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Art Cellar
by
Olivia Steele & Ulf Saupe

Dining is more than a table with food. It’s a ritual of social gathering, a
platform of communication where news is swapped, opinions are debated and
culture literally comes alive. Ulf Saupe and Olivia Steele did put their heads
together to heat up the Melting Pot with an extraordinary art program for the
basement and restaurant.
Together, they hand-picked works of contemporary international artists that
are not only meant to stimulate and create atmosphere, but also invite you to
discuss and exchange. We invite you through the hallways and bunkers of the
Alte Münze to discover the Pret-a-artê experience. If you would like more
information about a work and its artist or purchase we are pleased to give you
a personal tour through the building. Just ask at the shop upstairs or any
staff member.
Contact:
Ulf Saupe (curator and artist)
Tel: +49 163 696 3258
infof@galeriesaupe.com

Artists participating:
Thomas Bachler
J.M. Pozo
Melissa Steckbauer
Ulrich Vogl
Tom Gefken
Olivia Steele
Ralf Majewska
Ulf Saupe
Mimi Laurenti
Max Wiedemann

Thomas Bachler
What is money worth when its looses its value???
The picture that’s on it?! - Thomas Bachler uses a nineteenth century
photographic technique to reproduce drawings that were once icons on
money bills, which are no longer in circulation. Through this reproduction,
the conceptual photographic artist brings up some
interesting questions ...
Who decides what is on the bills?
How do countries represent themselves on the most printed picture?
Who was the artist that made it?
Don´t you have it in your hands every day?
Don´t you want it?
Did you have a close look?
What is the value of an image???
Working in conceptual art, Thomas Bachler reflects always in his artistic
approach about photography and its influences upon us.
Who can escape the influence that images have upon us?

Segelschiff aus der Serie Scheinwelten - Cyanotype -70 x 100 cm - 2009

State men - Cyanotype - 70 x 100 cm - Edition of 5 - 2010
Revolutionaries - Cyanotype - 70 x 100 cm - Edition of 5 - 2010
East Berlin - Cyanotype - 70 x 100 cm - Edition of 5 - 2010

Photo Books
Photobooks - Various books of socialist propaganda literature with observation photo - various sizes - 2009
Who is free of manipulation??? - Looking back in time a lot of contradictions are revealed.
Thomas Bachler uses the technique of collage to embody the gap between the real citizen and
the ideal one that socialist GDR propaganda literature claimed.
The photos shown in the original book covers are photos taken by the secret service (STASI)
of “state enemies” or suspicious people within the system; in essence, that had a different
opinion or point of view. 24 million of these photos are stored in the public archive in
Dresden ...

Thomas Bachler
1961 Born in Detmold (NRW)
1983 - 89 Studies in Visual Communication at the HbK Kassel University
1985 Organization of the first Camera Obscura congress in Germany, since then, vari
ous workshops, publications and works regarding the pinhole photography
(non-lense photography)
1987 Founding of the “Author ś Edition” for Photography and Art
1990 Rudi Baerwindt Award of the City of Mannheim
1990 - 97 Teaching (Photography, Art, Design) for the Goethe - Institute of the Univer
sity for Applied Science in Würzburg, of the German Employee Academy Rostock
and of the HbK Braunschweig
1994 Conception and Development (with Karl-Hermann Möller) of the distance learning
seminar „Photography“ for the ILS Hamburg
2000 Interartes - Photo-award (Zürich)
Invited professor (half-position) at the HbK Kassel
2002 Curator of the exhibition „Photography as an experiment“, Kunsthalle Erfurt
2002 - 04 Seminar at the Art-University Dresden
2005 Dozent an dem Internat. Summeruniversity Dresden Workshops und Lectures at the
Artuniversity in Brisbane and Hobarth, Australien Photography-workshop at the
Liechtenstein University Member of the German Artist Foundation and the New
Photographic Society
Shows (selected)
2010 „Der gedehnte Blick“ FLUSS, Wolkersdorf, Österreich, 2010
„Was macht der Mensch“ Galerie bautzner69, Dresden 2010
„Das Auge sieht mit“ Marburger Kunstverein, 2010 (E)
2009 “Mein Trilemma” Ulf Saupe Galerie, Berlin (E)
„Scheinwelten“ Liechtenstein University, (E)
„ Fotografie und Psychologie“, Gallerie Lortzing Art, Hannover (with Karen
Weinert)
„Menschen des 21. Jahrhunderts“ Textilmuseum Crimmitschau (with Karen Weinert)
„Lichtblicke“ Landesmuseum Oldenburg, (Catalogue)
„Skinscapes“ Marburger Kunstverein
2008 „Die zweite Avantgarde“ Moritzburg Foundation, Halle
„Liminal“ Carnegie Gallery, Hobart, Tasmanien
„Ansichten von Park und Schloss Benrath“ Science Institute Bonn
2007 „Einfache Bilder“ K4 Gallerie Saarbrücken, (Katalog, E)
„Movements in Still Time“ Lornsdale Gallery, Toronto, (Katalog)
„Duales System“ Galerie Bautzner 69, Dresden, (Catalogue, E)
2006 “Mensch!” Kupferstichkabinett Dresden, (Catalogue)
2005 “The Borderline of Photography” Queensland Centre for Photography, Australien
“Art Frankfurt”, K4 Gallerie
2004 „One Artist Show“ single Stand at the Art Frankfurt, (E)

J.M. Pozo
Where is my home? - What is the perfect home?
J.M. Pozo, born in Havana, now living and working in Berlin shows the results of a long
nomadic, globalized life style in his paintings. Combining the past with the present he
uses multiple views that merge into colorful painted collages including his own experience
but also icons and symbols that crossed all our life paths.
The blue Room - Acrylic on canvas - 140 x 200 cm

Outcast - Acrylic on canvas - 140 x 200 cm
The End - Acrylic on canvas - 130 x 100 cm

J.M. Pozo
Born 1967 in Holguin, Cuba
Works and lives since 1995 in Berlin and Madrid
Education
Art School for Painting and Drawing, Isla de Pinos, Cuba
Art School of Universidad de Havanna, Kuba
Guest Study Year with Prof. K. Klapheck, 1995/96 , Kunstakademie Düsseldorf,
Germany
Solo Exhibitions (selected)
2010 Gallery Wolfsen, Denmark
2008 Zimmer mit Mauerblick, Gallery SCALA, Berlin, Germany
2007 Zwitter, Ge galeria, Monterrey,Mexico
2005 Persona, Galerie Refugium, Berlin, Germany
2001 Nuevo bajo el sol, München, Germany
2000 Frozen Drop Galerie Stella & Bueno, Den Haag, Netherlands
1999 Pozo Sin Filtro Galerie FormArt, Saarbrücken, Germany
1997 Amor, política y otros desastres, Galerie X-tro, Wiesbaden, Germany
1996 Galerie Hans Mayer, Düsseldorf, Germany
1994 Cómete tu tren-bus, Galeria Complejo Cultural YARA, Havana, Cuba
1993 Tu tienes la llave (you‘ll got the key), Galeria Alejo Carpentier, Isla de Joventud,
Cuba
1990 Wallpainting Hijos de la Patria, Parque 15 de Mayo, Isla de Pinos, Cuba
1989 Performance Victor or not Victor, U.N.E.A.C., Isla de Pinos, Cuba
Group Exhibitions (selected)
2009 Our dear friend, Galleria Torbadena, Triestre Italy
2008 Terapia de grupo, Galeria Fernando Paradilla, Madrid, Spain
2006 Berlin Tendenzen (www.berlintendenzen.com) LaVirreina (la capella).Barcelona
1 auction of contemporary Latinamerican Art. Curated by Emily Murphy
(Sotheby’s) Auction House Fernando Duran /Madrid. Spain
Ciudades Internas -Habana Biennale 06, Cuba
2005 3. KunstSalon Berlin, Germany (M:A Contemporary)
Imagen y Representación Centro Cultural AYN. Madrid /Espana
World Mouse Centro Cultural AYN. Madrid/Espana (Cat)
Prague Biennial, Prague, Czech Republic
2004 Massa Damnata, Berlin, Galerie Refugium (Cat.), Germany
Imagen y representación, Galeria AYN (Cat.), Madrid, Spain
Art Cologne. Galerie Refugium (Cat.)
ArteSantander 1 /Santander. Spain
2003 Künstler sehen Rot, 2003, Haus der Kunst München (Cat.), Germany
Art Forum Berlin (Paradies im Bunker), Berlin Alexanderplatz, Germany
2002 Kunst Messe München, Galerie Terminus, München, Germany
INNSBRUCK 2002 - 6. Internationale Kunstmesse (Kat.), Galerie Terminus /
München- Germany

Melissa Steckbauer
Young and pretty? Oversexed - underfucked?
How does a society deals with sexuality?
Melissa Steckbauer (Tucson, Arizona) creates portraits and self-portraits that address
dynamic and underrepresented sexual scenes. In order to study the delicate and nuanced
nature of physical intimacy and interpersonal contact, she paints and photographs
people in emotionally transformative situations. Her sources range from handpicked
images from the Kinsey Institute, to work with close friends, appropriated photographs,
and Internet pornography.
Mess - Acrylic on paper - 22,75 x 26 cm - 2010

Love Tap (Bruise) - Acrylic on paper - 13 x 12 cm - 2010
Two Birds in Paradise - Acrylic on paper - 20,5 x 30,5 cm - 2010

Melissa Steckbauer
Born 1980 Tucson, AZ.
Education & Research
2008 University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, B.F.A.
2006-2007 University Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2010 I The Hunter, Galerie Saupe, Berlin, Germany
2010 Half Camp, Van der Stegen Gallery, Paris, France
2008 Melissa Steckbauer, Sottopasso, Livorno, Italy
2008 Sacred Artists & Animal Urges, IAF Shop, Fukuoka, Japan
2005 All Bound Up, ONE9ZERO6 Gallery, San Antonio, TX
Selected Group Exhibitions
2010 Access & Paradox Open Art Fair, Van der Stegen Gallery, Paris, France
2010 HIDDEN, Van der Stegen Gallery, Paris, France
2010 Fresh, Das Hotel, curated by Ulf Saupe and J.M. Pozo, with Santiago Sierra,
Rob Scholte, Berlin
2010 Jerk Offestival, with Superm (Brian Kenny & Slava Mogutin), Marion Auburtin,
Van der Stegen Gallery, Paris,
2009 Slick Contemporary Art Fair, Van der Stegen Gallery, Paris, France
2009 The Kinsey Institute’s Juried Art Show, The SoFA Gallery, Bloomington, Indiana
2009 Hello World, Ito Folk Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
2009 I Mostri, Van der Stegen Gallery, curated by Yann Perol with Federico Solmi, Pesce
Khete, Vanessa Fanuele Paris, France
2008 Real Presence, Castello di Rivoli--Museum of Contemporary Art, Rivoli, Italy,
2007 Runde #2, Rathhaus Weißensee, Berlin, Germany
2007 Girl to Woman, Featuring Filter Translation Device, Overture Center Madison,WI
Artist-in-Residence & Professional Workshops
2010 Private Residency, Livorno, Italy
2008 Real Presence-Belgrade, Serbia
2008 Real Presence-Rivoli, Italy
2008 Studio Kura, Fukuoka, Japan
2007 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT

Ulrich Vogl
Draw me light and cast me some shadow!
What do you see in the dark?
The German artist Ulrich Vogl is cutting it back to the bare minimum using light as a
drawing material. A shadow cast on a wall, an imaginary skyline in front of our eyes or
a observatory projecting stars all create an illusionary world using the very basic of
our nature to receive the world. - Otherwise we are blind men walking.
Pool - Wood, Enamel, Mirror, Water, Plant, Fan, Light Source - 68 x 40 x 13 cm
Courtesy Gallery Opdahl

Observatory - Concrete, Mirrors, Light Source - 25 x 28 cm - 2010
Courtesy Gallery Opdahl
O.T. - Slide Projectors, Slides with Tinfoil - 340 x 180 cm - 2010
Courtesy Gallery Opdahl

ULRICH VOGL
1973 born in Kaufbeuren, Germany
lives and works in Berlin
Education
2004 –2003 MFA› School of Visual Arts› New York
2002 –1999 MeisterschülerUniversität der Künste, Berlin, Prof. Dieter Appelt
1999 –1996 Akademie der Bildenden Künste › Munich › Prof. Horst Sauerbruch
Solo exhibitions
2010 welt› Galerie Opdahl› Berlin
too topics (with V. Stylianidou), Tint Gallery / Photobiennale Thessaloniki
In the light, Le Guern Gallery, Warsaw
2009 watching the stars, Paolo Maria Deanesi Gallery, Rovereto (Italy)
Spiegelung, Erweiterung der Zeichnung, Sakamoto Contemporary, Berlin
Gipfelstürmer › Kevin Kavanagh › Dublin
Ulrich Vogl, Dunamaise Arts Center, Portlaoise (Ireland)
2008 project space, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
Ulrich Vogl, Benjamin Greber› Viafarini-in-residence› Milan
2007 Premiere, KraskaEckstein, Bremen
2006 goldgräber› Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin
Group exhibitions (Selection)
2010 ARTIUM Collection› ARTIUM› Vitoria
My lonely days are gone› Arratia, Beer› Berlin
TEXTURE› Galerie Metro› Berlin
The sophisticated eye (Trompe l’oeil)› Galerie Opdahl› Berlin
Six Days of New Media› Linienstrasse 127› Berlin
Tape Modern Nr.13› Tape Modern› Berlin
2009 Hoffnung› WSB Kontorhaus› Bremen
2009 Birr› The Good Hatchery› Offaly (Ireland)
2009 RHA Annual Exhibition› Royal Hibernian Academy› Dublin
2008 Ulrich Vogl, Sabine Fassl, Alvar Beyer› Villa Grisebach Gallery› Berlin
2008 wohnen, sitzen, glauben› Kunst- und Gewerbeverein Regensburg› Regensburg
2008 Better is something you build› Kevin Kavanagh› Dublin
2006 s/w› bell street project space› Vienna
2006 The Square Root of Drawing› Temple Bar Gallery› Dublin
2006 Innenschau-Außenschau› Kunsthaus Kaufbeuren› Kaufbeuren (Germany)
2005 was du brauchst› Kevin Kavanagh› Dublin
2005 Micro Universe› The Lab Gallery› New York
2004 Home Sweet Home› East Side Gallery› New York
2004 D-light› Young German Art› Elizabeth Foundation› New York
2004 Licht› Kunsthaus Kaufbeuren› Kaufbeuren (Germany)
2003 diffusion› Opel› Berlin
2002 wundermaschine› Photomuseum Braunschweig› Brunswick
2001 Israel› Fanum-Profanum› Karmeliterkirche› Munich
2000 Chronos› Kloster Irsee› Irsee (Germany)
Awards› scholarships› selection
2010 ZVAB-PHÖNIX 2010
2008 Artists’ Residency Programme› Irish Museum of Modern Art› Dublin
2008 Viafarini-in-Residence› Fondazione Viafarini› Milan
2004–2003 DAAD, New York
2003 Kunstförderpreis Kaufbeuren ›
Prize for emerging artists by the City of Kaufbeuren (Germany)
2003–2002 NaFöG Berlin› Scholarship for Emerging Artists by the City of Berlin

Tom Gefken
Who was it, if it wasn´t me?
Tom mixes all kinds of different media in his paper works and paintings. His humorous
and subtile approaches find their roots in a very sharp reflection of todays society.
Fragments of commercial phrases, old sayings are decontextualized and then accompanied
with stencils, paint and drawings. Without any visual limits he achieves extraordinary
images that invite all to think and enjoy.

Three - Lacquer on plexi glass, Polaroid, Lacquer on Wood, 155 x 105 x 11,5 cm - 2010
Left: Good boy - mixed media oil paint on carton and wood - 70 x 60 cm - 2010

Wrestler - Transfer print, lacquer, oil paint and chalk on paper - 70 x 50 cm 2010

Tom Gefken
1960 Born in Bremen
Lives and works in Bremen
Solo Shows (selected)
2011 Tom Gefken, Kunstverein Vechta
2010 Gemischtes Doppel, (mit Hans Müller), kd-Kunst, Wallhöfen
„JUB&TOM“, Villa Ichon, Bremen
2009 Archiv“, Kunstwerkstatt, Magdeburg
2008 Flux, Galerie Schuster, Frankfurt
TWO-GETHER 8, ( mit Marikke Heinz-Hoek) Ständige Vertretung Bremen, Brussels
Tom & Jub, (with Jub Mönster), Villa Ichon, Bremen
2007 Me and I, Galerie Kühn, Berlin
2004 Gruppe Vierkant, Galerie Apex, Göttingen
1999 Gruppe Vierkant, Museum Kloster Asbach
1998 Tom Gefken (mit Isabel Valecka), Galerie Cornelius Hertz, Bremen
Group Shows (selected)
2009 Unantastbar, Kulturkirche, Bremen
Wohnzimmer, Defka, Assen, Niederlande
Sammlung Städtische Galerie, Städtische Galerie im Buntentor, Bremen
2008 Historisches Museum Regensburg
Bremen wodu, Städtische Galerie Pilsen, Czech-Republic
Repertorio dàrtista, Galeria Maria Rizzi, Mailand
De Kraai van Walter, Kunstcentrum DeFKa, Assen, Holland
2007 Remix, Galeria Bianca Rizzi, Milano
Der 35ste Spieltag, Güterbahnhof Spedition, Bremen
2001 “Freiheit jetzt“, Galerie Kulturbrauerei, Berlin
“Chilli Pepper...“, int. Symposium, Pedvale, Latvia
“Antins“, Museum of Art ARSENALS, Riga, Latvia
2000 Gruppe Vierkant, EXPO 2000, Pavillon des Goethe Instituts, Hannover
“Gestern, heute, morgen“, Galerie Haus am Park, Bremen
1999 “Jubilate“, Rauminstallation, Städtische Galerie im Buntentor, Bremen
1998 “Untitled“, Kunstfrühling, Güterbahnhof, Bremen
1997 Aktuelle Kunst aus Bremen, Akademie der Künste, Danzig, Poland
1995 “Erinnerung“, Arbeitsgemeinschaft ehemaliges KZ Flossenbürg, Flossenbürg
“Deutsches Archiv 1“, Rauminstallation, Galerie 68elf, Köln
Kohlenhof Ästhetische Transformation, Nürnberg
1993 Wandinstallation im Künstlerhaus Tacheles, Berlin
1992 Kunstforum Nord, Hannover
Junge Kunst aus Bremen, Nienburg

Olivia Steele
Can words form a picture?
A native of Nashville, and a resident of London, Olivia’s works as a conceptual
artist with neon lights drawing ironic attention to the past, the present, and
the pictures in our head. - The slogans of propaganda often form contradictions.
- As well as her response: “Paradise is where I am” written in neon over the old
communist slogan translated: ”The Life to the people. The future to Communism,”
found here in the old the minting factory from the former East German socialist
times. She seems to know what it takes to make the world go round, while being
inside, and outside the box at the same time. She may reveal our helplessness to
change the big picture at once, but encourages us to make small personal steps
that sum up in the end.
Double Cross - 45 x 60 cm - Neon tubes - 2010

Last Words - 70 x 150 cm - Neon tubes - 2010
C´est la vie 32 x 100 cm - Neon tubes - 2010

Ralf Majewska
Would you like to know what comes next?
Ralf Majewska is a master of various painting and photographic techniques and his
experiments with material cross overs and image worlds never ceases to capture the
beholder. His vast variety of pictorial expression seems to be endless, as his style
is always different from the last. Reflecting the long path of art history and craftsmanship,
he weaves a plethora of past stimuli of the art world into his contemporary
works.
Power Skull - Bronze and Chrome - Measures 1:1 - unique piece - 2011

Totenkopf V (Skull) - Acrylic, Gold, Wax and Engraving on cancas - 180 x 180 cm - 2010
Exess Acrylic and Wax on canvas - 190 x 220 cm - 2005

Jane I - Digital Print on Foil - 300 x 120 cm - 2011

Ralf Majewska
Born in Breslau
Lives and works in Bonn
Exhibition (Selection)
1971 Galerie Wünsche, Bonn
1979 Galerie Beaux Arts, Essen
1981 Osper Galerie, Köln, Deutsche Handelsvertretung, Tokyo
1984 Karen McKerron Galerie, Johannesburg, Süd Afrika
1985 Galerie Süssmann, Berlin, Grafic Art, New York Grafic Art, Los Angeles
1986 Ellen Myrer Galerie, New York
1987 1.Nürnberger Kunstmarkt I.A.C. International Art Competition, New York
1989 Galerie Palmer, Kopenhagen
1991 lntegrata Galerie, Stuttgart
1992 Galerie Siegert, Basel, Schweiz
1993 BOROW fine art, Galerie Hamburg
1994 Art-Fair Stockholm, Madach Trade Center, Budapest, Ungarn, Contempo Galerie, Lyss,
Switzerland
1995 Art Frankfurt, Galerie Siegert
1996 Art Strasbourg, Galerie Siegert, Grafikmesse Dresden, Galerie Siegert,
Schloss Ludwigsburg, Ludwigsburg
1997 Art Strasbourg, Kunstmesse Innsbruck, Galerie Siegert, Basel, Schweiz
1998 Galerie Acht PQ, Bonn, Germany
1999 Telekom, Bonn, Deutsche Post AG, Bonn ADG, Schloss Montabaur
2000 Mallorca, Felanitx, Collection Edition Siemens IT Service, München,
Galerie Ariane II, Brüssel
2001 Galerie Bayerische Landesbank, München
2002 Galerie am Museum, Düsseldorf 11 dokumenta, C und A, Kassel,
Galerie Noah im Glaspalast, Augsburg
2003 FM.Global, Brüssel Sogepro s.a., Brüssel Lehmann Brothers, Frankfurt,
Galerie Noah, Augsburg, Galerie Pastor-Gismondi, Monaco
2004 Presseclub, Bonn Godesburg, Bonn Art- Consult Borow Fine Art, BonnArt - Galerie,
Bonn
2007 Gallery Steve Martin, Miami Design District, Florida, USA, Gallery Trump Tower,
Miami, USA,
Miami ArtBasel, USA, Masters Mystery Art Show, Florida International University,
Miami
2008 Gallery Steve Martin, New Orleans, Lousiana, Masters Mystery Art Show,
Florida International University, Miami, USA
2009 Gallery Steve Martin, New Orleans, Lousiana, USA
Borow Fine Art, Hong Kong, China, Avantgatde Art&Consulting, Kitzbühel, Austria
2010 Gallery Steve Martin, Miami Art Basel, USA, Borow Fine Art, Hong Kong, China
Avantgatde Art&Consulting, Kitzbühel, Austria, Gallery Avantgarde, Germany,
Galerie le Chiffré

Ulf Saupe
Will I be there when you are gone?
How does my chair remember me sitting on it?
It is not particullary necessary to use a camera to make a photo. Just as you
leave your footprints in the snow its also possible to leave your shadow on photo
paper. Ulf Saupe works with the technique known as Photogram as it primarily
captures the shadows of people and objects. “Looking from the other side” seems
to be his point of reference. Rail guards of Berlin bridges, the shadow of a
woman´s silhouette or inverted trees are present in absence. What the eye can
not see the photo paper reveals ...
Glienicke Brücke - Agentenbrücke - Cyanotype - 107 x 245 cm - 2010
Jannowitzbrücke - Cyanotype - 107 x 225 cm - 2010

Sleepy - Photogram on Ilfochrome (unique) - 127 x 135 cm - 2004

Trees - Lacock Abbey at the House of Henry Fox Talbot - Digital Print on canvas - 100 x 80 cm - 2011

Trees - Wachau (Leipzig) - Digital Print on canvas - 160 x 140 cm - 2011

Buchenwald an der Ostsee - Digital Print on canvas - 140 x 200 cm - 2011

Ulf Saupe
Born in Halle, 1979, studied experimental alternative photography in Kassel with Prof.
Floris Neusüss, master of the photogram. Ulf Saupe lived for three years in Madrid and
worked there as an artist and press correspondent for a cultural magazine in Spain. He
moved to Berlin in 2006 and continued working as an artist (until today) but very soon
he established an experimental art space called Galerie SCALA. The space was open to
the public for over one and a half years showing works by both young and established
artists.
Consequently, his background is both close to the contemporary artistic scene and to the
history of photography. Furthermore, his skills led him to work for private collections
focused on the 19th and 20th century photography. From 2009 - 2010 was running the Ulf
Saupe Gallery in Torstrasse. Since autumn 2010 his attention is drawn again to his own
artistic work as well preparing several independent art shows in Berlin for the next
year.
Expositions (Selection)
2010 Epson Gallery, Düsseldorf
2009 La Regenta, Canary Islands, Spain
2008 Die zweite Avantgarde, Moritzburg Foundation, Halle
2006 Fotogramme (E), AoRTa, Chisinau, Moldavia
Biennale for young artists, Bukarest, Rumania
Ohne Titel, Galerie Berlin (E)
Für Mutti - 11 Bildgedichte, Alte Brüderkirche Kassel (E)
Examen 06, Kulturbahnhof Kassel
2005 100 Artists for a Museum, International contemporaray Art Museum,
Casoria, Italy
2004 Fotographie ohne Kamera, Galerie Lumas, Berlin
Obras, Association Cultural Cruze, Madrid
Shadow of Tangra, Balchik, Rousse, Sofia
2003 Kunstsequenzen – Nachbilder, Künstlerhaus Göttingen
2002 While, Künstlerhaus Bergedorf, Phototriennale Hamburg

Mimi Laurenti
Remember the picture in my head?
Mimi Laurenti paints imaginary landscapes. Places to remember? Journey still
to do? Inspired by the landscape of Ibiza her aim is not to reproduce but
rather a homage to creation. As she follows a long path in the history of
painting which deals with observation of light, color and their combination
her works arise out of an inner necessity.
IMAGINARY LANDSCAPE N°5 - Acrylic on canvas - 80 x 80 cm - 2010
Courtesy Janine White

IMAGINARY LANDSCAPE N°3 - Acrylic on canvas - 100 x 100 cm - 2010
Courtesy Janine White
LAST MOMENT - Acrylic on canvas - 100 x 80 cm
2010
Courtesy Janine White

Maximillian Wiedemann
How can I make a billion?
Being one of London’s new shooting stars, Max Wiedemann does not follow the slogan: “Get
rich or die trying”. Once working in the advertisement world, he was trained to know what
people want. Taking the turn to become an artist, he seems to have switched sides. Despite
this, the power of the written word and the language of seduction are still an important
part of his work. Glamour Models, symbols of prosperity and catchy rhetoric fill his screen
prints and canvases. - But wait …
the models seem to melt, the slogans are turned around. - What does the artist want to
say? “Don´t think - Just look”
Maximillian Wiedemann - bringing High Fashion to Fine Art (Article in Fashion Mag)
Maximillian Wiedemann takes high end fashion magazines and distorts and ingeniously manipulates
their titles, making Vanity Fair; Vanity Unfair and Hello!; Hell! simultaneously playing
with cover lines on magazine front covers, ‘Closer to God in heels’ which is an obvious
attempt to look at the way in which we value and almost worship fashion, beauty and
sex. Wiedemann states he sees himself as a ‘camera lens for celebrities’ and documents the
habitat that surrounds us in the twenty first century, so people can also see what goes on
in today’s society of celebrity culture.
Wiedemann’s work is highly influenced by fashion and sex, in fact names Prada and Vogue as
his main influences alongside Haring and Basquiat of the art world. And it was Karl Lagerfeld
who introduced Max to the Editor of French Vogue at a restaurant in Paris, when Karl
Lagerfeld bought a painting, hence thrusting Maximillian into the art spotlight.
After being commissioned by VH1 for a series of paintings of Leona Lewis, Miley Cyrus and
others Max Wiedemann has launched an Art-Vertising Company specializing in his provocative
imagery of women that has come under fire from hated gossip blogger Perez Hilton.
The type of ArtVertising project Edwards Wiedemann will work on is like the recent commission
by music channel, VH1 to paint portraits of Leona Lewis, Miley Cyrus which Max was
paid $30,000 to do so. He also painted portraits of Jordan Sparks, Adele, and Kelly Clarkson
for the VH1 Diva’s campaign which was shown on major billboards on Sunset Boulevard and
Rodeo Drive in Los Angeles. He also had his Diva advert collection plastered all over bus
shelters in Manhattan, with his trademark signature on each one. This then sparked up
controversy with hated gossip blogger Perez Hilton, who accused Wiedermann of photo shopping
the paintings, which Wiedermann strongly denied.
Cleverly Maximillian Wiedemann has reversed what made Andy Warhol super famous in the 60’s,
by taking art and placing it in advertisements, rather than taking every day objects and
turning them in iconic paintings. ‘I love to combine street context with fashion and
luxury, I always felt that was a powerful combination as the rawness of Street art and
hip hop creates an edge n the high end fashion world and luxury market’, he states. Wiedemann
is, by this, shaping the future of how we view popular culture today.
As Maximillian Wiedemann has such an innate interest in communicating fine art as a form
of advertising and projecting this into the mass media, he has set up an ‘Artvertising’
company with famous art & fashion photographer Kirk Edwards, to bring art into the world of
advertising and marketing and to provide brands the association that comes with it.

Vogue Mayfair . Spraypaint, Acrylic on canvas - 150 x 120 cm -2010
Also similarly to Warhol, he has become of celebrity status himself whilst being quoted to
saying, ‘I feel we focus too much on celebrities’. He has become iconic in his own right and
this has only proved to emphasize the sexual elements of his work, by spray painting female
derierre’s at parties and shows. ‘Girls really love the work. They always want one for themselves,
and when you paint someone its a documentation and form of eternity for that person’.

Closer to God in Heels - Neon, Sheetmetal in Glas Case - 120 x 70 cm - Edition of 10 - 2010

Love Sucks
Neon in Glass case - 70 x 70 cm - Edition of 10 - 2010
Just done it - Golden throne and Spraypaint - 70x 70cm - 2010
Quantative Easing - 240 x 170 cm - Spraypaint and screenprint on canvas - 2010

Price List:
Thomas Bachler Photobooks - Collage - various sizes - 2010 450,- €
Scheinwelten - Cyanotype -70 x 100 cm Editon of 5 950,- €
Melissa Steckbauer I the hunter - Oil on paper - various sizes - 2010 550,-€
Tom Gefken Good boy - Oil, Carton, Lacquer, Wood - 70 x 60 cm - 2010 2600,-€
O.T. - Oil, Carton, Wall paper - 155 x 105 cm - 2010 5200,-€
Laufstall - Horn, Oil, Lacquer, photo - 155 x 105 cm - 210 5200,-€
O.T. - Oil, Carton, Wall paper - 155 x 105 cm - 2010 5200,-€
Tattoo - Oil on canvas - 150 x 240 cm - 2010 7800,-€
Chet Baker - Oil, Lacquer, Acrylic on canvas - 200 x 230 cm 8700,-€
Abspritzliege - Oil on canvas - 40 x 50 cm - 2010 1800,-€
Bunny II - Oil on canvas - 30 x 40 cm - 2010 1400,-€
Bunny III - Oil on canvas - 30 x 40 cm - 2010 1400,-€
Wrestler - Transfer print, Oil, Lacquer, Paper - 70 x 50 cm 650,-€
King of Notting- Transfer print, Oil, Lacquer, Paper - 70 x 50 cm 650,-€
Skull - Transfer print, Oil, Lacquer, Paper - 70 x 50 cm 650,-€
Spielgelneuron - Transfer print, Oil, Lacquer, Paper - 70 x 50 cm 650,-€
O.T. - Transfer print, Oil, Lacquer, Paper - 70 x 50 cm 650,-€
Bilder der Heimat
O.T. (Trailer) - 41.8 x 29,4 cm - Mixed Media - 2010 500,-€
O.T. (Insect) - 41.8 x 29,4 cm - Mixed Media - 2010 500,-€
O.T. (Building)- 41.8 x 29,4 cm - Mixed Media - 2010 500,-€
Olivia Steele
C la vie - 32 x 100 cm Neon lights - 2011 3000,-€
Paradise is where I am - 70 x 150 cm - Neon lights - 2011 4500,-€
Double Cross - 45 x 30 cm -Neon lights 1700,-€
Ralf Majewska
Abschied - 100 x 100cm - Wax, Engraving on canvas - 2010 6600,-€
Der König Tod 100 x 100 cm - Engraving in Enkaustik on canvas 6000,-€
Totenkopf (Gold)- 180 x 180 cm - Engraving in Enkaustik on canvas 7500,-€
Totenkopf (Silver)- 180x180 cm - Engraving in Enkaustik on canvas 7500,-€
To be or not to be - 40 x 24 x 35 cm - Bronze - unique 26500,-€
Motor Bike - 120 x 70 x 70 cm - Bronze - unique 140000,-€
Affenring - 150 x 200 cm - Engraving in Enkaustik on canvas 6500,-€
Exess - 190 x 220 cm - Acrylic, Enkaustik on canvas 16500,-€
Dog - 49 x 66 x 21cm - Bronze and Chrome - unique piece 26500,-€
Jane I - 300 x 120 cm - Digital Composition on Foil - unique piece 5200,-€
Jane II - 300 x 120 cm - Digital Composition on Foil -unique piece 5200,-€
Ulrich Vogel O.T. - 180 x 340 cm - Slide projectors, Aluminium Slides 9000,-€
Wolke - 100 x 100 cm - Folie and Plexiglas 3500,-€
Ulf Saupe
Glienicke Brücke - 107 x 245 cm - Cyanotypie on cotton 2500,-€
Jannowitzbrücke - 107 x 235 cm - Cyanotypie on cotton 2400,-€
Tree - Lacock Abbey - 100 x 80 cm - Print on canvas, lacquer 900,-€
Buchenwald / Baltic Sea - 120 x 160 cm - Print on canvas 1800,-€
Wachau - 160 x 140cm - Print on canvas, UV-Light 1500,-€
Weide - 160 x 120 cm - Print on canvas, UV-Light 1400,-€
Halle - 160 x 120 cm - Print on canvas, UV-Light 1400,-€
Leipzig - 160 x 140cm - Print on canvas, UV-Light 1500,-€
J.M. Pozo Teletabbi - 200 x 140 cm - Acrylic on canvas 9000,-€
Das Blaue Zimmer- 200 x 140 cm - Acrylic on canvas 9000,-€
The End - 120 x 1000 cm - Acrylic on canvas 6000,-€
Mimi Lauretti
Imaginary Landscape Nr. 5 - 80 x 80 cm - Acrylic on canvas - 2010 2300,-€
Last Moment - 100 x 80 cm - Acrylic on canvas - 2010 2500,-€
All prices are without Tax (7%)