MOUNTAINS

TODAY, AUGUST 30, 2026 MARKS THE
7TH ANNIVERSARY OF MOUNTAINS

WE JUST WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO ALL

ON TO THE NEXT SEVEN YEARS ✨

MOUNTAINS

◼︎ Save the date

NSCHOTSCHI HASLINGER
MOUNTAINS × BERLIN ART WEEK

Centralia
September 11 – October 17, 2026
With an exhibition text by Lisa Alice Klosterkötter

◼︎ Thursday, Sep 10, 6–10 pm
Opening
as part of Gallery Night by Gallery Weekend Berlin

◼︎ Saturday, Sep 12, 3 pm
Artist Talk
with Nschotschi Haslinger and Lisa Alice Klosterkötter

Extended gallery hours during BERLIN ART WEEK:
Thursday 12 – 10 pm
Friday 12 – 6 pm
Saturday 12 – 6 pm
Sunday 12 – 6 pm

Image:
Nschotschi Haslinger
Anemone Centralia, 2026
Sculpture - Glazed ceramic
68 × 36 × 24 cm
26.8 × 14.2 × 9.4 in
Courtesy the artist and Mountains, Berlin
Photo: Julie Becquart

Nschotschi Haslinger Berlin Art Week MOUNTAINS


David Medalla * YDP
in Unlicensed Goods
Curated by Billy Tang, Artistic Director at YDP
June 12 – August 15, 2026
 
Installation views
David Medalla in Unlicensed Goods, YDP, London, 2026. Courtesy by Another Vacant Space and Mountains, Berlin
Exhibition design by Studio Manuel Raeder
Photography by Reinis Lismanis, courtesy of YDP London
 
Billy Tang YDP

🩷 Join us for two gallery tours during the final days of the group exhibition ‚Lass es Liebe sein‘ 🩷

Over the past weeks, conversations with visitors have opened up many unexpected perspectives. Again and again, we found that the exhibition’s most interesting connections – and the ideas that bring these four artists together – became visible through conversation.

This exhibition asks for time: for looking, reading, and making connections. The reading table with publications on the four artists extends the exhibition into a space of research and discovery. In particular, the works of Dorothy Iannone and Renate Bertlmann invite us to read them as much as to look at them.

For the closing week of the exhibition, we would therefore like to take another close look together and open up a conversation. Why is it worth revisiting works made between 1971 and 1995 today? What can an exhibition made entirely of works on paper reveal?

How did Monika Maurer-Morgenstern translate her friendship with Verena Stefan – author of the groundbreaking lesbian-feminist bestseller ‚Häutungen‘ – into a deeply personal body of drawings created through her distinctive two-handed drawing practice?

How do we read Dorothy Iannone’s ‚White Goddess‘ today – a work from 1971, created shortly after the censorship of her exhibition in Bern and in dialogue with Robert Graves‘ celebrated yet controversial book, today critically examined for its homophobic implications?

How did Martina Kügler develop, over several decades, an erotic body of work that challenges fixed notions of gender and the body, anticipating contemporary discussions around gender fluidity and sexual plurality.

And what makes Renate Bertlmann’s ‚Biblia Pauperum‘ such a compelling body of work, even though it was not included in her Austrian Pavilion at the 2019 Venice Biennale?


🩷 Thursday, Aug 6, 5 pm Dialogic tour in German / Dialogführung in deutscher Sprache

🩷 Saturday, Aug 8, 4 pm Guided tour in English

We look forward to seeing you

Monika Maurer-Morgenstern Renate Bertlmann

 
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.
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