Time Is a Healer
Solo show by Jonny Star
Opening, Thursday, 3.04.2025, from 5 pm to 9 pm
Exhibition runs from 4.04. until 6.04.2025
Open on Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 3 pm to 7 pm
The solo exhibition Time Is a Healer presents a series of works by Berlin-based artist Jonny Star, which were produced with precision and great attention to detail during the Corona lockdown. The series of works Space comprises particularly expressive and high-quality works by the artist and allows us to immerse in a new visual language that combines painting, photography, digital montage and textile art. Sensual, aesthetic and expressive, the works invite the viewer into a dreamlike space in which the living beings human, as a female body, and animal, as a Japanese ornamental carp Koi, meet and seem to dance, swim and float. In the series of six wall hangings, humans and animals unite and surround each other, sensually, tenderly, in various movements and positions in relation to each other, dynamically or calmly, or even appear to merge. In proportions that are not true to life, but with shimmering, colour-matched textures of skin and scales, creatures from the elements of air and water meet here in a new element: in a white open space that seems to be limited only by the edge of the picture. White, surreal, dreamlike, infinite like nothingness, space. A space without a floor, without boundaries, but certainly deep, which makes orientation fade, an unknown space, not of this world, a heavenly, divine space full of light? Or the space in the mind, of dreaming, of the imaginary, of the subconscious, and possibly a place for transcendence, reconciliation, healing, and peace?
The exhibition Time Is a Healer presents for the first time this series Space with printed and sewn wall hangings richly embroidered with Swarovski pearls, as well as works on paper, photomontages, and prints. The exhibition is accompanied by texts by four curators – four different interpretations of Stars’ Space series, which were written after its completion in 2020/2021. Daniela von Damaros, Katia Hermann, Sylvia Sadzinski and Madeleine Schwinge thus open up different perspectives on Jonny Star’s expressive series and take us into the visual cosmos of Time Is a Healer.
Curated by Katia Hermann
About the artist
The visual artist Jonny Star (born 1964 in Düsseldorf) has lived and worked in Berlin since the 1980s. Star’s work mixes a variety of materials and media such as bronze, fabric, photography, collage, embroidery, painting, and elements of installation art. She is thus at home in several disciplines and works in an interplay with analogue and digital techniques. Certain patterns or references have been repeated in her works over the past decades and thus form a connecting network in her work. Her ensembles explore biographical experiences, sexuality, gender roles and identity, as well as society’s perception of them. In recent years, Jonny Star has been intensively involved with the interfaces between art and shamanism, with healing processes through the resource of artistic expression and community building through artistic interventions. In addition to her artistic practice, Jonny Star sees her curatorial practice as an extension of her artistic work and in the sense of social sculpture. Jonny Star’s work has been shown internationally since 1996. In 2016, the artist’s first monograph entitled ‘See Me, Feel Me, Touch Me, Heal Me’ was published by Distanz Berlin. Jonny Star’s works are represented in various collections. She is also a member of the Berufsverband Bildender Künstler*innen Berlin (BBK), VG Bild-Kunst Bonn and Saloon Berlin – Network for women in the Berlin art scene. Since 2022, Jonny Star has also been working as a psychological and shamanic counsellor in her new place STAR LAND in Berlin-Kreuzberg.
RETRAMP Gallery
Reuterstr.62
12047 Berlin
