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We can’t be everywhere – but Berlin has it all!

25 May 2025

We can’t be everywhere – but Berlin has it all!
Whilst we decided to be in Berlin this May for Tifzab and her inaugural TygerTyger show. We could not help but look across the seas and enjoy the gems our scouts sent images of: in Frieze New York Olivia Zab found a wonderful Jesse Wine
We can’t be everywhere – but Berlin has it all!
At Societe was the incredible Marianna Simnett sculptures (more on those later)
We can’t be everywhere – but Berlin has it all!
She loved the work of Hannah Levy at Casey Kaplan
We can’t be everywhere – but Berlin has it all!
And in London Bloomberg produced a wonderful show with Jonathan Baldock in the excellent and carefully restored and contextualised ‘London Mithaerium’ love that place!
We can’t be everywhere – but Berlin has it all!
But we headed to Berlin for Gallery Weekend. Where TygerTyger (Anneli & Tiffany) co-hosted a wonderful dinner with Wehrumuehle, a community driven art centre. It was so stunning
We can’t be everywhere – but Berlin has it all!
Tiffany and Anneli were so happy and gave a speech full of thank gratitude and love
We can’t be everywhere – but Berlin has it all!
Liyu Yeo came to visit Tyger Tyger with his Gallery Weekend Group
We can’t be everywhere – but Berlin has it all!
And artist and dance superstar Kianí Del Valle gave an unbelievable performance on the Sunday, here she is with Marianna Simnett and the TygerTyger team
We can’t be everywhere – but Berlin has it all!
Out and about our first stop was to Eigen+Art where we bumped into Christian Erentraut and discovered Nicola Samori. His exhibition ‘La Bocca Di Berlino’ looks at art history to create unsettling works on cut stone slabs
We can’t be everywhere – but Berlin has it all!
The entry work was a hanging sculpture with splayed goat’s legs and a cry in pain. Representing some form of suffering steeped in mythology
We can’t be everywhere – but Berlin has it all!
Over at Carlier Gebauer was the incredible work of Leonor Serrano Rivas ‘Here by Dragons’ the work was organic and inferred scientific alchemy. Inside ‘Where we Expect to Find Flower’ were hybrid blooms covered in coats of crystals - created by a chemical reaction from vegetable acids in an electrolytic bath
We can’t be everywhere – but Berlin has it all!
At the same time I was totally in awe of this sculpture by Nicole Miller ‘Michael in Black’, 2018. This was a made from a life cast taken directly from Michael Jackson around 1986. Nicole had arranged the position and made it in bronze. So touching
We can’t be everywhere – but Berlin has it all!
The opening of the Marianna Simnett’s show ‘charades was wonderous. The paintings were all made whilst on residency with Tifzab at Times Square Space. She delves into the fluid boundaries between individuals and collective behaviour. In her dreamlike playful paintings and sculptures are so many different scenarios laid before us. Marianna is the queen of research and uncovers by so many different symbols and techniques
We can’t be everywhere – but Berlin has it all!
Then a visit to Neugerriemschneider and Thomas Bayrle’s work ‘Pianta Robusta V’. In this work Bayrle has used AI showing shopping Centres escalators running in parallel between its floors. We loved the glass polyhedrons works of Thomas Saraceno ‘Wayra 246’ and Sharon Lockart of a mid-winter landscape
We can’t be everywhere – but Berlin has it all!
We headed to Trautwein Herleth Gallery, to meet Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo, AKA Puppies Puppies in the show ‘Generate Art’, it was incredible. Jade had moved the minimalist painting, Pop Art and combining these with her references, such as networking app ‘Grindr’, to bring these ideas up to date and add a new chapter to art history. By incorporating her experiences as a trans woman into the work she pays homage to the things that have shaped her and the world around us.
We can’t be everywhere – but Berlin has it all!
We see Robert Indiana reinterpreted for today as HRT Hormone Replacement Therapy. We spent a lovely time together, discussing how Indiana’s LoVe sculpture has been so widely accepted but that his homosexuality and relationship for Ellsworth Kelly is still not talked about as an important part of his life and work. Maybe it isn’t, but then, maybe it is? Jade in front of a green screen backdrop with the Ellsworth Kelly homage yellow Grindr Mask.
We can’t be everywhere – but Berlin has it all!
We headed out to Kindl to see the show of Caught in a Landslide curated by Feben Amara and Krisztina Hunya. Our favourite work by Nguyên plus Transitory and Bussaraporn Thongchai. Scattered across the floor were lifeless bronze pieces of delicate, semi abstracted lifeless insect bodies
We can’t be everywhere – but Berlin has it all!
A synthesiser mounted high on the wall was connected by cables to etched copper plates installed below with etchings of the same bronze characters on the floor. The artists are referring to Southeast Asian Migrant Woman and the struggles that are faced through dislocated experiences and the pressures of constant adaption
We can’t be everywhere – but Berlin has it all!
The rotating work of Neda Saeedi was also most interesting – ‘The War Horses Which Run Swiftly’ here the crates replace the horses of a traditional fairground each containing a sculptural fragment. The artist was looking at the Pietà motif as a symbol for loss and mourning. He is questioning how does suffering change if presented again and again as the work rotates. The fragmented warhorses give a sense of looming apocalypse
We can’t be everywhere – but Berlin has it all!
We loved at Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler by Klaudia Schifferle, ‘Play the Red Line’. Klaudia was a founding member of the band Kleenex later known as LiliPUT. Back in the 70s. She was inspired by the feminist ethos of post-punk. Her work does not seem groundbreaking but taking in her history the work has a certain edge to it such as ’15 Swollen Gun’ 2024 and ‘Office Chiar’ 2025 and her painting ‘O.T’
We can’t be everywhere – but Berlin has it all!
LAStly we caught the Laure Provost show in a big voluminous building, an old factory now reborn as a nightclub, it was a walk through her personal surrealist version of Quantum and lots of fun