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OPENING DURING THE SPINNEREI GALLERIES RUNDGANG 
SATURDAY, 25. APRIL: 11 AM - 8 PM 
SUNDAY, 26. APRIL: 11 AM - 4 PM 

In this first solo exhibition with the gallery titled FUNSAVER , Berlin-based painter Allistair Walter shows new and recent artworks for which he transformed snapshots and polaroids into layered, autonomous paintings where memory, perception, and materiality converge. Starting from a figurative base, his images gradually dissolve into open, indeterminate spaces, oscillating between figuration and abstraction, while a calm melancholy and subtle visual whispering imbue the works with quiet emotional resonance. Metamorphosis underpins the exhibition, capturing the continuous becoming of image, subjectivity, and perception, while Walter’s work, driven by an awareness of impermanence, stakes a quiet claim against oblivion—rendering fleeting moments and shared experiences both intimate and enduring.

Please note that the gallery remains closed during Easter Week (April 1st - 6th).

We wish you Happy Holidays and are looking forward to welcoming you again soon! 

In her debut solo show with the gallery, upcoming painter Inna Levinson presents us a new series of paintings with which she responds to our increasing engagement and entanglement with digital visual media and its effects on our understanding of (social) reality and on our minds. She creates compositions that are both intriguing observations and bring a surreal character to sight. The smoothness of the smartphone and computer display is disrupted by the texture of the burlap, or coarsed-meshed jute, the specific surface material she paints on. Thickly applied oil paint on this coarse surface material becomes reminiscent of singular pixels, a tactile texture for the eye that denies false immaculacy and smoothness of the artificial digital realm. Painting as a physical act and its possibilites to re-act upon the motifs serve as intricate interferences and commentary on a world that is saturated and overwhelmed by digital imagery and its potential to dissolves within its realm.

We are pleased to present the first solo show by Stefan Schwarzer at the gallery.

The show Planet Polychromos opened on Saturday, November 1st and is on view until Saturday, December 13th. 

With the exhibition Planet Polychromos, Galerie Philipp Anders presents works by Stefan Schwarzer for the first time. With a wonderful sensitivity towards his subjects and working material, Schwarzer creates delicate yet vibract scenic drawings on paper and canvas. Vibrancy, expressive intency, and immediacy are created through a dense linework and sumptuous color compositions. Most recently, Schwarzer included oil paint into his artistic practice resulting into the first plein air made oil painting which will be at view in his show. The solo exhibition offers a comprehensive insight into the artist's work over the past few years and at the same time maps the places where his drawings were created. Each work is part of an ongoing search for traces that combines perception, memory, and atmosphere through the means of landscape depicition.

We are pleased to present the new solo show CORTILE FANALE by Katrin Brause.  

OPENING DURING THE SPINNEREI GALLERIES RUNDGANG 
SATURDAY, 13. SEPTEMBER: 11 AM - 7 PM 
SUNDAY, 14. SEPTEMBER: 11 AM - 4 PM 

Katrin Brause (*1972 in Leipzig, lives and works in Leipzig and Catania) will present a series of new paintings which were created in Sicily in the previous year, as well as monumental paintings of weathered street view facades which were part of her presentation at Kunsthalle Bremen in 2024. 

Once more Katrin Brause takes us along with her into her world, with paintings in her distinctive style, which blends superb realism and a way of abstraction that emphasis a sense of both openness and tangibility. The artist paints traces of people: worn-out furniture and street facades, garbage, tourists' left-behinds, regligious icones. These objects are not random - they feel biographically charged, like quiet witnesses to lived lives. The poetry of her work lies in this indirect storytelling. We do not see the people, but we feel their history. Yet, against a melancholic sense of fading, these are no portraits with bitterness, rather quiet reverence. 

We are excited to present the solo show BOTOX by Paul Glaw.  

Paul Glaw (*1988 in Halle/Saale) lives and works in Leipzig. After studying at Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design in Halle and the University of Fine Arts Hamburg, his work has been honoured with numerous awards, including the Future Scholarship from the Hamburg Cultural Foundation. Conceptually, his work revolves around the experiences of the post-reunification period in East Germany, a process of social upheaval which left not only political and economic traces, but also caused deep psychosocial shifts -- and a division in collective memory compared to the rest of Germany. His visual language - characterised by the tension between orange and blue - brings these inner contrasts to the outside world: lethargy meets turmoil, repression meets visualisation, violence meets silence.

On the occasion of the 20 years anniversary Rundgang of the Spinnerei Galleries, we are delighted to have opened the new exhibition "This Space Between Us" by Leipzig based painter Sebastian Hosu. In company of powerful yet sensitive new paintings, a 6.2 m wide and 3.8 m high mural together with a new large drawing are among the highlights of this show. 

The figurative scenes in Sebastian Hosu’s paintings appear with vigorous brushstrokes, in gestural allusions to form and bold color compositions, resulting in depictions where the border between representational figuration and painterly abstraction remains almost indistinguishable. The dynamic compositions throw the viewer right into the heart of scenes of sporty action and leisure time activity, in which moving bodies seem to blend in with the surrounding landscapes. In depicting these vivid yet very ephemeral moments, Hosu’s paintings oscillate between painterly contouring and simultaneous dissolution of form. This way the ephemeral nature of the summoned scene is contrasted with the physical presence of the paint and painting itself, inviting the viewer to re-visit and reexperience a moment in time over and over again.

We were pleased to start the year 2025 with a new exhibition by Johannes Listewnik. Under the title 'schön dass wir alle wissen wie es geht', the artist, who now lives near Nuremberg, returns to the gallery after his gallery debut 'hard days, night' in 2023.

Many of Listewnik’s pictorial works resemble and/or contain writing. His artistic play with typography is a characteristic feature of his visual language, pointing to the significant influences of literature and literary writing in his work. Based on an extensive diary practice as well as a great, culturally informed curiosity, his works transfer processes of reflection into the visual language.