    On February 23, on the eve of the one-year anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and in association with the panel discussion One Year into the Full-Scale Invasion: Europe’s Role in Securing Ukraine’s Victory, the Open Society Foundations and the ArtEast Gallery present the opening of the exhibition of contemporary Ukrainian art.

     

    The title "The Time Has Come" references Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko. The exhibition demonstrates the persistence of creative energy despite the harshness of war. Contemporary Ukrainian art is a manifestation of the unalterable ingenuity of its artists and their deep desire for freedom.

     

    The selected works convey an experience of the most absolute violence, universal and also deeply personal. Artist Kinder Album uses vivid watercolors to develop rich and powerful imagery of war. Vlada Ralko and Vladimir Budnikov use pen and paint to put the monsters of war on paper and write their war diaries as the days go by. Olesya Dzhurayeva's engravings show the anguish of the first weeks of the invasion, printed with black earth from the Ukrainian soil. In Julia Beliaeva's work, the fineness of the porcelain reinforces by contrast the cruel and blind violence of the bullets that are represented.

     

    French painter Pierre Soulages wrote "the more limited the means, the stronger the expression". Put under multiple constraints over the decades and aware of the fragility of peace, Ukrainian art has long developed a balance between lightness and depth, which the new generation carries on. This can be seen in the delicate painting Vika and Andrei by Sergey Kononov, in Kseniia Hlynytska's luminous and serene work, but also in the coexistence of light subjects of daily life and more disturbing elements in the prints of the duo Etchingroom1, as well as in the dark poetry of the drawings of Rostislaw Tsarenko. As for Oleksii Koval, he nourishes his art with folkloric and traditional Ukrainian motifs, as a contemporary tribute to a long artistic tradition.

  • Not a dream, by Vlada Ralko and Volodymyr Budnikov, Extended until February 15

    Not a dream, by Vlada Ralko and Volodymyr Budnikov

    Extended until February 15

     

    "Not a Dream" is an exhibition devoted to the most recent works of two outstanding visual artists, Vlada Ralko and Volodymyr Budnikov, and their experience of the first months of total war in their country. The scenography specially imagined by Aurélie Maestre offers a raw encounter with the works and a direct confrontation with the reality they depict. This exhibition is a non-commercial event, supported by the Peace for Art Foundation and hosted by the ArtEast Gallery.

     

    The series "Diary of Lviv" by Vlada Ralko and "Time of War" by Volodymyr Budnikov were created in 2022, first in Lviv where the artists took refuge at the beginning of the conflict and then in exile in Berlin. Created in a moment of crisis, the graphic works convey a sense of brutality and distress. The repetitive use of quick strokes sets the tone for the series. They are as much part of the drawing as they are a flaw, a crack, an erasure. From the accumulation of these sharp and tight lines, forms appear like visions.


    These visions take the shape of mutating beings, acts of cannibalization, struggling bodies. They depict a humanity grappling with its own fears of past and present. Yet these nightmares, carried by abstraction in Budnikov’s works and by phantasmagoria in Ralko’s, appear to be real. Physical elements such as skeletons, genitals, or muscles give the images a deep and intimate bodily presence, which chills the viewer’s blood. Finally, the numerous references to history and ideologies of the 20th century further anchor the drawings in a painful and deadly reality.

    More information here

  • Christmas Concert at ArtEast Gallery!

    Christmas Concert at ArtEast Gallery!

    We warmly invite you to our Christmas concert on Friday, December 16th at 7 p.m. to close this year which was full of emotions for all of us.

    Please send us your reservation at: contact@arteastgallery-bk.com or +49 1520 5826249

    Despite the terrible ongoing war in Ukraine and the conflict situations in so many other countries, we would like to end with a positive and hopeful note with a concert of delightful melodies from all around Europe and a glass of French wine. In these times of tension, we believe that this concert is necessary to feel how strong we are together.

    Natalia Skrycka (mezzo soprano) and Lorenzo Di Toro (pianist) are permanent ensemble members of the State Opera. The program will include lieder and songs by Hanns Eisler and Kurt Weill, as well as classics by Edith Piaf, Domenico Modugno and Neapolitan and Polish melodies.



  • We are back!, From September 5th

    We are back!

    From September 5th
    Dear all of you,
    We are back, after a summer break mainly dedicated to the projects of our foundation  Peace for Art.
     
    You can visit us every Monday and Friday between 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. 
     
    The other days, we are dedicated to our foundation, but you can call us to sep up a meeting, we are here most of the time!
     
    During the summer, our artists continued to be very productive. We will annouce soon the next exhibitions, we will be glad to see you again!
    Ivanna & Cornélia
  • Expo-vente d'oeuvres ukrainiennes à Paris, au profit de la scène culturelle en Ukraine

    Expo-vente d'oeuvres ukrainiennes à Paris

    au profit de la scène culturelle en Ukraine

    La galerie berlinoise ArtEast Gallery, engagée à renforcer les liens entre les cultures européennes, organise les mercredi 29 et jeudi 30 juin à Paris une expo-vente d’œuvres graphiques et de photographies d’artistes ukrainiens au profit des artistes.

     

    Cet événement franco-allemand a pour but de faire découvrir l’univers artistique ukrainien avant l’offensive russe et de valoriser le patrimoine commun européen. Le produit de la vente sera reversé aux artistes ainsi qu’au studio de création et de production français Les Monstres pour la réalisation d’un documentaire sur l’Ukraine contemporaine.

     

    L’expo-vente regroupe une sélection de photographies et d’œuvres graphiques mêlant différentes techniques (linogravure, lithographie, eau-forte, sérigraphie, aquarelle, encre, gouache, stylo à bille). La grande majorité des œuvres a été réalisée avant l’offensive russe du 24 février 2022. Elles témoignent du dynamisme, de la créativité et de l’énergie vitale de la scène artistique ukrainienne que la guerre est venue bouleverser, offrant un panorama captivant de la culture et de l’identité ukrainiennes et de leur grande richesse.

     

    Les artistes représentés : Julia Beliaeva, Dimitri Bogachuk, Olesya Dzhurayeva, etchingroom1, KinderAlbum, Olga Koval, Viktoria Sorochinski, Anna Melnykova (présente), Evgeniy Zaets, Waone Interesni Kazki, Dmitry Krishovsky. Prix entre 150 € et 3500 €.

    Vernissage le mardi 28 juin à 19h. Entrée libre.

    Horaires d’ouverture : mercredi 29 juin de 12h à 20h & jeudi 30 juin de 12h à 19h.

    Lieu : 25, rue Duvivier, 75007 Paris

    Pour recevoir le catalogue des œuvres à vendre, contacter la galerie : contact@arteastgallery-bk.com

  • 'It was crowded yesterday', by etchingroom1, From May 10th to June 30th

    "It was crowded yesterday", by etchingroom1

    From May 10th to June 30th

    ArtEast Gallery presents the solo exhibition "It was crowded yesterday" by Ukrainian artists etchinroom1!  The vernissage of the exhibition will take place on May 10 at 7 p.m. You are warmly welcome! The entry is free.

     

    Regular opening hours:

    Monday - Friday: 2 - 6 p.m. 

    Saturday : call us, we can arrange a meeting!

    +49 1520 5826249 / contact@arteastgallery-bk.com


    Etchingroom1 is a duo consisting of Kristina Yarosh and Anna Khodkova, two Ukrainian artists who founded their printing studio in 2016. Using many techniques such as mosaic, silkscreen or etching, they offer a very meticulous work full of details and humor.

    The artworks are inhabited by a permanent dialogue between past, present and future. Etchingroom1 plays on paradoxes and anachronisms by representing ultra-modern or futuristic engines (submarines, flying saucers) through etching, a technique dating back to the Middle Ages and otherwise neglected by recent artistic trends. This relationship to the past is highlighted through the expression of the Ukrainian collective culture and imagination, both strongly impregnated by the imminence of war and by a relentless quest for identity.
    But Anna and Kristina go far beyond referring to their country's history, they reappropriate it by giving it another dimension that is not only aesthetic, but also more universal, addressed to all spectators of their art.

    Through their exhibition "It was crowded yesterday", Anna and Kristina draw the portrait of Ukrainian and more generally European society in all its diversity.
    It was crowded yesterday, when millions of Ukrainians gathered onto train platforms to flee the war. It was crowded yesterday, when hundreds of people met at an underground concert in the center of Kyiv despite the war. Let's continue to gather, when it comes to resisting, to standing for Ukraine and celebrating art.

  • “Das flache Land” by Dimitri Bogachuk, From April 29th to June 11th

    “Das flache Land” by Dimitri Bogachuk

    From April 29th to June 11th

    The exhibition will take place from April 29 in the Institut français Berlin, Galerie Alice Guy, Kurfürstendamm 211, 10719 Berlin. You are warmly welcome! The entry is free. 

     

    Opening hours:
    Monday: 2-7 p.m.
    Tuesday: 9-12 a.m. / 1-6 p.m.
    Wednesday: 9 a.m.-1 p.m. / 2-6 p.m.
    Thursday: 9-12 a.m. / 1-6 p.m.
    Friday: 9-12 a.m. / 1-5:30 p.m.
    Saturday: 11 a.m.- 5 p.m.
    Sunday: closed

    Dimitri Bogachuk is a Ukrainian photographer based in Kyiv. His work is characterized by his amazing ability to capture the silence that resides in vast landscapes and to make visible the sense of calm they give to the artist. This exhibition consists of a series of landscapes photographed in France and Ukraine between 2012 and 2022, selected for their universal nature. The artist tries to awaken in each viewer of these images the feeling that they are looking at a landscape that has been familiar since childhood and that they have always known. Through this search for the archetype of “déjà vu„ , Dimitri Bogachuk brings to light in each of us something of a past common to all humanity, of a beauty shared by all.


    This exhibition is a collaboration between ArtEast Gallery and the Institut français Berlin with the support of Mazars Deutschland. To find out more about the event, click here!

  • 'Once upon a time three dead parrots', by Kinder Album, From March 4th to April 20th

    "Once upon a time three dead parrots", by Kinder Album

    From March 4th to April 20th

    ArtEast Gallery presents the solo exhibition "Once upon a time three dead parrots" by Ukrainian artist Kinder Album!  The vernissage of the exhibition will take place on March 4 at 7 p.m. You are warmly welcome! contact@arteastgallery-bk.com.

    Regular opening hours:

    Monday,Tuesday & Thursday: 4 - 7 p.m. 

    Friday : 10 a.m. - 7 p.m. 

    Saturday : call us, we can arrange a meeting!

    You can also ring the door bell at daytime, most of the time someone will be there to open. 

    +49 1520 5826249 / contact@arteastgallery-bk.com. 

    The hygiene concept of the gallery is in line with the valid guidelines of infection control.

     

    "Once upon a time, three dead parrots" is the artist's first solo exhibition in Germany. Originally from Lviv, Kinder Album explores our collective anxieties through deliberately trashy scenes or provocative stagings. Each painting or drawing is based on a news item or a shared reference from pop culture, ranging from Marilyn Monroe to Queen Elizabeth. Strongly inspired by thrillers, with which the artist likes to scare herself, Kinder Album slips her own fragility and fears into her artworks. These fears, hers, are also ours, and Kinder Album invites the audience to face them. Slowly, the childish varnish cracks, revealing morbid scenes and a society riddled with cynicism. 

     

    The cruelty of society is particularly highlighted by the symbol of the parrot, an exotic bird that has come to die in the snow and the coldness of Ukrainian and European societies that are hostile to their presence. Kinder Album also mocks, with a scathing humor, the hypocrisy of certain standards that, not daring to confront the representation of naked women - and even going so far as to censor them on instagram - still fantasizes the woman-object. By assigning us to the disturbing posture of the voyeur, the artist opens an interstitial space  so that the spectator appropriates the interpretation.

     

    Kinder Album was born in 1982 in Lviv, Ukraine. She studied architecture at the University of Lviv and at the Technischen Hochschule Ostwestfalen-Lippe in Germany. In 2012 she started working under her artist name "Kinder Album", and in 2013 she presented her first exhibition at the Dzyga Gallery in Lviv. She is still particularly active in the art scene of her hometown but also exhibits across Europe, from the UK to Poland, Montenegro & Lithuania. In 2021, she exhibited outside the European continent for the first time as part of the exhibition "Transcending Boundaries", which was shown at Galeria Tira al Blanco in Guadalajara (Mexico).

  • Christmas Market , From December 4th to 22nd

    Christmas Market

    From December 4th to 22nd

    It is now!! We are very happy to welcome you to our Christmas Market in the Berlin gallery in Goßlerstraße 1 (from 11am to 5pm) and online. You will find a large selection of artworks by many great artists that will undoubtedly illuminate this end of year - and give you some good gift ideas. It is a great pleasure for us to gather all those fantastic artists to offer you to offer you a wide choice of unique or limited edition works. Let' celebrate art and culture together!

    Do not hesitate to contact us at any time for any request or additional information.


    The hygiene concept of the gallery is in line with the valid guidelines of infection control. Masks are compulsory.

  • 'Brother & Sister' by Viktoria Sorochinski, From November 26th to February 26th

    "Brother & Sister" by Viktoria Sorochinski

    From November 26th to February 26th

    ArtEast Gallery presents the solo exhibition "Brother & Sister" by  Viktoria Sorochinski!  

    Regular opening hours:

    Monday,Tuesday & Thursday: 4 - 7 p.m. 

    Friday : 10 a.m. - 7 p.m. 

    Saturday : call us, we can arrange a meeting!

    You can also ring the door bell at daytime, most of the time someone will be there to open. Or call us to plan your visit: +49 1520 5826249 / contact@arteastgallery-bk.com. The hygiene concept of the gallery is in line with the valid guidelines of infection control. 

     

    "Brother & Sister” is one of the large narrative projects by Viktoria Sorochinski, shot with an analog camera and portraying the interpersonal brother-sister relationships and their journey into adulthood. Deeply inspired by myths, folk tales, beliefs, and psychoanalytical research, Viktoria Sorochinski is capturing in her carefully orchestrated scenes the world of children’s fantasies, fears, and lessons that we all go through while growing up.  Viktoria Sorochinski shot the “Brother & Sister” project in Norway during an art residency on the island of Halsnoy, in a house that used to belong to a medieval monastery, and where the story unfolds. “House” is a symbol that represents the foundation of our inner self in the Jungian psychoanalysis, therefore it is the starting point of the magical journey of little Martha and Mathias, a sister and a brother whom Viktoria Sorochinski encountered on the island. From this house, shrouded in mystery, legends and popular beliefs, the two children explore the surroundings, the woods, the unknown… They get to know each other and themselves, and team up against the evil forces.

     

    Viktoria Sorochinski is an internationally recognized artist-photographer. Since completing her Masters of Fine Arts degree at New York University (NYU) in 2008, she has had over 75 exhibitions in 23 different countries throughout Europe, North and South America, and Asia. Sorochinski’s work is featured and reviewed in over 85 international publications including her monograph “Anna & Eve” published by Peperoni Books in Germany. She is also a laureate of over 40 international awards, fellowships and grants among which are Arnold Newman Prize, Leica Oskar Barnack Award, LensCulture Exposure Award, Lucie Award, Magenta Flash Forward, PDN Photo Annual and Voies Off Arles Award. Born in Ukraine and having lived in several different countries, Viktoria currently lives and works in Berlin.

  • 'Wandering into the moment' by Olesya Dzhurayeva, From September 24th to October 24th

    "Wandering into the moment" by Olesya Dzhurayeva

    From September 24th to October 24th
    ArtEast Gallery presents the solo exhibition "Wandering into the moment" by Olesya Dzhurayeva! Open by appointment: contact@arteastgallery-bk.com/ +49 1520 5826249
     
    Olesya Dzhurayeva, who describes herself as an insatiable observer of city life, invites us to a graphic walk through urban landscapes and moments of life. Each work exhibited is a snapshot of the daily choreography, a movement seized in the instant, an interplay of shade and light, an elegy to slowness.  By using the linocut technique (which consists of engraving a linoleum plate which is then covered with ink, making the pattern appear in white in contrast to the ink-covered relief), Olesya Dzhurayeva gives infinite depth and precision to her works.

     

    Through her artistic gaze, we wander into the moment, we embrace the observer’s position and the poetry of each detail we usually do not consciously perceive. The urban rush becomes a possible aesthetic experience that resonates with our own relationship to space and time during the pandemic. What if a “time out” was actually a “time in”? Looking at Olesya Dzhurayeva’s works, we definitely embody the flâneur depicted by Franz Hessel in his novels, this flâneur who knows that: “Life is everywhere for you, free at any time of day, just don't get involved, enjoy everything, own nothing.” (Heimliches Berlin)

     

    The hygiene concept of the gallery is in line with the valid guidelines of infection control. Please note that admission will only be granted upon presentation of a valid negative corona test or proof of complete vaccination or recovery. Masks are compulsory.

  • 'View In', by etchingroom1, online exhibition

    "View In", by etchingroom1

    online exhibition

    Our first online exhibition “View in” by etchingroom1 is over! Thank you all for the enthusiasm and the nice feedback we received! We are very much looking forward to welcoming you in September in our premises in Berlin to our first physical exhibition, that will also be shown online. We wish you a very nice summer and stay at your disposal for any request.