Simon Denny
Forces of the Unknown
13 JUN until 15 JUN 2025
Opening – 13 JUN 2025, 4-8 pm
At JW Marriott Hotel Berlin, Salon 12-13
Stauffenbergstraße 26
10785 Berlin
Kraupa–Tuskany Zeidler is pleased to present Forces of the Unknown, a three-day exhibition of new paintings by Berlin-based, New Zealand-born artist Simon Denny.
Simon Denny,
Helsing HX-2, Above, 2025
Photo: Nick Ash
Courtesy the artist and Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler
Installed in the charged context of the JW Marriott Hotel, directly across from the German Defense Department and the German Resistance Memorial Centre, the exhibition inhabits a space where historical resonance meets contemporary urgency.
Denny’s new works reflect the increasing military focus of the tech industry, especially within US and German innovation cultures. The new paintings have been produced using a custom-built suite of tools: modified CNC machines, reprogrammed plotters, and a hand-held industrial inkjet printer, originally designed for marking shipping crates. The resulting works shift fluidly between human and machine-made, analogue and digital, strategic and improvisational.
Katja Novitskova
MIRROR LIFE
13 JUN until 26 JUL 2025
Opening – 12 JUN 2025, 6-9 pm
Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler is pleased to announce KATJA NOVITSKOVA’s fourth solo exhibition with the gallery, MIRROR LIFE.
Katja Novitskova,
Soft Approximation (brooding life-form 02), 2025 (detail)
Photo: Marjorie Brunet Plaza
Courtesy the artist and Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler
“Mirror life is a hypothetical form of life with mirror-reflected molecular structures. If it can exist or be synthesised it would be very similar to our life, but exist in a parallel space of interactions with possibly catastrophic overlaps with our own current life forms. Mirror animals would need to feed on reflected food, produced by reflected plants. How would this mirror life look like, and how would it look at us? Perhaps a set of artificially synthesised primitive life forms emerges branching into a novel path for life. A common ancestral community of primitive cells that develops into a living thing, a genetically modified feral organism. The eyes and the eggs…”
– Katja Novitskova
KATJA NOVITSKOVA (b. 1984 Tallinn, Estonia) lives and works in Amsterdam. She was artist in residence at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam from 2013 to 2014. Novitskova’s work tackles the complexity and eventual failures of depicting the world through technologically driven narratives. By uniting art and science to the level of nature, Novitskova brings awareness to the mediation and representation tools used to depict these realms. More specifically, she focuses on the mapping of biological territories that are no longer outside but rather ‘inside’ biological bodies. The images that depict nature become models for future approximations of life and translations into more synthetic forms. The cycle of biological morphogenesis and visual creation becomes a loop.
Her work has been exhibited internationally in solo and group exhibitions including Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin (2025); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2024); 15th Gwangju Biennale (2024); Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin (2024); Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen (2023, solo); Fries Museum, Leeuwarden (2023, solo); Stavanger Art Museum (2023); Marta Herford Museum, Herford (2022); Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin (2022, solo); MUDAM Luxembourg (2021); Kunstfort bij Vijfhuizen (2021, solo); Belgrade Biennale (2021); Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich (2020) amongst others.