Ahu Dural, Harry Hachmeister and Katharina Reinsbach
The exhibition Heaven Came Down Like a Blanket shows works by Ahu Dural, Harry Hachmeister and Katharina Reinsbach. The artists' work is united by a melancholy yet loving look at the stations of their lives and the places that have shaped them.
Image gallery
Ahu Dural, Roter Lackschuh, Berlin-Moabit, 2023, Holz, Beize, Fotoprint auf Karton
Ahu Dural's artistic practice includes drawings, collages, furniture objects and sculptures. Of central importance here is the aesthetic examination of spaces and surfaces, based on the architecture that surrounded Dural as she was growing up. Her works tell of a chapter in German-Turkish social history, written in Berlin-Siemensstadt. At the same time, they encourage viewers to reflect on their own past and personal relationships.
Harry Hachmeister relates different materials and techniques to each other in his work. In his paintings, photographs and ceramics, Hachmeister explores aspects of desire, intimacy and physicality. The artist's works draw attention to the ambivalences, blurs and ambiguities that underlie these facets of identity. Again and again, Hachmeister focuses on processes of change, on provisional and intermediate stages.
In her works, the draughtswoman Katharina Reinsbach deals with remembering and understands this as a multi-layered process that is simultaneously physical, emotional and social. Her works take the artist back to places that are emotional for her. At the same time, they allow viewers to develop their own associations and search for points of reference. Reinsbach works both with graphite pencil and with the solvent acetone, which she uses to transfer motifs and colors to the image carrier. Her works thus emphasize the versatility and simultaneity of graphic means.
Ahu Dural, Harry Hachmeister and Katharina Reinsbach present personal works at Galerie Parterre, which are characterized by this very complexity of human emotions.
- Exhibition period: 25.04. to 08.06.2025
Events
Sunday, 04.05.2025, 15:00 - 17:00
Drawing workshop with Katharina Reinsbach for children and adults
Saturday, 24.05.2025, 18:00
Reading: Nicht die Ersten. Movement Stories of Queers of Color in Germany with Tarek Shukrallah, Thao Ho and Elija Tourkazi
Sunday, 08.06.2025, 17:00
Finissage of the exhibition with a performance by Grazyna Roguski and a reading from the novel Siemens worker Yurda Gül by Ahu Dural (published 2025)
Location: Galerie Parterre Berlin
Danziger Straße 101
10405 Berlin
Opening hours:
Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday: 13:00 - 21:00
Thursday: 10:00 - 22:00
(Events in German)
Additional information
Participating artists
Ahu Dural
Harry Hachmeister
Katharina Reinsbach
