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Why does it feel so familiar looking at Lina Sommer’s work cycle? A canny familiarity. But why is it so difficult to pin point? Her work thrives from this strange in-between-moment of unutterable awareness of its language. The space filling sheets of paper are reworked with China ink and watercolor using various tools such as...

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Here is fruit for the crows to pluck For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck For the sun to rot, for the trees to drop Here is a strange and bitter crop Billie Holiday, Strange Fruits 1939   Culture often manifests itself through strong images; images that attract and batter us. Billie...

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We apologies for the possible inconvenience of having dirty shoes after leaving the space. It´s the artists work, appreciate it; please. It nicely smells of rabbit cage and feels strangely cluttered, so we are happy. In the following, a loose string of allusions: A description, which is somewhat unrelated to the show: The French journalist...

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MÉLANGE is very grateful for all the artists we had the chance to work with in the past year and very thankful of those that participate in BOX FOUR!!! with works by Aline BOUVY, Claude EIGAN, Bertrand FLANET, Stefan FUCHS, Olga HOLZSCHUH, Maren KARLSON, Marie MUNK, Patrick Fabian PANETTA, Nicolas PELZER, Tim PLAMPER, Viola RELLE...

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Philip Janssens’ ‘he who talks about the future is a funny guy’ is an exhibition about sensorial tom-foolery,false promises, and indomitable b​ad faith.​ Philip’s playful use of materials is intended to make us question the very thing in front of us. The space smells of a brand new car, tennis balls litter the floor and...

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House of Nature Lilah Fowler & Eva L’Hoest as part of ‘Sie machen was sie wollen’, Varna City Art Gallery, Bulgaria SIE MACHENWAS SIE WOLLEN is a groupshow organized by the artists Ruslan Daskalov and Lukas Schmenger. They invited four teams of curators to built a physical or imaginated house in the gallery space with...

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Mélange and Moritz Scheper are thrilled to invite you to their collaborative exhibition project ‘All This, Sweetie, Will One Day Be Yours’ Werthalle (Moselstr. 68, Cologne). With works by: Jacky Connolly Samantha Bohatsch Elisabeth Greinecker Frieder Haller & Phung-tien Phan Svea Mausolf Simon Mielke Eva Vuillemin Jasmin Werner All This, Sweetie, Will One Day Be...

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Beyond my simple body, lies a future by Lara Konrad Eventually I decide to sit down at the edge of my hotel bed and begin to finger myself, assuming it will make me feel like I can belong to the external world I have been part of these past days, ever since having arrived to...

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curated by Sarah Johanna Theurer The lizard basking in the sun is a well-known protagonist of philosophical thinking. What’s the relationship between the motionless lizard and the stone, the motionless stone on the ground and the human approaching it’s own reflection in the reptile’s eye? The animal’s suspended state of awareness, mind and body absorbed...

MÉLANGE is humbled to invite Marie Munk for her first solo show in Germany. Her exhibition titled ’A Nice Day for a Run’ invites the visitor and leave those dark days behind and take a stroll in the greenery. A sunny day in the park, while soft lullabies hum along would be perfect to escape...