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PAPERYII
Opening Friday, 26.09.2025, from 5 pm to 10 pm.
From 25.09.2025 until 28.09.2025
Open: Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Group show with original paper works by 15 artists from Berlin and abroad:
BASE23, Xavi Ceerre, CREAM, DAFNE Tree, ELIOTE, GATE, Vincent Grunwald, Howtokillagraffiti, Erosie Jeroen, Kadir Amigo Memis, Mr. Funky Chicken, Johannes Mundinger, Remi Rough, Blazej Rusin und ZASD.
Curated by Katia Hermann.
Drawing is the foundation of every visual art form. It does not lie – it provides immediate information about the creator. Sculptors use it to capture thoughts for forms: lines that suggest volume. Filmmakers develop storyboards: lines that convey movement and narration. Painters use hatching and contouring to cast light and shadow directly onto paper. On the road, in the mountains, in the pub – always available.
Drawing can be the freezing of an idea or a sensation that is later transferred to another medium when time and materials allow. But it can also be the main work – an original work on paper. Paper has its own language. It reacts to pressure, speed and intensity of the hand, making the artist’s mark permanently visible. Its surface and structure lend each work a special intimacy, often more intimate and direct than painting on canvas. It is no coincidence that entire collections of drawings and works on paper have been created throughout art history – from Renaissance studios to private collections of the 18th and 19th centuries to modern museums. Today, paper no longer stands in the shadow of other media, but is recognised as an independent image carrier.
Whether sketchy or constructed, representational or abstract, political or erotic: in its simplicity, work on paper opens up a universe of its own. Based on this versatility, the exhibition PAPERY II presents a selection of this universe for the second time and provides insight into the different visual languages of fifteen artists.
What they have in common is not only working on paper, but also their origins in graffiti writing, calligraphy or wall painting. Graffiti crossed their biographies, shaping their style and lives.
In the group exhibition PAPERY II, RETRAMP Gallery presents originals on paper, created in recent years with charcoal, marker, pencil, ink, oil pastels, fineliner pen, watercolour, gouache, acrylic, spray paint, oil or mixed media.
