KATHARINA KARRENBERG
African Lady with Evil Eyes
Solo & Friends #07

Opening: Saturday, January 13, 2024, 4-7 pm

Couch of Scholars:  5 pm
with Heike Behrend, Shulamit Bruckstein, Katharina Karrenberg 

The exhibition runs from January 13, 2024 to February 15, 2024

Opening hours:
Open to the public at the day of the opening, Saturday January 13, 2024, 4-7pm. All other days by appointment. Gallery director A.S. Bruckstein welcomes and hosts all her guest personally.

MKM Gallery/ House of Taswir
Schillerstraße 15
Berlin – Charlottenburg

Solo & Friends exhibitions are dedicated to one single work, accompanied by the current ensemble of MKM arists.

Katharina Karrenberg’s African Lady with Evil Eyes is accompanied by works of Walid Raad, Elisabeth Masé, Ali Kaaf, Taysir Batniji, Nour Almashhour, Maryam Motallebzadeh, Anita Kapraljevic, Chaza Charafeddine, Željka Mićanović Miljković, Ekin Su Koç, Emin Turan, Patricia Lambertus, Furkan Akhan, Razan Nassreddine, Alexander Polzin, Chris Newman, Raziye Kubat, Mohamad Al Roumi, Maliheh Afnan, Joseph Sassoon Semah, Elza Javakhishvili, Eva Beierheimer & Miriam Laussegger, Antonia Baehr, Ana Sontag.

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MKM Gallery is an art cabinet, a performative installation, a private museum, Denkraum, and exchange market. MKM Gallery shows changing work constellation of a loosely associated artist collective working with House of Taswir.

MKM Gallery is a project of House of Taswir.

For more information please contact Adam Bruckstein at mkm.galerie@gmail.com

MKM Gallery
presents two diffracted photographic works of Berlin artist Katharina Karrenberg showing faces and effaced faces in the context of artistic research addressing the colonial imagination.

In this Solo & Friends, Karrenberg presents two transformative artistic variations of a West-African Colon Figure from the significant collection of the Berlin ethnographer and social anthropologist Heike Behrend.

Katharina Karrenberg (*1941) is a conceptual visual artist who develops research based photographic techniques referred to as reflectography / diffractography in site-specific installations. Her work-in-progress projects focus on the aesthetic, institutional and economic conditions of globalization, with particular attention given to structural violence and colonial imperialism.

Karrenberg has held various solo and collective shows in places such as the PS I Institute New York 1991, Sprengel Museum Hanover 1997, Gropius Bau Berlin 2003, Niblock Gallery, Gent 2011, Czapski Gallery, Poznan 2014, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin 2017, Kunsthalle Bern 2018, and many more. Her recent exhibitions include COLONS. Decolonial Textures at Villa Romana, Florence 2022, GHOSTS IN THE ARCHIVE at Zaratan Arte Contemporanea, Portugal 2019, among many.

The artist lives and works in Berlin.

The works presented in this exhibition are a long term loan for Meine Kleine Mnemosyne.