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.

Tauba Auerbach
Easy Assembly

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

Tauba Auerbach’s exhibition titled Easy Assembly, will feature works from their series of Foam paintings.

Tauba Auerbach
Foam, 2026

Acrylic on Dibond panel
122 x 183 cm

Courtesy the artist and Esther Schipper, Berlin/ Paris/Seoul

Photo © Steven Probert
© the artist / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2026

The series is based on photographs of foam taken through a microscope. The artist uses a pointillist technique to render arrangements of bubbles which in reality are constantly in the process of repositioning themselves. Particulate fields of color yield to denser aggregations of dots that subtly define the contours of a transparent, unstable material. The artist employs a process that is both deliberate and open to improvisation.

Tauba’s work forages for information about the universe embedded in form and movement. Work springs from observations about how soap bubbles naturally organize themselves into foam, how liquids flow, or how sand changes state with heat. So-called “laws of nature” are deployed and exploited to coax out patterns and their dissolution. Making objects and images is both the result of, and part of research.

Celeste Rapone
Hyperarousal

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

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

Celeste Rapone
Loner, 2025

Oil on linen
71 x 61 cm (unframed)
75 x 65 x 4 cm (framed)

Courtesy the artist and Esther Schipper, Berlin/ Paris/Seoul

Photo © Andrea Rossetti

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.

Celeste Rapone
Waiting, 2025

Oil on canvas
71 x 61 cm (unframed)
75 x 65 x 4 cm (framed)

Courtesy the artist and Esther Schipper, Berlin/ Paris/Seoul

Photo © Andrea Rossetti