FLORENTINA HOLZINGER PRESENTS ‘SEAWORLD VENICE’ | AUSTRIA’S NATIONAL PAVILION AT THE 61st INTERNATIONAL ART EXHIBITION OF LA BIENNALE DI VENEZIA

Preview Days: May 6 – 8, 2026
On View: May 9 – November 22, 2026

July 9, 2025 (Austria) – Austrian choreographer and performance artist Florentina Holzinger has been selected to represent Austria at the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia with SeaWorld Venice, a bold new interdisciplinary commission curated by Nora-Swantje Almes (Gropius Bau, Berlin). Known for her genre-defying work that positions the body as both subject and medium to challenge socio-political conventions, Holzinger uses her long-standing research into the element as a point of departure to imagine new ways of living, resisting, and transforming. Blending dance, theatre, and performance art, she approaches water as both subject and symbol, using the body as a site where nature and technology collide. On view from May 9 – November 22, 2026, the project will feature a permanent installation at the Austrian Pavilion alongside a series of site-specific actions across Venice and its lagoon, inviting audiences into participatory encounters with some of the most urgent themes of our time.

‘I am honored to represent Austria at the 2026 Biennale Arte. This opportunity presents an exciting and entirely new challenge for my team and me. Whether on stage, in galleries, or in public spaces, the essence of my work lies in the uncompromising use of the body as a medium. The body becomes the stage where social and political conditions and processes are negotiated directly. My work takes an unconventional and boundary-pushing approach to examining our reality and its transformation. In Venice - a city caught in a profound and precarious relationship with water - my ongoing fascination with this element will take on new dimensions. Here, the body will play a central role in exploring the interdependence and interplay between nature and technology. I am grateful for this trust and looking forward to the challenge ahead with great anticipation’, says Florentina Holzinger.

As SeaWorld Venice will unfold beyond the Giardini della Biennale, the project will echo Holzinger’s series of experimental, site-specific formats titled Études, a body of work she has developed since 2020, consisting of choreographic exercises and performative actions staged in public, transitory spaces. In doing so, the commission becomes an open-ended exploration that unfolds across multiple formats and locations, drawing on aquatic creatures from mythological and classical narratives to investigate water’s cultural, ecological, and political significance. Embracing an interdisciplinary approach, the commission includes a permanent installation and performances at the Austrian Pavilion, and a series of Études dispersed throughout Venice’s urban landscape and its lagoon, activating the city’s social spaces and inviting visitors into immersive, participatory encounters. In this way, the Études function not only as performances but as catalysts for social interaction and transformation, engaging Venice itself, its waters, and its people as integral agents in the work’s unfolding.

Holzinger’s participation reflects Austria’s avant-garde artistic legacy at La Biennale di Venezia. Drawing from a broad range of body practice genres and with critical engagement of their histories—including Viennese Actionism, feminist body art, bodybuilding, ballet, cabaret, and circus—Holzinger’s practice merges physical extremity with cultural critique. These references converge in her visceral deconstruction of femininity, where the body becomes a charged site for confronting dominant cultural narratives. Through poetic yet unflinching imagery, she lays bare the intertwined structures of patriarchy and capitalism, revealing the vulnerability of human bodies and the systems they navigate.

In SeaWorld Venice, Holzinger continues her inquiry into female representation and physicality while expanding her long- standing exploration of water, using Venice itself as a stage for new possibilities within her evolving practice. “Florentina Holzinger works in imagery that I had never seen before: Ballet with motorbikes, a choreographed helicopter that splashed water in my face, female bodies controlling heavy machinery or suspended from hooks. In her all-encompassing artistic practice, she poetically dissects patriarchy and capitalism to show the vulnerability of our bodies and the world, reminding us of the inherited political dimension of the female body. She radically expands what is considered possible - a mindset that is contagious and that we need right now more than ever”, says curator Nora-Swantje Almes.

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NOTES TO EDITORS:

Address:
Giardini della Biennale, Sestiere Castello, 30122 Venice, Italy

About Florentina Holzinger:
Holzinger works across artistic disciplines and has produced extensive, widely discussed and awarded theatre productions. Her most recent stage productions include ‘A Year Without Summer’ (2025), her first opera project ‘SANCTA’ (2024), ‘Ophelia’s Got Talent’ (2022), ‘A Divine Comedy’ (2021), ‘Etude for an Emergency’ (2020) and her most toured work ‘TANZ’ (2019). She has been an associate artist with Volksbühne since 2020. With the Etude formats, one-off performances in public spaces, Holzinger has gradually opened her practice to the visual arts context, having presented ‘Etudes’ at Schinkel Pavillon Berlin and Bergen Kunsthall amongst others since 2020. Florentina Holzinger studied choreography at the School for New Dance Development (SNDO) in Amsterdam.

About Nora-Swantje Almes:
Nora-Swantje Almes is a curator with a focus on performance in the visual arts context and performative exhibition formats. She has been Curator of the Live Programme and Outreach at the Gropius Bau Berlin since 2024. Prior to this, she headed the live programme at Bergen Kunsthall, Norway, for three years, where she developed the commissioned work Hafen- Etude with Florentina Holzinger and her team in summer 2024. In her curatorial career, she has held positions at Glasgow International, Participant Inc., New York, Artangel London, and Schinkel Pavillon Berlin.

Image Credits:
Florentina Holzinger, 2024. Photography by Elsa Okazaki.

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THE MACK FOUNDATION PRESENTS 'MACK – EN FACE' | AN INTIMATE PORTRAIT OF HEINZ MACK

July 8, 2025 (Germany) – The MACK FOUNDATION announces the release of Mack – En Face: An Artist’s Life, a comprehensive new monograph offering an intimate portrait of Heinz Mack, from his early childhood to the present. Written by Robert Fleck, professor at the Düsseldorf Art Academy, a key institution in Mack’s early artistic education, and co-authored by Sophia Sotke from Heinz Mack’s studio, the publication draws on conversations with the artist held since 2020 to reveal rare insights into his motivations, ideas, and enduring impact. Funded by the MACK FOUNDATION and published by Hirmer Verlag, En Face pairs deeply personal storytelling with original quotations to illuminate the inner world of one of the most influential figures in contemporary art. The book is available in both English and German editions.

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Mack – En Face: An Artist’s Life is published by Hirmer Verlag.
 

About Heinz Mack

Heinz Mack, born in 1931 in Lollar (Hesse, Germany), attended the Academy of Arts Düsseldorf during the 1950s. In 1956 he also earned a state examination in philosophy at the University of Cologne. Together with Otto Piene he founded the group ZERO in 1957 in Düsseldorf. Besides his participation at Documenta II (1959) and Documenta III (1964), he also represented The Federal Republic of Germany at the XXXVth Venice Biennale in 1970. In the same year he was invited to Osaka (Japan) as a visiting professor. He also became a full member of the Berlin Academy of Arts, to which he belonged until 1992. Heinz Mack has been honored with major awards including the Art Prize of the City of Krefeld (1958), the Premio Marzotto (1963), the 1st Prix arts plastiques at the 4th Paris Biennale (1965), 1st prize in the international competition Licht 79 in the Netherlands (1979), the Großer Kulturpreis des Rheinischen Sparkassen-Verbands (1992) and the Cultural Prize of the city of Dortmund’s arts council (2012). He also received the Grand Federal Cross of Merit with Star of the Federal Republic of Germany in 2011. In 2015, Heinz Mack was unanimously voted an honorary member of the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf by the academy's senate. In 2016, the city of Düsseldorf bestowed the Jan-Wellem-Ring upon Heinz Mack. He received the Moses Mendelssohn Medal in 2017. The central theme of Heinz Mack’s art is light. Sculptures and pictures are the media of his multifaceted oeuvre. The exceptionally diverse complete works include sculptures made of different materials: light-stelae, light-rotors, light-reliefs and light-cubes. His oeuvre also involves paintings, drawings, India ink, pastels, graphics, photography and bibliophilic works. Another important aspect of Mack’s work is the design of public spaces, church interiors, stage settings and mosaics. His works have been shown in nearly 300 solo exhibitions and numerous other group exhibitions. They are also found in over 170 public collections. Numerous books and two films document his work. Heinz Mack lives and works in Mönchengladbach and Ibiza.

Image Credits:
Cover of 'Mack – En Face: An Artist’s Life', by Robert Fleck, 2025. Courtesy of the MACK FOUNDATION.

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SOCIÉTÉ PRESENTS 'DOKU THE CREATOR – BHAVACHAKRA' BY LU YANG

Opening Preview: Wednesday, July 9 | 6 - 8 pm
On View: July 10 – August 30, 2025

July 2, 2025 (Berlin, Germany) – SOCIÉTÉ is pleased to announce DOKU the Creator – BHAVACHAKRA, Lu Yang’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. 

Since 2018, Lu Yang has been developing the shapeshifting avatar DOKU in collaboration with a team of scientists, 3D animators, and digital technicians using the latest in motion capture technology. DOKU is a digital shell, a virtual human named after the phrase “Dokusho Dokushi,” meaning “We are born alone, and we die alone.” Yang describes DOKU as a virtual avatar that traverses simulated realities, embodying the dissolution of fixed identity and the recursive nature of consciousness.

In DOKU the Creator – BHAVACHAKRA, Lu Yang creates an otherworldly realm where digital identity, karmic recursion, creative generation, and simulated consciousness converge. Combining post-apocalyptic imagery with the vivid aesthetics of video games, manga, anime, and Buddhist spirituality, the exhibition draws connections between incarnations across virtual, corporeal, and spiritual realms—suggesting a future in which the self and its representations may be endlessly remade. The exhibition’s title work, an immersive video, begins with an extended rumination on dreams and reality before spiraling into metaphysical reflections on cycles of life and death, the illusory nature of existence, and the artistic process itself. Panning through interior and exterior tableaux in which technological detritus, organic matter, elements of the built environment, and parts of the body fuse into elaborate geological or architectural forms, DOKU the Creator gestures toward a digital sublime. In this new work, DOKU is no longer merely a virtual avatar, a digital self, or a performative body. Here, DOKU becomes the Creator—a meditative presence dwelling in the void of the virtual world, conjuring all phenomena through contemplative stillness. Yet what is created is not a “world” in the material sense, but a realm of illusions—a perpetual cycle governed by ignorance and attachment.

The metaphysical shift that DOKU undergoes—from a fabricated virtual entity to a creator in its own right—is echoed throughout the exhibition, suggesting that the boundaries between human, machine, and consciousness are increasingly fluid and interwoven. Twenty-four digital paintings extend beyond DOKU’s virtual world and into the realm of Buddhist cosmology. They comprise artworks created by DOKU within the narrative logic of the video work, as part of a virtual meditation practice. Each painting corresponds to a specific moment and cosmological element in DOKU the Creator – BHAVACHAKRA—such as the Twelve Nidanas, the Six Realms, the Three Poisons, and the Karmic Paths. These works are manifestations of DOKU’s internal vision, generated through contemplative stillness and rendered into symbolic visual form. With their strong material presence and symbolic references to playing cards, the paintings become the third iteration in a chain of creation—beginning with Yang and stretching beyond the human. DOKU themself becomes the creator, generating their own visual cosmology in the virtual world.

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DOKU the Creator – BHAVACHAKRA by Lu Yang will be on view from July 10 – August 30, 2025.

Address
Wielandstraße 26
10707 Berlin

Opening Preview
Wednesday, July 9 | 6 - 8 pm

Opening Hours

Monday – Saturday | 10 am – 6 pm
Closed on Sundays

About Lu Yang:
Lu Yang (b. 1984, Shanghai) lives and works between Shanghai and Tokyo. His recent video installation DOKU The Flow premiered at Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris as part of the museum’s Open Space series and was recently on view at K11 Shenzhen. In 2022, Lu Yang was named Artist of the Year by Deutsche Bank. His work was featured in WORLDBUILDING, an exhibition curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist at the Julia Stoschek Foundation in Düsseldorf, which later traveled to the Centre Pompidou-Metz. Lu Yang has held solo exhibitions at major international institutions including Kunsthalle Basel; Palais Populaire, Berlin; ARoS Museum, Aarhus; M Woods, Beijing; MOCA Cleveland; Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing; Zabludowicz Collection, London; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; and Kunstpalais Erlangen. His work has also been presented in significant group exhibitions at the Centre Pompidou, Paris; The Milk of Dreams at the 59th Venice Biennale; Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai; Times Square Arts, New York; CCA Tel Aviv; ICA, London; Muzeum Sztuki, Poland; Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; and Fridericianum, Kassel, among others.

Lu Yang is part of a number of public collections including ARoS, Aarhus; Asia Art Archives, New York; Deutsche Bank Collection, Frankfurt; Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris; Hirshhorn Museum, Washington; K11 Art Foundation, Hong Kong; Kunstpalais Erlangen; M+ Collection, Hong Kong; Sammlung Goetz, Munich; Taguchi Art Collection, Japan; UBS Art Collection; Ullens Foundation, Switzerland; among others.

About SOCIÉTÉ:
SOCIÉTÉ is a Berlin-based contemporary art gallery with a global reach. The gallery’s bold curatorial approach plays a pivotal role in advancing its artists’ visions, supporting major museum exhibitions, biennials, and acquisitions by leading institutional collections worldwide. Operating in both the primary and secondary markets, SOCIÉTÉ provides curated advisory services to select clients.

Beyond its exhibitions, the gallery’s publishing initiative, EDITION SOCIÉTÉ, collaborates with prominent writers and graphic designers to produce artist books, catalogues, and, more recently, high-end artist editions.

SOCIÉTÉ is an active presence at major international art fairs, including Art Basel, Art Basel Paris, Art Basel Miami Beach, Frieze New York, Frieze London, ARCOmadrid, and Gallery Weekend Berlin.

Image Credits:
Video still, Lu Yang, DOKU The Creator, 2025 Courtesy the artist and SOCIÉTÉ, Berlin.

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ARTEFACT GALLERY DEBUTS ANNINA ROESCHEISEN’S ‘HOLD THE LINE’ IN HER FIRST BERLIN SOLO EXHIBITION

On View: September 5 – December 19, 2025

July 2, 2025 (Berlin, Germany) – ARTEFACT Gallery is pleased to announce Hold the Line, a solo exhibition by German-born, New York-based multimedia artist Annina Roescheisen, on view from September 5 – December 19, 2025. Following numerous solo exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, Paris, and Switzerland, this exhibition marks Roescheisen’s long-awaited return to Germany and her first solo show in Berlin. While her work has been previously included in group and institutional exhibitions in the country, Hold the Line offers the first dedicated solo insight into her practice in her homeland — affirming ARTEFACT’s commitment to introducing distinct voices to Berlin’s contemporary art scene. The exhibition features a series of new works on canvas and paper and debuts THE CRIMSON, a new series the artist has been developing.

Rooted in her ongoing exploration of the intangible, Hold the Line follows a metaphysical red thread — a visual and conceptual motif that appears in sewn lines and symbolizes coherence and presence. Through the fluid interplay of gesture, color, and texture, Roescheisen has developed a symbolic visual language defined by restraint and clarity. Her compositions use space not as emptiness, but as presence, distilling each element to its essence with quiet conviction.

Roescheisen brings together drawing, painting, and textile art in a cohesive narrative. Deep ultramarine strokes sweep across canvas and paper, shifting between precise and intuitive gestures. Each mark carries rhythm, soft yet assertive, balancing vulnerability with strength. Threaded throughout is a hand-sewn red line, active and intentional, moving quietly through each piece like a steady pulse. It animates the stillness, connecting what is seen with what is felt. Color serves as the emotional core: blue evokes contemplation and the unseen, while red grounds the work in memory and embodiment. Together, they create a balance between motion and pause, matter and spirit.

Rather than offering fixed meanings, Roescheisen’s work invites perception over interpretation. Gesture becomes atmosphere; meaning arises through resonance. To hold the line is, in her practice, to remain grounded while staying open — a stillness that flows, rather than resists.

This sensibility extends across her wider practice. Working across video, photography, sculpture, installation, painting, and drawing, Roescheisen explores the emotional and philosophical dimensions of human existence. Her work is shaped by a deeply introspective gaze and a fascination with symbolism, color, and the metaphysical. Drawing on influences from medieval iconography to contemporary aesthetics, she crafts a poetic language that questions how we relate to ourselves, to others, and to the world around us.

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NOTES TO EDITORS:

Hold the Line will be on view at ARTEFACT Gallery from September 5 – December 19, 2025.

Address:

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Geisbergstraße 12, 10777 Berlin

Opening Times:

Monday – Friday | 10 – 6 p.m. and by appointment.                               

About Annina Roescheisen

Annina Roescheisen (b. 1982, Rosenheim, Germany) is an artist based in New York. While she primarily focuses on painting and drawing, Roescheisen practices in a wide range of additional media such as sculpture, installation, video, photography, and performance art. Roescheisen explores the nature of perception and aesthetic processing, investigating the boundaries between polarities such as dream and reality, visible and invisible, audible and inaudible. Her work invites the viewer to immerse themselves in the frequencies of color and their transcendent impact on our physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual bodies.

Drawing inspiration from religious iconography, poetry, literature, bestiaries, spiritual philosophy and nature mysticism, Roescheisen brings her northern European cultural heritage—German romanticism, transcendentalism, gothic architecture, Nordic shamanism, myths and fairy tales—into her art. Her work embodies humanity’s enduring fascination with the occult and the supernatural. Utilizing alchemical mixtures of pigments and minerals, Roescheisen intuitively shapes and structures elements on canvas, with the resulting ‘pictures’ signaling an intimate connection between the artist‘s body and the creative process. Herein lie the resonances of her practice with the transformative and transcendent aspirations of post-war artists. While John Cage or Pat Steir, for instance, drew spiritual inspiration from Buddhism, and Eva Hesse from her Jewish heritage, Roescheisen nourishes her practice with a multiplicity of wisdom traditions. Her series Vibrational Strings (2019-2021), Flying Dragons (2020-2022), as well as her ongoing work include metaphysical and mathematical codes that engage with the profound connections between the visible and the invisible, the tangible and the spiritual. Through her art, Roescheisen explores universal existential questions and the intricate interplay between art and consciousness. Her works evoke introspection, inviting viewers to contemplate the mystery of existence and their own spirituality. Roescheisen summons us to perceive the world beyond the limitations of our senses—to hear beyond the audible frequencies that meet our ears, to see beyond the visible light that meets our eyes and feel energies beyond the tactile capacities of the skin.

Roescheisen‘s work has been presented in solo exhibitions in galleries across Europe and the United States. She has participated in group exhibitions such as the 56th Venice Biennale (2015), Salon Berlin at the Museum Frieder Burda (2019), the Delacroix Museum 2014 and Hermès Foundation 2013 in Paris, among others.

About ARTEFACT Gallery:

ARTEFACT is a Berlin-based gallery and project space presenting contemporary art and collectible design. We are dedicated to fostering a dynamic and inclusive community by supporting both emerging and established artists and designers in articulating their unique perspectives. Our collaborators are entrusted with unrestricted creativity, with the freedom to explore, experiment, and express themselves without limitations. 

artefact.berlin | @artefactgallery.berlin

Image Credits:

1. Annina Roescheisen  ‘THE CRIMSON N9’, 2025. Ink, yarn, mixed media on raw canvas. 23.6 x 31.5 inches (60 x 80 cm). Courtesy of the artist and ARTEFACT Gallery.

2. Annina Roescheisen  ‘THE CRIMSON N7’, 2025. Ink, yarn, mixed media on raw canvas. 23.6 x 31.5 inches (60 x 80 cm). Courtesy of the artist and ARTEFACT Gallery.

3. Portrait of Annina Roescheisen. Photography by Steve Stills.

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MOONARIJ LAUNCHES FIRST ARTIST COLLABORATION WITH KASPAR MÜLLER | INTRODUCING THE NEW LIMITED EDITION SPACE JARS COLLECTION

June 24, 2025 (Berlin, Germany) | Berlin-based design brand MOONARIJ unveils its first artist collaboration with renowned Swiss artist Kaspar Müller, debuting the Space Jars collection in summer 2025. The limited-edition hand-blown glass vases bring together Müller’s conceptual approach and MOONARIJ’s contemporary design ethos. Inspired by planetary forms and cosmic landscapes, the Space Jars are sculptural and functional pieces shaped through a variety of innovative surface treatments, including acid baths, mirroring, and powder coating, that feel both otherworldly and intimately crafted. Each individual vase is unique in form and texture, engaging both as standalone art objects and as vessels designed to interact with their environment. This collection also marks MOONARIJ’s first international partnership with Brooklyn Glass, New York, reflecting a growing commitment to global, cross-disciplinary craftsmanship.

The multidisciplinary dialogue between art and design that defines the Space Jars was born from their creators’ shared fascination with the universe and its infinite array of forms, textures, and materials. Building on MOONARIJ’s signature spherical forms, first introduced with the Moonjar series earlier in 2025, each Space Jar channels cosmic inspiration through an interplay of colors, shape, and surface treatment, the visual poetry of distant planets. Rendered in elemental hues spanning all colors of the rainbow, the vases echo the rich chromatic spectrum of space, while the transformation of glass from liquid to solid mirrors the slow and natural process of planetary formation, offering a poetic metaphor for the cosmos. Through a joyful engagement with chemical processes, each surface evokes the appearance of celestial crusts and otherworldly terrains, grounding the collection in both the tactile world of craftsmanship and the imaginative expanse of outer space.

At its core, the Space Jars collection embodies the fusion of two distinct philosophies, converging into a singular language that is both meditative and purposeful. Kaspar Müller approaches glass as a conceptual medium, shaped by spatial experience and installation, while MOONARIJ founder Johanna Wichelhaus balances functionality, form, and color with refined precision. Each Space Jar stands as a sculptural object, reminiscent of distant celestial bodies, yet remains inherently grounded in purpose: designed to hold life. Whether displaying a bouquet or standing empty, each vessel speaks to a dual identity—both planetary and domestic. This quiet balance reflects the essence of Earth itself—a celestial body adrift in the vastness of space, yet vibrant with life. In this context, the Space Jar serves as a metaphor—embodying the seamless interplay between expressive form and purposeful function.

To amplify the collection’s artistic vision, Johanna Wichelhaus and Kaspar Müller collaborated with Lucas Confurius on a visual campaign that situates the vases in a cosmic setting, evoking the space where their forms and ideas first emerged.

Founded in 2022 by Johanna Wichelhaus, MOONARIJ is rooted in a deep appreciation for Germany’s glassmaking heritage and a passion for handcrafted design, developed in close collaboration with small workshops in Berlin and Dresden. With the launch of Space Jars, the brand reaches across the Atlantic for the first time, partnering with glassmaker Esteban Salazar at Brooklyn Glass in New York, who has previously collaborated with Kaspar Müller on several of his glass installations. This transatlantic collaboration reflects a shared commitment to craft, innovation, and the evolving language of glass.

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NOTES TO EDITORS:

The Space Jars are a limited-edition collection of 12 individual pieces.

Each vase is priced at 2.800 €

The collection will be available at moonarij.com

Note: Each vase is handcrafted individually – dimensions may vary minimally.                         

About MOONARIJ:

MOONARIJ is a Berlin-based, female-founded design brand focused on handcrafted vases. Captivated by the art of glass blowing, Johanna Wichelhaus teamed up with renowned glass artists in 2021 to develop first iterations of her sketches of striped bud vases. The designs evolved into the brand‘s first collections – the Oona, released in 2022, and the Narij, followed by the Large Bucket, Oona Baby and Zigzag collection. Voluminous in shape, iridescent in color and meticulously crafted, hand-blown and hand-sculpted Moonarij vases stand out as mesmerizing objects of beauty.

www.moonarij.com  @moonarij_objects

About Kaspar Müller:

In Kaspar Müller’s practice, seemingly familiar objects somehow appear as hieroglyphs. A cast of everyday, yet nonetheless strangely hermetic motifs reappear throughout his oeuvre like vanished memories. Recoded, recalcitrant, and sometimes stubbornly mute, past works have ranged from physically tangible sculpture to shadowy reproductions of images. Often working in recursive loops, Müller creates elusive installations that stage the fluctuations and transformation of the creative process between the space of the studio and the gallery. For Müller, this process is akin to archeology, yet the things he addresses aren’t hidden; we simply don’t pay attention to them. The moment that their latent qualities suddenly emerge and seem connected and appealing is an exciting moment, which, as Müller notes, is “prone to mystification.” Müller’s works examine the residues of different systems of production and value, homing in on the formal and associative qualities of everyday objects and goods. With his lamp sculptures, Müller engages with how industrial lighting, from its inception to the current day, functions to create a mood or atmosphere through the expression of one’s aesthetic affinities. Müller’s interest in notions of craft and reproduction, and vintage and “fake vintage,” led him to bring together an exuberant yet discordant constellation of bulbs as a kind of mirror of the range of industrial production and contemporary taste.

Kaspar Müller (b. 1983, Schaffhausen) lives and works in Basel. During Art Basel Parcours 2023 he showcased a large installation in Münsterplatz. Müller has had solo exhibitions at Atelier Amden, Vleeshal, Middelburg; Kunsthalle Bern; Museum im Bellpark, Kriens; Kunsthalle Zürich; and Circuit, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Lausanne. He has participated in group exhibitions at Fondazione Prada, Venice; Casa Masaccio, San Giovanni Valdarno; Swiss Institute, New York; Istituto Svizzero di Roma, Rome; MAMCO, Geneva; and Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, among other venues.

Kaspar Müller - Société Berlin

Image Credits:

1-6. MOONARIJ x Kaspar Müller. Space Jars Collection, 2025. Photography by Mina Aichhorn.

7. MOONARIJ x Kaspar Müller. Space Jars Collection, 2025. Photography by Lucas Confurius.

8. MOONARIJ x Kaspar Müller. Space Jars Collection, 2025. Photography by Vitali Gelwich.

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RENDEZVOUS INAUGURATES THE FIRST EDITION OF BRUSSELS ART WEEK | CELEBRATING THE DIVERSITY AND RICHNESS OF THE CITY’S ARTISTIC ECOSYSTEM

Preview of Salon de RendezVous: September 3, 2025 | 7 pm
Opening Night: September 4, 2025 | 5 – 9 pm
On View: September 5 – 7, 2025 | 11 – 7 pm

June 24, 2025 (Brussels, Belgium) — RendezVous proudly inaugurates the first edition of Brussels Art Week from September 4–7, 2025. The citywide initiative unites galleries, institutions, artist-run spaces, and studios in a shared moment of collective visibility and momentum. Following its soft launch in 2024 and taking its cue from Brussels’ closely knit cultural community, RendezVous proposes a newly curated itinerary across various city districts to reveal the city’s hybridity and creative bandwidth, where major institutions and grassroots initiatives coexist in close proximity. The Salon de RendezVous at Rue de la Régence 67, an immersive installation-bar by artist Zoe Williams, doubles as a performative social space, and the program also includes exclusive studio visits with Brussels-based artists. Kicking off the fall season, RendezVous – Brussels Art Week reaffirms the city as a site of artistic discovery and conversation within the international art landscape.

RendezVous brings together the city’s diverse cultural initiatives and institutions in a shared moment of visibility, both locally and internationally. Taking place over three days, the program invites visitors to explore Brussels’ vibrant artistic landscape through a series of synchronised openings and events across different districts: Downtown (Centre Brussels & Molenbeek) on September 5, Uptown (Ixelles) on September 6, and Midtown (Sablon, St. Gilles & Forest) on September 7. The program features exhibitions in galleries, public and private institutions, as well as artists’ studio visits organised in collaboration with galleries and Level Five, SB34, KultXL, and the WIELS Residency shared studio spaces. Facilitating exclusive access to studios, the program offers a rare glimpse into the places where Brussels-based artists live and work.

At the heart of this edition, Salon de RendezVous at Rue de la Régence 67, conceived as a site-specific installation by Marseille-based British artist Zoe Williams, serves as the central meeting point for the week. The space is a reflection of her multidisciplinary practice, blending installation with photography, sensorial elements, and performance to form playful, sensuous environments that reflect themes of power, excess, desire, and consumption. Conceived as a performative bar serving artist cocktails, the installation becomes the setting for a three-day programme featuring panel talks, performances, and listening sessions with local DJs and producers.

Brussels has established itself as a vital hub in Europe’s contemporary art landscape, supported by a dense network of internationally engaged collectors, galleries, institutions, foundations, and artist-run spaces. From leading venues like WIELS, Bozar, and the soon-to-open KANAL Centre Pompidou to a new generation of experimental platforms, the city offers fertile ground for artistic exchange. With RendezVous – Brussels Art Week, these diverse forces converge to unite the city and create a dynamic hub for the art and culture.

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NOTES TO EDITORS:

Address of Salon de RendezVous:
Rue de la Régence 67
1000 Brussels, Belgium
 

Schedule Overview
Preview of Salon de RendezVous
September 3 | 7 pm
Preview of Salon de RendezVous with Zoe Williams

September 4 | 5 – 9 pm
Collective Opening Night at all participating galleries

Brussels Art Week Days

September 5 (Downtown Brussels) | 11 am – 7 pm

Participating venues open for visits

September 6 (Uptown Brussels) | 11 am – 7 pm

Participating venues open for visits

September 7 (Midtown Brussels) | 11 am – 7 pm

Participating venues open for visits

About RendezVous – Brussels Art Week:
RendezVous — Brussels Art Week is a yearly recurring event, celebrating the richness and variety of the Brussels contemporary art scene, connecting galleries, institutions, artist-run spaces, and collective artist studios. Each September, after the summer pause, RendezVous demarcates the starting point for all these dynamic art forces to come into play again. Website | Instagram | https://rendezvousbxl.com/, @rendezvousbxl
 

About the Founders:
Founders Laure Decock and Evelyn Simons have both been operating in the Brussels’ art field and beyond for the past 10 years. Laure has worked for galleries such as Almine Rech Gallery, Albert Baronian and Axel Vervoordt, and served as a consultant with focus on fundraising for WIELS, La Loge and Netwerk Aalst. She was a founding member of Elders Collectief. Evelyn has been active as a curator, both freelance (for Fondazione Prada, Casino Luxembourg, KANAL, FOMU and others) as well as in artistic directional roles at Horst Arts & Music and Fondation CAB. She regularly writes artist statements, exhibition texts and exhibition reviews for national and international magazines.

Their complementary backgrounds combine experiences in working with galleries, private foundations and public institutions; working on strategy, development, partnerships and fundraising; as well as curating and writing on contemporary art. Passionate about the richness and variety of the Brussels’ art scene, they are excited to bundle their expertise, ambitions and network for this celebration of contemporary art in a city they both call home. Websites | https://evelynsimons.com, https://lauredecock.com/


Image Credits:
Courtesy of RendezVous – Brussels Art Week 2025.

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BELVEDERE HOTEL MYKONOS OPENS FOR THE 2025 SEASON | A LEGACY OF HOSPITALITY AND TIMELESS ELEGANCE

June 19, 2025 (Mykonos, Greece) – The Belvedere Hotel in Mykonos welcomes guests for the 2025 season, offering a distinctive Mykonian experience shaped by its storied legacy as one of the island's pioneering luxury hotels. A treasured member of The Leading Hotels of the World, this family-owned Mediterranean residence is a lush oasis of wonders, merging consciously with the town’s eminent architectural landscape and identity. Perched at the highest point of Chora, with panoramic vistas over the town and shimmering Aegean Sea, the hotel’s rooms, suites, and private villas, the Pool Club, the world-renowned Six Senses Spa, and the first-ever Matsuhisa open-air restaurant come together to create an intimate atmosphere where tranquility and connection naturally coexist.

With roots stretching back over 200 years, the Belvedere grew organically around its historic core, Mansion Stoupa, once a lively gathering place for artists and icons like Julie Andrews, Stephen Rubell, and Princess Soraya of Iran. The essence of those free-spirited sixties remains woven into the hotel’s ethos, reflected in its thoughtfully connected spaces, where each building speaks to the next, inviting spontaneous encounters and fostering a sense of community that defines the Belvedere experience.

Embraced by a lush garden with abundant greenery and signature pink bougainvillea, the main complex boasts distinguishable Cycladic design honoring the traditional architectural landscape of Mykonos, with its white interior reflecting the elegant frames of nearby local houses. The hotel offers a wide array of rooms, suites, and private villas enriched with views of the Aegean Sea and the town of Mykonos, including 26 Hilltop Rooms and Suites, luxury residences located 250 meters from the central complex, The Waterfront Villa merging seamlessly with the Aegean Sea, and Villa Next Door, facing the 16th-century historical Venetian windmills.

Steeped in heritage yet seamlessly attuned to the expectations of its international audience, the Belvedere hosts an abundant hospitality experience. Its main complex boasts a wide range of amenities, such as the Six Senses Spa, offering a new wellness philosophy from in-house experts and holistic practitioners, and a fully equipped fitness studio. The beating heart of the main complex is its Pool Club, igniting the ideal atmosphere to meet, socialize, and nurture the Belvedere’s international community, fusing experiences and guests in one place. This panoptic hub includes the hotel’s internationally acclaimed cellar, the historic Belvedere Bar, hosting some of the most vibrant nights on the island and offering exclusive Belvedere Signature Martinis by Dale DeGroff, also known as "the King of Cocktails", and the Sunken Watermelon Cocktail Bar, renowned for its distinctive drinks.

Home to Chef Nobu Matsuhisa’s first open-air sushi bar in the world, Matsuhisa Mykonos brings the premium Chef’s culinary brilliance for a unique dining experience to the Belvedere. Located within the Belvedere, the restaurant is a centerpiece of the vibrant social scene at the hotel. Reopening for the summer season on May 30, guests can savor signature dishes and enjoy an exclusive omakase menu at sunset. This celebrated alfresco restaurant embraces Greek seafood straight from the Aegean Sea into its famed selection of global delights. Adding to this exceptional culinary landscape, Cocco Mykonos infuses the Belvedere with an Italian bistro-style twist on Mediterranean dining. Cocco delivers a relaxed yet elevated dining experience, where seasonal ingredients and classic Italian flavors come together, all in the heart of Little Venice, just a stone's throw away from Belvedere.

The Belvedere Hotel embodies a distinctive brand of hospitality that blends community, luxury, and indulgence. More than just a destination, it serves as a muse, igniting connection and serendipity at every turn, from dining at its restaurants to strolling along its picturesque walkways. Deeply attuned to the culture and landscape of Mykonos, the Belvedere is a focal point of the island, guiding guests toward authentic, unforgettable moments of connection, serendipity, and play that define Mykonos.

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Address:

Belvedere Mykonos

School of Fine Arts District, 84600, Mykonos, Greece

Facebook | Instagram | Belvedere Hotel , @belvederehotel

Facebook | Instagram | Matsuhisa Mykonos, @matsuhisamykonos

Image credits:

1.      Belvedere Hotel Mykonos, 2025. Photography by Yiorgos Kaplanidis. Courtesy of Belvedere Hotel Mykonos

2.      Belvedere Hotel Mykonos, Main Pool Area. Courtesy of Belvedere Hotel Mykonos.

3.      Belvedere Hotel Mykonos, 2025. Photography by Yiorgos Kaplanidis. Courtesy of Belvedere Hotel Mykonos.

4.      Rooftop view of Matsuhisa Mykonos. Courtesy of Belvedere Hotel Mykonos.

5-6.  Belvedere Hotel Mykonos, 2025. Photography by Yiorgos Kaplanidis. Courtesy of Belvedere Hotel Mykonos.

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GATHERING IBIZA PRESENTS ‘SUNSET STRIP’ IN COLLABORATION WITH BERLIN- BASED GALLERY SOCIÉTÉ

Opening Preview: June 24, 2025 | 6 – 8 pm

On View: June 25 – September 1, 2025.

June 23, 2025 (Ibiza, Spain) – GATHERING Ibiza is pleased to announce Sunset Strip, a group exhibition presented in collaboration with Berlin-based gallery SOCIÉTÉ, on view from June 25 – September 1, 2025. The exhibition brings together seventeen international contemporary artists from the galleries’ rosters, including Petra Cortright, Tamara K.E., Wynnie Mynerva, Bunny Rogers, Tai Shani and Marianna Simnett, whose works span diverse mediums such as ceramic, textile and painting. Much like Sebastian Riemer’s HOCKNEY 1967 A Bigger Splash, which reimagines the sun-drenched nostalgia of David Hockney’s iconic imagery, Sunset Strip draws on motifs of Ibiza and island life—pool tiles, tropical flora, bold hues, tourism, and solitude—to reframe the island’s magnetic allure, inviting viewers to consider the island as a foamy, salt-sprayed liminal home for contemporary art.

Founded in 2024, GATHERING Ibiza emerged just as the island’s art scene was entering a period of renewed energy. With a focus on supporting the island’s creative community, the gallery is known for its radical programming and site-specific exhibitions that reflect Ibiza’s vibrant spirit. In dialogue with this vision, SOCIÉTÉ—a Berlin-based gallery with a bold curatorial approach and a strong international presence—brings its global perspective to the island. Together, the two galleries create a unique exchange between experimental practices and international dialogue, marking a new moment in Ibiza’s evolving cultural scene.

Among the highlights of the exhibition is Kaspar Müller’s conceptually driven practice, which renders seemingly familiar objects subtly uncanny. In Untitled, Müller uses light bulbs, steel cord, and electrical wiring to create a charged convalescence of dynamic light and saturated colour. His work will be shown alongside that of Conny Maier, whose ceramic tile panels investigate fundamental questions of human nature, dominance, and control. In Tränken, cobalt on white glaze simmers with mythological undercurrents, as thick, wavy lines and crude caricatures examine the tension between submission and power. The exhibition will also feature works by Soojin Kang, offering a preview of her upcoming solo show at GATHERING Ibiza in 2026. Kang’s sculptural woven pieces use natural dyes and hand-spun yarns to explore form, materiality, and ritual. Additionally, Christelle Oyiri—who will represent GATHERING with a solo presentation at Frieze London 2025—presents text-based, visually saturated prints that use the language of tropical postcards to critique distorted fantasies of island life. With wordplay and pointed wit, Oyiri challenges colonial nostalgia, contaminating the idyllic with critical confrontation.

The group exhibition precedes CAN Ibiza, in which GATHERING will be participating with works made in Ibiza from Shuyi Cao and Jamie Bragg.

Alongside the exhibition, GATHERING Ibiza extends the visitor experience with MIRA, its adjacent courtyard restaurant and bar. This interconnected space brings international artistic voices to a local context with an approach that goes beyond the traditional gallery model. Conceived by GATHERING’s founder Alex Flick, MIRA embodies his vision of a contemporary cultural salon—a place where art, music, and conversation unfold in an intimate setting. As Ibiza’s first contemporary salon, it invites visitors from around the world to connect, share meals, and experience culture in motion. Embodying an intimate and seductive atmosphere, the restaurant features site-specific art installations by Tai Shani and Stefan Brüggemann and continues to evolve with a new nighttime extension of the venue — a late-hours setting with a 1970s mood.

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NOTES TO EDITORS:

Address:

Carrer Vicent Serra 4

Sant Miquel de Balansat, Ibiza

Spain

Opening hours:

Opening Preview | June 24, 2025 | 6 – 8 pm

On View | June 25 – September 1, 2025.

ABOUT GATHERING:

Founded in 2022 in the heart of Soho, London, GATHERING is a contemporary art gallery, presenting a diverse exhibition programme of international emerging voices alongside established artists, including Emanuel de Carvalho, Tamara K.E., Soojin Kang, Ndayé Kouagou, Wynnie Mynerva and Tai Shani. In 2023, GATHERING inaugurated GLASSHOUSE, an alternative strand of programming which fosters emergent creative practitioners alongside GATHERING‘s main exhibitions. In 2024, the gallery expanded to Sant Miquel de Balansat on the island of Ibiza, carrying the cutting-edge programming and artist-led ethos of GATHERING to an international stage. GATHERING is a member of the Gallery Climate Coalition and works with The Anti-Slavery Collective and Embode.

About SOCIÉTÉ:

SOCIÉTÉ is a Berlin-based contemporary art gallery with a global reach. The gallery’s bold curatorial approach plays a pivotal role in advancing its artists’ visions, supporting major museum exhibitions, biennials, and acquisitions by leading institutional collections worldwide. Operating in both the primary and secondary markets, SOCIÉTÉ provides curated advisory services to select clients. Beyond its exhibitions, the gallery’s publishing initiative, EDITION SOCIÉTÉ, collaborates with prominent writers and graphic designers to produce artist books, catalogues, and, more recently, high-end artist editions. SOCIÉTÉ is an active presence at major international art fairs, including Art Basel, Art Basel Paris, Art Basel Miami Beach, Frieze New York, Frieze London, ARCOmadrid, and Gallery Weekend Berlin.

Image Credits:

1. Christelle Oyiri, TOURISTA SERIES:JETLAG IS FOR AMATEURS, 2025. Dual sided ink print on acrylic panneling with vinyl text.

84.1 x118.9 cm. Courtesy of the artist and GATHERING.

2. Jeanette Mundt Untitled, 2025, Pencil on paper, 231⁄4 x 191⁄4 x 3⁄4 in. 59 x 49 x 2 cm. Courtesy of the artist and SOCIÉTÉ, Berlin.

3. Tai Shani Nymphian, Angel Heart II, 2023 PVC plastic, steel string. 140.00 x 60.00 x 30.00 cm. Courtesy of the artist and

GATHERING.

4-5. MIRA, Ibiza, 2025. Courtesy of MIRA by GATHERING.

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GATHERING IBIZA AND MIRA REOPEN FOR THE 2025 SEASON | A COMMITMENT TO CULTURAL ENCOUNTERS THROUGH HOSPITALITY, GASTRONOMY AND CONTEMPORARY ART

June 18, 2025 – (Ibiza, Spain) GATHERING Ibiza, the Balearic outpost of London’s contemporary art gallery GATHERING, and MIRA, its courtyard restaurant and bar, reopen for the 2025 summer season. This interconnected space brings international artistic voices to a local context with an approach that goes beyond the traditional gallery model. An intimate setting for art, music, and conversation, MIRA emerges as Ibiza’s first contemporary salon, inviting visitors from all over the world to connect, share meals, and experience culture in motion. Embodying an intimate and seductive atmosphere, the restaurant features site-specific art installations by Tai Shani and Stefan Brüggemann and continues to evolve with a new nighttime extension of the venue — a late-hours setting with a 1970s mood. Informed by the curatorial direction and international networks of GATHERING’s London base, the hybrid venue contributes a new layer of cosmopolitan sensibility to the island’s cultural fabric.

MIRA blends art, music, and hospitality with understated sophistication, bringing a distinctly cosmopolitan energy to Ibiza’s cultural community. Here, dim lighting, cocktails, and creative nomads converge in a setting that recalls the intimacy of Mexico City’s culinary scene and the irreverent vitality of Ibiza. Whether for dinner, a pre-club gathering, or lingering late into the night, MIRA offers a place to be — and to stay — where conversation, sound, and aesthetics unfold without rush. Through chef residencies, artist programs, and an evolving community of local and international visitors, MIRA cultivates a cultural presence that is both rooted and outward-looking. It speaks to an audience seeking beauty, depth, and a sense of belonging within a global, creative milieu.

Designed in collaboration with Turner Prize-winning artist Tai Shani, MIRA is reimagined as both a restaurant and a site-specific artwork. Shani’s breast-shaped blown-glass lanterns float above a bubblegum-pink bar, which, together with a marble-esque façade and vivid details, lend the restaurant a theatrical flair. At the heart of the garden, among the tables, sits one of Shani’s sculptural candles — a version of her commission for New York’s High Line. Nearby, a mirrored spray painting by Stefan Brüggemann adds a sharp, reflective presence to the exterior. The venue is set to expand after dark, with a new late-night concept infused with a 1970s atmosphere.

Affirming its ongoing commitment to nurturing Ibiza’s cultural community, MIRA’s summer programming features the Sunday session Aperitivo Analogico, with DJs spinning vinyl-only sets, while Mondays see MIRA transform into a listening bar, focused on digital DJ sets. This season, a new series of artist talks takes place, featuring conversations with artists, writers, and thinkers, inaugurated by a presentation from Seffa Klein, who developed new works during her time at GATHERING’s Can Maria Residency on the island. In parallel, MIRA will host a series of 4-hands pop-up dinners and guest chef collaborations with restaurants from Ibiza, Barcelona, Pays Basque, Mexico City, Argentina, Italy, London, and Madrid. A selection of exclusive fashion pop-ups will also take over MIRA this summer, further layering the space with moments of cross-disciplinary exchange.

Following its soft launch in 2024, GATHERING Ibiza is conceived as a space where contemporary art practices can evolve in dialogue with the island’s enduring countercultural spirit. Housed within a striking architectural space—featuring high ceilings, two mezzanine levels, and abundant natural light—the gallery invites both critical engagement and quiet contemplation, encouraging visitors to reflect, linger, and wander.

The gallery’s upcoming exhibition, titled Sunset Strip, presented in collaboration with Berlin-based gallery SOCIÉTÉ, will be on view from June 24 – September 1, 2025. It brings together seventeen international contemporary artists from both galleries’ rosters, including Petra Cortright, Tamara K.E., Wynnie Mynerva, Bunny Rogers, Tai Shani, and Marianna Simnett, showcasing works across diverse mediums such as ceramics, textiles, and painting. Much like Sebastian Riemer’s HOCKNEY 1967 A Bigger Splash, which reimagines the sun-drenched nostalgia of David Hockney’s iconic imagery, the exhibition draws on motifs of Ibiza and island life—pool tiles, tropical flora, bold hues, tourism, and solitude. The exhibition reframes the island’s magnetic allure, inviting viewers to consider it as a foamy, salt-sprayed liminal home for contemporary art.

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NOTES TO EDITORS:

Address:

Carrer Vicent Serra 4

Sant Miquel de Balansat, Ibiza

Spain

Opening Times:

Thursday – Sunday | 6 pm – 2 am

Monday – Wednesday | Closed

Exhibition Programming:

Sunset Strip, presented by GATHERING and SOCIÉTÉ, will be on view at GATHERING Ibiza from June 24 – September 1, 2025.

ABOUT GATHERING:

Founded in 2022 in the heart of Soho, London, GATHERING is a contemporary art gallery, presenting a diverse exhibition programme of international emerging voices alongside established artists, including Emanuel de Carvalho, Tamara K.E., Soojin Kang, Ndayé Kouagou, Wynnie Mynerva and Tai Shani. In 2023, GATHERING inaugurated GLASSHOUSE, an alternative strand of programming which fosters emergent creative practitioners alongside GATHERING’s main exhibitions. In 2024, the gallery expanded to Sant Miquel de Balansat on the island of Ibiza, carrying the cutting-edge programming and artist-led ethos of GATHERING to an international stage.

GATHERING is a member of the Gallery Climate Coalition and works with The Anti-Slavery Collective and Embode.

Image credits:

1-5. MIRA, Ibiza, 2025. Courtesy of MIRA by GATHERING.

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ART BASEL UNLIMITED 2025 | 'THE MECHANICAL BALLET' BY HEINZ MACK

June 12, 2025 (Basel, Switzerland) – German artist Heinz Mack will present The Mechanical Ballet, an installation comprising seven motorized stainless-steel stelae of varying heights that rotate within a mirrored room, in Art Basel’s 2025 Unlimited sector. The presentation is held in collaboration with his global representative, Almine Rech, at Booth U28, from June 19 – 22, 2025.

The polished stainless steel steles, each standing between 120 cm and 250 cm tall, move axially through motorized bases. These steles act as mechanical dancers, placed in a mirrored space that multiplies the visual effects of this kinetic ballet. As the steles rotate on their own axes, they absorb light, reflect it, and set it in motion—making it dance through the space. The mirrored surroundings become the stage for this choreography, amplifying both the light and the movements of the rotating steles.

Das Mechanische Ballett was last exhibited in 2023 at the ZKM | Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, Germany. Here, an open space with a mirrored rear wall was chosen. Conceived in 1966, the installation was first realized for an exhibition at Kunsthal Rotterdam in 2018. Additionally, a light and sound choreography accompanied the installation, featuring the composition Atmosphères by György Ligeti.

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The Mechanical Ballet installation by Heinz Mack will be on view in Hall 1.0 at Booth U28. 

Address
Messe Basel
Messeplatz 10 
4058 Basel
Switzerland

Unlimited VIP Opening (by invitation only)
Monday, June 16, 2025, 4 pm — 8 pm, First Choice VIP Cardholders
Monday, June 16, 2025, 6 pm — 8 pm, Preview VIP Cardholders

VIP Days (by invitation only)
Tuesday, June 17, 2025, 11 am — 8 pm, First Choice VIP Cardholders
Tuesday, June 17, 2025, 4 pm — 8 pm, Preview VIP Cardholders
Wednesday, June 18, 2025, 11 am — 8 pm, First Choice and Preview VIP Cardholders

Vernissage Guests (by invitation only)
Wednesday, June 18, 2025, 4 pm — 8 pm

Public Days (with a ticket or VIP card)
Thursday to Sunday, June 19 — 22, 2025, 11 am – 7 pm

Unlimited Night
Thursday, June 19, 2025, 7 pm — 10 pm

About Heinz Mack:
Heinz Mack (b. 1931, Germany) is the co-founder of the ZERO movement, known for his explorations of light, color, and movement through painting, sculpture, and installation. Heinz Mack's work is included in the collections of: the Museum of Modern Art, New York, US, and the Tate Modern, London, UK, among others. His work has been exhibited in major institutions, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, US; the Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Netherlands; and is part of the collections of The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, US, and the Tate Modern, London, UK, among others.

Image credits:
Installation view of Heinz Mack, 'Das Mechanische Ballett', 1966–2015.
© Heinz Mack and ZKM | Karlsruhe - Photo: Tobias Wootton. Courtesy of the Artist and Almine Rech

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SOCIÉTÉ ANNOUNCES THE REPRESENTATION OF WYNNIE MYNERVA

June 11, 2025 (Berlin, Germany) – SOCIÉTÉ is is pleased to announce the representation of Wynnie Mynerva in collaboration with GATHERING.

Wynnie Mynerva draws on personal experiences of violence tied to race, gender, and sexuality to create a multidisciplinary practice spanning painting, performance, and video. Raised in Villa El Salvador on the outskirts of Lima, a place shaped by complex social and economic realities, their work explores themes of transformation, resistance, and embodiment. Referencing mythological iconography, Mynerva both honors and reimagines classical art traditions, inviting reflection on inherited forms and narratives. Their work proposes alternative perspectives with bold imagination and emotional intensity. Wynnie Mynerva's first presentation at SOCIÉTÉ will open in November 2025. Two major works will also be featured at SOCIÉTÉ’s booth at Art Basel this year.

MEDIA CONTACT

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Anna Rosa Thomae | Founder | art@annarosathomae.com
Ena Alva | Account Manager | ena@annarosathomae.com

NOTES TO EDITORS

Address
Wielandstraße 26
10707 Berlin

Opening Hours
Monday – Saturday | 10 am – 6 pm
Closed on Sundays

About Wynnie Mynerva:

Wynnie Mynerva (b. 1992, Lima, Peru) lives and works between Lima and Amsterdam. They are currently a resident at the Rijksakademie van Beedlende Kunsten, Amsterdam. Mynerva’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions including The Sweet Nectar of Your Blood at Mayoral, Barcelona; My Weaponized Body at Gathering, London; Presagioat Fondazione Memmo, Rome; The Original Riot at the New Museum, New York; and A Garden of Earthly Delights at Museo Amano, Lima. Their work has also been featured in group exhibitions at Museo de Arte de Lima; C3A, Córdoba; Ill Posto, Santiago de Chile; Sargent’s Daughters, New York; and Pedro Cera, Lisbon, among others. They have been shortlisted for numerous awards, including Pasaporte para un Artista (2020), the Banco Central de Reserva Painting Contest (2019, 2020), the Contemporary Art Award (2019, 2020), and the National Visual Arts Meeting of Trujillo (2018).

About SOCIÉTÉ:

SOCIÉTÉ is a Berlin-based contemporary art gallery with a global reach. The gallery’s bold curatorial approach plays a pivotal role in advancing its artists’ visions, supporting major museum exhibitions, biennials, and acquisitions by leading institutional collections worldwide. Operating in both the primary and secondary markets, SOCIÉTÉ provides curated advisory services to select clients.

Beyond its exhibitions, the gallery’s publishing initiative, EDITION SOCIÉTÉ, collaborates with prominent writers and graphic designers to produce artist books, catalogues, and, more recently, high-end artist editions.

SOCIÉTÉ is an active presence at major international art fairs, including Art Basel, Art Basel Paris, Art Basel Miami Beach, Frieze New York, Frieze London, ARCOmadrid, and Gallery Weekend Berlin.
 

Image credits:
1. Wynnie Mynerva's studio at Fondazione Memmo, 2024. Photography by Daniele Molajoli.
2. Wynnie Mynerva, 'Reflejo', 2024. Courtesy of the artist and GATHERING.

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SOCIÉTÉ ANNOUNCES THE REPRESENTATION OF SALIM GREEN

June 10, 2025 (Berlin, Germany) – SOCIÉTÉ is pleased to announce the representation of American artist Salim Green in collaboration with François Ghebaly.

Salim Green explores themes of concealment, visibility, and opacity through a multi-disciplinary practice encompassing painting, sculpture, video, performance, installation, sound, and writing. For Green, abstraction functions both as an aesthetic strategy and an attitude: a means of negotiating notions of legibility, authorship, and the plasticity of experience. A recurring point of reference in his work is Dark Forest Theory—a speculative framework proposing that extraterrestrial civilizations remain hidden to avoid detection and destruction. Adopting this theory as a lens for understanding relational dynamics and Black existence, Green’s work embodies acts of strategic withdrawal—resistant assertions of unknowability, interiority, and survival. Salim Green's upcoming solo presentation at SOCIÉTÉ in 2026, will mark the artist’s European debut. François Ghebaly will open his first solo exhibition in September 2025. DFT 2025, a group exhibition co-curated by Salim Green and Benjamin Chaffee, will open at Wesleyan University in the same month.

Salim Green has recently had a solo exhibition at SculptureCenter, New York and currently is the Sullivan Fellow in the arts at Wesleyan University.

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NOTES TO EDITORS

Address
Wielandstraße 26
10707 Berlin

General Opening Hours
Monday – Saturday | 10 am – 6 pm
Closed on Sundays

About Salim Green:
Salim Green (b. 1996, Middletown, CT) earned a BA from Wesleyan University in 2020 and an MFA from the University of California Los Angeles in 2024. Green’s work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions at François Ghebaly, Los Angeles; Room 3557, Los Angeles; Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Middletown; SculptureCenter, New York; Bellyman, Los Angeles; Stony Island Arts Bank, Chicago; Fábrica, Mexico City. His work is included in the collections of the Getty Research Institute, The Kinsey Collection and the Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University. He lives and works in Los Angeles, CA and Middletown, CT.

About SOCIÉTÉ:
SOCIÉTÉ is a Berlin-based contemporary art gallery with a global reach. The gallery’s bold curatorial approach plays a pivotal role in advancing its artists’ visions, supporting major museum exhibitions, biennials, and acquisitions by leading institutional collections worldwide. Operating in both the primary and secondary markets, SOCIÉTÉ provides curated advisory services to select clients.

Beyond its exhibitions, the gallery’s publishing initiative, EDITION SOCIÉTÉ, collaborates with prominent writers and graphic designers to produce artist books, catalogues, and, more recently, high-end artist editions.

SOCIÉTÉ is an active presence at major international art fairs, including Art Basel, Art Basel Paris, Art Basel Miami Beach, Frieze New York, Frieze London, ARCOmadrid, and Gallery Weekend Berlin.

Image Credits:
1. Portrait of Salim Green. Photography by Pelumi Sokunbi. Courtesy the artist and SOCIÉTÉ, Berlin.
2. Salim Green, '1001 (for the ride)', 2025. Oil and acrylic on wood felt on wood panel. 23 x 23 x 4 cm.
Photography by Trevor Good. Courtesy the artist and SOCIÉTÉ, Berlin.

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THE AMALFI COAST’S FIRST LISTENING BAR HIDES IN PLAIN SIGHT AT THE FABLED LE SIRENUSE HOTEL

June 5, 2025 (Positano, Italy) – The rooms that today host the Don’t Worry Music Bar were at the heart of the Sersale family’s seaside villa in Positano. They were something of a cocoon, where family and friends would gather to chat, read, or play cards. Soon after the Sersales transformed the property into a hotel in 1951, this pair of rooms with traditional cross-vaulted ceilings became Le Sirenuse’s original bar. They retained the intimate atmosphere of a meeting place for amici and amore, for soft conversation, good wine, and old-school cocktails. Today, this tucked-away enclave within the charmed Le Sirenuse has added la buona musica to the mix.

It was while on vacation in Tokyo that Le Sirenuse’s operations manager, Aldo Sersale, discovered the world of Japanese listening bars. These are spaces where the music is as important as the cocktails and the conversation, if not more so. The classic ongaku kissa or ‘listening café’ is dedicated to vinyl records reproduced on top-quality sound equipment. Aldo had long wanted to give Le Sirenuse’s original indoor bar a new energy while respecting its history and heritage. With its celebration of old-school, analogue audio pleasures, a listening bar, Aldo realised, was the perfect solution. It would also give guests of Le Sirenuse a convivial place to relax and enjoy a nightcap after dinner.

For the state-of-the-art sound system, he turned to audio consultant Stefano Menicagli, whose first contact with Le Sirenuse had come when Aldo’s grandfather Franco Sersale asked him to install a Linn Sondek vinyl HiFi system in his house in Rome. Stefano has since masterminded all the HiFi systems in the hotel. Stefano installed a system based around speakers by British firm ATC, a legend within the professional sound industry.

Finding a DJ with the right sensibility was proving to be more problematic until an acquaintance mentioned Paolo Sciabu, a Positano-born and bred who had worked the turntables in a couple of the Amalfi Coast resort’s dance bars in the 1990s. He was hired on the basis of a test playlist he made for Aldo. “Being a true analogue”, Aldo recounts, “Paolo came up with a knockout selection of high-quality music on vinyl reproduced as faithfully as possible, blending 60s, 70s and 80s rock and roll with some of the best Italian pop classics.’’

When it came to crafting a cocktail list for the Don’t Worry Music Bar, Aldo, head barman Roberto Pane and director of mixology Alessio Lupo decided to divide the menu between ‘Timeless Cocktails’ such as the Sazerac or the Hemingway Daiquiri, and a selection of eight ‘Italian Pop Classics’, inspired by some of the Italian songs of the 1950s to 1990s that Sciabu spins for guests. “I wanted the drinks to be fresh and fun”, Aldo explains, “but also to taste like they had decades of cocktail history behind them”. Alongside timeless drink classics, guests can indulge in signature desserts from Le Sirenuse’s renowned menu—such as the iconic Amalfi Lemon Delight, a beloved confection of the Amalfi Coast.

The bar takes its name from British artist Martin Creed’s neon work Don’t Worry, part of the Artists at Le Sirenuse site-specific contemporary art programme curated by Silka Rittson-Thomas. In 2025, the hotel inaugurates its latest installation – the seascape cycle Le Sirenuse I–XX by Swiss artist Caroline Bachmann, consisting of twenty painted tondos, now adorning the room’s arched ceiling alongside Creed’s artwork.

The Don’t Worry Music Bar is open every evening from 7 pm until late with the DJ starting at 9 pm.

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A R T Communication + Brand Consultancy (Berlin)

Anna Rosa Thomae | Founder | art@annarosathomae.com

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About Le Sirenuse:

Le Sirenuse opened in 1951, in what until then had been the Sersale family’s summer house in Positano. Today the 58-room Amalfi Coast resort is considered an Italian hospitality icon, though it still retains the intimate, cultured atmosphere of a private home. More than a mere hotel, it has become over the years a lifestyle reference point that brings into fertile dialogue the worlds of fashion, culture, gastronomy, mixology and wellbeing, creating connections and crafting personal narratives.

Scenic La Sponda restaurant, informally glamorous bar-bistrot Aldo’s and the resort’s chic little Pool Bar showcase this southern Italian region’s authentic seasonal produce, while the Don’t Worry Music Bar is a true insiders’ speakeasy in tune with the rhythm of Positano nights. 

Le Sirenuse also features a refreshingly contemporary Spa designed by architect Gae Aulenti, where a range of signature treatments are available, alongside a fitness area with two total-workout Megaformer machines. The resort is celebrated worldwide for its all-inclusive weekly activities, which include trekking on some of the Amalfi Coast’s spectacular mountain trails and more leisurely sunset cruises on the Sant’Antonio, the family’s traditional gozzo fishing boat.

Assembled over decades by art and antique collector Franco Sersale, the hotel’s elegant décor today enters into conversation with a growing site-specific contemporary art collection featuring talents of the calibre of Martin Creed and Nicolas Party, while the light-filled bedrooms are havens of dolce vita style.

Now as in the past, Le Sirenuse is a family affair. Third-generation Sersales, Aldo and Francesco, are increasingly involved in the day-to-day running of a hotel that their parents Antonio and Carla began to manage in 1991. Carla currently curates Emporio Sirenuse, the resort wear and lifestyle brand she founded in 2013, which takes inspiration from the deep-rooted Mediterranean culture of this charmed enclave south of Naples. For more information, please visit Sirenuse.it/en.

Facebook | Instagram | @lesirenuse

Image Credits:

1. Le Sirenuse, Don't Worry Music Bar, 2025 Photography by Brechenmacher & Baumann.
2. Le Sirenuse, Don't Worry Music Bar, 2025 Photography by Roberto Salomone.
3. Le Sirenuse, Don't Worry Music Bar, 2025 Photography by Brechenmacher & Baumann.

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MOONARIJ UNVEILS NEW MOONJAR GLASS VASES | A TRIBUTE TO THE GLASSBLOWN SPHERE

May 15, 2025 (Berlin, Germany) – Berlin-based MOONARIJ launches the Moonjar collection, a new series of large-scale spherical glass vessels, introducing a bold new shape to the brand’s diverse designs. Renowned for its dedication to preserving centuries-old German glassmaking traditions while continuously reimagining form and pattern through a contemporary lens, the brand now pays homage to the sphere — the very first and most essential shape in the glassmaking process. Elevating the initial shape into the final form, MOONARIJ transforms the point of origin into its ultimate expression. This core form, capturing the artisan’s very first breath into the material, now takes center stage in the Moonjar series through a colorful collection of shimmering glass vases.

The name "Moonjar" refers to traditional Korean spherical porcelain vessels, made during the Joseon dynasty and cherished for their understated elegance and purity of form. Timeless and iconic, these objects have long served as symbols of cross-cultural inspiration, influencing artisans across eras and disciplines, a legacy now carried in MOONARIJ’s glass creations. Reinterpreting the spherical form through the brand’s contemporary design language, these vases balance transparency, reflection, and playful ornamentation, embodying a delicate sense of joy. With every piece, new compositions emerge, fluid, unpredictable and unrepeatable, each a unique interpretation of an imperfectly perfect form.

With the introduction of the Moonjars, MOONARIJ expands on a lineage of forms developed across its collections, from the ovoid silhouettes of the Oona and Zigzag series to the tall cylinders of Narij and the wide, voluminous profiles of the Large Buckets.

MOONARIJ was born from a deep passion for artisanally made vessels appealing to those who value innovation while cherishing the organic, handmade quality shaped by the care and expertise of master glass artists. Founded in 2022 by Johanna Wichelhaus, the Berlin-based brand fuses contemporary design sensibilities with traditional craftsmanship. Each piece is conceived in Berlin and brought to life through close collaboration with small, skilled workshops in Berlin and Dresden.

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MEDIA CONTACT:

A R T Communication + Brand Consultancy (Berlin)

Anna Rosa Thomae | Founder | art@annarosathomae.com

Ena Alva | Account Executive | ena@annarosathomae.com

NOTES TO EDITORS:                                               

About MOONARIJ:

MOONARIJ is a Berlin-based, female-founded design brand focused on handcrafted vases. Captivated by the art of glass blowing, Johanna Wichelhaus teamed up with renowned glass artists in 2021 to develop first iterations of her sketches of striped bud vases. The designs evolved into the brand‘s first collections – the Oona, released in 2022, and the Narij, followed by the Large Bucket, Oona Baby and Zigzag collection. Voluminous in shape, iridescent in color and meticulously crafted, hand-blown and hand-sculpted Moonarij vases stand out as mesmerizing objects of beauty.

www.moonarij.com

Instagram: @moonarij_objects           

Image Credits:
1. Moonjar #5. Photography by Ivan Kravstov. Courtesy of MOONARIJ.
2. Moonjar #10. Photography by Ivan Kravstov. Courtesy of MOONARIJ.
3. Collection of MOONARIJ Vases. Photography by Ivan Kravstov. Courtesy of MOONARIJ.
4. Moonjar # 4 (white), Moonjar #6 (green/white), Moonjar # 7 (green/pink). Photography by Mina Aichhorn.
Courtesy of MOONARIJ.
5. Moonjar #9. Photography by Mina Aichhorn. Courtesy of MOONARIJ.
6. Moonjar #8. Photography by Mina Aichhorn. Courtesy of MOONARIJ.

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SOCIÉTÉ x Art Basel | Art Basel Unlimited | Art Basel Parcours

Preview Days: June 16 – 18, 2025
Public Days: June 19 – 22, 2025 

May 15, 2025 (Basel, Switzerland) – Berlin-based SOCIÉTÉ will participate in the 55th edition of Art Basel, from June 16 – 22, 2025, at Messe Basel. The gallery will present works by Jeanette Mundt, Trisha Baga, Petra Cortright, Conny Maier, Kaspar Müller, Tina Braegger, Timur Si-Qin, Wynnie Mynerva, Salim Green, Marianna Simnett, Bunny Rogers, Anh Trần, and Lu Yang at booth K8.

Petra Cortright, installation view of ‘sapphire cinnamon viper fairy’, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, 2022. Courtesy of the artist and SOCIÉTÉ, Berlin.

Petra Cortright at Art Basel Unlimited 

American artist Petra Cortright, will present a video installation titled sapphire cinnamon viper fairy at Art Basel’s 2025 Unlimited sector, at booth U67. The work takes the form of over two hundred webcam videos spanning fifty monitors. Looping videos across multiple screens, Cortright seeks to spatialize the fragmented, ephemeral nature of digital experiences. Each individual video, a tiny, self-contained world, converges into a larger, ever-evolving collage. Conceived in an era before smartphones and selfie culture, when the internet was, in the words of the artist, “a big empty space,” Cortright’s webcam works reflect an organic form of online existence: one driven by curiosity and the desire to simply be seen, even if just for a fleeting moment.

Marianna Simnett, ‘Interlude’, 2024. 7-minute single channel video with stereo sound and custom display. Resin, steel, television and speakers. 267 x 240 x 124 cm. Photography by Trevor Good, Courtesy of the artist and SOCIÉTÉ, Berlin.

Marianna Simnett at Art Basel Parcours

British-Croatian artist Marianna Simnett will present a video work titled Interlude in Art Basel’s 2025 Parcours sector, curated by Stefanie Hessler, in the Merian Hotel parking lot. The video loops within a sculpture of a concession stand inspired by those found at sporting events. Rendered in rich ochre, red, and gold tones, the work’s sculptural element appears illuminated from within by an otherworldly inner glow, giving it a mesmerizing, eerie quality that intensifies when the shutters lift to reveal a video of a solitary woman singing and preparing food—only to retreat behind the blinds once more. Interlude repositions the often-invisible figure of the vendor into a role of unexpected prominence. The video teems with tactile and abject imagery: sweating hotdogs glisten inside a food warmer, while ketchup and mayonnaise splurt and ooze, highlighting the visceral, almost grotesque materiality of the space and the tasks performed within it. These fluids echo the unease of containment and release, adding a layer of discomfort to the woman’s melancholic performance. The video exudes a dreamlike, almost Lynchian atmosphere, contrasting the gritty energy of sport with the melancholic presence of its protagonist. 

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MEDIA CONTACT

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Anna Rosa Thomae | Founder | art@annarosathomae.com
Ena Alva | Account Manager | ena@annarosathomae.com

NOTES TO EDITORS

Address
Messe Basel
Messeplatz 10 
4058 Basel
Switzerland

Opening Hours
Unlimited Sector Opening
Monday, June 16, 2025, 4pm - 8pm, First Choice
Monday, June 16, 2025, 6 pm - 8pm, Preview

VIP Days
Tuesday, June 17, 2025, 11am - 8pm, First Choice
Tuesday, June 17, 2025, 4pm - 8pm, First Choice & Preview
Wednesday, June 18, 2025, 11am - 8pm, First Choice, Preview, One Day VIP & Two Day VIP

Vernissage 
Wednesday, June 18, 2025, 4pm - 8pm

Public Days
Thursday, June 19, 2025, 11am - 7pm
Friday, June 20, 2025, 11am - 7pm
Saturday, June 21, 2025, 11am - 7pm
Sunday, June 22, 2025, 11am - 7pm

About SOCIÉTÉ:

SOCIÉTÉ is a Berlin-based contemporary art gallery with a global reach. The gallery’s bold curatorial approach plays a pivotal role in advancing its artists’ visions, supporting major museum exhibitions, biennials, and acquisitions by leading institutional collections worldwide. Operating in both the primary and secondary markets, SOCIÉTÉ provides curated advisory services to select clients.

Beyond its exhibitions, the gallery’s publishing initiative, EDITION SOCIÉTÉ, collaborates with prominent writers and graphic designers to produce artist books, catalogues, and, more recently, high-end artist editions.

SOCIÉTÉ is an active presence at major international art fairs, including Art Basel, Art Basel Paris, Art Basel Miami Beach, Frieze New York, Frieze London, ARCOmadrid, and Gallery Weekend Berlin.

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