Empty Places, Crowded Hearts
With works by Hanne Darboven, Carola Dertnig, Hannah Sophie Dunkelberg, Judith Fegerl, Sylvie Fleury, Channa Horwitz, Sophie-Luise Passow, Charlotte Posenenske, Rosemarie Trockel, Ruscha Voormann
27 JUN until 15 AUG 2026
Opening – 26 JUN 2026, 7-9 pm
We cordially invite you to the opening of the exhibition Empty Places, Crowded Hearts at our Berlin gallery, which presents an intergenerational panorama of female artistic strategies with abstract or abstraction-oriented focus. In doing so, seminal positions from the 1970s and 1980s are brought into dialogue with contemporary developments.
Rosemarie Trockel
Bush is a Bear, 1987
Courtesy Galerie Crone, Berlin, Vienna
The works on view by Channa Horwitz, Hanne Darboven, Charlotte Posenenske, Sylvie Fleury, and Rosemarie Trockel exemplify a conceptual engagement with structure through serial systems, time-based orders, and a critical reflection on cultural and material codes. Their practices have had a lasting impact on the understanding of structure as both an intellectual and a social principle.
Channa Horwitz
Orange Subliminal-Covariance, 2007
Courtesy Galerie Crone, Berlin, Vienna
Carola Dertnig
Lively turns, 2025
Courtesy Galerie Crone, Berlin, Vienna
Younger artists such as Ruscha Voormann, Hannah Sophie Dunkelberg, Sophie-Luise Passow, Judith Fegerl, and Carola Dertnig further develop these approaches, exploring surfaces, materials, and narrative constellations as open and fragile systems in which body, space, and image enter into dynamic relationships.
Channa Horwitz
Sonakinatography 1, Movement #II for Multi-Media, 1968
Courtesy Galerie Crone, Berlin, Vienna
Sylvie Fleury
Claudia, 1997
Courtesy Galerie Crone, Berlin, Vienna
Channa Horwitz
Sonakinatography, 1968
Courtesy Galerie Crone, Berlin, Vienna
The exhibition thus brings together works by ten artists from different generations who engage with fundamental questions of order, materiality, and perception. Serial and conceptual methodologies are given equal significance alongside corporeal and material-oriented processes as well as performative approaches.