In anderen Händen Highlights of the Philara Collection in the Miettinen Collection
Image: Alex Wissel, Düsseldorf – Das deutsche Dallas, 2018, Acryl auf auf Leinwand, 200 x 500 cm. Courtesy the Artist and Sammlung Philara
25 April – 27 July 2025 Opening 24 April, 6 – 9 p.m.
Opening hours during the gallery weekend:Friday, 2 May 2025: 12:00- 18:00
Saturday,3 May 2025: 12:00- 18:00
Sunday, 4 May 2025: 12:00- 18:00
Visits and guided tours are possible every Saturday between 12:00 and 18:00.
The Philara Collection is pleased to present an exhibition of a selection of its works at the Miettinen Collection in Berlin. This is part of a friendly dialogue that encompasses a reciprocal presentation by the Miettinen Collection in Philara’s exhibition space in Düsseldorf, as well as other collaborations in Potsdam and Helsinki.
The exhibition In anderen Händen focuses on improvisation, humour, joy, desire, and resilience in dealing with contemporaneity. The works on show express impulsive feelings, physical presence, immediacy or are devoted to the stream of becoming. Using improvisation and humour – or different perspectives on the everyday – they help us to abandon our position as consumers. In addition, they often bring us humorous relief, unrestrained joy, or new sensitivities, or convey the uncanniness of everyday life, thereby reaching ‘the edge of language’*
* In ‘Stages of Laughter 2’, Amy Sillman compares painting with improvisational theatre: ‘And painting, like improv, is about getting on the edge of language.’ https://www.amysillman.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/201501_StagesofLaughter.pdf.
Artists: Annabelle Agbo Godeau, Yeşim Akdeniz, Nevin Aladağ, Mercedes Azpilicueta, Rebekka Benzenberg, Huma Bhabha, Juliette Blightman, Shannon Bool, Leda Bourgogne, Andrea Bowers, Ulla von Brandenburg, Taína Cruz, Natalie Czech, Hanne Darboven, Thea Djordjadze, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Magdalena Frauenberg, Sabrina Fritsch, Ryan Gander, Melissa Gordon, George Grosz, João Maria Gusmão & Pedro Paiva, Anthea Hamilton, Anton Henning, Katie Holten, Dorothy Iannone, Chris Johanson, Markus Karstieß, Christoph Knecht, Terence Koh, Robert Lucander, Christian Marclay, Ana Mazzei, Florian Meisenberg, Kresiah Mukwazhi, Oscar Murillo, Donja Nasseri, Marcel Odenbach, Phung-Tien Phan, Anys Reimann, Daniel Richter, Megan Rooney, Leunora Salihu, Karin Sander, Hedda Schattanik, Berit Schneidereit, Marie Schubert, Ana Segovia, Philip Seibel, Amy Sillman, Mikołaj Sobczak, Alec Soth, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Cornelius Völker, Alex Wissel (a.o.)