carlier | gebauer, Berlin, is pleased to announce the group exhibition, I Opened the Curtain to See What Lays Behind, including works by Juliana Cerqueira Leite, Asta Gröting, Lexia Hachtmann, Pakui Hardware, Laura Lima, Lúcia Koch, Joanna Piotrowska, Guga Szabzon, Tiago Tebet and Ian Waelder.
A tableau vivant of enigmas, the group exhibition I Opened the Curtain to See What Lays Behind explores human gestures and their traces, their forms and their meanings. Beyond the gesture itself, where does it lead us? And in what ways do different gestures take shape and meanings and circulate in the spaces between us? They speak of a shared meaning, building a bridge communicating between several entities. And still a gesture can be a sign, a symbol, a form, an invitation, ubiquitous but singular, ephemeral and at the same time bound to the body by which it is produced. Once the hand is removed, the gesture becomes absent, hinting towards a prior intention. The works in the group show propose the idea of art and its making as an absent gesture, a touch that opens but never reveals its meaning entirely. Although seemingly familiar, gestures are nonetheless easily rendered into the absurd, the uncanny, the enigmatic.
Selected Works
Lúcia Koch
printed fabric and aluminum frame
243 × 100 × 100 cm
Pakui Hardware
The Host 2, 2021
stainless steel, fabric, resin, glass
150 × 120 cm
Asta Gröting
TOUCH, 2015
single channel 4K video projection
16 min
Tiago Tebet
Untitled, 2023
Acrylic on raw canvas
220 × 160 × 14 cm
Guga Szabzon
Gira, 2023
Sewing on felt
215 × 180 cm
Ian Waelder
Stain & repair (Handle with care), 2023
Inkjet print on cotton canvas covered with a layer of raw linen with water stains, ink, glue, tissue paper, glass cleaner, pencil, tippex and felt-tip pen. Stretched on aluminium frame
390 × 163 cm
Joanna Piotrowska
Untitled, 2022
Silver gelatin hand print
58,8 × 48,6 cm
Juliana Cerqueira Leite
Lay, 2016 / 2024
Plaster, pigment, steel
97 × 49,5 × 125 cm
Laura Lima
Flying Saucer #25, 2023
Galvanized steel, stainless steel, glass, tempered glass and stone
50 × 65 × 46 cm
Lexia Hachtmann
rain today, 2023
Oil on linen
55 × 65 cm
Installation Views
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I Opened the Curtain to See What Lays Behind, exhibition view at carlier | gebauer, Berlin, 2024
Photo © Andrea Rossetti -
I Opened the Curtain to See What Lays Behind, exhibition view at carlier | gebauer, Berlin, 2024
Photo © Andrea Rossetti -
I Opened the Curtain to See What Lays Behind, exhibition view at carlier | gebauer, Berlin, 2024
Photo © Andrea Rossetti -
I Opened the Curtain to See What Lays Behind, exhibition view at carlier | gebauer, Berlin, 2024
Photo © Andrea Rossetti -
I Opened the Curtain to See What Lays Behind, exhibition view at carlier | gebauer, Berlin, 2024
Photo © Andrea Rossetti