Open Studios, light installation by Günter Ries, VG Bild Kunst

OPEN STUDIOS 2024
21 September 2024, 15:00 - 23:00

The Open Studios in Gerichtshöfe Wedding, which take place every September, are an integral part of Berlin's art calendar. Year after year, thousands of visitors come to the 70 studios and workshops between Gerichtstrasse and Wiesenstrasse. This is where you can still find the increasingly rare "Berlin mix" of workspaces and studios for local and international artists and designers, craft businesses and flats under one roof. In 1983, the first artists rented spaces in the historic complex between Gerichtstrasse and Wiesenstrasse in Berlin-Wedding and set up their studios and workshops here. GESOBAU AG is still the landlord today. With more than 70 artists from different backgrounds and artistic orientations, the Gerichtshöfe, which comprise four courtyards with eight staircases, are now one of the largest studio buildings in Germany.

With this year's edition of OPEN STUDIOS on Saturday, 21 September 2024, 45 artists and designers will once again open their studios and art spaces in the historic factory building at Gerichtstraße 12-13 in Wedding – today one of the largest studio buildings in Germany. Many of the participants have invited guests for collaboration, allowing creatives from various fields to develop joint presentation formats for OPEN STUDIOS 2024 – from classic art exhibitions and digital event spaces to live performances with audience. Tables and benches will be set up in the large courtyard – a perfect place to come together and enjoy the late summer atmosphere with refreshing snacks and drinks.

• Susi Gelb works conceptually and alchemically. She will be presenting current works – hybrids in which high-tech materials are combined with natural entities using archaic techniques (staircase 7, 3rd floor).
• The artist and musician Helmut Gutbrod is showing works on paper and new graphic editions (staircase 3, 2nd floor).
• Amélie von Heydebreck presents her light paintings – seemingly monochrome and at the same time amazingly glowing fields of colour clouds (staircase 8, 3rd floor).
• The painter and Kallmann Prize winner Aneta Kajzer is showing current large-scale works in oil on canvas (staircase 8, 1st floor); at the same time as the OPEN STUDIOS, she is represented in two other Berlin exhibitions at the Stiftung Kunstforum and at SMAC.
• The artist duo Lea Kieffer & Timothée Nay invites you to RADIO WHALES, a dance performance in an immersive scenography and sound environment; Kieffer will also be showing expansive textile works (staircase 5/7, 4th floor).
• Korean-born artist Jinran Kim is exhibiting current nature morte landscapes which combine different pieces of gauze (staircase 5, 2nd floor).
• Cosima zu Knyphausen is presenting the project ‘Lesbianas Concentradas (’Focused Dykes') together with Alicia Luz Rodríguez; she is also exhibiting drawings by Craig Stewart and paintings by Anne Fellner and Juan Larraín González (staircase 7/8, 4th floor). Cosima zu Knyphausen is currently also represented in a group exhibition in the new location of Berlin's gallery Thomas Schulte.
• Schirin Kretschmann, artist and professor of painting and graphics at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich, is showing a site-specific intervention (staircase 7/8, 4th floor).
• The fashion label Halo Labels is taking part in the OPEN STUDIOS with a seasonal sale of samples and vintage treasures (staircase 3, 1st floor).
• Sculptor and art historian Valerie Otte has invited Thomas Lucker into her studio. Both present figurative sculptures that reveal almost intimate insights into the emotional and psychological settings of the individual (staircase 4, 2nd floor).
• Jakob Roepke shows detailed wall reliefs and collages made of paper and brush drawings (staircase 8, 3rd floor).
• Ceramist Helga Schmelzle opens her workshop for her guest, Marica Rizzato Naressi, who presents current printings and medallic art (staircase 7, 2nd floor).
• Gabriele Worgitzki’s paintings deal with the family's departure from East to West(-Germany) (staircase 6, ground floor). At the same time as the OPEN STUDIOS, she will be showing her works in a solo exhibition at Berlin's gallery Irrgang.
• In the studio of video and performance artist Anna Zett, visitors are invited to take part in a performance focussing on broom sweeping (7, 8 and 9 pm); from 3 to 7 p.m., the museum shop ‘Zett & Co.’ will be selling books, posters and more from artists with whom Anna Zett collaborates (staircase 5, 5th floor). The artist is also represented in an exhibition at Alte Schule in Berlin-Adlershof.

Léa Kieffer and Timothée Nay, Radio Whales, performance, photo: Mari Vass

Open Studios Gerichtshöfe, Studio Anna Zett, photo by Rosa Merk

With the kind support of Gesobau AG

Gerichtshöfe Wedding
Access via Gerichtstr. 12-13 or Wiesenstr. 62

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Gerichtshöfe, Gerichtstrasse 12-13, Aufgang 3, 13357 Berlin
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Open Studios Gerichtshöfe

For the 2023 edition of OPEN STUDIOS on Saturday, 9 September, more than 40 artists and craftsmen are opening their studios and workshops in the historic factory building at Gerichtstraße 12/13 in Wedding. The open studios in the Gerichtshöfe, which take place every year in September, are an integral part of Berlin's art calendar. Year after year, thousands of visitors come to the 70 or so studios and workshops between Gerichtstrasse and Wiesenstrasse. This is where you can still find the increasingly rare "Berlin mix" with workspaces of local and international artists, designers, craft businesses and flats under one roof.

Bettina Baer, Saba Bagheri (guest: Sanaz Azimipour), Silke Bartsch, Christine Bayer (guest: Aperture Film Lab), Anne Berning, Leda Bourgogne (guest: Samuel Haitz), Asgar Bozorgi, Sibylle Gädeke, Annette Goessel, Helmut Gutbrod, Anette Haas (guest: Andrea Schmidt), Halo Labels, Georg Haubrich, Amélie von Heydebreck, Jan von Holleben, Patrick Huber, Sarah Illenberger, Aneta Kajzer (guest: Henrik José), Richard Kellett, Cosima zu Knyphausen, Schirin Kretschmann, Lutz Müller, Simon Olley, Valerie Otte, Jakob Roepke, Wolfgang Rohloff, Lorenz Rost, Matthias Rühl, Wolfgang Rüppel, Susanne Schirdewahn, Helga Schmelzle (guest: Anne vom Hofe), Kate Schneider, Arryn Snowball, Eva Sörensen, Craig Stewart, Andrea Wallgren, Ulrich Werner, Andreas Wolf, Anna Zett (guest: Angela Muñoz)

Some artists are opening up their spaces for guest presentations and collaborative events, thereby expanding the classic format of the studio tour and creating exciting synergies and new formats and references. the complete overview of all events will be presented on the information boards on site; here are some examples:

• Leda Bourgogne, who questions attributions of gender roles and identity formations in her own work, is showing textile works, books and objects in her studio together with multimedia artist Samuel Haitz (staircase 3).
• Multimedia dialogues will take place in the studio of video and performance artist Anna Zett: on the one hand in the form of a video installation, and on the other as a musical improvisation (with Angela Muñoz on drums and others) and live conversation (staircase 5).
• In the same studio, Iranian artist Saba Bagheri will stage a new textile work, accompanied by her fellow activist from the Iranian feminist movement, Sanaz Azimipour, who will read her text "Sunday Morning of Remembrance". In their works, both will explore their own relationship to memory, freedom and resistance (Aufgang 5).
• The painter and Kallmann Prize winner Aneta Kajzer will not be taking part with her own works - these are currently on display in a solo exhibition at Galerie Conrads. She has invited Henrik José to her studio. He will be presenting an interactive video and sound installation based on feedback loops (Aufgang 8).
• The fashion label Halo Labels is showing a curated collection that ranges from deconstructivist Japanese designers from the 1990s to French and Italian refinements from the 2000s and contemporary patterns by Halo Labels. Visitors can also browse through the library of art and design books by Kris (Studio Pyda) (staircase 3, 2pm-2pm).
• Photographer Jan von Holleben presents his latest children's book "The Blueberry Machine", which he designed with author Monte Packham for Little Steidl Verlag. (staircase 4)
• Illustrator and designer Sarah Illenberger invites you to an encounter with her spatial installation "I Heard Through the Grapewine" (staircase 4).
• Artist and photographer Christine Bayer will be exhibiting her own works in her rooms; the Aperture Film Lab will also be showing analogue photographs and providing insights into artistic work with analogue cameras (staircase 8).
• Ceramist Helga Schmelzle opens her workshop; her guest, Anne vom Hofe, presents photographs from the Carnival of Cultures (staircase 7).

Visitors can also stroll through the floors and staircases of the Gerichtshöfe and go on a personal voyage of discovery (with the exception of the construction sites). Many other artists invite you to visit their studios and are happy to take the time to talk to you. At Silke Bartsch's studio, for example, you can explore how she arranges colour spaces in her paintings through delimitation, dissolution and transparent layering (Aufgang 7). Andrea Wallgren will be showing her latest large-format paintings, in which she traces the complex relationships between colour, space and people (Aufgang 7). Together with Andrea Schmidt, Anette Haas presents current lithographs and drawings (staircase 2).

With the kind support of Berliner Sparkasse and Gesobau AG

Gerichtshöfe Wedding
Access via Gerichtstr. 12-13 or Wiesenstr. 62