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Harm Gerdes

Mother Tongue

Past

8 May – 7 June 2025

11 Haritos Street, Kolonaki

Venue

KALFAYAN GALLERIES | ATHENS

11 Haritos Street
106 75 Kolonaki
Athens 

Press Release

Kalfayan Galleries is pleased to present “MOTHER TONGUE” the first solo exhibition in Greece by Harm Gerdes(born in 1994 in Darmstadt, Germany). The opening will take place on Thursday, 8 th May 2025 ( 18.00-21.00). Theexhibition is the artist’s fifth solo exhibition overall, after Gerdes graduated from the Düsseldorf Kunstakademiein 2020. He currently lives and works in Athens.Exhibition Text:Sofia Eliza Bouratsis (Art theorist and curator, National Gallery – Alexandros Soutsos Museum)

«I want each of my works to be a character – and to have character.»Harm Gerdes

 

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Artists

Harm Gerdes

Harm Gerdes (b. 1994) is a Cypriot-German artist who lives and works in Athens, Greece. He grew up in Darmstadt,Germany, and graduated from the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in 2020 (having studied under Katharina Grosse from2016 to 2018). Gerdes was based in Düsseldorf until 2022. He has presented multiple solo exhibitionsinternationally, including The Autotuned Mind, Peres Projects, Milan (2024); Panorama, Peres Projects, Seoul(2023); Synthetic Spirits, Peres Projects, Berlin (2022); Staying with the Trouble, Peres Projects, Berlin (2021). Hiswork has been shown in group exhibitions such as The Air is Subtle Yet it Moves, AMA House, Athens (2025),Thereis no sea but the sea, Meyer Riegger, Karlsruhe (2022); werden/becoming: From Michelangelo to, TirolerLandesmuseen, Innsbruck (2021); Coming to Voice, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf (2021); Utopia, Peres Projects, Berlin (2021), as well as in numerous art fairs, including Art Basel, Art Basel Hong Kong,Frieze and KIAF. Earier group exhibitions include Darmstadt Triennale: Kunstpunkte, Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt,Germany (2015); and Mit Kunst für die Kunst, Kunsthalle Darmstadt, Germany (2015), among others. Current soloshow: Mother Tongue, Kalfayan Galleries, Athens.

 

 

Installation Views

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