Andreas Hentrich and Ute Wöllmann approach the romantic "Forget-me-not" from two artistically diametrically opposed perspectives. Andreas Hentrich impresses with his photorealistic watercolors, which are so realistic that one can hardly believe they are painted. His technical excellence translates his precise observations into reality. Ute Wöllmann combines ink painting with impasto oil painting, language and handwritten lines of poetry with abstractly rendered sensations of nature. She paints abstract pictures that focus on the sensuality and radical nature of color. She is interested in the simple, the unspectacular aspects of nature, including a forget-me-not, which she imbues with new meaning through sweeping gestures.

Jens Wohlrab is a virtuoso oil painter who straddles the line between figuration and abstraction. Every square centimeter of the painting is meticulously crafted. With a sensitive feel for color nuances and their subtle tensions, he creates intense color spaces and new pictorial realities. A feast for the eyes!

Staging is Maribel Brandis's central theme. Through deliberate exaggeration of clothing, posture, and expression, she challenges stereotypical role models and plays with expectations. Series like "Swimming Cap Portraits" or "Toreros" depict people in roles that seem both absurd and familiar. The costumes reveal the extent to which our self-image is culturally shaped and performatively constructed.

The main theme of Gerd Rehme's artistic work for several years has been the development of humanity in the increasingly dominant digital world. In his recent paintings, Rehme explores this issue, questioning developments in the digital realm, but above all, the evolution from natural humans to artificial beings – is the human element being lost? What are "cyborgs"? Just normal people with machine parts?

Open Days at the Berlin Academy of Fine Arts with events and an exhibition called "Death and the Devil - What Remains When We're Gone." Students and graduates will present their work. Planned events include the "Art Saves!" art booth, open from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. on September 4 and 5 in front of the academy. Passersby are invited to participate: to draw, write, etc., and to post their thoughts in a mailbox. "How will people remember me when I'm gone?"

Plein-air painting events from July 14th to 18th, 2 p.m. to 6 p.m., on the streets of Berlin in front of studio buildings whose continued existence is threatened or which have already disappeared: July 11th and 12th at the BLO studios, July 13th at the former studio building at Sigmaringer Str. 1, July 14th and 15th in front of the Cultural Senate and in Weinbergspark. A protest against the radical cuts in the cultural sector! With an exhibition featuring works by all the artists involved in the events at the ROOT Gallery.

Christoph Primm's strength is the tension between color and structure. He layers the undiluted color into complex compositions and makes the painting itself the object of observation. At first glance, his pictures are gestural abstractions. At second glance, symbolism can also be discovered in the pictures. The open image forms activate the experience of the color presentation and the painting process.

Ana P. Buehner deals with virtual worlds and their effects on us humans. In extremely long work processes, she uses computers and AI to create templates for her oil paintings, which she executes using photorealistic and old master painting techniques. Her extremely long work processes form a counterpoint to our time, which is accelerated by AI. Ana P. Buehner's pictures open up a discourse about what reality is.

Ulrike Bröcker paints a landscape that she feels deeply and to which she has developed a close relationship. She allows her sensitive visual experiences and her intense emotional experience in and from nature to flow directly into her brushes and creates atmospherically impressive landscapes in which landscape zones dissolve into horizontal bars and waves of color. She has succeeded in reinventing Romanticism in its best sense.

100 monumental sculptures by Jo Kley can be found in public spaces in Germany and 25 other countries. What's exciting about Jo Kley's sculptures is how movement and energy materialize in the stone. We know the shapes from ancient times. Ilka Schneider is a virtuoso draftswoman who knows how to counteract every black brush gesture with a confident and at the same time sensitive drawn line, who invents one figure after another and tells stories after stories.

100 monumental sculptures by Jo Kley can be found in public spaces in Germany and 25 other countries. What's exciting about Jo Kley's sculptures is how movement and energy materialize in the stone. We know the shapes from ancient times. Ilka Schneider is a virtuoso draftswoman who knows how to counteract every black brush gesture with a confident and at the same time sensitive drawn line, who invents one figure after another and tells stories after stories.

Sylvia Bähring addresses the careless and dismissive treatment of our past and our cultural heritage in post-reunification Germany. Her starting point is the view from her parents' house in Thuringia, then of a traditional porcelain factory, now of an asphalt parking lot. As an act of reconciliation, she stages her assembled sculptures made from the shards of the past against these black surfaces.

Öffnungszeiten: 10 h – 13 h + 14 h – 17 h

In recent years, the Berlin gallery ROOT organized various plein air painting trips in the project "ROOT on the road": 2022 In the footsteps of Gustav Klimt at Lake Attersee; 2019 In the footsteps of plastic waste in Schleswig-Holstein between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea; 2018 In the footsteps of the Castor transports in Gorleben; 2016 In the footsteps of the planned power lines through the Schorfheide in the Uckermark.

As part of the exchange program between the two academies, scholarship holders from the Freie Akademie der Bildenden Künste Kärnten (Free Academy of Fine Arts Kärnten) will be guests at the Akademie für Malerei Berlin (Academy for Painting Berlin) and Galerie ROOT (ROOT gallery) for 14 days.

In the exhibition, steel sculptures by Manuela Tirler are in a dialogue with abstract oil paintings by Christoph Primm, a painting that has grown and condensed over many layers. Manuela Tirler has already attracted attention with numerous exhibitions and awards. Her works fascinate by a close, but alienated relationship of art and nature and by the impression of lightness, which stands in contrast to the heaviness of the material used.