OVERLAYS
groupshow on view 17/09/2026 → 20/09/2026
Ostbahnof, 10243 Berlin, Germany
| vernissage | normal day | finissage |
|---|---|---|
| 17/09/26 | ~ | 20/09/26 |
| 5 → 9 pm | 3 → 7 pm | 5 → 9 pm |
| BLUEPRINT | OPEN CALL | CATALOG |
Abstract
The music of two tabs open at once, neon underpaint bleeding through the surface, an exposed wall nobody bothered to cover. What if opposites aren’t kept apart, but folded into one another until the seam itself becomes the subject? The work stacks rather than resolves, piling the lush onto the wrong and trusting the friction to hold.
The result is a chimera, an image built from titillating pairings: heroin and cheesecake, the sweet pressed flat against the sour until neither can be parsed alone. This is the side of excess over editing where each piece arrives as a single creature stitched from incompatible appetites. Not a contradiction to be solved, but one to be savored.
It is no different with Shakespeare, that astonishing Spanish-Moorish-Saxon synthesis of tastes over which an ancient Athenian of the circle of Aeschylus would have half-killed himself with laughter or annoyance: but we—we accept precisely this confusion of colors, this medley of the most delicate, the coarsest and the most artificial, with a secret confidence and cordiality, we enjoy him as an artistic refinement reserved precisely for us and allow ourselves to be as little disturbed by the repellent fumes and the proximity of the English rabble in which Shakespeare’s art and taste live as we do on the Chiaja of Naples, where we go our way enchanted and willing with all our senses alert, however much the sewers of the plebeian quarters may fill the air. That as men of the “historical sense” we have our virtues is not to be denied—we are unpretentious, selfless, modest, brave, full of self-restraint, full of devotion, very grateful, very patient, very accommodating—with all that, we are perhaps not very “tasteful.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil (1886, §224)
Artists (TBD)
pskl
is a Berlin-based artist focused on the mutations caused by automation of the creative process. By encoding art direction into autonomous virtual machines, their output passively repurposes internet material into new results. Striving to summon a subjective soul into the machine realm, they also explore new methods of production that have inherent properties of scalability. The modular aspects of their practice enable us to gaze into an imminent future where the notion of art production is constantly redefined: a scaled body of work striving to embrace noise, reconsidering every single error and side effect as a fundamental benefit.
Credits
Curation
- pskl