68projects by KORNFELD presents a solo exhibition by Edgar Arceneaux, developed during his Berlin residency in collaboration with Villa Aurora and Thomas Mann House. In SHARDS, Arceneaux “skins” mirrors—removing their reflective layer to reveal haunting chemical traces. These works explore fragmentation, identity, and memory, transforming mirrors from tools of self-recognition into ghostly, dismembered relics suspended between object and abstraction.

Simin Jalilian's expressive figurative works explore patriarchal power structures, such as those present in wars or the political system of her home country, Iran. Her pieces address various levels of male power positions, violence, and mechanisms of oppression. Through her use of colour, light, and composition, she effectively captures the threatening atmospheres of political realities in her oil paintings.

Shanee Roe’s exhibition explores intimacy beyond romanticized ideals. Her figures are vulnerable, fragmented, and direct—neither glorified nor hidden. With playful intensity, she challenges our views on the body, desire, and closeness. Between tenderness and discomfort, she creates a space that invites us to reconsider the messy, raw reality of human connection.

Inspired by Belgium's cultural diversity, Yasaman Nozari merges her Iranian roots with modern European influences. This fusion gives rise to an abstract visual language that, through a powerful color palette—magenta, orange, vibrant green, and blue—creates an emotional and spiritual impact.  

Nozari’s works transcend cultural boundaries, resonating on multiple levels by blending shapes, colors, and lines into an almost meditative aesthetic.

Valentina Murabito experiments with analogue photography. She dissolves the photographic surface in order to mould it like a skin or break it like dry earth. The artist develops her photographic works by hand on baryta paper, watercolour paper, wood, steel, concrete and wall surfaces. Her works can be described as a kind of dialogue between painting and sculpture and are each unique.

Pablo Benzo's new series, to be showcased in our September exhibition for Berlin Art Week 2024, focuses on surreal and cubist three-dimensional "picture within a picture" constructions. This technique allows him to depict objects and landscapes in a multi-layered and profound manner.

His images invite viewers to reflect on their own memories and emotions and to establish a personal connection through the subtle cues in the paintings.

For the Gallery Weekend 2024 we present Youjin Yi, master student of Günter Förg at the Munich Academy and guest student at UdK with Leiko Ikemura. Her works combine representational references with abstract, painterly structures. Landscapes are occupied by people, animals, hybrid creatures and other objects. Seemingly dematerialized, they merge with their surroundings, emerge or take shape. The motifs of her works challenge us, they want to be deciphered and yet remain enigmatic.

Under the title [Study layers], the exhibition shows the works of Korean artist Seong Joon Hong, which were created in the summer of 2023 as part of his 68projects by KORNFELD residency in Berlin. The artist combines the heritage of hanji, a traditionally produced Korean paper, with Western traditions. His literally multi-layered images combine to create a narrative about the multi-faceted aspects of life.