exhibition cycles

24
Aug
2026

FROM THE DÜSSELDORFER SCENE AND CHEATS AND GODS REDUX | Opening August 27th

JMH Schindele, NOFOG, 2026: black marble slab (Monte Nero) with the engraving “NOFOG” in ultra-black, 90 × 85 × 2 cm

NOFOG, 90 x 85 x 2 cm Marmor (Monte Nero), CNC-Gravur, Acrylfarbe (ultra-black), 2026

Dear friends,

On Thursday, August 27, at 7 PM, two independent exhibitions will open at Bamberger Straße 18:

CHEATS AND GODS REDUX and FROM THE DÜSSELDORF SCENE · p.w.richard Collection.

CHEATS AND GODS REDUX 

CHEATS AND GODS is still here.

Since opening in March, the exhibition has continued to change over the past months. Individual works disappeared; new ones were added. After almost half a year, it now returns in an altered form: REDUX.

Returned and different – like Fortuna Redux, the Fortuna of a fortunate homecoming. Modulated, shifted in its horizon of meaning by new works, and concentrated. Without abandoning the Romantic, post-Kantian premise at the heart of CHEATS AND GODS: the human being as a creature that continually conceives and imagines itself and its world anew. A second, shorter chapter. Familiar things remain, others shift, and new relationships emerge between the gods.

History, myth, God, gods, cheats, freedom, a dancing Christ – and we, as always, right in the middle.

pars pro toto 2 (Dagobert und der Gesalbte) 144,5 × 29 × 26,5 cm, Christusfigur, Dagobertfigur, Stein, Epoxidharz, Pigmente, Sockel, Fragmentierung, 2026
pars pro toto 2 (Dagobert und der Gesalbte) 144,5 × 29 × 26,5 cm, Christusfigur, Dagobertfigur, Stein, Epoxidharz, Pigmente, Sockel, Fragmentierung, 2026

pars pro toto 2 (Dagobert und der Gesalbte), 144,5 × 29 × 26,5 cm, Christusfigur, Dagobertfigur, Stein, Epoxidharz, Pigmente, Sockel, Fragmentierung, 2026

FROM THE DÜSSELDORF SCENE

At the same time, p.w.richard opens an exhibition of prints from his collection. On view are works by Joseph Beuys, Imi Knoebel, Heinz Mack, Blinky Palermo, Sigmar Polke, Günther Uecker, and others.

From the Düsseldorf Scene looks at one of the defining art scenes of postwar Germany: from ZERO and Joseph Beuys, through new approaches to materiality and the expanded concept of art, to Minimal Art and Capitalist Realism and at a Düsseldorf whose influence was not limited to the visual arts, but later also became a defining centre for electronic music, punk, and Neue Deutsche Welle.

Opening
Thursday, August 27, 2026 · 7 PM 

Exhibitions
August 28 – September 19, 2026
Thu + Fri · 2–7 PM
Sat · 1–4 PM
and by appointment

Bamberger Straße 18 · 10779 Berlin
Doorbell: elsweyer+hoffmann

I look forward to seeing you there!!  

JMH Schindele 

Three men in a room of the Düsseldorf scene, high-contrast black and white photo, collection p.w. Richard

Photo: Collection p.w. Richard

Photos: Stefan Haehnel

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29
Apr
2026

CIRCULAR IV 26 – CHEATS AND GODS · Final Days · Persian Salon & Finissage

JMH Schindele, NOFOG, 2026: black marble slab (Monte Nero) with the engraving “NOFOG” in ultra-black, 90 × 85 × 2 cm

NOFOG
90 x 85 x 2 cm Marmor (Monte Nero), CNC-Gravur, Acrylfarbe (ultra-black), 2026

Dear friends,

For Berlin Gallery Weekend, we open the exhibition CHEATS AND GODS one final time in a concentrated form – as a space that can once more be fully traversed before it transforms.

May 1–3, 2026
Fri–Sun · 3–6 pm

On Friday and Saturday, I will be present and happy to guide you personally through the exhibition.

Persian Salon · Finissage 

On Friday, May 8, the exhibition shifts into another state: into a Persian salon, initiated by Elshan Ghasimi, and at the same time, the first finissage of CHEATS AND GODS. 

The Persian salon brings together music, poetry, and conversation – a form cultivated over centuries as an intimate space of thought and resonance. At its centre is the radif, the living memory of classical Persian music, recognised by UNESCO as intangible cultural heritage. 

Elshan Ghasimi is among the most distinctive voices of her generation. In her work, she combines a precise command of this tradition with a sense of contemporaneity that renders the salon not a reconstruction but a living, present space. 

The finissage is conceived as a transition: an evening between work, sound, and encounter; open yet condensed, with food and drinks. 

 

Friday, May 8, 2026
Doors 7:00 pm · Start 7:30 pm
Admission: 15€ / Support 30€ (incl. wine & finger food)

Tickets are limited – early booking is recommended.

https://www.eventbrite.de/e/elshan-ghasimis-persischer-salon-tickets-1985725703032

 

Currently, Elshan Ghasimi is in residence at the Podiumfestival Esslingen, where she is composing a new piece for harp, clarinet, and voice. It may surprise you: contemporary classical Persian music!

The premiere and opening of the festival will take place on April 30. You are warmly invited to attend.

https://podium-esslingen.de/veranstaltungen/2026-04-30-2026-04-20-eine-revue

 

The exhibition CHEATS AND GODS can also be visited by appointment until the end of May. We look forward to sharing these days and evenings with you.

JMH Schindele & Elshan Ghasimi 

Cheats and Gods, exhibition view: period room with parquet, marble slabs on the walls and a plinth

CHEATS AND GODS Installation View

JMH Schindele, NOCLIP, 2026: green marble slab with the engraving “NOCLIP”

NOCLIP
70 x 100 x 2 cm Quarzit (Botanic Green), CNC-Gravur, Acrylfarbe (ultra-black), 2026

Photos: Stefan Haehnel

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25
Mar
2026

CHEATS AND GODS · JMH Schindele · Opening times & events

JMH Schindele, Das rechte Ohr des Augustus, 2025: rusty, cut-open metal bowl on a white wall

Das linke Ohr des Augustus von Prima Porta 
76 x 79,5 x 26,5 cm, 3D-Druck (nach Augustus von Prima Porta), gefundenes Objekt, 2025

CHEATS AND GODS
JMH Schindele

Bamberger Straße 18 · 10779 Berlin 

 

… An outstretched hand receives you.
Not a threat – an offering. 

Between ancient gods, digital spells and incantations and fragmented figures, a space unfolds in which myth, material and the present interweave.

Iron, marble, gold, deep black – inscribed with desires, codes, projections. 

“Between CHEATS and GODS, the human being narrates itself.”  

The exhibition follows a simple, radical proposition:
We live in images. In narratives. In self-constructed realities. 

And perhaps – for a moment – this becomes tangible. 

 

Opening Hours 

Regular:
Friday – Sunday · 3–6 pm 

 

Closed:
March 27–29
April 3–5 (Easter) 

 

Open on the following weekends:
10–12 April
17–19 April
24–26 April
01–03 May

 

Location:
Bamberger Straße 18 · 10779 Berlin 

Cheats and Gods, opening: a visitor looking at a rusty red metal object on the wall

Eröffnung, 6. März 2026

Cheats and Gods, opening: six small rusty metal plates with brass plaques on a white wall

Kleines panhellenisches All-Star-Team (Installationsansicht)

Cultural Event
Saturday, April 25 · 5:00 pm  

Conversation with curator Eleonora Frolov 

  • artist talk with Julian Schindele  

Limited capacity · wine and conversation 

Registration:
ef@frolov.ch

Friday, May 8 · Elshan Ghasimis Persian Salon · Finissage 

The exhibition opens one final time.  

Elshan Ghasimi invites you to the Persian Salon. 

An evening of music, poetry and exchange – accompanied by wine and small dishes. 

A moment in which the exhibition shifts once more:
from stone to voice, from object to sound, from form to sphere. 

A closing in the spirit of a renewed mythopoesis. 

 

Tickets:
https://www.eventbrite.de/e/elshan-ghasimis-persischer-salon-tickets-1985725703032?aff=oddtdtcreator&keep_tld=true 

JMH Schindele, CHEATS-GOLD: IDFKA (All Weapons, all items), 2025: marble slab with the gold engraving “IDKFA”, 34 × 81.7 × 3 cm

IDFKA (all weapons, all items)
34 × 81,7 × 3 cm, Kalkstein (Vratza), Handgravur, Blattgold 24k

Fotos: Stefan Haehnel
Fotos: Max Schwarzlose

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26
Feb
2026

CHEATS AND GODS JMH Schindele Opening 6. March 2026

Flyer “CHEATS AND GODS”, JMH Schindele, 7.3.–3.5.2026, with a stone tablet inscribed “IDDQD”

Dear friends,

A few days ago, Bublitz reached its fifteenth year as a platform. Today, for the first time, I invite you to a genuinely different role: as a solo artist, carried and supported by a collective of people and lovers. The exhibition CHEATS AND GODS opens on March 6 and presents works in stone and iron from the past two years. 

 

CHEATS AND GODS

Duration: 7 March – 3 May 2026 
Opening: Friday, 6 March, 15:00–18:00 
Location: Bamberger Straße 18, 10779 Berlin  

 

For this exhibition—or more precisely, for one paradigmatic CHEAT—Lukas Töpfer has written an essay. An excerpt from the text IDDQD (God Mode) marks the point of departure... 

 

“What Julian Schindele engraved into a limestone in 2025 is not a name, but a seemingly cryptic combination of letters. ‘IDDQD’ is written there, in this beautiful, inconspicuous natural stone, as if we were being given a riddle, a code that has yet to be deciphered. The five difficult-to-understand letters are further emphasised by a deep black, which fills them and absorbs the light, trapping a higher power. They appear noble and meaningful, yet also somber, ultra-black, as mysterious as an acronym from a no longer spoken, ‘dead’ language. They bring to mind inscriptions such as ‘Et in Arcadia ego’, recalling fragments, ruins, and the remains of antiquity. They seem to have fallen out of the world: a world that no longer exists, yet refuses to disappear completely, to dissolve entirely into the present.” 

JMH Schindele, Kleines panhellenisches All-Star-Team, 2024: a small golden object on a rusty brown surface

Homer (Detail)
60 × 40 × 3.1 cm, 3D print, iron, brass, 2024
Small Panhellenic All-Star Team

Design: Masoud Morgan

Photos: Stefan Haehnel

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13
Feb
2026

Solidarity with Iran · CHEATS AND GODS · Persian Salon in Hamburg

Arghavān!

What secret is it
that each time spring returns,
it lays sorrow in our hearts?

That year after year
the earth is stained
with the blood of swallows,
and upon the scarred
inflicts wound upon wound

 

Dear friends, 

 

The new year is not yet old and already drenched in blood. 

We Europeans, in the relative comfort of our simulated catastrophes of delusion, slowly shed a naïve and decadent lethargy, while Iranians take to the streets for the desire for a system that we here have long since realised and believed to be secure. 

Among many other gatherings, I would like to draw particular attention to the event “Solidarity with Iran” on 22 February at 3:00 pm at Restaurant PARS in Berlin-Charlottenburg [Grolmannstr. 53, 10623]. 

 

The lines that open this circular are by the exiled poet Hushang Ebtehaj (1928–2022). The artist and graphic designer Masoud Morgan selected them to animate them in the literal sense, to bring them to life and to give them a new look. He published his work yesterday. It can be found here.

 

Yes, social media is the cancer of our societies. They corrode democratic systems and neural networks. And yet one should—without missing the dialectical momentum—be grateful that they exist in a country such as Iran. Otherwise, everything would be completely dark. 

 

In Hamburg by the River 

 

By the river in Hamburg lies a place of hospitality.
A place for art and community, for music, dance, and yoga:
the project space Övelgönne 106. 

 

At this special location, the Persian musician and composer Elshan Ghasimi invites audiences four times this year to the Persian Salon.
The seated and reclining concert is free of charge; a reservation is recommended.

 

14 March 2026, 4:00 pm
2 May 2026, 4:00 pm
19 September 2026, 4:00 pm
7 November 2026, 4:00 pm

Wohn- und Projekthaus Övelgönne 106: villa with a red roof and half-timbering in a garden, photo Hausfotografie.de

Residential and Project Space Övölgönne 106 © Hausfotografie.de

Wohn- und Projekthaus Övelgönne 106: large room with a timber-beamed ceiling, parquet and window bays, photo Hausfotografie.de

Elshan Ghasimi & Michael Kleeberg: Premiere on 20 February in Berlin 

Elshan Ghasimi and the author Michael Kleeberg present, on 20 February 2026, the fruits of their collaboration in a new format:
a reading with music, a concert with text, or something else – existing in the eye and ear of the viewer and the listener. 

“Where are we going? Always home.”
It is a poetic journey through the horrors of our time, toward harmony and a higher serenity of human hope. 

The event at the Humboldt Library [Karolinenstraße 19, 13507 Berlin] begins at 7:30 pm. Admission is free, and no registration is required. 

Elshan Ghasimi in a blue blouse behind a stone balustrade in sunlight, photo Arnaud Ele

Elshan Ghasimi © Arnaud Ele

Michael Kleeberg wearing glasses at a microphone against a green background, photo Amrei-Marie

Michael Kleeberg © Amrei-Marie

Exhibition Opening CHEATS AND GODS on 6 March 2026 

On 6 March, the first solo exhibition of JMH Schindele opens. You are most warmly invited!

Invitation “Cheats and Gods”, JMH Schindele, 7 March to 3 May 2026, Bamberger Straße 18, Berlin, with a marble slab “IDDQD”, design Masoud Morgan

Design: Masoud Morgan

We look forward to seeing you again! 

 

On behalf of all those involved,
JMH Schindele 

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30
Aug
2025

Screening & Finissage · Tasneef-Final · Morphine-Raum

Dear Festive Community,

Summer seemed to vanish before it even arrived – and now the rich array of autumn festivities is already upon us.

I am delighted to announce that Elshan Ghasimi’s long-awaited “final” Tasneef concert has at last secured one of Berlin’s most beautiful venues: the Tieranatomisches Theater (Charité Campus, Berlin-Mitte). Join us on 12 September 2025 at 6:00 pm – and feel free to come a bit earlier to admire the building’s extraordinary architecture and its small permanent exhibition.

Admission is free.

Poster “Tasneef – Elshan Ghasimi” 2025 with the musician and tar in front of a brick wall, red lettering

©Madeleine Brunnmeier_Image ©Morgan Morgan_Design

Morphine Raum · “Recording Session” with Elshan Ghasimi - 8 November

We’re excited to share an early highlight: at 8:00 pm on 8 November, Elshan Ghasimi will perform at Morphine Raum. Operated by Morphine Records, this unique venue is studio, stage, and sound laboratory in one – intimate, pared down to the essentials, and fitted with hand-crafted sculptural loudspeakers.

Founded at the very start of the pandemic, Morphine Raum has grown into a vital hub for international music – a retreat for collaboration, recording, and genre-defying experiments.

In this special setting, a live recording will be created together with the audience – a sonic distillation of nine years of artistic work.

Sergey Bratkov, Endless War, 2007, video still: two green steel helmets on concrete in front of a wall

Sergey Bratkov, Endless War, 2007, Video, 2,30min

Screening & Finissage · At the Threshold: Exile

On 3 September, we invite you to the Kommunale Galerie Berlin for a screening featuring works by Sergey Bratkov (Infinite War, Exile), Ula Golub (Arche Noah), Jalal Maghout (Have a Nice Dog!), Aline Kleytman (Place to See Before You Die), Oksana Kazmina (Yellow Dress), and Oksana Chepelyk (Chronicles of War).

The screening is part of the exhibition At the Threshold: Exile, curated by Eleonora Frolov. Six artistic voices from Ukraine and Syria do not merely document war and exile – they transform these realities into poetic, visual, and narrative forms. The result is a panorama of isolation, flight, fragmentation – and the deep longing to arrive.

The screening begins at 5:00 pm and will be followed by a Q&A with the artists.

On Sunday, 7 September, from 3:00 to 6:00 pm, the exhibition concludes with a finissage and a curator’s tour led by Eleonora Frolov.

We look forward to welcoming you at one or more of these events.

With warm regards,
Julian Malte H. Schindele

Supported by:

Logo of the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion
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