Exhibitions

Walead Beshty

Gastarbeiten 7 November  —  20 December 2014 Gallery Capitain Petzel is happy to present an exhibition by Walead Beshty. It is the first exhibition with the gallery. Here again Beshty uses hidden or invisible work needed in the production of art and the traces left of heavy labor and the immaterial office labor. Beshty continues his series... Explore

Martin Kippenberger: Window Shopping / Elfie Semotan: Flowers

17 September  —  14 October 2014 The major series of eight paintings on show in the exhibition Window Shopping was made in 1996 during one of the most creative phases in Martin Kippenberger’s life. That same year he also created two other series of paintings – Jacqueline: The Paintings Pablo Couldn’t Paint Anymore and The Raft... Explore

Bringing Light into a Windowless Room

Diango Hernández, Matt Mullican, Christopher Williams 26 June  —  22 August 2014 In 1964 the gallery building was completed and opened at Karl-Marx-Allee 45, in Berlin according to the design by architects Franek and Kaiser, under the name Kunst im Heim as the former exhibition hall for art and arts and craft in the GDR. 1972 Matt Mullican, as a member of... Explore

Adam McEwen

Factory Tint 2 May  —  19 June 2014 „Factory Tint“, the title of Adam McEwen’s first solo exhibition at Capitain Petzel, is a term taken from the car industry that refers to the percentage of window glass tinting or darkening. In the gallery’s main space fifteen life-size images of stretched limousines, inkjet prints on cellulose sponge, lean against... Explore

Monika Sosnowska

Stairway 15 March  —  17 April 2014 Capitain Petzel is pleased to present the second solo exhibition by Monika Sosnowska. The Warsaw-based artist shows the major installation “Stairway“, (2010). In an irregular serpentine shape the work is precisely suspended between ceiling and floor in the main hall of the translucent gallery space. Sosnowska conceived the work for... Explore