exhibition of Benjamin Bergmann - Doppelschatten, Galerie Zink Berlin, February 10th - April 11th 2009

For me, the beauty of absurdity is the sustainability of confusion. Eventually, you get trapped in the thought that a totally absurd world would perhaps be much nicer. (Benjamin Bergmann) 

The Munich based artist Benjamin Bergmann (*1968 Würzburg) will start the 2009 season at Galerie Zink Berlin, with a show featuring large-scale performance works on 7th February from 6pm.

Since 2001, Benjamin Bergmann has developed works which unite the material collages of classical modernism with elements of the American environment. His intentions seem to communicate some-kind of temporality. The fact that the
rollercoaster (Hals über Kopf, 2005 in the Palast der Republik) was deliberately made to look as if it might fall apart at any moment, makes one suspicious of concepts such as eternity and perfection. Significant traces of the material pro-
cess, the almost theatrically defined details and the increased functionality into the absurd, allow us to understand his sculptures as implements in a subversive world exploration, where the principle of failure in the classification of beauty, is
elevated.

Through using sculpture, installation and theatre, Bergmann's work tries to attack the environment's largest habits. The recipient of this art, whether real or imagined, is a part of the installation. By merging all elements,  a whole physical experience is created and a new dimension of perception emerges.

The instruments which the artist uses, reflect his life as an energetically charged and mysterious Theatrum Sacrum which resist and acknowledge, ignorance, mysteriousness and awareness, making them all equally valid. (Bernhard Schwenk, Pinakothek der Moderne, München) 

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gallerist: Michael Zink

artists/represented since:
Benjamin Bergmann, 2008
Benjamin Butler, 2006
Marcel van Eeden, 2001
Gregory Forstner, 2006
Sabrina Fritsch, 2005
Felix Stephan Huber, 2000
Dieter Kiessling, 2001
Rosilene Luduvico, 2002
Euan Macdonald, 1996
Eva Marisaldi, 2003
Per Mårtensson, 2007
Yuri Masnyj, 2008
Yoshitomo Nara, 1994
Yoshitomo Nara+Graf, 2007
John Pilson, 2004
Heather Rowe, 2005
Fumie Sasabuchi, 2003
Glenn Sorensen, 2006
Thomas Steffl, 2003
German Stegmaier, 1995
Ante Timmermans, 2007
Rinus van de Velde, 2008
Stefan Wissel, 2001

art fairs 2007-2009:
Art Forum Berlin
Art Basel Miami Beach
Art Brussels
ARCO Madrid
Volta New York
Next Art Fair Chicago

Galerie Zink was established at Munich in 2000 as one of the first art spaces in the emerging Munich Kunstareal located around the Pinakothek der Moderne. To give the gallery and its artists a better accessibility to the international art world Michael Zink opened a space in Berlin Kreuzberg at Schlesische Str. 27 in January 2007 with the show „Berlin Baracke“ by Nara & graf. Besides that, in February 2007 the gallery started its studio program in New York. Currently, Per Mårtensson lives and works at the residency studio.

With a straight international intention, the gallery´s focus is to support promising young artists. That way Marcel van Eeden and Rosilene Luduvico were introduced to the public and succeded in giving well received entreés. The gallery‘s program is also shaped by long lasting and deep collaborations with artists the gallery started with in the early 1990ies like Yoshitomo Nara and Euan Macdonald, whose works we have shown since the formation
of the gallery in 1994.

The gallery´s program is tied up through a strong obligation to communicate art through clear and intense visual ideas. Hereby, the gallery´s program is not limited to certain media, but displays the whole bandwidth from drawing, painting and sculpture to photography and interactive video installation.

The gallery promotes and shows its artists in up to six gallery exhibitions in Munich and five in Berlin each year. In order to show and place the work of the artists represented in public collections, the gallery cooperates with museums and art institutions at an international scale. That way it was possible for Marcel van Eeden to present a his drawings f.ex. at Kunstverein Hannover (2006), Kunsthalle Tübingen (2007), CAB Burgos (2008) and for Yoshitomo Nara & graf to have shows at the GEM/Den Haag (2007), the CAC/Málaga (2007) and The Baltic/Newcastle (2008). Besides that, the gallery accompanies its artists‘ exhibitions through catalogues published by it or through its initiative. Since 2006 ten catalogues were released, initiated and accompanied by the gallery:

• Stefan Wissel, last night a drawing saved my life, Verlag für moderne Kunst, Nuremberg 2006
• Michael Sailstorfer, Für immer war gestern, Verlag für moderne Kunst, Nuremberg 2006
• Euan Macdonald, everythinghappensatonce, Verlag für moderne Kunst, Nuremberg 2006
• Marcel van Eeden, K.M. Wiegand. Life and Work, Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2006
• Marcel van Eeden,Celia, Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2006
• John Pilson, Interregna, Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2006
• Fumie Sasabuchi, Drawings, Verlag für moderne Kunst, Nuremberg 2006
• Rosilene Luduvico, See it coming/Virá que eu vi, Verlag für moderne Kunst, Nuremberg 2007
• Yoshitomo Nara

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