Charlottenwalk on November 29, 2025

Text and photos: Katja Bartz | Member Services

Our first destination on this Saturday was the Volker Diehl Gallery. The gallery was founded in 1990 with a focus on contemporary art with international relevance. The current exhibition here is Straight Splash by Martin Borowski. Martin Borowski lives and works as a freelance artist in Berlin. His work has been presented in numerous solo exhibitions, including in Berlin, Amsterdam, New York and Pietrasanta. He has also been represented in important group exhibitions, for example at the Bröhan Museum in Berlin, the Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz and the Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig.

The next stop on our fall walk was Anahita Sadighi's gallery. The exhibition "FLOATING WORLDS" can currently be admired here. Floating Worlds is dedicated to the tradition of ukiyo-e, whose masters such as Hiroshige, Hokusai and Utamaro developed a poetics of the fleeting moment. Their woodcuts depict city life, landscapes and intimate scenes and later influenced the European avant-garde. The exhibition also presents bijinga and shunga, which combine elegance, eroticism and everyday life. In dialog with this are glass objects by Eloa unique lights, whose luminaires unite light, material and space in a sculptural form. Floating Worlds thus opens up a contemporary view of an art in which transience, atmosphere and design traditions intertwine.

We continued on to the kajetan gallery. Galerie kajetan is presenting Silky Way, the first solo exhibition by Leipzig-based artist Minh Dung Vu. In addition to two smaller works on paper, the exhibition features new large-format textile works in which Vu combines shiny, softly flowing silk with matt linen. In this way, he shifts the boundaries between painting, collage and object and expands the image to include a consistently material-based dimension. His works address cultural affiliation, identity and memory and are characterized by subtle, precisely controlled materiality and a strong presence in space.

We ended our Charlottenwalk on a colorful note at the SCHMALFUSS BERLIN - contemporary fine arts gallery. Up-and-coming and established contemporary artists from Germany and abroad are presented here. The focus is on realism, representational and figurative painting and sculpture. In solo and group exhibitions, a wide variety of artistic positions are shown, ranging from abstract to photorealistic.

Many thanks to all participants and special thanks to Susanne Burmehl, who once again shone with charm and expertise. We hope you will join us again for the spring Charlottenwalk!