Exhibitions

Studio Exhibition: Yael Bartana

Abracadabra 5 December 2020  —  7 February 2021 Capitain Petzel is pleased to present an installation by Yael Bartana, consisting of her new typographic work Abracadabra and the ever-relevant neon TREMBLING TIMES. The new poster series Abracadabra reintroduces an ancient spell as a comment on the rise of superstition and conspiracy theories. The artwork addresses both a... Explore

Infinite Games

Jadé Fadojutimi, Ximena Garrido-Lecca, Stefanie Heinze, Jacqueline Humphries, Sanya Kantarovsky, Rodney McMillian, Sarah Morris, Virginia Overton, Laura Owens, Jorge Pardo, Seth Price, Pieter Schoolwerth, Wim Wenders 21 November 2020  —  30 January 2021 The exhibition takes its starting point from a recent project initiated by Capitain Petzel during the Corona lockdown called Rhizome. Among the works presented online and later at the gallery was one of Sarah Morris’ films, Finite and Infinite Games. The work posits two opposing worldviews of politics, thinking, strategy... Explore

Seven-Up

An art fair presentation 24 October  —  7 November 2020 Capitain Petzel is pleased to announce Seven-Up, a presentation of works by seven artists initially conceived to be shown at this year's FIAC at the Grand Palais in Paris. In light of current events (and the consequent cancellation of art fairs around the world), the gallery will be showing the... Explore

Sanya Kantarovsky

Frozen Dress (Part Three) 10 September  —  7 November 2020 THE GRATEFUL DEAD I like the word Masoretic but feel Disinclined to use it in a sentence Scrying instead my platelets And bad dreams. Something Keeps sleeping against Me that is not the person Beside me. By “against” I mean against. My lack Of beauty was supposed To be some... Explore

Ross Bleckner

Quid Pro Quo 10 September  —  7 November 2020 Capitain Petzel is pleased to announce Quid Pro Quo by Ross Bleckner, the artist’s first solo exhibition at the Berlin gallery. Since rising to prominence in the midst of the AIDS crisis of the 1980s, Bleckner has addressed through painting his awareness of time and societal transition as a means... Explore

RHIZOME 7/7 IRL

21 June  —  1 August 2020 'A rhizome is characterized by ceaselessly established connections between semiotic chains, organizations of power, and circumstances relative to the arts, sciences, and social struggles.' -Excerpt from A Thousand Plateaus by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari Capitain Petzel is pleased to present a film program based on the Rhizome 7/7 online... Explore

Barbara Bloom

Works on Paper, on Paper 7 March  —  1 August 2020 Works on Paper, on Paper marks Barbara Bloom’s second exhibition at Capitain Petzel. Composed of two parts, it features the series Stand-Ins in the main gallery space and Objects of Desire on the backside of the partition wall. Bloom’s Stand-Ins constitute an ongoing series from the 1980s. For Works on... Explore

On the Politics of Delicacy

24 January  —  22 February 2020 The Robert Anton Theatre & Yael Bartana, Duggie Fields, Federico García Lorca, Nicholas Grafia, Hannah Höch, Karolina Jablonska, Krzysztof Jung, Tadeusz Kantor, Stanislava Kovalcikova, Zoe Leonard, Liliane Lijn, Raúl Martínez, Joanna Piotrowska, Jimmy De Sana, Mikolaj Sobczak, Kazimierz Wisniak, a.o. Curated by Anke Kempkes January 24, 7pm The Accursed Ones,... Explore

Isabella Ducrot

Big Aura 23 November 2019  —  11 January 2020 Through her extensive travels in Asia, Isabella Ducrot has assembled a sublime collection of antique textiles, originating primarily from India, China, Tibet and Afghanistan. Fascinated by the presence of rhythm and rhyme in these materials – two notions crucial to the craft of the weaver – Ducrot has made it... Explore