Phillip Gabriel
Chroma Trigger
11 SEP until 18 OCT 2025
Opening – 11 SEP 2025, 6-10 pm
Phillip Gabriel,
Hand of Regret, 2022.
Detail.
Courtesy of the artist and Klemm’s
Chroma Trigger is Phillip Gabriel’s first exhibition in Germany, presenting a group of paintings centered on the motif of hands, including a selection from the series Spoleto. Gabriel’s works steal and layer fleeting images into congealed surfaces of finessed oil, each canvas a cluster of small vignettes and sketchy redactions. They act like fleeting dreams—glimpses of moody skies, masked faces, limbs stabilized with metal—forming dense, dreamlike fields that blur the line between memory and media. Inspired by Filipino jeepneys—WWII trucks transformed into vibrant, mobile shrines to pop culture and faith—Gabriel’s paintings channel a punchy collision of symbols, serving as moving containers for histories, desires, and improvisations that resist a single origin.
Phillip Gabriel,
Horse Girl, 2024.
Oil on panel in artist’s frame,
63.5 × 48.26 cm.
Courtesy of the artist and Klemm’s, Berlin.
Phillip Gabriel,
Progressive Knife 3, 2022.
Oil on panel in artist’s frame,
27.94 × 53.34 cm.
Courtesy of the artist and Klemm’s, Berlin.
Elizabeth Jaeger
Resent the Sky
11 SEP until 18 OCT 2025
Opening – 11 SEP 2025, 6-10 pm
Elizabeth Jaeger,
Resent the Sky, 2025
Studio view.
Courtesy of the artist and Klemm’s
Resent the Sky, Elizabeth Jaeger’s latest exhibition at Klemm’s, is a visual choreography navigating grief and power. A chorus of coffin-sized steel frames is rigorously ordered, each bearing gunmetal-blackened tubes that reach skyward. Planted inside these upright barrels are hand-formed ceramic flowers: fragile, fire-hardened, and laboriously made. They present as offering, protest, and aftermath. Together, they rise in a strict yet undulating gradient behind a reclining sculpture of two species. The figures lie in intentionally nightmarish ambiguity: tenderness laced with violence, protection entangled with control. As an installation, Resent the Sky wrestles with Weltschmerz, heartbreak, and scale shock—how grief is painfully stretched between the intense intimacy of personal loss and the overwhelming abstraction of mass tragedy.
