Art
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Art in Oderberg
The Hotel Oderberger cooperates with Berlin artists. At the moment, art is exhibited in the Kaminbar, the restaurant, the library, the corridors and in the hotel rooms, and other areas of the hotel will be added gradually. You can buy art that you see at the Oderberger, e.g. photo prints or paintings. Just get in touch with us or contact the artists directly if you are interested.
We cooperate with these artists
Manolo Ty
Manolo Ty is a photographer and artist from Hagen/Westphalia. He left the Ruhr region in 2006, only to return to Germany years later with a completely new world view. He lived between Asia, Europe and Latin America, where he worked as a hotel manager, filmmaker and photographer while studying economics. He has now traveled to 97 countries around the world. He lives in Berlin.
Manolo Ty’s photographic works are based on the symbiosis between aesthetic naturalness and a strict composition. For him, the camera is just a tool to instinctively capture the perfect moment in a constantly changing environment. With his work, Ty wants to make people think and dream.
Ben de Biel is a self-taught photographer who lives and works in Berlin. He prefers to work on multi-year projects, such as the images shown here from 1990-1994, which document a chronicle of Berlin after the fall of the Wall. A selection of these images were published in the book “Berlin-Wonderland” (bobsairport 2014).
Another project documents Berlin club life in the years 2009-2015. Work on this was published in the books “Nachtleben Berlin 1974-heute” (metrolit-verlag 2013) and “Berlin Heartbeats” (bobsairport 2016).
The development and transformation of Berlin in the years from 2010 onwards is another topic that has already been shown in exhibitions, but is still open-ended.
Ben de Biel
Johanna
Keimeyer
Johanna Keimeyer
“Underwater there are no thoughts.
The body is weightless, breathless.
Freedom, lightness and timelessness arises.
I am home – “
Johanna Keimeyer created underwater compositions in hotel pools while traveling around the world with kind support from Martin Nicholas Kunz. With these intimate portraits she wants to emphazise the awareness behind the physical body by showing it again and again. The body is just the surface. The beauty is within.
In the photo project Pool Around Me Johanna Keimeyer created underwater scenes in over 75 hotel pools worldwide from Africa, the Maldives, and Asia to America. She used the pool as a diary of spirit, beauty and transformation within. Photographic fine art prints of the underwater series Pool Around Me can be ordered at Hotel Oderberger or directly through Johanna Keimeyer.
Various & Gould
Various
& Gould
The Berlin based artist duo Various & Gould works in close collaboration since 2005. After studying at the Berlin-Weissensee School of Art, the artists graduated in 2010. Various & Gould are known for constantly reinventing themselves. Their creation is based on the simple but striking formula 1+1=3.
They designed and realized a mural at Hotel Oderberger and we are proud to feature a piece of their art.
Whilst methods of screen-printing and collage are their specialty, their art also emerges in public performances or installations willing to cross borders and explore different media. Mutual passions including their love of paper, enthusiasm for accidental beauty in everyday life and art in urban space form the core of their artistic practice.
Various & Gould often deal with socially prominent themes such as work, migration, gender, death, religion or the financial crisis in a playful, intuitive manner. Influenced by (political) poster graphics, Dada and Pop Art, vivid colors combined with typography and encrypted messages are the characteristics of their work.
Cornelia
Enderlein
Cornelia Enderlein
Cornelia Enderlein is a Berlin based artist who studied at the Berlin University of the Arts. Works from her latest series PENCIL DRAWINGS can be found at the Restaurant and Kaminbar as well as at the Library at Hotel Oderberger Berlin.
The series Pencil Drawings focuses on the conflict between order and disorder, between hold and abeyance, coincidence and planning. One can understand chaos and order as opposites, consider the chaos as the cause of order, or assume them as interdependent correlating condition. In any case, by the virtue of their duality, they possess a power that generates artistic and creative process.
Through overlays, shifts and fragmentation drawing structures are created that dynamically capture the (pictorial) space. Order and disorder encounter each other, mix and add up to one expressive composition.
Streets of no Name
Streets of
no Name
Streetsofnoname.com is the website of photographer Johannes von Jena. In recent years, the Berlin-based creative artist has explored the world and discovered his enthusiasm for street photography. The focus is on capturing a moment, the mostly black and white aesthetic and the personal nature of the documentation.
After a trip to Iran in 2016, the artist decided to exhibit his work in public for the first time. This also gave rise to the idea of his new website, where you can explore the essence of his photographic moments.
At the Hotel Oderberger, he and his friend and colleague Ben de Biel are showing 25 pictures from around the globe. Together they have traveled to both New York City and Cape Town in recent years. This is the first jointly curated exhibition as part of streetsofnoname.com
Incidentally, Ben de Biel was the person who accompanied Johannes von Jena over the years in everything that had to do with his photography and Johannes von Jena is particularly pleased to be able to present a first collaboration with him.
Victor Ash
Victor Ash works mainly on the street, his works are visible to everyone, even to those who have not actively sought them out. He says: “It’s very exciting for me as an artist to work in this way. Placing a gift like this in a public place creates an interaction with people you would otherwise never talk to. It’s something you give to people, and making paintings outdoors is a gift to the public.” In this sense, his art is democratic and unavoidable, manifesting itself in the form of public statements in the spirit of street art.
In Ash’s words, his works are always a direct reflection of what is happening in society here and now. Ash does not give answers or solutions to the dilemmas described in the works, but he points out certain things in society and questions the current state of things. The works are often about the contrast between city and country and the anecdotes that arise from this dichotomy.