free flight

Christoph Primm, Painting
Ulrike Buhl, Sculpture
Vernissage: 21 May 2015, 7 pm | Exhibition duration: 22 May - 10 July 2015

Parallel to this year's tour of the UdK Berlin, the exhibition is open out of turn.
These special opening hours are on the following days:
Friday, 17.7. 3 - 10 pm
Saturday, 18.7. 3 - 10 pm
Sunday, 19.7. 3 - 10 pm
During these special opening hours, you can expect a free summery refreshment drink (Hugo or Virgin Hugo with homemade elderflower syrup!).

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Ulrike Buhl
Dance II, 2010, mixed media, 118 × 69 × 52 cm
Photo: Bernd Kuhnert, Berlin

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Christoph Primm
Nestbeschmutzer V, 2013, acrylic, oil on MDF, 60 × 60 cm
Photo: Christine Jörss-Munzlinger

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Christoph Primm talks about his art

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The catalogue can be obtained from the ROOT Gallery for €2 plus postage.

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Press release

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Wed 10 - 12 a.m. and 4.30 - 6.30 p.m.

Thu 10 a.m. - 7 p.m.

Fri 10 am - 12 pm and 8 pm - 10 pm

And at any time by appointment

free flight

Christoph Primm, Painting

Ulrike Buhl, Sculpture

Vernissage: 21 May 2015 , 7 pm

Exhibition duration 22 May - 10 July 2015

Artist talk with Ulrike Buhl on Sunday, 7 June 2015 at 12 noon

Artist talk with Christoph Primm on Sunday, 5 July 2015 at 12 noon

The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue by Christoph Primm.

With the paintings by Christoph Primm and the sculptures by Ulrike Buhl, colour and its dynamics have found their way into the ROOT gallery - the title says it all!

The colours in this exhibition each find their own place in the gallery.

Ulrike Buhl's sculptures also rise up into the air and float there as coloured bodies.

Christoph Primm's strength lies in the tension between colour and structure. He layers them into complex compositions and makes the painterly itself the object of contemplation

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At first glance, his paintings are gestural abstractions. At second glance, one can discover something equally symbolic in the pictures. However, the symbolism is not superficial; rather, Primm creates a high-contrast colour mood of yellow, orange and turquoise tones in uneven layers, which trigger various associations in the viewer. The open pictorial forms encourage the viewer to experience the colour presentation and the painting process.

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Instead of brushes, he uses palette knives that leave irregular, patchy and space-occupying traces of various bright, contrasting impasto colours.
He places and layers the undiluted colours on top of and against each other. Only a few colour events remain visible from the initial approaches from which everything develops.
The colour values themselves are deliberate, because the viewer will later perceive white or colours mixed into light as points of light or as foreground, dark green and strong red as moments of colour in depth and black as shadow. What develops abstractly and in the surface will be recognised by the viewer trained in spatial vision as colourful movements and plays of colour in a three-dimensional pictorial space.

(Excerpt from the speech by Dr Tippach-Schneider on the occasion of the opening of the exhibition by Marita Czepa and Christoph Primm at the ROOT Gallery in March 2014)

Ulrike Buhl has lived and worked as a freelance artist in Berlin for over 10 years. Before devoting herself entirely to sculpture, she was a trained actress and later a make-up artist. It was on this basis that her view of art developed.

Ulrike Buhl's moving sculptures fascinate the viewer with their smooth surfaces, which perfectly showcase both the respective colours of the sculptures and the form itself. It is an interplay of colour and form. Ulrike Buhl herself says: "It is a perpetual search to concentrate the essential and to capture it in a form that continues to move and subsequently only shows a moment. I am interested in finding and creating ever new forms that emerge from the chosen theme, the means, the material and the working process. The goal is a free and autonomous sculptural form"

What both artists have in common is that they create their works from the working process and that this processual nature determines the results. In Christoph Primm's work, time coagulates in layers of colour, while Ulrike Buhl captures the forms flowing like mercury in a single moment.

Galerie ROOT UG (haftungsbeschränkt) moved into new premises at Hardenbergstraße 9, front building, 2nd floor right, at the beginning of this year. On the same floor opposite is the Akademie für Malerei Berlin, with which Galerie ROOT has been working for 10 years and represents both lecturers and graduates of the Akademie für Malerei Berlin as artists. In addition, it is a central concern of Ute Wöllmann to present artists beyond the mainstream. The gallery was founded in April 2010 as a producer gallery and has been run by Ute Wöllmann as Galerie ROOT UG (haftungsbeschränkt) since 2010. The gallery's concept mainly focuses on contemporary painting. The spectrum ranges from realistic to non-representational to experimental positions. The gallery has been a member of the Berlin State Association of Galleries since 2012.

Artists permanently represented

Juliane von Arnim, Irmgard Bornemann, Margit Buß, Marita Czepa, Eva Erbacher, Birgit Ginkel, Regine Jankowski, Isabelle Lafeuille, Christoph Primm, Ingeborg Rauss, Erich Reischke, Manfred Schieber, Ute Wöllmann