‘unter DRUCK’ (under Pressure) explores what happens when force is applied—financially, socially, politically, psychologically, and physically. The exhibition frames pressure not just as something that crushes, but as something that distorts, imprints, and sometimes produces clarity.

The exhibition is divided into three loose pressure zones, exploring themes of compression (overlapping layers, heavy black boarders), distortion (texts and images that stutter, repeat or are crushed into abstraction) and release (pressure doesn’t disappear but leaves traces). Printmaking itself becomes metaphor: ink pressed into paper, images born through compression. Every work is the result of force meeting resistance.

Bringing together limited edition prints from Berlin based artists who typically work across a range of different artistic fields, from painting and sculpture to film making and performance. All the artworks are limited editions, emphasising the pressure of supply and demand. 100% of sales goes to the artist, and sold artworks can be collected from 5pm on Sunday 15th March.

Berlin Senate’s current austerity plans (Sparmaßnahmen), the subsidized studio program is at risk. Expiring leases are at risk of not being renewed in 2026/27, and studio buildings are threatened with complete closure or drastic rent increases. Currently, over 370 studios are at risk within the subsidized studio program. While private studio contracts are subject to dramatic rental increases, leaving artists searching further and further afield for affordable working spaces. These increased costs put Berlin based artists under pressure to find space and time to work and create in. During exhibition opening hours, artists can come and work at the work benches, in a hot desk fashion as a free working space, preparing work for print or using the hand press to produce small print editions.

Visitors can get their fingers inky too as part of Tag der Druckkunst 2026 on Sunday 15th March, and explore print techniques within the exhibition venue, with support and guidance from local artists.

The exhibition treats pressure as a condition of contemporary life and printmaking as the perfect medium to expose it.

 

Vernissage Freitag 6.3.26 18:00–22:00 Uhr.  Täglich geöffnet Samstag 7.3.26 -  Sonntag 15.3.26 10:00–17:00 Uhr

Vernissage Freitag 6.3.26 18:00–22:00 Uhr. Täglich geöffnet Samstag 7.3.26 - Sonntag 15.3.26 10:00–17:00 Uhr

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Sondertermin/e

Druckkunst Workshop Sontag 12 - 15 Uhr

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Kostenbeitrag

Kostenlos

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Veranstaltungsort

mõist~room to swing a cat
Kienitzer Str. 98 Hinterhof
12049 Berlin, Berlin
Deutschland
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Veranstaltet von

Supergroup e.V.

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Beteiligte Künstler:innen

Berlin based Artists: Please see website for full listing: supermoist.de

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Ansprechpartner:in

Christopher Sage
E-Mail: christopher.sage(at)yahoo.co.uk
Telefon: 01636677922

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