Past
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Painting the Infinite: Power & Process
Kadar Brock, Jeremy Lawson, Ben Tong 30 Aug - 13 Oct 2024 Bode is pleased to present Painting the Infinite: Power & Process, a group exhibition with works by Kadar Brock, Jeremy Lawson, and Ben Tong curated by Dexter Wimberly. Painting The Infinite: Power & Process is an exhibition about the physical act of painting and the limitless possibilities of the medium.... Read more -
Something for Tomorrow
Olivia Botha 8 - 25 Aug 2024 Bode is pleased to present Something for Tomorrow, a solo exhibition with works by Olivia Botha. “I just want to make beautiful art for a while; art that makes me happy.” – Olivia Botha In the two bodies of work presented by Olivia Botha, Wilting Flowers produced in 2022, and... Read more -
Midsommar
Anthony Akinbola, Alteronce Gumby, Tariku Shiferaw 8 Jun - 4 Aug 2024 Bode is pleased to present Midsommar, a group exhibition with Anthony Akinbola, Alteronce Gumby, and Tariku Shiferaw, celebrating the work of three New York-based contemporary artists throughout a very special time of the year. The Midsummer Day, known as the summer solstice festivities, is a celebration of the longest day... Read more -
Should I be a tropical painter or should I not
Francisco Alejandro Jim, Noel León 18 May - 7 Aug 2024 Bode is pleased to present Should I be a tropical painter or should I not, an exhibition of Francisco Alejandro Jim and Noel León curated by Liatna Rodríguez in Havana. Should I be a Tropical Painter or Should I Not. Observaciones sobre la decadencia de las formas en el trópico... Read more
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I write (stitch) what I like
Senzeni Marasela 14 Mar - 12 May 2024 Bode is pleased to present I write (stitch) what I like, a solo exhibition of Senzeni Marasela, a multidisciplinary artist investigating the questions of memory, place and loss, capturing fragility and softness of women, as well as dealing with personal narratives and historical gaps. The exhibition is the artist’s first... Read more -
Tres tristes tigres
Manuel Castillo, Luis López-Chávez, Leandro Feal 24 Feb - 6 Apr 2024 Bode is pleased to present Tres tristes tigres, a group exhibition of Manuel Castillo, Luis López-Chávez, and Leandro Feal, curated by Liatna Rodríguez in Havana. Tres tristes tigres (eng. “Three Sad Tigers”) is a group exhibition encompassing photography, video, and installation. This triad, used as a pretext, brings together three... Read more -
Hushed Neon
Dana James 3 Feb - 10 Mar 2024 Bode is pleased to present Hushed Neon,a solo exhibition of Dana James, where the artist explores embracing and resisting beauty, the duality of femininity, as well as the contradictions of human-made artifice inside a natural world. James’s paintings, ultimately awash in luminosity, coalescence bright, airy pastel palettes with weathered, recycled... Read more -
Inhabited
Alejandro Alonso, Alejandro Campins, Laura Carralero, Osvaldo González, Luis E. López-Chávez, José M. Mesías, Linet Sánchez, Ezequiel O. Suárez, Infraestudio 3 Dec 2023 - 2 Feb 2024 Bode is pleased to present INHABITED, a group exhibition of Alejandro Alonso, Alejandro Campins, Laura Carralero, Osvaldo González, Luis E. López-Chávez, José M. Mesías, Linet Sánchez, Ezequiel O. Suárez, Infraestudio, curated by Liatna Rodríguez in Havana. How to define a space? Is what we call a country, city, house or... Read more
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Syncopated Tales
Darin Cooper, Ryan Cosbert, Emmanuel Massillon 23 Nov 2023 - 21 Jan 2024 Bode is pleased to present Syncopated Tales,a group exhibition of Darin Cooper, Ryan Cosbert, and Emmanuel Massillon, exploring diverse musical traditions of the African Diaspora through various forms of artistic expression, including painting, sculpture, and new media. The focus of the show lies on the power of Black music and... Read more -
Human Tapestry
Kareem-Anthony Ferreira, Jerrell Gibbs, Riley Holloway, Collins Obijiaku, Patrick Quarm, Raelis Vasquez 14 Oct - 19 Nov 2023 Bode is pleased to present Human Tapestry, a group exhibition of Kareem-Anthony Ferreira, Jerrell Gibbs, Riley Holloway, Collins Obijiaku, Patrick Quarm, and Raelis Vasquez, capturing the complexity of humanity and personality, as well as questioning subjective perception through wide-ranging portrayals and social sketches of everyday Black life. As true manifestation... Read more -
Eruption
José Yaque 7 Sep - 8 Oct 2023 Like a transformative natural cycle that evolves into something more, 'Eruption' is the last stage of a pictorial journey that spans over almost ten years. The pieces gathered in this exhibition belong to one of the fundamental series in José Yaque's work, namely, his research on the origin of pigments... Read more -
Pelagic Gesture
Paul Verdell 22 Jul - 27 Aug 2023 That which is pelagic holds significant historical meanings across diverse cultures. The sea has a long and fluctuating role within the history of art and has been represented by almost every art movement in the past and continues to persevere in our collective imagination of possibility. From J.M.W. Turner’s works... Read more
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Love Chant
Chris Watts 22 Jul - 27 Aug 2023 An avid traveler of a mixed ethnic background, which represents not just his identity but the diverse cultural fabric of his native United States of America, contemporary artist, Chris Watts, presents Love Chant wherein he uses alchemy and the ancient history of Peruvian pigments to investigate the relationship between Africans... Read more -
So Close Yet So Far
Tiffany Alfonseca, Rafael Baron, Muofhe Manavhela, Shaina McCoy, Tonia Nneji, Deborah Segun, Demetrius Wilson 10 Jun - 16 Jul 2023 Proximity refers to the concept of closeness. It is not just a physical closeness but a metaphorical nearness. It expands and contracts through space, time, and place. Closeness refers to the relationship we have with each other in presence or feeling. In painting, it is a poetic tool that serves... Read more -
Not everything needs to be painted
José Manuel Mesías 10 Jun - 16 Jul 2023 José Manuel Mesías is a collector of the discarded. During walks through the streets of Havana he collects images, objects, memories; fragments of things that only find meaning in the peculiar universe that is his mind. His works are an assemblage of bits and pieces taken to build wholes. He... Read more -
Embrace: Path to Growth and Contentment
Cinthia Sifa Mulanga 29 Apr - 4 Jun 2023 When we say ‘growth’ and ‘contentment’ we immediately think of light, calm, honesty, joy, peace, love, stillness, solitude, warm smile, silent seduction, change, confidence with the now and hope for the better. It’s like the sun hitting the highest tree and lowest grass. - Cinthia Sifa Mulanga Bode is pleased... Read more
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Opencast
Elizabet Cerviño 29 Apr - 4 Jun 2023 The mining of minerals and stones has many negative connotations and is the source of much political and geographic upheaval. It is a reflection of the human impulse to exploit the land we roam; to place immediate economic and political interests above long-term environmental and communal planning. The global industrial... Read more -
Color Coded
Gene A’Hern, Patrick Alston, Matthew Eguavoen, Nate Lewis, Alexis McGrigg, Gabriel Mills, José Yaque, Anoushka Mirchandani, A’Driane Nieves, Tariku Shiferaw 29 Apr - 28 May 2023 Color is not real. Despite our extraordinary experience of color perception, all colors are mere illusions, in the sense that, although people normally think that objects appear colored because they are colored, this belief is mistaken. It is the purview of the skilled artist to harness the illusion of color... Read more -
We are a way for the cosmos to know itself
Erin Chaplin, Renée Estée, Lanise Howard, Anico Mostert, IyunOla Sanyaolu, Kiriakos Tompolidis, Austin Uzor, Barry Yusufu 25 Mar - 23 Apr 2023 We are made of star stuff. The human is just one of the many things that describe what the universe is composed of and we share the same compounds and atomic ingredients that one would find millions of light years away. But we are also, as far as we can... Read more -
Phantasmatic Figures
Debra Cartwright 18 Feb - 19 Mar 2023 Debra Cartwright spent her childhood in her mother’s gynaecology practice. She sifted through the pages of anatomy books and doodled on images of female body parts while she waited for her mother to finish attending to her patients. As a child, this was a simple reality for her. A fact... Read more
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don't talk
Tegene Kunbi 18 Feb - 19 Mar 2023 There is much to say about the development of abstract painting as both a practice and a concept. In its history, it has been dissected, debated, stripped apart, and put back together. It's linked to national identities, politics, social movements, and even the spiritual. We must never attempt to ignore... Read more -
IT'S ALL ABOUT THE LINE
Maria Seitz & Daniel Schaal 14 Jan - 12 Feb 2023 “ The geometric line is created by movement – specifically through the destruction of the intense repose of the point. […] The forces which transform the point into a line, can be very diverse. The variation in lines depends upon the number of these forces and upon their combinations.“ –... Read more -
UNTITLED Art: Miami Beach
Dana James 29 Nov - 3 Dec 2022 We are pleased to announce our participation at UNTITLED Miami . The fair will run from 29 November - 3 December 2022. Bode Projects will present a solo booth with Dana James. You are welcome to visit us at booth B11. Dana James creates a spectrum of pastel toned colours... Read more -
Nice time to start painting
Stacey Gillian Abe, Maxwell Alexandre, Cristina Canale, Flavio Garciandía, Luis E. López-Chávez, Miguel A. Machado, Agnes Waruguru, José Yaque 27 Nov 2022 - 28 Jan 2023 Bode Havana (address): Aguiar 111 between Cuartéles and Chacón, La Habana Vieja (Old Havana) Wed - Sun: 10am - 4pm or by appointment Despite being part of the genetic information of painting, which means it has been and always will be there, it was not until the irruption of the... Read more
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Oceans and Stars and Tulips
Ambrose Rhapsody Murray 10 Nov 2022 - 8 Jan 2023 While the origins of flags are unknown, a flag is traditionally defined as “a distinctive piece of fabric used as a symbol, a signaling device, or for decoration.” In Oceans and Stars and Tulips, Ambrose Rhapsody Murray presents a body of work to both reconstruct and deconstruct our collective vision... Read more -
In Color We Trust
Patrick Alston 10 Sep - 30 Oct 2022 Humans have historically used color as a symbolic approach toward setting meanings, boundaries, and structure to our social composition. It has molded our perception of nature, music, concepts, architecture, geography, and of course, ourselves. By doing so, the result is a categorization and division of people, setting ourselves up to... Read more -
Summer of Possibilites
Anthony Akinbola, Louis Cameron, Ryan Cosbert, Keltie Ferris, Tomashi Jackson, Stephanie Lüning, Chris Martin, David Reed, Tariku Shiferaw, Joan Snyder, Sylvia Snowden 9 Jul - 21 Aug 2022 Curated by Alteronce Gumby In art, one cannot forecast what the future will look like. We can make predictions based on technological trends, the social and political climate, and cultural shifts that permeate the collective subconscious. However, how anything will manifest can only be understood from the perspective of history.... Read more -
Where Within
Zean Cabangis, JC Jacinto 9 Jul - 21 Aug 2022 Artists JC Jacinto and Zean Cabangis meditate on the ebb and flow relationship between a person and a place. The acts of observing, discovering, documenting and constructing their surroundings become an act of blurring the lines between space and being. The immersion in a place becomes an immersion of thought,... Read more
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Subverted Resistance
Kudzanai Chiurai, Roberto Diago, Bonolo Kavula 4 Jun - 10 Jul 2022 Plato revealed himself in Republic (c. 375 BC) when the poets are banished from the idyllic city. He reveals himself in his thinking of the Artist as dangerous to the establishment and worth removing. While Plato saw the knowledge of the Artist as subpar to that of God, their exile gives... Read more -
Salon RBH
29 Apr - 15 May 2022 The landscape of a city should very much reflect the landscape of the art scene it hosts. Opened in 2017, the Reinbeckhallen had the aim of creating a place where artists and creative people could settle, come into dialogue with each other, and form a network to establish Oberschöneweide as... Read more -
Current Identities
Abdoulaye Konaté, Turiya Magadlela, José Yaque 18 Mar - 1 May 2022 To call something current may suggest a static state of being. A state of being that is divorced from that which has passed; that which has already lived; something that has occurred and is no longer relevant. A state of being that refers to the now, the last minute or... Read more -
Alteronce Gumby
Zona Maco, Booth EJ12 9 - 13 Feb 2022 Bode Projects is pleased to present a solo booth by Alteronce Gumby at Zona Maco. Featuring black gemstones in waves of color, the work is inspired by the artist's first trip to Mexico City; in particular, an experience he had at Teotihuacan, The Pyramid of the Sun. Through the work,... Read more
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Woman to Woman
Stacey Gillian Abe, Belkis Ayón, Heidi Bochnig, Layo Bright, Cristina Canale, Mira Dancy, Ruth Ige, Dana James, Io Makandal, Yolanda Mazwana, Ambrose Murray, Buhlebezwe Siwani 28 Jan - 6 Mar 2022 We are pleased to announce Woman to Woman, our first group exhibition of the year where we present a curated selection of international female creators and their differing proposals and practices. When it comes to the question of What is a woman? additional interrogations should arise. A small exercise may... Read more -
UNTITLED Miami
Patrick Alston 29 Nov - 4 Dec 2021 We are pleased to announce our participation at UNTITLED Miami . The fair will run from 29 November - 4 December 2021. Bode Projects will present a solo booth with Patrick Alston. You are welcome to visit us at booth B51. Patrick Alston is a painter whose painting practice focuses... Read more -
29 at REINBECKHALLEN
Patrick Alston, Katharina Arndt, Stéphane Ducret, Franziska Goes, Neo Matloga 20 Nov 2021 - 16 Jan 2022 Patrick Alston
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KIAF Seoul 2021
Chris Watts 13 - 17 Oct 2021 We are pleased to announce our participation at the 20th edition of KIAF Seoul 2021 from 13 October - 17 October. Bode Projects will present US-American artist Chris Watts at booth S02 in the Solo Projects section. Chris Watts is a painter and mixed-media artist whose work interrogates social, collective... Read more
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Cross Colours
Alteronce Gumby 15 Sep - 23 Oct 2021 We are pleased to present the solo exhibition ‘Cross Colours’ by the painter Alteronce Gumby. Alteronce Gumby is an abstract contemporary artist, working across different disciplines, expanding the pictorial language of his works and media. Alteronce Gumby's paintings subvert traditional understandings of light and colour through the nuanced application of... Read more -
I Saw It Hang Down There
Ryan Cosbert, Lucas Kaiser, Kemi Onabulé, Alina Sokolova, Kemar Wynter 7 Aug - 4 Sep 2021 We are pleased to announce an eclectic summer show which presents the emerging art positions of Ryan Cosbert, Lucas Kaiser, Kemi Onabulé, Alina Sokolova, and Kemar Wynter. Combining abstract painting, drawing, works on paper, and figurative painting, the show depicts the themes of identity, observations on labor and societal phenomena,... Read more -
Look, Listen and Respond
Riley Holloway, Sedrick Huckaby 26 Jun - 31 Jul 2021 The title of the duo exhibition 'Look, Listen and Respond' by Sedrick Huckaby and Riley Holloway refers to the moment of time when someone has to contemplate, when being confronted with new ways of seeing. Sedrick Huckaby is an American artist whose practice explores themes of community and tradition through... Read more -
Witness or Pretend: Decoding Materiality in Southern Art
Joshua Hagler, Luis López-Chávez, Chris Watts 15 May - 19 Jun 2021 The exhibition Witness or pretend: Decoding materiality in southern art is addressing similar questions; by depicting the reference to personal as well as collective narratives, Joshua Hagler, Luis López-Chávez, Chris Watts address a fragile present, derived by an absence or 'incompleteness' of the past through lost stories and fractured histories,... Read more
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Yo Soy [I am]
Miguel Machado 5 Mar - 8 May 2021 The solo exhibition Yo Soy [I am] by Cuban artist Miguel A. Machado Suárez testifies to a very particular and constant theme in Cuba’s search for identity: the need to define oneself. Miguel Alejandro Machado Suárez defines himself in what he does in his making – and in his paintings.... Read more -
If Yesterday Was Tomorrow What Is Today
26 Nov 2020 - 20 Feb 2021 The group show If Yesterday Was Tomorrow What Is Today presents a combination of artists from both the Southern and Northern hemisphere, addressing economic and personal upheaval, temporality, the present of today and tomorrow, crisis as form and inquietude of transitional change in contemporary times. If Yesterday Was Tomorrow What Is Today presents emerging art positions with notes on contemplation in Minimalism, Neo-Expressionism, Drawing and Painting.
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Otherwise All Was Silent
Dana James 22 Oct - 21 Nov 2020 The American painter Dana James creates a spectrum of pastel toned colors which creates a note of contradiction in darker, vivid fields of color in fractured multi-panel constructions. Her work oscillates between energetic, impulsive strokes, at once dark and powerful, then combines a matt-colored poetry with a determination of drawing... Read more -
London Abscape: Abstracted landscapes in Painting
Frank Bowling, Benjamin Cockett, Al Damidge, Marcia Scott 11 Sep - 17 Oct 2020 Since arriving in the United Kingdom in 1953, Sir Frank Bowling OBE RA has been an influential member of the London art scene, both by writing and exhibiting his art internationally. His recent retrospective at Tate Britain acclaimed a new wave of global recognition and confirmed his status as one... Read more
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A Response in Uncertain Times
18 Apr - 16 May 2020 Being active in an international environment, Invisible Borders Agency and Lars Kristian Bode are aware of the challenging situation in the current situation, not only in Europe but also internationally. In a collective effort we would like to bring together different artists with various backgrounds. But they all have one... Read more -
La Puente - Seat of Honor
Stacey Gillian Abe 5 Apr - 1 May 2019 LKB/G and kulturreich are pleased to announce their shared exhibition 'La Puente - Seat of Honor' by Charlotte Schmitz and Stacey Gillian Abe. Born in 1990, Stacey Gillian Abe graduated in 2014 with a B.A (Hon) in Art and industrial design from Kyambogo University in Kampala, Uganda. Her work is... Read more -
Fibers of Being
Tahir Carl Karmali 7 Feb - 9 Mar 2019 LKB/G is pleased to announce the first solo exhibition by Tahir Carl Karmali in Germany. The exhibition runs from February 08th until the March 09th. The title Fibers of Being refers to both the material used and ideas of existence in the narratives explored in his work. Karmali's interest in... Read more -
1718
19 Oct - 16 Nov 2018 LKB/G is pleased to present the group exhibition 1718. The exhibition provides an overview of the work of the gallery over the last 18 months. Since the first exhibition in May 2017, LKB/G has realized exhibitions with very different working artists. The gallery has focused on underrepresented positions, with a... Read more
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To the Unknown
Banele Khoza 2 Aug - 7 Sep 2018 LKB/G is pleased to present the first solo exhibition To: The Unknown by Banele Khoza (*1994) in Germany. Banele Khoza about the upcoming exhibition: 'The sense that I have felt from people when it comes to abstract works, they either get lost and not understand what the work is about,... Read more -
Armand Boua: Dans le Djassa
Armand Boua 10 May - 2 Jun 2018 LKB/G proudly presents the first solo exhibition by Ivorian artist Armand Boua (*1978) in Germany. Boua assimilates his impressions of the life of street children in West Africa which is characterised by violence and the aftermath of political struggles. The consequences of the civil war which shook the country at... Read more -
ART TRANSPOSITION: Kampala - Nairobi - Hamburg
14 Sep - 14 Oct 2017 The exhibition ART TRANSPOSITION: Kampala - Nairobi - Hamburg presents work by three artists from Uganda - Denis Mubiru, Waswad and Xenson, and two artists from Kenya - Boniface Maina and Shabu Mwangi. The exhibition will be curated by Robinah Nansubuga from Uganda. Being representatives of the young generation of... Read more -
Dear History: It's Not Me, It's You
Thania Petersen, Buhlebezwe Siwani, Grace Cross 1 Jul - 11 Aug 2017 Dear History: It's Not Me, It's You is an exhibition about art as a powerful tool for reclaiming South Africa's complex heritage, historical narratives and aesthetic imagery. Works are presented from a distinctly female perspective in an attempt to break, both physically and conceptually, from the loveless marriage between colonial... Read more
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Fantasía Cubana – Feliz, Feroz, Amén
Miguel Machado, Orestes Hernández Palacios 2 - 18 Jun 2017 For this exhibition LKB/G presented two unconventional Cuban artists Miguel Machado and Orestes Hernández Palacios. Read more -
Arising African Perspectives
5 - 27 May 2017 LKB/G's first exhibition 'Arising African Perspectives' will show a composition of three young African artists. Vusi Beauchamp and Io Makandal from South Africa and Gideon Appah from Ghana will present their work in Hamburg. Read more
