Starting on 2 October 2025, CSR.ART, in collaboration with Berlin’s Z22 gallery, will present the three-part exhibition project ‘Z22 GOES BIKINI’ at the iconic Bikini Haus. In three separate chapters with its own vernissages (02.10. + 15.10.) artistic positions from painting, sculpture, photography and mixed media will be on display, addressing questions of urban presence, perception and identity. Thus, the title refers not only to the physical relocation of the gallery programme to another space, but also to the movement between artistic worlds, their different media and diverse questions.
Image above: Frank Massholder, TAXI – ZOO PALAST, 2017, UV-Print on metall, 60 x 90 cm, Edition: 10
The three-part exhibition project focuses on the idea of how art can renegotiate perception, identity and urban life. The juxtaposition of the various works opens up new spaces for resonance. Here, the personal intertwines with the political, the playful with the austere, and the documentary with the staged.
In the first part of the exhibition (3–15 October), Silvio Ukat‘s humorous animal figures encounter Lars J. Fischedick‘s mathematically structured wooden reliefs.
Lavely Miller‘s psychologically charged portrait painting, consisting of up to 100 layers of acrylic paint applied by hand, invites introspection – especially knowing that the artist worked in psychiatry for a time.
130 x 100 cm
Sador Weinsčlucker‘s oil paintings depict deserted interiors with a peculiar tension, which appear like snapshots and at the same time carry a latent narrative power. Frank Massholder also makes the random and the unconscious visible in ‘Die Böden zur Kunst’ (The Floors as Art), while Benka‘s large-format paintings address the fragility of humanity in the digital age. His CAPTCHA series deals with the virtual security mechanism of the same name, in which we have to prove to a machine that we are human by solving simple tests.
The second part of the exhibition (16 October to 31 October) shifts the perspective more towards urban space and social staging.
Joax brings performative energy into the space with his steel sculptures. Visitors can shred autocrat dollars on his AUTOCRAT DISPOSING MACHINE. Katerina Belkina condenses the dissonance between body and mind, closeness and distance in photographic image spaces by repeatedly re-staging herself as a motif – dystopian, fairy-tale-like, futuristic, surreal.
Volker Kiehn, known for his ‘Pillows’, brings a softness to the exhibition where one would not expect it: in the form of metal sculptures that appear astonishingly elastic. Nadia Valeska explores questions of identity in pictorial form. With her abstract-figurative oil paintings, she creates a world that oscillates between urban dynamism and anonymity.
Gott & Gilz‘s series ‘F.O.T.Z.E.N.’, which appears provocative at first glance, develops feminist visual strategies that oscillate between pop aesthetics, criticism and self-empowerment. The taboo word is recoded as ‘Female Outstanding Talents Zeniths of Emerging Notoriety’. Frank Massholder‘s photographic ‘Trilogy of a City’ develops urban passages and transitions into metaphors for social life. A special photograph by documentary photographer Daniel Biskup in the CSR.ART shop window – Karl Lagerfeld in the Rosenthaler Platz underground station – completes the narrative thread of the second part of the exhibition.
With the third part of the exhibition (3–22 November 2025), Z22 GOES BIKINI opens up the view to further styles between painting and photography, while at the same time consolidating the already established motifs of interior and urban space.
Born in Spittal/Drau in 1954, artist and architect Adi Schmölzer studied at Graz University of Technology and worked at the Szyszkowitz-Kowalski studio, among others, while simultaneously developing his own unique painting style. Schmölzer is known for his dynamic, often female figures, which he sets in motion as ‘whimsical beings’—images that draw on rhythm, improvisation, and jazz. In Part III, he presents expressive works that continue this energetic figurative language in colour-intensive scenes.
Born in Detmold in 1954, Wilfried Schwerin von Krosigk studied in Werner Schriefers’ painting class (KHM Cologne) from 1979 onwards, lived in New York for many years and now works in Berlin. His most recent exhibition, ‘NEW YORK – BERLIN’ at Galerie Z22, profiled him as a ‘flâneur through cultural biotopes’: gestural painting, urban tropes, pictorial objects between German expressiveness and American pop culture. Part III features works that continue this range and understand the city as an energetic resonance space.
Nikolaas Boden was born in 1959 in what is now Zimbabwe, grew up in Great Britain, and has lived in Berlin since 1990. He studied at the London College of Printing and Leeds Polytechnic, later studying painting with Maggi Hambling. His work moves between figuration, drawing, and collage. In Part III, he shows small, white-framed collage paintings that interweave different levels of material and meaning, as well as a series of small-format portraits entitled Quartet – concentrated psychological miniatures that allow the viewer to experience both closeness and distance at the same time.
Peter Lohmeyer is known to most as an actor. He was born in Niedermarsberg in 1962 and has also been painting for several years. His works are often created while travelling and capture people and places in an atmospheric field of tension. In this exhibition, Lohmeyer presents four portrait works that oscillate between everyday observation and emotional intensity. These include Caffè Florian, Venice and Hungarian Pastry Shop, New York, and Café Maingold, Frankfurt. His painting combines precise observation with an intuitive, colour-sensitive style.
Z22 GOES BIKINI thus sees itself as an exhibition project in literal motion: not as a closed narrative, but as a choreographed sequence of artistic positions that seeks to bring movement to questions of perception, identity and urbanity.
WHEN?
Vernissage I:
Thursday, 2. October 2025, 6-9 pm
Vernissage II:
Wednesday, 15. October 2025, 6-9 pm
Start part III:
Monday, 3rd November 2025
Exhibiton dates:
Saturday, 4. September – Saturday, 22. November 2025
open Mon to Sat, 10 am – 7 pm
WHERE?
CSR.ART Contemporary Show Room
@BIKINI BERLIN on the ground floor on the left, entrance towards Zoo Palast cinema
Budapester Str. 38-50
10787 Berlin
