Simone Haack

Shifting Selves – The Self in Flux @staedtischegalerie_wolfsburg until 30 May 2026 featured contemporary artists: @katharina_arndt_berlin @sonjaalhaeuser @Heike Kathi Barath @birgitdiekerstudio @julijagoyd @haacksimone @bianca.kennedy @miriam_lenk @cornelia_renz @carosuerkemper in dialogue with works of the collection by: Louise Bourgeois Hans Bellmer Dorothee von Windheim Johannes Grützke Elvira Bach and more installation view, my work: Audience, 2023 120 x 100 cm Oil on canvas @galerie.gebr.lehmann #installationview #contemporarypaintings #simonehaack #peinturecontemporaine #louisebourgeois

On view during Berlin Gallery-Weekend and last days of our show @zitadelle_museen_ausstellungen @rohkunstbau30 Whatever shape Your Heart is in Curated by Christoph Tannert Saturday 3th & Sunday 4th may 10 am - 5 pm Here some more views With works by Aline Alagem \ Dorit Bearach \ Emmanuel Bornstein \ Ofir Dor \ Arnold Dreyblatt \ Valérie Favre \ Yishay Garbasz \ Itamar Gov \ Hans-Hendrik Grimmling \ Simone Haack \ Alona Harpaz \ Victoria Heifetz \ Erez Israeli \ Michelle Jezierski \ Yury Kharchenko \ Rachel Kohn \ Olaf Kühnemann \ Atalya Laufer \ Shira Orion \ Miguel Rothschild \ Yehudit Sasportas\ Dikla Stern \ Christian Thoelke \ Paul Wesenberg \ Sahar Zukerman My work: „Curls“, 2026, 170 x 140 cm, oil on vanvas, courtesy @bastian.contemporary

Repost @amocawales AMOCA (Artistic Museum of Contemporary Art) presents its second popup exhibition, ‚AMOCA Dialogues Wales: New Voices from the Museum Collection‘, at the historic Marble Hall, Temple of Peace. Open: April 15-19, 2026 Participating artists: Ellen Antico, Cristina BanBan, Kinga Bartis, Math Bass, Julie Beaufils, Lynda Benglis, Merikokeb Berhanu, Sara Berman, Darcy Brenna, Pia Camil, Cristina Canale, Saskia Colwell, Kim Dacres, Bernadette Despujols, Lunita-July Dorn, Simone Haack, Heidi Hahn, Aurel Haize Odogbo, Connie Harrison, Donna Huanca, Anna Kristine Hvid Petersen, Vera Iliatova, Ewa Juszkiewicz, Hayv Kahraman, Soli Kiani, Sally Kindberg, Maria Klabin, Chantal Khoury, Julia Kowalska, Conny Maier, Jessie Makinson, Yassi Mazandi, Cristina de Miguel, Jesse Mockrin, Bridget Mullen, Cecilia de Nisco, Paulina Olowska, Katherina Olschbaur, Elizabeth Peyton, Elsa Rouy, Angela Santana, Ann Leda Shapiro, Constance Tenvik, Issy Wood, Rachel Zhang, Anna Zimmerman, Autumn Wallace and Sixten Sandra Österberg. Following its 2025 launch, AMOCA continues to activate Cardiff’s cultural landscape ahead of its permanent opening. While the inaugural show foregrounded Black voices from Africa and its diaspora, this edition turns to a dynamic cross-section of women and nonbinary artists from the museum’s growing collection. Intergenerational practices across painting, sculpture, and material experimentation interrogate figuration, abstraction, identity, and the politics of the body. Portraiture becomes psychological terrain. Material becomes language. Scale becomes presence. On the pic @jessemockrin #amocawales

Shifting Selves – The Self in Flux Now open, until 30 May 2026 @staedtischegalerie_wolfsburg Works by contemporary artists @katharina_arndt_berlin @sonjaalhaeuser @Heike Kathi Barath @birgitdiekerstudio @julijagoyd @haacksimone @bianca.kennedy @miriam_lenk @cornelia_renz @carosuerkemper in dialogue with works of the collection by Louise Bourgeois Hans Bellmer Dorothee von Windheim Johannes Grützke Elvira Bach and more Many thanks for the great evening! @staedtischegalerie_wolfsburg @marcuskoerber @hannanitsch !! my exhibited works courtesy @galerie.gebr.lehmann (except pic 1: private Collection)

Upcoming group show: Shifting Selves – The Self in Flux 10 April to 30 May 2026 opening Tomorrow, 9.4. 6 pm @staedtischegalerie_wolfsburg Identity is not a fixed construct, but a process of constant change. The exhibition “Shifting Selves” brings together artistic works that explore questions of self-image, the body, social roles and societal attributions. Moving between personal experience and collective imagery, the works explore how identities emerge, shift and are redefined. Painting, sculpture, photography, textiles, film and a spatial installation at Wolfsburg Central Station offer diverse perspectives on the relationship between the individual and society. The participating artists address themes including body images, role models, self-presentation and resistance. The exhibition combines current artistic positions with selected works from the collection of the Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg, thereby creating a dialogue between the present and history. Featuring works by @katharina_arndt_berlin @sonjaalhaeuser @Heike Kati Barath @birgitdiekerstudio @julijagoyd @haacksimone @bianca.kennedy @miriam_lenk @cornelia_renz @carosuerkemper #wolfsburg #shiftingselves #städtischegaleriewolfsburg

Simone Haack o.T. (Curls), 2026, Öl auf Leinwand, 170 x 140 cm Courtesy Galerie Bastian Berlin / Paris @bastian.contemporary ROHKUNSTBAU – Whatever shape your heart is in 05. März bis 03. Mai 2026, ZAK – Zentrum für Aktuelle Kunst, Zitadelle Spandau, Am Juliusturm 64, 13599 Berlin. Öffnungszeiten: Freitag bis Mittwoch 10 – 17 Uhr, Donnerstag, 13 bis 20 Uhr. Der Eintritt ist kostenfrei, um Spenden wird gebeten. Die vom Verein der Freunde des Rohkunstbau e.V. in Kooperation mit dem Zentrum für aktuelle Kunst (ZAK) in der Zitadelle Spandau initiierte Ausstellung zeigt zeitgenössische Kunst von Berliner Künstlerinnen und Künstlern und ist ein emotionales Statement des ästhetischen Widerstandes und der Hoffnung auf eine menschenwürdige Weltgesellschaft.  Der Titel der von dem Berliner Kunsthistoriker Christoph Tannert kuratierten Schau, geht auf einen Song des kanadischen Singer-Songwriters Ron Sexsmith zurück, der auf der LP „Hermitage“ von 2020 zu finden ist. Dort heißt es:  “Even when the news seems very bad – Gotta stay strong On your belief it all depends – Whatever shape your heart is in - Whatever shape your heart is in – Just start again. The battle must be fought again –“ ——— Eine Kooperation vom Verein der Freunde des Rohkunstbau e.V. mit dem ZAK Zentrum für Aktuelle Kunst @zitadelle_museen_ausstellungen . 
Gefördert von dem Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien und der Berthold Leibiger Stiftung. @berthold_leibinger_stiftung @bundeskultur 
 Foto: ©Waldemar Brzezinski

Now on view! HAAR– MACHT– LUST (Hair — Stories of Power and Passion) at Kunsthalle München A few impressions from this richly layered, beautifully curated, and multifaceted exhibition — bringing together a wide range of artistic positions across time and context. It features works by Sandro Botticelli, Giorgio Vasari, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, Alfons Mucha, Arnold Böcklin, Gabriel von Max,Claude Cahun, Herlinde Koelbl, VALIE EXPORT, Marina Abramovics, Pierre et Gilles, Martin Wong, David LaChapelle, Hannah Wilke, Pieter Hugo, Ana Mendieta, Amoako Boafo, and many others. Warm thanks to @rogerdiederen and Juliane Au for inviting me to be part of this wonderful exhibition — I feel very grateful to be included. @kunsthallemuc Open daily from 10 am - 8 pm until 4.10.2026 #haarmachtlust #hairinart #hair #contemporarypaintings #simonehaack

Die letzte Woche stand ganz im Zeichen der Haare: Ich (@alexandrakarentzos ) durfte schon vorab einen Blick in die neue Ausstellung „Haar! Macht. Lust.“ in der @kunsthallemuc werfen: Von Statussymbolen und religiösen Ritualen bis hin zu Erotik und Identität - Die Ausstellung zeigt auf beeindruckende Weise, wie Künstler:innen von der Antike bis heute dieses „lebendige Material“ nutzen, um Machtverhältnisse und Schönheitsideale zu hinterfragen. 💇‍♀️💬 Meine Highlights des Previews: Es war unglaublich inspirierend, mich mit Simone Haack @haacksimone über ihren künstlerischen Arbeit auszutauschen: ein Werk voller Haare! Auch die Begegnung mit Ilse Haider, Anja Kuzmić und Jenine Shereos, deren spannende Arbeiten in der Ausstellung zu sehen sind, hat mir noch einmal die Vielfalt der Zugänge zum Thema Haare und Identität vor Augen geführt. Das Gemälde von Waterhouse ist übrigens auch aus Darmstadt @landesmuseumdarmstadt angereist! Im Mai geht es auf Exkursion nach München! Kommt Ihr mit? Schreibt es in die Kommentare! 👇 📍 Kunsthalle München 📅 noch bis zum 4.10.2026 #KunsthalleMünchen #HaarMachtLust #MunichArt #exhibitionpreview

I am very happy to be part of this show 🩵 “HAAR MACHT LUST” at Kunsthalle München explores hair as a powerful form of expression — between identity, desire, power, and rebellion. Spanning 3,000 years of art and cultural history, the exhibition brings together around 200 works that reveal the cultural, political, and deeply personal meanings of something so seemingly everyday. @kunsthallemuc 20.3.2026 - 4.10.2026 On the pics 1. Sandro Boticelli 2. Nico Koster 3. Ernst Julius Hähnel 4. Salvador Viniegra y Lasso de la Vega 5. Herlinde Koelbl 6. Maryam Farahzadi 7. Ilse Haider 8. Evan Penns 9. Laetitia Ky and many more. Stay tuned! #HaareMuc #HaarMachtLust #KunsthalleMuc

We met with Simone Haack @haacksimone to speak about the body, identity, and the ways painting can make inner movements visible. For Haack, painting begins beneath the surface. “Being an artist, for me, means giving form to what moves beneath the surface,” she says. In her work, identity is explored through the body — not simply as an image, but as the site where psychological processes unfold. She works with the language of realism not to depict reality itself, but to construct another reality in which the interior becomes legible. At the center of her current work is hair — both as part of the body and as a marker of identity. Each strand, she notes, carries a biological and symbolic charge. In her paintings, hair becomes more than a physical detail; it becomes a structural principle. Whether in portraits, landscapes formed from strands, or depictions of fur, hair generates complex visual fields that oscillate between object and abstraction. As Haack describes it, the strand functions almost like a helix — a generative form capable of expanding into autonomous pictorial spaces. The months ahead will bring new institutional contexts for this evolving body of work. This spring, Haack will participate in several group exhibitions, including presentations at Kunsthalle München and Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg. At the same time, she continues to push her investigation of the helix further — exploring the space where image, body, and abstraction intersect, and asking how far realism can be stretched before it begins to dissolve. Simone Haack Les Fruits du Mal, 2024 Oil on canvas 170 × 140 cm Part of the permanent collection of AMOCA #amocawales #simonehaack

New show in Denmark @galeriemodernesilkeborg opening on saturday 3-5 pm With: Lucebert Asger Jorn A.R. Penck Adam Saks Karel Appel Simon Bang Eske Touborg Peter Carlsen Jack Kabangu Peter Brandes Georg Baselitz Simone Haack Renè Tromborg Pierre Wemaëre Iris Bendt-Hedal Erik Thommesen Gerda Louis-Hansen Anne Sofie Meldgaard Lasse Bech Martinussen

Featured last week on RBB Abendschau: our exhibition at Zitadelle Spandau. Open today until 6 pm WHATEVER SHAPE YOUR HEART IS IN @zitadelle_museen_ausstellungen @rohkunstbau30 Curated by Christoph Tannert With works by Aline Alagem \ Dorit Bearach \ Emmanuel Bornstein \ Ofir Dor \ Arnold Dreyblatt \ Valérie Favre \ Yishay Garbasz \ Itamar Gov \ Hans-Hendrik Grimmling \ Simone Haack \ Alona Harpaz \ Victoria Heifetz \ Erez Israeli \ Michelle Jezierski \ Yury Kharchenko \ Rachel Kohn \ Olaf Kühnemann \ Atalya Laufer \ Shira Orion \ Miguel Rothschild \ Yehudit Sasportas\ Dikla Stern \ Christian Thoelke \ Paul Wesenberg \ Sahar Zukerman