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ANTI-POP II
Group Show, Space I
15 March – 24 April 2025
Opening Friday, 14 March 2025, 6–9 pm
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We are thrilled to invite you to Opening Night of our upcoming group exhibition Anti-Pop II, curated by Thomas Zipp and Barbara Thumm, at gallery Space I, Friday, 14 March 2025, from 6 to 9 pm.
Anti-Pop II brings the radical defiance of the NO!art movement into the present, confronting the commodification of contemporary art through raw, urgent, and often unsettling aesthetics. The exhibition traces a lineage from Boris Lurie’s politically charged rejection of market-friendly art to a contemporary generation of artists resisting aesthetic conformity, commercial trends, and sanitized cultural narratives. Participating artists include Peter Bonde, Christian Eisenberger, Anna K.E., Boris Lurie, Florian Meisenberg, Manfred Peckl, Chloe Piene, Anselm Reyle, Rudolf Schwarzkogler, Luise-Finn Tismer, Anne-Mie van Kerckhoven, Gabriel Vormstein, Thomas Zipp and Egon Zippel.
At its core, NO!art was an anti-Pop, anti-establishment movement founded in 1959—a visceral counterpoint to the sleek, consumer-driven optimism of Warhol and Lichtenstein. Rejecting spectacle in favor of raw social critique and existential protest, the movement questioned the role of art in a commercialized world. Today, when art operates both as a luxury commodity and viral spectacle, the urgent question resurfaces: what does artistic resistance look like now?
This exhibition brings together artists who, in diverse ways, challenge traditional expectations of beauty, success, and political engagement in art. From distorted figuration to material excess, from satirical self-referentiality to politically charged imagery, Anti-Pop II presents art that refuses to conform, refuses to sell out, and refuses to be polite
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![Gallery ShowTHOMAS ZIPPProfondeville12.09.–25.10.2025 bthumm.deIn “Profondeville,” Zipp unveils an impressive ensemble of works that deepens his engagement with the intertwined fields of memory, identity, and perception. The house—both as architectural structure and as metaphor—runs as a leitmotif throughout the exhibition: not only as psychological interior, but as a permeable space in which the boundaries of self, history, and consciousness become fluid. Echoing Freud’s observation that one is no longer master in one’s own house, Zipp’s spatial installations operate like cognitive maps: fragmented, unstable, and permeated by hidden forces.The exhibition title “Profondeville” refers to a small Belgian town that became known in the second half of the 20th century for documented UFO sightings. Thomas Zipp has been engaging with these Belgian UFO sightings and their reflections for more than a decade. Here, the place name becomes a poetic resonance space, a symbolic threshold between visible and invisible worlds. This notion gains new urgency in light of recent, unexplained aerial phenomena traversing our Milky Way that elude astrophysical interpretation. In this context, “Profondeville” refers to quantum states of superposition, in which multiple realities exist simultaneously until they are determined by observation. As long as their origin remains unmeasured, these phenomena appear as possible signs of extraterrestrial intelligence — a cosmic window for reimagining what is real, what is remembered, and what might yet be believed.[1]THOMAS ZIPPA.B.: Insight (2014)Acrylic, oil and lacquer on canvas, artist’s frame160 x 130 cm165 x 135 cm (framed)[2]THOMAS ZIPPA.O.: Pale Sun Well (Lithotomy) (2025)Acrylic, oil and lacquer on canvas, artist’s frame180 x 150 cm186 x 156 cm (framed)[3]THOMAS ZIPPBlind Spot Detecting Unit (Zero Gate) (2025)Acrylic, oil and lacquer on canvas, artist’s frame 200 x 170cm205 x 175 cm (framed)\\\#artshow #contemporaryart #painting #installationart #conceptart #ThomasZipp #visualart #artweekberlin #artcollector #galeriebarbarathumm @berlinartweek](https://sp1.picnob.com/p/pt_6721381048586749297313_0_6b54081157c27c6560d4e4b60e44f410.jpg?o=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&h=fe2f60c81870b14b28fafa40fcbb4079)
