TAPIR

Barbara Shunyi – PLASMA

Spanish artist Barbara Shunyi, trained in Seville, lives and works in Cádiz. Since the late 1980s, her practice has taken her to Berlin, Edinburgh, Copenhagen, and Beijing and other places.

Her works are created using non-toxic contemporary etching, a technique she has mastered with great expertise. Her aquatints unfold as dense networks of lines and textures, balancing between organic form and abstraction.

Earthy tones and layered linework create spatial depth and open an associative visual field that invites individual interpretation.

SYNTAX | Shannon Castor

My new body of work focuses on semiotics of color and memory. Icon, index, and
symbol, what is the resemblance, signifier of the signified, and representation of memory through
the lens of color. How does color catalyse or awaken personal and collective narrative? Along
what scope do these translations of color to meaning occur?
In the installation of this work, I want the paintings positioned together to function like a metallic
surface, so that different angles of viewing encourage a reading pattern that changes with and
traces the viewer’s own relationship to color as they move. Akin to words shaping thought
through speaking, color is metabolized into meaning. It is an immersive experience of noticing.
Like swarm behavior pulsing, it travels defined and undefined commutes to retrieve and recall
memory.
The works on paper arranged closely together with corners acting as disruptions or glitches to the
fluidity of organic brushwork represent cells in a honeycomb or units within a text, a map of
single and mass networks connecting and reciprocating. It invites a pixelated perspective. An
aberration of color, pattern, and sign questioning the embodiment of observation as an
acquisition of knowledge and if this knowledge is instinctual, by association, or simply felt.

Udo Koloska
Nachleben

Opening
March 8th 5-8pm
Show
March 9- April 30 2025
Opening times
Sat/Su 4-6pm and by appointment

The reference point of the work is the large-scale loss of forests in the Harz and the associated transformation of the local ecosystem. The sound recordings were made in the Upper Harz near Schierke in 2023/24. The sounds within the trunks can be heard using special contact microphones.

Bezugspunkt der Arbeit sind der großflächige Verlust von Wäldern im Harz und die damit verbundene Transformation des lokalen Ökosystems. Die Tonaufnahmen sind im Oberharz bei Schierke 2023/24 entstanden. Mittels spezieller Kontaktmikrofone werden die Klänge innerhalb der Stämme hörbar.

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April Widdup
SYSTEMA PHILOSOPHICUM

Opening January 18th 5-8pm
Show January 19th- February 28th
Open Sat/Su 4-6pm and by appointmentgallery

Curated by .goerner

In Systema Philosophicum, Widdup subverts the visual language of taxonomical graphs—functional diagrams traditionally rooted in fact and scientific classification. These charts, trusted tools for understanding and organising our world, become a playful and thought-provoking medium for addressing existential questions at the core of human experience: Are humans inherently violent? Is truth absolute? Is there an afterlife? Is time a construct?

April Widdup is an early-career multidisciplinary artist from Australia, currently based in Germany. A graduate of the Australian National University School of Art and Design (2022) with a Bachelor of Visual Arts majoring in glass, Widdup’s practice spans sculpture, installation, video, and audio. Navigating a tonal spectrum from playful to serious, Widdup creates works that invite audiences into a dialogue about the human condition. Themes of identity, mobility, memory, phenomenology, power and control emerge as recurring threads. By examining how we engage with the natural and built environments, and how societal constructs inform our understanding of life and death, Widdup’s practice illuminates the tension between individual agency and collective structures.

Jacqueline Huskisson
RETENTION

Opening
Thursday, November 14th 6-9pm

6.30pm
Takt Talk Battle
with the current artists in residence at TAKT BERLIN LEIPZIG ZEITZ Jacqueline Huskisson and April Widdup

Show
November 15th- 29th 2024
Open
Sa/Su 3-6pm and by appointment

Jacqueline Huskisson is a visual artist from Calgary, Alberta Canada and currently living between Calgary and Berlin, Germany. In 2011 she received a BFA in print media from the Alberta College of Art and Design (Now AU Arts.) In 2017 she received an MFA in studio arts from the Belfast School of Art in Northern Ireland. She works primarily with printmaking, painting, comics, and media arts. She considers herself a “comic” artist. Majority of her practice relies on narratives, abstract or linear. She focuses on telling narratives of the human body, illness, and the human form’s relation to its surroundings.

Jacqueline Huskisson’s work explores the delicate interplay between memory, emotion, and identity through mixed media and collage. Her art is a journey through fragments-layering personal history, found objects, and visual elements into evocative compositions. Each piece feels like a reconstruction of a dream, inviting viewers to explore what is remembered, forgotten, and to re-imagine.

In this exhibition her artwork invites you to step into a space where memory becomes tactile- a place where the familiar and the surreal meet. Evoking emotions that linger just beneath the surface.