paper positions. berlin - April 30 until May 03 - 2026
Katharina Hinsberg, Bettina Blohm, Danica Phelps

 

May and June, we ask that you schedule your visits in advance.

Visit us from April 30 to May 3 at the 10th edition of paper positions berlin. The fair for contemporary works on paper takes place alongside Gallery Weekend in the historic main hall of Tempelhof Airport.

This year, we are showcasing works by Bettina Blohm, Katharina Hinsberg, and Danica Phelps.

For nearly 20 years, Bettina Blohm (*1961) has been alternating every three months between New York, where she mostly paints large-format works, and Berlin, where she creates works on paper. Through April 25, we are showing her works in the exhibition Jenaer Fuge at our gallery in Cologne. “My work is about stability, movement, and rhythm. Although the black of the gouache is very dominant, it is about light.” (Bettina Blohm)

For Katharina Hinsberg (*1967), the cut is just as important as the line she draws from the sheet. Of particular interest here is the edge of the sheet. She writes about her latest series, “Säumnisse”: “The edges of the paper are narrow and razor-sharp. I color these edges with red ink or watercolors; they mark and border the outside of the sheet. Then I cut through the paper with a knife, following a ruler, and split it into two parts. The resulting cut edges are colored again before I shift them relative to one another and reassemble them into a new format. In these works, the cutting does not follow the drawing, but rather the drawing follows the cutting.” (Katharina Hinsberg)

In her drawings, Danica Phelps (*1971) documents her daily life in a diary-like manner. She shares every detail of her life with her audience: from buying coffee or groceries at the supermarket to her love life, the conception of her son through in vitro fertilization, and the painful and financially challenging separation from her wife.

In the series Income’s Outcome, begun in 2012, Phelps reveals what is typically not mentioned in the art world. She provides insight into her income and expenses. Beneath a drawing depicting an everyday expense, she paints a red barcode. Each red bar represents a dollar spent. When such a drawing is sold, she creates a copy (second generation) and adds a green barcode; each green bar represents a dollar earned. When this is sold, she creates the next generation (third generation), and so on. She also handwrites the buyer’s name, the date, and the location of the sale. Anyone who purchases a drawing by Phelps becomes part of the artwork in the next generation.

Galerie Werner Klein
paper positions. Berlin, Booth 09
Tempelhof Airport - Main Hall
Platz der Luftbrücke 5, 12101 Berlin

Thursday, April 30 (Preview and opening by invitation only)
Friday, May 1, 1–6 p.m., Saturday, May 2, 11 a.m.–8 p.m., Sunday, May 3, 11 a.m.–6 p.m.