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The weather was glorious, so much to see in such little time!
I continued on the Max Hetzler quest where I managed to see some magnificent works by Thomas Struth. This is a detail from one of his medical photographs
Over at their other location Struth depicted these dead animals in a beautiful and dignified fashion. Next stop some interesting cadavers!
At Esther Schippers I discovered Roman Ondak’s old reconstructed drawings
One of my favourite moments was at Isabella Bortolozzi where Danny McDonald had created a group of sculptures - every single one was a winner. I loved ‘Searching for Anonymity’
However, the best of the group for me was ‘Searching for a Cure for Male Pattern Baldness’
It was great joy to walk into Peres Project’s ‘The Mulch’ by Rebecca Ackroyd. I was transported into a neon red Mars like landscape with half-human figures basking in the warm red glow. It was not so long ago we had shown Rebecca as part of our Invites programme in London
At KWADRAT I spotted the gas canisters by Guy Zagursky. He had drilled holes through the metal and then embroidered wonderfully elaborate patterns - very impressive
Then there was time for an Instagram moment with the girls and Andre Massenet in front of this wonderful Tom Burr sculpture
Time to visit the Boros Collection, the Bunker was the perfect setting for Yngve Holen’s CT scanner work
Katja Novitskova had created some photography friendly works in the group show
Yngve also had a solo show at Galerie Neu called ‘Rose Painting’ where he once again is studying the car. This time he gutted the rims of five different sports vehicles which were 3D scanned and reproduced in laminated timber scaled to two meters in diameter
At Capitain Petzel Kelley Walker created his third solo show looking at advertising from the 70s and 80s, resulting in several large screen prints based on the Pioneer PL 518 turntable
Some lovely surprises along the way was this wonderful piece by R.H. Quaytman at Galerie Buchholz. The one that got away!
Over at Weiss Berlin there was almost a retrospective of Faith Ringgold - an artist, teacher, and activist in her late 80s. Her work spanned from painting to textiles to sculpture addressing issues of faith, gender and economic status
