03.05. – 14.06.2025 Schöneberger Ufer 71 10785 Berlin
SETAREH Berlin is excited to announce FORM Time to Time, a new solo exhibition by Gregor Gleiwitz, featuring a powerful and enigmatic body of work that harnesses visual metamorphosis, perception and the uncanny. In his latest paintings, Gleiwitz creates images that appear to be in constant transformation, hovering between states of stability and change. Drawing on the visual complexity of artists like Hieronymus Bosch and Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Gleiwitz similarly plays with the transformation of tangible forms into monstrous or whimsical manifestations. Yet unlike those historical references, his images resist objective clarity. They never fully coalesce into fixed icons or narrative symbols. Instead, they remain fluid, ambiguous, and unsettlingly alive.
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At the core of Gleiwitz‘s practice is an intense, time-bound working method. Each painting is executed in a single day and night, in an act of concentrated spontaneity that is realized through a creative flow state. To Gleiwitz, a day and night are empirically long enough to allow for complexity, but limited enough to force immediacy. The result is a body of work that carries the energy of its making, visceral and layered.
15.03.2025 2025 Oil on canvas 257.1 x 202.1 cm | 101 1/4 x 79 1/2 in
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The artist works with broad brushes that press or sweep across the canvas with varying density and pressure. The support is fixed directly to the wall, allowing him to engage physically with the surface in a way that would not be possible with a traditional stretcher. This method produces textured and dynamic surfaces that seem to exceed the frame—as if the paintings might continue beyond their visible boundaries. Each work contains multiple visual thresholds, flickering between presence and disappearance. His metamorphic forms are carried by shifting tensions of luminous color, shadows, and rhythmic light.
12.03.2025 2025 Oil on canvas 251.6 x 199.6 cm | 99 x 78 2/3 in
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A single canvas can offer the illusion of depth, a tangle of forms, or even surreal, dream-like landscapes, all animated by subtle optical movement. This interplay of light and dark, of fleeting appearances and dissolving contours, creates a unique visual experience. The viewer’s gaze becomes an active participant, reanimating forms with each glance and moment of attention. The result is both hypnotic and unnerving images that emerge only to transform again, never staying still.
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Gregor Gleiwitz’s images are not carefully constructed puzzles, but rather optical events that happen in fleeting moments. Apparitions emerge like frightened human faces, creatures, or surreal landscapes, only to shift away from those narratives again. His figures are always in the process of becoming. In FORM Time to Time, we witness a process of visual and emotional transformation that cannot be pinned down. Through radiant color, shadowy depths, and modulating brushwork, Gregor Gleiwitz offers us more than an image. He offers an experience of metamorphosis through the act of seeing.