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Galerie Nagel Draxler

Galerie Nagel Draxler was founded in Cologne in 1990 and operates in Berlin, Cologne and Meseberg.

Weydinger Str. 2-4
10178 Berlin
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26/05/2026

ANDREA PICHL
SOLO EXHIBITION
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📍Kunsthalle Vogelmann, Städtische Museen Heilbronn, Heilbronn, Germany
📆 Exhibition: April 25 – September 6, 2026
 HOUSE 1 - BLOOMING LANDSCAPES

These four large-format landscape photographs—with their meadows, fields, and rolling hills— are both sides of the German border, which were of existential importance. What seems so harmless here was once the site of a transnational waste disposal system: West Germany dumped its consumer waste there, and in return, East Germany received much-needed foreign currency.

Politburo decided in 1979 to locate the largest hazardous waste landfill in Schönberg, Mecklenburg. In the years that followed, the town developed into a central hub for Western European industrial waste—with customers not only from Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Lower Saxony, Hesse, and Baden-Württemberg, but also from the Netherlands, Italy, Switzerland, France, and Austria.  
The presence of contaminated landscapes within the jet-black replica of a GDR garden arbor reveals a highly sordid and literally “buried” chapter of insidious inter-German collaboration.
 This work is a part of the Solo Exhibition of Andrea Pichl at Kunsthalle Vogelmann, where she is awarded with the 2026 Ernst Franz Vogelmann Prize for Sculpture. This prestigious award is being given to an artist born in the GDR and raised in East Berlin for the very first time.

13/05/2026

ANDREA PICHL
Solo Exhibition

📍Kunsthalle Vogelmann, Städtische Museen Heilbronn, Heilbronn, Germany
📆 Exhibition: April 25 – September 6, 2026

“Andrea Pichl is awarded with the 2026 Ernst Franz Vogelmann Prize for Sculpture. This prestigious award is being given to an artist born in the GDR and raised in East Berlin for the very first time. This dual biography provides the backdrop for her artistic work, which, within the context of architecture and urban planning, explores the interplay between public and private space. According to the jury, her works make the shift in meaning of the public and the private before and after German reunification tangible. Architectural structures, combined with photographs and drawings, trace the contradictions of history and narratives while simultaneously illuminating economic, cultural, and social dimensions in the relationship between East and West. In doing so, they bring highly questionable distortions, such as the reciprocal transfer of capital, goods, and services, into focus, pointing to what has remained hidden from the public and what has been explicitly silenced. For her first solo exhibition in southern Germany, Andrea Pichl developed an installation concept with works that invite dialogue and bring central questions of social cohesion into new awareness.”

- Kunsthalle Vogelmann (Translated by Galerie Nagel Draxler)

03/05/2026

HUANG RUI
Solo Exhibition

📍Nagel Draxler Kabinett, Berlin
📆 Exhibition: May 2 – June 27, 2026

In his exhibition “《89》 Ink-stained books”, Chinese artist Huang Rui reflects on historical memories of the year 1989 in Beijing and Berlin.

“Ink-stained books bestow forbidden value upon what was once forbidden. In 1992, I first saw the crumbling Berlin Wall. I knew its story—before 1989 and in 1989. Now it is nearly invisible. The “1989 Wall” in Beijing, China, is tall, heavy, and long. Not only is it invisible, but almost no one is aware of its existence. Any written text, printed material, or online/offline content about that history remains taboo in China. Seeing yet not seeing, knowing yet not knowing – concepts rooted in Daoist philosophy, symbols and their connotations—directly guide me in this work. Encasing ordinary books and printed material in ink is an act of violence, far from normal. Yet my practice remains intensely personal and introspective. I use the number 8 to allude to China, and 9 to allude to Germany. The problem is there is no fair or reasonable way to view 1989—the confrontation and dialogue between Eastern and Western histories. Thus, I chose the distinction between two modes of viewing: on the street, people see numbers; within the space, they see everything—an artwork that refuses further communication. An alien text encased in solidified black blood.“
(Huang Rui, December 2025)

Images
4. “Kekkai - Karl Marx“, 2026
6.7. “Eight, Nine“, 2026
10.11. “Yin & Yang Selected works of Mao Zedong“, 1990
12. “DESHENGMEN“, 1989
13. “Woman portrait“, 1983

Exhibition views by Simon Vogel

03/05/2026

HEIMO ZOBERNIG
Solo Exhibition

📍Galerie Nagel Draxler, Berlin
📆 Exhibition: May 2 – June 27, 2026

“An interest in the material and proportions of standardized objects from everyday life runs
through Zobernig’s entire sculptural oeuvre. The latest series that we are now showing in Berlin—which could be described as a kind of “super-series” — consists of solid aluminum shelves that evoke a number of references: contemporary design, industrial aesthetics, but above all the sublime serenity of “Volumes” known from Minimal Art. Naturally, Zobernig leaves the labels printed on the aluminum plates by the supplier in place. The shelves are empty but have inscriptions. In addition, there is a fragmented human figure, also made of cast aluminum.

The new Hamlet paintings, which Zobernig presents here alongside the IKEA Billy bookshelf sculptures, feature the words “Hamlet total abstrakt” or “Hamlet totally abstract.” In Zobernig’s work, these canvases fall into the category of typographic compositions that generally do not evoke specific content, but rather present tautologies or individual terms—such as “painting,” “video,” “REAL EGAL,” or “LOVE” — as if they were presented on a stage. Zobernig, who studied stage design and who, in 1982, created a set for Heiner Müller’s play Quartett before devoting himself exclusively to his work as an artist, brings Hamlet‘s ghost onto the stage of his art and, at this time and in this place, also the ghost of Heiner Müller.“

Images
3.6. untitled, 2026
Acrylic on canvas, 200 x 200 cm
4. untitled, 2024 (shelves)
Aluminium, 200 x 80 x 30
8. untitled, 2025
Aluminium, 190 x 32 x 37 cm
9. untitled, 2023
Reflective granulate, acrylic lacquer, offset printing,
paper, hardboard, wood
84 x 59.4 cm
10. untitled, 2025
Acrylic on canvas, 100 x 100 cm

Exhibition Views by Simon Vogel

29/04/2026

HEIMO ZOBERNIG

🥂 Opening: Friday, May 1, 2026, 6 – 9pm
📍Galerie Nagel Draxler Berlin

Special Opening hours during Berlin Gallery Weekend:
Saturday, May 2, 2026, 11am – 6pm
Sunday, May 3, 2026, 11am – 6pm

Exhibition views by Simon Vogel

29/04/2026

HUANG RUI

”《89》 Ink-stained books“

🥂 Opening: Friday, May 1, 2026, 6 – 9pm
📍Nagel Draxler Kabinett

Special Opening hours during Berlin Gallery Weekend:
Saturday, May 2, 2026, 11am – 6pm
Sunday, May 3, 2026, 11am – 6pm

Exhibition views by Simon Vogel

22/04/2026

KADER ATTIA
Group Exhibition
“Tirailleurs“

📆 Exhibition: March 23 – June 14, 2026
📍HKW | Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin

On 15 August 2024, French President Emmanuel Macron invited the world to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Allied landing in Provence that was pivotal to liberating France and Europe from N**i Germany. The ceremony highlighted an often-overlooked truth: the majority of the 250,000 troops in the so-called B Army were African soldiers who, according to Le Monde, ‘came from the colonies’. These young Tirailleurs played an active role in the liberation of France from N**i Germany. Yet, their contributions have been systematically marginalized.

In 2026, HKW seeks to address this gap with a wide-ranging programme that considers the role of the Tirailleurs in liberating France from N**i Germany and their impact on securing peace in Europe post-1945.

The exhibition brings together works by more than thirty international artists across generations, including fourteen new commissions. Together, these contributions underscore the persistent relevance of the history of the Tirailleurs for artists, film-makers, and cultural practitioners.

Images:
Exhibition views, “Tirailleurs“, HKW | Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, 2026

1.2. “JANUS”, 2020 / 2026, Photo: Ido Gotlib
3.4.5. Untitled, 2012 / 2013 / 2026, Photo: Hanna Wiedemann
6.7. Untitled, 2012 / 2013 / 2026, Photo: Ido Gotlib
8. Untitled, 2012 / 2013 / 2026, Photo: Hanna Wiedemann
9. Untitled, 2012 / 2013 / 2026, Photo: Ido Gotlib
10. ”Totem”, 2013 / 2026, Photo: Ido Gotlib
11. “Totem”, 2013 / 2026, Photo: Hanna Wiedemann

21/04/2026

ALEX WISSEL

📰 A review of Alex Wissel’s past exhibition “Katechon“ at Galerie Nagel Draxler, by Noemi Smolik, in Art Forum.

🔗 LINK to the full article in bio

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18/04/2026

ANDREA PICHL
Ernst Franz Vogelmann Award winner 2026 for Sculpture

🥂 Award Ceremony & Exhibition Opening: Saturday, April 25, 11am – 5pm
📆 Exhibition: April 25 - September 6, 2026
📍 Kunsthalle Vogelmann, Heilbronn, Germany

Galerie Nagel Draxler is delighted to announce that Andrea Pichl will be honored with the Ernst Franz Vogelmann Award 2026 by the Ernst Franz Vogelmann Foundation
„Andrea Pichl is awarded with the 2026 Ernst Franz Vogelmann Prize for Sculpture. This prestigious award is being given to an artist born in the GDR and raised in East Berlin for the very first time. This dual biography provides the backdrop for her artistic work, which, within the context of architecture and urban planning, explores the interplay between public and private space. According to the jury, her works make the shift in meaning of the public and the private before and after German reunification tangible. Architectural structures, combined with photographs and drawings, trace the contradictions of history and narratives while simultaneously illuminating economic, cultural, and social dimensions in the relationship between East and West. In doing so, they bring highly questionable distortions, such as the reciprocal transfer of capital, goods, and services, into focus, pointing to what has remained hidden from the public and what has been explicitly silenced. For her first solo exhibition in southern Germany, Andrea Pichl developed an installation concept with works that invite dialogue and bring central questions of social cohesion into new awareness.“

- Kunsthalle Vogelmann (Translated by Galerie Nagel Draxler)

Image: Andrea Pichl, “Gartenlaube GL 19“, 2024
© VG Bild-Kunst Bonn 2026, Photo: Marcus Bahra

15/04/2026

TERESA KUTALA FIRMINO
Performance
Part of Exhibition “wait until my sugar melts”

📆 April 16, 2026 at 7 PM
📍Pfizer Building, Kings County, New York, USA

“For Sexual Violence Awareness month in April, we want to show the power of art for advocacy.

How? By teaming up with incredible multimedia artist Teresa Kutala Firmino and Safe Horizon to make a powerful statement for consent with a one-of-a-kind empowering performance.

The message: No matter how women choose to present themselves, they are never “asking for it”. It is always our choice.

This performance is part of wait until my sugar melts, curated by Sophie Barfod. Sophie Noelle Barfod”

Image: Portrait of Teresa Kutala Fermino, Source: Artist’s Instagram

Teresa Kutala firmino

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