Edition Block

UPCOMING EXHIBITION // KIF:

NASAN TUR
Ekrem
16.9. – 8.11.2026
Opening: Tuesday, September 15, 6 – 8 pm

Since 2021, Nasan Tur has dedicated his ongoing series “Locked Up” to people who have been imprisoned because of their political and civic engagement. Their portraits appear behind windows in public spaces, bringing visibility to those who are excluded from social life due to their incarceration. Remembrance becomes a form of resistance, keeping the subjects present even where their voices are silenced and they are being pushed out of the public sphere.
For KIF, Nasan Tur is creating a new work from the series focusing on Ekrem İmamoğlu, the mayor of Istanbul who was re-elected in 2024 and one of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s most significant political opponents. İmamoğlu was arrested in March 2025, just days before his nomination as the presidential candidate of the opposition party CHP, and has remained in custody ever since.
In his artistic practice, Nasan Tur explores political and social power dynamics and the possibilities for individual agency and self-determination within them.

We warmly invite you to the opening on Tuesday, September 15, from 6 – 8 pm.

KIF – Kunst im Fenster
Schaperstraße 11
10719 Berlin

Nasan Tur

UPCOMING EXHIBITION // KIF:

DOROTHEE DIEBOLD
When a whole group is coming too late
26.6. – 30.8.2026
Opening: Thursday, June 25, 6 – 8 pm

At KIF – KUNST IM FENSTER, Dorothee Diebold presents a small group of light-colored, organic painting objects from her series ‚Projection‘. The works are part of Diebold’s biomorphic painting, which emerged from the panel painting and simultaneously leads away from it. Forms detach from the surface, take on a physical presence and enter the space. At the same time, they remain paintings and reveal what is otherwise hidden: the back of the canvas.
The title ‚When a whole group is coming too late‘ refers to a shift in the usual sequence of events. The work can be read as a poetic digression. At the same time, it refers to the projection of the exhibition visitors themselves and captures a moment in which something surprises through deviation, comedy, and duplication, falling outside the intended framework.

📍KIF - Kunst im Fenster
Schaperstr. 11, 10719 Berlin
illuminated daily 11am - 11pm

Extended
There is more time to see Eva-Maria Schön’s „60 Years. 60 Meters, Brushstrokes“ at KIF – Kunst im Fenster.
Visible from the street at any time, the window exhibition invites passers-by to encounter the work on a walk through Schaperstraße by daylight or after dark.
First shown in Paris in 1981, the work now appears in a new form at KIF, in the former gelbe MUSIK, directly next to the former Galerie René Block.

Eva-Maria Schön
60 Years. 60 Meters, Brushstrokes
KIF – Kunst im Fenster
Schaperstraße 11, Berlin
extended until June 21

In 1968, Sigmar Polke and Gerhard Richter transformed a mountain into a sphere for two hours.
Invited to produce a limited edition, the two artists decided on a joint print.
The offset print „Umwandlung“ shows five photographs documenting the transformation of a mountain massif. The caption reads: “5 phases of a transformation undertaken by Polke and Richter. The massif was transformed into a sphere for two hours on April 26, 1968.”
The edition was published by Galerie René Block in connection with two consecutive exhibitions: „Sigmar Polke. Moderne Kunst“ (December 1968 – January 1969) and „Gerhard Richter. Städte“ (January – February 1969).
Recently, we found original layout material for the print in our archive.

„Umwandlung“ is on view in our current exhibition
„60 Years. 60 Works. Edition Block 1966–2026“
until 30 August 2026
Edition Block, Prager Straße 5, Berlin

Images:
1. Sigmar Polke / Gerhard Richter, Umwandlung, 1968, EB16, offset print on cardboard, 46.5 × 67.2 cm, edition of 200
2. Archive material: print layout for „Umwandlung“

Join us for the opening of “60 Years. 60 Works. Edition Block 1966–2026” this Sunday, April 26, 11.30 am – 2 pm.

Throughout the years, René Block repeatedly published collective edition projects, most often in the form of print portfolios.
“En Bloc”, conceived for Galerie René Block’s fifth anniversary and first presented in 1969, is a special case: not a portfolio, but a tambour-door cabinet containing works by 19 artists who shaped the gallery’s program in its first years.
With its 19 very different contributions, “En Bloc” is an early example of Block’s ongoing interest in collective edition projects.

On view in “60 Years. 60 Works. Edition Block 1966–2026”
29 April – 30 August 2026
Edition Block, Prager Straße 5, Berlin

Images: Dieter Roth, Familienbad; Cabinet „En Bloc“; KP Brehmer, Regenschachtel; Wolf Vostell, Radar Alarm; Booth of Edition Block at Fachmesse für Multiplizierte Kunst, Berlin 1972

Join us for the opening of two exhibitions:

60 Years. 60 Works. Edition Block 1966–2026
April 29 – August 30, 2026
Edition Block, Prager Straße 5, Berlin

Eva-Maria Schön. 60 Years. 60 Meters, Brushstrokes
April 27 – June 6, 2026
KIF – Kunst im Fenster, Schaperstraße 11, Berlin

Opening: Sunday, April 26, 11.30 am – 2 pm

Sixty years are hard to put into words. Sixty works are easier.
With „60 Years. 60 Works“, Edition Block marks its 60th anniversary with works from six decades in which editions appear not as mere reproductions, but as autonomous artistic creations. Over the decades, a wide range of formal and material expressions has emerged: prints, objects, artist’s books, records, and everything in between.

At KIF – Kunst im Fenster, Eva-Maria Schön’s „60 Years. 60 Meters, Brushstrokes“ picks up the idea of seriality in space. Its 60 meters also subtly echo the 60 years of Edition Block, unfolding through movement, reversal, and ever-changing constellations.

Images: René Block in front of his gallery with Joseph Beuys’s “Schlitten”, 1969; KP Brehmer, “Das Gefühl zwischen Fingerkuppen…”, 1967; Dieter Roth, “Familienbad”, 1972; Šejla Kamerić, “Bosnian Girl”, 2007; Eva-Maria Schön installing “Pinselstriche hintereinander” at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1981.

Upcoming exhibition:

IN MEMORIAM
BEUYS
PAIK
MACIUNAS

29.1. – 19.4.26

KIF - KUNST IM FENSTER
Schaperstr. 11
10719 Berlin

Joseph Beuys died 40 years ago, on January 23, 1986.
Nam June Paik died 20 years ago, on January 29, 2006.
We are taking these anniversaries as an opportunity to commemorate the concert ‚In Memoriam George Maciunas‘ in July 1978 that both artists dedicated to their friend George Maciunas (1931–1978).
The concert for two pianos was performed in the auditorium of the State Art Academy in Düsseldorf in memory of the artist and founder of the Fluxus movement.
“We set up two pianos,” Beuys describes the piano duet, ”he [Paik] does his thing, I do my thing, we haven’t agreed on what we do. In terms of sound. We meet at this particular point, neither of us knows what the other is doing; the only thing we know and have agreed on is the time.” (Joseph Beuys) After exactly 74 minutes, the concert ended with an alarm clock ringing. George Maciunas died at the age of 47.
Edition Block published, among other things, a recording of the piano duet as a double LP (EB48b) and an enlarged invitation card to the concert as a silkscreen print on canvas (EB48a).

EXTENDED

Pravdoliub Ivanov
Vehicles Dream and other Dreams
until April 12

Edition Block
Prager Str. 5
10779 Berlin



The exhibition brings together works by Pravdoliub Ivanov (born in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, in 1964) from the past three decades. His installation Vehicles Dream, created in New York in 1998, takes the centre stage. The city that ‘never sleeps’ was the setting for Ivanov’s photographs of people sleeping in subway cars, exhausted by the rhythm of the city that they themselves help to maintain. By mounting the images on small wheels scattered throughout the space, he allowed visitors to rearrange them. Moving around in this way, the portraits appear as a symbol of collective exhaustion. The social metaphor of these alienated and isolated figures, created more than 25 years ago, has gained unexpected political relevance today, visible in their silent paralysis and metaphysical helplessness.
In addition to the work Vehicles Dream, the artist’s objects and drawings explore the interplay between everyday life, perception and imagination. With subtle, often humorous interventions, seemingly familiar things are called into question.
Pravdoliub Ivanov lives and works in Sofia. He studied at the National Academy of Arts in Sofia and, together with Ivan Moudov and Stefan Nikolaev, represented Bulgaria at the 52nd Venice Biennale in 2007. Previously, he participated in the 4th Istanbul Biennale (1995), Manifesta 3 in Ljubljana (2003) and the 4th Berlin Biennale (2006). His works have also been shown in important overview exhibitions such as In den Schluchten des Balkan (2003) at the Fridericianum in Kassel and Blut & Honig – Zukunft ist am Balkan (2003) at the Essl Collection in Klosterneuburg. His works can be found in the collections of the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the Neues Museum in Nuremberg, among others.

Last days to see

Pravdoliub Ivanov
Vehicles Dream

Until January 18, 2026
Illuminated daily 11 am - 11 pm

KIF - KUNST IM FENSTER
Schaperstraße 11, 10719 Berlin



Presentation of the new edition:
The exhibition at EDITION BLOCK and KIF – KUNST IM FENSTER brings together works by Pravdoliub Ivanov (born in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, in 1964) from the past three decades. His installation Vehicles Dream, created in New York in 1998, takes the centre stage. The city that ‘never sleeps’ was the setting for Ivanov’s photographs of people sleeping in subway cars, exhausted by the rhythm of the city that they themselves help to maintain. By mounting the images on small wheels scattered throughout the space, he allowed visitors to rearrange them. Moving around in this way, the portraits appear as a symbol of collective exhaustion. The social metaphor of these alienated and isolated figures, created more than 25 years ago, has gained unexpected political relevance today, visible in their silent paralysis and metaphysical helplessness. 
As part of a renewed focus on Vehicles Dream a new edition based on the original photographs has been published this year by Edition Block. The images of the sleeping figures are arranged in varying configurations in different sets of five wheels each. The edition is being shown for the first time at KIF – Kunst im Fenster.