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Michael Krebber

MICHAEL KREBBER

Wirklichkeit erschlägt Kunst Galerie Buchholz 26 April–15 June 2019 Berlin
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The phrase ‘Reality Slays Art’ does not claim that reality impedes art, destroys it, renders it irrelevant. Instead, this sentence (the title of a painting by Albert Oehlen from 1980) states that art ideally helps in developing a feeling for the massiveness of the real: for inevitability, contingency, density, poison but also malleability, sex, resistance, for my small and unimportant pains and the ugly triumphs of a not yet fully developed consciousness. In other words, for the dismal, tragic, deep tautology that everything real is real–though least of all perhaps the artwork to which I owe this insight. But since it is in encountering art that one experiences this feeling, art can easily become its first victim. At times deservedly so.

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Exhibition view: Michael Krebber, Wirklichkeit erschlägt Kunst, Galerie Buchholz, Berlin (26 April–15 June 2019). Courtesy Galerie Buchholz.
Exhibition view: Michael Krebber, Wirklichkeit erschlägt Kunst, Galerie Buchholz, Berlin (26 April–15 June 2019). Courtesy Galerie Buchholz.
Exhibition view: Michael Krebber, Wirklichkeit erschlägt Kunst, Galerie Buchholz, Berlin (26 April–15 June 2019). Courtesy Galerie Buchholz.
Exhibition view: Michael Krebber, Wirklichkeit erschlägt Kunst, Galerie Buchholz, Berlin (26 April–15 June 2019). Courtesy Galerie Buchholz.
Michael Krebber, ohne Titel (Wirklichkeit erschlägt Kunst) 19 (2019). Exhibition view: Michael Krebber, Wirklichkeit erschlägt Kunst, Galerie Buchholz, Berlin (26 April–15 June 2019). Courtesy Galerie Buchholz.
Exhibition view: Michael Krebber, Wirklichkeit erschlägt Kunst, Galerie Buchholz, Berlin (26 April–15 June 2019). Courtesy Galerie Buchholz.
Michael Krebber, ohne Titel (Wirklichkeit erschlägt Kunst) 15 (2019). Exhibition view: Michael Krebber, Wirklichkeit erschlägt Kunst, Galerie Buchholz, Berlin (26 April–15 June 2019). Courtesy Galerie Buchholz.
Exhibition view: Michael Krebber, Wirklichkeit erschlägt Kunst, Galerie Buchholz, Berlin (26 April–15 June 2019). Courtesy Galerie Buchholz.
Exhibition view: Michael Krebber, Wirklichkeit erschlägt Kunst, Galerie Buchholz, Berlin (26 April–15 June 2019). Courtesy Galerie Buchholz.
Michael Krebber, ohne Titel (Wirklichkeit erschlägt Kunst) 18 (2019). Exhibition view: Michael Krebber, Wirklichkeit erschlägt Kunst, Galerie Buchholz, Berlin (26 April–15 June 2019). Courtesy Galerie Buchholz.
Michael Krebber, ohne Titel (Wirklichkeit erschlägt Kunst) 20 (2019). Exhibition view: Michael Krebber, Wirklichkeit erschlägt Kunst, Galerie Buchholz, Berlin (26 April–15 June 2019). Courtesy Galerie Buchholz.
Exhibition view: Michael Krebber, Wirklichkeit erschlägt Kunst, Galerie Buchholz, Berlin (26 April–15 June 2019). Courtesy Galerie Buchholz.

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About the Gallery

Galerie Buchholz is an art gallery specializing in international contemporary art, with exhibition spaces in Cologne, Berlin and New York City. The gallery was founded in Cologne in 1986 by Daniel Buchholz, and today is run jointly with Christopher Müller.

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Galerie Buchholz contemporary art gallery in Berlin Germany
Galerie Buchholz
Fasanenstraße 30, Berlin, Germany
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http://www.galeriebuchholz.de

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Tuesday – Saturday
10am – 6pm
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