Meyer Riegger
Alma Feldhandler – Who’s the Captain of All These Boys of Death?
Schaperstrasse 14, 10719 Berlin
Located in Berlin, Karlsruhe and Basel, Meyer Riegger maintains a curatorially driven programme. Since its inception in 1997, the gallery has established itself as a setting to investigate artistic practices, showing a distinctive combination of painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, film, performance and installation-based work. Meyer Riegger seeks to place an emphasis on the world around us, collaborating with artists and organising shows that interrogate questions relevant to our existence and …
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For her show at Meyer Riegger, Berlin, Alma Feldhandler uses the history behind the department stores, Hospitals, tailors’ shops and various Jewish manufacturers and buildings in Berlin during the Weimar Republic. The paintings are scenes in which the commercial and the biblical are woven together in an atmosphere of past splendour. The figures and mannequins are in a ‘state of vigil mixed with fatigue […]What is no longer there is again very close to disappearing’ (Somerset House, Gabriel Gauthier).
Alma Feldhandler (born 1996 in Trappes, France) graduated with a BA from the London College of Communication, University of the Arts London (2017) and postgraduated with a DNSEP from the École Nationale Supérieure d’Arts de Paris Cergy, Paris (2021). Her recent exhibitions are ‘‘Mantel Mann’’ (2023); “The Rings of Saturn”, (2023) and “Mités” (2022) at Galerie Derouillon, Paris.