BENYAMIN REICH
Prayer for Beauty
Solo & Friends #8

Opening: Saturday, April 13, 2024, 4-7 pm
Couch of Scholars:  5:30 pm.  With Netanel Olhoeft, and members of House of Taswir
The exhibition runs from April 13 to May 5, 2024

Opening hours:
Except for the opening on Saturday, April 13 which is accessible to the public at large, gallery director A.S. Bruckstein welcomes and hosts all her guest personally.  By appointment.

MKM Gallery/ House of Taswir
Schillerstraße 15
Berlin – Charlottenburg

Solo Artist:
Benyamin Reich (Jerusalem/Berlin)
accompanied by artists of Meine Kleine Mnemosyne

Curated by House of Taswir
Work shown:
Benyamin Reich
Kittel (2022)
40 x 40 cm. Archival pigment print
Edition of 5 + AP
Copyright and Courtesy of the artist

BENYAMIN REICH (*1976 in Bnei Brak) studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris und the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem. Reich’s intimate and effeminized portraits of rabbinic scholars and other figures show a public attire that has long withdrawn from Jewish tradition.

Benyamin Reich’s work has been shown in various solo- and group exhibitions in Europe, such as by Axel Schlesinger Zürich (2023), Photo Basel (2022), Podbielski Contemporary Mailand (2022), Alexander Ochs Private (2020), Cokkie Snoei Rotterdam (2019), Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien Berlin (2015), Jüdisches Museum Berlin (2012), and others.

The artist lives an works in Berlin.

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

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 [email protected]