"Opening on November 14, 2025, at the gallery's Bikini Berlin location, this immersive showcase invites visitors to explore the intricate relationship between perception, stillness, and the malleable nature of time. Drawing inspiration from the phenomenon of chronostasis, where a fleeting moment appears to elongate, the exhibition encapsulates the delicate dance between motion and remembrance. Through their distinctive practices, Wirths and Flad illuminate how focused attention can metamorphose our experience of time itself."
"René Wirths: The Duration of Seeing Acclaimed for his intense realism and meditative gaze, Wirths elevates everyday objects to the status of contemplative icons. His oil paintings, rendered with a combination of scientific exactness and philosophical serenity, isolate simple tools and containers within expanses of colour. "In this fast-paced, digitised era, we retreat into our contemplative sanctuaries, our studios, to engage with the world in solitude and analogue simplicity, seeking to see ourselves mirrored within it," he explains."
CHRONOSTASIS opens November 14, 2025, at Bikini Berlin and stages a dialogue between painter René Wirths and sculptor Wolfgang Flad that probes perception, stillness, and the malleable nature of time. The exhibition draws on chronostasis—the illusion of a stretched moment—to juxtapose painting and sculpture as means of altering temporal experience. Wirths presents intensely realistic oil paintings that isolate everyday tools and containers within fields of colour, each brushstroke embodying decelerated attention. Flad produces sculptural works that capture movement in suspension, inserting dynamic energy into spatial stillness. The staging urges viewers to slow down and reconsider how focused attention reshapes time.
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