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MARIE  BIRKEDAL
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Marie Birkedal
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Edition 1
OVERVIEW2026 ++
  1. Don’t Play Cards with Satan (for Daniel Johnston)
  2. Blueprints Inside
  3. Broken Glass and Kindness
  4. Nobility Game in Pink
  5. Winstons and violet dawns
  6. That day at the playground (for Lucia Berlin)
  7. Black Dahlia for Carolee Schneemann
  8. Blue Chalk Tenderness
  9. Dry Formalism Infused with Otherworldly Interdimensional Portals (for John McCracken)
  10. American Poem (For John Wieners)
  11. Lichtenberg
  12. Monochrome for W
  13. Artist Statement 
  14. Cv
  15. Contact
  16. Studio 
  17. 21 studio notes; June 2026
  18. You & me / Volume 02
  19. Pure Abstraction
  20. Ist
  21. unterm Lederhimmel

Edition 2
ARCHIVE/INDEX202X ++

  1. Index
  2. Stranger Things
  3. Hard Earned Innocence
  4. ︎2010
  5. ︎2021
  6. Shefolk 2016
  7. Floor Presents
  8. Photo credits


Notes —
Info
  1. Utilizing Expendable Materials to Create Works of Formal Pristine Beauty
  2. alchemist noun
    al·che·mist |  ˈal-kə-mist
    Alchemist: Someone Who Transforms Things for the Better
    The long route to English for alchemist began with the Greek word chēmeia, which probably came from the word chyma (“fluid”), derived from the verb chein, meaning “to pour.” It then passed to Arabic, which added its definite article al- (“the”) to the Greek root. The word then passed from Latin to French before coming to English. Some other words derived from Arabic also retain the al- in English, such as algebra, algorithm, and alcohol; in fact, the transformative liquid that was constantly being sought through experimentation by alchemists is another word with the Arabic al- prefix elixir.
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Alte Feuerwache Project Space





MARIE BIRKEDAL and GLORIA ZEIN


Exhibition from 16.3 to 12.5, 2024
Opening: Friday 15.3 19:00
Wednesday, 20.3 19:00 artist talk with Marie Birkedal and Gloria Zein moderated by Rahel Schrohe
Sunday 12.5, 17:00 Finissage

MARIE BIRKEDAL
I dilute my paints so much that the binder breaks down and only the pigment remains, so that the color develops through evaporation and leaves behind dust-like traces, making the paintings seem evoked rather than made. My paintings embody time as a material just as much as paint and canvas. Each layer must be completely dry before the next and there are long phases of emptiness in which seemingly nothing happens, but really everything happens. To me, the tactile haptic experience is just as valid a way of understanding the world and being in it as words and language. I believe that there is a code of communication and understanding that is visual and beyond language.

GLORIA ZEIN
My hands do the work, but that is meaningless for the sculpture. Something finds expression through them; I only make myself available. When the intellect wants to control the result, banality lurks around the next corner and the experience is destroyed.

The challenge is to think NOTHING and to be completely in the moment.
Organisms store experiences in the strangest places.
A life's journey shapes posture, gait, facial features - and the shine
of the hair.

Alte Feuerwache Project Space
Marchlewskistr. 6, 10243 Berlin, Tel. 030 293479426
www.alte-feuerwache-friedrichshain.de
Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg district office of Berlin
Sun-Wed 12:00-19:00
Thu-Sat 12:00-20:00

https://bpigs.com/openings/unterm-lederhimm





installation views Bernd Borchardt
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