Bernd Koberling
Rooted In Time Rooted In The Sky, Paintings 1992–2026
1 MAI bis 20 JUN 2026
Opening – 1 MAI 2026, 18-21 Uhr
Die Buchmann Galerie freut sich, zum Gallery Weekend Berlin 2026 eine Ausstellung mit Bernd Koberling zu präsentieren. Der Maler Bernd Koberling (geb. 1938 in Berlin) zählt zu den wichtigsten und prägendsten Künstlern der deutschen Nachkriegskunst.
BERND KOBERLING
Erdstelle, 1992
Öl auf Leinwand / oil on canvas
190 x 180 cm / 74¾ x 70¾ in
Photo: Hans-Georg Gaul
All images courtesy of the artist and Buchmann Galerie
Durch regelmäßige, teils mehrmonatige Aufenthalte auf Island sind seine aktuellen Arbeiten tief von der Wahrnehmung der Landschaft geprägt. Seit 1977 verbringt er jedes Jahr Zeit auf der Insel, deren Natur seine Malerei maßgeblich prägt. Hiervon erzählt auch die Farbigkeit seiner Arbeiten, einer Malerei, die sich ihren Mitteln öffnet, um Eindrücke von bildnerischer Intensität zu ermöglichen.
BERND KOBERLING
Momentane Vision 92, 2025
Aquarell auf Arches / Water color on Arches paper
72,5 x 56,5 cm / 28½ x 22¼ in
Rahmen/ Frame: 88 × 71,5 cm / 34¾ × 28¼ in
Photo: Joerg von Bruchhausen
All images courtesy of the artist and Buchmann Galerie
BERND KOBERLING
Momentane Vision 38, 2025
Aquarell auf Arches / Water color on Arches paper
72,5 x 56,5 cm / 28½ x 22¼ in
Rahmen/ Frame: 88 × 71,5 cm / 34¾ × 28¼ in
Photo: Joerg von Bruchhausen
All images courtesy of the artist and Buchmann Galerie
Die Ausstellung zeigt neben großformatigen Leinwandarbeiten aus den Jahren 1992 bis 2026 auch eine umfangreiche Serie von Aquarellen, die von intensiver Farbigkeit, breitflächigen gestischen Aktionen und konsequenter Abstraktion geprägt sind. „Je intimer das Bild, umso gröber die Mittel“, sagt Koberling. Die Aquarelle bilden große Werkkonvolute und zeigen die mystisch-romantische Seite des Künstlers.
BERND KOBERLING
Momentane Vision 92, 2025
Aquarell auf Arches / Water color on Arches paper
72,5 x 56,5 cm / 28½ x 22¼ in
Rahmen/ Frame: 88 × 71,5 cm / 34¾ × 28¼ in
Photo: Joerg von Bruchhausen
All images courtesy of the artist and Buchmann Galerie
BERND KOBERLING
Moosheidegestein, 2022
Öl auf Leinwand / oil on canvas
72,5 x 56,5 cm / 28½ x 22¼ in
Photo: Hans-Georg Gaul
All images courtesy of the artist and Buchmann Galerie
Werke des Künstlers sind in zahlreichen öffentlichen und privaten Sammlungen vertreten, unter anderem in den Bayerischen Staatsgemäldesammlungen, der Kunstsammlung Deutsche Bank, FRAC Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Dunkerque, France, Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, Museum Ludwig, Köln, Museum Würth, Künzelsau, Munich Re Art Collection, Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo, Norway, Nordiska Akvarellmuseet, Skärhamn, Sweden, der Sammlung Ulla und Heiner Pietzsch, Berlin, der Kunstsammlung des Deutschen Bundestages, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, Reykjavik Art Museum und der Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver.
Bettina Pousttchi - Clare Woods
Variations on Subject and Object
1 MAI bis 20 JUN 2026
Opening – 1 MAI 2026, 18-21 Uhr
At Buchmann Box
The exhibition “Variations on Subject and Object” in the Buchmann Box presents recent works by Bettina Pousttchi and Clare Woods.
Installation view
Bettina Pousttchi – Clare Woods
Variations on Subject and Object
Buchmann Box
Photos: Michael Schultze
All images courtesy of the artist and Buchmann Galerie
The new red sculpture by Bettina Pousttchi from the “Vertical Highways” series is made from guardrails, which the artist has transformed and arranged into a vertical composition.
For several years, Pousttchi has incorporated objects into her sculptures that structure the physical experience of urban space. By bending, pressing, and altering their color, she relieves these everyday objects of their regulatory function and detaches them from their original context of meaning. They become signs of change, fluidity, and dissolving boundaries. With her serial use of the source material, the artist conceptually draws on Minimal Art as well as to Marcel Duchamp’s readymades. Through her intervention in form, she creates a variation of a prefabricated element into a new, autonomous object.
Bettina Pousttchi
Earthwork, 2026
Glazed ceramic
Photo Michael Schultze
23,5 (h) x 80 x 12 cm / 9¼ (h) x 31½ x 4¾ in
All images courtesy of the artist and Buchmann Galerie
Clare Woods
Cold Front, 2023
Oil on aluminium
29 x 24 cm
11½ x 9½ in
11½ x 9½ in
All images courtesy of the artist and Buchmann Galerie
In relation to the red-lacquered sculpture, handcrafted ceramics are presented. Their cubic forms are derived from historical architectural elements. The manual production gives each element a slightly different shape, and the individual glaze—ranging in shades from burgundy red and light purple to deep cobalt blue—imbues each module with its own nuance. This variation of the object in form and color creates a distinctive vitality. The serial, non-hierarchical arrangement of nearly identical modules in the wall sculptures recalls Donald Judd’s progressions.
Working in variations is also a central approach in Clare Woods’s practice and is evident in her small-format oil paintings on aluminum—such as the four versions of a trifle, the British layered dessert, created in the same year.
11¾ x 9½ in
Woods’s painting moves between abstract gesture and enigmatic figuration. As the artist herself puts it: “The image is the starting point but it’s not necessarily about the image ever.” Rather, through her brushwork and a wet-on-wet technique in oil painting—which requires completing the work in a single session after careful preparation—Clare Woods condenses the motif into a high painterly intensity within a small space.
Her still lifes may depict motifs—flower bouquets, cupcakes, or trifle—but ultimately, thanks to the characteristic reduction of still-life narrative, it is color that lends the paintings their intensity and creates a vitality that follows an inner sensation more than an external representation.