Galerie Deschler

Marcus Deschler founded his gallery in Auguststrasse in Berlin’s Mitte district in 1995. In this exciting and experimental period of Berlin in the first decade after the fall of the Berlin Wall he chose a program of both established and young artists and became part of a dynamically developing gallery scene. In 2001 the rooms of the gallery were carefully restored and enlarged. Conceptually Marcus Deschler, who has a background in business, is supported by the art historians Dr. Simone Wiechers und Dr. Martin Oskar Kramer. Through active public relations, a wide-spread network as well as active participation in the BVDG Federal Association of German Galleries (where he is a member of the board), he positions his artist and focuses on the international market. This is supported by participation in national and international art fairs. The gallery works together closely with a small but carefully selected group of artist, who are presented to the public in regular solo exhibitions. The focus of the international program is on technically innovative explorations of artistic traditions, mainly by younger artists. Important examples of this approach are the paintings of Holger Bär executed by a painting robot developed by himself, Tony Conway’s inventive use of digital photography to create multi-layered pictures with a sculptural presence, Patricia Waller’s bewildering world of whimsical objects made of crochet work, and Jay Mark Johnsons photographic recordings of motion sequences. Further artists include Mariano Rinaldi Goñi, Jörn Grothkopp, Kehl, Hans van Meeuwen, Stefan Roloff, Deborah Sengl, and Yukiko Terada. The gallery also represents a number of artists of international renown who came out of the Berlin art scene or are active in Berlin: Rainer Fetting and Salomé are the best known among these. Apart from solo exhibitions the gallery also on a regular basis presents group show organized according to specific themes, reflecting the diversity and complexity of contemporary art in its temporal transformations. The exhibition “Technical Matters” in the winter of 2010, for instance, presented four contemporary positions on the topic of art and technology (Holger Bär, Tony Conway, Jay Mark Johnson, and Stefan Roloff), reflecting the ways we are confronted with technology in a modern world, whether through a direct use of new, self-developed techniques in the production of the works as such, through the deliberate integration of new techniques in more traditional artistic processes, or in a representation of an imagined world of technology. In early 2011, on the occasion of the Berlinale 2011, the Galerie Deschler presented a group show of works focused on the topic of cinema and film. In summer, a solo exhibition by Rainer Fetting ran concurrently to the large retrospective of works by the artist shown by the Berlinische Galerie, Berlin's State Museum of Modern Art, Photography and Architecture.