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MARTA DJOURINA
TONI MAUERSBERG
CORA WÖLLENSTEIN
Opening, WED, June 25, 2025, 6pm—9pm
Exhibition dates: June 25—June 28, 2025
Open hours: THU — SAT, 11am—8pm
LAGE EGAL @CULTERIM ROSSMANN
Brunnenstraße 105-109
13355 Berlin-Wedding
Contact: sonderlage@lage-egal.net
In partnership with IESA Arts&Culture
Reality bends. It shifts, distorts, and fragments—never fixed, always in flux. We live among flickers where perception collides with imagination, and the banal can be made strange. UNREALISH brings together three artists who work at the edge of this collision. Through acts of distortion, doubling, and reconfiguration, they create visual worlds that feel at once familiar and unstable. This exhibition is not about escaping reality; it is an engagement with how reality is constructed and reconfigured in our imaginations. What we see, what we remember, and what we reinvent are all different.
The surreal also lingers here not as a historical style but as a method that helps us unfasten what feels fixed through imagination. If early surrealism sought to give form to dream states and unconscious desires, the works in Unrealish operate in a more conscious realm, intentionally intervening with the visible and playing with the set rules of memory and perception.
MARTA DJOURINA explores intersections of light, movement, and photographic materiality. Working without a camera, she uses analogue photographic paper as both surface and stage, choreographing gestures with handheld light sources in the darkroom. These performances create unique large-format images where traces of light map the body’s presence in time and space. Drawing from photographic and painterly traditions, Djourina’s practice makes the invisible visible, capturing fleeting interactions between gesture and medium. Her works balance precision and spontaneity, where exposure is both a technical and emotional process.
TONI MAUERSBERG treats painting as a site of comparative inquiry and dialogue. Her ongoing series Pas-de-deux pairs abstract and figurative works in diptychs that span centuries of art history, creating moments of visual conversation across time. Through careful mimicry, reinterpretation, and formal invention, Mauersberg stages image-against-image encounters that reflect, contradict, or complete one another. These pairings unsettle binary oppositions such as figuration versus abstraction, inviting viewers to explore the space where recognition gives way to thought, and painting becomes a form of knowledge. Combining technical rigor with conceptual curiosity, her practice turns looking into a choreographed reflection on perception.
CORA WÖLLENSTEIN creates immersive environments with tragicomic figures like moon-faced beings, tired harlequins, and hybrid creatures that blur human and nature. Drawing from folklore and personal experience, she invents symbolic characters exploring identity, belonging, and emotional inheritance. Her installations resemble theatrical stages where costumes, sculptures, and paintings become props in unfolding narratives. Balancing whimsy with vulnerability, her work questions who we become when slipping into another skin and what stories our gestures leave behind.
