Ceal Floyer
9 June – 27 August 2011 (gallery closed 1 – 13 August for summer break)
Esther Schipper
Schöneberger Ufer 65
10785 Berlin
+49 (0)30 374433133
www.facebook.com/EstherSchipper.Galerie
estherschipper.com

Ceal Floyer’s gentle conceptual work is thoughtful and compelling. She reinterprets banal common materials with a distinctive humble philosophical intelligence. Her works are initially unassuming yet haunting. Her current show at Ester Schipper is a lovely rumination on alterative approaches to everyday reality.

Alberto de Michele
“Porta Lavernalis”
14 June – 30 July 2011
Gentili Apri
Schöneberger Ufer 69
10785 Berlin
+49 (0)30 51 64 20 05
gentiliapri.com

Porta Lavernalis, the Roman goddess of thieves, cheats and crooks, is the muse for Alberto de Michele’s current exhibition of works paying homage to rural Italy’s street culture. Michele’s series romanticizes petty thief and puckish criminality by mixing fairy-tale imagery and personal facts. The artist who current resides at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam explores his family history and the seductive mystique of the Roman goddess of the underworld.

F.C. Gundlach
“Berliner Durchreise”
21 June – 30 July 2011
Contemporary Fine Arts Berlin
Am Kupfergraben 10
10117 Berlin Mitte
+49 (0) 30-288 787 0
cfa-berlin.com

Berlin has been striving to achieve an identity as an innovative hub for European fashion. The city’s fashion week runs in early July and provides a platform for German designers and crossovers between art and fashion. Among the most thoughtful hybrids is the stunning showcase of historic images by F.C Gundlach. During the mid-sixties, Gundlach was Germany’s equal to David Bailey. His images of post-war Berlin combined ravished settings with bold, practical but aspirational designs by the local talents of the time. Gundlach’s hard-edged MOD images provide a glamorous foundation for the style and sensibility strutted on Berlin’s contemporary catwalks.

Florian Pumhösl
23 June–30 July 2011
Krobath
Marienstraße 10
D-10117 Berlin
+49 (0) 30 280 426 70
galeriekrobath.at

Each piece in Florian Pumhösl’s series of six plates of 2-mm float glass, each measuring 54×36 cm, appear identical but subtle differences between the single lines drawn on the surfaces play on the history of minimalism and our visual assumptions.

Ingegerd Råman
24 June – 29 July 2011
Gerhardsen Gerner
Holzmarktstr. 15–18
S-Bahnbogen 46
10179 Berlin
+49 (0) 30 695 183 41
GERHARDSENGERNER.COM

Scandinavian designer Ingegerd Råman’s ceramic and glass work is rich with personality and delight. Råman thoughtfully accesses the boundaries of her medium’s inherent functionality and infuses her pieces with subtle charm. Most of her pieces have multiple-uses masked by their quiet, understated appearance. Although, as she states, “My objects don’t really come to life until they are used,” Råman’s pieces possess a calming allure that appears more akin to sculpture than straight decor.

Chris Succo
*The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over the Hills*
25 June – 5 August 2011
DUVE Berlin
Invalidenstr. 90
Berlin, 10115
+49 (0) 30 77 902 302
duveberlin.com

Succo’s work is a hybrid of photography and textiles. The Düsseldorf and London based artist employs a special technique to print analogue images onto fabric, rather than paper or canvas. He uses dye instead of developer. The results are intimate and precious reproductions of intriguingly prosaic objects and scenes. His new “dye-paintings,” sculptures and colleges combine uncommon uses of fabric with compellingly re-contextualized, imagery.

“Endless Summer _______Eine Gruppenausstellung / A group exhibition”
Florian Meisenberg, Timm Ulrichs, Nevin Aladag, Jen Ray, David Renggli, Axel Geis, Michael Kalki, Mathew Hale, Gregor Hildebrandt, Wawrzyniec Tokarski, Miriam Böhm
25 June – 30 Jul 2011
Wentrup
Tempelhofer Ufer 22
10963 Berlin-Kreuzberg
+49 (0)30 – 48 49 36 00
wentrupgallery.com

Summer exhibitions are usually time-whittling affairs. But Wentrup gallery has organized an appealing array of art devoted to summer’s drowsy charms and disorienting, feverish, energy. Summer’s dreamy sensibility is expressed through Gregor Hildebrandt’s portrait of Anita Ekberg constructed through discarded cassette-tapes, Mathew Hale’s beachy vintage collages and Jen Ray’s brilliantly debauched drawings of frolicking Amazons.

Basic Instincts
30 June – 5 August 2011
Villa Elisabeth (temporary)I
nvalidenstraße 3
10115 Berlin
+49 (0) 3044043644
premsela.org

The fifty artists, designers, architects and photographers contributing to “Basic Instincts’ showcase the profound diversity and depth in the Neatherland’s creative community. Many of the contributors are known internationally, including Amie Dicke, Iris van Herpen, Klavers van Engelen, Jo Meesters, Doepel Strijkers Architects and and Navid Nuu. Alongside this established range of work are new names lending fresh perspectives into the quintessentially unprejudiced and open intellectual and artistic sensibility.

ROA
“Transit”
13 July – 6 August 2011
Skalitzers Contemporary Art
Skalitzer Straße 43, 1. Etage
10997 Berlin
skalitzers.com

Graffiti is commonly considered a rough and feral medium. However, ROA’s gentle animal imagery gracefully undermines this assumption. ROA’s large-scale representations of Victorian-style common creatures are charming and empathetic. He does not overly anthromorphize his characters. Instead, he presents an army of vulnerable, but keenly aware, critters whose artfully rendered fur and sweet stares drawn on raw urban surfaces beautifully softens gritty city-scape.

Vera Lutter
“Weidingen / Eifel”
30 July – 31 July 2011
Galerie Max Hetzler
Oudenarder Straße 16-20
D-13347 Berlin
+49 (0) 30 229 24 37
maxhetzler.com

Vera Lutter’s haunting large-scale camera obscura images are stunning homages to antiquated aesthetics. Lutter created a series of striking black and white images of Maria Laach Abbey, a Benedictine abbey on the shore of the Laacher See in the Rhineland-Palatinate’s Eifel. The various angles and perspectives in Lutter’s series offer little insight into the specific history or use of the space, rather highlight the detailed beauty and majesty of the building’s powerful architecture.