THE AGE
17 September – 8 October 2022
Rachel Fäth, Behrang Karimi, Dala Nasser, Aaron Ratajczyk, Niclas Riepshoff
Curated with
Sinaida Michalskaja

The exhibition is accompanied by the publication the problem was gravity and the answer was gravity with contributions by the artists, published by Verlag Ida Neustadt (56 pages, print edition of 70).
Download web version here.

Photography by Dan Ipp
(unless stated otherwise)

Biographies

Rachel Fäth (born 1991 in Berlin) studied Educational Science at the Ludwigs-Maximilians-University Munich, the Academy of Fine Arts Munich, and is currently enrolled as an MFA student at Hunter College New York City. Her recent exhibitions include: Rust, PAD Gallery, New York City (USA), 2022, Die zwei Seiten der Medaille, Mauer, Cologne, Germany, 2022, Lock (s) Loggia Loggia, Munich, Germany, Katakomben, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany, 2021, Haus Wien, Vienna, Austria, 2021, Truth to Materials, Lovaas Projects Munich, Germany, 2021, Stress Release, das weisse haus, Vienna, Austria, 2020, Ruinous Times with Ruine München, Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany, 2020, Das kleine Format, Kunstverein Aichach, Germany, 2019, Urlaub, Skulpturinstitut, Vienna, Austria, 2019, 20 Proposition – with Ei Arakawa, Kunstverein Salzburg, Austria, 2019. She lives and works in New York.

Behrang Karimi (born 1980 in Shiraz, Iran) lives and works in Cologne, Germany. He studied at the Art Academy Düsseldorf graduating as Meisterschüler. Karimi’s recent selected exhibitions include: Half Drunk and Close to Rope (s), Moon Grove, Rusholme, Manchester, UK, 2022, Sweet Days of Discipline, Hannah Hoffman, Los Angeles, CA, USA, coming for your job and wifes (s), Tramps, London, UK, 2021, Tell me I belong, MISC, Athens, Greece, 2021, SPIT (s), Braunsfelder, Cologne, Germany, 2021, Fifteen Painters (g), Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, USA, 2021, Everything Is Personal (g), Tramps, New York, USA, 2020, Behrang Karimi (s), Zarinbal Khoshbakht, Cologne, Germany, 2020, Any Day Now, Sprüth Magers, London, UK (online), Alistair Mackinven and Behrang Karimi (d), Maureen Paley, London, UK, 2019, Salon des Amateurs, Tramps, London, 2018, Femdom, Pantaleonsmühlengasse/Part1, Cologne, Germany, 2016.

Dala Nasser (born 1990, Tyre, Lebanon) studied at the Slade School of Fine Arts, London, and at the Yale School of Art, New Haven, USA. Her recent selected exhibitions include: Red in Tooth (s), Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany, 2022, Time spent without its flow (s), V.O Curations, London, UK, 2022, The Dead Shall be Raised, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France, 2022, In the Purple (s), Deborah Schamoni, Munich, Germany, 2021, How will it end, curated by Alecia Knock, Villa Empain Brussels, Belgium, 2021, In Praise of Shadows, curated by Ebony Haynes, Yale School of Art, New Haven, USA, 2021, Surface Tension, curated by Ryan Inouye, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, UAE, 2019, Touche, curated by Marie Muracciole and Christophe Wavelet, Beirut Art Center, Beirut, Lebanon, 2019, Surface Work, Victoria Miro, London, UK, 2018, The Pain of Others, curated by Myriam Ben Salab, Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles, USA, 2018. Dala Nasser lives and works in Beirut.

Aaron Ratajczyk(born 1989 in Warsaw, Poland) lives and works in Berlin. He studied at Goldsmiths University of London, and Universität der Künste/ HZT Berlin. Recent exhibitions include: With Whom We Mutually Communicate? Copeland Gallery, London, UK, 2022, Testament, CCA Goldsmiths, London, UK, 2022, The way in, Haus N, Athens, Greece, 2021, New Contemporaries Digital Fellowship, London, UK, 2021, New Contemporaries 2021 at South London Gallery, London and Firstsite, Colchester, UK, 2021, Transeuropa [X] Festival, Hildesheim, Germany, 2021, London Grads Now, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK, 2020, Fluid Oramics, OHM, Berlin, Germany, 2019, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, curated by KEM, Warsaw, Poland, 2018.

Niclas Riepshoff (born 1992 in Bremen, Germany) lives and works in Berlin. He studied at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Hamburg, at the Städelschule Frankfurt am Main, and at the California Institute of the Arts. Riepshoff’s recent exhibitions include: A Stitch in Time (s),14a, Hamburg, Germany, 2021, Performing Objects: Practices of the Everyday, Hua International, Peking, China, 2021, Barrel Organ Concert (Wind of Change), Performance at Kunstverein München, Germany, 2021, Frankfurz (s), Schwabinggrad, Munich, Germany, 2021, Invitation to Love, curated by FORT, Kunstverein Bremerhaven, Germany, 2020, Öfen (s), 14a, Hamburg, Germany, 2020, Die ZWEITE HAND (s), Stadium, Berlin, Germany, 2020, I engineer, Spinnerei Leipzig, Germany, 2019, Absolutes Gehör (s), Graduation Show, HFBK Hamburg, Germany, 2019, SPOONS OVER KNIVES at Pogo Bar, KW Berlin, Germany, 2019, Über das Neue, Belvedere 21, Vienna, Austria, 2019. 

THE AGE
17 September – 8 October 2022
Rachel Fäth, Behrang Karimi, Dala Nasser, Aaron Ratajczyk, Niclas Riepshoff
Curated with
Sinaida Michalskaja

The exhibition is accompanied by the publication the problem was gravity and the answer was gravity with contributions by the artists, published by Verlag Ida Neustadt (56 pages, print edition of 70).
Download web version here.

Photography by Dan Ipp
(unless stated otherwise)

Biographies

Rachel Fäth (born 1991 in Berlin) studied Educational Science at the Ludwigs-Maximilians-University Munich, the Academy of Fine Arts Munich, and is currently enrolled as an MFA student at Hunter College New York City. Her recent exhibitions include: Rust, PAD Gallery, New York City (USA), 2022, Die zwei Seiten der Medaille, Mauer, Cologne, Germany, 2022, Lock (s) Loggia Loggia, Munich, Germany, Katakomben, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany, 2021, Haus Wien, Vienna, Austria, 2021, Truth to Materials, Lovaas Projects Munich, Germany, 2021, Stress Release, das weisse haus, Vienna, Austria, 2020, Ruinous Times with Ruine München, Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany, 2020, Das kleine Format, Kunstverein Aichach, Germany, 2019, Urlaub, Skulpturinstitut, Vienna, Austria, 2019, 20 Proposition – with Ei Arakawa, Kunstverein Salzburg, Austria, 2019. She lives and works in New York.

Behrang Karimi (born 1980 in Shiraz, Iran) lives and works in Cologne, Germany. He studied at the Art Academy Düsseldorf graduating as Meisterschüler. Karimi’s recent selected exhibitions include: Half Drunk and Close to Rope (s), Moon Grove, Rusholme, Manchester, UK, 2022, Sweet Days of Discipline, Hannah Hoffman, Los Angeles, CA, USA, coming for your job and wifes (s), Tramps, London, UK, 2021, Tell me I belong, MISC, Athens, Greece, 2021, SPIT (s), Braunsfelder, Cologne, Germany, 2021, Fifteen Painters (g), Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, USA, 2021, Everything Is Personal (g), Tramps, New York, USA, 2020, Behrang Karimi (s), Zarinbal Khoshbakht, Cologne, Germany, 2020, Any Day Now, Sprüth Magers, London, UK (online), Alistair Mackinven and Behrang Karimi (d), Maureen Paley, London, UK, 2019, Salon des Amateurs, Tramps, London, 2018, Femdom, Pantaleonsmühlengasse/Part1, Cologne, Germany, 2016.

Dala Nasser (born 1990, Tyre, Lebanon) studied at the Slade School of Fine Arts, London, and at the Yale School of Art, New Haven, USA. Her recent selected exhibitions include: Red in Tooth (s), Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany, 2022, Time spent without its flow (s), V.O Curations, London, UK, 2022, The Dead Shall be Raised, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France, 2022, In the Purple (s), Deborah Schamoni, Munich, Germany, 2021, How will it end, curated by Alecia Knock, Villa Empain Brussels, Belgium, 2021, In Praise of Shadows, curated by Ebony Haynes, Yale School of Art, New Haven, USA, 2021, Surface Tension, curated by Ryan Inouye, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, UAE, 2019, Touche, curated by Marie Muracciole and Christophe Wavelet, Beirut Art Center, Beirut, Lebanon, 2019, Surface Work, Victoria Miro, London, UK, 2018, The Pain of Others, curated by Myriam Ben Salab, Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles, USA, 2018. Dala Nasser lives and works in Beirut.

Aaron Ratajczyk(born 1989 in Warsaw, Poland) lives and works in Berlin. He studied at Goldsmiths University of London, and Universität der Künste/ HZT Berlin. Recent exhibitions include: With Whom We Mutually Communicate? Copeland Gallery, London, UK, 2022, Testament, CCA Goldsmiths, London, UK, 2022, The way in, Haus N, Athens, Greece, 2021, New Contemporaries Digital Fellowship, London, UK, 2021, New Contemporaries 2021 at South London Gallery, London and Firstsite, Colchester, UK, 2021, Transeuropa [X] Festival, Hildesheim, Germany, 2021, London Grads Now, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK, 2020, Fluid Oramics, OHM, Berlin, Germany, 2019, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, curated by KEM, Warsaw, Poland, 2018.

Niclas Riepshoff (born 1992 in Bremen, Germany) lives and works in Berlin. He studied at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Hamburg, at the Städelschule Frankfurt am Main, and at the California Institute of the Arts. Riepshoff’s recent exhibitions include: A Stitch in Time (s),14a, Hamburg, Germany, 2021, Performing Objects: Practices of the Everyday, Hua International, Peking, China, 2021, Barrel Organ Concert (Wind of Change), Performance at Kunstverein München, Germany, 2021, Frankfurz (s), Schwabinggrad, Munich, Germany, 2021, Invitation to Love, curated by FORT, Kunstverein Bremerhaven, Germany, 2020, Öfen (s), 14a, Hamburg, Germany, 2020, Die ZWEITE HAND (s), Stadium, Berlin, Germany, 2020, I engineer, Spinnerei Leipzig, Germany, 2019, Absolutes Gehör (s), Graduation Show, HFBK Hamburg, Germany, 2019, SPOONS OVER KNIVES at Pogo Bar, KW Berlin, Germany, 2019, Über das Neue, Belvedere 21, Vienna, Austria, 2019.