Exhibitions

Aktionsforum Shift is pleased to announce an upcoming one-night exhibition by Rebecca Brodskis. The exhibition, titled The In-Between, will be held from 19:00 to 22:00 on December 4, 2013.
The In-Between explores the intermediary space between two extremes, a third place at the crossroads between determinism and freedom, order and disorder, reality and fantasy, physicality and spirituality. It is a liberated space detached from socially constructed boundaries, a space which fosters individuality and self-experimentation.
This series of paintings could be described as a journey through the oneiric, a dream state that is perpetually in-between. The images emerge from a variety of sources, sometimes inspired by a photograph or a memory. While the paintings contain figurative elements, details are reduced in order to allow a sense of blurriness to overcome the images.
The characters are never set in a recognizable landscape, in order to cast aside the initial expectations of the viewer. Elements from the real, rational world are painted in a manner that reduces their tangibility. These artistic strategies allow the imagination to flow, liberating our ability for interpretation and inserting us into the very makeup of an in-between structure.

About the Artist:
Rebecca Brodskis was born in 1988. She spent most of her childhood travelling and living between France and Morocco. She studied painting at the atelier des Beaux Arts de la Ville de Paris and at Central St. Martins College of Art and Design in London. Shortly thereafter, she worked in New York City as the assistant to the Norwegian artist, Lars Laumann. After some time in New York, Brodskis returned to Europe and chose Berlin as her new home base. Having always been attracted by theoretical studies, she is now completing a Masters degree in sociology. She has curated and participated in two group shows since moving to Berlin: Things Fall Apart in March 2012 at ECC-Atelierhaus, and Mother in December 2012 at Weserland.

About the Venue:
Located in the same Vattenfall power plant as the iconic super club Tresor, Aktionsforum Shift has quickly risen to prominence as one of Berlin’s premiere cultural venues showcasing underground and outsider art. Since its inception in early 2013, Art Director and Founder Leon Ludwig Barth has created a world class venue for fostering young and emerging artists of all mediums currently creating in Berlin.