Ausstellung EDITION 5 in Berlin-Kreuzberg

In the organizer's words:

Between precision and process: five perspectives on the renegotiation of visual realities

The EDITION 5 exhibition brings together five artistic positions that deal with the construction and deconstruction of (pictorial) spaces in different ways. In the field of tension between architectural clarity, photographic precision, painterly freedom and material complexity, the artists examine how we perceive and artistically reorganize our environment.

While Mark Hellmann and Claire Kaufmann precisely observe the world in their photographic works and transform what they find into a new, clear order through light composition and technical reduction, Angelika Richter and Nina Hainmüller choose the path of process-based abstraction. Here, pictorial spaces are not created through rigid planning, but through the direct application of paint and the allowance of organic structures. Franck Schmidt-Husson finally breaks up these poles with his multi-layered collages, in which he deconstructs fragments of reality and turns the material layering itself into a carrier of meaning.

EDITION 5 is thus transformed from a mere exhibition of works into an investigation into the possibilities and limits of representation: from deliberate placement to controlled coincidence, from documentary stillness to expressive movement. A variety of artistic approaches become visible here, questioning, transforming and organizing reality in the created work and constantly renegotiating it in the process of creation.

Vernissage: Friday, 26.06.2026 | 18:00 - 22:00 hrs
The exhibition can be visited on the day of the vernissage from 11:00 am.
Exhibition period: Fri, 26.06. - Sun, 28.06.2026

Opening hours:
Friday: 11:00 - 22:00
Saturday/Sunday: 11:00 - 20:00

Venue:
Gallery Zimmer48
Zossener Street 48
10961 Berlin-Kreuzberg
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Free admission on all days

Edition 5 on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/edition_5_five/

Participating artists

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Nina Hainmüller

Nina Hainmüller studied painting and experimental film with Prof. Heinz Pramann in Siegen from 1990 to 1996. During and after her studies, she was already represented in solo and group exhibitions, including the solo exhibition "Motivsuche" (Searching for Motifs) at the Villa Waldrich in Siegen in 1994 and at the IFFA meat fair in Frankfurt am Main in 1997. Her works move between painterly condensation and open, process-like structure. This results in pictorial spaces that release associations without committing to a clear interpretation. The interplay of intuitive access and formal precision is characteristic. Nina Hainmüller currently lives and works in Giessen and teaches art at a grammar school.

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hainmuellernina/
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Mark Hellmann

Mark Hellmann lives and works in Düsseldorf. After graduating in interior design from Detmold University of Applied Sciences in 1989, he has been working as a freelance interior designer in his own office SAAL 3 Architektur in Düsseldorf since 1998. At the same time, he developed his artistic practice with a focus on photography, which he deepened through international workshops and master classes in Bad Reichenhall, Venice, Arles and Heimbach, among others. At the center of his work is photography on the border to painting - drawing with light. The starting point is composition, the conscious arrangement of lightness and darkness in the pictorial space. This does not result in classic images, but rather open, ambiguous pictorial worlds that leave room for imagination and individual perception. Chance also plays an important role in his working process. His works have been shown in numerous exhibitions, including at the Kunstforum Düsseldorf, the Museum Ostwall Dortmund and the Kunstverein Duisburg.

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mohellmann
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Claire Kaufmann

Claire Kaufmann is a self-taught photographer who has consciously dedicated herself to analog photography. With a degree in sociology, she focuses her gaze on the everyday as well as on social structures and phenomena, which she observes and documents attentively with her camera. She is interested in inconspicuous moments of urban life as well as spaces, traces and moods that often only become visible at second glance. For her, the artistic process includes not only the photography itself, but also the manual work in the darkroom: she develops her film negatives independently and produces her prints by hand with great care. Claire Kaufmann works in black and white as well as in color. Her motifs range from architectural and landscape photographs to experimental, abstract pictorial inventions in which light, structure and materiality come to the fore. Her work thus combines documentary attention with an open, poetic visual language. Claire Kaufmann lives in Leipzig and works there as a social worker.

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/socialnothingness
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Angelika Richter

Angelika Richter lives and works as a visual artist and freelance architect in Düsseldorf. After graduating in interior design in 1995 and architecture in 1998 from the Peter Behrens School of Architecture, she initially worked as an architect in Düsseldorf, London and later in Berlin. Since 2012, she has devoted herself increasingly to her artistic work and deepened this through studies in drawing, nudes and free painting in Berlin and Düsseldorf. Her works emerge directly from the process without a prefabricated sketch or fixed concept. She reacts intuitively to color, material and movement, so that forms, structures and pictorial spaces develop step by step. The gestural style, the dynamics of the paint application and the physical application characterize the course of the picture. For her, painting becomes an open dialog with the canvas, in which experiences, impressions and emotions find expression. Her works have been shown in numerous exhibitions, including at the NRW 2023 State Art Exhibition, the Kunstverein Duisburg and the Kunstforum Düsseldorf.

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/angel.ikarichter/
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Franck Schmidt-Husson

Franck Schmidt-Husson lives and works in Stuttgart and Normandy. A lawyer by profession, he found his way back to art during a personal crisis. His works are created without a fixed concept, without a found or preconceived motif and mostly in mixed media with collages or décollages. Basically, his works are nothing more than proliferations of their beginnings. The artist's basic creative attitude is that of a wanderer: through colors and forms, materials and techniques, contingency and consistency, sense and nonsense. Dedication to the moment, layering and interference, experimentation and playing with chance as a source of inspiration and guiding force are essential. Often, at the end of the work process, little remains of its beginning. Much is painted over, pasted over, veiled, scratched or alienated. Some things, on the other hand, remain explicit, figurative or literally legible. Texts and found objects also find their way into the works and open up associations between the world of consumption, absurdity, longing and social friction. This creates multi-layered pictorial spaces between order and chaos, seriousness and irony.

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fraschus
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