Exhibitions

Eddie Martinez

Supernature 4 Mar - 15 Apr 2023 Everything Everywhere All at Once Notes on Eddie Martinez’s Supernature An insect is squashed, a dog buried. The first snow falls, plants on a windowsill bloom, a toy is left behind in a parking lot. When we are children, the first existential, all-changing experiences of life, death, time and transience... Read more

Martin Kippenberger

Heavy Burschi 21 Jan - 18 Feb 2023 Heavy Burschi comes across as a “heavy guy” who, weighing upon his shoulders, is saddled with guilt. The myth of his creation precedes him: a self-built dumpster made of plywood, crammed with smashed oil canvases, literally showcases the annexation of works finished by the skilled hands of someone else... Read more

Stefanie Heinze

Dimensions of the Fool 5 Nov - 23 Dec 2022 Fooling Around By Mason Leaver-Yap Zero We begin as idiots. Barely part of it, we take nothing in this brand-new world for granted. We receive everything as a question—a curiosity of sound, touch and taste. The world hums and vibrates, sings, talks in languages not yet our own.... Read more

Austin Martin White

Last Dance 16 Sep - 22 Oct 2022 It’s all too much, really. There are credit cards to pay down, rent to cough up—never mind the wildfires and the mass shootings. A sense of pressure is building, impossible to contain but with nowhere to go. What do you do when it feels like your world is ending? You... Read more

the state I am in

Curated by Elisa R. Linn and Lennart Wolff 23 Jun - 6 Aug 2022 Opening | 23 June, 6 pm Performance by Leyla Yenirce | 25 June, 5 pm With works by James Gregory Atkinson, Noah Barker, Nicolas Ceccaldi, Peter Fend, Lea Grundig, Jacqueline de Jong, Laura Langer, Louise Lawler, Oswald Oberhuber, Li Ran, Lotty Rosenfeld, Bruno Serralongue, Bri Williams and Leyla Yenirce Capitain... Read more

Sanya Kantarovsky

Center 28 Apr - 11 Jun 2022 Opening: Thursday, 28 April, 6 – 8 pm Capitain Petzel is pleased to present Center, an exhibition of paintings by Sanya Kantarovsky, made in 2021 and the first third of 2022. Responding directly to the Soviet era modernist architecture of Kunst im Heim, Karl-Marx-Allee 45, Kantarovsky alters the space with... Read more

Zoe Leonard

A View from the Levee 18 Mar - 16 Apr 2022 Opening: Friday, March 18, 5 – 8 pm Across sculpture, photography and installation, Zoe Leonard (b. 1961, Liberty, New York) examines the conditions of image making while exploring themes such as gender and sexuality, migration, displacement, and the urban landscape. Leonard self-reflexively considers the role which the medium plays in... Read more

omelette papier

15 Jan - 5 Mar 2022 Karla Black, Andrea Bowers, Joe Bradley, Isabella Ducrot, Jadé Fadojutimi, Hadi Fallahpisheh, Anna Gaskell, Georgia Gardner Gray, Stefanie Heinze, Charline von Heyl, Sanya Kantarovsky, Maria Lassnig, Marcel Odenbach, Pieter Schoolwerth, Mikołaj Sobczak, Barbara Steppe, John Stezaker, Hiroki Tsukuda and Nicola Tyson   Capitain Petzel is pleased to present omelette papier, a... Read more

Amy Sillman

Rock Paper Scissors 30 Oct - 23 Dec 2021 It’s all fun and games. It’s elbows out. This and that. Take no prisoners. Us versus them. The good, the bad and the ugly. You win some, you lose some. Rock, paper, scissors. Amy Sillman’s artwork is a manifestation of struggle—she enacts and investigates the friction between materials and forms.... Read more

Joe Bradley - Tobias Pils

15 Sep - 23 Oct 2021 Capitain Petzel is pleased to announce the joint exhibition of painters Joe Bradley and Tobias Pils on the occasion of Gallery Weekend *Discoveries. This exhibition marks the American artist Joe Bradley‘s debut in the Berlin gallery, as well as the first time the two befriended artists’ work is being brought... Read more

The Displacement Effect

Curated by Kirsty Bell with Jochum Rodgers 26 Jun - 22 Aug 2021 With works by Ketuta Alexi-Meskhishvili, Tolia Astakhishvili and James Richards, Gae Aulenti, Renata Bonfanti, Andrea Büttner, Xinyi Cheng, Sofie Dawo, Liliana Grassi, Vera Palme, Reni Trüdinger Shulman, Nanda Vigo Download Exhibition Dossier here The Displacement Effect stages a temporary constellation of artworks and objects in an open-ended discursive encounter. The... Read more

Studio: Samson Young

28 Apr - 19 Jun 2021 Capitain Petzel is pleased to announce a Studio Exhibition with the Hong Kong artist and composer Samson Young (b. 1979). At the heart of this presentation is a row of 3D-printed blocks called Support Structures, a series in which Young explores the remnants of 3D-printing technology’s production processes. As Young... Read more

Matt Mullican

Five Walls 28 Apr - 19 Jun 2021 Capitain Petzel is pleased to present Matt Mullican’s second exhibition at the gallery, Five Walls, in which the artist continues his investigation of how signifying processes function and the ways in which objects become charged with meaning. This decades-long exploration across various media such as painting, film, sculpture, photography as... Read more

Souterrain: Christopher Williams

Kochgeschirr (Adapted for Use) 28 Apr - 17 Jul 2021 Christopher Williams’ (b. 1956 in Los Angeles, CA) exhibition in the lower exhibition space of the gallery brings together several threads of work that the artist has developed over the years, reflecting his preoccupation with the static, material, and physical, as an antithesis to the information-saturated and virtual age recently... Read more

Showcase: Monika Sosnowska

17 Apr - 12 Jun 2021 Capitain Petzel is pleased to present its second Showcase, a new series of exhibitions which will be visible from outside of the gallery. Download Exhibition Dossier Here Monika Sosnowska (b. 1972 in Ryki, Poland) is known for her often site-specific architectural installations created by transforming construction material into impactful and... Read more

Studio Exhibition: Isabella Ducrot

Erotici 26 Feb - 17 Apr 2021 Capitain Petzel is pleased to announce a new exhibition by Isabella Ducrot in the Studio space of the gallery. The exhibition will be centered around the artist’s sensual drawings, which she refers to as Erotici. The threads that bind these works are the notions of touching and feeling, which resonate... Read more

Infinite Games... 2

Jadé Fadojutimi, Ximena Garrido-Lecca, Stefanie Heinze, Jacqueline Humphries, Rodney McMillian, Sarah Morris, Seth Price, Pieter Schoolwerth, Amy Sillman, Monika Sosnowska, Wim Wenders 26 Feb - 17 Apr 2021 Capitain Petzel is pleased to present the second iteration of Infinite Games , extending the concept of the group show initiated at the gallery late last year, which reflected on the role that deviancy, the ambiguous and the disjointed play in art and society. After the second lockdown, we are... Read more

Showcase: Ximena Garrido-Lecca

7 Feb - 10 Apr 2021 Capitain Petzel is pleased to present its first Showcase, a new series of exhibitions which will be viewable from outside of the gallery. Debuting the series is the artist Ximena Garrido-Lecca (b. 1980 in Lima, Peru, lives and works in Lima and Mexico City), with her monumental piece Gasa -... Read more

Studio Exhibition: Yael Bartana

Abracadabra 5 Dec 2020 - 7 Feb 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... Read more

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 Nov 2020 - 30 Jan 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... Read more

Seven-Up

An art fair presentation 24 Oct - 7 Nov 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... Read more

Ross Bleckner

Quid Pro Quo 10 Sep - 7 Nov 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... Read more

Sanya Kantarovsky

Frozen Dress (Part Three) 10 Sep - 7 Nov 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... Read more

RHIZOME 7/7 IRL

21 Jun - 1 Aug 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... Read more

Barbara Bloom

Works on Paper, on Paper 7 Mar - 1 Aug 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... Read more

On the Politics of Delicacy

24 Jan - 22 Feb 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,... Read more

Isabella Ducrot

Big Aura 23 Nov 2019 - 11 Jan 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... Read more

Yael Bartana

The Graveyard 14 Sep - 9 Nov 2019 Taking her performances What If Women Ruled the World (2017-2018) and Bury Our Weapons, Not Our Bodies! (2018) as points of departure, Yael Bartana’s second solo exhibition at Capitain Petzel features her latest film together with a group of prints and objects. The show marks the Berlin debut of The... Read more

Peter Piller

Geduld 21 Jun - 3 Aug 2019 Capitain Petzel is pleased to announce Geduld by Peter Piller, the artist’s third solo exhibition at the gallery. By installing a sound installation in the gallery’s lower ground floor – the exhibition’s eponymous work and the first ever sound-based work by the artist – Piller lays a foundation of sorts... Read more

Stefanie Heinze

Odd Glove 26 Apr - 8 Jun 2019 Gallery Weekend Berlin Saturday, April 27 – Sunday, April 28, 11 am – 7pm Capitain Petzel presents the first solo exhibition of Berlin based artist Stefanie Heinze. The starting point of her paintings are small-format drawings that often emerge from a collage process in which shapes are added or removed.... Read more

Hiroki Tsukuda

199X Storm Garden 9 Mar - 13 Apr 2019 Capitain Petzel is pleased to announce 199X Storm Garden, an exhibition by Tokyo based artist Hiroki Tsukuda. After his solo presentations at Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne (2017), and Petzel, New York (2016), this is his first show at the Berlin gallery. It features an installation composed of objects found on-site,... Read more

Monika Sosnowska

18 Jan - 23 Feb 2019 Capitain Petzel is pleased to announce the third solo show by Warsaw-based artist Monika Sosnowska at the Berlin gallery. The exhibition presents three sculptures entitled Gate, originally conceived in 2014 for Ginza Maison Hermès Le Forum in Tokyo. In producing Gate—as in the case of previous projects such as 1:1... Read more

Maria Lassnig

Augensprache. Works on Paper 1974 – 2013 17 Nov 2018 - 5 Jan 2019 “Can a thought be shown and peeled off like a skin?”[1] Maria Lassnig Capitain Petzel in cooperation with the Maria Lassnig Foundation is pleased to announce the second solo exhibition at the Berlin gallery by Maria Lassnig entitled Augensprache. Works on Paper 1974–2013. While Lassnig´s first solo exhibition at Capitain... Read more

Robert Longo

Everything Falls Apart 26 Sep - 3 Nov 2018 Performance during art berlin gallery night Rhys Chatham Guitar Trio (G3) for 6 electric guitars, electric bass and drums (1977) Featuring Robert Longo. Friday, Sep 28 9 pm Robert Longo’s second show at Capitain Petzel Everything Falls Apart, titled after the 1983 Hüsker Dü song by the same name, features... Read more

Andrea Bowers

Open Secret 22 Jun - 11 Aug 2018 When comedian/actor Aziz Ansari was accused of sexual harassment on January 14, 2018 by an anonymous 23-year-old woman, the story was met with a mixed response from the media and public, some of whom believed the details of the account to be too consensual to be considered misconduct. Feminist writer... Read more

Kelley Walker

27 Apr - 9 Jun 2018 Capitain Petzel is pleased to announce the third solo exhibition of New York artist Kelley Walker at the gallery for this year’s Gallery Weekend Berlin. Kelley Walker’s exploration of image culture in advertising of the 1970s and 1980s is the starting point for the works on view. In his works... Read more

Luke Fowler

ELECTRO-PYTHAGORUS (a portrait of Martin Bartlett) 17 Feb 2018 - 14 Apr 2020 Capitain Petzel is pleased to announce the first solo exhibition of artist, filmmaker and musician Luke Fowler entitled »Electro-Pythagorus (a portrait of Martin Bartlett),« at the Berlin gallery, running from February 17 to April 14, 2018. His show will be on view in the lower exhibition space. At the same... Read more

Karla Black

17 Feb - 14 Apr 2018 Capitain Petzel is pleased to announce the second solo exhibition of artist Karla Black at the Berlin gallery, running from February 17 to April 14, 2018. Her show is taking place on the ground floor of the gallery’s glass encased exhibition space. At the same time, artist, filmmaker and musician... Read more

Stephen Prina

As He Remembered It 23 Nov 2017 - 3 Feb 2018 Capitain Petzel is pleased to announce the second solo exhibition by visual artist and musician Stephen Prina, titled »As He Remembered It« which will be on view on three levels of the gallery’s exhibition space from November 24, 2017 to February 3, 2018. The exhibition is an abridged version of... Read more

Amy Sillman

ein Paar 15 Sep - 11 Nov 2017 Capitain Petzel is pleased to announce the second solo exhibition of New York artist Amy Sillman at the gallery’s Berlin space. Entitled »ein Paar«, the exhibition takes place on the occasion of this year’s Berlin Art Week, and will be on view from September 15 to November 11, 2017. Drawing... Read more

Sarah Morris

Cloak and Dagger 21 Jun - 26 Aug 2017 Capitain Petzel is pleased to announce the second solo exhibition of New York-based artist Sarah Morris, titled after the film noir classic »Cloak and Dagger« directed by Fritz Lang. The exhibition point towards the fictional, internal and external architectural landscape inhabited by Lang. For the show the artist realizes the... Read more

Charline von Heyl

28 Apr - 3 Jun 2017 Capitain Petzel is pleased to announce its second solo exhibition of new works by Charline von Heyl. „Work, he thought, is something in which material is next to nothing, structure almost everything; something that rotates on its axis without the help of a flywheel; something whose elements hold one another... Read more

Natalie Czech

11 Mar - 15 Apr 2017 „The borderline dividing what is a work of poetry from what is not is less stable than the frontiers of the Chinese empire’s territories. Novalis and Mallarmé regarded the alphabet as the greatest work of poetry. Russian poets have admired the poetic qualities of a wine list (Vjazemskij), an inventory... Read more

Pieter Schoolwerth

Model as Painting 21 Jan - 25 Feb 2017 „I’ve always been interested in the ways in which the ever-changing, and often invisible, forces of abstraction in the world affect the task of representing the human body.“ – Pieter Schoolwerth Capitain Petzel is pleased to announce the first solo exhibition with Pieter Schoolwerth. In “Model as Painting”, the New... Read more

Barbara Bloom

The Weather 5 Nov 2016 - 7 Jan 2017 Please view the dossier to this exhibition here Absence and its depiction has been an ongoing theme of exploration in the work of Barbara Bloom. Fingerprints, lipstick traces, watermarks, tea stains, footprints, invisible texts, erasures, cross-outs, Braille, and ellipses… are her favored forms and objects. These flirtations between visibility and... Read more

Sean Landers

Small Brass Raffle Drum 16 Sep - 28 Oct 2016 Capitain Petzel is pleased to announce „Small Brass Raffle Drum“, a new exhibition of paintings by Sean Landers. This will be the gallery’s first solo exhibition with the New York based artist and his sixth solo presentation in Berlin, dating back to 1994. This new body of work continues to... Read more

Tobias Pils

9 Jun - 13 Aug 2016 Capitain Petzel is pleased to be able to present the first solo exhibition at the gallery by Austrian painter Tobias Pils. In his paintings, Tobias Pils generates a reality based on its own laws, in which paradoxes, ruptures and associative mental leaps result in an organic whole. The images lead... Read more

Christopher Williams

Open Letter to Model No. 1740 29 Apr - 4 Jun 2016 Dear Model No. 1740, How is it that we turn to the studio now? A time to carry out an inventory, an assessment of the tools, the materials, the conditions and the contexts of our activity? Construct a place for images we do not yet know how to produce? Images... Read more

Matt Mullican

Between 11 Mar - 16 Apr 2016 „Matt Mullican’s work pursues an equally simple and extraordinary claim. It is to be no more and no less than a model for comprehending and ordering the world. His art encompasses a complex system comprising firm and fleeting elements that stand in firm and fleeting relationships to each other. This... Read more

Dirk Skreber

The Long Hello 9 Jan - 27 Feb 2016 „… in this district I started my research on paint ingredients in 1966, in my first outdoor studio. All this material was collected for disposal each day by this paint factory that had just opened. My father was the head of its chemical laboratories and moved our whole family into... Read more

Joyce Pensato

14 Nov - 22 Dec 2015 Capitain Petzel is pleased to present the exhibition “LATER IS NOW” by New York based artist Joyce Pensato. For her second solo exhibition at the gallery, Pensato has created a new series of paintings and drawings. Also on view are new digital c-prints shot by the artist, showing some of... Read more

Laura Owens

1 May - 22 Aug 2015 Capitain Petzel is pleased to announce an exhibition by Laura Owens opening Friday, May 1st, 2015. The Artist's first exhibition features new works. Large matched media paintings Laura Owens uses various techniques and materializes ranging from textiles to printmaking pictures. References are vividly alongside digitals. In 1990s Lauras Owens started... Read more

Robert Heinecken

12 Mar - 18 Apr 2015 In conjunction with the Heinecken Trust, Capitain Petzel is pleased to announce the first solo show by the American artist with works from 1969 until 1999. Robert Heinecken (1931 – 2006) described himself as a “para-photographer”. Rather than standing behind the camera he combined existing photographs and their reproductions from... Read more

Yael Bartana

23 Jan - 28 Feb 2015 Capitain Petzel is pleased to announce the first exhibition with Israeli artist Yael Bartana. The show will mark the Berlin debut of her film True Finn, which is presented together with Inferno. In Inferno, Yael Bartana films the inauguration of a grand temple, the destruction of it, and the worship... Read more

Walead Beshty

Gastarbeiten 7 Nov - 20 Dec 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... Read more

Martin Kippenberger: Window Shopping / Elfie Semotan: Flowers

17 Sep - 14 Oct 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... Read more

Bringing Light into a Windowless Room

Diango Hernández, Matt Mullican, Christopher Williams 26 Jun - 22 Aug 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... Read more

Adam McEwen

Factory Tint 2 May - 19 Jun 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... Read more

Monika Sosnowska

Stairway 15 Mar - 17 Apr 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... Read more

Roe Ethridge

Sacrifice Your Body 1 Feb - 8 Mar 2014 Capitain Petzel, Berlin and Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York are pleased to present a parallel exhibition of a new body of work by Roe Ethridge: Sacrifice Your Body, which will be accompanied by an artist book of the same title. In this his latest body of work, Ethridge conflates a... Read more

Andrea Bowers

Cultivating the Courage to Sin 20 Sep - 9 Nov 2013 Capitain Petzel is pleased to announce the first solo exhibition by Los Angeles based artist Andrea Bowers entitled „Cultivating the Courage to Sin“ and that Andrea Bowers is now represented by the gallery. Artist Statement by Andrea Bowers „Cultivating the Courage to Sin“ focuses on climate justice and feminist subjectivity... Read more

John Stezaker

Crossing Over 27 Jun - 31 Aug 2013 Capitain Petzel is pleased to announce ‚Crossing Over‘, the second solo exhibition by John Stezaker at the gallery, presenting more than 40 new collages and three films – ‚Horse‘ (2012), ‚Crowd‘ (2013) and ‚Cathedral‘ (2013). ‚Crossing Over‘ is the title of a recent series of postcard fragments, shown on the... Read more

Maria Lassnig

26 Apr - 18 Jun 2013 Capitain Petzel is delighted to announce the first solo-exhibition by Maria Lassnig at the gallery in Berlin. Maria Lassnig counts as one of the most important artists of the present and has set new standards for generations of artists in both her subject-matter and her radical presentation of it, in... Read more

Diango Hernández

Komplette Zimmer 2 Mar - 13 Apr 2013 The Cuban-born Diango Hernández’s first solo exhibition at Capitain Petzel is entitled Komplette Zimmer (Complete Rooms) and encompasses all three levels of the gallery; it presents works specially conceived for the exhibition space. Hernández always defines line in terms of an idea become form – and thus as the transformation... Read more

The Feverish Library

19 Jan - 23 Feb 2013 John Baldessari, Erica Baum, Barbara Bloom, Jonathan Callan, Clegg & Guttmann, Eli Cortiñas, Natalie Czech, Kajsa Dahlberg, Diango Hernández, Candida Höfer, Hervé Humbert, Margarete Jakschik, Martin Kippenberger, Rachel Khedoori, Anouk Kruithof, Oliver Laric, John Latham, Robert Longo, Sara MacKillop, Olaf Nicolai, Oehlen / Goetz, Michalis Pichler, Peter Piller, Stephen Prina,... Read more

Peter Piller

Tatsächliche Vermutungen 3 Nov - 22 Dec 2012 “Tatsächliche Vermutungen (real assumptions) are based on principles drawn from life experience. The concept of ‘assumption‘ as it is used here derives from the meaning of the word ‘assume‘ in its general usage, in the sense of presuming something to be correct.‘“ (Prof. Hans Joachim Musielak, Juristische Arbeitsblätter 8-9 (2010),... Read more

Uwe Henneken

Rotation und Abrieb 11 Sep - 20 Oct 2012 Through the sieve of cultural anthropology, Christianity, mythology, primitivism, and art history, the Berlin based artist Uwe Henneken has from the outset of his career exploited contradictions to generate new truths in painting. An initiate of arcane esoteric knowledge, for the exhibition Rotation und Abrieb, Henneken takes his cue from... Read more

Robert Longo

Stand 27 Apr - 7 Jul 2012 Capitain Petzel proudly announces the first solo exhibition by American artist Robert Longo at the gallery. STAND is a site-specific installation, which activates the architecture of the unique Capitain Petzel gallery on Karl-Marx-Allee in Berlin. Longo uses the polemic: “American’s conviction that the inalienable rights of all mankind transcend territorial... Read more

Christiana Soulou

I Accept If You Can Tolerate Me Silently 3 Mar - 14 Apr 2012 Fervor, line, beauty and the soul: a language. The same fervor of Dante’s Vita Nova permeates Christiana Soulou’s earliest works — in particular the drawing of a human skeleton titled I Accept if You Can Tolerate Me Silently, or La Bergère, the incarnation of amorous ecstasy. Since her earliest drawings,... Read more

Sam Samore

13 Jan - 18 Feb 2012 Gisela Capitain and Friedrich Petzel are pleased to announce the first solo exhibition by Sam Samore at Capitain Petzel, presenting a series of new pictures and three recent short films. On display will be a group of archival ink prints on rag paper called The Dark Suspicion – this title... Read more

Amy Sillman

Thumb Cinema 5 Nov - 23 Dec 2011 Gisela Capitain and Friedrich Petzel are pleased to announce the first solo exhibition by Amy Sillman at Capitain Petzel. Amy Sillman‘s newest work includes high and low, fast and slow, large and small, and ranges across mediums, from large-scale oil paintings to a 7-minute digital animation and several hundred inkjet... Read more

Blake Rayne

Shade Subscription 17 Sep - 29 Oct 2011 Gisela Capitain and Friedrich Petzel are pleased to announce the first solo exhibition by Blake Rayne at Capitain Petzel and the artist‘s first exhibition in Berlin. Rayne’s work has been shown in several solo shows in New York, Miami, Paris and London since 1996 and in various group exhibitions, most... Read more

Sarah Morris

John Hancock 29 Apr - 30 Jul 2011 Capitain Petzel Berlin is pleased to announce “John Hancock”, an exhibition of new works by Sarah Morris and her film ’Points on a Line’ (2010). Sarah Morris is one of the most intriguingly contradictory artists of her generation, known for her complex abstractions, which play with architecture, design and the... Read more

Stephen Prina

Carve Out a Space of Intimacy 19 Mar - 23 Apr 2011 Gisela Capitain and Friedrich Petzel are delighted to announce the first solo exhibition by Stephen Prina at Capitain Petzel in Berlin, of works from 2009 to the present. – Gisela Capitain und Friedrich Petzel freuen sich die erste Einzelausstellung von Stephen Prina bei Capitain Petzel in Berlin mit Werken von... Read more

Wade Guyton

ZEICHNUNGEN FÜR EIN GROSSES BILD, V. 1.2 NOW IN BERLIN, WITH MORE SPACE, BUT WITHOUT THE BILD 15 Jan - 5 Mar 2011 Gisela Capitain and Friedrich Petzel are delighted to announce the first solo exhibition by Wade Guyton at Capitain Petzel in Berlin. The artist has chosen to exhibit an installation of fifteen large, glass-topped vitrines, in which he displays a group of eighty-six works on paper, pages from magazines and books... Read more

Karla Black

11 Nov - 22 Dec 2010 Gisela Capitain and Friedrich Petzel are delighted to announce the opening of the first solo exhibition by Karla Black at Capitain Petzel. Karla Black (born 1972), who works primarily with sculpture, has produced a body of sixteen new works for this exhibition. These include smaller, floor-standing and hanging works created... Read more

John Stezaker

18 Sep - 30 Oct 2010 Neither culture nor its destruction is erotic. It is the seam between them, the fault, the flaw, which becomes so. Roland Barthes John Stezaker is an artist for whom working in series has always come naturally. The best of these, such as ´The Film Portraits´, ´The Film Stills´and ´The Masks´,... Read more

Kelley Walker

11 Jun - 28 Aug 2010 Following the first exhibition by Kelley Walker at Capitain Petzel in 2009, Gisela Capitain and Friedrich Petzel are pleased to announce the presentation of an installation work by the artist in the lower ground floor gallery. Whitney The Greatest Hits – How Will I Know: Arista 2000 has previously been... Read more

Troy Brauntuch

30 Apr - 28 Aug 2010 Gisela Capitain and Friedrich Petzel are delighted to announce the first solo exhibition by Troy Brauntuch at Capitain Petzel, Berlin. Troy Brauntuch started his career as one of the group of highly influential artists including Jack Goldstein, Robert Longo, Philip Smith, Matt Mullican and Sherrie Levine, who studied under John... Read more

Tris Vonna-Michell

12 Mar - 17 Apr 2010 Wasteful Illuminations 2008 – ongoing All of ground floor and PVM CCTV monitor on basement Wasteful Illuminations developed from a recording session – references were made to the surroundings in which the recording took place, including the architectural details of the gallery space, many of which were accustomed and... Read more

Seth Price

Die Nuller Jahre 15 Jan - 27 Feb 2010 Recently I’ve been reflecting on the last ten years. It’s arbitrary, and a little absurd, like a drunk noticing the time and abruptly sobering up for an appointment: time to figure out what happened. With the turning of the decade it’s hard to avoid: these disparate years swim together, waiting... Read more

Kelley Walker

6 Nov - 19 Dec 2009 Gisela Capitain and Friedrich Petzel are delighted to announce the first solo exhibition by Kelley Walker at Capitain Petzel and the first solo exhibition by the artist in Germany. The Loft, New York City The Loft was the location for the first underground dance party (Love Saves the Day) that... Read more

Joyce Pensato

21 Sep - 24 Oct 2009 Capitain Petzel is pleased to present the first solo exhibition in Berlin by the New York-based artist Joyce Pensato. For her first solo show in Germany, Pensato has created a series of new large-scale paintings in the main gallery and in the lower-ground floor gallery a major new wall-drawing surrounded... Read more

Monika Sosnowska

26 Jun - 29 Aug 2009 For her first solo exhibition at Capitain Petzel, Monika Sosnowska has installed seven sculptural elements in metal, wood and glass in the empty gallery. The exhibition walls have been removed from the space to create one large, undivided area in which the different objects create a line along the room.... Read more

Martin Kippenberger

1 May - 13 Jun 2009 Martin Kippenberger‘s ‚Magical Misery Tour‘ through Brasil lasted from the 15th December 1985 to the 22nd March 1986. Three months in Brasil were too long just to be fun, it was Brasil until it hurt. Besides Rio de Janeiro, Kippenberger also visited the North of the country, acquired a gas... Read more

Elfie Semotan

Photography for the BOOK PROJECT 1 May - 13 Jun 2009 In 1996 Elfie Semotan and Martin Kippenberger had the idea of a joint project, a book of photographs from Semotan´s archive that would be straightforwardly selected. Because the photographs are out of focus, because people´s legs, arms or heads are cropped, because they contain no complete information, they seem to... Read more

Christopher Williams

For Example: Dix Huits Leçons Sur La Société Industrielle (Revision 8) 12 Mar - 25 Apr 2009 How to start? A door opens. A cash register opens. A can of sardines is opened. A mouth opens. An unzipped zipper opens up a view. Four bottles of beer are opened, with a bottle opener… That’s good but it’s not our story. Let’s try again. How to read a... Read more

Charline von Heyl

9 Jan - 28 Feb 2009 The exhibition presents a series of large paintings and new mixed media works on paper. While the paintings exu- berate a new interest in iconic presence, the works on paper are the result of the artist’s recent exploration of new techniques, such as combining printing, drawing and collage processes. The... Read more