Current Season — 2025

Obsidian
Gallery

A space for confrontation and contemplation. Representing emerging and mid-career artists working in installation, sculpture, digital art, and mixed media since 2018.

View Current Exhibitions

01 — Exhibitions

Current & Upcoming

05 Apr — 20 Jul 2025 Now Showing
Korakrit Arunanondchai

Surface Tension

A meditation on the skin of things — painting, bodies, digital interfaces. Arunanondchai layers resin, latex, and projected footage across a series of monumental panels that resist classification as either painting or screen. The surfaces breathe, decay, and regenerate in slow loops.

Mixed media on panel, video projection — Gallery B
12 Jul — 02 Nov 2025 Upcoming
Kapwani Kiwanga

Counterpoint for Silence

Kiwanga's first major solo presentation in the region transforms the entire ground floor into a graduated environment of light, sound, and spatial intervention. Architectural interventions create corridors of compressed and expanded perception, exploring how power operates through the very spaces we move through unthinkingly.

Spatial installation, light, architectural intervention — Ground Floor

02 — Represented Artists

The Roster

01 Korakrit Arunanondchai Mixed Media, Video 4 exhibitions
02 Yael Bartana Installation, Film 2 exhibitions
03 Arthur Jafa Video, Assemblage 3 exhibitions
04 Kapwani Kiwanga Spatial Installation 1 exhibition
05 Simone Leigh Sculpture, Performance 2 exhibitions
06 Tara Donovan Sculpture, Installation 3 exhibitions
07 El Anatsui Sculpture, Metalwork 2 exhibitions
08 Hito Steyerl Digital, Video Essay 3 exhibitions
09 Rashid Johnson Painting, Sculpture 1 exhibition
10 Julie Mehretu Drawing, Painting 2 exhibitions
11 Trevor Paglen Photography, Data 2 exhibitions
12 Wangechi Mutu Collage, Sculpture 1 exhibition

03 — Mission

Art is Not Comfortable.

Obsidian Gallery was founded in 2018 with a singular conviction: that contemporary art should provoke before it pleases, question before it resolves, and confront before it decorates. We represent artists whose work resists easy consumption and rewards sustained engagement.

Our program spans installation, sculpture, digital art, and mixed media — practices that demand physical presence and intellectual commitment. We do not represent painters who make beautiful objects for beautiful walls. We represent artists who make necessary ones.

Risk Over Safety

We invest in artists who challenge their own practice, not those who repeat winning formulas.

Rigor Over Reach

Depth of engagement matters more than breadth of audience.

Presence Over Image

Installation art cannot be understood through photographs. Come to the gallery.

Dialogue Over Dogma

We believe in critical conversation as the engine of contemporary culture.

"The gallery is not a shop. It is a room where something irreversible might happen between a person and a work of art. Our responsibility is to protect that possibility." — Elena Vasquez, Founding Director

04 — Visit

Come to the Work

Hours
  • Tuesday — Friday11:00 — 19:00
  • Saturday10:00 — 20:00
  • Sunday12:00 — 18:00
  • MondayClosed
Location

Obsidian Gallery

742 Industrial Boulevard
Kreuzberg, Berlin 10999
Germany

U-Bahn: Kottbusser Tor (U8)
Parking: Limited street parking available

Information

Admission is free for all exhibitions.
Guided tours available every Saturday at 15:00.
Group visits by appointment.

visit@obsidian.gallery
+49 30 984 2200