On occasion of Gallery Weekend Berlin 2026 the gallery is delighted to present solo exhibitions by two artists who have recently joined the gallery: Tauba Auerbach and Celeste Rapone.

1 MAY until 20 JUN 2026
Opening – 1 MAY 2026, 6-9 pm

Esther Schipper Berlin is pleased to present Tauba Auerbach’s Easy Assembly, the artist’s second exhibition with the gallery.

In thirteen pointillist paintings, Tauba renders close-up images of soap foams, captured through a microscope. On panels ranging widely in size and floating slightly off the wall, millions of hand-painted dots gather into effervescent images over sprayed, multi-color fields.

Tauba’s work forages for information about the universe embedded in form and movement. So-called “laws of nature” are deployed and exploited to coax out various types of order and their dissolution.

1 MAY until 20 JUN 2026
Opening – 1 MAY 2026, 6-9 pm

Under the title Hyperarousal, Celeste Rapone will present three new paintings.

The eccentric figures that populate Celeste Rapone’s paintings allegorize the generational unease, anxiety, and ennui peculiar to millennials. In a recurring compositional gesture, bodies are positioned in contorted and crammed poses. Their limbs press against the edges of the canvas, poised to burst the picture plane. As they rub against the frame, these figures appear to thrive and ache at once. Much like her intriguing autobiographical avatars, the domestic interiors Rapone depicts are subject to surreal montages while spiked with nods to art history.