Michael Reid Berlin, AckerStr. 163, Berlin (2026)

With an exhibition program that displays the best of Australian contemporary art, the gallery produces up to eight exhibitions a year, and participates in art fairs and projects across Germany, England, Scotland, Sweden and wider Europe. The gallery is an entry point for European collectors and the first port of call for Australian collectors visiting Berlin...

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tellt zeitgenössische Australische Kunst aus. Im April 2013 öffnete, die im zentralen Berliner Stadtteil „Mitte“ gelegene Galerie ihre Türen. Neben zwei weiteren Galerien in Sydney und Murrurundi, Australien, fungiert der Berliner Standort als geographischer Bezugspunkt zwischen London und Moskau – um so an Australische Kunst interessierte Sammler und Kuratoren Europaweit zu erreichen. Hierbei ist Michael Reid Berlin als ein permanenter Dreh- und Angelpunkt für Australische Kunst in Europa zu sehen. Der Ausstellungsort in Berlin steht zudem in enger Verbindung zu einem größeren Zusammenschluss von Kunstgalerien, die eine kreative und vermittelnde Brücke zwischen Australischer und Europäischer Kunst schlagen. Eine qualitative Repräsentation sowie die Auseinandersetzung mit zeitgenössischer Kunst aus Australien sind die zentralen Anliegen der Galerie in Berlin, an deren Umsetzung die Kollegen auf beiden Seiten der Welt gemeinsam ausschalgebend mitwirken.

16/05/2025

ON VIEW: WILLIAM YANG | Until 20 June | Michael Reid Berlin

We are delighted to unveil WILLIAM YANG’s latest exhibition – a specially curated survey that spans five decades of joyous, reflective and times confronting depictions of marginalised experiences in Australian art, lifestyles and cultures.

This week, visitors are invited to explore this milestone display of Yang’s most influential photographic series at our Berlin gallery, where we celebrate his enduring artistic vision and his medium’s undeniable power as a powerful narrative tool.

Much of Yang’s art speaks to the marginalisation experienced by many Chinese immigrants, particularly the tension between cultural heritage and assimilation. “[My mother] thought being Chinese was a complete liability and wanted us to be more Australian than the Australians. So, the Chinese part of me was completely denied and unacknowledged until I was in my mid-30s and I became Taoist”, shared Yang in an interview with QAGOMA exhibition curator Rosie Hays.

His indelible works also spotlight the q***r and countercultural margins of Australian society. Blending evocative imagery with handwritten inscriptions, his works recall encounters with his subjects, documented at events through which LGBTQ+ identity, autonomy and politics have been shaped. These portals into Australian society are interspersed with radically intimate, diaristic portraits of family, friends and lovers set against the ravages of the AIDS crisis.

“I would probably have made more money sticking with celebrity lives and continuing the status quo, but it is important to me to talk about being gay and talk about racial difference, even if they are commercially unpopular subjects”, noted Yang.

Forming a fragmented autobiography of sorts, arranged in a sequence that will draw out fascinating stories – a profound visual odyssey that unearths hidden stories and reveal unexpected visual echoes across time.

All works are available to view and acquire online and in person. For any enquiries, please email [email protected]

15/05/2025

NOW OPEN: WILLIAM YANG | Until 20 June | Michael Reid Berlin

We are delighted to announce the opening of WILLIAM YANG’s latest exhibition – an extraordinary, reflective, and defiant series of images drawn from the artist’s decades-spanning photographic archive, that joyfully attests to his medium’s singular power as a conduit for personal and cultural storytelling.

From today, visitors are invited to explore this landmark presentation of Yang’s photographic series at our Berlin gallery, where we celebrate his enduring artistic vision and remarkable cultural contribution.

His indelible works detailing the q***r and countercultural margins of Australian society. Synthesising evocative imagery with handwritten inscriptions, his works recall encounters with his subjects, documented at the front lines of the events at which LGBTQ+ identity, autonomy and politics were shaped. These portals into Australian society are interspersed with radically intimate, diaristic portraits of family, friends and lovers set against the ravages of the AIDS crisis.

Among the most important social archives of the past half-century, Yang’s visual narratives offer a profound testament to a a vanishing q***r and artistic underground, while simultaneously offering an ever-evolving meditation on subjectivity. With unvarnished candour and raw immediacy, Yang captures fleeting instances of beauty and tenderness amidst the grit and glitter of lived experience.

Visitors to Yang’s first Michael Reid Berlin show will recognise some of the most important and influential cultural figures of the last half century among his subjects – including Pina Bausch, Brett Whiteley and Cate Blanchett.

This exhibition also heralds the beginning of a new series at Michael Reid Berlin, which will reframe the rich archives of Australia’s most celebrated image-makers. Succeeding Yang’s career-spanning performance for this year’s Sydney Festival, this forthcoming show presents a fragmented autobiography – a profound visual odyssey that unearths hidden stories.

For any enquiries, please email [email protected]

08/04/2025

COMING SOON: CHELSEA GUSTAFSSON | 5–29 June | Michael Reid Berlin

Naarm/Melbourne-based artist CHELSEA GUSTAFSSON will soon make her European debut with a solo exhibition of small-scale, high-impact paintings at Michael Reid Berlin.

Now available to preview and acquire by request before they arrive at the gallery, Gustafsson's playfully constructed still-life miniatures offer a kaleidoscope of stories in each tiny tableau.

“I’m drawn to still life and using objects to tell a story,” says the artist, whose new series builds on the tremendous creative breakthrough and critical success of her most recent show at Michael Reid Murrurundi. “I find objects are perfect as a representational tool and my brain has a relentless tendency to contemplate all the big and little things going on in the world.”

Delighting in the alchemy of objects staged in sculptural arrangements, Gustafsson’s paintings toy with perceptions of scale, perspective and framing, layering pictures within pictures with striking trompe l'oeil effects. There is a nesting-doll quality to these cinematic scenes as she once again casts an array of iconic chairs and salvaged seating as her work’s stars.

But here, the pictorial layering is dialled up to an even more dynamic degree. Discarded packaging and fragmentary pictures are unboxed and seemingly collaged in space, drawing the viewer into endlessly fascinating, illusory micro-worlds and stage plays in miniature.

To request a preview and priority access to works from the series, please email [email protected]

04/04/2025

This month, the extraordinary cultural legacy of legendary Queensland-born, Eora/Sydney-based photographer WILLIAM YANG will be celebrated internationally with a solo exhibition at Michael Reid Berlin.

Drawn from his vast archive, this specially curated survey spans five decades of Yang’s joyous, reflective, defiant and indelible photographic documents of life at the q***r and countercultural margins of Australian society.

From his essential works of social documentary – lensed at the front lines of the parties, protests and performances through which LGBTQAI+ identity, autonomy and politics came to be expressed and defined – to his radically intimate, diaristic portraits of family, friends and lovers set against the ravages of the AIDS era, Yang's body of work is among the most important social archives of the last 50 years.

Alert to his medium's storytelling capacity, Yang often inscribes and reanimates his photographs with handwritten recollections of encounters with his subjects, the ebb and flow of their relationships and how their portraits came to be.

The sum of these stories is at once an urgent record of a vanishing q***r underground and an ever-evolving statement of subjectivity – expressed with a candour and unvarnished immediacy that belies the disarming beauty and small moments of grace in all the grit and glitter.

In many of his most famous images, Yang reimagines iconic Australian leisure scenes – images that loom large in the cultural photobook, often centring on female bodies or affirming traditionally masculine ideals – and reinscribes their ho******ic charge by instead celebrating the male body.

Commencing a new series that will reframe the rich archives of our most celebrated image-makers – and coming soon after his career-spanning performance work at this year's Sydney Festival – Yang’s solo presentation will offer a fragmented autobiography of sorts, arranged in a sequence that draws out fascinating stories and unexpected visual echoes across time.

For previews and priority access to works from the show, please email [email protected]

23/10/2024

NOW OPEN: The Autumn Edit | Until 21 December | Michael Reid Berlin

This week at Michael Reid Berlin, we are delighted to welcome a freshly curated collection of spectacular new and historical works from a dynamic assembly of leading Australian contemporary artists.

Now on view in the gallery and available to explore online via the link in our bio, our autumn exhibition includes some of the final remaining editions of essential photographic works from four of the country’s most acclaimed and influential artists: Dr CHRISTIAN THOMPSON AO, NICI CUMPSTON OAM, TAMARA DEAN and GERWYN DAVIES.

We are thrilled to present these four artists’ arresting images and offer their final editions to Europe-based collectors as part of our seasonal survey show.

Threaded with reflections on the nexus of culture and nature, this suite of photographs is now playing out in a compelling conversation alongside handmade vessels by First Nations ceramicists working at Ernabella Arts – including Tjimpuna Willams, Fiona Wells, Lynette Lewis and Rupert Jack – as well as a sublime pair of carved spirit figures by Kunibidji and Kuninjku artist Joy Garlbin and the last remaining piece from Dr Cathy Franzi’s celebrated ceramics series On the Edge / am Rande.

All works from our autumn show can be viewed and acquired online or by appointment. For enquiries, please email [email protected]

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