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 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
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Messeplatz 10 
4058 Basel
Switzerland

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

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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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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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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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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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CAROLINE BACHMANN’S SEASCAPE CYCLE IS THE LATEST ADDITION TO LE SIRENUSE’S SITE-SPECIFIC ART COLLECTION

May 12, 2025 (Positano, Italy) – Based at Le Sirenuse, the iconic family-run luxury hotel in the Italian coast town of Positano, the Artists at Le Sirenuse program is delighted to present its latest hotel-specific art project: a cycle of twenty seascapes by Swiss artist Caroline Bachmann inspired by the view of the Li Galli islands from the famed Amalfi Coast hotel over the course of an imaginary day, from midnight to midnight. 

Bachmann lives on the shores of Lake Geneva. A core element of her practice is to observe the lake at all hours, especially the liminal time between day and night, making sketches that, in her studio, become painted canvases that hold within them a multiplicity of views, memories and moments.

Antonio Sersale, co-owner of Le Sirenuse, fell in love with Bachmann’s work when he caught one of her solo shows at the Galerie Gregor Staiger in Zürich. He was struck by the convergence between her Lake Geneva waterscapes and a view he has admired since he was a child: that of the Mediterranean sea with the Li Galli islands on the horizon, as seen from the rooms, restaurant, bars and terraces of the hotel his family founded in 1951 in what until then had been their seaside villa. Siblings Paolo, Aldo, Anna and Franco Sersale named their new venture after these three islands, which were once known as Le Sirenuse, or ‘The Sirens’, due to their association with the mythological creatures who tempted passing sailors with their irresistible voices.

Invited to Positano in October 2023 by Antonio Sersale and Artists at Le Sirenuse curator Silka Rittson Thomas, Bachmann became equally fascinated by a view that changes from second to second under the influence of light, wind, waves and weather.

It was when she and Gregor Staiger stepped into Le Sirenuse’s Don’t Worry Music Bar, housed in what had been one of the original living rooms of the Sersale family villa, that the artist realised she had found a home, and a subject, for the proposed work. Up there, just below the traditional cross-vaulted ceiling, were twenty arched niches running continuously around the walls. This was the perfect location, Bachmann remarks, for a series of works that chart twenty moments in the course of one day and night but “are to be read in a direction of an infinitely rotating clock”.

Choosing as her ‘observation tower’ Room 65, which enjoys an unparalleled panorama of the ‘vertical town’ of Positano and the sea beyond with the Li Galli islands on the horizon, Bachmann began, as she always does, to make a series of pencil sketches of anything that struck her about that view – effects of the light, cloud formations, wave patterns, colour shifts and other details. It was only later that winter, after she returned to her Swiss studio, that the artist decided that the islands should be the focal point of the landscape cycle, and also the works would be a series of tondos – a circular format that was popular with Italian artists of the Renaissance.

It took Bachmann nine months to complete the twenty oil paintings, each of which measures 30cm in diameter and is enclosed within a painted amber frame based on a traditional Italian earth pigment, burnt sienna. The artist referenced the preparatory drawings made in Positano, she explains, “as a musician does a musical score… I don’t turn to the sketches to remind me of something but to recognise a density, an emotion, a force”. Bachmann adds that, for her, painting an island “is like painting a self-portrait, not only because the artist’s profession is a kind of island, but also because an identification takes place in the act of painting an island that allows you to bring it inside yourself and see it as a subject that is completely internal”. 

Entitled Le Sirenuse I–XX, 2025, the twenty works were installed in the Don’t Worry Music Bar on 8 April 2025, starting with midnight in the centre of the north wall, and proceeding clockwise around the arched niches through the course of a day and back to midnight. They encircle an existing work that hangs from the ceiling of the same room – Martin Creed’s neon installation Don’t Worry (2016). 

The dialogue between each work and its setting and the conversation between the individual works is a defining element of Artists at Le Sirenuse, a site-specific art programme launched in 2015. To date, it consists of twelve commissions, among them Nicolas Party’s vibrant re-imagining of Le Sirenuse’s swimming pool and Alex Israel’s trompe l’oeil mural on the stairway leading down to Aldo’s bar.

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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.

For more information, please visit www.sirenuse.it/en
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About Caroline Bachmann

After studying at the Academy of Arts and Crafts in Geneva, Caroline Bachmann went on to live and work in Barcelona and Rome before returning to Switzerland in 2003, where she is currently based. From 2007 to 2022, she is a Professor and Head of the painting and drawing department at the University of Art, HEAD in Geneva. Her and Swiss artist Stefan Banz collaborated between 2004 and 2014, a period during which they founded KMD – Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp | the Forestay Museum of Art, an exhibition and research space. Caroline Bachmann lives and works between Cully and Berlin.

Image Credits:
1 -2. Caroline Bachmann, Le Sirenuse I–XX,2024-5. Oil on board, 20 parts. 30 x 30 x 2.2 cm each BACH/P 71. Photography: Galerie Gregor Staiger © Caroline Bachmann.
3. Caroline Bachmann in the Don’t Worry Music Bar at Le Sirenuse. 2025. Photography by Roberto Salomone.
4. Le Sirenuse, Don't Worry Music Bar, 2025. Photography by Brechenmacher & Baumann.

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HEINZ MACK UNVEILS FIRST SOLO EXHIBITION AT ALMINE RECH IN NEW YORK | FROM ZERO UNTIL TODAY

On view: May 9 – June 15, 2025

May 6, 2025 (Germany) – In light of Heinz Mack's global representation by Almine Rech, the German artist unveils his first solo exhibition at the gallery, titled Heinz Mack | From ZERO until Today, on view from May 9 to June 14, 2025, at Almine Rech in Tribeca, New York. The exhibition will feature 22 works from the artist’s oeuvre, tracing key moments from his early ZERO period to the present day. A central figure and co-founder of the ZERO movement, Mack is celebrated for his innovative exploration of light, space, and color, with an oeuvre that ranges from paintings to monumental outdoor installations, leaving a lasting impact on contemporary art and featured in major public collections worldwide.

Heinz Mack has focused on the aesthetic possibilities of vibration and luminosity since the beginning of his career in the late 1950s as co-founder of the global ZERO movement with fellow artist and philosophy student Otto Piene. Light in Mack’s work suggests both the solar light of the sun and the chemical light of the mushroom cloud. In Mack’s work, brightness is not only a natural phenomenon but also, emerging in the wake of two world wars and under the shadow of the threat of nuclear conflict, his work suggests the interrelation of the duality of life and death. These twin poles of human experience are also captured in the ZERO group’s manifesto-like writings, which convey an interest in new possibilities, as suggested by the word “zero" itself, which ZERO’s practitioners dramatically likened to the culmination of a rocket launch countdown.

Though based in Düsseldorf, ZERO was a loose allegiance of artists working internationally, engaging with figures as diverse as Yves Klein, Piero Manzoni, and Yayoi Kusama. While involving optical, kinetic, and installation art from the start, many of the ZERO artists were among the pioneers reanimating the historical avant-garde trope of monochrome painting in the postwar period. Mack was one of these. In keeping with his generation’s use of single-color painting to isolate a particular formal effect, Mack turned to the monochrome early in his career as a device to set off vibratory effects, which in turn suggested a way to harness light. In the dynamic structures Mack began making in 1955 he realized that, in creating a subtly variegated topography within a field of a single color, he could elucidate luminous effects through the changing way light hits different passages across a painting’s varied topography. For example, in Ohne Titel (1958) Mack incised a grid of linear striations into red synthetic resin, and did the same with white resin in White Silence (1960). Works like these activate the viewer, since the quality of effects change as one moves around the painting’s heterogeneous surface.

Embracing the numinous qualities of light, Mack introduced metallics into his practice, such as the silver resin used to create the choppy surface of Vibration der Schatten (1958). Mack followed his friend Yves Klein, who called himself the painter of blue, by fashioning himself the painter of silver. This inevitably suggested to Mack that he could work with actual metals, as in Vibration (1959), where the artist hand embossed an aluminum panel. These reliefs encourage even further the play of light introduced in the dynamic structures, as it radiates off Mack’s worked metallic surfaces. From there, Mack progressed into fully three-dimensional works, which occupy the space shared with the viewer, as in the free-standing aluminum folding screen Ohne Titel (1972). Mack did not feel limited to only pursuing one idea at a time, or that he had to retire a particular way of working. As such, he would periodically return to certain formats, such as the metal reliefs, a recent example of which is Ohne Titel (2022), which uses an “x” motif to animate an aluminum surface, differing from, but operating similarly to, the textured fan-like composition found in the 1972 screen.

Another development was into kinetic work, such as Japanische Trias (1970), which Mack made during the year he was a guest professor at Osaka University in Japan. Here Mack transposed his signature textured surfaces onto rotating discs, which further activate a changeable dance of luminous effects. This ballet of light is extended in a recent kinetic sculpture, Immaterial Erscheinung (2022), which presents the ghostlike play of a glowing transparent sphere floating in front of a cube.

Other recent work demonstrates Mack’s ongoing interest in environmental works, where the viewer occupies the dramatic space of a darkened room saturated with light effects. These are also conveyed in paintings, like Night View (2005) where phases reminiscent of a lunar eclipse are captured on a canvas surface. Fully dimensional sculptures such as Netz-Stele (2004) bring metallized light effects fully into the round.

More recently Mack has developed painterly ways of exploring light through compositions that juxtapose prismatic fields and lines of color. These works reference art history, harking back to Orphists like Sonia and Robert Delaunay, who pushed toward abstraction with their dynamic rainbow color spectrums. The bright speeding color vectors in Mack’s recent paintings reference the ambient bouncing light rays activated by his earlier work. For example, Chromatische Composition (2022) contains a shimmering Paul Klee-like tessellation of pastel-hued color bars. Other works in the Chromatische Konstellation series take differing approaches, as in a 2013 work, where lines of color zig and zag across an atmospheric blue ground, while in a 2022 work a grid of white squares animate geometric color blocked passages. These recent works demonstrate that Mack is far from done with his now seven- decade-long exploration of vibration and light’s endless possibilities and the multifaceted readings they provoke.

– Alex Bacon, Visiting Scholar, Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland.

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Heinz Mack | From ZERO until Today will be on view from May 9 – June 14, 2025, at Almine Rech in Tribeca, New York.

Address
361 Broadway,
New York, NY
10013, USA

Opening hours
Tuesday — Saturday | 10 am – 6 pm

'Reflections on Heinz Mack' by Valerie Hillings:
"I recall my first visit with Heinz Mack, now more than 25 years ago. I took a taxi from the Mönchengladbach train station to his home one winter evening. This began the first of many conversations with Mack about his creative vision and production, which has spanned decades (and parts of two centuries) and multiple mediums. Light has always played a central role in his art, serving as medium, subject, and a conceptual bridge between nature and culture. His series of Stelen (Pillars) have always stood out to me because of their important role in his landmark Sahara Project (1959), which advocated for the desert as a viable space for presenting and experiencing art, a proposal that was both of and ahead of his time. In his 1966 solo show at the Howard Wise Gallery in New York, Mack posed in a gallery filled with Stelen, an installation that emphasized the physical relationship of the viewer to works characterized by both a palpable presence and immaterial form. This description can also be applied to his metal reliefs, from the earliest, more linear examples related to his 1950s Dynamic Structure paintings to his almost ethereal representations of wings reminiscent of those found in Renaissance paintings. These were the works that I thought of as quintessentially Mack, as indeed they are, but when I visited him at his studio in Ibiza while working on a major 2014 ZERO show at the Guggenheim, he introduced me to his then-current paintings, which formally echoed earlier pictures yet were defined by exuberant fields of color. These works, like all that are part of his œuvre, reflect Mack’s enduring commitment to bringing light into the world through art."

— Valerie Hillings, Director & CEO of the North Carolina Museum of Art.

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:
Heinz Mack, 'Untitled' (Chromatic Constellation), 2022. Acrylic on canvas. Courtesy of Archive Heinz Mack.

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SOCIÉTÉ x Frieze New York

Preview Days: May 7 – 8, 2025
On View: May  9 – 11, 2025

May 6, 2025 (New York, United States) – Berlin-based SOCIÉTÉ will participate in the 13th edition of Frieze New York from May 7 – 11, 2025, at The Shed, 545 West 30th Street, between 10th and 11th Avenues. The gallery will present a diverse selection of works by Trisha Baga, Petra Cortright, Salim Green, Conny Maier, Jeanette Mundt, Bunny Rogers and Marianna Simnett at Booth C 8.

Conny Maier, FASS, 2025. Oil, pigment, oil stick on canvas. 183 x 133 x 5 cm. 72 x 52 1/2 x 2 in.

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Address
The Shed
545 West 30th Street
New York, NY 10001
United States

Preview Days
Wednesday, May 7 (invitation only) | 11 am – 7 pm
Thursday, May 8 (Members and invitation only preview) | 11 am – 1 pm
General admission tickets | 1 pm – 7 pm

Fair Days
Friday, May 9: 11 am – 7 pm
Saturday, May 10: 11 am – 7 pm
Sunday, May 11: 11 am – 5 pm

Image credits:
Photography by Trevor Good. Courtesy of the artist and SOCIÉTÉ, Berlin.

GATHERING REVIVES COLOGNE’S LEGENDARY CAFÉ CENTRAL

May 5, 2025 (Cologne, Germany) – GATHERING gallery proudly announces the grand reopening of the legendary Central in Cologne — a vibrant café, bar, and cultural hotspot that once stood at the heart of the city’s avant-garde and intellectual scene in the 1980s. Nestled at the center of the bohemian quarter, this iconic venue — where artists, writers, musicians, and provocateurs once mingled — is set for a renaissance in April 2025, right alongside the new GATHERING Cologne location just down the street. Revitalized with a bold new vision, Central will see the reinstallation of the iconic Kippenberger Mirrors, alongside caricatures of guests painted for the café’s fifth anniversary in 1991. These will be paired with new dynamic, site-specific interventions by contemporary artists, such as Stefan Brüggemann and Tai Shani. With a transformed interior, new cuisine concept, and the debut of the stylish new Peters Bar, this storied space is ready to reclaim its cultural legacy.

Central was more than a café — it was an intellectual arena, a vibrant laboratory of artistic experimentation and exchange that shaped Cologne’s cultural landscape. Martin Kippenberger, Jörg Immendorff, Günter Förg, Udo Kier, among many other artists made it the go-to space for radical creativity. Simultaneously, lectures by Peter Sloterdijk, Stefan Heym, and Johan Galtung extended its influence beyond its walls. Kippenberger, closely tied to owner Dr. Werner Peters, made the above Hotel Chelsea his home and left a lasting imprint on Central. His creative touch was everywhere—from the installation of his famous mirrors to reimagining rooms at the hotel and adding his distinctive brushstrokes, turning the café itself into an integral part of his artistic practice.

For decades, Cologne was a magnet for artistic innovation — a European crossroads where German artists like Sigmar Polke and Gerhard Richter converged with a wave of American and international artists, from Nam June Paik and John Cage to Cindy Sherman, Jeff Koons, and Robert Gober. The city’s freewheeling energy made it an essential stop on the global art circuit, with Central at its beating heart—a gathering place for radical thinkers, musicians, and the avant-garde. Today with new galleries opening in the neighborhood, Cologne is undergoing a cultural renaissance. The return of Central honors its legacy while contributing to the city’s creative resurgence.

Central will blend echoes of its rich past with a bold, contemporary vision. A standout feature is the bar, which serves as a striking visual centerpiece, featuring a site-specific installation in modernized aluminum by Mexican artist Stefan Brüggemann. Anchoring the space, the bar visually and conceptually bridges the gap between history and innovation. Set in the corner of the café is the doorway to Peters Bar — named in honor of Dr. Werner Peters, the beloved cultural impresario behind Central’s glory days — providing a more intimate ambiance. Wrapped in deep red hues and softly illuminated, the velvet textures and warm lighting of Peters Bar evoke a sense of intrigue and nostalgia. At its heart, a bespoke carpet designed by Turner Prize-winning British artist Tai Shani adds depth and character, upholding the motif of contemporary art which lies at the heart of Central. Honoring the history of the café, Kippenberger’s iconic mirrors drawn at the café’s fifth anniversary will be reinstalled in the space for the first time in ten years.

The new restaurant menu is shaped by German and Northern European cuisine with a Mediterranean influence, recalling another dining destination in GATHERING’s portfolio, MIRA in Ibiza. Sigfredo Scuticchio, leading both MIRA and Central, describes the latter as a “restaurant marrying traditional and modern approaches, influenced by the history of the place itself.”

Alex Flick, founder of GATHERING and newly responsible for Central explains: “After meeting Werner Peters, the owner of Hotel Chelsea and Central, I was deeply moved to walk the same halls as many of my artistic heroes. Our expansion here is about tapping into that legacy and contributing to its next chapter. The energy is here, the history is undeniable, and the appetite for something new is palpable. With Central and our new gallery space, we want to be part of Cologne’s cultural revival, creating a place where art, ideas, and community come together in a way that feels both forward-looking and deeply rooted in the city’s artistic heritage.”

Coinciding with the reopening of Central, GATHERING inaugurates its third and new gallery location in Cologne with a solo exhibition of the late German artist Sibylle Ruppert (1924–2011) on view until May 17, 2025. Her work has not been shown in Cologne since 1971.

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Addresses
Central
Jülicher Str. 1
50674 Cologne, Germany

GATHERING Cologne
Roon Str. 108
50675 Cologne, Germany

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. Peters Bar in Central, 2025. Photography by Hendrik Poggenpohl.
2. Main Room of Central, 2025. Photography by Hendrik Poggenpohl.
3. Exterior image of Central, 2025. Photography by Hendrik Poggenpohl.

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KUNSTHALLE SCHWEINFURT PRESENTS ROLF SACHS’S LARGEST INSTITUTIONAL EXHIBITION TO DATE

Press Preview: July 17, 2025, 2:00 PM

On View: July 18 – October 5, 2025

April 16, 2025 (Germany) – Kunsthalle Schweinfurt presents Rolf Sachs: be-rühren, the artist's most comprehensive institutional exhibition to date, offering a survey of his multidisciplinary oeuvre from the 1990s to today. On view from July 18 – October 5, 2025, the exhibition features over 150 works, ranging from modular furniture, photography, and sculpture to his latest paintings, which have now become an integral part of his practice. The title be-rühren, a wordplay on the German verb ‘to touch’, captures Sachs's focus: a deeply empathetic and sensory exploration of the human condition.

Rolf Sachs: be-rühren is conceived as a journey through the artist’s career-long experimentation. Taking over the entire ground floor of the museum and unfolding in a non-chronological order, the exhibition invites visitors to engage with Sachs's bold, multifaceted practice. Each room showcases individual bodies of work and site-specific installations, revealing his distinctively playful and inquisitive nature across a variety of mediums. The exhibition also proposes a transversal perspective on the ideas that have shaped his practice from his beginnings to today — a poetic sensibility, an empathetic approach, a fascination with materiality and a continuous reimagining of domestic objects.

Transforming Found Objects

The exhibition delves into the artist’s long-lasting fascination with everyday objects and his sensitivity to a wide variety of materials he has worked with, exploring how these elements run through his entire oeuvre. A room reuniting sculptures from the past 30 years reveals how Sachs has recontextualized everyday objects and materials in a humorous and deeply reflective manner, evident in pieces such as Angst (depicted above) and Sisyphus. This approach is also reflected in a series of monumental vitrines, Heu, Ross, Wolle, and Mist, filled with hay, manure, wool, and horsehair, or in Bodenständigkeit, a pine branch cast in bronze. These works also stand as a testament to Sachs’s deep connection to Alpine culture and express the artist's desire to preserve objects and memories with synesthetic or personal resonance. Presented for the first time since the mid-1990s, Sachs’s early Ha-all environment draws attention to the emotional potential of a seemingly mundane material like sound-absorbing foam.

Through Sachs’s Lens

In his photographic practice, Sachs primarily employs long exposures and flash techniques to capture dynamic movement and the fleeting, mysterious essence of people, sculptures, and everyday objects. Drawing inspiration from the traditional still life genre, his Moving Stills and Shadows reflect on the passage of time and humanity’s yearning to capture it. They are also an exercise in morphing an object’s material essence through various light sources, giving props a life of their own. In his Shadows series, Sachs dissolves the inherent solidity of glass by creating nebulous ghostly effects. In Moving Stills, toilet paper, cans and spaghetti are transformed into lively and ambiguous beings. Both projects reveal Sachs’s particular sensibility towards expressing human emotions through objects. In his yearlong Camera in Motion series, Sachs draws from his Swiss upbringing, using experimental photography and long exposures to transport viewers on a train journey through the Albula railway line, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Mirroring the speed of the journey, Sachs's photographs capture fleeting, random moments, showcasing the inevitable passage of time. The contrast between the focused object and the passing landscape causes the works to hover between abstraction and reality, photography and painting.

A New Interpretation of Form and Function

The exhibition presents Sachs's modular furniture series p-arts + fun c'tion for the first time in over 30 years, offering a rare glimpse into this conceptual body of work. By reducing his creations to the fundamental elements of angles and cubes, Sachs challenges traditional conventions with his chairs, armchairs, and desks, all free of nails or screws, relying solely on gravity and friction for assembly. None of the furniture pieces are static; their form remains dynamic and fluid, capable of taking on an infinite number of configurations. This innovative approach allows the pieces to be reinterpreted repeatedly, giving them a certain sense of "freedom". With the Attraction bed, Sachs alludes to the varied characters of its users, where cold steel meets warm wood, suggesting a certain empathy between the two halves of the bed, just as ideally between the people who use it.

Since 1992, Sachs has continually reinvented the Horgenglarus chair — a purely functional piece of furniture that is usually used in schools and administrative buildings. Using materials like silicone, slate, wax, felt, and resin, Sachs transforms the chair, offering a new, altered perception with each reinterpretation. This modest chair is consistently given a new “sense of self” through these distinct revisions.

Painting: A New Chapter in Sachs’s Oeuvre

The grand hall of the museum unveils the artist’s latest creative endeavour, a series of paintings and drawings that Sachs has rigorously devoted himself to since 2020. Conceptually distinct yet interconnected, the exhibition includes his Can Paintings, the Défroissage series, and the immediate, physically expressive Touchée works. These bodies of work, which often blur the lines between painting and object, are defined by a direct, physical engagement with the medium. The Touchée works are created through a tactile, empathetic process in which the artist uses his fingers to touch and paint the canvas. The result is often abstract, presenting a vibrant new form of expression born from the intimate nature of the process. Sachs’s painting, straddling abstraction and figuration, are a direct manifestation of his search for the intangible that transcends the body. His canvasses aim to establish an emotional and visceral connection with the viewer.

Parallel to Rolf Sachs’s exhibition at the Kunsthalle Schweinfurt, DISTANZ is publishing a 300-page, richly illustrated monograph titled Rolf Sachs. Edited by Coralie Malissard and Salvatore Lacagnina and designed by the London-based studio Kellenberger & White, the book features essays by notable contributors. Available in both English and German, it provides new perspectives on Sachs’s prolific career. (Release: Summer 2025).

The exhibition was created in collaboration with the Institute for Cultural Exchange in Tübingen and was made possible by the generous support of the Schweinfurt Cultural Foundation, the District of Lower Franconia, the Schweinfurt Municipal Savings Bank Foundation and the Barbara Brockardt Foundation in Coburg.

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NOTES TO EDITORS:

The exhibition is organised in collaboration with the Institute for Cultural Exchange in Tübingen and is curated by Coralie Malissard, Studio Rolf Sachs.

Kunsthalle Schweinfurt, Rüfferstraße 4, 97421

Schweinfurt, Germany

https://www.kunsthalle-schweinfurt.de

Opening Hours:

Daily: 10:00 AM – 7:00 PM
Thursdays: 10:00 AM – 9:00 PM
Closed on Mondays (open on public holidays) 

About Rolf Sachs:

Rolf Sachs (b. 1955) is a multidisciplinary artist and designer currently based in Rome. He applies a distinctive humane and conceptual approach across a multitude of mediums, ranging from sculpture, photography, and design and through to architectural projects and set designs for opera and ballet. His move to Rome has inspired Sachs to finally dedicate himself seriously to painting. Since the 1990s, Sachs has challenged preconceived applications of materials, processes, and everyday objects, imbuing them with novel meaning. Deftly employing humor and wit, his work seeks to elicit emotional, sensory reactions. However, his work has nothing of the dryness that is often associated with conceptual art. Rather, it is full of humanity, sensibility, and respect towards the materials he uses. It is poetic, humorous, tongue and cheek, but never irreverent. Currently, his work is particularly focused on exploring the human psyche, people’s character, relationships, soul and spirit.

His work has been exhibited internationally in galleries and museums including the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, the Museum for Applied Art, Cologne; the MAK – Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna; the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice; Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein; Stalla Madulain, Madulain; Hauser & Wirth, Gstaad; Galerie von Bartha, S-chanf and Monika Sprüth, Cologne.

https://rolfsachs.com/

@rolfsachsstudio

Image Credits:

1.      Rolf Sachs, 'Angst', 2013. Courtesy of Byron Slater.

2.      Rolf Sachs, 'Köln, Half Chair', 1992. Courtesy of Rolf Sachs Studio.

3.      Rolf Sachs, 'Statuette', 2020. Courtesy of Rolf Sachs Studio.

4.      Rolf Sachs, ‘Dirty Thoughts', 2009. Courtesy of Rolf Sachs Studio.

5.      Rolf Sachs, 'Allure', 2025. Courtesy of Rolf Sachs Studio.

6.      Rolf Sachs, 'Gloom and Faith', 2024. Courtesy of Rolf Sachs Studio.

7.      Rolf Sachs, 'Frühling', 2022. Courtesy of Rolf Sachs Studio.

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SOCIÉTÉ x Art Düsseldorf 2025

VIP Preview: April 10, 2025
On View: April 11 – 13, 2025

April 8, 2025 (Düsseldorf, Germany) – Berlin-based SOCIÉTÉ will participate in the seventh edition of Art Düsseldorf from April 11–13, 2025, at the Areal Böhler convention center. The gallery will be presenting a diverse selection of works at booth G06 by Trisha Baga, Tina Braegger, Kaspar Müller, Jeanette Mundt, Bunny Rogers and Marianna Simnett.

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NOTES TO EDITORS

Address
Areal Böhler
Hansaallee 321
40549 Düsseldorf

VIP Preview
Thursday, April 10
VIP Preview | 12.00 – 16.00
Official Opening | 16.00 – 20.00

Fair Days
Friday, April 11 | 12.00 – 19.00
Saturday, April 12 | 11.00 – 19.00
Sunday, April 11 | 11.00 – 18.00

Image credits: Photography by Trevor Good. Courtesy of the artists and SOCIÉTÉ, Berlin.

1. Jeanette Mundt, ‘Fire at Night’, 2024.

2. Marianna Simnett, ‘Demeter’, 2025.

3. Trisha Baga, ‘Mass Migration’, 2025.

4. Tina Braegger, ‘Baller’, 2024.

HEINZ MACK JOINS ALMINE RECH | ANNOUNCING GLOBAL REPRESENTATION

April 1, 2025 (Germany) – German artist Heinz Mack announces his global representation by Almine Rech, debuting the collaboration with his first solo exhibition at the gallery, on view from May 9 to June 14, 2025, at Almine Rech in Tribeca, New York. A key figure and co-founder of the ZERO movement, Mack is celebrated for his innovative exploration of light, space, and color, with an oeuvre that ranges from paintings to monumental outdoor installations, leaving a lasting impact on contemporary art and featured in major public collections worldwide.

 “I love the story of the ZERO group, founded in 1957 in Düsseldorf by Mack and Piene and joined by Uecker in 1960. ZERO represented the zero hour, a new beginning after the destruction of the Second World War. Mack decided to use light and glass, it was like 10 years earlier but it’s echoing the Californian 'Light and Space' movement that forms the basis of the gallery's program since the 1990’s. Mack soon began to develop his painting work, abstract approach of light and space through color research.”
— Almine Rech

Heinz Mack was born in Lollar (Hesse, Germany) in 1931. He attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Düsseldorf from 1950 to 1953. At the University of Cologne, he studied philosophy until 1956, graduating in both programmes with state exams.

In 1957, Heinz Mack and Otto Piene founded the ZERO movement in Düsseldorf, which Günther Uecker joined in 1961. This art movement – to be understood as ground zero, from which new aesthetic principles and ideas were developed – drew together artists such as Yves Klein, Fontana, Manzoni, Castellani, Tinguely and Schoonhoven, who had a distinct influence on ZERO, while at the same time receiving energy and ideas from ZERO. Within a decade, ZERO became what is today considered one of the most important international avant-garde movements after World War II.

In 2014, a major ZERO exhibition opened at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, which subsequently travelled to the Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin, the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, and the Sakip Sabanci Museum, Istanbul, drawing a total of almost 700.000 visitors.

In 1959, Mack conceived the so-called Sahara Project, in which he expressed a strong artistic interest in exploring pure light in areas of unspoiled nature. From 1962 on, he installed his “artificial gardens” in the African desert, consisting of sand-reliefs, wings, cubes, mirrors, sails, and monumental light-stelae. This experimental practice with the force of light is shown in the highly respected and awarded film Tele-Mack (1968). In 1976, Mack realized his utopian projects in the Arctic, where he installed swimming sculptures of acrylic glass, light-flowers, prismatic pyramids, ice crystals and fire-rafts. In 2022, the monograph Mack – Sahara was published by Hirmer.

Besides his participation in documenta III (1964) and documenta VI (1977), Mack represented Germany at the XXXVth Venice Biennale in 1970. He also obtained a professorship in Osaka, Japan, and became a full member of the Akademie der Künste, Berlin, to which he belonged until 1992. In 2015, the senate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Düsseldorf unanimously elected Mack as an honorary member.

The artist has been honoured with major awards including the Premio Marzotto (1963), the Premier Prix Arts Plastiques at the IVth Paris Biennale (1965), the Order of Merit of North Rhine-Westphalia (1992), Grand Federal Cross of Merit with Star of the Federal Republic of Germany (2011), and the Moses Mendelssohn Medal (2017), among others.

In 2014, the sculpture ensemble The Sky Over Nine Columns was inaugurated on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice: Nine columns, each measuring eight metres, covered with more than 850.000 gold-plated tesserae. In 2015, the ensemble was shown in front of the Sakip Sabanci Museum, Istanbul, and in 2016 moved to Valencia – surrounded by the futuristic architecture of Santiago Calatrava at Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias. One year later, it was exhibited on the shore of Lake St. Moritz in the Swiss Engadin.

Light is a central theme in the non-representational art of Heinz Mack. His multifaceted oeuvre includes sculptures of various materials – also monumental ones for urban spaces, light reliefs, light cubes, light rotors, light stelae, paintings, drawings, pastels, ink drawings, graphics, photography, mosaics, ceramics, conceptual designs of public spaces and interiors, stage settings, as well as literary works.

Heinz Mack’s works of art have been shown in 400 solo and numerous group exhibitions. His works are among the holdings of some 170 public collections. A multitude of books and catalogues, as well as films, document his work.

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Image Credits:
Heinz Mack with his painting Untitled (Chromatic Constellation), 2013,  Acrylic on canvas , 291 x 315 cm, 114 1/2 x 124 in. Signed, dated "mack 13". Photography by Archive Studio Mack. © Heinz Mack. Courtesy of the Artist and Almine Rech.

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