This autumn, the Kienzle Art Foundation is once again delighted to be part of CHARLOTTENWALK!

On Saturday, November 29, 2025, the annual gallery tour will take place in Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf. Many galleries and exhibitions as well as the Kienzle Art Foundation will be open from 12 – 6 pm. We are also extending our opening hours for this occasion and look forward to your visit.

We are currently showing the exhibition Michael Venezia – Blankness as a knowing subject with works from the 1960s to the 1980s, which provide a representative overview of his oeuvre. Michael Venezia (1935–2025) is an important representative of abstract painting in the United States. His immediate artistic environment was influenced by artists such as Dan Flavin, Robert Ryman, and Sol LeWitt, with whom he shared a lifelong friendship. In New York in the 1960s and 1970s, conventional artistic practice underwent radical change, and together with his fellow artists, Venezia was searching for new possibilities in painting. While many of his colleagues continued to develop primarily sculptural work, Venezia remained committed to painting and developed his own reduced visual language, his own technique and his own new combination systems. He worked on reducing the gesturality in painting, moving away from brushstrokes and contact with the canvas. Venezia recognised a material quality in paint and was one of the first to use spray guns as tools for his paintings.

Further infortation hier.