Galerie Thomas Schulte is expanding its programme on 13 September 2024 with the opening of a second exhibition space in the Mercator-Höfe in Potsdamer Straße, parallel to its previous address in Charlottenstraße. After more than 30 years of presence in Berlin, the gallery is thus strengthening its commitment to dialogue and engagement with contemporary art.
Image above: Außenansicht des neuen Standorts der Galerie Thomas Schulte, Mercator-Höfe, Potsdamerstraße 81B, Foto: dotgain.info.
Located in the immediate vicinity of numerous other galleries, the new gallery spaces in a former flat in an old building with historical details offer not only an increase in exhibition space, but also the opportunity to provide additional impetus and opportunities for artistic discourse as part of the gallery programme.
A significantly different spatial situation than in the main gallery in Charlottenstraße places the works of the gallery artists in a different, more private context and is intended to stimulate the exchange between artists, critics and the art-interested public as well as the art-historical and art-theoretical dialogue between the layers of the programme.
The opening will be significantly characterised by the exhibition of the German-Chilean painter Cosima zu Knyphausen (1988), whose works will be shown to a broad public in Berlin for the first time. In addition, a neon work by Alfredo Jaar (1956) will be presented on the façade of the building.
Parallel to the opening of the new gallery space in Potsdamer Straße, the Charlottenstraße space will be showing both large and important works by two renowned artists: Rebecca Horn (1944) and Allan McCollum (1944). At the centre of the exhibition is Horn’s museum piece Concerto dei Sospiri, which the artist created for the Venice Biennale in 1997. McCollum’s work The World: A Moment in Time, was one of the highlights of Art Basel Unlimited 2024 and will be on display in an impressive way in the Corner Space.
Since its foundation in 1991, Galerie Thomas Schulte has focussed on the mediation, promotion and preservation of outstanding artistic positions in international conceptual art from the 1960s to the present day. The gallery is housed in the listed 19th century Tuteurhaus.
The Thomas Schulte Gallery has been located in the 19th century building at Charlottenstraße 24, on the corner of Leipziger Straße in Berlin-Mitte since 2006.
WHEN?
Opening: Friday, 13 September 2024, 18:00 – 22:00
Duration: 14 September – 2 November 2024 / Tuesday – Saturday, 12:00 – 18:00
WHERE?
Galerie Thomas Schulte, Mercator-Höfe
Potsdamer straße 81B
10785 Berlin
