The slow arithmetic of looking— Anya Voss
— Painting
17 Oct — 14 Dec 2025
● On view
Halberg Schäfer is a contemporary art gallery in Berlin Mitte. We mount six exhibitions a year, represent fourteen artists, and publish a quarterly journal. The space is small. The work is not.
Anya Voss — first solo with the gallery
For her first exhibition with the gallery, Berlin-based painter Anya Voss presents fourteen new oil-on-linen works made over the course of 2024 and 2025. Each painting departs from the same starting condition — a single colour, a single horizon, and a long process of failing to see it correctly.
Voss's practice has, since 2018, refused the idea that abstraction should resolve quickly. Her surfaces emerge slowly, with most paintings spending nine to fourteen months in the studio before reaching the form in which they are shown.
"Voss is one of the most patient painters working in Berlin right now — perhaps in Europe." — Frieze, October 2025
A detail held close. Voss works in three-week stretches against one square foot of surface — the brush record carries her hesitation.
"Halberg Schäfer has, year after year, made the kind of programming decisions that should be unfashionable but somehow are not — patient, restrained, almost stubbornly slow."
"Six exhibitions a year, no fair-week pop-ups, no satellite spaces in the desert. A working model for what mid-tier galleries could be if they wished to be different."
"There is something almost German Romantic about the way this gallery handles its artists — long-term, careful, with a sense of obligation that has nothing to do with the market."
In conversation with curator Lisa Bauer. Drinks from 18:30, talk begins 19:00.
— Free · RSVP requiredPoet Lina Atzler reads from her new collection, written in response to the current exhibition.
— Free · 19:30Launch of the third monograph on the work of Inge Halberg (1952—2010), published this autumn.
— Free · 19:00 · Wine + Q&AFinal viewing of the Voss exhibition, with the artist in attendance for the closing weekend.
— Free · 17:00 — 21:00The gallery is housed in a former ironmonger's shop on Linienstraße, just off Rosenthaler Platz. Two rooms, a small office, and a quiet courtyard at the back. Admission is always free.
Visitors are welcome without an appointment during opening hours. For viewings of works not currently on display, please email us in advance and we will arrange a quiet hour to show you the storage rooms.
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