Monty Richthofen
HARD 2 4GET

1 MAY until 3 MAY 2026
Opening – 1 MAY 2026, 6-9 pm

On the occasion of Gallery Weekend Berlin on May 1–3, 2026, DITTRICH & SCHLECHTRIEM presents Monty Richthofen with a new intervention titled HARD 2 4GET, beginning at Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz and spreading across Berlin over the weekend.

Bringing together the artist’s core practices of performance and textual experimentation, HARD 2 4GET treats the city as both medium and collaborator.

Transient and impossible to ignore, it turns urban space into an active site of production and reconsiders the gallery not as a fixed structure but as a social condition in motion and asks whether community is shaped within walls or produced through collective space and interaction.

Within the exhibition’s expanded field, the city itself becomes the primary spatial framework. A fleet of vehicles, spray painted and marked text compositions, move through the city’s traffic, momentarily interrupting before disappearing back into the everyday rhythm of urban life. Temporary interventions will happen at the Ernst-Reuter-Platz, Victory Column and Strausberger Platz.

The project emerges from the artist’s ongoing research into the unofficial inscriptions applied to military equipment and aircraft, transforming them into new poetic compositions. In doing so, the artist draws this heavily connoted language into the texture of everyday life, underscoring its increasing presence while quietly warning against the normalisation of war.

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The starting point and base address is our headquarters at DITTRICH & SCHLECHTRIEM at Linienstraße 40, 10119 Berlin.