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Mengerzeile

Re-growth | 31.10. — 21.11.26

Opening Fri 30 October 2026: 7–10 pm

Open on Kolonie Weekend
Sat 31.10.: 2–5 pm
Sun 1.11.: 2–5 pm

Exhibition: 31.10..-20.11.2026

Opening hours: Tue–Fri 2–6 pm


Re-growth

This exhibition is an exchange between the TOOLBOX and Kunstraum m3 project spaces and brings together three artistic positions: Clara Joris, Karin Kerkmann and Katja Hommel, all of them artists from the Mengerzeile studio house, are showing Re-growth which stands for renewed growth or reawakening. It symbolizes transformation, resilience, and healing – as well as the opportunity to grow anew after crises or ruptures. Used medias among others are painting, sculpture and photography.

Artists:

Clara Joris

Mediums: painting, drawing, embroidery, installation At the heart of Clara Joris’s artistic practice lies an exploration of the self which finds
expression, among other forms, in her self-portraits. Through her work, the artist explores questions of identity, perception, and the transience of being.

For this exhibition, two works originally created in 2013 return in a transformed form. They speak of rootedness and belonging. One of the works, “Thought Diary – Metamorphosis,” is created from images that are cut, folded, and transformed into new, three-dimensional forms. What was once a readable image breaks apart into many fragments. Yet these fragments hold more than loss. They also carry the possibility of transformation: something old dissolves, creating space for something new. The work thus becomes an image of memory and change — and of the attempt to allow new forms of being to emerge from what has been experienced.

Bio

Clara Joris is a spanish artist, born in Málaga and based in Berlin since 1998. She studied Fine Arts, specializing in painting, at the Complutense University of Madrid. Her work has been presented internationally in solo and group exhibitions, as well as at biennials, art fairs, and artist residencies across Europe, Asia, Africa, and the United States. Her international engagements include the OFF Dak’Art Biennale in Senegal, the Fresh Winds Biennale in Iceland, and artist residencies in Germany, Turkey, and Bulgaria.

www.clarajoris.com
instagram: @clarajoris

Karin Kerkmann

Out of the Series Regrowth, Aquarell, 40 x 40 cm, 2026

Organic, translucent beings and forms emerge on the paper through the flowing and layering of watercolor paint. They appear light—almost weightless—and hover between the familiar and the unfamiliar. A quiet, sometimes humorous sense of otherness leaves
room for the viewer’s own associations.
“Regrowth” describes a reawakening following a period of stillness or rupture: gathering new strength, undergoing change, and continuing to grow—not by returning to what once was, but by remaining open to what might emerge from it.

Bio
Karin Kerkmann, born in Bochum, lives and works in Berlin. She studied Fine Arts at the Berlin University of the Arts, graduating in 2000 as a master student of Prof. Leiko Ikemura. Kerkmann works with photography, installation, painting, and drawing. Her work
has been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Germany and internationally. She has received, among other awards, a DAAD scholarship for San Diego, a NaFöG travel grant from the Berlin Senate, and project funding from the Käthe Dorsch Foundation.

www.karinkerkmann.de
Instagram: @karin_kerkmann

Katja Hommel

magnolia – photography / fine art print, 60 x 40 cm, 2022

Her work is an intuitive approach to the magnolia – a “primordial” plant – one of the most ancient flowering plants on earth. The origin lies in the magnolia tree in the artist‘s childhood garden – with whose fruits and character she engages artistically.

This plants energy embodies the concept of not trying to force every outcome, but rather – like a magnolia – blooming at one’s own pace, cultivating trust, and preserving one’s own energy. It represents a gentle yet powerful form of energetic realignment and self-care. This creative process, which began in 2022, has been showcased through multiple forms of artistic expression, including photography, sculpture and video.

Bio

Katja Hommel is a multi-media artist from Saxony – living and creating in Berlin since 2010 with focus on photography and installation. Since 2015 she is an active member of the Atelierhaus Mengerzeile in Berlin-Alt-Treptow.

www.katjahommel.com
Instagram: @petonka


Deutsch

Diese Ausstellung ist ein Austausch zwischen den Projekträumen TOOLBOX und dem Kunstraum m3 und vereint drei künstlerische Positionen: Clara Joris, Karin Kerkmann und Katja Hommel – allesamt Künstlerinnen aus dem Atelierhaus Mengerzeile – präsentieren „Re-growth“, was für erneutes Wachstum oder Wiedererwachen steht. Es symbolisiert Transformation, Resilienz und Heilung sowie die Chance, nach Krisen oder Brüchen neu zu
wachsen. Zu den verwendeten Medien gehören unter anderem Malerei, Skulptur und Fotografie.

Künstlerinnen:

Clara Joris

Medien: Malerei, Zeichnung, Stickerei und Installatio
Im Zentrum der künstlerischen Arbeit von Clara Joris steht die Auseinandersetzung mit dem eigenen Selbst, die unter anderem in ihren Selbstporträts Ausdruck findet. In ihrer Arbeit setzt sich die Künstlerin mit Fragen nach Identität, Wahrnehmung und der Vergänglichkeit des Seins auseinander.

Für diese Ausstellung kehren zwei Arbeiten aus dem Jahr 2013 in veränderter Form zurück. Sie erzählen von Verwurzelung und Zugehörigkeit. Eine der Arbeiten, „Gedanken- Tagebuch – Metamorphose“, entsteht aus Bildern, die zerschnitten, gefaltet und in neue, dreidimensionale Formen verwandelt werden. Was einst ein lesbares Bild war, zerfällt in viele Fragmente. Doch in diesen Fragmenten liegt nicht nur Verlust. Sie tragen auch die Möglichkeit einer Verwandlung in sich: Etwas Altes löst sich auf und schafft Raum für etwas Neues. Die Arbeit wird so zu einem Bild für Erinnerung und Veränderung – und für den Versuch, aus dem Erlebten neue Formen des Seins entstehen zu lassen.

Bio

Clara Joris ist eine spanische Künstlerin, geboren in Málaga und seit 1998 in Berlin lebend und arbeitend. Sie studierte Bildende Kunst mit Schwerpunkt Malerei an der Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
Ihre Werke wurden international in Einzel- und Gruppenausstellungen sowie auf Biennalen, Kunstmessen und Künstlerresidenzen in Europa, Asien, Afrika und den USA präsentiert. Zu ihren Stationen zählen unter anderem die OFF Dak’Art Biennale im Senegal, die Fresh Winds Biennale in Island sowie Künstlerresidenzen in Deutschland, der
Türkei und Bulgarien.

www.clarajoris.com
instagram: @clarajoris

Karin Kerkmann

Aus dem Fließen und Überlagern der Aquarellfarbe entstehen organische, durchscheinende Wesen und Erscheinungen auf Papier. Sie wirken leicht und beinah schwebend und bewegen sich zwischen Vertrautheit und Fremdheit. Eine leise, manc humorvolle Fremdartigkeit lässt Raum für eigene Assoziationen.

Regrowth beschreibt für die Künstlerin das Wiedererwachen nach einer Phase der Ruhe oder des Bruchs: neue Kräfte entwickeln, sich verändern und weiterwachsen – nicht zurück zu dem, was war, sondern offen für das, was daraus entstehen kann.

Bio

Karin Kerkmann, geboren in Bochum, lebt und arbeitet in Berlin. Sie studierte Bildende Kunst an der Universität der Künste Berlin und schloss 2000 als Meisterschülerin von Prof. Leiko Ikemura ab. Kerkmann arbeitet mit Fotografie, Installation, Malerei und Zeichnung. Ihre Arbeiten wurden in zahlreichen Einzel- und Gruppenausstellungen in Deutschland und international gezeigt. Sie erhielt unter anderem ein DAAD-Stipendium für San Diego,
ein NaFöG-Reisestipendium des Berliner Senats sowie Projektförderungen der Käthe Dorsch Foundation.

www.karinkerkmann.de
Instagram: @karin_kerkmann

Katja Hommel

Ihre Arbeit ist eine intuitive, künstlerische Auseinandersetzung mit der Magnolie – einer „Ur-Pflanze“ und einer der ältesten Blütenpflanzen der Erde. Ihren Ursprung hat sie in dem Magnolienbaum im Garten ihrer Kindheit; mit dessen Früchten und Wesen sich die Künstlerin befasst.
Die Energie dieser Pflanze verkörpert den Gedanken, Ergebnisse nicht erzwingen zu wollen, sondern – wie die Magnolie – im eigenen Tempo zu blühen, Vertrauen zu entwickeln und die eigene Energie zu bewahren. Sie steht für eine sanfte und zugleich kraftvolle Form der energetischen Neuausrichtung und Selbstfürsorge. Dieser kreative Prozess, der 2022 begann, kommt in verschiedenen künstlerischen Ausdrucksformen wie Fotografie, Skulptur und Video zum Ausdruck. Je nach Lichtverhältnissen – etwa bei Tag oder bei Nacht – erscheint das Werk jeweils anders.

Bio

Katja Hommel ist eine multimediale Künstlerin aus Sachsen – sie lebt und arbeitet seit 2010 in Berlin und ist seit 2015 aktives Mitglied im Atelierhaus Mengerzeile Berlin Alt- Treptow. Ihr künstlerischer Fokus liegt auf Fotografie und installativen Arbeiten.

www.katjahommel.com
Instagram: @petonka

Krista Autio

Fleeting Happiness | 30.5.–19.6.2026

You are warmly welcome to our next opening.

Galerie/Projektraum TOOLBOX presents an exhibition with:

Krista Autio, Brussels (Painting) and Fanny Spång, Berlin (Sculpture)
Exhibition: 30.5.– 19.6.2026
Opening Fri 29 May: 7–10 pm

Open on Kolonie Weekend
Sat 30 May: 2–5 pm
Sun 31 May: 2–5 pm

Opening hours: Tue–Fri 2–6 pm

Artwork (top) Krista Autio: Oil painting from the series Fleeting Happiness


I long for the land that is not,
because all that exists, I’m too weary to want.
The moon speaks to me in silvern runes
About the land that is not.
The land where all our dreams become wondrously fulfilled,
The land where all our fetters fall,
The land where we cool our bleeding forehead
In the dew of the moon.
My life was a burning illusion
But one thing I have found and one thing I have really won –
The road to the land that is not.

The Land That Is Not, poem by Edith Södergran

Krista Autio, painting

Fleeting happiness

Fleeting Happiness is a series of paintings about moments of happiness that pass quickly,
moments we miss, reminisce about, and long to experience again. These moments often
remain in our memories as something both melancholic and beautiful, almost ethereal. Such
feelings especially affect people who have left or lost their homeland due to different
circumstances. In today’s challenging world, we want to hold on to small, fleeting moments
of happiness. The paintings and sculptures in this exhibition relate to these fleeting
experiences, especially those connected to nature, memory, and a sense of belonging.

Krista Autio is a Finnish painter who lives and works in Brussels, Belgium.
Her work is thus influenced by the everyday lives, habits, daily rhythms and art from the
countries where she has lived–France, Spain, and Belgium–while maintaining an intrinsically
Finnish ethos of looking for the simple, essential qualities of a story or image.

Autio works primarily with oil paint at a large scale, creating multiple layers using a palette
knife. The works begin as process-based, meditative journeys into the true essence of colors
and often contain drawings and snippets of text. Later, she erases elements she deems
unnecessary, paring down the image to just one color, shape, or image.

Recently, her interest has been in Finnish happiness. She began to explore the concept of
happiness when the World Happiness Report had chosen Finland as the happiest country in
the world several times. Her first exhibition on this topic was in the fall of 2024
”Where is the fucking happiness?” at NOoSPHERE Arts, NYC.

Her works have been exhibited in Finland, Belgium, Spain, France, the Netherlands,
Luxembourg, and the United States. Autio founded the contemporary art project space K41
nordiKey in Brussels in 2017, where she works as a curator. The space mainly showcases
the works of Nordic contemporary artists living in Belgium


Fanny Spång High Line Park Is a Good Place to Cry, Plexiglass, flowers encased in pigmented epoxy resin, metal wires, steel base.

Fanny Spång, sculpture

High Line Park Is a Good Place to Cry

High Line Park Is a Good Place to Cry is a sculptural installation originally created as a
commentary on the Kingsland Wildflowers project (Greenpoint, New York) and humanity’s
efforts to reconstruct nature as an act of resilience. It explores the importance of nature in
grieving and processing emotions, as well as the longing for nature in urban environments.
In doing so, the installation underscores the close connection between sustainable practices
and nurturing our well-being..

The inspiration for this project stemmed from a friend who once remarked, “I like the High
Line; I go there sometimes to cry. It’s a good place to cry.” These words became the starting
point and inspiration for the project’s title and theme: human efforts to restore nature, the
importance of natural spaces for emotional processing, the desire to reconnect with the body
through nature, and the resilience found in these connections. The sculptural work itself is
composed of real flowers encased in pigmented epoxy resin, supported by plexiglass
stands, metal wires, and a steel base.

Fanny Spång works within a multidisciplinary practice spanning sculpture, installation, and
animation. With a deep fascination for nature and science, she explores organic textures
through artificial materials, investigating how sculptural objects can transform our experience
of space. Her installations unfold through a detailed, slightly distorted surrealism, exploring
states of being and transformation.

She holds an MFA in Design from HDK–Valand, Academy of Art and Design in Gothenburg,
and studied at the School of Visual Arts in New York during her BFA. Her work has been
shown in Sweden, USA, Germany, and the Czech Republic. As a designer, she has created
book covers for publishers throughout Scandinavia. Originally from Sweden, she is based in
Berlin, where she works and co-runs the artist-run space Schützenverein.

Krista Autio and Fanny Spång met during an artist residency at Mothership, New York, in
the fall of 2024. They both presented exhibitions at NOoSPHERE Arts alongside the
residency. During the residency, they engaged in ongoing conversations about art and how
their northern homelands have shaped their worldview and artistic practices. It was also at
this time that they began developing their respective projects, making this renewed
presentation of their works together a natural continuation of an ongoing dialogue.

Image of a cave with a red handprint

Contact II, 1.–21.3.2026

Warmly welcome to the nex exhibition in Toolbox Finnish German Art Space Berlin. This time we present the following Artists:

  • Dr. Riitta Rainio Research Team
  • Niina Räty Paintings
  • Maija Helasvuo Sculptures

Opening | Vernissage: Friday, 27.02.2026, 7–10 pm | 19–22 Uhr

Open on Kolonie Weekend: Sunday 01.03. : 2-6 pm | 14-18 Uhr

Exhibition | Ausstellungsdauer: 1.–21.03.2026


Sonic Wonderland – Visuo-Acoustic Simulations of Echoing Rocks

Jami Pekkanen, Julia Shpinitskaya, Noora Vikman, Elina Hytönen-Ng, Gjermund Kolltveit, Riitta Rainio

Sonic Wonderland’s visuo-acoustic simulations take visitors to some of Finland’s most stunning acoustic environments: the echoing rock paintings of Siliävuori and the resonant cavity of Hiidenkirnukivi. Digital modeling and auralization methods conjure up what these sacred sites of the past look and sound like. The simulations are interactive, which means that in order to hear the echoes, visitors must produce sound themselves, for example by calling out, clapping, or playing the instrument

The SacredSounds research project, funded by the Kone Foundation (2023–2027), traces and highlights the unrenowned acoustics heritage of Fennoscandia. Researchers from the Universities of Helsinki and Eastern Finland perform acoustic measurements at cliffs, boulders, caves, and gorges held as sacred or special, and document the sites using LiDAR scanning, aerial videography, and photography. They also conduct archival research and interviews to find out how people have experienced these places at different times.

More information:
riitta.rainio@helsinki.fi

Fish

Niina Räty

For the past five years, fish have been my subject matter. Pike-perch, perch, and herrings – sometimes lying on wax paper, sometimes on a plate. What is it about these shiny creatures that fascinates me?

Still-life painting fascinates me. It is about learning to look at things. The history of painting is full of still lifes of fish – silver-sided fish on silver platters, coarse fish scales depicted together with translucent onions, or moist seafood gleaming on the dirty counter of a market stall. As a motif, a fish is loaded with meanings, often Christian ones. Above all, it often seems to reflect the pure joy of painting – the pleasure that comes from seeking light and shine.
Of course, fish themselves are intriguing too. Smelly, even repulsive, oblong creatures, strange and mute. Fish are valuable yet unfamiliar, lifted up from beneath the surface for food. The boundary between two worlds is broken just like that.

Most of all, however, I am interested in the similarity. The fish is matter, just like the painting, the viewer, and the painter. The same clammy, speechless substance. By painting fish, I paint all of us – chunks of flesh dragged into this unfamiliar environment without asking.

Thank you
Kone Foundation and Alfred Kordelin Foundation

Maija Helasvuo

My sculptures address the experience of life being limited, our dependence on our own physical existence and especially on other people.

A human is part of a human community. The fields of our social interactions largely define the framework of our actions. Even our separation and isolation always stand in relation to others. Our ability to be intimate is the starting point of our existence. Our ability to take care carries us from one generation to another. Independence is inevitable, yet even our independence stands in relation to others, our diverse communities.

As neither the fields of interaction surrounding us nor our relations to others can be physically touched by the hand, we need sculptures to concretize these abstract experiences. In my view and experience, a sculpture still is a functioning means of symbolic thinking for human communities. In practice, this has already been the case since early cult objects.
Creating a sculpture is slow, at least for me. My themes develop slowly, if at all.
My topics of limitations and dependence on others intertwine and reveal themselves repeatedly. The material’s resistance is important to me. The physicality of creating a work is often enjoyable. The slowness in working with the material and the physical effort create time for thinking and for the opportunity to calmly solve sculptural problems.

I tend to get the impression that the slowness in making a sculpture does not prevent, but in fact assists the sculpture opening up to its viewer as an abrupt experience, even resembling a physical shock.
The viewer is important to me. The sculpture is a means to communicate with and within the community.

Maija Helasvuo
Sculptor, MFA

Deutsch e Übersetzung des Textes von Maija Helasvuo:

Meine Skulpturen thematisieren das Erlebnis der Begrenztheit des Lebens, unsere Abhängigkeit von der eigenen physischen Existenz und insbesondere von anderen Menschen.
Ein Mensch ist Teil menschlicher Gemeinschaft. Unsere sozialen Interaktionsfelder bestimmen zu großen Teilen die Rahmenbedingungen unseres Handelns. Sogar unsere Abgrenzung und Isolation stehen immer in Beziehung zu anderen. Unsere Fähigkeit zu Intimität ist der Ausgangspunkt unserer Existenz. Unsere Fähigkeit sich um andere zu sorgen trägt uns von Generation zu Generation. Selbstständigkeit ist unabdingbar, und doch steht auch sie in Beziehung zu anderen, zu unseren vielfältigen Gemeinschaften.

Da wir weder die uns umgebenden Interaktionsfelder noch unsere Beziehungen zu anderen mit den Händen greifen können, brauchen wir Skulpturen als eine Konkretisierung unserer abstrakten Erlebnisse. Ich fühle und sehe Skulpturen weiterhin als funktionierendes Mittel des symbolischen Denkens menschlicher Gemeinschaften. Tatsächlich gilt dies bereits seit frühzeitlichen Kultobjekten.


Galerie/Projektraum TOOLBOX
Koloniestraße 120
13359 Berlin-Wedding
U-Bahn Osloer Straße

An Feiertagen ist die Toolbox geschlossen
On Bank holidays Toolbox is closed

Mengerzeile Einladung

présage – Michelle Lloyd, Claudia Brieske | 2.-22.11.2025

Warmly welcome to our next opening on Friday, 31. October 2025, at 7 pm

Exhibition: 2.–22.11.2025

Opening hours: Wed–Sat 3–7 pm

Kolonie Wedding Weekend open on Sunday, 2.11.2025 from 2–6 pm

Présage means to foretell or predict, often indicating a warning or sense of something about to happen – typically something unpleasant or unwelcome. It may also refer to an intuition or feeling of foreboding. Essentially, it is a sign anticipating an imminent event.
A certain unease exists in the works of Claudia Brieske and Michelle Lloyd. An underlying anxiety rises slowly, manifests itself quietly and looms.

In both artists’ work the pressure of pent-up, charged energy – be it from a seismographic, meteorological or other atmospheric force – declares its presence and requires relea
While the two artists’ interpretations emerge from different perspectives and artistic disciplines – video, sound and painting – they simultaneously focus on the tension of the frozen time fragment, just before the onset …
This présage is a disembodied future: it cannot be tangibly grasped, yet etches physical and psychological traces in the present nevertheless.

Artists

Michelle Lloyd and Claudia Brieske, both artists from the Mengerzeile studio house, are showing the painting cycle ‘ONSET’ and the video/sound installation ‘Falling Forward Slightly’, created in Istanbul, at the TOOLBOX gallery. This exhibition marks the start of an exchange between the TOOLBOX and Kunstraum m3 project spaces.


Deutsch
Présage bedeutet vorausahnen oder ankündigen: oft eine Warnung oder eine Ahnung für etwas, das passieren wird – typischerweise etwas Unangenehmes oder Unwillkommenes. Es kann sich auch auf eine Intuition oder ein Gefühl der Vorahnung über die Zukunft beziehen. Im Wesentlichen ist es ein Zeichen oder ein Omen, das ein bevorstehendes Ereignis andeutet.
Eine gewisse Spannung liegt in den Werken von Claudia Brieske und Michelle Lloyd: ein zugrundliegendes Gefühl der Unruhe steigt langsam auf, manifestiert sich leise und wartet lauernd. Es zeigen sich die Zeichen und der Druck der aufgestauten, aufgeladenen Energie – sei es von einer seismographischen, meteorologischen oder einer anderen atmosphärischen Kraft – kündigt sich an und erfordert Freigabe.

Während die Interpretationen der beiden Künstlerinnen aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven und künstlerischen Disziplinen, Video, Ton und Malerei, hervorgehen, konzentrieren sie sich gleichermaßen auf das Unbehagen im eingefrorenen Zeitfragment unmittelbar vor dem Ausbruch …

Diese ‚présage‘ ist immateriell, eine nicht zu greifende Zukunft, die dennoch physische und psychische Spuren in der Gegenwart erzeugen kann.
Michelle Lloyd and Claudia Brieske, both artists from the Atelierhaus Mengerzeile, are showing work from the painting series « ONSET » and the video/sound installation created in Istanbul,
« Falling Forward Slightly ». This exhibition at the TOOLBOX gallery in Wedding launches the art space exchange between TOOLBOX and Kunstraum m3.

Künstlerinnen

Michelle Lloyd und Claudia Brieske, beide Künstlerinnen aus dem Atelierhaus Mengerzeile, zeigen in der Galerie TOOLBOX den Malerei-Zyklus „ONSET“ und die in Istanbul entstandene Video/Klanginstallation „Falling Forward Slightly“. Diese Ausstellung bildet den Auftakt zum Austausch der Projekträume TOOLBOX und Kunstraum m3.
https://www.atelierhaus-mengerzeile.de/
https://www.lloyd-artwork.com/
https://claudia-brieske.net/work/Falling-Forward-Slightly-2023/


Galerie/Projektraum TOOLBOX
Koloniestraße 120
13359 Berlin-Wedding
U-Bahn Osloer Straße

An Feiertagen ist die Toolbox geschlossen
On Bank holidays Toolbox is closed

Alexander Horn, Ilkka Sariola

Ausgang | Exit – 30.8.–20.9.2025

Welcome to our opening on Friday, 29. August 2025, 7 pm

Artists

Alexander Horn | Ilkka Sariola

Paitings, drawings

Opening hours: Mit–Sat 3–7 pm


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Our duo exhibition is titled ”Ausgang – Exit”. Everyday definition of the word is ”an act of leaving a place” or ”a way out of a building”. For example there are ”Ausgang” signs in everywhere in metro stations and signs can save lives in the event of fire. The word exit also has deeper philosophical connotations. ”Exitus” comes from latin and means exit, ending, end or death. Our final exit is moving from on state to another, from life to death. The Nazis used the term with cruel irony, calling the entrance gate of Sachsenhausen concentration camp ”Eingang A” an the exit gate ”Ausgang Z”. There is also a desperate search for away out, exit, of the protracted wars in Ukraine an Gaza. In our exhibition, metaphora ”exit” leads the viewer to consider different ways of of exiting dead ends in front of Alexander Horn´s fascinating paintings and Ilkka Sariola´s large expressive coal drawings.

Alexander Horn lives and works in Mannheim and Ludwigshafen and Ilkka Sariola in Helsinki. We met each other for the first time year 2017 when we both took part in group exhibition ”Nachstein” at Projektraum Toolbox. Even then, a deep understanding arose between us an our art. This is our third duo exhibition in Germany.

Ilkka Sariola

Ilkka Sariola, rom series Requiemm Hind & Shani, 230 x 150 cm, charcoal on paper, 2023-2025

Alexander Horn

Alexander Horn, aus der Serie Only the Rocks Remain

German:

Unsere Duo-Ausstellung trägt den Titel Ausgang – Exit. Eine Alltagsdefinition des Wortes ist „ein Akt des Verlassens eines Ortes“ oder „ein Weg aus einem Gebäude“. So gibt es zum Beispiel überall in U-Bahn-Stationen „Ausgang“-Schilder, und Schilder, die auf Notausgänge hinweisen, können im Falle eines Brandes Leben retten. Das Wort Ausgang hat auch eine tiefere philosophische Bedeutung. „Exitus“ kommt aus dem Lateinischen und bedeutet Ausgang, Abschluss, Ende oder Tod. Unser letzter Ausgang ist der Übergang von einem Zustand zum anderen, vom Leben zum Tod. Die Nazis benutzten den Begriff mit grausamer Ironie und nannten das Eingangstor des Konzentrationslagers Sachsenhausen „Eingang A“ und das Ausgangstor „Ausgang Z“. Auch in den langwierigen Kriegen in der Ukraine und im Gazastreifen wird verzweifelt nach einem Ausweg, einem Ausgang, gesucht.
Die Besucher:innen unserer Ausstellung können vor Alexander Horns kleinformatigen Gemälden in Acryltusche auf MDF und Ilkka Sariolas großformatigen, expressiven Kohlezeichnungen mit der Metapher „Ausgang“ als Ausgangspunkt über Sackgassen und wie man aus ihnen wieder heraus-kommt reflektieren.

Alexander Horn lebt und arbeitet in Mannheim und Ludwigshafen, Ilkka Sariola in Helsinki. Wir sind uns 2017 zum ersten Mal begegnet, als wir beide an der Gruppenausstellung Nachstein im Pro-jektraum Toolbox in Berlin teilgenommen haben. Sofort hatten wir das Gefühl eines besonderen und tiefen Verständnisses füreinander und für die Kunst des anderen. Dies ist unsere dritte Duo-Ausstellung in Deutschland.


Galerie/Projektraum TOOLBOX
Koloniestraße 120
13359 Berlin-Wedding
U-Bahn Osloer Straße

An Feiertagen ist die Toolbox geschlossen
On Bank holidays Toolbox is closed

Concert, 2024, Graphit/Papier, 28 x 42 cm.

And Beyond the Infinite – 30.5.–21.6.2025

Welcome to the opening on Fri, May 30, 2025 at 7pm

Exhibition: 30.05.–21.06.2025
Open on Kolononie Wedding weekend: Sun.: 01.06.2025 from 2–6 pm
opening hours: Wed-Sat 3-7 pm

.. AND BEYOND THE INFINITE is a collaboration between the Mannheim gallery Strümpfe and the German-Finnish art space Toolbox.
Twelve artists from Berlin, Heidelberg and Mannheim, whose works are presented both in the Toolbox and in the art.endart project space, form the basis for the first part of this collaboration, in the course of which artists from the Toolbox will then be guests at the Strümpfe Gallery in Mannheim in September.
The title of the exhibition encompasses both the uniqueness of the individual positions – caricature-like representationalism meets abstract finesse – as well as the interdisciplinary abundance (painting, drawing, plasticine, photography, object and video) of the exhibits themselves.

Participating artists:
Patrick Huber (B), Mitsuko Hoshino (Hd), Inessa Siebert (Hd), Jutta Steudle (Ma), Line Wasner (B), Annalena Winkler( Ma), Eric Carstensen (Ma), Jürgen Eisenacher( B), Alexander Horn (Ma), Henrik Jacob (B), Heiko Sievers (B) and Fritz Stier (Ma).

Artwork: Analena Winkler: Concert, 2024, Graphit/Papier, 28 x 42 cm.


German

Willkommen zur Eröffnung am Fr, 30. Mai 2025 um 19 Uhr
Ausstellung: 30.05.-21.06.2025

Geöffnet am Kolononie Wedding Wochenende: So.: 01.06.2025 von 14-18 Uhr
Öffnungszeiten: Mi-Sa 15-19 Uhr

.. AND BEYOND THE INFINITE ist eine Kollaboration der Mannheimer Galerie Strümpfe und dem deutsch-finnischen Projektraum Toolbox.
Zwölf Künstlerinnen aus Berlin, Heidelberg und Mannheim, deren Arbeiten sowohl in der Toolbox als auch im Projektraum art.endart präsentiert werden, bilden die Basis für den ersten Teil dieser Zusammenarbeit, in deren Folge Künstlerinnen der Toolbox dann im September in der Galerie Strümpfe in Mannheim zu Gast sein werden.
Der Titel der Ausstellung umschließt sowohl die Einzigartigkeit der einzelnen Positionen – karikaturhafte Gegenständlichkeit trifft abstrahierende Finesse – als auch die spartenübergreifende Fülle (Malerei, Zeichnung, Knetbild, Fotografie, Objekt und Video) der Exponate selbst.

Teilnehmende Künstlerinne und Künstler:
Patrick Huber (B), Mitsuko Hoshino (Hd), Inessa Siebert (Hd), Jutta Steudle (Ma), Line Wasner (B), Annalena Winkler( Ma), Eric Carstensen (Ma), Jürgen Eisenacher( B), Alexander Horn (Ma), Henrik Jacob (B), Heiko Sievers (B) und Fritz Stier (Ma).

Artwork: Analena Winkler: Concert, 2024, Graphit/Papier, 28 x 42 cm.

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Galerie/Projektraum TOOLBOX
Koloniestraße 120
13359 Berlin-Wedding
U-Bahn Osloer Straße

An Feiertagen ist die Toolbox geschlossen
On Bank holidays Toolbox is closed

Periphery | 25.4.-24.5.2025

Alexei Gordin – Anna Emilia Järvingn – Jussi Kekkonen – Jussi Pyky

Opening: Fri, 25.04.2025, 7 pm
Open on Kolononie Wedding weekend: Sun.: 27.04.2025 from 2–6 pm
25.4.-24.5.2025
opening hours: Wed-Sat 3-7 pm

Drawings and paintings
From Europe’s outskirts,
From the fringes of culture,
And from the edges of the mind.

The exhibiting artists are Alexei Gordin (EST), Anna Emilia Järvinen (FI), Jussi Kekkonen (FI) and Jussi Pyky (FI).
The exhibition has been supported by the Finnish Cultural Foundation.

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Galerie/Projektraum TOOLBOX
Koloniestraße 120
13359 Berlin-Wedding
U-Bahn Osloer Straße

An Feiertagen ist die Toolbox geschlossen
On Bank holidays Toolbox is closed

Toolbox

Motifs récurrents

Welcome to the opening of the on Fri 29 November 2024 at 19:00–22:00

Opening hours on Kolonie Wedding weekend:
Sat: 30.11.2024: 15:00–18:00
Sun 01.12.2024: 14:00–18:00

Exhibition running until 4 January 2025
Opening hours from 2.–14.12.2024 by arrangement
e-mail: mail@galerietoolbox.com

Finissage: 4 January 2025 (13:00–18:00)
At at 15:30 there will be a performance by Frans von Tartwijk with Guda Koster


Galerie Toolbox presents ‘Motifs récurrents’, a groupshow with works by Amsterdam-based artists Frans van Tartwijk (NL), Jean-Philippe Paumier (Fr) and Jean-Philippe Rousset (Fr). The show will run from friday november 29th until saturday january 4th. The opening will take place on november 29th.

The exhibition consists of a three-way conversation between drawings, paintings and installations. Displayed in the gallery space, they reveal mutual influences, references and correspondances between the artworks. Each in their own way the artists explore differents aspects of reality and incorporate these into their works.

‘Motifs récurrents’ does not intend to draw any conclusion, but offers a common ground for formal shared interests on which each artist develops his own visual grammar and aesthetic statement.

Frans van Tartwijk (NL, 1963) is a dutch painter and performance artist. His work has been exhibited in many galleries and art spaces in the Netherlands and abroad. He recently took part in a residency in Chengdu (China), together with Guda Koster.

Jean-Philippe Rousset (Fr, 1973) graduated at the Art Academy of Clermont-Ferrand. His lives and works in Amsterdam. Since 2018 he forms an artistduo with Jean-Philippe Paumier (JP&JP) and exhibits regularly in and around Amsterdam.

Jean-Philippe Paumier (Fr, 1980) mostly creates sculptures and installations based on the principles of ‘ready-made’ and ‘objet trouvé’. His work has been showed in several artspaces, art fairs and galleries in the Netherlands and abroad.

www.fransvantartwijk.nl
www.paumier.weebly.com

Galerie/Projektraum TOOLBOX
Koloniestraße 120
13359 Berlin-Wedding
U-Bahn Osloerstraße

An Feiertagen ist die Toolbox geschlossen
On Bank holidays Toolbox is closed

Piet_Zwaanswijk

Autumn walk – Dutch artists visiting Berlin Wedding 25.10.–24.11.2024

In dialogue with Berlin artists

Cordial invitation to the guest exhibition with Dutch artists at
InteriorDAsein and Toolbox. As part of the project space association
Kolonie Wedding.  In collaboration with Kunstruimte 411, Haarlem,
Netherlands. Curated by Hans Kuiper and Archi Galentz.

With works by Marius van Zandwijk (painting), Aquil Copier (painting), Piet Zwaanswijk (collage/print), Jessica Assmann-Zwaanswijk (painting), Sina Khani (painting), Ilja Warmerdam (painting), MC de Waal (photography), Antonio Rego (digital drawing prints), Gerard Veldman (painting), Daan van Houten (drawing/woodcut), Rene Bosch (photography/painting), Tarik Sadouma (AI print) and Hans Kuiper (drawing/painting).

In dialog with Berlin artists: Gisa Hausmann, Jelisaweta Klutschewskaja, Edwin Dickman, Klaus Jürgeit, Jovan Balov, Thomas J.Richter, Cristina Artola, Svenja Schüffler, Markus Schaller, Gagik Kurginian, Julia Katan, Patrick Huber, Julia Kissina and others.

Opening on Friday, October 25 from 7 pm in InteriorDAsein, hosted by
Archi Galentz and simultaneously in ToolBox, hosted by Hans Kuiper.

Opening hours on Saturday and Sunday, October 26 and 27 from 4 to 7 pm.
After the colony weekend by appointment.

Finissage on November 24 from 4 to 7 pm in ToolBox and from 7 to 10 pm
in InteriorDAsein.

Addresses:
InteriorDAsein, Steegerstraße 2, 13359 Berlin
ToolBox, Koloniestraße 120, 13359 Berlin
Transportation from InteriorDAsein to Toolbox: 3 stops by bus 255 or 18 minutes on foot.

Storage plan of Kolonie Wedding and list of further exhibitions of the
project space association: https://koloniewedding.de/

Artwork by Piet Zwaanswijk


Galerie/Projektraum TOOLBOX
Koloniestraße 120
13359 Berlin-Wedding
U-Bahn Osloerstraße

An Feiertagen ist die Toolbox geschlossen
On Bank holidays Toolbox is closed

Wales

Unearthing: Dadorchuddio 30.6.–20.7.2024

Artists from Wales and Berlin at Toolbox Finnish-German Art Space Berlin

Opening: 28.6.2024, 7pm

Exhibition 30.6.–20.7.2024

Artists:

Wales: Marja Bonada, Katie Cyfenw, Penny Hallas

Berlin: Susanne Ring

Opening hours: Wed–Sat 3–7 pm

Galerie/Projektraum TOOLBOX
Koloniestraße 120
13359 Berlin-Wedding
U-Bahn Osloerstraße

An Feiertagen ist die Toolbox geschlossen
On Bank holidays Toolbox is closed