Exhibitions

Past

Walking the Line
Bruce Clarke 29 Jan - 13 Mar 2021 Berlin In the artist's first solo exhibition at the ARTCO Gallery Berlin, we are presenting works from two important series by the artist Bruce Clarke, who was born in London in 1959. Bruce Clarke grew up in England after his parents left South Africa in 1958 to continue the fight against... Read more

Libertas
Manuela Sambo 26 Nov 2020 - 23 Jan 2021 Berlin Born and raised in Luanda, Angola, Manuela Sambo studied German studies in the 80s / 90s at the University of Leipzig. During this time, her artistic work began with the construction of masks based on her exploration of her own identity and the subjects of origin and foreignness. In the... Read more

Roger the Rat
Roger Ballen 1 Oct - 7 Nov 2020 Berlin extended until 7 November ARTCO Gallery Berlin present ROGER THE RAT, a new work series by Roger Ballen as a part of the European Month of Photography (EMOP) from 1-31 October. I cannot remember when I put this rat mask on for the first time…I am unsure whether... Read more

Gwala
Gordon Clark & Imraan Christian 1 Oct - 7 Nov 2020 Berlin extended until 7 November Under the title GWALA, we are showing selected photographs by Gordon Clark and Imraan Christian at Salon Wellenmaschine in Kreuzberg.'Gwala' is a slang word of 'Afrikaaps', a modification of Afrikaans that is spoken by the people living in the Cape Flats.The meaning of the term GWALA... Read more

Flood & Fire
Our fragile planet 28 Aug - 26 Sep 2020 Berlin At a critical moment for humanity we present the work of Gideon Mendel who has been bearing witness to our global climate emergency. The Flood and Fire; Our Fragile Planet exhibition explores the evolution of Mendel’s practice, which has shifted from a traditional documentary approach to one that incorporates conceptual... Read more

Einschnitte
Toyin Loye 7 Jul - 10 Aug 2020 Berlin Toyin Loye was born in Nigeria in 1959 and studied fine arts at Obafemi Awolowo University in Ile Ife. His work has been exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Nigeria, Senegal, Argentina, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, the UK, Australia, USA, Germany, Spain, Norway, Belgium, and the Netherlands. He... Read more

Wegweiser
EL Loko & Owusu-Ankomah 8 May - 27 Jun 2020 Berlin Extended to Jun 27 In its first exhibition ARTCO Berlin presents works by two artists, which are among the classics of contemporary African art that ventured onto the European art scene in the early 1970s. Both artists belong to the first generation of African creative artists who came to Germany... Read more

Poetics of Resistance
Marcelo Brodsky 17 Aug - 15 Sep 2019 Berlin Panel Discussion Marcelo Brodsky and Wolfgang Kaleck Saturday, 14/09 at 8 pm Born in Argentina in 1954, over the past five decades he has progressively developed a unique poetics based on the interaction of, mostly journalistic and archival, photographs and written annotations to achieve his objective: to activate personal and... Read more

Bilder & Bretter
Roger Ballen 26 Apr - 10 May 2019 Berlin Between 26 April and 10 May 2019, ARTCO Gallery and Salon Wellenmaschine are presenting the exhibition 'BILDER & BRETTER“ (Pictures and Boards) with works by South African photographer and artist Roger Ballen. The exhibition shows hand signed skateboards, next to the relating original photography by Ballen. The skateboards were produced... Read more