CSR.ART presents FLOWER POWER, an exhibition of large-format floral paintings by the Berlin-based artist Jonas Hödicke (*1984). The exhibition runs at BIKINI BERLIN until 15 September 2026 and explores one of the oldest motifs in art, featuring intensely vibrant, thinly applied colours and a distinct sense of movement. On 3 September from 6 pm, CSR.ART invites you to a special evening with the artist. FLOWER POWER is presented in collaboration with Galerie Mond and is open Tuesday to Saturday from 10 am to 7 pm.
Image above: Jonas Hödicke, Tulips , 2025, acrylic on canvas, 200 x 200 cm
Flowers are patient. They allow themselves to be picked, arranged, placed in vases and have been painted for centuries. They convey our grand emotions as well as our small gestures: friendship, love, farewell, appreciation, desire, transience. We have placed a great burden upon them.
In Jonas Hödicke’s work, they regain their freedom.
His flowers push their way into the picture and beyond the canvas; they lean, blur, glow intensely, and become larger than life. Blossoms become colour; colour becomes vibration and movement. Some seem to be just coming into bloom, whilst others appear set to vanish the very next moment. A single stem still holds the memory of a plant, whilst all around the painting has long since gone its own way. Here and there, the painter’s shoe sole appears on the canvas, bearing witness to the active, artistic process.
This is fitting for an artist who says his work seeks movement. Hödicke usually finds it on the streets of his native city, Berlin. In the deeds and remnants of what we call civilisation. In FLOWER POWER, he finds movement in one of art’s oldest motifs through the vibrations of luminous colour. He achieves this by applying paint so thinly that we are inclined to speak of watercolours on canvas.
For one summer, the windows of CSR.ART belong to Jonas Hödicke’s flowers. They need no special occasion to be there for us. They radiate their larger-than-life aura as a matter of course.
Jonas Hödicke (*1984) studied sculpture at the Düsseldorf Art Academy under Markus Lüpertz and Siegfried Anzinger from 2007 to 2014. His work spans painting, sculpture and drawing. Hödicke lives and works in Berlin and Ireland.
FLOWER POWER is presented in collaboration with Galerie Mond and can be viewed round the clock through the windows of CSR.ART as part of the SUMMER BREAK WINDOW SHOW until 31 August 2026. Visits to the gallery are possible by appointment. Regular opening hours will resume from 1 September 2026.
WHEN?
Summer Break: 15 to 31 August 2026
The exhibition can be viewed through the gallery windows 24/7.
Exhibition: Tuesday 1 September to Tuesday 15 September 2026
Tuesday – Saturday 10.00 – 19.00
Special Event: Thursday 3 September 2026, from 18.00
– approx. 19.00 Meet the artist: Jonas Hödicke, hosted by Stephanie Schneider
– Time for art, conversations and encounters
– At the bar 🍷 VDP wines from Von Hövel (Pinot Blanc, Riesling, Pinot Noir Rosé), afri cola, Bluna Orange + Lemon, and water from Preussen Quelle.
WHERE?
CSR.ART
Budapester Straße 35–50
on the ground floor, to the left of the entrance towards the Zoo Palast cinema
10787 Berlin
