Press Release

PRESS RELEASE:
GALLERY AND EXHIBITION OPENING

The artist-run space rupert goldsworthy gallery re-opens in Berlin on May 1, 2009, with a group show featuring the work of Gretchen Faust, Joanne Greenbaum, Peter Stauss, Mark Stewart, Gabriele Stellbaum, and Rupert Goldsworthy.

The exhibition runs from May 1st to June 3rd 2009. The opening reception is on Friday May 1st from 4-9pm. The gallery is located at Alexandrinenstrasse 4, Berlin-Kreuzberg.

rupert goldsworthy gallery previously existed for seven years, for two years in Berlin (from 1995-97) and five years (from 1998-2002) in Chelsea, NYC. Both projects were conceived to be finite and time-based at their inception.

This inaugural exhibition in Berlin is not a themed show per se, rather it is a presentation of the range of the type of work the gallery plans to present. The show is not based on one subject. Perhaps three dominant themes are the legacies of 1968, performance work, and the "artistic gesture" in a very broad sense. With all the pieces in the show, there is a very refined hand and eye, and a very particular use of materials. Most of these artists are well-known enough that one can quickly locate a position through the work. A fair deal has been published on all of them.

Gretchen Faust is an American visual and performance artist who has lived in England for the past twelve years. Faust will include small abstracts of cut paper.

Joanne Greenbaum is a New York-based artist who makes abstract paintings. She works with a playful, exuberant, free-form, performative style; the gallery is showing small new canvases created during her time spent living in Berlin this spring.

Berlin-based painter Peter Stauss is represented by a number of works on paper. His images often have an allegorical theme, featuring a bizarre cast of characters from saints to soldiers, bedraggled revolutionaries, and dope-smoking hippies. The show also includes the artwork of British musician

The show also includes the artwork of British musician Mark Stewart who first found renown as singer of seminal Punk band The Pop Group. In this exhibition, two new poster pieces will be shown relating to themes of left-wing radicalism.

Gabriele Stellbaum is a Berlin-based artist who works in photography, performance and video. For this exhibition, Stellbaum will exhibit a new work, a video installation The Frozen, drawn from Kafka’s The Castle.

Rupert Goldsworthy's paintings address a range of subjects using post-Pop methodology. His concerns include the Cold War, colonial history, and the iconography of Seventies radicalism.

For further information concerning this show, please contact the gallery via email or telephone.

Concurrently with this exhibition, Mark Stewart is the subject of a new documentary film by Toni Schifer, On/Off: Mark Stewart: From Pop Group to Maffia. The premiere of On/Off will be featured as part of the London East End Film Festival on Tuesday 28th April 2009. Check http://www.eastendfilmfestival.com/ for further details.

Gallery hours: Thursdays & Fridays 12-6pm, Saturdays 10am-6pm, and by appointment.
The gallery is located at Alexandrinenstr. 4, 10969 Berlin(U-bahn: Hallesches Tor)
Tel: 015115841288
http://rupertgoldsworthygallery.blogspot.com/email: r_goldsworthy@hotmail.com