Lisa Wassmann Last Days

Lisa Wassmann’s Exhibition is coming to an end. This week is your last chance to check her amazing works. We’re open daily from 14 to 20:00 & exceptionally on saturday from 16:00 on.

Norbert Reissig – It’s a Happening Thing

West Berlin Gallery proudly presents NORBERT REISSIG’S first solo show “It’s a Happening Thing” from September 9th to September 24th 2010 at the West Berlin Gallery.

The exhibition will feature unreleased works from the past years and thematically deals with the decade of the 1960s, an epoque marked by social upheaval, misty-eyed romantic and strong contradictions. The artist visually approaches this legendary decade, aiming at interpreting it from a contemporary point of view, asking if there is any countermovement in our society today.

Reissig has developed a distinctive style implementing playful as well as formal graphic elements in his works, showing depth and reflectiveness in his subject matter. When asked how he would describe his work without using the actual term “art” he refers to it as “NonHippiePsychedelia”.

You’re warmly invited on Thursday 9th of September from 7pm onwards to the opening of NORBERT REISSIG’S show “It’s a Happening Thing”. The evening will be completed with music and drinks to make it a date.

Young graphic artist Norbert Reissig has lately become a name to remember since laFraise. He grew up in Erfurt, Germany where he has been influenced by his grandfather who was an artist and developed a passion for contemporary art and graphic design from an early age on. Apart from working with installation and sculpture, the artist uses acrylic on canvases. In his first solo show, Reissig shows works which are formally related to Psychedelia and leave the viewer with much room for psychological interpretations.

All works are unique and exclusively on display here in the West Berlin Gallery.

Lisa Wassmann

West Berlin Gallery proudly presents Lisa Wassmann’s first solo show in Berlin from August 5th to September 5th. The exhibition will give a first general overview of the photographer’s works carried out over the last three years.

As a photographer, Lisa Wassmann earnestly oscillates between precision relating to crafts and cool digital aesthetics, hence creating a subtle interaction motif between these two aspects. Both Berlin club culture and unbelievable landscapes are featured in a selection of her favourite shots she has chosen for the show. This selection of mostly unpublished photos, specifically represents the artist’s perspective towards her work; and questions whether showing inner feelings has got a price and discusses how to convey intimate feelings into the open. as she was preparing the exhibition, Lisa Wassmann worked on the principle of representation on several levels: the photographs alone are not at the core of the show; their limited reproducibility and framing techniques restored her digital photography prints to ‘pictures’ in the traditional meaning of term. The unique pieces are developed in such a way, acquiring a clear delimitation from the outside and bear a tense interrelation between tradition and present.

The photographs have been issued as a limited edition of three copies each.