GALERIE VOLKER DIEHL is pleased to announce the exhibition JETS by Berlin based artist Thomas Florschuetz. The artist's large-scale photographs focus on several different styles of aerodynamic objects from his typical minimalist perspective.

The work of Thomas Florschuetz, who moved to Berlin in 1981, has greatly varied through his career. In the first half of the 80s he began creating head studies and portraits of friends and artist colleagues, which later developed into the portrayal of his own body in the following years.

As a sort of art performance casted for the camera, his work depicted hands, feet and ...

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GALERIE VOLKER DIEHL is pleased to announce the first solo exhibition by Olga Chernysheva to be hosted in its rooms.

The exhibition is titled "Caesuras", which means pauses, admissions. A kind of reality we have no time to notice, see, understand. It remains imperceptible. The reality around us is organized in a "caesura" mode. The artist should use all attention and diligence to show at least its part.

However, Chernysheva does not stop simply on any detail, incident or a separate phenomenon. If it was so, it would be a question of a genre photography. Whatever is in focus of her photo or ...

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GALERIE VOLKER DIEHL is proud to announce the first solo show by Youssef Nabil to be hosted in its rooms. The hand-coloured photographs of Youssef Nabil are a personal aesthetic form of life in death and death in life – they are both memory and living memorial. As with all photographic portraiture, and as Roland Barthes long ago observed, there is always a form of initial death in a photograph. Insomuch as all photographs, and particularly portraits, are of a moment or passage of time that is no more. They portray inevitably a lost reality – a once-truth that has turned into a present-fiction. Yet with the use of a complex hand...

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The series The J. Street Project by Susan Hiller (born in 1942 in Tallahassee, Florida) examines the difficult issues connected with the German-Jewish past in a unique and highly moving manner. As part of a residency in Germany sponsored by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), the artist discovered and photographed street signs which still contain the word "Jude" – Jew. Susan Hiller's journey through Germany found artistic expression in over 300 photographs, a list of the places and streets concerned, a map of Germany, a video installation and a lengthy book. The artist's remembrance work reveals traces of the past ...

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Galerie Volker Diehl is proud to present a group exhibition with contemporary Russian artists living and working in Moscow. This exhibition has arisen out of Volker Diehl's many years of involvement in the Russian art scene, culminating in the opening of DIEHL + GALLERY ONE this year in April, providing own exhibition space in Moscow. Now, the Berlin gallery is hosting a cross-section of Russian contemporary art relevant in the international arena. The exhibition comprises a total of thirteen artists – including the artist groups AES+F and Blue Noses – and spans the spectrum of current Russian art practice that, in many ways, i...

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