MOUNTAINS

 
JUSUN LEE * TINC (This Is Not a Church), Seoul, KR
‚Built of Self‘
July 24 – August 2, 2026
 
Address: TINC (This is not Church), 34-16 Dongsomun-ro 10-gil, Seongbuk-gu, Seoul
Open: 12 – 6 pm
 
Performances:
Fri, July 24 | 7 pm
Sat, July 25 | 3 pm
Sat, August 1 | 3 pm
 
이주선 개인전 ‚Built of Self‘ 

퍼포먼스 l 2026. 8. 1. (토) 15:00
전시기간 ㅣ 2026.07.25 - 08.02, 12:00 - 18:00
장소 ㅣ TINC (This is not a Church) TINC

포스터 디자인 ㅣ김경래 Rae Kim
사진 촬영 ㅣ이규현 iidkh
영상 촬영 ㅣ구나현 잠자는 Nahyun구
도록 디자인 l 한예진 Homo Ludens
음악ㅣ김민정 10000jori
음향지원 l 오디오가이 오디오가이
사운드 오퍼레이터 ㅣ손세경 sekyungssi
전시 서문 ㅣ 콘노 유키 콘노 유키 Yuki Konno
후원 ㅣ한국문화예술위원회 한국문화예술위원회(Arts Council Korea) | 아르코 ARKO

본 전시는 한국문화예술위원회(ARKO) 2026년도 청년예술가도약지원사업 선정작입니다. 아르코_청년예술가도약지원
 
Don’t miss it!
 
Image:
Jusun Lee, Performance ‚Unspoken Sound and Untamed Time‘, TINC, Seoul, July 24, 2026. Photo: Lee kyu hyun

Exhibition view
Photo: Lee kyu hyun

One Is Me, the Other Is You, 2026
Stainless steel cylinders, chains, dimensions variable, cylinders each 120 cm high⁠
Photo: Lee kyu hyun

Unspoken Sound and Untamed Time, 2026 (detail)
Metal, beads, each H 100 × Ø 26 cm
Photo: Lee kyu hyun

Exhibition view
Photo: Lee kyu hyun

Seen at a Standstill, 2026
Bent stainless steel plates, chains, beads, each 10 × 150 × 15 cm
Photo: Lee kyu hyun

Seen at a Standstill, 2026
Bent stainless steel plates, chains, beads, each 10 × 150 × 15 cm
Photo: Lee kyu hyun

Seen at a Standstill, 2026
Bent stainless steel plates, chains, beads, each 10 × 150 × 15 cm
Photo: Lee kyu hyun

Unspoken Sound and Untamed Time, 2026
Metal, beads, each H 100 × Ø 26 cm
Background:
When the Outside Bleeds In, 2026
Bent stainless steel plates, beads, lace, each 130 × 65 × 23 cm
Photo: Lee kyu hyun

When the Outside Bleeds In, 2026
Bent stainless steel plates, beads, lace, each 130 × 65 × 23 cm
Photo: Lee kyu hyun

When the Outside Bleeds In, 2026 (detail)
Bent stainless steel plates, beads, lace, each 130 × 65 × 23 cm
Photo: Lee kyu hyun

When the Outside Bleeds In, 2026 (detail)
Bent stainless steel plates, beads, lace, each 130 × 65 × 23 cm
Photo: Lee kyu hyun

To Be All, but Not Only That, 2026
Steel mesh, chains, beads, three parts
150 × 20

With minimal means, Dorothy Iannone develops a visual language of remarkable precision. The figure, shown frontally, emerges as a luminous silhouette against a deep black background; space and perspective are completely suspended. Just as important as the figure itself is the handwritten language inscribed into the image. The sentence ‚Put your mouth right here‘ does not merely describe what is depicted – it becomes an image in its own right, guiding the viewer’s gaze through the composition toward its center. The small ‚Please‘, placed inside a separate mouth, subtly transforms the character of the statement: an imperative becomes an invitation.

When Iannone conceived the drawing in 1976, this unapologetic connection between female pleasure, self-determination, and an iconic visual language was already a provocation. The depicted woman does not appear as the passive object of another’s gaze, but as a figure with agency, articulating and directing her own desire. Almost fifty years later, the work remains strikingly contemporary – not because of its nudity, but because it transforms the pictorial space into a space of encounter. The radical aspect is not its eroticism, but the way Iannone turns the image from an object of the gaze into a speaking presence.

Beyond its explicit subject matter, the work also seems to blur the boundary between representation and object. ‚Put your mouth right here‘ is addressed not only to the body depicted, but almost to the print itself, inviting a kiss that exhibition etiquette strictly forbids. Desire here is directed as much toward the artwork as toward its image.

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Dorothy Iannone (1933 Boston – 2022 Berlin)
Put Your Mouth Right Here (Please), 2016/1976
15 × 10 cm / 5.9 × 3.9 in

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Installation view, Mountains, Berlin, 2026 (with Monika Maurer-Morgenstern on the right)
Photo

Works by Dorothy Iannone are included in our current group show ‚Lass es Liebe sein‘ alongside Martina Kügler, Monika Maurer-Morgenstern and Renate Bertlmann. On view at the gallery through August 8.

Mountains is open Mon–Tue by appointment + Wed–Sat 12–6 pm

July 14, 2026

MARTINA 81 ☀️

Happy birthday to Martina Kügler (1945 Schreiberhau, Silesia – 2017 Frankfurt am Main) who would have turned 81 today!

Already in the 1970s and 1980s, Martina Kügler developed a visual language that addressed female desire with an openness that was extraordinary for its time. Her explicit, often humorous yet tender drawings celebrate sexuality as a natural part of human experience. Kügler is less interested in provocation than in the freedom of the body. Her figures encounter one another without shame; pleasure appears not as an exception, but as a possibility of intimacy, play, and mutual surrender. In retrospect, her work can be understood as a remarkably early contribution to a sex-positive, emancipatory, and q***r visual language. (The latter is discussed by art historian Teresa Jungwirth in her 2024 monograph on Martina Kügler.)

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Martina Kügler
An Hans Jürgen Döpp, 1982
Drawing | Pencil and coloured pencil on lace paper doily
31 × 22 cm (12.2 × 8.7 in)
Unique

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Installation view, Mountains, Berlin, 2026 (with Renate Bertlmann in the background) — Martina Kügler is included in our current group show ‚Lass es Liebe sein‘, alongside Monika Maurer-Morgenstern, Dorothy Iannone and Renate Bertlmann.

Courtesy Döpp Collection, Frankfurt and Mountains, Berlin. Photos by Julie Becquart

Now open:

Lass es Liebe sein
Martina Kügler, Monika Maurer-Morgenstern, Dorothy Iannone, Renate Bertlmann
July 4 – August 8, 2026

Press release on mountains.gallery/exhibitions

Visit us Wednesday to Saturday 12–6 pm, or by appointment.
We look forward to seeing you!

Installation view by Julie Becquart
L–R: Renate Bertlmann, courtesy the artist and Galerie Steinek, Vienna / Martina Kügler, courtesy Döpp Collection, Frankfurt am Main and Mountains, Berlin / Monika Maurer-Morgenstern, courtesy the artist and Mountains, Berlin

Lass es Liebe sein
Martina Kügler, Monika Maurer-Morgenstern, Dorothy Iannone, Renate Bertlmann
July 4 – August 8, 2026

Save the date:

Friday, July 3, 6–9 pm | Opening reception

Saturday, July 4, 4 pm | Lecture by Teresa Jungwirth: Queere Kunst? Lust und Geschlechtlichkeit in den Zeichnungen von Martina Kügler

We look forward to seeing you.

[Image: Martina Kügler. Courtesy Döpp Collection, Frankfurt am Main]

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Installation view, Eric Meier, works from the series ‚Enttäuschte Gesichter (Wir haben uns mehr erwartet)‘, 2025

Last day to see at Basel Social Club 2026 ‚Office‘
Saturday June 20, from 4 pm
Viaduktstr. 33-35

Contact us, we’re happy to send you the Preview and give you a tour.
+491719013691
[email protected]

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Installation view, Osmar Osten, works from the series ‚Figur am Computer‘, 2022

Last day to see at Basel Social Club 2026 ‚Office‘
June 20, from 4 pm
Viaduktstr. 33-35

Contact us, we’re happy to send you the Preview and give you a tour.
+491719013691
[email protected]

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This year, the office isn’t for working.
Basel Social Club takes over the workspace - reconfigured through exhibitions, performances, music, and food.

Departments collapse into exhibitions.
Meetings drift into performances.
Workflows reroute into sound and gathering.

No desks. No deadlines.

We’re pleased to be part of Basel Social Club 2026: The Office
📍 Basel, Erdbeergraben 1
📅 June 14–20

A multi-level program of exhibitions, performances, music and gastronomy set within a vacant office building in Basel.

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We’re pleased to participate in Basel Social Club 2026: Office, on view June 14–20 in Basel.

This year’s edition occupies a vacant office building near Basel SBB, activating its floors through exhibitions, performances, music, gastronomy, and informal encounters.

Positioning the office as both subject and scenography, Basel Social Club engages with evolving conditions of work, time, and production in the context of digitalization, remote infrastructures, and artificial intelligence.

We look forward to contributing to this site-responsive program and to welcoming you in Basel at Erdbeergraben 1.

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Shinoh Nam
A Guide to the Interior for a House on Ambiguous Grounds
Mountains, Berlin, 2026

🚨 Update: the exhibition is extended beyond the Basel week and will be on view at the gallery until June 27 🚨

Finissage: Saturday, June 27, 3–6 pm

Documentation: the exhibition documentation is online at mountains.gallery/exhibitions
📷 📷 Julie Becquart

For further information and enquiries please contact us at [email protected]

Visit Mountains Wednesday – Saturday 12–6 pm and by appointment. We would be happy to see you.