In 2019, Uhura moved into an old laundry directly behind Kino International in Berlin-Mitte. We extensively renovated the entire building; however, Uhura now has enough space to provide new space.
In the Uhura Basement, the almost 400 square meter cellar of the Uhura Laundry, we started at the beginning of 2020 with curator Uwe Goldenstein to create exhibitions with painters who not only have fantastic artistic skills; it also combines a real pictorial dialogue between past art and their own emotional worlds. The painters try to highlight the magical in a visual experience by reviving a peculiar melancholy in their paintings.
Uwe even recognizes a new movement here and calls it: “Preparing for Darkness.”
Art is often also a source of inspiration for other areas of society and our work as agency service providers. Uhura is therefore immediately and gladly supporting a book project by Uwe Goldenstein, in which many of these artists are presented. Art Director and Co-Founder of Uhura Digital Juha Richter designed “Preparing for Darkness, A New Movement in Contemporary Painting” with Uwe Goldstein - the book was not only supported by Uhura but Uwe was also able to win over the Dubach/Keller Foundation in Switzerland for it. In “Preparing for Darkness,” we present painters such as Adam Magyar, Nicola Samori, Radu Belcin, Attila Szücz, Richard Athens, Flavia Pittis and many others.
ZEIT, too, recently recognized the furore of this new painting movement and even sees it as the”End of post-modern limbo”. What makes up the images of this movement is also the end of an art that only ever relates to itself.
We presented many of these artists in an exhibition for Gallery Weekend in Berlin 2020 and created a personal exhibition with Radu Belcin. However, the Uhura Basement should and must be more than just an exhibition space. In 2021, the Uhura Basement will therefore be a space in which something new should find space: These can be exhibitions about such new movements, but also discussions that offer truly surprising perspectives, workshops that flesh out new strategies or applications — we are open! Even though it isn't 2021 yet. ;-)
As soon as the pandemic no longer limits our options but, as predicted by many, we enter the new exciting 20s of the 21st century, we at Uhura will also take advantage of this opportunity and look forward to it - perhaps to new exhibitions, new encounters and concrete work on great innovations in digital and real worlds.
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