LOAD-BEARING
Opening Exhibition
Göksu Baysal
Yasmin Nebenführ
Marina Stanimirović
Opening reception:
Friday 13 March 18.00 – 21.00
Working across sculpture, installation and photography, the three artists explore the relationship between image, object and structure. Their practices examine how material forms carry traces of time, pressure and transformation, revealing fragile systems of support embedded in objects, images and architectural fragments.
Göksu Baysal’s works assemble found materials, ceramics and architectural elements into sculptural constellations that resemble fragments of a possible architecture. Yasmin Nebenführ approaches photography as a material process, presenting altered reversal films as illuminated objects in which images emerge from unstable surfaces. Marina Stanimirović works with steel, glass and domestic objects to create installations that reflect on personal memory and family histories between France and Bosnia. Her spatial arrangements draw on everyday materials and gestures of repair, revealing how experiences of displacement, care and survival become embedded in objects.
The opening of Müller Contemporary marks a new chapter following the activities of UNTILED Gallery, initiated in Berlin in 2022 and developed through exhibitions and collaborative projects in Sofia together with Teodora Kotseva.
With the new space in Berlin, the gallery continues its engagement with contemporary artistic practices in an international context, with a particular interest in positions connected to Southeastern Europe.
We warmly invite you to join us for the opening reception on Friday, 13 March, 18–21h.
Göksu Baysal (*1975 in Ankara, Turkey) lives and works in Berlin.
Photography, sculpture, film, and installation are central elements of his artistic practice. The interplay between these mediums arises through an interdisciplinary engagement with materials he collects during his travels and research. In his expansive installations, these materials are brought together in ephemeral and narrative constellations.
Yasmin Nebenführ is an Australian photo-media artist based in Berlin, Germany. Engaging with themes of entropy, the passage of time, decay, and macro and micro locations; her experimental practice incorporates digital and analogue techniques to present abstract imagery. Predominantly working with extensive collections of found imagery, Yasmin utilises her archiving work experience throughout her practice and constantly seeks new ways to transform and re-present images and their narratives.
Photography, sculpture, film, and installation are central elements of his artistic practice. The interplay between these mediums arises through an interdisciplinary engagement with materials he collects during his travels and research. In his expansive installations, these materials are brought together in ephemeral and narrative constellations.
Yasmin Nebenführ is an Australian photo-media artist based in Berlin, Germany. Engaging with themes of entropy, the passage of time, decay, and macro and micro locations; her experimental practice incorporates digital and analogue techniques to present abstract imagery. Predominantly working with extensive collections of found imagery, Yasmin utilises her archiving work experience throughout her practice and constantly seeks new ways to transform and re-present images and their narratives.
Marina Stanimirović (1988, Colombes, France), based in between Berlin, Germany and Paris, France.
She studied Contemporary Jewellery at the École Boulle and obtained a Master’s degree from the Royal College of Art in London (2011-2013). Her exhibitions include solo shows at the TATOR gallery in Lyon, France as well as the project space GR_UND in Berlin in 2021. She was awarded by the TRAME residency grant from the Cité Internationale des Arts and was selected in 2023 to participate in the Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin festival where her video work was screened at Haus Der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin.